Hello all!
Things have been going good here in Vicente Valdes. Nothing terribly exciting, but going nonetheless.
Lets see, where to start. I'll start with the investigators I suppose. Marcela is doing good. She is getting baptised sí o sí. The question is when though. We are hoping for this coming sunday, the 2nd of may, and she is praying to know if she should that day too, but if it isn't this Sunday it'll probably be the next, the 9th. So that's good. Sandra is also doing good, and we've started using members with her. We brought this one hermana to a lesson and it was really good and we should be having a noche de hogar with them tomorrow if everything goes according to plan. oh, noche de hogar is a family home evening. that just kinda happens now, when some things gospel related just come out in spanish. We are also seeing Ricardo progress slowly so that's good. Other than that we haven't had like anything super amazing happen with progress, everyone is going at their own slow and steady pace.
We have been teaching a recently inactive recent convert named Juan, who basically went inactive for no reason at all and we've been trying to get him to come back to church and por fin he came back on Sunday. Hallelujah. So that was a relief to see him there finally after weeks of teaching him.
Nothing too exciting happened in terms of events this week though. Just getting colder, especially at nights. There was a huge soccer game last night though, versus Colo Colo and La Universidad de Chile(La U). I dunno if I ever mentioned this but this is the biggest rivalry in Chile between soccer teams and its crazy huge. Like insane. People die when they play each other haha. But nothing too exciting happened this time. Just knew it was going on. This sector is super tranquil. Some sectors get crazy when this game happens and people have to go inside early, but here nothing happened. Just got bugged by a coulple drunk guys but that's kinda normal here in the mission. Colo colo ended up wining 1-0. Everything stops in the coutry though haha. streets were empty and we attempted knocking doors but it was a huge failure.
Sunday was pretty good. We only had one investigator in the chapel, Marcela. But like I said, Juan went so that was good.
Hmm, don't know much more to say, nothing really happened haha. Oh, something cool is that it's almost mothers day haha and I'm already gonna be able to call home again. Crazy! And we already have changes next week, which is also super crazy. This change has flown by. Haha we've been teasing an Elder we live with a little bit cuz he goes home next change, in only 7 weeks. Then my comp is right after him the change after. So they tease each other a lot.
But I'm doing super good here in Santiago. I love it here. It's where I'm supposed to be and I'm supposed to be doing this week. I love you all and you're always in my prayers and thoughts! Lots of love from here in Chile.
Elder Aaron Mayberry
Monday, April 26, 2010
Monday, April 19, 2010
Chilly in Chile!
Yes, that was a pun in the subject and yes it was bad. And I cant believe Ryan robbed it from me. I was thinking of using that a long time ago when the weather finally changed and it did this week.
So the weather has finally gotten a little colder. We usually go out in long sleeves, and one day we had to go out in jackets. It was pretty cool, we were studying and we heard rain so we went outside and it was actually hailing! And then it turned to rain a bit and there was thunder. And I hear the loudest thunder of my life. It scared us all so bad cuz it was soooo loud. But finally, it isn’t summer anymore here in chile.
This week was a pretty good one. It flew by. We had our interviews with our mission president on Thursday and they were amazing. That man is really called by God to be our mission president. He tells us the coolest things in interviews to help us out or to get the morale up or basically just get inspiration for us. You can easily feel the spirit when President talks. He told me a funny story from his mission in argentina. First he asked what I thought I was struggling on, and I said getting out of bed right when the alarm goes off (I bet you couldn’t have guessed…..im still the same person haha). But he told me the funny story of how on his mission him and one of his comps decided to put a glass of water in between their beds and whoever got up out of bed the fastest got to throw it on the other guy haha. I don't think I wanna try it cuz I don’t wanna get wet in the morning, but it was still a funny story. I love President and all his cool stories and advice he gives us.
In terms of investigators and their progress its going well. Marcela accepted a baptismal date for the 2nd of May! So that’s exciting. Ricardo is doing good too. He couldn’t come to church because he went out of town, but our last lesson with him was really good. He said “im gonna pray fr sure to know if this is true” so that was a really cool experience. Sandra also came to church again and we had a good lesson with her the other day. So our investigators are doing good and are progressing.
Today was a really fun p-day. We all went as a zone to an hermanos house from another ward, and he lives in the mountains and has a bunch of land. First we went and essentially made blow darts using metal tubes and magazine pages and we shot those at balloons and that was a ton of fun. And then in his yard this guy has two zip-lines that we got to go down which was also a lot of fun. And we finished it off with a huge barbeque Chilean style. So all in all a good pday. I'm a little sore from hiking though but that’s ok.
