December 22, 2015

Family,

Merry Christmas!  

I will see you all on Friday when we Skype! 

I love you!

Mission Christmas Dinner! (Can you find me??)

A hospital trip . . . . good training for Hermana Castleton!

Saying our goodbyes . . .

My fancy lemonade with "hierba buena"

December 16, 2015

Happy middle of December! :)

Yesterday we were out working and we found a member at the bus stop. He offered to follow us around for a few visits, so that was cool! But then all of our appointments fell through. Uncool. We walked a lot and everyone was too busy to listen to us. And then I felt like we needed to stop by a ladies house who had rejected us 2 months previously... So we went. :) And this time she did not reject us! Her husband had died during those two months and she asked us for a blessing. Luckily we still had the member with us and he gave her a beautiful blessing. She has a few Mormon friends, and a giant picture of Christ in her entry-way that is from our church that one of them gave her. Trials are hard, but it helped her get to a point where she is now ready to listen and now knows that she needs her Savior's help. She is super sweet and very willing to act to make her family eternal.

Also, this week we got to go to Concepcion to help with a Zone service project! On the way there I saw Milagro! Cristina and Johel were not home, but it was still pretty exciting! :) They are doing great! They got baptized over a year ago and they are still doing awesome! :) It was nice to see them again. :)

Not really much new this week ... Still running around crazy trying to train all nurse things and area things. I will see you next week on Skype! We had an office birthday party this week for Elder Nielson, that was exciting. We are also going to do an office gift exchange for Christmas as well . . . also exciting.

Well... I guess I will probably see you all soon, so you get short emails now, sorry. :) But I still love you all! :) Have a great middle of December!

Love,

Hermana Markle. :)

Elder Nielson's Birthday

We got sushi on sushi Friday!

Santa came to visit us!

I opened a piece of chocolate - and it was MOLDY! I hate moldy chocolate!

December 8, 2015

AHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! ONLY 3 WEEKS LEFT!!!!!!! Now I am starting to freak out... I have to train the new nurse to nurse stuff, insurance stuff, ward stuff, area stuff, and other stuff all in 3 weeks! And she is not even a nurse! She is an English Major at BYU... Never had nurse training or wanted to have nurse training in her life... But lucky her! Cause she is getting nurse training! :)

My new companion is Hermana Castleton from Mesa, Arizona. She is awesome. She came with Hermana Gividen, so she just finished her training as well. But she speaks ridiculously awesome Spanish already... I think I stunted Hermana Gividen's Spanish by speaking too much English with her... My bad. ;) And maybe now I will poison Hermana Castleton's awesome Spanish by speaking too much English with her... Oh well.

We already had two hospital trips - just to train the new nurse, ya know. And we found another mountain of Insurance Claims to fill out and submit, so that should be fun. I figure if we spend hours and hours doing insurance claims together, she will be pretty good at them by the time I leave.. :) So I saved her lots. Plus the stolen flash drive didn't help....

We went and saw Delmer again.. Still as awesome as ever. He read 1st and 2nd Nephi in one week! And now he is working on Alma... That should keep him busy. He is only 13. But he loves to read and he loves to learn about the Gospel. He told us he didn't even know another book of scripture existed, but he is so happy to have it now! He didn't even question us if it was real. I love the faith and trust that the youth have... Pure, simple, and ready to learn more always.

We went Christmas shopping yesterday..... That was a bad idea... I bought cool stuff. But probably more stuff for me than for other people... I will probably repent and go buy cooler stuff for other people next week. :)

Well it is almost Christmas and I am pretty excited! :) Everyone is already starting to feel the Christmas Spirit and are being nicer and more open! We are ready for some Christmas miracles and helping people remember the true meaning of Christmas! :)

Stay safe and happy and healthy! I love you all!

Love,

Hermana Markle. :)

Goodbyes to Yoana for Gividen and Martinez!

My new companion! She is the best! :)

Changes week!

We made tamales!!! I feel so cool now!!! :) And they didn't taste half bad. :)

Stockings a member made for us! They love us! But they won't give them to us until Christmas....