tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44129092557612000502024-03-19T05:50:05.991-07:00Hermana Black's Gospel AdventuresAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11492757765692172537noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412909255761200050.post-13672374411949278232013-10-06T11:08:00.000-07:002013-10-06T11:09:05.079-07:00Woooo! i love life! (Sept 30)<br />
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So
this week we moved houses to this super nice apartment that is now on the 3rd
floor not the fifth thank goodness. we`re living with 2 other sisters now that
are in the sector next door and are in a different ward. my companion and i
found this house when we were looking for our investigator. seriously soooo
nice. im living the high life! haha. well i dont know if its just becuase ive
lived here for 5 months(crazy right?? my fifth month birthday was this tuesday!
we celebrated with a cake fight.), or maybe cuz it really is sooo nice. like
brand new and we have our own kitchen. i love it! dont ever worry about my
living conditions mom!(until i have a transfer...but i dont think thats going
to happen for a WHILE). so thanks for all the prayers. God loves me. :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">we
traveled to a little town called Abancay this week. i love this calling because
I get to see how the other parts of the mission are like and how the other
sisters work and their unique talents and abilities. Abancay is like a living
on a mountain side, the sisters have to walk up a hill that is literally a 90
degree angle. ok literally, no, but thats how it felt k? my comp and i took a
taxi up it haha. I feel like my spanish was better this time, and i really felt
like I helped the sisters and we did good. I love following the spirit, and
strengthening their area and teaching them. The Lord blesses us with the
abilities we need to fulfill what he has called us to do. He will never leave
us alone, unlike Satan who always will.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This
morning i was reflectioning on the story of the tree of life and the large and
spacious building. how the world teaches how appealing being selfish is and all
the things that WE want and how pride is cool. but in the end it will always
fall, but with Christ and eating of the fruit patiently little by little he
will make us more. One thing that both Hermana Swartz and Hermana Martinez taught me so well before they left was that
you have to lose yourself to find yourself. Like one day I was asking Hermana
Swartz how she could find out who she was on her mission. She told me that you
have to serve others, forget yourself and what you want and only think about
God`s will and how you can help others. crazy different than what the world
thinks right? They think that you need to think about what you need and want
and what YOU need to learn and how YOU need to improve and YOU YOU YOU, but
that's such a big fat lie. we`re happier and become MORE and learn what our
divine attributes are and who we really are when we forget ourselves. God
magnifies us when we`re not looking inward. Martinez taught me that we have to
be empty vases (or in other words, we have to drop everything that we want or
think we are) so that we can become filled with what God wants us to be. So
wise ah? </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">anyways
i love learning from the hermanas. we visited two companionships in 2 days, but
it took three days cuz we had a day of travel. well... its only supposed to
take 4 hours but guess what?! PARO!!!!!!!! or STRIKE!!!!!!!!! what??? haha they
have this a lot here! its normal for the people, and like everyone knew that it
was going to happen i swear! except little ole naive hermana black and her
comp! haha so we`re on the bus at 6 in the morning leaving abancay, everythings
normal right, we have our plans for the day when we arrive to teach the people
in our sector because we have to use our time wisely that we have there. so
after about two hours of vueltos(this bus ride is the WORST! i seriously felt
so sick after the trip home cuz its up in the top of the mountains and
there are sooooo many turns! and the bus takes them fast!!! formula for WORST
CARSICKNESS EVER), we come to a complete stop. i thought that the bus driver
just wanted to take a break or something(not surprising) but after about an
HOUR of waiting there(my companion was sleeping) we came to realize that no,
the road was blocked by PEOPLE on strike! after about a half hour more we
finally got moving again only to have to stop every once in a while for the bus
drive to go around TREES that were blocking the road or rocks that were put
there to block our path! finally when we`re like a half hour away from cusco,
we come to a complete stop again. come to find out that theres another group of
people blocking the road and they`re not going to move for 3 more hours!!!! so
i tell my companion we`re walking cuz we have work to do! we get out of the bus
to see a huge line up of cars and buses and mass of people that are walking
with their backpacks(had the same idea as us), people tell us that a taxi to
get back will cost about 20 soles each person(super expensive) but im thinking
its worth it cuz i was so sick of waiting by this point. we talk to some people
take a short cut find a taxi(for only 10 soles) and are on our way! so funny
story that my companion makes fun of me for, we pass a group of people that
were all waiting for the taxi with us and one of them were friends with us on
the bus and tries to signal us down so she can hop in with us, well im all
tired (ended up being a 9 HOUR bus ride instead of 4!) and want to help this
person and have the taxi driver stop so i start signaling and telling him to
stop! well he keeps driving and looks at me like im crazy and then i hear my
companion telling me to be quiet and i look at her and she has a confused look
on her face to, and then it was only then when i realized that in my stressed
befuddled moment i was talking and signaling fast in ENGLISH. embarrassing.
haha </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">well
folks thats all for today! love you all lots!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hermana
Mal Black<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11492757765692172537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412909255761200050.post-75545195034417746012013-10-06T11:01:00.000-07:002013-10-06T11:03:30.294-07:00Sickness, lima, leader stuff, and my old home (Sept 23)<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">wow!
trev looks great! thanks for all of the pictures! the sombreros. hilarious.
woooooooo got a boy heading to japan!!! woo! soo cool our plaques in the church
too. thanks for all the pics! <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">soooo
this week i only had 2 days in my sector! Tuesday all of the zone leaders,
district leaders in the whole mission, and us the sister leaders, had a big
meeting with the president and assistants. They presented all of the changes
that are going to be happening to make our mission more spiritual. Like now
they`re going to be more strict about where we can go on pdays(before every
pday was with our whole zone and we could pretty much go where we wanted
to--even if it was outside our sector or zone. ) and other things like that to
make our mission more in alignment with the white handbook. We also can`t
travel in the night anymore(which i think you`ll be happy to hear mom cuz i
travel a lot now), and presidents going to be having some trainings for the
pensionistas to help us eat food thats more nutritious(no more potatoes and
white rice for ever meal anymore!!! wahoo!!) I love our president. He`s really
focused on getting the spirit more in our mission and I can tell he really
loves and cares about us. It`s cool how he wants to be obedient to all of the
manuals that the first presidency has given, it motivates me to be more
obedient as well. I´m learning that you have to have faith to be obedient.
makes sense that the first principle of the gospel is faith and the first law of
everything is obedience. they go hand in hand. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">wow.
speaking of obedience i am out of time! be happy though, you have a lot of
pictures:) love you all so much! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">sorry
its so short! love you! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hermana
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P.S. PICTURES! <br />
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">finally
ah? ive got some pictures of a pday in a place called ruines of tipon, last
days with my other companion, first day with the new one...maybe i already sent
these?? i cant remember.. i also have some of my trip to sicuani, some pictures
of peru so you all can picture where i`m living, and some pictures with hermana
sheets, and her companion hermana ayala, me and my comp! theres also a picture
of me with the other set of sister leaders (hermana parraga is on the left) and a polynesian sister in the background that went to
byu hawaii as well! shes in my zone and we`re going to be sharing an apartment
with her starting in october! she`s a hoot and a holler! super funny. hahaha
she always tells me i have `white girl problems` (as if shes not gringa either!
ha she cant even roll her r`s!) today i was using a pen without the case cuz it
broke--so like just this little skinny thing that i was trying to write with,
ya..definitely a white girl problem. ha</span></div>
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Independence Day Guatemala yesterday! I wore the guatemalan colors yesterday
without realizing it and my companion congratulated me:). </span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Anyways,
my viaje was awesome this week to siquani. I have never felt sooo inadequate
and insecure in maybe all of my life. There was one night where I just laid
their on a mattress on the floor of the apartment de hermana inga and hermana
allred just thinking, what am i doing here?? Who am I to be a sister leader and
be an example and help and train these hermanas when I can barely even speak
this language?? Obviously it was satan putting these thoughts into my mind, so
I just prayed and prayed. I never realized how much stress and responsibility a
leader can have. I am making greater efforts to purify myself and follow more
the example of Jesus Christ and trust in the Lord. I have so much to learn. I
think my biggest insecurity is spanish lately. i know I’m not supposed to
compare myself but I see my friends that I was with in the ccm and their
spanish and it’s hard not to compare. Especially what was hard about my travel
was that hermana allred started her mission the same time as me, is speaking
well, and I’m supposed to be training them and helping them when I can’t speak
so well. Like i went on a split with hermana allred and she speaks better than
me. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I am
realizing that this is one of the tactics of satan. if he can get us to feel
insecure, think these thoughts that we`re not good enough to do the work of the
Lord or that the world is too wicked, we don’t have a chance to help it, or
feel overwhelmed with all the things we have to do that we don’t want to
do anything, Satan has won. I’ve been realizing that the more I think my
spanish isn’t good or that I can’t speak, the more I CANT speak it. Interesting
how that works ah? Faith is to not think these thoughts, but to always remember
that who the Lord calls the Lord qualifies and we have been promised so many
blessings, let’s just trust the Lord act ah? That’s what faith is. action on
the hope of the promised blessings or word of the Lord.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
focus of our mission with our new president has changed to focus more on the
less actives and fortifying the church in this way. we still have high goals
for baptisms, but we were taught from our area seventy that the baptisms will
come when we work with the less active members. how? Because there are a lot of
family members in their families that aren't members. our focus needs to be on
completing these families. Families are the strength of the church, the basic
unit, and where the gospel is best learned. yup, this is our new focus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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are so many less actives here it’s crazy. we visited a family yesterday that is
just so poor. The father says that he cant go to church because he has to work
to help his family. We showed a video about a father that realized he was
focusing too much on work and wasn’t giving enough time to his family. We asked
the family what they thought about this message and the oldest daughter who’s fourteen
said, how are we going to live if my parents don’t work? I felt the spirit come
on me and I promised them as a representative of Jesus Christ that if they
obeyed the commandments and went to church always, they would always have
enough. We read mosiah 2:41 that talks about the blessings of the Lord for
those that obey the commandments. this is what faith is. Acting on the hope
that comes from the word of the Lord, even when everything else is telling you
not to. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My
companion and I have a goal to talk to every single family that we see in the
street, we`re taking up our leaders on their council to work with the families.
