2/24/14

Okay, so this cambio just ended and I just found out that my comp is leaving and going to another town more south. And I just found out that I am going to be training!!! Um.. waaaattttt?! Prayers are definately going to be needed for this poor child! She is going to have a "mother" who only has 3 months in the mission! What am I going to do? Please pray for me okay?? haha So I'm sort of freaking out right now, I go to pick her up in Concepcion this miercoles (wednesday). So I have two days to calm myself down.

But besides that, this week has been good! Our ward had a "paseo" which is like a mini ward campout. It was alot of fun. And we (the missionaries) luckily left right before they were about to slaugher a goat, so that was good timing on our part. I would say it was like a normal ward activity in the states minus the animal killing part.

I don't have much time to write today, but please pray for me and my poor child!

I hope you all had a wonderful week!

Love and miss you all!

2/17/14

This week has been a little rough for us. Two of the people we have been teaching and had a date to be baptized fell through. It is so sad when that happens! Sometimes I just want to shake them at the shoulders and just tell them how important this is! I just want to through them in the font because I love them so much! ha But I'm learning how beautiful and important our free agency is. And how if we just submit our will to His, thats when the miracles can happen!

Also, this week, we were able to have lunch in "el campo". Which is a pretty rare experience. Where we live and work is kind of a city. But when we meet people and they seem interested but they say "I live in the campo" its always so sad because we can't teach them out there, we can only invite them to come here and listen to our message. But I never understood why so many people live out in the campo. Its just super far away, and once you get out to the campo each house is seperated by miles. But one of the members in our ward who was feeding us lunch drove us out to their house in the campo. This family, mind you, lives in the smallest apartment, and when we arrived to their house in el campo my mouth literally droped. It was absolutely beautiful! I can't even explain it but I understand why so many people live out in the campo now. They have their own pool, garden, corn field, animals....everything! I want to live in the campo too someday! ha Chilenos are just a bunch of farmers too! 

haha anywho... so that pretty much sums up this week.

Oh! I hope you all had a beautiful San Valentin, full of mucho amor!

Mine was just full of lots of sweat and walking a ton. But don't worry I bought myself a little valentine treat....:)

I love and miss you all!

Hermana Lamb

2/10/14

Hola!

Como esta?? So another week has come and gone. And everyday I'm starting to love this work more and more. I think it might be because I am able to contribute a little more, and teach a little more each day. Its starting to get exciting because I think I can understand just about 80% of what is being said. Which is huge progress for me! I get super excited every time I understand part of a conversation. I used to just get super stressed whenever someone asked me a question but now I just take it as a challenge and if I can answer back, its like my own personal victory for the day! So I like to look forward to those moments. 

I would like to give a shout out to my awesome home ward in Virginia! I recieved the cutest Christmas letters this week! The mail here in Chile is a little slow, I just got it this week. But it still made my day nonetheless! Also! I recieved a beautiful Christmas card from the Anderson Family in New York! So another shout out to them! Thank you for thinking about me:) It means more then you know!

So we had intervistas with our mission president this last week. At first I was so nervous to meet with him, since he only knows Spanish as well. I was freaking out that he was going to be super disappointed with my Spanish but it ended up being amazing. I know that he is truely an inspired man. I could understand everything that he was telling me. And I felt like he answered every question, and gave me the most perfect advice that I needed. He also gave me the challenge to "fast from English" for two weeks!! Um... its been rough. I can only talk in Spanish with the other gringas in our house. Its been frustrating but I can see my spanish improving so I guess he might know whats best for me...

I want to wish you all a beautiful Happy Valentines Day! I hope its filled with lots of love:) Because for me its just another day, but I might just have to buy myself a little chocolate or something.

les quiero mucho!

Hermana Lamb

2/3/14

Hey Everyone!

So this week has been great! I got a package from mom which totally made my week! So thank you mom! And my companion says thanks for her gifts too! :)

I got to experience my first earthquake here! So that was interesting. Apparently they are super normal here, so I was the only one freaking out! It was only for a couple of seconds but it was still pretty cool:)

We found out that Jules doesn't live in our sector.. so we were pretty sad about that but we handed over his information to the other missionaries and I hope that they take good care of him! It was hard to let him go, I was so excited to see him progress but I just have to trust in the other missionaries.

This week we were all challenged to invite 10 people to be baptized. It was a little daunting but because of it we have 4 people who agreed to be baptized in feburary! Its kind of a miracle! I'm super stoked to be working with our new investiagadores and I hope and pray that they will progress!

I love and miss you all! I wish you all the best this week!

I have an amazing quote that Hermana Lattin (an hermana that lives in our apartment with us gave me.) And I am in love with it! I hope that you guys will like it as much as I do.

I am a disciple of Christ

"I am a part of the fellowship of the unashamed. The die has been cast. I have stepped over the line. The decision has been made. I am a disciple of Christ. I won't look back, let up, slow down or be still. My heart is redeemed, my present makes sense, and my future is secure. Im finished and done with low living, small planning, smooth knees, colorless dreams, tainted visions, worldly talking, cheap living and dwarfed goals. I no longer need pre-eminence, positions, promotions, plaudits or popularity. I dont have to be right, first recognized, praised regaurded or rewarded. I now live by Faith lean on His presence, walk with patience, am lifted by praper and labor with power. My face is set, my gait is fast, my goal is heaven. My road is narrow, my way is rough, my companions are few, my guide is reliable. My mission is clear. I cannot be bought, compromised, detoured lured away divided or delayed. I will not flinch in the face of sacrifice, hesitate in the presence of the adversary, negotiate at the table of the enemy, ponder at the pool of popularity or meander in the maze of mediocrity. I wont give up, shut ip, or let up, until Ive stayed up, stored up and paid for the cause of Christ. I must go till He comes, give till I drop, preach till all know and work till He stops me. And when He returns for He own He will have no problem recognizing me. My banner will be clear."