Haha I got a super cool gift from my last Bishop, Bishop Gonzalez. He gave me a present to a guy he works with who's dating a member of the ward so I got it in church on Sunday and it’s a super cool pen with a laser, flashlight and a extending pointer thing to point at whiteboards. And of course it functions as your average pen. But it's pretty cool. I love that ward and the people there.
Well, that’s about all I got for now. Hopefully everyone is doing well in this time of year. I know the church is true and that this is the lords work and that this is exactly where I'm supposed to be in my life. Love you all and you're always in my prayers.
Love,
Elder Aaron Mayberry
So the weather has finally gotten a little colder. We usually go out in long sleeves, and one day we had to go out in jackets. It was pretty cool, we were studying and we heard rain so we went outside and it was actually hailing! And then it turned to rain a bit and there was thunder. And I hear the loudest thunder of my life. It scared us all so bad cuz it was soooo loud. But finally, it isn’t summer anymore here in chile.
This week was a pretty good one. It flew by. We had our interviews with our mission president on Thursday and they were amazing. That man is really called by God to be our mission president. He tells us the coolest things in interviews to help us out or to get the morale up or basically just get inspiration for us. You can easily feel the spirit when President talks. He told me a funny story from his mission in argentina. First he asked what I thought I was struggling on, and I said getting out of bed right when the alarm goes off (I bet you couldn’t have guessed…..im still the same person haha). But he told me the funny story of how on his mission him and one of his comps decided to put a glass of water in between their beds and whoever got up out of bed the fastest got to throw it on the other guy haha. I don't think I wanna try it cuz I don’t wanna get wet in the morning, but it was still a funny story. I love President and all his cool stories and advice he gives us.
In terms of investigators and their progress its going well. Marcela accepted a baptismal date for the 2nd of May! So that’s exciting. Ricardo is doing good too. He couldn’t come to church because he went out of town, but our last lesson with him was really good. He said “im gonna pray fr sure to know if this is true” so that was a really cool experience. Sandra also came to church again and we had a good lesson with her the other day. So our investigators are doing good and are progressing.
Today was a really fun p-day. We all went as a zone to an hermanos house from another ward, and he lives in the mountains and has a bunch of land. First we went and essentially made blow darts using metal tubes and magazine pages and we shot those at balloons and that was a ton of fun. And then in his yard this guy has two zip-lines that we got to go down which was also a lot of fun. And we finished it off with a huge barbeque Chilean style. So all in all a good pday. I'm a little sore from hiking though but that’s ok.
Haha I got a super cool gift from my last Bishop, Bishop Gonzalez. He gave me a present to a guy he works with who's dating a member of the ward so I got it in church on Sunday and it’s a super cool pen with a laser, flashlight and a extending pointer thing to point at whiteboards. And of course it functions as your average pen. But it's pretty cool. I love that ward and the people there.
Well, that’s about all I got for now. Hopefully everyone is doing well in this time of year. I know the church is true and that this is the lords work and that this is exactly where I'm supposed to be in my life. Love you all and you're always in my prayers.
Love,
Elder Aaron Mayberry
Monday, April 12, 2010
Winter is coming!
Hello everyone!
Things have been going great over here in Santiago Chile. The weather is finally starting to change a little bit. Some days we actually go out in long sleeves. Well one day so far. But at nights it has gotten a lot colder. So hallelujah, no more burning sun every day. Pretty soon here the weather should change for good and we'll have to go out with jackets and in the rain. we still have a little time though.
But the work is going good here in Vicente Valdes. Still not too good at memorizing the sector and stuff but it's coming. like I said, directions aren't my strong suit.
I'll start out with some investigator progress, because there is some!
Marcela is doing good. We are gonna put a fecha on her this week to get baptized. Sorry, sometimes I think in spanish/english and things just come out mixed without even thinking. But yeah. We're gonna try to get a baptismal date with her.
We have also been teaching a young kid named Ricardo for a little bit, a month or so, and he finally came to church! That was super cool. he's 13 but he's super mature for his age. He always has lots of good questions for us so he keeps us on our toes. But he is slowly coming, so it's been super cool to see his progress and the way his thoughts have changed.
We also had a random investigator in the chapel which is a super cool feeling haha. A lady named Sandra who we've taught a few times, who said she probably couldn't come to church this week, and at the end of Sacrament meeting we stand up and she's way off in the back sitting there haha. It was super cool. So we are actually having some progressing investigators. They might not be super close to baptism yet, but they're definitely progressing a ton, which is the point.