Its awesome cuz without even saying something to the other companion, if we see
a parent with a kid we talk to them. or sometimes there will be a family like
way down the street and ill just say, `familia`and we go, even if its out of
our way. haha its awesome cuz its so easy to contact these families, all we
have to do is say, `que linda es! es suyo?` then we ask like how old they are,
what’s their name, sometimes I’ll tell them that I have a sister that is 5
years old and how i love kids. Yup, usually that does it. Ticket into their
house. People love talking about their kids. haha so this goal has also gotten
us into some `awkward` or `creeper` situations. hahaha I’ve taught these two
words to my companion. We laugh all the time..I never realized how many awkward
situations are in the mission. hahaha. ya...well think about it. To have the
goal of talking to every family means that sometimes we have to chase after
some of them, or follow them until we catch up to them or awkwardly change
directions or cross the street when we have no reason to. haha good times.
crazy mormons. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">hermana
black<o:p></o:p></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11492757765692172537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412909255761200050.post-62108172122341723072013-10-06T10:38:00.001-07:002013-10-06T10:38:19.299-07:00Loving every minute of my mish! (Sept 9)
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Hola Familia! <br />
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haha mom. yes im eating. hahah i think im eating a little too much
lately! the bread is just so yummy! the 40 day fast is of things like following
the rules more closely, smiling more, serving, making sure my thoughts are
always pure etc. it was an idea our asistants gave us. yup i live with
hermana sheets. its super fun. we found this p90x cd so weve been doing the ´ab
ripper´ its great. :) <br />
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Ya..pretty crazy this new assignment huh? Im really excited and am loving
every minute of my mish! The two senior companions have been pretty stressed
though because our bishop wants more baptisms and help with
the less actives. Anyways so this week we just dominated! We had ward council
on sunday and he thanked us for all our hard work. awesome.. i hope it'll last,
tomorrow we start traveling so we'll see!<br />
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wow. i feel overwhelmed with this calling. you have no idea! ha im supposed
to be helping hermanas that have way more experience than me and can speak the
language. well, i have faith in the Lord and know that He thinks I can do it,
so thats all that matters. i trust Him. I feel like Ive been on fast learning
mode this last week. Ive been learning what the spirit feels like and actually
been following it! One time we were walking down a pasaje and i felt something
special about a door passed it with my companion then told her we had to go
back and knock it. what do you know? there was an inactive member that answered
the door and told us he wants to come back to church but didnt know how!
milagros. The lessons have been awesome this week as well, when I follow the
spirit and work hard and really care about the people and think in their needs,
I dont have to worry about what Im going to say..the words just come. I can
never deny the milagros Ive been seeing, if anyone says Gods not real and that
miracles dont exist...wow. <br />
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have my first travel tomorrow to sicuani and will be going
on a split with a girl that has the same amount of time in the mish as me and
can speak the language better ha. I think im going to fast after lunch today
for the spirit. cuz if i have that, nothing else matters. I just want to help
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My companions great. we get along. one time we were in a
lesson with an old old lady whos scared of getting sick and dying from the cold
water so wont get baptized. anyways i was holding up a picture of jesus
knocking on the door without a handle to explain that this is her time and that
she needs to let Christ into her life, and my companion said so seriously, ´you
just need to knock the door´ and then paused and there was this look of
confusion on her face and then we both couldnt help it but bust up laughing..we
had been holding in those laughs the whole lesson cuz this lady just goes off
on tangents like the whole time we teach her..hahaha so we laughed and laughed
and the lady was laughing with us. great times. Im excited to travel with her
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mal black <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11492757765692172537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412909255761200050.post-29250191843594156872013-10-06T09:52:00.000-07:002013-10-06T09:54:26.188-07:00New companion, New area, 40 day fast (Sept 2)<br />
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Wow i have been learning so much this week! i seriously am so happy right now,
it’s ridiculous! The church is true, the spirit is real and by golly I’m just
so happy!</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This
new calling has been interesting. We`re not going to travel until next week
which is good cuz i don’t feel prepared at all! There are six sister leaders in
our mission right now. Right before this last change there were only four, but
this change they added me and hermana sheets to be trained by one of the
companionships because they will both be finishing their missions in november.
It’s pretty incredible how blessed i feel because Hermana Sheets was in my
district in the ccm! we were like best friends and so now we`re both in the
same boat...we live together in the same house, have the same ish level of
spanish and love to play soccer! haha. So amazing how the Lord blesses us so
much and knows us so much. I couldn’t think of a more perfect situation. I can’t wait to meet
all the sisters all around our mission! Also been blessed with good living conditions and food,
which I think has been showing recently..gained a few pounds haha but it’s
going to be good because Hermana Sheets and I have started going running in the
mornings. Seriously, my goal after the mish is to run a marathon because it’ll
be EASY to run in the states after this thin air! haha<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I’ve been learning a lot about pride and communication this week. The mission
is amazing because we have the opportunity to learn soooooo much is condensed
time. Satan is tricky. He`s good at sneaking his way in there, and if we`re not
careful we can find ourselves in one of his traps. I realized that one of
my weaknesses is pride, and satan likes to use it on me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br /> When we`re prideful we can`t have the spirit with us, and I`m realizing that pride comes in many different forms. One, when we think we`re better or different than other people (like not have to obey certain rules etc because they don’t apply to us`). Two, when we don`t have enough faith in the Lord to trust in the talents we have been given, or when we compare ourselves to others and call them prideful. Satan is very subtle and this week I realized that I`ve been allowing him to use some of his tactics on me. <br /> <br /> I realized this on Friday and have started my cleansing fast yesterday to change me. I`m working on my list that the Assistants taught us about the fast for 40 days from worldly things or from habits that we want to change to have the spirit be with us more. Every morning I pray for the strength to complete my goals and in the night I have an inventory with the Lord about how I did that day. I`m doing this because I realize I need to have the spirit with me more. It’s vital to be a missionary and especially a leader. I also realize I need to love my companions and missionaries more. One thing that we cannot do is pull down other missionaries. They are our teammates in this battle against Satan. I`ve made it my goal for the rest of my mission (and life) to never talk bad about another person. It’s not worth it to pull down my teammates. <br />
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Choc is my new companion. She is 22 years old, is from GUATEMALA (wow, two of
the three companions I’ve had have been from Guate!), is short, funny, and we
get along great. She’s been in this area for about six months, but
right now we don’t have very many investigators because we`re only in our area
for about half the time with this calling. Anyways, were going to work hard and
I’m excited for the opportunity to learn from her. The gift of tongues is also
real and with this fast I’m seeing that the language is coming faster, like
right now it’s hard for me to write in english haha. </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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love the Lord! His power is soo real! And if we`re worthy vessels He will send
us His spirit. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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thanks so much for all of the birthday wishes and letters! Definitely had a
great day yesterday. The members that we live with made me breakfast in the
morning! It’s like this thick rice drink that’s a little sweet with crackers! I
guess it’s a peruvian speciality for birthdays! then we went to church, had a
special birthday lunch (steak with like a pesto pasta, yum!) with cake from my
pensionista, more cake from the other sisters from the zone next door and my
zone leaders, then we went to the room and packed because we moved houses today
and then my companion lied to me and told me that we were going to an
appointment but ended up taking me to a members house where the other sisters
were that we live with and we had pumpkin pie with my name on it that you can
see in one of the pictures I sent! At the night we had oreos with the peanut
butter you sent me. A great birthday! I had a weird realization that I’m never
going to be 21 in the states! Weird! And i did get grandmas package. thanks! </span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So
like i said we moved houses today! We decided to because we didn’t want to
inconvenience the members we´re living with and we wanted our own and its
closer to the pensionista. well it doesn’t really matter because i have a
cambio or a change tomorrow with change meeting. Crazy how fast time has flown!
I’ve already had two companions, 12 weeks in the field, I’m finished with my
training and am ready to show the Lord what I’m willing to give him!
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
just hope I can always have the spirit with me and love them always. Its
incredible to be able to look back on just these past 3 months in the field and
see the Lords hand in preparing me for this moment to serve. I had one of the
best trainers to start off my mission, became good friends with the sister
leaders and learned from them because I’ve always been so close to them (living
in the same house), had a second companion that i had to lead the sector with
and learn a lot about love, and now with this new opportunity i can see the
things I’ve learned and where my talents are going to fit in. God knows each of
us soo well its amazing.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This
week I was feeling nervous and a little stressed one day without knowing why(i
think it was with this new transfer that’s coming up) and took the opportunity
to really pray for a while at night until i felt better. I realized that why
we´re commanded to pray always is because its literally a learning experience
every time. As we pray the Lord teaches us what’s appropriate to pray for and
we can literally put our will in line with His as we talk to him, He shows us
and guides us to what we should be doing and thinking about. It’s incredible.
Every little commandment has a grand and deeper purpose. There not just there
to be there, but everything in the gospel is put in place to help us come
closer to the Celestial Kingdom and to live with Him again. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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learned that loving those who don’t love you back is a commandment and its not
easy, but sooo completely worth it as well and pays off.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Trevor. I just barely found your letter that you snuck into my bag. I bawled my
eyes out and laughed and cried some more! It could not have come at a more
perfect time. wow trev thanks. sooo considerate. good luck on your mish dude!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11492757765692172537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412909255761200050.post-59452596876910830662013-09-21T18:28:00.001-07:002013-09-21T18:28:36.015-07:00Elder Cook!!! woo! (Aug 20)<div class="MsoNormal">
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WHAT?! Elder Cook came yesterday!!!!!!!!!! thats why im emailing today. i
sang in a choir for him! only people from the two zones closest to the office
got to sing in it, so im super lucky that im here! we sang oh my father to the
music of come thou fount and it was amazing! an elder directed our choir and
when we had practices last week and split into parts i took the hermanas cuz i
can play the piano and have a little experience in choir! haha, wow. glad i
have the music talents i do. but the choir was amazing, really, the spirit was
so strong that our president was crying after and i think Elder Cook got a
little teary eyed as well. Two elders from the 70 came as well! When we got to
shake all their hands of them and their spouses(hugged the women), i told him
`hey! my family just met you!`haha it kind of caught him off gaurd and he was
like `really?` but that was all the conversation we could have cuz i had to
keep moving. :) anyways, super spiritual experience with them all. Its
incredible the authority they have. I could feel his spirit so strong when he
spoke, and for once i was glad i knew english so i could here the words from
his mouth, not the translators. Wow, so pumped to do more. He said that this
experience is going to prepare us for the rest of our lives like nothing else
could have. He was also companions with one of the other apostles and he said
that they decided that what made the difference for keeping converts active for
their whole lives is the commitments we extend. Commitments are super important
(and it also makes our church different) cuz every single person needs to have
a spiritual experience. needs to gain their own testimony and change their
lifestyles. (natural man is an enemy to God) and they can only change when they
act, do something, so we always need to help them act. Wow. I know He is an
apostle of Jesus Christ, and I felt such peace and confidence and trust in him.
