tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49888604527085141142024-03-13T01:30:39.677-06:00Hermana Maren AaseHermana Maren Aasehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040080304683311791noreply@blogger.comBlogger79125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988860452708514114.post-65389498322973675942015-07-15T21:31:00.002-06:002015-07-15T21:31:35.837-06:00"Oh esta todo bien"<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">Well family...these weeks are going by super fast and I can't wrap my mind around it. But this past week was really good. Well I mean, all weeks are good. But we had a successful week and had some powerful lessons. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Monday- We went to Goodwill and then ate some frozen yogurt with the other Hermanas'. And then we came back to the apt and hung out there until we went to dinner. After dinner we had an FHE with the Vargas and Garcia families. We read a talk from the July Ensign about the Pioneers called "Oh, esta todo bien" and we talked about how all is well in the end, in the end of this life, at the end of our trials, etc. God is always with us and we must have the mentality that all is well. We then passed by the Mercado family and had a small FHE with them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Tuesday- We did some contacting in the afternoon and everyone we talked too wasn't too fond of us, but at least we can go back in a few months and see if they are more ready to accept the gospel. We then had a lesson with Anahi and talked about our purpose here in the this life. We then passed by an older couple that we met a month or so ago and we sat and talked with them for a bit, but the lady has bad Alzheimers...so we probably won't teach them, but we gave them our card so we can come do service! That night we had a relief society activity for all the Hermanas' birthdays and we played some games and then ate fruit and ice cream. it was a lot of fun! And I didn't sit on a Hermana this time! After the activity we passed by the other Mercado family in our area and shared a small part from a talk about the Book of Mormon. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Wednesday- We went out early to try and contact a potential named Olivia, but she was busy. So we tried by a couple other people and then met 2 Hermanas' from the ward to eat some lunch and I ate the biggest pupusa! And it was delicious! We then had a lesson with Marcos and finished teaching him the plan of salvation and then took him door knocking with us! He loved it and was amazed at what we did. We then passed by the Sarabia's and shared a scripture with them and Marcos helped out. He is already a great missionary! We then came to dinner a little bit early and took Sara, the Garcia's daughter out to knock some doors. We then headed with Hna. Garcia to an appt, but Rosa wasn't there so we passed by Olivia again and she invited us in! She had some great questions and told us she is very open to learning more. And later we passed by Abel and Kody and we taught them about the Armor of God. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thursday- We did our planning for week 6...! WHAT?! And then we went out contacting and passed by Rosa and had a short lesson with her about the importance of Church. And then we went by Hna. Miranda and shared a scripture and did an experiment having them think of a street that we can go knock while we pray. The members like it, it is different, but we get to see where they think we should go knock.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Friday- We had district meeting and we did a training on the importance of being persistent with inviting to be baptized and then trying to set them with goals and dates to be baptized. After our meeting we went to the CALM zoo that is here in East Bakersfield and we got to rake some leaves and make all the walk ways clear and clean. They have some really cool animals! I am just glad we didn't have to clean up after the animals haha. We then had a lesson with Guillermina and taught the Plan of Salvation. We then decided to go walking around our area, and we got to talk to more people and then we found a lady named Emma sitting outside and we ended up teaching her! She is so cute and was so happy that we came to see her and talk with her about the gospel. And then on the way back to our car we saw the Utley family and we got to talk with them for a little bit!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Saturday- Our lesson in the morning with Emma got cancelled, so we tried by another lady with Hna. Alaniz and then went back to her house for a drink of water and we shared the same message that we did with Hna. Miranda and picking a street for us to knock. After that we had a lesson with Marcos and taught him about patriarchal blessings and he thought that is was pretty cool! We then walked to the 7/11 with Marcos and got free slurpees!! We then had a lesson with the Trejo family and talked about the temples and family history, they loved it and told us that they were so interested in learning more! We then had dinner and then passed by Emma again to see what happened in the morning and she told us that she left with her son. So we taught her a little lesson about faith and reminded her about church. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sunday- We did some morning visits to our investigators to invite them/remind them about church and we only got to talk to one of them. We then headed to church and guess what?!?! Marcos blessed the sacrament! It was so awesome to see him in a white shirt and tie! He was nervous, but Hna. Gonzalez and I both gave him the thumbs up and he did a great job! Then during sacrament meeting they mentioned me going home :( so they had me bare my testimony, so that was good. And it now just feels so natural to do it in Spanish. Not sure how hard it will be in English haha. After church we passed by the Rodriguez house and shared a message with all the grand-kids about the Armor of God. We got cardboard and everything and got them all dressed up! We then had a lesson with a potential named Eugenio and he was so cool! He loved what we shared and wants to learn more about the Book of Mormon. And then we contacted a little and then had a lesson with the Vargas family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well family, this coming week is my last week and I can't believe that it has come this fast. I wish you all a wonderful week and I will talk to you for the last time through email next week!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Adios, love you all!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Love, Hermana Aase </span></span></div>
Hermana Maren Aasehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040080304683311791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988860452708514114.post-31672075211389646072015-07-06T15:27:00.001-06:002015-07-06T15:27:41.785-06:00Lets just say it was REALLY hot<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">HI FAMILY!!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So I am not dead...thank heavens. The weather this week was horrible!! We were talking with our ward mission leader and saying how some of the houses we walk into/outside felt like el inferno!! hahah. I'll let you google translate that if you want! But besides the heat, it was a good week. Nothing to complain about.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Monday- We did some contacting before our FHE. We had a referral, but she wasn't home. So we passed by the Miranda's but Hna. Miranda was sick, but we talked to her daughter for a little bit. We then headed to FHE with the Garcia's and the Hermosillo's. We talked about the Atonement and watched the Mormon message about the current bush and how sometimes we may be cut down, but it is so we can grow and become who the gardener wants us to become. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Tuesday- We also did some contacting and knocked some doors on a street that we hadn't ever been to, and we found a new investigator! Her name is Carla. She is in her 20's (?) and is interested in reading from the Book of Mormon. So we taught her on her door step, and it was about 110 degrees outside...and we were sweating like NO OTHER..it was bad! haha. We then went to have a lesson with Melody, but she was asleep...so we passed by the Rodriguez house to fill our water bottles and we talked with them for a bit until dinner. After dinner we did ward visits and the less active's we had on our list weren't home, so we decided to pass by one of our less actives, Veronica. We shared the scripture in Moroni 7 about charity and shared some things we can do to show love and charity to others. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Wednesday- We again did some more contacting, on the same street as we did on Tuesday, and we found another new investigator!! We really like this street now haha. But her name is Rosa, she is a mom of 5 kids. When <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="line-height: 16.8999996185303px;">we knocked on her door and starting talking to her we asked her if she had faith in Christ and she said "yes..but that her relationship wasn't very good". So we asked her if she wanted to increase that and she said, "well of course". So she let us in and we taught her and she was very receptive to the message and wants her family to be closer. We are hoping to teach her and her husband and kids next week!! We are really excited to teach her and see how she progresses. We then passed by the Trejo family and we read the "Safety for the Soul" talk, and we talked about the Book of Mormon and shared our testimonies of it. After that we had a lesson with Guillermina and read in the Book of Mormon. After that we had a lesson with Nelly and taught the 10 commandments with hand signs and the importance of following the prophet. We then did some contacting, but sadly all the people we talked to weren't interested. But then we went over to Abel and Kody's house and had a lesson with them. We talked about patriarchal blessings and how wonderful they are. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 16.8999996185303px;">Thursday- Planning day!...it was weird to plan for week 5...that can't be real. We contacted in the morning, but the lady that we talked to needed us to come earlier, so we will pass by her the following week. We then ate lunch with a less active, Guillermina, and Hno. Duran. It was tostadas and they were SOO good. (that is something I will be making when I get home) We then went home and planned until dinner time. Sadly Nelly wasn't at home for her lesson, so we knocked on some doors and then had a lesson with Marcos about the Book of Mormon and prayer. We invited him to share his testimony on fast Sunday and he said he would!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="line-height: 16.8999996185303px;">Friday- We had zone training meeting and we got the results of the number of baptisms we've had...we got 39 for the month. We didn't reach our goal, but we have some exciting things coming for the month of July. We talked about the difference of disappointment and discouragement. With disappointment, we get up again and we try even harder to make the new goal. And with discouragement, we look down on ourselves and don't have that motivation to keep going. That is the lesson to remember. We then headed out to south Bakes for our exchange with the STL's!! I was with Hna. Moore for the day, and I just love her to pieces! We did some contacting, and met some cool people...not interested, but nice to talk to! We had pupusas for dinner and then tried by the set lessons...sadly they weren't home. So we decided to go by a former investigator to see if we could talk to her dad more about baptism. </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.8999996185303px;"><span style="color: black;"> We began talking to him and he asked us questions like "what makes your church different than mine", so we talked about the restoration and the priesthood...and that wasn't getting into his brain and the thought kept coming to me to talk about temples, and the work that goes on inside them. It was random, but I acted upon the thought. He seemed to be interested and said he wanted to "ask his pastor"..of course we told him to pray about it as well. But he said that he would come visit the church to see what his daughter was getting into. Once Hna. Moore and I got back in to the car she told me that he had had that question before and could not find any scripture reference to it..until we shared the one in 1 Cor 15. It was such a wonderful experience and it made me a bit sad to think that this time is quickly coming to a close. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It was a pretty good week. Not the worst, but not the best. But that can always change, right?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Monday- Pday was nothing too special. Just relaxed around the house and wrote some letters. Sadly as the day went on, everybody cancelled...dinner and our FHE. So we decided to pick some streets we hadn't knocked on yet, and to knock them. We found a couple Spanish houses that we are going to return too. We then passed by the Rodriguez's and had a small FHE with them. We shared a Mormon message and talked about the need for trials and burdens in our lives. Without them, we don't learn or grow. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Tuesday- We had a lesson with Marcos and taught the Restoration and read some scriptures and explained in detail more of the Gospel. He says that he feels different with the Holy Ghost, but that he now knows why we as missionaries go out and knock on doors and teach people. You can see him learning more and more everyday. We then had a lesson with Candy and taught her more about the Holy Ghost and the importance of the church. She is progressing...just very slowly. So we aren't quite sure if we are going to teach her much longer. We haven't been able to have another lesson with her dad, so we will see. After that we passed by the Morales' house to see if their granddaughter was there and she was! So we taught her and set her with a baptismal date for July 11th! So all we need is her parents to sign the permission form to be taught and baptized. She is a cutie and loves church and learning. That night we had ward visits and we passed by a few less actives' and then headed back to the Morales' because Hermana had a referral for us. So we met her and set a time for a lesson. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Wednesday- TEMPLE DAY! We left and traveled down to LA...but got stuck in some traffic, so when we got the temple we ran in and got dressed. Being inside the temple was so nice. Just peaceful and full of the spirit. I miss being able to go every week. After we got out, we took pictures, ran to the store and then headed back out into the traffic. Hna. Rodriguez told us that the ocean was 3 miles from the temple..! WHAT?! Why did NO one tell us. So we drove by it and I got some pictures of the water. We then headed into traffic and it was horrible, and plus there was a HUGE fire on the mountain, so that wasn't good. We made it to In-N-Out and ate dinner and then headed on our way again. By the time we got home it was 7pm. We had a lesson with one of our members and watched a couple bible videos and talked about the temple. We were so tired by the time we got home. Even though we didn't do much, being in the car for 5 hours makes you tired. And some news...Guillermina (our recent convert) and Hno. Duran got married!!!