This past week was nothing terribly exciting though. Like nothing too exciting actually happened. Just lots of visiting people, teaching lessons, and walking. Lots of that like always.
Oh, just kidding. We did have something good this week. Zone conference. That's when we meet together as zones of missionaries and listen to the Mission president. President is such a cool guy. And a super powerful speaker. I guess you'd have to be while being an international anti-piracy lawyer worknig for companies like microsoft....haha. We talked a lot about how to become better teachers and why it's importnat and it was good. I love listening to president. We have our interviews with him this week and that's always an amazing opportunity to talk with him one on one.
Today was a pretty fun day. We had an activity as a zone this morning. The zone leaders made pancakes and bacon for the whole zone, we played soccer and ping pong, and then watched the movie, Joseph Smith: Prophet of the Restoration, which is an abslutely amazing movie that talks about the life of Joseph Smith. So it was a fun activity. But my legs hurt.
But yeah. The work goes on. And it's great to be a part of it. It really is. Theres nothing better I could be doing. I'm supposed to be here in Santiago, helping people to change their lives. I love this work and am excited for the next year and 4 months of it. I love you all and hope you're all doing good. ¡Que les vaya super bien!
Con mucho amor,
Elder Aaron Mayberry
Fotitos!
1. Happy Birthday to me
2. Me and a big dog. Not a good picture of the big dog though. When it stands its at my waist roughly, and has an amazing amount of hair. ill get a better picture.
3. My sector
Things have been going great over here in Santiago Chile. The weather is finally starting to change a little bit. Some days we actually go out in long sleeves. Well one day so far. But at nights it has gotten a lot colder. So hallelujah, no more burning sun every day. Pretty soon here the weather should change for good and we'll have to go out with jackets and in the rain. we still have a little time though.
But the work is going good here in Vicente Valdes. Still not too good at memorizing the sector and stuff but it's coming. like I said, directions aren't my strong suit.
I'll start out with some investigator progress, because there is some!
Marcela is doing good. We are gonna put a fecha on her this week to get baptized. Sorry, sometimes I think in spanish/english and things just come out mixed without even thinking. But yeah. We're gonna try to get a baptismal date with her.
We have also been teaching a young kid named Ricardo for a little bit, a month or so, and he finally came to church! That was super cool. he's 13 but he's super mature for his age. He always has lots of good questions for us so he keeps us on our toes. But he is slowly coming, so it's been super cool to see his progress and the way his thoughts have changed.
We also had a random investigator in the chapel which is a super cool feeling haha. A lady named Sandra who we've taught a few times, who said she probably couldn't come to church this week, and at the end of Sacrament meeting we stand up and she's way off in the back sitting there haha. It was super cool. So we are actually having some progressing investigators. They might not be super close to baptism yet, but they're definitely progressing a ton, which is the point.
This past week was nothing terribly exciting though. Like nothing too exciting actually happened. Just lots of visiting people, teaching lessons, and walking. Lots of that like always.
Oh, just kidding. We did have something good this week. Zone conference. That's when we meet together as zones of missionaries and listen to the Mission president. President is such a cool guy. And a super powerful speaker. I guess you'd have to be while being an international anti-piracy lawyer worknig for companies like microsoft....haha. We talked a lot about how to become better teachers and why it's importnat and it was good. I love listening to president. We have our interviews with him this week and that's always an amazing opportunity to talk with him one on one.
Today was a pretty fun day. We had an activity as a zone this morning. The zone leaders made pancakes and bacon for the whole zone, we played soccer and ping pong, and then watched the movie, Joseph Smith: Prophet of the Restoration, which is an abslutely amazing movie that talks about the life of Joseph Smith. So it was a fun activity. But my legs hurt.
But yeah. The work goes on. And it's great to be a part of it. It really is. Theres nothing better I could be doing. I'm supposed to be here in Santiago, helping people to change their lives. I love this work and am excited for the next year and 4 months of it. I love you all and hope you're all doing good. ¡Que les vaya super bien!
Con mucho amor,
Elder Aaron Mayberry
Fotitos!
1. Happy Birthday to me
2. Me and a big dog. Not a good picture of the big dog though. When it stands its at my waist roughly, and has an amazing amount of hair. ill get a better picture.
3. My sector
Monday, April 5, 2010
Happy Birthday to me!
So yeah, it was a pretty good week!
Happy birthday to me. Im not not a teenager....thats very strange. But oh well. Life goes on.