at the end of his talk it seemed like the spirit of prophecy came over him and
he left a blessing on us, he said that every person that we loved would be
blessed for us being on missions. ya so you`re welcome everyone back home! ;)<o:p></o:p></div>
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have another 70 coming next week as well! super lucky! the 70 thats coming next
week weve known about for a while, Elder cook was kind of last minute
this week cuz I guess he`s going to visit Machu Pichu so thought he`d stop by
and visit the mission as well!! love his wife, she led us in a song haha like
she did with you guys at `this is the place`.<o:p></o:p></div>
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this world is crazy. We are so incredibly blessed to have the gospel and all
the peace that we do. We have found so many poeple that are scared. Down here
they believe in evil spirits and 2 20ish year old girls we`re teaching are
scared because they dont know the good news of the Gospel and only know that
their are evil spirits with power to harm them. As a missionary I have been
into many peoples houses and listened as they told me grave stories about their
lives and their family situations, taken part of their burdens on my back as a
representative of Jesus Christ that I am at this time. I have such a testimony
of my calling, there is NO way I would be able to keep going if God wasn't
carrying me at times. Some days there is so much evil in the world and I am so
tired, but God lifts me up and I have some energy that came out of no where and
Im somehow happiest when Im the most tired, and when I take someones burden on
my back. Its an amazing feeling to see God working through me, and to be a
light in this dark dark world we live in. Its also amazing to see my valient brothers
and sisters that are prepared for the truth and who are working in this part of
the world to build and edify His kingdom. Satan definitely doesnt want us to be
successful, but the cool thing is is that we always will be if we draw
closer to Christ! God is so much more powerful, and Im grateful for
opposition so that we can recognize Him more in our lives, because He honestly
does so much. <o:p></o:p></div>
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That
family with the drunk dad came to church this sunday! we had to go get them
from their house and my companion was awesome cuz she straight up told him,
`you will not go to that party, but you will come to church with your family
for an hour, dont answer your cell phone, go get changed and come with us.` he
listened! he messed up and drunk this week, but he came to church. his family
is reading the book of mormon(we gave little charts to the two daughters to track
their reading). little by little is how people change, and God is helping this
family. <o:p></o:p></div>
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comps in Machu Pichu today so im with hermana Irvine(comp from the ccm) and the
sister leaders that are in the zone next door today(the sister leaders that i
live with are traveling to do visits today as well).<o:p></o:p></div>
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HEY FAM!<br /></div>
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I got my package last week!!!!!!!!! THANKS SO MUCH!!!!!! I told Hermana
Parraga that we cant eat the stuff til my birthday! and im not letting me use
anything til then as well. (ok except for I wear the temple tshirt to bed, and
ive had one green drink. yum!) Thanks soooo soo much! Today Im sending a small
small package(finally) so hopefully everything gets to you! everything was in my
package so im feeling lucky! thanks again! i feel sooo blessed! </div>
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So this week has
been good. Yesterday we felt prompted to go to this house that we havent
visited for a long time, and they werent there, but then i remembered that with
Hermana Martinez we had seen a couple that was in a fight that lives in a house
super close to the area and had wanted to talk to them, but hadn´t had the
opportunity to come back, so i felt prompted to knock the door last night. so we
knocked it, and ive learned something with martinez for the approach to knocking
doors is to pretend like your not contacting them...aka like say something like:
we´re looking for such and such persona or this street, were not from here, can
you help us? then theyre usually always willing to talk to you and then ask oh,
where are you from? and then we talk about why we're here etc.. chev. anyways so
we asked about the people we were originally looking for and they thought that i
had said a different name of someone that live there!(yay for american accent!
:)) anyways they let us enter their house and we found a family of a mom and 3
girls and the dad that was wasted..like super drunk. but we invited him to come
sit around the table with us which he did(the mom said that never before had he
accepted to do something like that with people like us), and he told us as he
was crying that he wanted to change his life, he didnt want to drink, he wanted
to feel peace, he wanted to come closer to God, and that he didnt know how, he
said that he had prayed for help and the mom said that God had sent us to help
him. wow. so my companion told him that he had to change his friends and not
drink anymore. (hed get drunk every day). i felt prompted to pull out a piece of
paper and write the word `metas` accross the top or `goals` in english. and i
asked him what he was willing to do to change? he then came up with 3 goals, we
wrote them on the paper and i taped a picture of Jesus with it and we hung it up
in his room with the whole family(ya..i had happen to bring tape with me
yesterday. the spirits awesome). We prayed together as a family and he was so
happy, saying stuff like my soul feels liberated please please come back
tomorrow, and then when we made an appointment he was just repeating and
repeating the time. Incredible experience. It`s awesome to be an instrument in
the Lords hands and know that we can actually help these people! I also hate
Satan and how he uses alcohol a lot here to ruin families. We have an
appointment tonight to have the elders give him and his wife a blessing.
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we need to have patience and trust not only in the
Lord`s will but His timing as well. I guess thats with everything in life. we
need to remember that He knows better. always. He knows us better than we know
ourself, He knows how we can become what we want to become(even if we sometimes
forget waht we want) and He knows everything else, so it would be wise of us to
trust Him every once in a while ya know? <br /></div>
So the new sister leader
that lives with me is named Hermana Lang(should be in the picture with the pie))
whats cool is to talk with her about planting seeds because she was in this area
around Christmas time and is back now and has seen so many of the progress of
her investigators progress and get baptized! or how like before if they didnt
seem like they were going to prgress now is their time and they are more ready
to hear! Sometimes it might seem like our little acts of goodness arent paying
off or its not worth it to work hard, but we need to always remember that the
Lord can see the end from the beginning and that every good act will ALWAYS be
worth it. :) <br /></div>
So i dominated the elders in futbol again this week!
haha I love the respect I have from them now:) soo fun. <br /></div>
I think
thats all for this week! Love you all lots!<br /></div>
Hermana Malorie
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11492757765692172537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412909255761200050.post-52334168896523153532013-08-14T21:14:00.002-07:002013-08-14T21:14:10.270-07:00alcohol, sickness, and dominating satan<br />
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miracles miracles miracles. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">My
companions name is Hermana Ignacio! she is 19 years old(birthday in march) and
has only two weeks longer than me on the mission.(she left the mtc right when I
got there, but has a transfer more than me cuz i was in the ccm for longer).
I’ve learned a LOT about following the spirit and communication with your
companion. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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week was interesting because my companion has been sick (dizzy cuz not enough
blood has been getting to her head so we lost about 4 days of work. I took the
opportunity with excitement because I had actually been praying for an
opportunity to study more and strengthen my testimony more. I’ve been learning
that the spirit can only reach and touch the hearts of your investigators as far
as the depth of your own testimony. I’ve been working harder and harder to study
more in depth the basic principles of the gospel so that I can testify with more
power and confidence. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">We’ve been teaching more by the spirit this week,
which makes all the difference. I also realized that we need to have fun (thanks
to hma martinez´ teachings) and have a strong relationship or the people aren’t
going to want to listen to us. Like why would someone want to listen to a
message that brings happiness if we’re not happy?? So we had a tire race down
the street. hahahah. I found some tires lying around and handed her one and said
something like ´I’m going to win´ .. ´distance´ in my broken spanish and we
raced! Rolled those things down the street! Laughed, joked. It was awesome! So
the goal of the mission is to have 14 new investigators every week (meaning
having a sit down lesson with new people that you’ve never taught before) which
hardly anyone reaches in a week...and guess what?? We had 16 nuevos with only 3
days of working this week! When we're happy the spirit comes! Crazy how I never
really realized that before. Don’t be stressed about anything in life! The
church is true! We can have peace if we pray and read the scriptures! We know
the purpose of life! This is a gospel of happiness! If we get discouraged, it
means we don’t have faith that God is going to win. Christ has already won,
conquered all!!! We’ve beaten satan! so next time you see something awful in the
world or news, just tell satan nice try bud, but Christ has already won and just
smile as you strengthen your testimony and spirit force field and share the
gospel to help your struggling brothers and sisters. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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i was on a split with one of the sister leaders, hma ayalla and I felt prompted
to go visit joses house(a recent convert). As we were about to knock on the door
jose came up to the door DRUNK. I’m talking blood red eyed drunk with a bag of
alcoholic drinks. he told us he felt guilty and so we came in and kinda talked
with him and he agreed to get rid of the drinks, so we were about to poor them
down the drain aka I had a drink in my hand when his parents came in!!! Bad
news. They took him inside and jose went upstairs and his parents were just
crying, miserable. PERFECT timing for us though. Why? cuz before they never EVER
would listen to us. They would let us come into the house and teach their son,
but never would listen cuz they’re ´catholics´. So perfect timing? ya, we cuz we
comforted them and they agreed to have us over saturday to get rid of the drinks
with them. So saturday we had a lesson with the WHOLE family and they agreed
have the elders over on monday(today) morning to give jose a blessing and to be
there. Yup, so we present all this to the ward council and the bishop
volunteered his family to go over and give jose a blessing. So this morning with
the bishop, his wife and son (who is the exact same age as jose) came and talked
with the family for 2 hours with us! SO incredible how the Lord uses these
challenges to bring about miracles (aka humble this family.) sooo cool. I’m
excited to keep working with this family. What was also amazing was looking back
and forth at this broken family without the gospel and the parents crying,
desiring so badly to be better parents and to heal their family, pleading for
help, and seeing the result of a family centered in the teachings of the church,
of Jesus Christ. Amazing what we have to offer the world. To heal families.
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is true, i love cusco!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11492757765692172537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412909255761200050.post-50324093038461266662013-08-05T11:39:00.001-07:002013-08-05T11:39:22.331-07:00Rejoice and Fiesta!<div style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Hola familia!!</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">So we only have a half hour to write our families and
friends now…so ya! I’m going to print off your emails and not be able to
respond until a week later. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">So..I’ve been learning a mountain with this new companion.