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thursday- We did our planning and then passed by the Hermosillo's to see if Candy and Alejandro were there, and they were, but Alejandro was busy. But we shared the story about the Good Samaritan. Our other lesson got canceled, so we decided to pass by a potential named Carmen and she let us in and we talked for a little bit. She now knows who we are and said she would come to church one of these days. Quickly before we headed home we passed by Guillermina and gave her a picture of us and her at her baptism and talked with her for little bit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Friday- Went to district meeting and learned some really awesome things. We did this role play on helping our investigators feel and recognize the spirit. It was one of the best role plays I've heard. When we share something that will invite the spirit and help our investigators recognize that that feeling is the spirit. It just makes the spirit even stronger. After that we did some service and got to wash some fruit and then cut cabbage. We then headed over and had a lesson with Nelly about the gospel of Jesus Christ and did a demonstration to help her understand it. And then that night we had a lesson with Guillermina about the Plan of Salvation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Saturday- In the morning we helped Hna. Rodriguez frost some cupcakes for her b-day dinner that night. And then we contacted a little bit before our lesson with Marcos. We taught Marcos about the armor of God and the spirit. He told us that while he was out teaching with the missionaries he was sharing what he knows about the Book of Mormon and he felt this overwhelming good feeling and told us that he got his answer that the Book of Mormon is true! It was so awesome! I just couldn't help but smile. We then passed by the Juarez family and invited them to church, and then passed by the Garcia family. Sadly our lesson with Ana the referral from Hna. Morales got cancelled. But we went out to contact and started talking to this young guy that was really interested, but he wanted to go to the YSA ward instead. But it was still cool to talk to him! We then passed by the Sarabia family and shared a scripture with them. We stopped by the b-day dinner and ate quickly and said happy birthday to Hna. Rodriguez and then went back to do studies. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sunday- We had correlation in the morning then did some studies and headed to church. The music director wasn't at church...so guess who had to lead the music in sacrament meeting?...ME! haha. I didn't do too horribly. We had Marcos, Guillermina, Nelly and the Sarabias at church. After dinner we came back to the church for the baptism and then went back out to contact. We tried to teach this lady named Angela, but when we go to the Book of Mormon..she wasn't too happy. But we hope that one day she will think about what we shared and will invite the missionaries to her home. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This past week was good, it definitely got better throughout the week and ended wonderfully :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Monday- Pday adventures, we went to the beehive store and looked at books and got a few things. And then we chilled at home until dinner time. Sadly I had a horrible headache, so we were inside for a little bit and then went out to contact a lady named Elvia, which she was busy, so we reschedule for another time. And then we passed by a less active's house, Hna Acosta, to see if she was there. And guess what?! SHE OPENED THE DOOR! We got the know her and then shared a scripture with her about being disciples of Christ. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Wednesday- We contacted a little bit, not too successful. We then had lunch with Hno Rodriguez and Marcos and taught about temples and family history work. He thought that it was really cool! After that we ate dinner and had a lesson with our new member, Guillermina! We taught the restoration, but used more pictures this time :) haha. That night we passed by Able and Cody's house and shared a message from preach my gospel about the importance of new converts having friends in the church. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thursday- I headed to my last PT appt and the PT gave me some exercises to help my neck/headaches, so hopefully the more I do them the less my headaches will get. We then planned until dinner time. We passed by the Guido family because they weren't at church, so we stopped to check up on them and see if there was anything we could do. We then had dinner and a lesson with Marcos and the Garcia family. We taught about enduring to the end and getting all set for his baptism the next day! While we were there the brother of Hermana Garcia knows a lot about this Chinese acupuncture thing, so he did that to me and they are supposed to help me relax...they look kinda funny. So we will see how well they work! At this point I am willing to try anything haha. Ill send a picture of my ears with them on. We then headed home because Hermana Garcia said that they really relax you so I shouldn't be driving with them for the first day haha. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Friday- We had district meeting and got some awesome training on how to invite people to be baptized in a more loving, simple way! It was probably one of the best district meetings I've been to. Afterwards we had a pow-wow with Bishop to make sure we are all on the same page in the ward. We then headed out to contact and teach before Marco's baptism. We had a lesson with Candy and taught about repentance and baptism and then set her with a date to get baptized on July 11th! So we are really gong to try and teach her and help her be ready. We then grabbed the program from the Rodriguez's house and then had a lesson with Guillermina. We asked her how she is feeling since she got baptized and she told us very good, and that she feels a lot more sure and safe :) that makes me so happy to hear!! We then ran home, frosted the cake, freshened up and then got to the church. We had to set everything up and all. The baptism started a little bit late, but all went well! We are happy and so is Marcos! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Saturday- We contacted pretty much all day, but we found Art at home, finally! So we had a lesson with him and taught him about Faith, repentance and baptism. We re-invited him to be baptized, but he told us that it is something he will still consider. He wants to learn more and read more in the Book of Mormon. We passed by the Trejo's and had a good lesson with them. Talked about their testimonies of the gospel and the Church. After that we stopped by Anahi and shared about temples and invited her to the Father's Day activity. And then we made our way to the park where we were having the ward activity. A good amount of people came. We ate and they played soccer and we got to talk with Marcos some more as well as our less actives that came. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sunday- Church was great! Marcos got confirmed and I couldn't help but smile the whole time! After church we ate with the Rodriguez family and shared a message with them. We then tried by a few potentials but no one was home. So we passed by the Morales's and shared a message from preach my gospel about us as missionaries needed members to help us in this work. We really truly need the members! Without them we can do nothing in the work of the Lord. We also found a good looking potential. It is Hermana Morales granddaughter. She really wants to be baptized. So we are going to go back in the next week and hopefully teach her. We then had an almost new investigator...we started teaching him and then he didn't want a Book of Mormon and said he was going to Mexico...so yeah. So close, yet so far! haha. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Monday- Was Hna. Gonzalez birthday, so we got a cake and all ate it at our house with the other Hermanas'. We then had an FHE with Marcos and the Hermosillo's, Alejandro and Candy. We taught about developing Christlike attributes and then watched a Mormon message that exemplified a young boy who did things as Christ would. (Its called "Dayton's legs" if you would like to watch it.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Tuesday- All our appts cancelled, so we went door knocking and then decided to go back to where our car was and there was a potential named Pedro outside getting his mail, so we ran over there and started talking to him and he let us share our message with him. At first he wasn't too into what we wanted to share, but then we began agreeing with the things he believes and he told us of a good co-worker who was Mormon, and we told him we were Mormon. After that he began asking what we did believe and the message we had to share. He told us he wanted to check out our church! We then visited a member and quickly ran home and ate before ward visits. That night we went out with a lady from the ward and she took us to all her friends house, who she has shared the gospel with. It was so cool. We ended up meeting this guy and talking to him for 45 minutes. It was a total "at the right place, at the right time" kind of moment. And I know that God puts people in our paths that truly need the gospel. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Wednesday- We had a lesson with Marcos and went over the baptismal questions and did all that! After that we went over to the Rodriguez's to help them out with cleaning and repairing the bathroom. We then had a lesson with Guillermina and talked about missionary work and visiting teaching and the importance of both these things. That night we did some contacting, sadly none of those potentials were interested, but one day they will be. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Thursday- we had a visit from the STL's and we talked about goals for this transfer. It was weird to make those, but honestly making goals has helped me a lot throughout my mission. They help me lessen stress and slowly improve. We then ran over to my PT appt and that was good...my neck was so sore afterwards. We came home and planned until dinner time. After dinner we had a lesson with Guillermina about temples, marriage and family history work. She had a couple questions, but they were more about what she can do after her baptism. We then had a lesson with Gabriel Arroyo, a less active about the restoration and it was such a powerful lesson. The spirit was so strong there. After that we had a lesson with the Ramirez family and we talked about the temples and showed them a Mormon Message about the blessing of temples and being sealed in the temple as families. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Friday- In the morning we had district meeting and after that did some contacting. We talked to these two youth aged boys about the church and they seemed interested. It makes me happy to see youth that are involved in Church and want to be closer with God. We then had a lesson with Candy and talked about Faith. After that we stopped by a less active, Anahi, and shared a message about the lost sheep in Luke 15. Running around even more, we had a lesson with Guillermina about enduring to the End and what happens after she gets baptized. We then ate dinner and had Marcos there and then did a lesson about missionary work. He keeps saying he would love to be the boys on the bikes haha. We then passed by Sara, the 14 year old, and sad, long story short, her aunt and uncle were like, "she is catholic and she will be until she is 18..." so pretty much they took her agency away, but there wasn't anything we could do but invite her to keep reading and praying. We told her we will try and stop in a couple months. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Saturday- We contacted in the afternoon...and it was the hottest day ever...and everyone we talked to was being rude, but we kept going and just thought about the exciting things that were going to happen later that day. We passed by the Sarabia family and shared a scripture with them and also the Trejo family. We then stopped at home and freshened up and then met Marcos at the church for his baptismal interview...and HE PASSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Marcos is getting baptized on Friday! We are so excited! Guillermina then came and we got her set and ready to go for her baptism and then we had the baptism. Hna. Gonzalez and I watched from the inside door of the font while Guillermina got baptized, and then while all the people were getting changed we and the other hermanas had a group hug! It was so good. It seriously is the greatest feeling in the world when you get to see someone you love accept the gospel and make promises with God. After the baptism we had a fiesta at the Mercado's house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Monday- For pday we played volleyball and that was a blast! After dinner we had FHE with the Garcia family and Marcos came to that. We watched Finding Faith in Christ and the spirit was so strong. Afterwards Marcos was like "can I get one of those!?" Haha. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Tuesday- We did some service at the Rodriguez's and we were organizing, which is my favorite!! After that we had a lesson with Melody and read the talk from the April 2015 Ensign about "It Isn't a Sin to be Weak" and explained about how through the grace of Jesus Christ we can be strengthened. We then passed by a potential named Art and got to teach him! It will be interesting...he has some interesting ideas, but we can help him. Before dinner we decided to pass by Francisco, and long story short he told us that he cant do it...he can't be 100 percent at his church and 100 percent at this church and he loves learning and the Book of Mormon, but he said he is waiting for God to show him a sign or tell him to move churches...It is hard because he hasn't even gone to church, and God doesn't work like that. He wants us to make that first move and then He will show us that it is right. So...he dropped us. I cried the whole way home. He is the first investigator that I have cried about. He so needs to gospel, but there isn't much more that we can do. So later that night we did ward visits and saw some less actives. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Wednesday- After lunch we contacted! We then had a lesson with Marcos and taught him about following the prophet and being obedient. He believes that prophets are essential! We then visited a less active and knocked some doors and then we ran to Guillermina's and had a lesson with her and taught her the same thing- Prophets and Obedience. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Thursday- We planned during the day and then I had my physical therapy appt, finally. The PT said that he isn't quite sure what is causing the headaches, but he thinks that the muscle clumped at the base of my head are pinching the nerves, which can cause headaches. So he is going to work out my neck for the next couple of weeks and hopefully that should help for the last 6 weeks of my mission...if not, I have lasted a year with them, and what would 6 more weeks do? That night we had dinner with the Garcias and had Guillermina and Hno Duran there and afterwards we had a lesson and talked about the church auxiliaries and service. She is so ready and prepared for baptism! After then we had a lesson with the Hermosillo family and shared a scripture with them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Friday-We had ZTM in the morning and talked about finishing strong. Both for those that will be finishing their missions soon and for all of us with finishing the goal we set to have 75 baptism this month. It is so important to finish what we started because it shows us that we really can set high goals and with the help of the Lord, we can accomplish them! We then did a little bit of service at the homeless shelter and then visited the Morales family and got a BUNCH of ideas on missionary activities and how to help the ward get more involved. While walking outside and contacting, we met a lady named Angela and she was so sweet! She saw us walk by the first time when we were going to a members, but the member wasn't there so we walked back the same way and she was still outside, but as we were approaching she ran to her car and got 2 booklets about Jesus Christ and began to tell us about her faith in Jesus Christ. She was so happy to talk to us and we are definitely going back!! That night we had a lesson with Guillermina and went over the baptismal interview questions and she passed with flying colors!...now we just wait for the real deal interview.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Saturday- After lunch we contacted and found a less active that we didn't know about, so that was cool! And then we had a lesson with Marcos and taught him about the church auxiliaries and the importance of service and something really cool that he shared with us, I wanted to share with all of you. He told us that he recently started going to church, but as he sat in his church he began to think "there has to be more out there," and "which church should I really be going to". About a week or so later we knocked on his door and taught him about the Restoration. He told us that while we were teaching him about Joseph Smith and his experience in asking God what he should do, he thought to himself, "that is me in that picture". And now he said that he really feels that God is there and he loves reading the Book of Mormon and coming to church. So yeah, that was what Marcos told us in our lesson! It was so cool! And I got goose bumps just thinking about it again :) I love the way God works. After that we did some contacted and then passed by Anahi's house and invited her to church and then we headed to Abel and Cody's and ate enchiladas and no bake cookies! And then ran to the church for Guillermina's baptismal interview...and guess what.. <b style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">SHE PASSED!!! SHE IS GETTING BAPTIZED NEXT WEEK!!!!! </b><span style="color: black;">It was so good!. And Hna Gonzalez and I shed a couple happy tears! We then stayed for the baptism for our ward and that was beautiful. Baptisms are just so peaceful and we can feel the love of God in that room. I love it, I love it, I love it!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Sunday- Church was great! We had 4 people come! Guillermina, Marcos, Alejandro and Candy. And it was fast and testimony meeting! After church we ate dinner at the Rodriguez's and some news...Hermana Usher is going home this transfer because of some medical issues she has been dealing with :( so at dinner we all shared what we love about her and EVERYONE was crying. So yeah. But we visited by Sara - the 14 year old that we found a couple weeks ago and she told us that she still wants us to come by, so that was wonderful to hear. And then visited the relief society president and talked about some ideas we have for the Hermanas' in the ward and asked her what we can do to help her and lastly we ran to Abel and Cody's house and shared a scripture with them. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Well family, we got news about transfers.. WE ARE BOTH STAYING TOGETHER...which means I will be dying with my baby in La Cresta!! I am so excited to still be here. We have a lot planned and some exciting things coming up!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Talk to you next week! And I promise I will have more pictures!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well first off this week was SOOO HOT!!! It was over 100 degrees for 3 or so days this week, and that isn't even "hot" weather...AHH! haha It's okay! I can make is through...I just have to think about the awkward tan line I am getting and the weight that I am losing by all the sweating we are doing. Also, I took extra showers every night because I felt so gross...haha. But on to the week! It was a pretty good week. We had good lessons with investigators and were able to find good potentials to return and teach, but sadly we didn't find anyone new to teach. But the next week will be rocking awesome!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Monday- After emailing we went to the park and played soccer and ate chocolate flan. We then had an FHE with the Garcia family and the Hermosillo family. Our new investigators were supposed to come, but then they couldn't, but we still had our FHE. We talked about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and did a demonstration to show the importance and gift that we have when we receive the gift of the holy ghost. We then tried to pass by a members house, but she wasn't there, but we met a former investigator that lives there and got an appt with him! So that was a miracle. We then passed by quick to the Ramirez family because Hna. Ramirez wasn't at church, so we were seeing how everything was. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Tuesday- We headed over to our lesson with Guadalupe...and he sadly dropped us and told us that he is Apostolic and will be until he dies...so yeah. But we are going to return and try and talk with his son and see if he is interested in learning. We then contacted until dinner time because our other appt cancelled. And we found and talked to some really awesome people that want us to come back! We tried to teach them right then and there, but they were busy, so we told them we will return! We then passed by the Trejo family, and the first thing that Hno. Trejo said when we got in was -- </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Us: What is that? Are you feeling better?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Us: WHAT!!!!!!!!!!! Oh my gosh that is so exciting!!!!!!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It was so awesome to hear him say that! (also all that was in Spanish...but it takes too long to think and type it all out..haha) But the spirit was really strong when we were there and we shared the message about the lost sheep and Christ being our Shepard and bringing us back to the fold. We then had dinner with the Mayberry family and then headed to visits with the ward. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Wednesday- We had a lesson with Marcos and read the story in the Book of Mormon about the Tree of Life and explained how we shouldn't just "read" the scriptures to "read" them, but as we read them we should apply what it is teaching into our lives and listen to what the spirit is telling us. After that we did some more contacting and then passed by one of our investigators Juventino- and we had a lesson with him about the Book of Mormon...and then he told us that there was going to be an earthquake the next day and it was going to destroy all of California up to Oregon and Washington...When we left there, I told Hna Gonzalez that we shouldn't have stopped by his house..haha. But we kept moving and didn't believe what he told us. We then had a lesson with Guillermina and we taught her about the 10 Commandments, the Word of Wisdom, and the Law of Chastity. She had a few questions, but she was willing to keep these! It is so awesome to teach someone about the commandments and have them tell you that they will keep them, it just shows how much they are willing to love God by keeping his commandments. We then had dinner and afterwards contacted in the night. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thursday- We had planning for week 6! Can you believe that? And then it will be the beginning of week 1...AHH! We had clean checks in between that and then had our dinner cancel on us. After that we passed by a less active's house- Veronica and shared 3 Nephi 17:5-10 about how when we bring others to Christ, we are then brought to Christ as well. We contacted around the less active's house until our lesson with Francisco. We taught him about he 10 commandments, the Word of Wisdom, the Law of Chastity and the Law of Tithing. Francisco is progressing and still reading...but we are having trouble getting him to church...hmm. What to do, what to do? And then we had a lesson with the Ramirez family and shared the parable of the sower in Mark 5 about the 4 different seeds and where they landed and how they used the gospel they were given. I am loving that parable more and more as I apply it to those we are teaching and to my own life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Friday- We had district meeting and we talked a lot about how to work with members and help them see the importance they are to missionary work. And then we had to run to the physical therapy place to drop off the recommendation from the DR to help my headaches...so that took a while, but we had some time before our appt. and we stopped by the homeless shelter to do some service. We then had our lesson with Guillermina and brought her a calendar for her baptism and talked about the things we still need to teach her and what will happen up until her baptism. She still seems ready and wanting to get baptized, so that makes us REALLY happy! But we taught her about the law of tithing and about fasting and the blessings that come form following those are tremendous. Sadly our dinner was cancelled on us again, but that's okay! We found something to eat. Then after that we passed by a less active's house and had a lesson with him and shared 3 Nephi 5:14 about being a disciple of Christ and what that means to us. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Saturday- We had a lesson with Marcos and also brought him a calendar for his baptism and explained the things we still need to teach and what will happen leading up to his baptism. He too is still striving to reach that date and be baptized. We then taught him about tithing and fasting and this is what he told us what we committed him to keep the law of tithing after his baptism--</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We were explaining how tithing is like throwing to God one of our Oranges, and in return God throwing a whole orange tree back to us. He will always bless us as we follow him and his commandments. We then contacted some more until our lesson with Sarah, but sadly she wasn't there, so we passed by the Sarabia family and the Trejo family to invite them/remind them about church. We also passed by less active named Anahi and shared the scripture about being a disciple of Christ. That night we ate dinner with Able and Cody and then passed by Hna Alaniz and shared a quote from PMG about the importance of members and invited her to one of our lessons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sunday- Church was packed because it was a farewell of a guy in the ward, but we had Marcos and Guillermina come and they loved it! After church we ate dinner and then contacted the best week could in 105 degree weather and dirt blowing everywhere. It was a little rough, but we made it through!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well here goes this last week of the transfer. I cant believe how fast it went by...and how fast the next one will go by. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Have a great week! Talk to you next week!</span></div>
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Hermana Maren Aasehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040080304683311791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988860452708514114.post-18134049987896646782015-06-04T11:28:00.002-06:002015-06-04T11:28:25.931-06:0016 months...wait what?<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">HELLO HELLO!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well family this past week was a great one! This area and the people we are working with and my companion can't get any better. I am in heaven and it makes me sad to know that it will be ending soon. BUT! On to the good things!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Monday- So after emailing, all the Hermanas' came and chilled at our appt. and we prepared the enchiladas...that we didn't end up eating because we got invited to dinner, but we made churros also for our FHE's later. So after dinner we ran to the Garcia's and had a great FHE with them and the Guido family. We talked about filling our spirits and used two cans to demonstrate how the can that is full is hard to crush (when we are filled with the spirit it is harder to cave) and the can that is empty is really easy to crush (when we don't have to spirit it is easier to fall into temptation). They really liked it. We then enjoyed some yummy churros and then ran to the other FHE we had planned with the Mercado family and a less active lady that is coming back to church more. We did the same lesson, but they also enjoyed it and then we ate more churros! By the end of the night we were churroed out!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Tuesday- We had a wonderful conference with Elder Bruce R. Carlson from the 70. He was amazing and I took like 6 pages of notes...no big deal or anything haha. But he talked about having the spirit and HOW crucial that is. And how we can teach more effectively and then being a more consecrated missionary. Something that I learned was that when we pray and ask for things from God, he doesn't always come at our first beckon, or even the fourth, but as we endure and trust the Lord and his timing, he will always answer. We ate lunch there and got to be with all the Spanish missionaries on this side of the mission. We got home around 5 and then quickly changed into some more movable clothes and then ran to dinner and had a lesson with the Hermosillo's and taught her boyfriend and his daughter. It was a good lesson and they really liked what we taught. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Wednesday- We had a full day of contacting and we found this 94 year old man named Guadalupe. He was so adorable and loved what we were doing! He told us that he knew we came from a church of God and that he was grateful we were out doing what we were doing. And then we gave him a Christ Card and he put it to his heart and started to cry when we left. It was ADORABLE! We then had a lesson with Marcos and taught him the rest of the plan of salvation. He told us that is mind was blown...haha we just laughed! We then had a lesson with Guillermina about the gospel of Jesus Christ. She is a doll and just loves learning more and more. That night we had a lesson with Veronica and read 3 Nephi 11 and she told us how confused she was about what church to go to, so we talked about the importance of praying and then acting. If you pray but not act, then your answers won't come. We then had a quick visit with Able and Cody, he is a recent convert in the English ward, but is friends with all the Spanish members. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thursday- Planning day! We then did some contacting before dinner and afterwards we had a lesson with Francisco and taught a little bit about his purpose here and what things he must do and continue doing to receive those answers to his prayers. Francisco is progressing, we are just trying to get him to church. He told us that he is coming this week and going to bring his daughter!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Friday- 16 MONTHS...where has the time flown? I don't understand? haha. We did some service in the afternoon helping a lady cut fruit and veggies for her daughters wedding, and wedding reception. After that we decided to pass by Guadalupe (the 94 year old man we found on Wednesday) and we had a lesson with him and he understood all of it, and said that he thinks his son would be interested in listening as well. So hopefully when we see him next week we can have his son there too! After that we had a lesson with Guillermina and taught her more about the Holy Ghost and enduring to the end. She is still set for her date on June 13th! That night we had a lesson with the Arroyo family and shared a scripture in Luke 15. And then we went by a referral and tried to talk to her, but she isn't interested... :( maybe in the future!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Saturday- We had a lesson with Marcos and taught the 10 commandments, Law of Chastity and the Word of Wisdom. It went well, and we didn't have to explain in detail all of it! haha. WIN! We then walked around the neighborhood and decided to knock on a house of a girl we found in the beginning of our time here and she opened the door and let us right in and we taught her the Restoration! It was awesome. She is 14 and her name is Sara. She is from Mexico and is living her with her aunt. She is wanting to know what church to go to and what one is right. She accepted a baptismal date for June 27th!! We then had a lesson with the Sarabia family and shared a Scripture about the importance of reading the scriptures. We then passed by the other Mercado family in our area and talked with them for a little bit. We then had dinner with the Utley family (they are a recently reactivated family that moved from our ward to the English ward). They fed us Gumbo soup, and it was really good! I just burnt my tongue bad...We then had a lesson with Veronica, and it ended up being a drop lesson. She is confused, but hasn't done anything to find her answers. She isn't ready yet. One day she will be. I know that for sure. Lastly, we passed by the Juarez family to see how they were doing and talked with them!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sunday- CHURCH! It was really good. We had Guillermina and Marcos there! And Hna. Gonzalez and I gave talks in sacrament meeting!! She talked about service and I talked about sacrifice. They went really well :)...for it being all in Spanish! haha. I have come along way. After dinner we contacted and while we were walking around Hna Gonzalez show broke, well more like it was so hot that it melted all the glue and the whole sole of her shoe fell off. HA. So we went back to our ward mission leaders house and got it fixed...kinda. We then passed by Francisco because he couldn't come to church because his dad was in the hospital. He was happy we passed by. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well family. That was our week! It was good and it rained again, so it was a bit cooler, but this coming week is going to be HOT! Like 90's...and that isn't even what the normal summer is...I am going to die! haha</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Love, Hermana Aase</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well another week has flown by...no joke...these days are going by fast and I can't seem to make them slow down. But this past week was good! We had success with some things and not with other things, but we push on!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Monday- After pday and writing letters and hanging out with the other hermana's we all went to Subway for dinner and then went on with our days. We had an FHE with the Garcia family and read the parable in Mark 4 about the seeds and where they fall. We had the kids draw in out! It was fun and we all learned something new. After that we did some contacting, but all those we contacted aren't interested in the message we share :( it always makes me sad when they don't want to listen. But we try and try again!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Tuesday- We had EXCHANGES in BUENA VISTA BABY!!! Oh my goodness I was SOO excited to go back to my old area. It has been like 10 months...just about. We first had a lesson with Hna. Duran and we shared a scripture on how we all must share the gospel because there are lost sheep put in the world. We then did some contacting and got to share a little bit about the message we share. After that we had a lesson with a lady and her husband that have been investigating the church for about 5+ years and it was such a good lesson! We didn't get through all of it, but they both seemed sincerely interested. After that we all ate dinner at a super yummy pizza place! (it was just like Solo's, so it reminded me of home). And then we contacted because our appt fell through, and we stopped by and saw Cindy and her family (a family that I taught when I was there a year ago). And then lastly we passed by a less active family and shared a message. She was so cute and has such a precious testimony. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Wednesday- Then in the morning, guess who we saw?... MANUEL FELIX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh my goodness! I have missed that man. It was so good to see him and to see the progress that he has made. We taught him about the priesthood and what a blessing it is that he can have that and use that power from God. We then exchanged back and headed back to our area. We had a lesson with Guillermina and taught her the 1st half of the plan of salvation. She is awesome! She just takes everything in and is content with it. We then had a lesson with the Trejo family, they are less active and this time they were way more receptive and actually seemed happy to have us there! Before it did not feel that way...So we are making baby steps with them! We just need to help them come back to church. After that we ran to our next lesson with Marcos and taught him about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and he loved it and he is almost done with the Book of Mormon...can you believe that!?? That night we passed by Francisco to see how he was and we had a good long talk with him. He told us that he has been praying about what to do and he desires to come to church, but feels that he must do a few things in his church before he moves over, but he loves what we teach him and he is very content with what we share. So that was comforting to know and we know that he will get there. Just gotta help him along the way. And then lastly we had a lesson with Veronica and taught her the first part of the Plan of Salvation and the spirit was there and she is progressing little by little. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">((<i>Left) </i><i>Hna Meacham and I..now she is my STL (Right) </i><i>MANUEL FELIX! My recent convert :) and man has he changed since the last time I saw him.</i>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thursday- We had our wonderful planning session, and then we went to the DR to check out my headaches again because they have been bugging me while I sleep...so the DR said that it is stress that is all building up in my neck and causing the headaches, so he gave me some relaxants to take at night to help me sleep...so we will see how those work and then he wants me to go to a physical therapist and get some work done on my neck to loosen those muscles. So I am hoping that this will help and let me survive the last 2 months of my mission. We then contacted a bit and it poured outside! And for once, I was cold in Bakersfield. haha. But the rain was good and is helping the dirt...not be so...dry...haha. We then had a lesson with the Ramirez family and watched the Restoration movie and shared our testimonies about Joseph Smith and the restoration. And then we had a lesson with Francisco and we taught a bit about the plan of salvation and what happens after this life and it was really cool because he told us that he was just talking about that with his family on Sunday and didn't know what all happened after this life, so it gave him the answers he was looking for and the comfort he needed. God works in mysterious ways for sure. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Friday- We had our district meeting and learned more about teaching to the needs of our investigators. I am always amazed at the things that we learn are just perfect for what we need to work on. Like I said, God knows and works in mysterious ways. He is amazing! We then did a little bit of service at the homeless shelter. And then we had a long talk with Juventino... so the medicine was just kicking in because I didn't sleep the night before...so I was falling asleep during that talk, but we are hoping to reteach him some things...so yeah. We then contacted, and then had dinner and then met one of the older couples in the ward and they are so awesome! So focused on missionary work!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Saturday- We had a lesson with a less active named Anahi and shared Helaman 5:12 about building our lives upon the rock of Christ. We then had a lesson with Marcos and taught the fist part of the plan of salvation. And then we had a lesson with Guillermina and finished the plan of salvation with her too! After that we ran home for a bit and then ran to the baptismal service and it was so good! Hna. Gonzalez and I gave the missionary minute and President and Sister Wilson were there and we had Marcos and Guillermina come! It was so cool! After that we ate dinner and headed home!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sunday- Church was good! It was really packed, and we had Marcos and Guillermina come! After church we ate dinner with the Rodriguez family and then contacted a bit and then we had a lesson with Veronica and finished the plan of salvation. This time her kids weren't running all over the place, so that was nice! That night we passed by the Garcia family and made sure we were all good for the FHE the next night. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So yeah, we had success with getting our investigators to church and having the members help us out with lessons..but we sadly didn't find any new investigators. But that just means we have things to work on! Besides that, all is well! We are having fun and learning new things every day. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And can you believe I am hitting 16 months this Friday...? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well today is a beautiful Monday day! The clouds are out so that is making it not SOO hot...thank heavens :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Monday- Pday was wonderful! It was the first pday that I had to sit and relax...hope it stays that way! That night we had a lesson with a less active family and we talked about the importance of reading, praying and going to church. And then after that we went to go contact a referral, but she was not very interested...but that's okay! Some day in the future she will be!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Tuesday- In the afternoon we searched for some service to do here in East Bakersfield and then had a lesson with Melody- the daughter of Hno. Rodriguez. We taught her about the gospel of Jesus Christ and read in the Book of Mormon. We talked about the power of the atonement and how when we want to change and we tell God that, he will help us change and get rid of that habit and change that behavior. We just have to be willing to change and leave it behind. God will do the rest. We then contacted a little bit before our lesson with Francisco. The lesson we had with Francisco was really good! He is prepared to learn more and just soaks everything in like a sponge. We did a review of what we taught the last lesson and we had some questions about what he read in the Book of Mormon. We then had ward visits that night, but sadly all the less actives that we passed by weren't home. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Wednesday- We had one of our appts. cancel, so we decided to contact a little bit and then we headed over to the familia Sarabia and read the scripture in 2 Nephi 32 about prayer and the power that we can receive from that! We then passed by another less active family, the Trejo's, and we taught Hna. Trejo's sister! So she became a new investigator. We are not quite sure how interested she is, but we will go back and have another less with her! We then had another lesson with a less active hermana and it was good. She was interested in us coming back and teaching her more about the gospel, it is just getting her back to church. That night we had a lesson with Veronica and we taught about having faith in Jesus Christ and repentance. It was a simple lesson, but powerful. I love the simple lessons because those are the most powerful ones where the spirit really testifies of truth. Then before we went home we passed by a family that is in our area that we hadn't formally met, so we passed by and talked with them for a bit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thursday- Planning day!! Some how this day comes up really fast! But closer to the end of our time planning we got a call from the zone leaders and they gave us a referral and told us that she wanted to be taught today and so we packed up our things and ran out the door. We taught this lady named Mina- her name is longer, but hard to say...haha, so she told us we can call her Mina. But she is friends with an older guy in our ward and really ready to hear the gospel. She already came to church the week before! But now she is officially an investigator and she has a baptismal date for June 13th! After dinner we had a lesson with a less active family the Hermosillo's and we taught them about CPR and did a cup demonstration...it kinda worked! haha but they got the point! We then had a lesson with Francisco and Hno. Rodriguez brought this fancy book and seriously this book is so cool! haha. He still is just soaking everything up! We then tried to find a house of a less active but we couldn't find it...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Friday- We had a really good zone meeting where we talked about being consecrated missionaries and putting everything on the altar - fears, doubts, worries, etc. It was a good reminder to not worry or be scared of the things. but that Heavenly Father will take care of it all. We then went out and contacted because our other appts. fell through. But we got to meet a couple other less actives in the ward. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Saturday- In the morning we helped decorate the gym for the mother's day dinner. Then later that day we had a lesson with Marcos...and oh my goodness. So this was our conversation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Okay, what the freak!! haha. It was so cool! He had some questions and we taught him about church and it was just an amazing lesson! Like no joke! We then contacted some more in the hot sun! And boy am I getting a tan! We then had a lesson with a guy named Juventino and he became a new investigator! That night we went to the ward mother's day celebration and we had a potential come and less active families come and an investigator come! It was so fun and there was delicious food! Hispanic parties though...they really know how to throw a party!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">(<i>M</i><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd;"><i>others day celebration is La Cresta!</i></span>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sunday- Church was wonderful! All the talks were about mothers and I couldn't help but think about the wonderful mom I had in my life and all that she does for me :) We had Mina come to church and she asked about the temple, so we taught her a little bit about the temple and showed her the pictures in the church. After church I got to skype my WONDERFUL family and that was a blast :) I love and miss them all. And they reminded me that I have 72 days left..that is 72 days that I have to work hard and give it my all! We then had a lesson later that night with Veronica, but her kids were crazy so the lesson was a little bit shorter. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">(<i>I </i><i>have the BEST family ever!! It was so good to talk to them :)</i>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well family, I love the area that I am in, the companion that I am with and the work that is being done! I love being a missionary. It is seriously the greatest choice I have ever made! And I am learning a lot and changing a lot. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Happy Mothers day again to the best mother in the world! I love you so much and I am so grateful for all that you have done and do for me!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Love you all! And we will talk next week!</span></div>