8 months in the mission this very day too, which is even crazier than my age at the moment. A third of the mission is already gone! Tha'ts soooooo crazy.
And of course Easter and conference. Which were just amazing. I'll talk more about them later though.
But this week. Nothing terribly special. Just a normal week. We're still teaching a ton at the moment, like basically we have appointments all day everyday. So that's really good. Our investigators are progressing alright. At the moment we still don't have any baptismal dates, but we have a couple that are pretty close. I just enjoy doing a lot of teaching though, so that's good. And their progress will come afterwards. Me and elder Evans are a good team, we teach well together and are doing good. But like I said, this week was kinda slow cuz we didn't work at all Saturday or Sunday because of conference, and Friday not too much either cuz theres so many people out of town or busy for Easter weekend.
So I'm just gonna talk about the highlight of the week, which, of course, was conference. Twas amazing. I love listening to God's prophet and His apostles here on earth, and when hearing them and their advice you can definitely feel like they are called of God. I especially enjoyed all of the "Easter" talks, when the authorities talked about Christ, the Atonement and everything. He lives. Also, one of my favorites was from Elder Rasband. He talked about missionary work, but the part I liked the most was when he talked about how missionaries are assigned to their countries and places to serve. Just made me think, wow, I'm really meant to be here. This is where the Lord needs me. Definitely felt a spiritual confirmation of that during that talk. I also enjoyed the remarks of the Prophet (duh) and the Priesthood session as a whole. The final talk was also really cool, because Elder Andersen adressed how there was a definite theme to the conference, and no one collaborates beforehand or anything. They all pray and fast to figure out what to talk about, and as Elder Andersen said, it was a divine unity of all the talks. It's so cool. Just little things like that that help build my testimony even stronger about the gospel. Oh, I also love elder Hollands talks, even if we're getting the palo (Ryan will understand that), just because he really means what he talks about and puts everything he has into it. Conference is really a remarkable experience that I will never miss. We get to hear a prophet! What can get better than that? But yeah. I know 100% that those men are called of God and that this is the Lords church. Without a doubt.
OH. Somthing pretty funny real fast. So this recent convert, Juan, is learning English. So we usually accompany our lessons with him with a chapter or two out of the book of mormon and english, and then pray in english. which is insanely hard. I had to do it last time and I'm positive I sounded like a complete fool. I couldn't remember what to say or how to word things haha. I can speak perfect english still on the spot, cuz we do lots of that still, but praying I haven't done in english for 8 months haha. So, when I come home don't laugh at me haha.
I'm sorry that this email is kinda short, but there isn't too much to write about this week :( But I'll leave you all with my testimony. I know, without a doubt that this is the Lords work. That this is the most important thing I can do in my entire life. This is the only true church on the face of the earth and Christ is the head of it. Countless experiences have told me this and have helped to build my testimony of this church, this work, and this gospel. And in this time of Easter, I'll bear my testimony of Christ. He is our Savior. He is our Redeemer. Because of His sacrifice, we shall live again. We can truly be happy in this life. And I'm so sure of it. Because I'm pretty darn happy :)
I love you all and hope you all had a great Easter. Stay safe! Maybe you kinda know a little of what I suffered through because of that recent earthquake in CA haha. But yeah, I love you all and am so glad I'm here, in Santiago Chile, doing the Lordswork.
The church is true.
¡Besitos!
Elder Aaron Mayberry
P.S. Decided to attatch a picture of my birthday "extravaganza" I made that cake you sent me mom and it actually turned out really really really good. I was proud of myself.
P.S.S. Actually i wont. I forgot my camera in the house.....sorry! Next week i promise
Happy birthday to me. Im not not a teenager....thats very strange. But oh well. Life goes on.
8 months in the mission this very day too, which is even crazier than my age at the moment. A third of the mission is already gone! Tha'ts soooooo crazy.
And of course Easter and conference. Which were just amazing. I'll talk more about them later though.
But this week. Nothing terribly special. Just a normal week. We're still teaching a ton at the moment, like basically we have appointments all day everyday. So that's really good. Our investigators are progressing alright. At the moment we still don't have any baptismal dates, but we have a couple that are pretty close. I just enjoy doing a lot of teaching though, so that's good. And their progress will come afterwards. Me and elder Evans are a good team, we teach well together and are doing good. But like I said, this week was kinda slow cuz we didn't work at all Saturday or Sunday because of conference, and Friday not too much either cuz theres so many people out of town or busy for Easter weekend.