I’ve been learning that getting the spirit in lessons is the most important
thing. Period. I’m super glad that I’ve had such a contrast between my two
companions because now I can see the difference the spirit and love makes. I
don’t think that she realizes it because that’s how it’s been with all her
companions. I’ve been learning to have patience and teach by example. No one
likes being told that they’re wrong, so I’ve been trying super hard to make a
super extra effort to have love for the people in the lessons, ask questions,
and do all I can to bring the spirit. Obedience is also sooo important. This is
what we came to earth to learn, learn faith and how can we learn faith? Through
obedience to the commandments and to the spirit. Always. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">It’s amazing to see the way the spirit guides us to the people
that are ready. I made a bet with the zone leaders to have 6 baptisms this
transfer and they have to have to have ten, and if we do then we’ll buy a huge
cake for the other companionships. It’s cool to see how if we put our effort
in, the Lord will help us meet our goals. We found a security guy next to one
of our investigators, and he said he wants to get baptized and serve a mission.
Wow. Idk if I wrote this, but there was a lady that’s super catholic that the
members have been trying to visit etc, but wasn’t receptive. Anyways I had no
idea about any of this, but we knocked the door next to her house looking for
someone I had contacted on the street and she opened the door and surprisingly
let us in. she ended up crying to us and telling us that her daughter was super
sick, we cried with her, and told her about blessings of health that the elders
could give her daughter—she let them! The spirit was there, and now we are
teaching her the lessons. The members that are her neighbors were like—what??
No way! Super cool how the Lord’s timing works, and how He trusts us enough to
lead us to the people that are ready. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">As we learn to have the spirit more, the Lord has been trusting us
with more of His children. 6 new people we taught yesterday. I’m learning how
to follow the spirit, and it makes missionary work so much more fun! Cuz the
people can feel it and were actually helping them. I’ve also never been as
tired as I was yesterday, and I had to consciously make the choice to keep
walking for hours when we didn’t have success, I decided to rejoice and thank
the Lord for the opportunity to be refined and demonstrate my commitment.
Having hard times?? REJOICE AND FIESTA!!!!! Sooo grateful that we have the opportunity
to be beat up and our rough edges smoothed—to do what we came here to do. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Love you all lots! The church is sooo true!!!!! I LOVE THE
WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SMILE SIEMPRE!!!!!!</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Love, Hermana Malorie Blacck</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Ps, received 17 letters yesterday! Apparently I didn’t get a bunch
in the ccm! THANKS SO much for all the support and updates on elisa and
Michaela, sounds like they’re doing awesome! Black power!!! Haha people love
that my last name is Black I get a lot of comments like, ‘ Hermana Negro, but
you`re white!` or `Hermana White!`and then they laugh and laugh. LOVE IT! </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings;">J</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11492757765692172537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412909255761200050.post-3076179269284569452013-07-26T16:53:00.002-07:002013-07-26T16:53:41.651-07:00OOOPS!!!<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;">
Sorry for not emailing last week!!! my companion was doing
her last interview with president on monday our normal email day, and I thought
I would be able to email you all on tuesday because that was our pday this last
week with transfers and all, but then I found out we can only email on mondays!
Oops. Sorry. IM TOTALLY fine with the dog bite!!!! hahahahahaha now I see why
they tell us not to tell our moms anything like that hahahaha. The dog didn’t
even draw blood. He bit my hand while it was in my pocket, I didn’t even bruise
from it. It was more startling than anything and i shared it cuz I thought it
was funny/ I deserved it from having a bad attitude at the time and God works
in mysterious ways to tell get us back on track. :)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ok a few more things i would like to request if thats ok??
GREEN DRINKS!!! I get no nutrients here. haha I think i have had more french
fries in the last month and a half than I’ve had my WHOLE life. But really.
They eat them like we eat salad back home. Like with everything. With that and
all the bread i eat-cuz it’s cheap, and all the potatoes and rice....I’m not
getting what i need. It has happened before that a whole day would have passed
and I’ve gotten NO fresh stuff..let alone green fresh stuff. ya green drinks
would be super fabulous. More Triguard por favor. i lost two of them, so ive
only been using the one. This stuff has been a life savor I’m pretty sure. I’m
super healthy and i owe it to that stuff. <o:p></o:p></div>
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If you could send like marriage tips as well?? Talks or
something, or activities that couples can do to better their marriage, we’ve
been working with couples lately that have been going through hard times. Cool.
AH! One of the new girls in my house got a birthday package and there was
brownie mix in there!!! sooo goood! wow, real food. haha. If you wanted to send
me something like that I wouldnt mind...:) we have a kitchen in my house so i
can cook anything. ooh, I would love recipes of any kind as well. :D<o:p></o:p></div>
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Hermana Martinez promised that she would go to our house in
October(maybe with Hermana Swartz and Elder Lyon if that’s ok as well??). She
was incredible to me mom, please take good care of her when she comes. Like
really, she really took care of me, loved me and helped me sooo much. Love her
for me k? :)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Pienso que esto es todo..<o:p></o:p></div>
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Gracias gracias. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Wowo so fun! california last week! crazy that maddies
driving! I still can’t get my mind around that one....Ah super lucky! I’ve
always wanted to go to knottsberry! haha mom, wow I’ve never wanted american
food as bad as when you emailed me EVERYTHING that you guys ate hahah. sounded
amazing. :) I’m super glad. And dad, you’re an awesome example to me, thanks
for your work in the ward, sounds like you are catching the vision of
missionary work--work of salvation. I love it. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So I got my new companion this week! crazy no? One transfer
down. She’s from Argentina and JUST FINISHED her training, knows no english,
and is quiet. Needless to say she is super different than martinez. But she’s
cool and she works super hard, but we haven’t been working as SMART as with
martinez. aka haven’t been having lessons with members etc and in our lessons I
feel like she teaches more lessons and not people(aka our lessons are similar
no matter who were teaching). what’s hard for me is that i can’t communicate
what i feel we should do with her very effectively. Its probably super super
hard to train for her first time, right after she finished training, and with a
gringa that can’t speak very well. Ah. esta bien, im learning a ton, and I’m
seeing what it looks like to keep a schedule super strictly. On the bright side
I have seen an improvement in my spanish in the last 5 days. Cool. I’ve had
some of the hardest days so far on the mish these past few days cuz I’ve had to
lead this sector aka make all our appointments show my new companion where
everyone lives, make sure we get on the right buses and get to the right
appointments and make good relationships with the people even though I can’t
talk all while I’ve been missing martinez. I know I’m gunna have harder times
in the mish though, and I’m pumped to learn. :)<o:p></o:p></div>
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So martinez left us with a baptism this saturday, but it
fell through. Sigh. Her name is sami and she has her own salon. So we came by
friday and she had a friend there with her which isn’t normal, but it’s
happened before. Before this sami had been telling us that she was super
excited and felt peaceful about her baptism, so we thought all was good right?
anyways come to find out that this friend of hers is super catholic and somehow
convinced sami that she wasn’t ready for the baptism, and sami told us all this
while glancing at her friend every once and a while. ya hard. All we could do
really was bare our testimonies with conviction about the power of prayer and
that we knew that God would answer their prayers if they prayed with faith, a
sincere heart, and real intent aka that they would act on their answer. The
spirit was there, we’ve still been visiting sami, but no baptism.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Well life is good. I love the mission and I have seen it
changing me. Let the gospel change you, work to become converted. vale la
pena-its worth it. forever.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Love you all SO much its ridiculous. <br />
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Hermana Mal Black</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11492757765692172537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412909255761200050.post-84991443187861817112013-07-26T16:52:00.001-07:002013-07-26T16:52:55.797-07:00Love this work!<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;">
Wow, glad all the pictures worked! ah...last week’s email
was sooooo good! I spent my whole time writing it--yup none for the friends
last week. Bummer that it didn’t work! I wanted that one for the journal. :( It
didn’t work in my `sent` folder either. Well, we learn right?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ok, I have needed to ask this question for a long time to
quiet my companion. Is Trevor’s mission for 3 years because he’s going to
Japan?? haha EVERYONE that I tell here that my little brother’s going to japan
ask, ´so is he going to be out for 3 years?´ they think he needs a year to
learn the language. I don’t know how they all think this, must be like a mormon
myth here, but please appease this by telling me he’s not. I would die if I had
to wait an extra year to see my lil bro again. :O<o:p></o:p></div>
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This saturday we have a baptism! Hopefully two to make up
for last week. Franz Rodriguez is his name, AH, super bumbed that you didn’t
get my last week’s email, i explained all about him. But pretty much my
companion and I try to look for the people who are going to help build the
kingdom to teach, and Franz is one of them. He’s an orthodontist of about 35
years who’s married to a girl that’s menos activo, but now who have come to
church 3 times! When my comp started teaching him he said he would NEVER come
to church or get baptized, but that they could keep coming, he just wanted to
make sure they understood. So incredible seeing the way the spirit works on
someone. His mind just isn’t at peace for past sins etc, so when my companion
said that a baptism isn’t for a change of religion, but for a cleansing from
sin, he jumped on that and initially came to church to ´meet the requirements´
of baptism(they have to go to church 2 times before they can be baptized.).
Well, this last sunday his wife told us that HE told her that they had to be to
church early and was the one to get them going. He also said, `I don’t know
how, but those sisters are convincing me..`haha. NUH uh buddy! It’s the
spirit!!! I have like 1 percent of it all. I’m just willing to show up and open
my mouth and thankfully with the Lord thats sufficiente. Amazing. Saturday
night we brought a member couple with us that is Franz´ same age who bore some
powerful testimonies and the spirit was so strong. As tradition, we had Franz
say the last prayer and he started to cry while he was saying it! Immediately
after he started to cry he said `amen`and left the room. His wife was tearing
up too. Incredible. Just seeing the difference from the beginning when he was
trying to prove us wrong on everything and had a pride wall up, but to see the
way the Lord softens hearts and humble people is incredible. Incredible.
Afterwards the member gave him a priesthood blessing and everyone in the room
was crying (except me...maybe cuz I still can’t understand everything..ha, but
I definitely felt the spirit so strong). What was cool was that the Lord was able
to strengthen two families through that one lesson. The lesson was way better
than Martinez and I could’ve done alone and easier on our part because of their
testimonies, Franz and Vanessa learned from an outside perspective AND the
members were able to have a spiritual experience and remember how they got
testimonies. The members thanked us afterwards, they were really touched.
