Dear family and Maren !!!!!
Wow!! This is so weird to be writing to you all knowing that we are starting to get spread out over all the world. I think I am just realizing what a blessing technology is !!! It's amazing we can all communicate in the same day when we are so many miles apart. Maren I am so excited for you. Enjoy the MTC it is the best. The food not so much but what you learn is great and is so important when you get out to the field. Don't be like me and forget it all. ha......and don't worry the Spanish will come you'll be able to understand lots faster than you'll be able to speak but it all comes.
So, I saw the pictures of our family when you all said goodbye to maren and i was like wow what happened. Everyone is so much taller. Issac especially !!!! Every one looks so happy. It is so good to see you all with smiles. Thank you for the pictures I needed it. I was really surprised to see all the snow. Ha I don't know why, probably, because it is so hot here that I just all pictured you in Utah in spring and summer, never winter. Ha. It was just funny to see you all with coats and stuff. We are just getting into the hottest season down here in February, March and April. I am super scared. It has been so hot I have had a hard time sleeping at night, but I think I will get use to it. I am doing great in this part of the world. I am taking medicine for my parasites again. The first 3 days I have to take 4 pills at lunch and after that for 7 more days 3 pills every day one at every time I eat. It stinks cause I couldn't fast on fast Sunday and I couldn't fast with our zone ....dang it all I wanted to fast Ha but I have to take food with my pills s can't. Ha
Wow!! This is so weird to be writing to you all knowing that we are starting to get spread out over all the world. I think I am just realizing what a blessing technology is !!! It's amazing we can all communicate in the same day when we are so many miles apart. Maren I am so excited for you. Enjoy the MTC it is the best. The food not so much but what you learn is great and is so important when you get out to the field. Don't be like me and forget it all. ha......and don't worry the Spanish will come you'll be able to understand lots faster than you'll be able to speak but it all comes.
So, I saw the pictures of our family when you all said goodbye to maren and i was like wow what happened. Everyone is so much taller. Issac especially !!!! Every one looks so happy. It is so good to see you all with smiles. Thank you for the pictures I needed it. I was really surprised to see all the snow. Ha I don't know why, probably, because it is so hot here that I just all pictured you in Utah in spring and summer, never winter. Ha. It was just funny to see you all with coats and stuff. We are just getting into the hottest season down here in February, March and April. I am super scared. It has been so hot I have had a hard time sleeping at night, but I think I will get use to it. I am doing great in this part of the world. I am taking medicine for my parasites again. The first 3 days I have to take 4 pills at lunch and after that for 7 more days 3 pills every day one at every time I eat. It stinks cause I couldn't fast on fast Sunday and I couldn't fast with our zone ....dang it all I wanted to fast Ha but I have to take food with my pills s can't. Ha
So last week I told you all we set a really high goal to show our faith to the Lord this month for baptisms and miracles are happening left and right. It's definitely because we are trying to increase our faith in God. It's just interesting the miracles are not coming in the form of numbers or baptisms ...well I hope they will lead to that, but they are small miracles that are changing the hearts of people. We are going to try and have a baptism this week. Jesus Marces......Yes Simeon, I will be baptizing Jesus isn't that so cool !!! He is trying so hard to stop drinking coffee and he is doing a really good job.... He is sick right now so if you could all pray for him that would be great. Oh, funny and really embarrassing story so Jesus is trying to stop drinking coffee. So me and Hermana Estrada wanted to help him, you know, make it easier. So, we went to the store to find something he could drink as a substitute. We were looking at the tea cause you can drink green tea and white tea. So, we were looking around finding the tea with out caffeine. We bought two and gave them to him. We came back the next day to see how he was doing. He said that he really liked the tea but he was confused cause it was black tea. We were like what ???? We asked to see the box and sure enough we had bought black tea and gave it to him to drink. I felt so bad, more so because he really liked it ... I felt like God was going to hit me with a lighting bolt or something. We finally found coffee De Soya with no caffeine and we gave that to him. We also bought some for us cause we had never tried it and I will say that I really liked it. I may come back drinking coffee ... mom dad how do you feel about that? ha .... but it was really funny and really embarrassing. Anywho ........
So this week is changes and I pray I
don't get changed but I have a feeling that I will. So the next
letter you get may be one in a new area for me. If that is the case,
I need your prayers a lot. I don't know what I will do with out my
area and the people I love and care about here. It is going to be
very hard.
We had Zone Conference this week and
the ZL gave us each an assignment and mine was the day before the
conference to try and leave my weapons of rebellion that are keeping
me from the Lord. It was actually really hard for me .... we all
have small sins that are keeping us from the Lord and from feeling
his spirit more in our lives ....Do we have the courage and the faith
to let these weapons of rebellion go and put our hearts and our lives
in the hands of the Lord? I want to challenge you all this week to
find and bury one of your weapons of rebellion that is keeping you
from the Lord. I promise you that if you do, the blessings of the
Lord will come into your life more and you will be happier and feel
more peace.
Today on the bus, there was a
preacher that was preaching his doctrine. He was talking about how
the way to Jesus was through his spirit and was going off. Many of
the things he said were true but it was so sad to see the confusion
and the war of opinions that truly exist in the world when it comes
to religion. I felt so blessed to have the restored gospel in my life
and the knowledge of having revelation and the priesthood. Be happy
that you are not so lost as others are who are trying desperately to
do what is right but don't have the way or the knowledge to do it. I
wanted to stand up and to testify of the restored truth. To some how
communicate to all those people the knowledge and the feeling I have
about this gospel. There is a great work to do and we are all a part
in it. We need to open our mouths and share the good news of the
gospel.
Well family that was my week ... please pray that if I have com bios that I will be able to handle a new ward, a new area, new investigators and a new companion ...woo new everything. I know God lives, My love for my Savior is growing each day as I learn the great importance of what he actually did for us and what we can gain when we follow him. His love is perfect and incredible. I am so grateful for him. For god who loved me so much to watch his son suffer and die for each and every one of us. This gospel is true I saw it this week in an act of service. We are teaching a woman and her brother who both do not have one of their legs because of diabetes. Too much sugar. They live at the bottom of 173 stairs and it took four brethren of the church, one on each side, to lift up the wheel chair that Yolanda sat in and carry her up those stairs and help her get the chance to go to church and feel the spirit and take the sacrament. It was incredible. If the church was not true that wound not have happened. Those brethren would have looked at those stairs and said no way. But they know that it is true and they were doing that act of service out of love for there Savior. They were literally the hands and feet of the Savior as they lifted another up to the light of Christ and helped another feel that love of Christ. It's true. I know it and I love it.
Well family that was my week ... please pray that if I have com bios that I will be able to handle a new ward, a new area, new investigators and a new companion ...woo new everything. I know God lives, My love for my Savior is growing each day as I learn the great importance of what he actually did for us and what we can gain when we follow him. His love is perfect and incredible. I am so grateful for him. For god who loved me so much to watch his son suffer and die for each and every one of us. This gospel is true I saw it this week in an act of service. We are teaching a woman and her brother who both do not have one of their legs because of diabetes. Too much sugar. They live at the bottom of 173 stairs and it took four brethren of the church, one on each side, to lift up the wheel chair that Yolanda sat in and carry her up those stairs and help her get the chance to go to church and feel the spirit and take the sacrament. It was incredible. If the church was not true that wound not have happened. Those brethren would have looked at those stairs and said no way. But they know that it is true and they were doing that act of service out of love for there Savior. They were literally the hands and feet of the Savior as they lifted another up to the light of Christ and helped another feel that love of Christ. It's true. I know it and I love it.
Love your daughter and sister
Hermana Hale
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