So I'm just gonna talk about the highlight of the week, which, of course, was conference. Twas amazing. I love listening to God's prophet and His apostles here on earth, and when hearing them and their advice you can definitely feel like they are called of God. I especially enjoyed all of the "Easter" talks, when the authorities talked about Christ, the Atonement and everything. He lives. Also, one of my favorites was from Elder Rasband. He talked about missionary work, but the part I liked the most was when he talked about how missionaries are assigned to their countries and places to serve. Just made me think, wow, I'm really meant to be here. This is where the Lord needs me. Definitely felt a spiritual confirmation of that during that talk. I also enjoyed the remarks of the Prophet (duh) and the Priesthood session as a whole. The final talk was also really cool, because Elder Andersen adressed how there was a definite theme to the conference, and no one collaborates beforehand or anything. They all pray and fast to figure out what to talk about, and as Elder Andersen said, it was a divine unity of all the talks. It's so cool. Just little things like that that help build my testimony even stronger about the gospel. Oh, I also love elder Hollands talks, even if we're getting the palo (Ryan will understand that), just because he really means what he talks about and puts everything he has into it. Conference is really a remarkable experience that I will never miss. We get to hear a prophet! What can get better than that? But yeah. I know 100% that those men are called of God and that this is the Lords church. Without a doubt.
OH. Somthing pretty funny real fast. So this recent convert, Juan, is learning English. So we usually accompany our lessons with him with a chapter or two out of the book of mormon and english, and then pray in english. which is insanely hard. I had to do it last time and I'm positive I sounded like a complete fool. I couldn't remember what to say or how to word things haha. I can speak perfect english still on the spot, cuz we do lots of that still, but praying I haven't done in english for 8 months haha. So, when I come home don't laugh at me haha.
I'm sorry that this email is kinda short, but there isn't too much to write about this week :( But I'll leave you all with my testimony. I know, without a doubt that this is the Lords work. That this is the most important thing I can do in my entire life. This is the only true church on the face of the earth and Christ is the head of it. Countless experiences have told me this and have helped to build my testimony of this church, this work, and this gospel. And in this time of Easter, I'll bear my testimony of Christ. He is our Savior. He is our Redeemer. Because of His sacrifice, we shall live again. We can truly be happy in this life. And I'm so sure of it. Because I'm pretty darn happy :)
I love you all and hope you all had a great Easter. Stay safe! Maybe you kinda know a little of what I suffered through because of that recent earthquake in CA haha. But yeah, I love you all and am so glad I'm here, in Santiago Chile, doing the Lordswork.
The church is true.
¡Besitos!
Elder Aaron Mayberry
P.S. Decided to attatch a picture of my birthday "extravaganza" I made that cake you sent me mom and it actually turned out really really really good. I was proud of myself.
P.S.S. Actually i wont. I forgot my camera in the house.....sorry! Next week i promise
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Hello from Vicente Valdez!
Hello everyone!
Here I am fully adjusted to life in my new area, my new comp, etc. I'll give a brief account of what it's like here and how the weeks been and stuff.
So my new sector is pretty cool. It's a pretty nice sector. The ward is really cool too, and there's a good amount of people that are in the ward. It's also kinda big though, so that's not too fun walking around everywheere all day and stuff and you all know how bad I am with directions, so you can imagine how I'm doing getting used to my sector haha. But I'm trying.
Our investigators are doing good. We have quite a few actually, pretty much teaching all day every day. We haven't had much time to knock, which is ok by me cuz I'm not a big fan of knocking haha. But our investigators are cool. I am still working on figuring out who's who though, but it's all good. We have some that have some good potential of getting baptized this change so that'll be cool.
Things are going really well with my new comp too. Like I said he's elder Evans, and he's from the Sacramento area. A place called Yuba city I think. He's cool and we have fun and we get a lot done too so that's really good. A funny fact is that he knows how to hypnotize haha.
But the week was good, I'm getting used to everyone, the new sector, teaching with my new comp and stuff, but the next weeks email will be more descriptive for sure.
Some other random things. I'm super excited for conference this next week. What a blessing it is to listen to Gods chosen servants on the earth. It's crazy to think that that's what they are, prophet and apostles, and that they are really here and we can listen to them twice a year, but it's so cool! Theres no doubt in my mind that these men are called of God and receive the revelation from Him and we receive it. So yeah, I'm excited for that.