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Hermana Maren Aasehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040080304683311791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988860452708514114.post-24147273028273871002015-05-18T15:59:00.003-06:002015-05-18T15:59:42.584-06:00Red ants and chocalas<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">Good afternoon Family!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well WHAT. A. WEEK!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Can I just say this was probably the best first week of my whole mission. And I have been out a long time...haha. But honestly it is great and I am excited for the rest of my time here!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Monday- After running around, doing laundry, seeing the chiropractor, and emailing, we ate lunch with my favorite person Pedro! It was so nice of him to take a break from work and take Hna Soto and I out for lunch. I sure am gonna miss this guy. After lunch we hung around and signed journals and then had a lesson set with Doris, but she sadly wasn't there. So we grabbed our laundry and then headed to dinner with the Juarez family. We took pictures and then we ran to our next stop- Hna America, and then to say goodbye to Patricia Durant, the Morelos Family and then Sheila and her family and then last but not least, the Hiltons. I stayed up until like 12:30 packing and all...just like every new transfer haha.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Tuesday- TRANSFER DAY! Well we got up early, packed the car and got to transfer meeting. We have a training meeting before transfer meeting and then afterwards we all got seated and watched the new missionaries come in (there was only 3) and then heard the dying testimonies and then Hna Gonzalez and I went on our way! So I'll tell you about my companion at the end of the email. So we made it back to our apartment and then started to unpack and looked at the plans that the other harmanas' left us. It is a little overwhelming to be new in an area and training, but with the help of God all things are possible! We then had dinner with a part member family in one of the elders area and the food was really spicy...like my lips were numb by the end of dinner...all of them just laughed at me...#whitepeopleproblems. After that we had ward visits and went with a few ladies from the ward to go visit less active members and that was nice to get to know a few more. By the end of the night we were both exhausted. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Wednesday- We went grocery shopping in the morning because we didn't have time to go the night before. Later after lunch we went out to our area (wherever it is...haha) and we started to contact some people and then we passed by a less active family named the Sarabia's, and we shared a message about family history work. After that we contacted some people and got some set appts which is progress! But oh my goodness...red ants were attracted to my feet! Like my goodness..It was bad! Every time we would talk to someone and then leave there would be like 50 red ants all over my feet and they bite...so I was not a happy camper...We then ate dinner at home and then passed by the ward mission leaders house and met him and his family! They are so fun! And then after that we visited the Bishop and his family, which they are also so awesome!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thursday- The STL's came and visited us and we made goals for this transfer and all. It will be so good! Some things that I am working on is having more faith and showing that faith through diligent work, and then to ask more questions. I haven't ever been good at asking questions, but I will be working on that! We then did our planning and learned more about our investigators and the members and less actives. That night we visited a less active family named the Hermosillo's and shared Helaman 5:12 and then contacted a referral and instead of us giving him an uplifting message he gave us one! I wish all people were like that at doors..Is that too much to ask for?!?! haha. We then visited another less active family named the Arroyo family and we shared about Joseph Smith and then we contacted a little bit more before the end of the night. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Friday- We had district meeting and it was all in Spanish! I haven't had that since I was in Bakersfield last summer..so that was good! At least I could understand it all this time! I also did the training and it was on giving church tours and how beneficial they can really be for our investigators! We then did service for a less active- the bishops dad- and we did yard work! He is the cutest ever! Later we had a lesson with Chris, a potential and it was a really good lesson! And he accepted to be baptized for June 20th! It was so good :) That night we ate dinner with the Mercado family and they are so cool! So missionary minded! It it awesome! We then met a recent convert, he lives a couple doors down for the Mercado family and he was watering his lawn. After that we felt that we should try and pass by our investigator Veronica...and we found her at home!! We taught her about the importance of church and then she told us that the church she goes to makes her feel sad and depressed, but when she came to ours, all that was gone. She was happy and calm. What a cool thing to hear! We then met another lady from the ward, her name is Hna Alaniz! And she is a sweetheart and has a really cool conversion story!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Saturday- We did service for a little bit in the morning and then we came back and did studies and lunch and then we went contacted! Some people weren't home and we met a not so nice guy on the street, but we brushed it off and kept on going. BUT! We found another new investigator! His name is Marcos. He is really cool and interested in learning! He also accepted a baptismal date for June 20th! We then had a lesson right after that with a lady named Ana and she became a new investigator too! We weren't sure if she was actually listening in the lesson, but then at the end she was like, "well then I guess I will have to read the Book of Mormon"...Hna Gonzalez and I just looked at each other like..."wait what? you were listening?" We then had dinner with ourselves and then tried by a couple more members, but they weren't home. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sunday- We had correlation meeting in the morning and our ward mission leader walked in with these funny glasses and weird teeth..we all just had to laugh! Church was good! Lots of new people, but it was good! We ate dinner with the Rodriguez family (which is the ward mission leader) and then we contacted a bit and had a lesson with a less active family named the Ramirez family. We talked about the importance and power of the Book of Mormon. We then knocked on a potentials door and he opened up and was like "where were you on Monday!" he didn't know that we got switched, so we taught home a lesson and it was such a good lesson! He told us that he wants to read and come to church and learn more from us! After that we passed by the Guido family and met them! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well, so that was our week! It was so good!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So now about my companion- Her name is Hna Gonzalez. She is from Mexico, but moved to Camarillo CA and she is 22 and a convert of 3 years! She is a doll and is ready to work! She is helping me with my Spanish and I am helping her with her English. It is great! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I love this area! I am excited to be here and to work!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I love you all! Thanks for all you do!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And family!!-- I cannot wait until Sunday!!! Talk to you then :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Love, Hermana Aase</span></div>
Hermana Maren Aasehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040080304683311791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988860452708514114.post-56534594933435808712015-04-27T14:26:00.000-06:002015-04-27T14:26:33.028-06:00What a Week!<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">Good Morning Family!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I am leaving the area, heading to East Bakersfield (which is little Mexico) and I will be TRAINING! She is native and I am so excited to meet her! This will be a wonderful way to end my mission, training a new missionary! The time will go by fast, but it will be amazing!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So for this past week! It was kind of hectic, due to the weekend still rolling into the beginning of the week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Monday- For our p-day activities we played 3-legged soccer. It was a blast! Everyone was falling all over the place, luckily, we did not! haha. I was not about to get hurt. That night we had dinner with the Juarez family and then we started the 5 week program with them and had them do role plays with us, sharing parts of the restoration. After that we had an FHE with Sheila and her family about Prophets. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Tuesday- Was a hectic day, we had lunch with a member- Ana Gutierrez, and then after that we ran to our next appt, but sadly she wasn't home, or didn't open the door. So we headed to another person in our plans, but he wasn't there either, BUT we got to talk to his wife, and she is opening up more and more to us. So hopefully in the future we can teach her and her husband. We then did some contacting and we talked to this guy named Angel, he was really interested in our message and told us that he has been to all other churches and studied there, but has never studied with the Mormons. So he said that we wants to give it a try! Before dinner we went by this potential family that we have been trying to get an appt with, and we found the husband outside, so we started talking with him and he just wanted to bible bash, so we shared our testimonies of the Book of Mormon and then we left. We ate dinner with the Miranda family and then had a lesson with Susie. She has been reading in the Book or Mormon which is great! But we need to help her get back to church. We taught her more in depth about church and why we go and she told us that she was going to come this Sunday. We then passed by a less active family that just moved into our area, so we met their family and got to know them a little bit better. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Wednesday- 15 MONTHS!!!!!!!!!!! Can you believe that I hit that many months...that cannot be real. But it is happening. AHHH! We had a lesson with an investigator named Henry in the morning where we taught about Faith, and then we found out some more things about him and discovered it might be a little bit harder to get him to church than we thought, but we can change that! We then had lunch with Kayla Martz and then headed down to Palmdale to visit Hna Meacham that was still in the hospital- and then to do a follow up exchange with Hna Poole and Hna Usher. When we got back into our area we had a lesson with Aida and we finished teaching her about the Plan of Salvation and about temples and seriously, she is so awesome!! We then ate dinner with Hna Fraijo and after that we had a lesson with Chris and we read a talk by Elder Holland about the safety we can receive when we read the Book of Mormon. And then after that another one of our appts was cancelled, so we passed by Vallarta and got some ice cream for my 15 month celebration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thursday- We did our planning, and then headed to a lesson we had planned with Angel (the guy we met earlier in the week). He wasn't there, but his grandma said that she really likes that we have been coming to try and teach him about God...so we have her approval!! haha. We then had dinner with the Lara Family and after that had a lesson with the Colindres family, and we talked about the importance of the Book of Mormon. We were kind of bold with them, but we got our point and testimonies across! You do what you gotta do! We then passed by the Alvarez family, and they had cake for me and gave me a present. It was the cutest most sweet thing in the world! I love those two! They are like my mission grandparents. While I was there I got a call from President Wilson, releasing me from being a Sister Training Leader, and calling me to be a trainer...!!! FREAK! I was so excited. And so grateful for this opportunity to train again. So then after that we had a lesson with Pedro and we talked about the importance of fellowshipping. And then we told him the news and he was sad. He was telling me that he was going to kidnap me so that I cant leave...oh Pedro. How I am going to miss that man. He has a special place in my heart. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Friday- We had a great district meeting! We role played giving church tours, and I never before realized how powerful those are and how helpful they can be to those we are teaching. We then ran to a lesson, but they ended up being too busy...so we did a bit of contacting before our lesson with Maria Morelos. We taught about baptism and confirmation and then we set her with a baptismal date! For June 13! After that we did some visits to Hna Parra's friends to see if they were home, but sadly there were all busy and couldn't talk with us...so we then had dinner with the Rasch family and then we had a lesson with Aida and we taught her about the Word of Wisdom and the Law of Chastity. Want to know how she responded?? Se told us that she hasn't drank for a year, and recently each time she drinks coffee her stomach hurts really bad...she is so prepared! It is a miracle. So she will have no problem with the word or wisdom :) That night we passed by the Rojas and Gutierrez to give them the news about transfers and then by Hna Arnold to take pictures. And so the goodbyes begin!