Incredible. All it took was a little extra coordination on our part. Work
smarter not harder as Hermana Martinez says. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I’ve
realized that that's really what the difference is. Working a little smarter
and the small things make the difference. Today at zone meeting the zone
leaders asked us to teach for about 40 minutes. We had the most baptisms in the
zone for the last month (one a week), and so they wanted to us to help the rest
of the missionaries learn how to have success as well. My companion has this
bomb article list thing with 3 kinds of missionaries on it. `The Social
Missionary`, The Honorable Missionary`, and `The Consecrated Missionary`. The
social one is always looking for fun, relies on his own talents to teach
people, he looks for excuses when he’s being corrected--always blames it one
someone else (always a reason for why he does something wrong, or why he chose
to not live the higher law), lives the commandments or rules that he wants
to--cafeteria obedience, or does it so he doesn’t get in trouble, is looking
for the praise of others and recognition. The consecrated missionary is the one
that is incredible. He is obedient because he wants to be, he welcomes
correction from his leaders to become better, his study journal is filled with
spiritual impressions he's received, he’s constantly looking for ways to
improve, strengthen his testimony, and learn more to help others, he sees
others as they really are--his brothers and sisters, precious souls of our
Heavenly Father, those with the capacity to become Gods and Goddesses. The
Honorable one is somewhere in the middle. The crazy thing is that all 3 of the
missionaries are doing the same things, it’s just HOW they do them. It’s just
their attitude and commitment to God. We can all learn from this. Keep doing
the same awesome things, but like while we study do it prayerfully, have more
love when we talk to people and always remember him and our purpose in being
here on the earth. How we do things makes all the difference. Just that LITTLE
extra effort and thinking. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So i got bit by a dog yesterday!!! hahaha i was just walking down the street
minding my own business and ignoring a barking dog like I do every day, when
that dang dog ran up and bit my hand while it was in my coat pocket! Haha my
companion makes fun of me for my slow reaction time, but I literally was so
confused by what had just transpired that I just stood there and looked at the
stupid animal. we had an eye contact exchange and then I walked away rubbing my
hand because of the pain and just shaking my head thinking, ´did that just
happen?´haha so at that moment I was kind of having a bad attitude because my companion
decided that I would decide what we were going to do and I was feeling sorry
for myself for ´not knowing as much spanish as I would like and because I
couldn’t remember street names or names of members etc and I’m going to have to
lead the sector next week when my companion goes home and I’m still in my
training, and I want to learn by example while she’s still here-aka have her do
everything ha´. ya bad attitude. I think the Lord in his mercy gives us dog
bites or wake up calls to get a move on and get going! We´re on the earth to
learn so let’s get going and dive into the hard times with a good attitude!
News flash, it’s not easy! Lets rejoice because we`re here! We`re living Gods
great plan of happiness and have the opportunity to learn to become more like
Him! We have bodies (an INCREDIBLE gift from God) when a third of the hosts of
heaven didn’t! We have the gospel!!!!!!!!!! PARTY!!!! <o:p></o:p></div>
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I
love the strippling warriors more and more. They had less experience than
EVERYONE else and they `had never fought, yet they did not fear death`, and
what happened?? They dominated! They trusted God and he was with them!
They had remembered the things they were taught in fhe and remembered the
little faith they had first (like Holland said in his last conference talk). So
remember, when we are called to the work and think we're not good enough (at
least deaths not on the line eh?) or don’t have experience, don’t know the
language, TRUST God. And we will always come out victorious. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m realizing more and more that the mission is the ultimate
learning zone. I have learned so much and I’ve only been out for almost 3
months!(whoa crazy) I am so grateful to the Lord. Well, there’s my soap box,
I’ll share more experiences and miracles next week. I LOVE this work and the
Lord. <br />
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Take care this week, party in cali for me!<br />
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much love, <o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11492757765692172537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412909255761200050.post-63920336130029789382013-07-04T08:47:00.005-07:002013-07-04T08:47:35.550-07:00Lots of PicturesNOTE FROM MALORIE'S PARENTS: Hermana Black sent so many pictures this week that it moved her letter into the email's subject line and cut it off after just a few lines. So...here's the pictures without any explanation. :-)<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11492757765692172537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412909255761200050.post-65403289530663155802013-06-26T14:27:00.002-07:002013-06-26T14:27:56.498-07:00God Be With You Til We Meet Again<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;">
Wow. Lula. I’m thinking back when I said goodbye to her. So
peaceful. Thanks for all of the details. She was an incredible woman. I feel so
privileged to be a part of her family. I wish i could have come home and talked
spanish to her though. Tuesday. wow. I was sitting in the street with my
companion writing in the front of a book of Mormon for one of our investigators
when someone came by and knocked on the door of the house next to us and told
us that someone had died! We ended up talking to them, and going into the house
and shared a message about the plan of salvation and sang <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“</span>God be with you til we meet
again” to all the 15-20 people there. It was quite a miracle, we had people
coming up to us and asking us to share more. Incredible that I sang at a
funeral probably really close to the time all this was happening with Lula.
There was definitely such a peaceful feeling there when we were singing. Maybe
I was really singing to my great grandma. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Snap. I have no time left. Don’t kill me dad!! I told him I
would have 2 pages worth of emails for him! Well, last week was long right??
This week I had to make up for not writing any of my friends last week. HAPPY
FATHERS DAY DAD!!!!!!!!!! I love you soo much. My comp and i have been working
with a broken marriage right now and I think I’ve always taken it for granted
how awesome my family is. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I’ll
send pics next week. ya miracles are happening every day. Seeing braedon was
definitely a tender mercy. I love the mission so much. spanish isn’t coming as
fast as I would like, but i have learned sooo much. Humility and patience. I
love it. Keep up the good work everyone. Much much love. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Mal Black<o:p></o:p></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11492757765692172537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412909255761200050.post-49229132498613525182013-06-14T16:03:00.000-07:002013-06-14T16:03:01.195-07:00Just born in Cusco<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ah
my companion loves that grandma’s from Guatemala. Her name is Diana Ivonne
Martinez Mendez from Guatemala City. She is 26 years old, and has her own
business--tanning salon, graduated in marketing and will finish her FNA masters
degree when she gets back(finance and accounting)--pretty legit eh? She’s
absolutely incredible. They call our trainers our ´madres´ and I was just born.
My training is 12 weeks long, but she will be ´dying´ in 6 weeks, so if she
doesn’t extend I will be getting another trainer. I hope she extends, she just
got her plane tickets today, but has been talking about extending recently...i
think cuz she likes me:) crazy gringa. She knows how to work hard and smart.
She speaks great english. She is service oriented and has made me breakfast
more than once. I seriously don’t know how i lucked out so well. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We
share the biggest house in the mission, it’s nice. I have my own queen sized
bed, our own study, a kitchen and sitting area. The water is cold in the
showers, but that’s the only down side. We share the house with another pair of
hermanas who are the sister leaders. They are vacan(cool). hard workers, one of
them is going home in 3 weeks which means she knows what she’s doing as well
and is from utah so she knows english as well which is super nice and has let
me become real friends with them cuz i can actually express myself in
english(her and my comp are best friends in the mission and actually traveled
all over the mission putting on singing concerts--my comp teaching the stake
choirs they went to and the utah singing solos. vacan eh? the whole mission
knows them.). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Our
ward is the best in the mission. The members are awesome, we have had a bunch
of lessons so far already and almost all of them with members. What’s crazy is
that our ward has 6 missionaries in it! 6 in one ward! Me and my comp share it
with our housemates(the sister leaders) and the zone leaders. Big ward. We had
a meeting with all the sisters on thursday and more than a couple told me that
my companion was the best. Our pinchanista(spelling?) or cook is vacan, she’s
super good at cooking, I love the food. Not rice every meal:) NEEDLESS to say,
I FEEL SOOOO INCREDIBLY blessed. especially cuz i heard that my amigas from the
ccm don’t have it so hot(irvine is opening an area, her spanish isn’t that good
and her comp can’t speak it and her comp isn’t that patient for an example). i
am motivated to work so much harder to learn the things that the Lord would
have me learn in this incredible time. I am bracing myself for the upcoming
months of the mission that will be hard. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">wowowow.
So yesterday at church was awesome. One of our guys we’ve been teaching(jose)
got confirmed in sac meeting. The stake pres and an area 70 were there, and the
other 3 new missionaries spoke(one of the zone leaders and the both sister
leaders are new to this area), but for some reason they didn’t have me come up
and speak like they said they were going to. probs better that way cuz my
spanish is no muy bien. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My
comp has great relationships with tons of members and pretty much the whole
time was talking with them and setting up times that they could come
procelyting with us. Planner is pretty great this week. We have a baptism this
saturday for one of our investigators (super cute 15 year old girl who is
friends with the members thanks to mi comp) and were singing love is spoken
here in spanish at a baptism for an 8 year old that morning as well. I am
constantly in awe at how well my comps brain works. Like we went over to the
member’s house that we’re singing the song for with them and on the way they
said hi to some of their friends and my comp was like what? Introduce us to
them! And so we have an appointment with them! another time after a lesson for
our investigator that’s getting baptized this saturday at a members house(of
course) she invited the girls that were there to make cake with us at the house
of jose(only member in family) because he has a sister that’s the same age and
apparently when we were at their house last time she had asked the parents if
we could come over and make cake with them(relationship building activity) and
if we could maybe bring other people. then after she invited those girls to
cake she asked the member mom(whose house we were at) if she had done her
homework from the day before and the mom said yes and brought us across
the street to meet some of her non member neighbors. I honestly don’t know how
this lady(mi comp) works, but it has blown my mind a bunch of times. This is
how missionary work is supposed to be. I’m just trying to not get lost in the
streets or the language or just trying to remember the names of all our people
in the meantime she has created a new plot to dominate. I am in awe. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is rough! We have so many lessons a day that we usually don’t plan them before
hand(like maybe talk about a topic) so i have had to rely on the spirit mucho.
sometime I hate her because i don’t know what’s going on, but like a good
companion she switches off very well with me, so next thing I know she’s
smiling at me and everyone’s waiting expectantly for me to say something. Let’s
just say ´yo se que´ has been one of my favorite phrases. I really really really
wanna learn spanish. We have a rule that we have to speak spanish to each other
during the day because i need to learn. We have this giant phone that’s like a
house phone with the stand and everything and cord that we have to carry around
because we don’t have a cell phone and sometimes investigators call us. I HATE
carrying it. hahaha its so awkward. So the punishment to talking in english is
they have to carry the phone that day. haha. My idea. We ride the bus places
which is super cool and we’ve had to pack in like sardines more than once. We
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am absolutely in love with cusco. It is cold don’t get me wrong. In the day is
sunny and warm most of the times, but at night its sooo cold! So i have to pack
around this big coat that i found in our house (a diff sister left) all day so
i don’t freeze at night. Oh i have to wear it in our house too, cuz they dont
have indoor heating or cooling, and for some reason our house is super super
cold all the time. PERO, i LOVE the sky! We´re so high up its always gorgeous!