A VERY FUNNY COINCIDENCE. so on Saturday I was in lunch with a family from the ward. Their daughter was there and her fiancee came in and started talking to us. He saw my name and he's like hey, I know an Elder Mayberry, but I've already heard that before in this ward apparently there was another Elder Mayberry a few years back, so I asked him how long ago he was here and he said, " no, I met one in Concepcion".......HAHAHAHAH. I asked where and he said Talca. Indeed where Ryan was at the time. THATS CRAZY!!! It was super funny. He's like oooohhhh, thats why you guys look so much alike haha. Turns out he's the Mission Presidents son of Ryans mission. How crazy is that? And he was only in Talca for one day while his dad did interviews and thats where he met Ryan. Oh man this world is small. But I'm sure you'll all get a kick out of that story.
Ahh yes. I guess I'm looking forward to my birthday. Its weird. Ill be 20. Thats old. I'm looking forward to making my cake and we're gonna go out to a restaurant to celebrate next Monday.
But yeah. I love the mission and my new ward and everything. Hopefully I get adjusted here in the next week or so haha. But I love you all and keep the emails coming and everything. Thanks for all the birthday wishes too :D Love you all and stay safe! You're always in my prayers.
Love,
Elder Aaron Mayberry
Here I am fully adjusted to life in my new area, my new comp, etc. I'll give a brief account of what it's like here and how the weeks been and stuff.
So my new sector is pretty cool. It's a pretty nice sector. The ward is really cool too, and there's a good amount of people that are in the ward. It's also kinda big though, so that's not too fun walking around everywheere all day and stuff and you all know how bad I am with directions, so you can imagine how I'm doing getting used to my sector haha. But I'm trying.
Our investigators are doing good. We have quite a few actually, pretty much teaching all day every day. We haven't had much time to knock, which is ok by me cuz I'm not a big fan of knocking haha. But our investigators are cool. I am still working on figuring out who's who though, but it's all good. We have some that have some good potential of getting baptized this change so that'll be cool.
Things are going really well with my new comp too. Like I said he's elder Evans, and he's from the Sacramento area. A place called Yuba city I think. He's cool and we have fun and we get a lot done too so that's really good. A funny fact is that he knows how to hypnotize haha.
But the week was good, I'm getting used to everyone, the new sector, teaching with my new comp and stuff, but the next weeks email will be more descriptive for sure.
Some other random things. I'm super excited for conference this next week. What a blessing it is to listen to Gods chosen servants on the earth. It's crazy to think that that's what they are, prophet and apostles, and that they are really here and we can listen to them twice a year, but it's so cool! Theres no doubt in my mind that these men are called of God and receive the revelation from Him and we receive it. So yeah, I'm excited for that.
A VERY FUNNY COINCIDENCE. so on Saturday I was in lunch with a family from the ward. Their daughter was there and her fiancee came in and started talking to us. He saw my name and he's like hey, I know an Elder Mayberry, but I've already heard that before in this ward apparently there was another Elder Mayberry a few years back, so I asked him how long ago he was here and he said, " no, I met one in Concepcion".......HAHAHAHAH. I asked where and he said Talca. Indeed where Ryan was at the time. THATS CRAZY!!! It was super funny. He's like oooohhhh, thats why you guys look so much alike haha. Turns out he's the Mission Presidents son of Ryans mission. How crazy is that? And he was only in Talca for one day while his dad did interviews and thats where he met Ryan. Oh man this world is small. But I'm sure you'll all get a kick out of that story.
Ahh yes. I guess I'm looking forward to my birthday. Its weird. Ill be 20. Thats old. I'm looking forward to making my cake and we're gonna go out to a restaurant to celebrate next Monday.
But yeah. I love the mission and my new ward and everything. Hopefully I get adjusted here in the next week or so haha. But I love you all and keep the emails coming and everything. Thanks for all the birthday wishes too :D Love you all and stay safe! You're always in my prayers.
Love,
Elder Aaron Mayberry
Monday, March 22, 2010
Elder Mayberry leaves El Valle!
So yeah, last night was changes and.................I left El Valle. More about that all later. I'll talk abou the rest of the week first.
Not too exciting of week really. Wow, side note, this keyboard is really not working too well,. so if there's mistakes I apologize beforehand. Like the ridiculous amount of spaces at the beginning of this paragraph, I clicked the space bar once. It has a mind of its own, apparently...
So yeah, the week was just kinda allí no mas, just an average week. Nothing too terribly exciting happened. We have some really cool investigtors though, well, Elder Frost has some pretty cool ones- haha. Cecilia came to church and is still good for getting baptized the 28th, so that's super cool. It's been really cool to seen her progress ever since Juan Joses baptism way back at the end of December.