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Saturday- We went to Mormon Helping Hands in the morning and helped with some gardening things. It was cold and windy. But it was still great to do service. We then ate lunch with the Parra family and took pictures- I am sure gonna miss that family! We then went down to Palmdale to see Hna Meacham and Hna Flood and do a exchange follow up/ see how Hna Meacham was feeling. There was a baptism at 4 for some elders in our branch. A 15 year old kid named Raul got baptized and it was a great service! And Aida came to the baptism :) she loved it! Before dinner we did some contacting and talked with this lady named Maria. She is a "rebellious catholic" she says haha, but she has Mormon friends and really loves who we are. She is really nice and both Hna Soto and I feel that she is prepared to hear the gospel. She has questions like "why are there so many churches?" and "Why don't we all believe in the same thing?" After dinner with the Gutierrez we passed by the Miranda family and took pictures and then we had our coordination meeting. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sunday- Continued with goodbyes. Church was wonderful! I gave my testimony in sacrament meeting. Aida came to church! And she continues to love it and learn more and more. Pedro and the Gutierrez family then threw the missionaries a goodbye party...it was so sweet! haha. We then passed by another family- the Quinteros and then we went back home and we did some studies and I packed a bit and then we ate dinner with the Rojas family and then we ran by the Valdez family, and the Gutierrez and the Rasch family to take pictures and say goodbyes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I have honestly loved serving here in this branch. All the members are just so sweet and loving. It will be hard to leave them, but that just makes me even more excited to come back and visit them. So my Sister Training Leader days are over. It was such a great experience and I sure learned a lot. But now it is off to new adventures, new places and new people. I am excited for these last 2 transfers. They will go by quick- but they will be wonderful!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Have a wonderful week! And I will hear form all of you next week with new everything!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well I am doing pretty good, tired, but I'll explain more why I am exhausted, and why I put my subject line as my 1st all-nighter in the mission.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Monday- Pday was not something special...haha. We got the clean our apartment and write letters and all. So that was good! That night we had a lesson planned with Leonor and we brought Hna Arnold, but Leonor didn't open the door, so we went by Doris's, and she was home and let us in! So we got to share the rest of the restoration message with her. And she is so cool! We won't be able to meet with her for 2 weeks because she just had surgery and all her family from Columbia are here. But we are excited to see how she can progress! We then ate dinner with Hna Osegueda and then passed by a less active Hna Ponce De Leon and taught about the sacrament.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Tuesday- We had exchanges with Hna Meacham and Hna Flood. I was with Hna Meacham and we first contacted and talked to this lady named Sandra. She has a lot of faith and it was really cool to listen to her talk about it, in the end she told us that she is happy where she is, but we are going to return and give her a Family Proclamation to the world because she is huge on families and believes they are the most important thing in society. We then passed by a member and shared a scripture with her, but she wasn't feeling very good, so we didn't stay very long. We then had dinner with the Parra family and after that we passed by a potential that Hna Nemrow and I found on our exchange the week before and he was outside in his garage so we got to talk to him for a little bit, and he told us that whenever we are in the neighborhood to stop by and see if they are home and they will listen to the message we have to share! :) that is a good sign when someone says that! We then had a lesson with Pedro! We talked about teaching and testifying in unity with the members...and boy Pedro is so funny. He loves to joke around the whole lesson..so we end up laughing a bunch and then teaching and then laughing and then teaching some more. And then we saw a member, Hna Harding, and helped her with her family history work...and man, the more I get to see that and help others I just want to do it myself! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Wednesday- In the morning we went contacting, but didn't find anyone home, but that is okay! We then ate lunch with the Sisters in the English ward and then did short splits with them for a few hours. I went with Sis Nemrow again and we had a lesson with a less active that really wants to come back to church and then we did a bit of contacting before we got back together to head to our dinner appts. We ate dinner with Hna Arnold and then headed to our lesson with a less active..but they totally forgot, so we rescheduled. After that we had a relief society activity and made those cantaloupe bunnies! It was fun! And after that we passed by Hna Harding to say goodbye before she left for Argentina for 3 months. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thursday- We did our planning for week 6!!!! HOW? Later that afternoon we had interviews with President and they were really good. We talked about how things are going and about family! I just can't tell him enough about how great my family is! We then had or appt cancelled with a potential, so we did a bit of contacting before dinner with the Rojas. After dinner we had a lesson with the Alvarez family and we read Mosiah 18 and 19 about the covenants we make at baptism. They were really getting interested in it :) it was so good to see! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Friday- Was a very busy day...we will just say that! haha. We had district meeting in the morning and I had a talk for it. I talked about the spirit in the process of conversion and the importance of the Book of Mormon. I talked about how we first must be converted before we can help others in their conversion, and how the spirit is really the converter, not a person or a thing. And then I talked about how important it is to have a testimony of the Book of Mormon and as we come to know this book is of God, we then will feel the spirit a lot greater. It is all just one great cycle! I love it :) That process of being converted is not just a one time thing, it is a life time journey :) We then had a whole day of appt's planned..so we headed off. We had a lesson with Juan Lopez, he is a potential, but he wouldn't make a return appt, so sadly he isn't a new investigator, but we will keep tabs on him and go back. We then ran to our appt with Aida..but she wasn't back yet from her DR appt...so we went by a potential named Yolanda (we saw her a few weeks ago) and we talked with her for a bit, we then went to our next appt with Jose (a new investigator), but he wasn't there either..so we picked up our member for our next lesson with Angelica (a new investigator) but she wasn't there either..so we went contacting and found a new investigator! We taught him part of the plan of salvation. He told us when we were leaving that he was so grateful that we shared that with him because it gave him more hope and peace. After that we ate dinner with the Ramirez family and then had our next appt cancel...and all our other backup plans cancelled..so then we met Hna Gutierrez for our lesson with the Morelos family, but they also cancelled, so we did some contacting and we ended up talking to this lady named Carol for 30 min. and we shared a scripture from the Book of Mormon about prayer and after that she was like "well then, lets pray!" It was a cool moment! We then had a lesson with the Valdez family about fellowshipping members, less actives and investigators. Long story short, all of our appts cancelled, but we still found someone to talk to that needed to see us:)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Saturday- We contacted in the morning and then had our afternoon appts cancel, so we did more contacting! yay. haha. We then ate dinner with Hna America and then had correlation, and during correlation we got a call from the zone leaders over our sister in Esperanza telling us that Hna Meacham couldn't breath very well and that they were going to go to the hospital. So we changed, grabbed our pillows and drove to Palmdale to be with them. We sat in the ER all night waiting for her to get taken back and checked and tested...It was a long night...and I never want to sit in that waiting room again! haha. Those chairs were not comfy...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sunday- So we didn't leave the ER until 6:30am that morning. Han Meacham was still in the ER because they didn't want to let her go since her throat kept closing up. So we took Hna Flood to a members house to get ready and go to church and then Hna Soto and I left to go back home to get ready and go to church. Aida came to church!! And she loved it :) she told everyone in relief society that she is getting baptized on May 9th :) she is so awesome!!! Church was hard to stay awake in though..we were on the struggle bus for sure! haha. After church we went back to Palmdale to get Hna Flood, we passed by to see Hna Meacham and then went back to the appt and took a 2 1/2 hour nap, and then we left and headed to dinner and after dinner we went home and planned and did calls and then went to bed..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This past week was good, besides the crazy weekend. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We will be getting details about transfers this coming weekend. So we will see what happens with me - leaving for staying?!?! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well I love you all! I hope you have a wonderful week! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Prayer list- Aida Hildago, Carlos Vasquez, Jose Osorio, Chris Parra, Susie Moreira, and Hna America. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Love, Hermana Aase</span></div>
Hermana Maren Aasehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040080304683311791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988860452708514114.post-66335089182187779252015-04-21T14:41:00.000-06:002015-04-21T14:41:08.783-06:00Exchanges = Miracles<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; font-family: inherit;">Good morning family!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well this past week was amazing! Nuff said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Monday- We played kickball with half of the zone and it was a blast! It was windy, but we had fun! And then we all ran to the big jungle gym and went down the slide. You can only be a kid once in a while. So we took that shot. After sports, we ran to a lesson with a potential, Leonor, and we taught her the restoration and she said that she would read and pray about the Book of Mormon. After that we stopped by the Juarez family and shared the Because He lives video and talked about the great gift we have been given. After that we had a lesson with Pedro and we taught him about the law of Tithing. Pedro is so awesome!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Tuesday- We had exchanges with the English Sisters and were in their area, due to the fact they can't speak Spanish and it would be better if they could help teach and all. I went with the Sister Nemrow, and we had a great day! We first got in with a less active and shared with her to power of the Book of Mormon and gave her one and invited her to read it and pray about it. We then passed by a member named Mimi, and she is the cutest old lady ever. But we shared a quick message with her and then asked her if she had any neighbors we could share the gospel with- we got one for our Spanish area! We then did a bit of contacting before our set lessons with a potential named Jamy. We ended up teaching her and she is really cool- she has all the questions and desire of someone who is looking for the truth. And all I could think was, "the gospel of Jesus Christ is going to answer ALL your questions and give you that peace and stability that you are looking for". We then met the other sisters and ate dinner and then passed by another less active and got some service arranged with her. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Wednesday- We contacted in the morning, but no one was home, so after that we exchanged back and did some calls and then had our appts cancelled before dinner. After dinner we passed by Carlos, but he was super sick, so we had a quick lesson with him about the spirit world and then let him go rest. Hopefully he will be better to come to church! We then passed by the Morelos family because we haven't seen them in a while, and Maria was gone, but we shared the "Because He Lives" video with Julissa and Thalia, and they thought it was really good. And then lastly, we passed by a less active and shared the scripture in John 20 when the resurrected Christ appears to Mary Magdalene and how wonderful it is to have that knowledge of a living Christ. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thursday- Not a lot happened, but we did some planning for week 5, and then went out to a lesson with another potential, but she wasn't home, so we passed by Hna Arnold to invite her to a lesson and then we headed home and did some more planning before our night plans. Sadly our night plans fell through, but we saw Sheila and helped her out on a few things. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Friday- Was also a busy day! We first went to district meeting and received some inspiration for our investigators and how to help them best! We then started our exchanges with the Rancho Vista Hermanas. I went with Hna Poole, and it was so good to be back with her. We were talking about how last time we were companions was 9 months ago...WHERE DID THE TIME GO! But we contacted the referral we received on the other exchange and gave him a Book of Mormon and made a return appt. And then we headed to our lesson with Chris Parra and we did role plays and sharing the restoration message or parts of it with friends and family. He is a natural at sharing the gospel. We then contacted a bit before dinner time and then we ate dinner with the Alvarez family and that was a blast like always! And then we ran to our next appt, but Melanie wasn't there, so we picked up Hna Herrera and went to our lesson with the Morelos family and we taught them about enduring to the end and we re-addressed the importance of going to church. We then quickly passed by Sheila's house so Han Poole could say hi to her, and we ended up helping her glitter Deedee's shoes for Prom. We had glitter everywhere by the time we were done! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Saturday- After exchanges we made calls and then had a FREAKIN' awesome lesson with Aida!! Like no joke, Aida is so awesome. We taught her about enduring to the end and then we started the Plan of Salvation because she has questions about all of that and she was just like a sponge and soaked everything up. She also is so excited for her baptism and is starting to tell people about it!! AHHH!!! She is awesome! We then ate dinner with Sheila because our appt cancelled, and then we had to run home and do a bit more of planning before our meeting with Hno. Gutierrez. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sunday- Guess who came to church!?? Susie! And she enjoyed it! So we are hoping that she will come again. We then did our studies and headed to Hna. Harding's for dinner and after that we finished our planning and after that we passed by the Juarez family and invited/challenged them to do the 5 week program to feel more comfortable with sharing the gospel and doing missionary work! They graciously accepted. haha. We then had a lesson with the Rojas family, and we had their graduation from the 5 week program and ate some cookies and then they asked us why we decided to go on missions and we shared why and talked with them until we had to race home and make all the calls for the night. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well, we are excited for this next week. Can you believe that is is week 5 already...these transfers are flying by!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />Well I love you all and miss you tons!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Have a wonderful week and I will talk you you soon!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Also...it is officially <span style="color: magenta;">100</span><b> </b>days until I come home...not that I am counting or anything. Haha. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Love, Hermana Aase</span></div>