The clouds are amazing, the sun is so gorgeous. I love the feel of this place,
the cobblestone paths, the picture perfect mountains and the small, poor,
artistically pleasing, colorful, randomly houses, every kind of dog that walks
the streets and steals bread or barks from the tin rooftops and scares you to
death while you’re trying to contact someone, or the small bridge that you have
to cross over the garbage filled river to get to a group of houses, or
squeezing past the hanging laundry on the top floor of a cramped building to
get to the room(pretty much their whole house) of a mother of small children
who we invited to be baptized while huddled in a small area on plastic chairs
feeling the spirit and knowing that Christ´s message will without a doubt make
her life better. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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days here in cusco. My companion and i send our love. (She’s going to
conference in october and her and the utahn sister leader are going to come
visit you all!) :) MUCH MUCH LOVE!!!!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you got my voicemail on dads phone, but i made it and absolutely LOVE it here!
I’m realizing more and more how little spanish i know, PERO i love the feel
here. There’s such a good spirit here and the people are very kind and humble.
I LOVE the sister missionaries. They all seem super chevere and spiritual. I
look up to all of them. I LOVE my companion. She’s from guatemala! She’s super
spunky and loud. The trainers are called madres and me the hija. I thought she
only spake spanish, but found out later with some smart skills of mine that she
speaks english as well. I’m staying in the cusco mission so in the city. I’m
actually in the president’s ward! I love the house thing I’m staying in. it has
the prettiest porch view of the city lights and mountains and i found out it’s
like the nicest biggest house in the whole mish. I’ve had it confirmed that God
knows me so well because of my comp and where i am. The altitude is crazy! We
traveled from sea level to 11,000 feet in an hour! I had pressure on my ears like
all day and was super weak and felt like I had to sit down all the time. They
gave us that tea stuff and most everyone else seemed to be alright, but I took
it the hardest. We just chilled at president’s house most of the day yesterday
to accustom to it. Today has been better. Singing is hard cuz you use more
oxygen, but I’m getting used to it fast! Today is a little reunion
for all the girls. Our mission pres leaves at the end of this month
so his wife wanted to do something with all the sisters. So ALL
40 of the sisters in the mission came today and we’ve been chillin
doing manicures and eating lasagna. I had my first peruvian mango as well.
SOOOOOO GOOD! love you lots! my pdays on monday, so talk to you then! much
love! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11492757765692172537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412909255761200050.post-71023710427358048362013-06-14T15:05:00.002-07:002013-06-14T15:05:10.948-07:00CCM #5My missionary scripture is the one that’s like ´ I can do all things through
Christ which strengtheneth me (dad sent it to me in like one of my first
letters:) I have no idea about my address changing. I received one of Elisa’s
dear elders! I’m so happy because i get like a letter a week from either dad or
her thing. I feel soooo soo loved. I’m so incredibly blessed. Thanks so much
for everything. One of the ladies in the temple hugged me so much and kissed me
on the cheek, and told me that she had a missionary out too. Love the
missionaries, I have lots of mothers out here:). 2,000 islands??? dang trev!
That’s tight! People say that with spanish we can come home speaking fluently,
japanese and stuff they speak like I do in spanish after 5 months when they get
home. Hard language, but you will love it man. AH tali going to school
school?!? cray cray! BAHAHAHAHAHA the little red hen!!! I laughed out loud
picturing it! That’s so great!!!! Very creative. I love it. wow. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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So many incredible things happening over there in one week!!! good luck at
graduation tomorrow trev! brother taylor is the new stake patriarch?!?! Did the
other guy die? :( Congrats on the call to dad too! haha my advice is to be
friends to all. Sharing the gospel doesn’t need to be awkward. Just state the
facts! This is what life’s about! NOTHING else comes close to being as
important. So just remember that. They will recognize it. Have faith in God. He
makes things happen every day. Believe that He will make miracles happen in
your life and he will! I love the armies of helaman. Dang did they have faith.
A big part of faith is not doubting that God will deliver you or be with you
always. Look for it in vs 47 and 56 of chapter 56 in alma. and ch 57 vs 21 and
26-27. Ok while you’re at it turn the page to ch 58 vs 10 and 11. Good
stuff. I’m in love with the scriptures. Seriously anything you ever need to
know you can know from the scriptures and from prayer and answers from the holy
ghost--2 ne 32: 3 and 5. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Wow. trevs an elder?? Giving blessings and going through the temple??
Doesn’t seem real! He will be an incredible missionary though. I can tell. He’s
so obedient and he does what the Lord wants even if he’s never done it before
or doesn’t know how. That’s what God needs and what makes extraordinary
missionaries. Extremely obedient, hardworking and full of love. you got it man!
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Ok so a week from today i will be in cusco!!! Time flies when you’re having
fun eh? My flight leaves at like 9 I’ve heard, so i will hopefully be able to
call in the airport if i can figure out a way. So I’m guessing maybe around 8
or 830 my time?? Who knows. Or maybe when i land. i love peruvians.
Everything’s like last minute or not completely planned. :) sooooooo ya i can’t
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Sooo i met my mish pres!!! He came to the ccm with the area 70s and stuff
cuz they had a big meeting and came and ate at our cafeteria and that’s his new
calling! He’s soooooo amazing! All 5 of us in my district just sat around as he
ate and talked to us in spanish. He’s so full of the spirit and he said that he
felt a really good spirit around us too. The altitudes super high so I’ll drink
that drink, he said the people are amazing. I also met Elisa’s mission
president!!! Its soo cool knowing that she’s soo close and real! hahah. He was
so happy to meet me and i asked him if Elisa’s doing well, hes like ´yes! She’s
the sister leader!´haha. There are 3 people from my district going to santa
cruz so hopefully they’ll get to meet Elisa! 2 white girls and an elder. They
are the girls that I’ve shared a room with for 6 weeks:), super funny. I can’t
wait for them to meet Elisa. They just have like that dead pan humor. So great.
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Oh ya, i forgot to tell you that i was called to be the sister leader in the
ccm too! So I’ve had it just since last sunday, but it was cool cuz we wrote
all the new girls notes, and I’ve been helping girls with sicknesses etc with
oils n stuff. I have learned a lot from being the leader. It’s hard. you have a
lot of responsibility and you have to be a good example always. haha even
though i don’t do too much in the mtc, it’s been a really good experience for
me. The new group got stuck over night in the LAX airport cuz something was
wrong with the wing on their airplane! So i got up when they all got here and
helped carry stuff up the stairs. I remember how hard it was getting here and
everyone speaking spanish to you and not knowing what was going on and couldn’t
imagine how hard it would be coming a day late too! i told them how this place
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Something for mission moms is that garments are SO cheap down here. Like 1.5
soles so like 60 american cents. soo good. I dont need any so i never bought
any. Our last pday was today. We asked the pres if we could all go to pizza to
celebrate our last pday. He worked out so many details giving us an extra hour
out so we could go to the temple, go shopping and go to pizza hut!! Pizza hut
was like a super nice sit down restaurant! Who woulda thought! I’m gunna miss
lima. It’s so great. especially now that I’m not like freaked out every time i
walk out of the doors or sit in the bus as it wizzes by the other cars like a
licking distance away(aka i could lick the other car if i stuck my tongue out
the window). i like the feel of the city and the run down houses. I’m sooooo
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I feel like the first week here i learned spanish so fast, but now I’ve
started slowing down a bit. it’s frustrating, and nerve wracking, but tengo fe.
I’m just stoked to get out and really be a missionary. :) One thing I’ve really
learned though is that it doesn’t matter the title you have, you can be a
missionary every day. Like before i came out here i learned so much stuff like
how to listen to people and talk about the gospel with them and be friendly and
listen to the spirit that has helped me so much out here. Like more than i
would’ve been able to learn here in 6 weeks. aka learn something new every day.
Don’t let one day go to waste. You can listen to the promptings of the spirit
to help people. Helping people is the ultimate goal. Christ’s personality was
to reach outside himself and he did it every single day and in every situation
even when suffering on the cross. Our ultimate goal is to be like him, so let’s
constantly find ways to not complain and look outside ourselves. Gods goal is
´to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man´, let’s make that our
goal too eh? Obviously it’s the best goal eh? Help people, people!! :) <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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One of the guys that serves us food that we talk to every day we found out
isn’t a member. We asked him if he wanted to learn more and it was like a no
brainer yes. So all the sisters in my district talked to him after we got back
from pizza today and it was the coolest thing. He had a lot of weird ideas
about what we believe, and he knows the truth. People in the world just need to
see that we´re normal people. He said he loves to serve people. Like that’s
what he does every day, and he does it cuz of the good feelings he gets every
time he does. He also believes in a higher power. It was cool being able to
tell him that that higher power is God and he´s literally our father and that
he speaks to us today. It like blew his mind. It was cool feeling like ammon
teaching king lamoni and just relating everything back to him and having the
support of everyone testifying that they know for themselves. What a blessing
agency, and personal revelation are. God our father cares enough about EVERY
SINGLE person that he will individually give them an answer and speak to them.