Theres a SUPER cool family that we're teaching, Erika (pretty sure I've wrote about her before), her two kids Constanza and Matrin, and her other son Jonathan and his girlfriend Natalia. They're really one of the coolest families in Chile that I've met. They are gonna get baptized, there's no doubt in my mind. Erika finally came to church on Sunday after investigating for a looooooong time , so that was a relief. We also gave Erika and Natalia a tour of the church and they both loved it a lot. So they are some of the best investigators we have (had).
The other people we had were just kinda between progressing and not progressing, so there's not much we can do with them.
Sunday I gave a talk in church, which I still hate doing haha. It went well though I think. I wasn't as nervous as I usually get.
But yeah, that was basically all the excitement of the week, and then came cambios. bum bum bum. The call came last night and the other 3 elders from El Valle are staying and I left. Needless to say I was pretty disappointed. I wanted to stay in El Valle for another change , to see Cecilia get baptized, and see the other cool investigators progress. And cuz I love the ward and the people in it. But that's not where the Lord needs me at the moment. He needs me in Vicente Valdez, in the Stake La Florida.
So last night I did all my bags and all that fun stuff (which is the worst part of changes by far), got to bed, then we woke up and went to the place where we met and listened to president talk for a bit, then got our new comps and areas. My new comp is....Elder Evans. Now, this is a different Elder Evans than the one I already had haha, but they got here at the same time. My last three comps all got on the mission at the same time haha. But this Elder Evans, was actually my zone leader in my first zone of Puente Alto, so I already know him. He also was the trainer of my MTC comp Elder Erickson. But yeah, here we are in Vicente Valdez, which is a legendary ward amongst the mission. Everyone says its paradise, cuz the ward works super well together, helps the missionaries, and all that good stuff. So thats super cool. I'm very excited. Sad to leave El Valle, but ready to see new things. So I'm excited for this coming change.
Yup. Asi es la mision. Super glad to be here. I love the mission, I really do. Church is true. I shall let you all know how this first week goes here in Vicente Valdez in one week! Love you all! Chao!
Love,
Elder Aaron Mayberry
Not too exciting of week really. Wow, side note, this keyboard is really not working too well,. so if there's mistakes I apologize beforehand. Like the ridiculous amount of spaces at the beginning of this paragraph, I clicked the space bar once. It has a mind of its own, apparently...
So yeah, the week was just kinda allí no mas, just an average week. Nothing too terribly exciting happened. We have some really cool investigtors though, well, Elder Frost has some pretty cool ones- haha. Cecilia came to church and is still good for getting baptized the 28th, so that's super cool. It's been really cool to seen her progress ever since Juan Joses baptism way back at the end of December.
Theres a SUPER cool family that we're teaching, Erika (pretty sure I've wrote about her before), her two kids Constanza and Matrin, and her other son Jonathan and his girlfriend Natalia. They're really one of the coolest families in Chile that I've met. They are gonna get baptized, there's no doubt in my mind. Erika finally came to church on Sunday after investigating for a looooooong time , so that was a relief. We also gave Erika and Natalia a tour of the church and they both loved it a lot. So they are some of the best investigators we have (had).
The other people we had were just kinda between progressing and not progressing, so there's not much we can do with them.
Sunday I gave a talk in church, which I still hate doing haha. It went well though I think. I wasn't as nervous as I usually get.
But yeah, that was basically all the excitement of the week, and then came cambios. bum bum bum. The call came last night and the other 3 elders from El Valle are staying and I left. Needless to say I was pretty disappointed. I wanted to stay in El Valle for another change , to see Cecilia get baptized, and see the other cool investigators progress. And cuz I love the ward and the people in it. But that's not where the Lord needs me at the moment. He needs me in Vicente Valdez, in the Stake La Florida.
So last night I did all my bags and all that fun stuff (which is the worst part of changes by far), got to bed, then we woke up and went to the place where we met and listened to president talk for a bit, then got our new comps and areas. My new comp is....Elder Evans. Now, this is a different Elder Evans than the one I already had haha, but they got here at the same time. My last three comps all got on the mission at the same time haha. But this Elder Evans, was actually my zone leader in my first zone of Puente Alto, so I already know him. He also was the trainer of my MTC comp Elder Erickson. But yeah, here we are in Vicente Valdez, which is a legendary ward amongst the mission. Everyone says its paradise, cuz the ward works super well together, helps the missionaries, and all that good stuff. So thats super cool. I'm very excited. Sad to leave El Valle, but ready to see new things. So I'm excited for this coming change.