Hermana Maren Aasehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040080304683311791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988860452708514114.post-84816618545250472632015-04-21T14:28:00.004-06:002015-04-21T14:28:54.286-06:00Baptismal dates and Conference!<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Good Morning family!!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well wasn't this weekend just AMAZING!! The opportunity to listen to our prophet and the apostles. I learned a lot of great things and received some revelation :) I have a full testimony of coming to conference with a question - because ALL of my questions were answered! It was amazing!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Monday- After pday adventures, which was sitting at goodwill for 2 hours, we headed to a lesson with a potential named Doris. She is from Colombia, and has talked to the missionaries in the past, so we felt impressed to go visit her, and Monday was the day we could finally get an appt. We got to know her for a bit, like family, job, religious background and then we only go to share part of the restoration, but she seems interested in learning more! So we are excited to return and teach her more. We then headed to another appt with potentials named Maria and Eduardo. We got to sit down and teach them and they were so intently listening, it was amazing! We also invited them to be baptized, and they said they would!! But they didn't want to set a date because of certain reasons. But it was a very cool lesson. We then ran by Pedro's quickly and shared a message with him in the New Testament about the joy of knowing Christ has resurrected. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Tuesday- In the morning we did service for a member, the one that is moving, we washed windows! We then did some contacting for the remainder of the day. We then did a visit to a less active family with the relief society president and it was very good! Getting the auxiliary leaders involved in visits is such a good outcome. We then had a lesson with Carlos, and Presidente Rojas came with us and we talked about the Atonement of Christ and what that can do for him. Sadly we found out that he is on parole and won't be finished until Aug 2016, so we had to drop his date, but we are still planning on meeting with him and helping him learn more and more about the gospel. We then had a lesson with Sheila and her family about holding on to the iron rod.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Wednesday- We drove up to Tehachapi for our leadership meeting, and it was kind of sad because it was probably my last time going up there and driving through the windmills. So I made sure to take everything in! We had a really good meeting. We talked about how the mission needs to be in unity and as we work in unity toward one goal, we can really see miracles. So as a mission leadership we prayed and set goals for our mission - our goals are 75 baptisms in the month of June and finding 750 new investigators in April. We are excited to have these goals and work toward them! We got back and headed to our lesson with Leo, but come to find out he is in the hospital with pneumonia and is needing surgery on his shoulder...so hopefully he gets better soon so we can keep teaching him! So we did a bit on contacting and then headed to our lesson with Aida, and we talked more about baptism and the gift of the holy ghost and then we SET HER WITH A BAPTISMAL DATE!! She accepted it like a champ! Her date is May 9th :) We were on cloud 9 when we left that lesson! Hna Soto wasn't feeling very good, so we headed in early so she could rest and get better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thursday- We did our lovely planning! And later that night we had a great lesson with Susie. It has been a while since we have been able to meet with her, but we got in and had a lesson and it was wonderful! We finished the restoration and talked about the Book of Mormon and she told us that she sincerely wants to learn and know if this book is true!! It was so awesome to hear that because we know that when someone sincerely reads, ponders and prays about the Book of Mormon they are going to feel the truthfulness of it :) We then passed by the Gutierrez house to talk with Hna Gutierrez and we shared with them the <b>Because HE Lives</b> video - and oh my goodness, it is so powerful!! I hope you all had the opportunity to watch it! If not, just look up on youtube "Because He Lives". It is about a 3 minute video celebrating the gift of the resurrected Christ. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Friday- We had ZTM and we talked about setting goals and when we have that combined with faith as a mission to accomplish this goal. Hna Soto and I did a role play on having more of a conversation with people on the street instead of just telling them who we are and why we are here. It means more when we want to get to know someone and then share what we know is true, that will bless their family. We had the rest of our appts cancel that night, but we had a good surprise lesson with the Alvarez family and shared with them about the gift of Christ's resurrection. We then had a lesson with the Valdez family and taught teaching and testifying in member present lessons. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Saturday- CONFERENCE was AMAZING!! Some of my favorite talks were by Linda K. Burton about family, marriage, and relationships with all those around us. And Elder Clayton about focusing on the light of Christ. In between sessions we ate lunch with Karen Gilmore and her family. The other talks I liked from Saturday was Elder Bednar's about hushing our fears and Elder Runland's about not giving up and relying on the Atonement. That night we had our appts cancelled, so we tried to contact some former and potential investigators and then we had our coordination meeting with Hno Gutierrez. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well family, I love hearing from you all and THANK YOU, THANK YOU family and Mamo and Oohoo for the Easter packages!</span></div>
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Hermana Maren Aasehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040080304683311791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988860452708514114.post-59056238798458935952015-04-21T14:20:00.004-06:002015-04-21T14:20:58.954-06:00Serviced OUT!<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">Good Afternoon family! I am writing a bit later because my chiropractor appt was a bit later, so we switched with one set of the Elders. Don't worry, it will only be like this for today! But this past week was a good week, not super exciting, but yeah!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Monday- Well, as you can see in the millions of pictures, we had fun at the poppy fields! There are these fields that have poppy flowers, and from far away you just see this<span style="color: #ff9900;"> <b>BRIGHT ORANGE</b></span> glow! Sadly the week before we went half of them died, but we found a good patch of flowers and took A TON of pictures! We then had dinner with Hna America and then we had a set lesson with a potential, but she was busy, so we had to reschedule. We then passed by Sister Hiltons to make some certificates for our graduating students in the 5 week program. And then we had an FHE with Sheila and her family. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Tuesday- Han Soto had an eye doctor appt in the morning, so we were at that all morning, and then we ate lunch and then we headed out to contact, but we got a text from Johnny Olguin, he is in the YSA ward, but his family is in the branch and he needed some help with something, so we did that and then after we contacted until our Zone Conference with President and Sister Wilson. It was short and they reminded us of our goal and dress code. It was fun to see them. After the zone conference we had a quick STL meeting with Sister Wilson and then we ran to dinner with the Juarez family...and guess what they made me try...LUNG!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was not very good, but now I can say that I tried lung. We then had a lesson with the Alvarez family and we did role plays with them and it was really funny, we had one of them be the member and the other be their friend who doesn't know about the church, but Hno. Alvarez kept being the friend who ALREADY KNOWS THE GOSPEL...it was so funny! Hna. Alvarez was like "I am the member, you are the friend!" We then visited the Colindres family, they are less active and we shared a quick scripture with them before our lesson with Pedro. We then headed to Pedro's and we taught the Gospel of Jesus Christ and it was a really good lesson. We were asking Pedro if he felt a difference before his baptism and afterwards and he just smiled as said "si, claro que si". Which means, Of course. It just warms my heart to hear Pedro bear is quiet testimony. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Wednesday- I had the Chiropractor in the morning and then we had a meeting with the AP's, but before that we passed by one set of our Hermanas' to say hi. In the meeting we got trained on how to be more bold with our Hermanas' and how to help them be more accomplished with their goals. It was a awesome training because it was advice for our own area and missionary work that we needed. Later we then had a lesson with Patricia Durant and we shared a quick story from the Book Or Mormon when Nephi is commanded to build a ship, and how he doesn't just sit there, but he gets up and he works and asks the Lord where he can go to find the ore to build his tools to build the ship. What a great example we have from Nephi! We then went over to Leo's to have a lesson with him and Presidente Rojas, but when we got there he wasn't there...so Presidente left and 5 minutes later Leo showed up...that was bad timing! But we taught him anyways and we read 2 Nephi 32 about recognizing the spirit and he told us that he "is catholic and will always be catholic"...but then he told us that he read from the BOM and he enjoyed it, so there is potential there!! We then passed by Rosaura to say goodbye to her before she left to go back to her home in Mexico. She has changed a lot since we first met her, and we told her that missionaries in Mexico will come find her and that they will teach her and baptize her! After that we had a lesson with Carlos and we retaught the part in the plan of salvation about Adam and Eve and then a little bit about our life here on earth. He is progressing! He told us that he has cut down on smoking! And we haven't even taught him the word of wisdom lesson! That night we helped out Hna. Friajo pack up her house...well start to pack up her house and then we had a meeting with Presidente Rojas and he pretty much wanted to tell us that we are doing great work and that the Branch is there to help out...it was so nice to hear. I guess we looked a bit sad, so he wanted to make sure we were doing alright! How sweet of him to care about us!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thursday- We had a lesson with Esmeralda, a less active - Rosemary's mom, and we shared a talk from the Liahona about how Christ shows his respect for women, if you haven't read it yet, READ IT. It is in the March Liahona, it is powerful and really shows how loving Christ is toward women. We then had a lesson with Chris and we talked about the Restoration and how God doesn't want to make all our decisions for us, but wants us to make the decision and then go to him in prayer, and it is there that we will feel that confirmation of yes or no. We then did our planning for week 3! And after dinner with the Lara family we went back to Hna. Friajo's house and we helped her more with packing up her things. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Friday- We had a great district meeting and talked about being "UPSET" with our investigators when they don't keep their commitments. It was really good and we are excited to try it out on our investigators so they can see the importance of reading and praying and keeping the commitments they made with us. After a quick lunch we went back to Hna. Friajo for an hour to help some more, and then we went to the Parra's to help them in their yard, and we shoveled about a TON of dirt...both a ton (like weight) and then a ton (like amount)! We were tired for sure afterwards. That night after dinner with Hna. Arnold we passed by Aida with Hna. Parra and were "upset" with her because she hadn't done her reading, and she was like "I will go do it right now!" haha. Look at her, doing her commitments! We then had a lesson with the Morelos family and we talked about the atonement some more and then about Faith in Jesus Christ. We invited Hna. Parra to watch conference this next weekend and Maria said that she would go! Our lesson with Eduardo- a potential, cancelled after that, but we got another appt set with him. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Saturday- In the morning we did service with Sister Hilton and we helped wash windows and screens. It is starting to get really hot now, so we made it earlier in the morning so we wouldn't burn out in the sun! We then got ready and ate something fast and then headed out to contact, and we went by Susie's fast because we haven't heard from her in a while, but we got to talk to her so that was a miracle, and she has been reading the things we left her! We have an appt with her next week. We then talked to Maria and her husband Juan- we contacted Maria last transfer and we were on her street and saw them outside so we walked over and ended up having a 2 hour conversation with them and talked about eternal marriage and families and a bit about our message, we sadly didn't teach them a full lesson, but we are planning on going back to teach Maria and Juan. We then had our lesson with Carlos cancelled, but we brought a white shirt and tie for him to wear to church on Sunday! We then headed to the church to eat dinner with all the other women in the stake and then we watched the broadcast and it was AMAZING!! I loved how much they talked about the family and the importance of keeping our family protected, and that is what the gospel is here for! This just makes me more excited for General Conference next weekend!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sunday- Sadly Carlos called us in the morning and cancelled, and then we showed up at church and the Hermana that was supposed to give Aida a ride got lost, so she just came to church, so we called Aida and told her that we were on our way to pick her up, so we grabbed Hna Rojas and scooted out after the sacrament to pick her up. Aida stayed for the rest of church and loved it! She is amazing!! She is so ready to accept the gospel! After church we had our studies...and then all our set appts with potentials fell through, so we did a bit of contacting until our lesson with the Rasch family! We had a celebration because they finished the 5 week program! So we did a little graduation ceremony! It was funny, they got all into it and put their high school gowns on and we played graduation music! We then did some more contacting because sadly the rest of our night appts fell through. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The week was slower on the work side, but our spirits stayed high! And we tried to have a smile on our faces. It helped, that's for sure :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I love and miss you tons!! And I'll talk to you next week!</span></div>