If God teaches individually to their needs, we need to too. I’m so thankful for
all of the incredible things I’ve learned on the mission so far. soo much
learning in so little time. It’s incredible. It’s a trial of faith every day
and i love it. my faith has grown so much. God loves all of you! Keep up the
good work!<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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ya sorry for all the emails. I think tony got me ´too´good of a camera! The
pictures are so high def that the email doesn’t know how to deal with it!
jaja(as the latinos say)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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so i forgot to tell you that i barely missed elder bednar!! he was at the ccm
literally 2 days before i got there and shook everyones hands! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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love the way the latinos translate some stuff into spanish. On our schedule it
says, ´red the book of mormon´ for read. The other day one of our teachers was
trying to explain a word and said you know, ´teeth sticks´ we later found out
he meant tooth picks haha. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you know the thing that craig used to do with his hand when he was excited?
like the snappy clap thing? Its only with one finger here--your pointer
finger hitting your middle finger and thumb. trev can do it i think,
but anyways all of the latinos can do it and do it when somethings awesome
like encouragement kind of. I’ve finally gotten a sound out of it, but
I’ll be pro when i get home. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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so i think I’ve figured out why people get so close to their districts in the
mtc and why they have so much fun all the time. Its cuz we´re all soooo dead
tired so it starts to get to the point where EVERYTHING is hilarious! And how
the smallest things are SUPER entertaining. Like if i saw some of the things
that gave me enjoyment now i would probably be ashamed. haha. Like there’s this
huge house on the side of the hill next to the ccm and we can see it over our
wall. Anyways the other night the alarm was going off on it, and literally we
all stood outside and watched it for like 10 minutes. It was exciting. The
other day one of the elders discovered something super exciting, spinning
around for 30 seconds and then putting your feet together. You fall flat.
Hilarious. We learned a little foot clappy thing. one of the sisters stole
my toothbrush while i was in the restroom and put in on
the window sill ledge and sat there cutely smiling while slowly
pushing it off making the emporers new grove noise saying, uh huh?´kinda. I
though it was the most hilarious thing. I died. Same girl pulled me around
in the hallway on our comforter. McDonalds has never tasted better in
my entire life! I think it’s my new fav restaurant and i didn’t like it before
the mish. The few of us that are staying in peru on our mishes had to
go and get our peruvian licenses today and so we got
it. Best hamburger and fries of my life. The sprite tasted kinda diff
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so while were waiting for forever at the license place today. I saw
this man with a daughter that was crying. I went over and went over and
tried to give her a pamphlet to look at the pictures but she didn’t
want it so i pulled out a piece of paper and a pen and she stopped crying
and started drawing, I started talking to the guy and he spoke english!!! The
tender mercies of the Lord. Not only that but he was from..get
this.. INDIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I said one of my hindi phrases to him that i
learned from my tapes!!!! He totally understood me and could understand my
accent!!! wuzzup!!!!! He was in peru for work, we were just talking
about life it was great. His daughter ended up crying again and I
made one of those cootie catchers and she loved it! She giggled
so much and took it. He asked me if i had a facebook or email address and
i gave it to him and took down his info for the missionaries to come!
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">While
we were waiting there were people just sitting all around me. I luckily
had brought like ten pamphlets about the plan of salvation etc
and handed them out to the people around me that looked bored
saying, ´quiere leer?´ they all took them and some of them looked really
grateful and said thank you. There was this boy that was in high school
that looked like he had a rough life and i handed him one and he
kinda started reading it, then i went and sat by him and asked
him about soccer and messi in my broken spanish. We talked about usa
and what i liked about it. He asked about the church and it was super cool
cuz i told him that we are Gods children and he could be like God one day. It
was super cool cuz we went back to talking about other stuff(he was definitely
very patient with my spanish) and were just like chill friends. I realized that
that’s how the gospel needs to be taught, not as like someone trying to force
their beliefs on someone else, but as friends sharing and really caring about
others and helping them to find more and become more for themselves. (I’m not
going to lie, there was a lot of times i would just nod and laugh if it looked
like he was saying something funny..most the time i could barely understand
him..it worked though i think! lool)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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went prosylyting on saturday. It was a really awesome experience. I felt like a
real missionary. And kind of lame cuz i really don’t know the language. With
God it doesn’t matter though cuz the spirit has its own language and i
definitely felt it a lot. The cool thing about the ccm is that the spirit is
everywhere. it’s so real. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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thing i learned this week from Elder Holland is that whatever you want your
investigators to do you need to do first yourself. Like if you want your
investigators to pray harder and repent more or dig deeper into the scriptures
then you need to do it yourself! You are Gods investigator. He wants you to
come closer to him. I’m working on making my prayers more meaningful and
digging deeper into the scriptures and i challenge yall to do the same! i love
you all soo soo much!!!!!!!! Good luck on graduation coming up t-rev!!!!!!! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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TREVOR THE ASIAN!!!!!!!!!! WOWO!!!!! DID ANYONE SEE THAT ONE
COMING?!?!?!?! CRAZY!!!!! CRAZY!!!!!!!! CRAZY HARD LANGUAGE!!!!!! dude, trev.
you´re going to ROCK man!!!! spanish is hard..but its nothing compared to
japanese!!! haha. all that studying for ib will pay off i
think!! youre soooo cool!!!!! you're going to be able to speak
japanese!!!!!!!! thats super good that steve gave you that rosetta stone
though. i heard those things are the best. im soo sooo pumped for you. i was
sitting here reading my emails with a room of missionaries and i yelled,
´WHAT?!?!´ and then ¨my brother got called to JAPAN!!!!!!!!!!!´ sooo stoked for
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come!!!!!!!!!! ive been telling everyone, ´my cousins coming in two
days!!!!!´one of the elders was like, ´does she play soccer too?´ haha i said
shes a really good piano player. :) its nuts cuz theres only like 20 people at
the ccm right now! 2 of the 4 american districts left on sunday, and all of the
latinos(they only stay for two weeks so ill go through 3 groups of them)!
i was muy triste. the latinos woke me up at 4 in the morning and we sang ´God
be with you til we meet again´in espanol, and i prayed for them in
spanish. theyre the best. theyll all find me on ´face´(thats what they call
facebook haha) cuz i wrote them all notes in their journals(more like drew them
with my colorful pens and wrote in broken spanish) ha. ya so its a party being
so empty here. according to hermana cardon(presidents wife) theres about
75 latinos coming, 4 latinas, 7 american hermanas y 9 american elders.
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i didnt realize how hard it would be to work hard as a
missionary. theres not people there all the time telling me what i need to do
all the time. its a lot of self discipline to study for multiple hours a
day on your own. im trying to learn how to get rid of my will and accept Gods.
the district also makes it hard too, because they become some of your really
good friends because your with them all day every day! so if one person comes off
focus, then everyone does. on sunday we were all particularly roudy and finally
one of the elders stood up and said, ´i have a spiritual thought´and he read a
quote from preach my gospel and a scripture about working hard and how God will
bless you with power. i have definitely re-commited to putting my best effort
out there and stop letting myself lag because other people are. whats
cool(trevor) is that we all have so much more respect for that guy now. hes
always worked so hard and his spanish has improved a ton(he´ll
bring flashcards to meals even). we all want to be the best missionaries,
so when youre an example even if it seems intimidating people will thank
you for being so so obedient all the time. i know i have definitely
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cool thought in the temple today was that scripture ´the
last shall be first and the first last etc´. i sat on the back row so that i
would be the last one into the celestial room, because im trying to be
better at serving others and being selfless(last time i was first in there).
anyways, the way it worked out, they were taking the people on the back row
first this time, so i ended up being first again! it made me realize that when
you do what your supposed to and always put God first, things will actually
work out better for you. siempre. always. it may not seem like when we get rid
of our will and put God first that its better for us. but he´s way smarter than
us. he´ll pay us back 500%. at least. the scriptures are dang powerful. i
watched a talk from elder holland on sunday and he said that when you open the
book of mormon its like the spirit oozes of the pages. (i dont think he used
that exact wording, but that the imagery i got:)) ha anyways. its so true. the
book of mormons powerful. i just get to tell people to read it! its the proof
that everythings true!!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11492757765692172537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412909255761200050.post-84679149977294357782013-05-23T16:24:00.001-07:002013-05-23T16:32:21.797-07:00Pictures (CCM #3)<br />
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flight to peru from georgia. There are two other girls that flew alone, so
they’re not here, and we also have two more people in our district from the mtc
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is us at the airport in peru! The girl to the left of me is my companion. haha
so this picture was supposed to have everyone that was there with us, but the
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street looks like when we get to leave on pdays. It’s pretty awesome because
every single pday we get to go to the temple and then after we get to go out on
the streets and go shopping for a couple more hours. We always bring extra book
of mormons and pamphlets and hand them out on the crazy busses and in stores. i
love it. Except it is a little nerve racking to speak to someone in spanish,
because i can’t understand hardly anything they say. i bought some smiley face
stickers and I’ve been handing them out to little kids on the street. I think
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out after that i wasn’t supposed to take pictures in the cafeteria, but im glad
i got it! These are some of my latina girls, and you can see in the background
that there’s a lot of latinos. I havent been as friendly with this last group
of latinos, this time, but i was tight with all them.</span></div>
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from my floor. it’s nice. We got some new latinos this time around and one of
the elders said that he’s never seen a girl play soccer before! They dont in
peru i guess!</span></div>
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the ccm. They’re crazy. we see them all the time. we tried to do an all spanish
day, because surprisingly we get spoken to in english a ton. And for like
devotionals they give us translators. ya that day only lasted til lunch. it
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go to byu idaho, one goes to byu. my comp goes to uvu. we took this picture
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called the granadilla or something, and i love it! It has a hard shell that you
can break open with your fingers and is about the shape and size of a lemon.