Yup. Asi es la mision. Super glad to be here. I love the mission, I really do. Church is true. I shall let you all know how this first week goes here in Vicente Valdez in one week! Love you all! Chao!
Love,
Elder Aaron Mayberry
Monday, March 15, 2010
Another good week.
This week wasn't a terribly exciting one. Nothing big happened, just some big aftershocks, a little cold, and some new investigators.
So yeah, big news from the week. Tuesday night I felt like I was getting sick, and Wednesday morning, sure enough, I wake up sick. Ugh. I hate being sick. But I'm all better now pretty much. Just had a little cold.
Thursday, at like 11:30, there was a big aftershock, like a 7 or something, and then a little later around 12 there was another but a little smaller. Kinda exciting, but definitely not even close to what happened a few weeks ago. We didn't even like worry about these ones haha. It felt like the house was barely shaking.
And some good news, we found some really cool new investigators! I was on divisions with elder Skinner, a really cool guy, and we found this Peruvian lady, taught her a couple principles from the first lesson then set up a return appointment for the following day (Saturday). We went by Saturday and taught her all of lesson one, the restoration. She liked it. She said she'd read from the book of Mormon and pray, and also said she'd go to church the following day. So in church, at 10 when the meeting started, we had no investigators. Ugh. But then a few minutes go by and Andrea, our new investigator, walks in and loved it. She stayed for all 3 hours, which is really good for the first time for an investigator. In the investigator class, we talked about prayer and how one could pray to find out if the church is true and stuff, and then out of nowhere, Andrea says, yeah I woke up early today, at 7 to read the part of the B of M that they gave me, and while I read it I felt just a huge happiness inside......Wooooo! Haha, needless to say elder Frost and I were grinning ear to ear. So we`ll see what happens with her in these next coming weeks. But she's really good.
Our other investigators are struggling to progress. We have such cool investigators though, they just need to do their part and read and pray and stuff. Cecilia didn't come to church this week, so her baptism got postponed til the 28th, ugh. But its still good cuz she`ll still get baptized.
And that was our week. Nothing terribly exciting. A dog followed us from our sector to our house, a 35 minute walk haha. Oh yeah, and changes are coming up this Sunday.... So we'll see what happens. Cuz I'd love to stay and see a bunch of people get Baptized next change, but I've already been here for 4.5 months, so we'll see what happens.
Yup. Love you all and I'll let you know what happens next week! Take care!
Elder Aaron Mayberry
So yeah, big news from the week. Tuesday night I felt like I was getting sick, and Wednesday morning, sure enough, I wake up sick. Ugh. I hate being sick. But I'm all better now pretty much. Just had a little cold.
Thursday, at like 11:30, there was a big aftershock, like a 7 or something, and then a little later around 12 there was another but a little smaller. Kinda exciting, but definitely not even close to what happened a few weeks ago. We didn't even like worry about these ones haha. It felt like the house was barely shaking.
And some good news, we found some really cool new investigators! I was on divisions with elder Skinner, a really cool guy, and we found this Peruvian lady, taught her a couple principles from the first lesson then set up a return appointment for the following day (Saturday). We went by Saturday and taught her all of lesson one, the restoration. She liked it. She said she'd read from the book of Mormon and pray, and also said she'd go to church the following day. So in church, at 10 when the meeting started, we had no investigators. Ugh. But then a few minutes go by and Andrea, our new investigator, walks in and loved it. She stayed for all 3 hours, which is really good for the first time for an investigator. In the investigator class, we talked about prayer and how one could pray to find out if the church is true and stuff, and then out of nowhere, Andrea says, yeah I woke up early today, at 7 to read the part of the B of M that they gave me, and while I read it I felt just a huge happiness inside......Wooooo! Haha, needless to say elder Frost and I were grinning ear to ear. So we`ll see what happens with her in these next coming weeks. But she's really good.
Our other investigators are struggling to progress. We have such cool investigators though, they just need to do their part and read and pray and stuff. Cecilia didn't come to church this week, so her baptism got postponed til the 28th, ugh. But its still good cuz she`ll still get baptized.
And that was our week. Nothing terribly exciting. A dog followed us from our sector to our house, a 35 minute walk haha. Oh yeah, and changes are coming up this Sunday.... So we'll see what happens. Cuz I'd love to stay and see a bunch of people get Baptized next change, but I've already been here for 4.5 months, so we'll see what happens.
Yup. Love you all and I'll let you know what happens next week! Take care!
Elder Aaron Mayberry
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