Inside though are these crazy slimy covered seeds that taste
delicious when you slurp them up! Some of the elders said they look like frog
eggs so most of my district won’t eat them anymore. ha. i still do and love
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ok this guy in our district is awesome. elder estrada. the one that kept us in
line the other day. He’s hilarious and crazy super hill billy(like lives with
his family in a swamp town) haha hes going to cusco too. Anyways we were
talking about the crazy food that we might have to eat and someone said we
might have to have monkey brains. Now every time someone says anything about
monkeys he does a creepy monkey sound and wiggles his arms. i drew a picture of
a monkey holding a baby with a tentacle on the whiteboard because one night he
said, ´what would you do if you just had a baby and the doctor brings it
out and it has a tentacle for an arm?´ haha ya thats estrada.</span></div>
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where we got to sit! Yes, they gave us like 3 meals on the plane. i loved every
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gave a talk on sunday! So they have us all prepare a talk in spanish and call
on us randomly to give it. the topic was on charity and they called ´hermana
black´haha probably gave Michaela a heart attack, I’m surprised the other herm
black didn’t give it because she leaves next week. But my talk went well! All
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latinos and he’s from bolivia! He brought me a letter from Elisa!!!! so cool.
he’s a super funny kid, and he told me that Elisa’s spanish is super good!
there’s actually 3 sister blacks at the ccm now that Michaela’s here, so i
think it was kind of confusing for him to find me :) yes, i see Michaela all
the time she lives across the hall from me. She was famous when she got here. I
told everyone she was coming. :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I’m glad you found the pin mom:) well, i don’t really wanna look for the second
trigaurd, cuz all my suitcases are up on top of the closet, but I’m sure I’ll
be fine. there’s been some viruses breaking out among the north americans, so
my oils are being well spent. And the wonderful cough drops. muchas gracias. :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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well in provo! haha i laughed out loud about that tooth fairy tali story. sooo
cute. i miss that chica. Tell me what you want me to take more pictures of!! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is so true! Today was pretty cool because they didn’t have translators for us
in the temple, I love how i know exactly what’s going on, even though I don’t
know all the words. The spirit is siempre the same. i feel bad for Michaela
though cuz its her first time! I love that imp starting to be able to feel the
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11492757765692172537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412909255761200050.post-63310668655295802022013-04-30T18:07:00.003-07:002013-05-08T07:55:10.165-07:00In the CCM at last!MOM!!!!!!!<br />
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wow. cant believe it went that bad on the wisdom teeth! rough. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TREVOR!!!!!! i wish i could have you be here with all the latinos and make them sing to you. they all sing happy birthday in english and then join together in espanol to sing feliz cumpleanos but a different version with clapping n stuff.<br />
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Thanks so much for taking care of all my stuff at home. im sorry that i procrastinated packing until the night before and caused you all mucho mas stress than you all needed.<br />
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oh my heck! i love this place soooooo much!!!!!!!! its so nice! i found out from that guy i gave a libro de mormon to that were in the rich part of peru. its so amazing. the street outside of the ccm is like smaller than our street in front of our house, but ten times busier. we tried to catch a bus today to get to the temple this morning, and two buses had to pass us up because they were jam-packed with people!<br />
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there were 2 hermanas that i met in sl, and then we met 3 elders, and dos mas seesters. haha you have to say ´elder´with an accent. 2 sisters were in the airport who had to fly alone from pensylvania and washington! i would be scared out of my mind.<br />
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there were members in the peru airport that could speak english though that helped them. angels. in peru and 4 latino elders and one latina. it was crazy funny cuz we could not communicate with them at all.one of the latinas gave us something to try. it was good. it was sweet and was purple and goey. haha. peru is amazing. there were a lot of casinos, and little nacho libre looking pueblo housed all over. i cant help think of nacho libre all the time while im here. we have toast all the time which i sometimes have the desire to have in my cuarters. we all have been getting diarreah,(not since easters, we havent been here that long silly!). so these 2 19 year old hermanas from utah think they run this town, its hilarious. well one of them has the calling of like the sister leader calling. it was good to see a sign on our door when we arrived at 3 am that was in english from them. they just tell us how it is: we WILL get either get sick with siempres or nuncas from the food(always or nothing) think about it.<br />
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so about 50 latinos started new the next day with us. my companion and i tried to talk to some of the latinas, but it was hard, the latinos didnt even bother trying to talk to us or look at us. i didnt like it. oh btw, elder estrada didnt have his yellow fever card or immunizations. i was feeling super on top of things. ;) havent lost anything yet! (except one of my name tags.. minor details).<br />
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our first meal with everyone i was walking with my tray and a big table of latino elders stopped me and started talking to me in spanish. so im standing there with a tray of food while theyre all laughing and poking fun becuase i dont know how to speak spanish. i just laughed too. i think they were saying something about the atonement?? ha anyways i was thinking about this and decided something needed to change. i needed to be respected and known by all the latinos/as in the ccm. lets just say it worked. i have now rightfully gained the name of hermana messi as it belongs to me.<br />
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now i walk around anywhere on campus and i hear ´hermana black, hermana black!´in a spanish accent. i love joking around with all of them and saying ´tiene nada!´(you have nothing!) haha one of them came up to me and was like, whats your favorite team?(there was probably like 15 latino elders all gazing up at me with their big eyes waiting for my answer) i said i dont really watch soccer that much, they couldnt understand that. then they asked me if i liked messi or some other soccer player more. i said ´duh messi!´and it was like pulling a trigger, they all broke out in a huge argument about whos better. that was probably the only time at the mtc ive felt a little afraid for my life.<br />
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haha i could write all day about the latinos. so i taught 6 white hermanas yoga yesterday during activity time, and the latinos have kept coming up to me and ask me why i didnt play soccer. i told them i taught yoga and told them to all come do it on thursday, then next time we all have activity time together. so now everytime im in the caf or see a bunch of them i hear ´yoga en jueves?´hahahahahhahahahah i cant wait!!!!!<br />
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all the other americanos sit with eachother at meal times, me and mi cump sit with the latinos. i see enough of them all day in classes:) im actually getting way better at communicating with them. we act stuff out. the latinas are great. i joke with them all the time. they say theyll throw me out the window, i pretend like im going to put toothpaste on them, its great. on sunday my companion and i started singing hymnos with about 4 of the latinas outside and by the end we were joined with about a choir of 50. the white hermanas didnt have hymn books so it was hard to sing spanish hymns so on the spirit of God chorus we sang it in english and all the latinos stopped singing so they could listen to us. it was cool. lets just say, im a big deal here. :)<br />
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if ive learned one thing, its that prayer works. if ive learned one thing, its that prayer works. not just to have more patience, but in aiding in teaching and the gift of tounges. the second night we were here, a ym yws group of peruvians came and we were broken off into companionships to teach them as if they were investigators. aka they didnt know english and we were supposed to teach them for reals. we didnt know hardly a lick of spanish. i prayed with my companion like ive never prayed before, remembering my blessing to have the gift of tounges and that God is with his missionaries and that ive been set apart to have power. i just prayed asking the Lord that i would do my best but to pour out his spirit upon us because we didnt know spanish but we wanted to help and bless these young men and young women so help us to be able to communicate with them and bring the spirit in their lives. the gift of tounges is real. i opened my mouth in faith and tried. he understood us, sentences were put together that i didnt know how to say. i was using some words that i knew, but i had no idea how to put into sentences, and i was speaking faster than i know how. i could understand him. i just remembered my testimony and thought of things i wanted him to feel. we need to remember faith. if the lord asks us to do something, he WILL provide a way for us to accomplish it. its super scary sometimes because we cant see what will happen, but we just have to pray and trust that His promises to us are real. they are, but we wont see the fruit of that until we act, try and do. its scary not to see sometimes. trust the Lord. HE is there and He is real. I promise.<br />
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one of the latinos asked if i would say a prayer at our devotional on sunday in front of the whole ccm. of course i accpted--i got to sit on the stand! anyways i prayed and prayed that id be able to say what i wanted to in spanish cuz i was really nervous. i spoke slowly, but i felt the spirit with me. so many people came up after and were like great prayer hermana, or ive been in the ccm for 5 weeks and cant pray that good, or the mtc pres was like ´how long have you been here´? 3 days. ¨thats a miracle´.<br />
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being at the ccm has been a miracle. its beautiful, the spirit is CONSTANTLY here, and im learning so much. thanks for all the love and support i love you all so much. i took lots of pictures but of course forgot to bring my chord up here to the computer lab today. love you muchos muchos!! happy birthday again trev! remember who you are beautiful maddie and afton! tali youre cute! elisa youre my hero! mom and dad, i could not be here without you.<br />
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hasta luego!<br />
hermana Malorie black
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11492757765692172537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412909255761200050.post-45160756990304792092013-04-30T18:06:00.001-07:002013-04-30T18:06:10.556-07:00made it!!!HOLA!!!!!!! I MADE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love peru!!! there are 7 sisters and 3 elders that are American that arrived last night. we got here at like 2:30 am on a nice bus. the ccm is soooo nice! I love it. Today isn´t my P day, so I only have ten minutes to write. I´ve taken lots of pictures already. oh, there were also 3 latino elders and one latino sister that arrived with us yesterday tambien. it was pretty hilarious because we were all on the bus together last night and trying to talk to eachother, didn´t really work. i was able to ask them how old they are though, so at least one thing in highschool paid off! only the latino sister is older than me out of all the girls that arrived yesterday. they´re all 19, or just barely turned 20. It was pretty crazy at the airport and arriving at the CCM because we don´t know spanish. The guy last night was telling the latino sister what to tell us, but she doesn´t know english either! haha. we got in our room so late and woke up our 2 latino roommates when we were unpacking. but they woke us up this morning when they got up at 630, we got to sleep in until 9:). it was funny because one of them was trying to say something to me and i said ´no entiendo´and she was like ´no me gusta ingles.´ haha. i almost said, ´no me gusta espanol´ but decided i needed an attitude change.
so i got this mission thing in the bag! at least in english haha. well, it´s definitely the spirit helping me out and i think talking to all those people on airplanes to hawaii as well helped me a lot. on the plane ride from salt lake to atlanta me and kenzie(hermana irvine) talked to this guy that had tats all up his arms and a couple lip rings. we talked to him for like 20 minutes about his soon to be wife and step daughter, he definitely liked talking to us, and we could get him talking about lots, anyways i told him something i loved about the church was that it was so focused on families. i happened to take one of our Family:A proclamation to the world(spirit told me) and gave it to him when we left. ah..out of time, but i´ve also given away my spanish book of mormon i brought. :D
anyways, love you and miss you lots! the ccm's so nice and we got like 2 meals on the airplane here. i'm living the high life! ;)
will write again soon on my pday on tuesday!
Hermana Mal Black
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11492757765692172537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412909255761200050.post-7128460434080034262013-04-19T15:21:00.003-07:002013-04-19T15:21:18.207-07:00My email addressMy email address is malorie.black@myldsmail.netAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11492757765692172537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412909255761200050.post-40591547151836840052013-04-19T15:19:00.001-07:002013-04-21T14:18:20.241-07:00This will be me in the next 18 months. Just wait.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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