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Hermana Maren Aasehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040080304683311791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988860452708514114.post-50081080591868533202015-03-23T13:41:00.001-06:002015-03-23T13:41:08.384-06:00Teaching Miracles<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Good Morning everyone!!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Monday- After emails we did some shopping and signed transfer journals. That night we did some contacting and we started talking to this guy named Carlos. At the beginning he pretty much just wanted to bash with us, but then we asked if we could teach him more. So he let us in and we sat down and began to teach him. The lesson was really simple, but the spirit was so strong. Something remarkable happened, from the beginning of the lesson or first talking to him to the time that we ended that lesson his whole countenance changed. It was amazing. We didn't force anything, the spirit just told us to testify of the message we brought. It was so cool. Hna Soto and I just walked back to the car quietly, just taking in what happened in that lesson. We then went to Pedro's and we read a chapter in the Book of Mormon about how much Christ really does love us. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Tuesday- We headed out to contact and we passed by this family that we talked to the week before and we met the husband and started talking to him and he was really cool. Pretty much the whole time we were talking to him he was asking all the questions that a true truth seeker would, and all I wanted to do was scream and tell him that the restored gospel would answer ALL of his questions and that that is what we are here to share with him!! Well, we didn't get to teach him right then and there, but he said that we could come back and share more...We then ate lunch with a member and contacted around that area. The rest of our appts until dinner were cancelled, so we got lots of tracting done. We then had a lesson with the Alvarez family and we are starting the 5 week program with them to help them feel more comfortable with sharing the gospel and when we got there and prayed, they started asking us questions and quizzing us...haha. They are so cute!! But we had them teach us the restoration of the gospel. Then after that we had a lesson with Sheila and her family and we did practices with sharing our favorite scriptures with our friends who need uplifting messages. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Wednesday- Again sadly all our morning appts were cancelled, which gave us more time to tract!!..haha yay..my favorite. But we talked to a kid named Eric so that was cool! He said we could come back and talk with his family. We then had an appt. with Aida and the coolest thing happened!! She told us that she 1-read in the Bool of Mormon, and 2-that it talked about baptism and how she wanted to ask us if there was going to be any problem with her getting baptized if she was baptized as a JW before... FREAK!! Aida pretty much just told us that she wanted to be baptized. She is SOO cool!! So we talked a bit about the gospel of Jesus Christ, Faith Repentance, and Baptism. She agreed with everything that we taught her. That lesson made. my. day. We then ate dinner with the Miranda family and then had a lesson with Carlos. We also taught him about the gospel of Jesus Christ and he really understood the need of repentance and baptism. It was such a good lesson. It also POURED while we sat there...we had to move our chairs to underneath the porch...let's just say we got wet cause it was raining so hard. After that we passed by Hna Harding and shared a quote from PMG.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thursday- We did our weekly planning! And then ate dinner with the Juarez family and had an FHE with them and talked about he importance of fellowshipping. We did an exercise with them to put themselves in the shoes of an investigator- someone who doesn't know about the church or who hasn't ever come to church on a Sunday- and see how it feels to come and not know anything and not have someone there helping you out. Once we ran through that, we had them write their feelings and the likeliness of them coming back to church. Most of them had lower numbers and felt scared, or unsure or confused. This is how investigators feel. They NEED that person to walk with them and answer their questions. That is why fellowshipping new members is so important! The Juarez family suggested the members should say hi to those who walk in the church, not the missionaries! What a great idea! haha. We then passed by Hno. Gutierrez house and talked to him for a bit on how we can help the branch out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Friday- We had our district meeting and we shared personal experiences of when the spirit has lead us to someone who needed the gospel. I shared the time when Han Robles and I found Laura and in that time she really needed some uplifting message. We then had the challenge to always mention baptism in our contacts. Hna Soto and I were ready to take this challenge!! We then did some service at the Miranda's and then passed by Gabriel (a new investigator we found last week) but he wasn't interested at all to learn, so we just left and told him to keep the Book of Mormon. We then had dinner with the Valdez family and had a lesson with the Morelos family and finished teaching them about the plan of salvation and I really think this time Maria understands the gift that we have of the knowledge of the plan of salvation! We then went back to the Valdez family and had a lesson with them about sharing their favorite scriptures with their friends in need. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Saturday- In the morning we went to a relief society breakfast activity and Maria Morelos came!! And a lot of the Hermanas' talked to her :) We then finished planning and headed out to contact. So we tested out the challenge that our district leader gave us to mention baptism while contacting and guess what -- we found 2 new investigators!!! It was a miracle!! We then had a lesson with Carlos, and Bryan Rasch came with us and we taught him the first part of the plan of salvation and read with him about the role of the spirit. Something really awesome that happened in that lesson was that we asked Carlos how God shows his love to him and he told us that he is always protected and that he always feels that everything is going to be alright. Oh amazing! God really does love us and he will show his love toward us more and more as we recognize his role in our lives. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sunday- Church was great! Carlos came!! And I gave my testimony in sacrament meeting and I shared a scripture from the Book of Mormon - 3 Nephi 5:13 that says "<i>Behold, I am a disciple of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. I have been called of him to declare his word among his people, that they might have everlasting life</i>". I love this scripture because all of us are disciples of Christ and called to share this wonderful gospel with those around us. We then visited Patricia Durant and shared a quick message with her and she told us that she has been really missing church. That it is apart of her and she feels at home when she is at church. We then had a lesson with the Rasch family and they finished the 5 week program!! woo hoo! We then did some contacting and no one was home. But then we had a lesson with the Rojas and talked about fellowshipping. OH also, I hit 14 months!! CRAZY STUFF!!!!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well family, I am so grateful for your prayers and support. I can feel it everyday!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I hope you have a wonderful week and I will send some sunshine your way to melt all that snow!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Love you!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Love, Hermana Aase</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well this week was so much better! :) So much better! Like the best week of the transfer. The miracles of week 6!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well to first start out, I am staying again!! This will be transfer 5 here in Joshua! I am so happy to stay again. I love this area and we are going to see miracles this next transfer for sure! So by the end of this transfer it will be 7 1/2 months in the same place! Does it feel like that long, not really! But crazy thing is after this transfer ends, I will only have 2 more left...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Monday- We had a zone activity and we just ate food and played sports, soccer, football, volleyball and slack lining. We did a bit of contacting before dinner and the amazing thing is- IT DOESN'T GET DARK UNTIL 7!! I love it! We then ate dinner with the Rojas family and then had an FHE with Sheila and her family. We also started a theme within our district called #think20. We are doing this because most of the missionaries here are having trouble finding new investigators, so we had this in our minds all week to have more faith to find people. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Tuesday- We headed to some service in the morning and then contacted more before our lesson with Rosemary. With Rosemary, since she didn't come to church on Sunday, we had a drop talk with her- pretty much told her that we can't do anything more- she has to make her own decision to go to church or not. So we left her with the commitment to come to church and that once she comes to church then we can help her start preparing for baptism again. It was sad, but we can only do so much until someone has their own agency. We then had dinner with the Rasch family and then stopped by the Juarez family and shared a quick Mormon message about Hope from Pres Uchtdorf. And then we passed by a less active, Jeny Ortiz and read a scripture from Mosiah 24:14-15 about burdens and how Christ can really lift those burdens as we trust in him. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Wednesday- Not much happened this day, but #think20 is going on it's way! We found a new investigator!! His name is Arnold, <span style="color: black;"><span style="line-height: 18.7777786254883px;">he is a 28 year old with a daughter and came from Honduras. He has been catholic for his whole life, but he has a lot of questions about the Plan of Salvation and simple gospel things. He has never met missionaries before, but he let us share a message with him. So it was cool to talk about the gospel. And we are hoping that he will want to learn more! That night we were in charge of the relief society activity and we threw another birthday party and it was a blast! Of course, we are in Spanish work, so everyday is a party! :D But we had desserts and we played 2 truths and 1 lie. And then we played another game like the fruit basket called "Ha visto me chiva" (have you seen my goat) and you ask a person that and they respond with what someone is wearing and you can also just respond with making a goat sound! Yeah, imagine all these older Hispanic women making <wbr></wbr>goats noises and running around the room trying to get a seat before someone else. FUNNY!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18.7777786254883px;"><span style="color: black;">Thursday- We had a lesson with a potential named Susie- another #think20. Sh</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="line-height: 18.7777786254883px;">e is a single mom of 4 boys, and is friends with a member in our ward- Shelia, and that is actually how we got to start teaching her. She has been taught by missionaries before, but didn't really have time with work and her MS disease. But this time she wants us to come and teach her. We are excited for her and to see her progress. We taught her half of the Restoration because we spent the first half of the lesson getting to know her and telling her what we do as missionies. We then went and visited Rosaura to say hi. We then planned for week 1 of the next transfer...! what?? Yeah, its happening. We then were contacting later that day and we knocked on a guy's house. His name is Carlos, </span></span><span style="line-height: 18.7777786254883px;"><span style="color: black;">he is a younger guy and has been through a hard life, but has now been sober and reading the bible more and when we knocked on his door we talked about the Book Of Mormon and he said that he wants to know if this book is true. He loves to read and we are excited to keep teaching him and help him understand the gospel more and more. So </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="line-height: 18.7777786254883px;">he let us sit outside and teach him more! And he accepted to be baptized and he has a baptismal date for April 25th. That night our lesson canceled with Pedro because he wasn't back from work yet, so we stopped by Hna Harding and shared a message with her from PMG. </span></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple; font-family: inherit;">"Anyone who does any kind of missionary work will have occasion to ask, Why is this so hard? Why doesn't it go better? Why can’t our success be more rapid? Why aren't there more people joining the Church? It is the truth. We believe in angels. We trust in miracles. Why don’t people just flock to the font? Why isn't the only risk in missionary work that of pneumonia from being soaking wet all day and all night in the baptismal font? You will have occasion to ask those questions. I have thought about this a great deal. I offer this as my personal feeling. I am convinced that missionary work is not easy because salvation is not a cheap experience. Salvation never was easy. We are The Church of Jesus Christ, this is the truth, and He is our Great Eternal Head. How could we believe it would be easy for us when it was never, ever easy for Him? It seems to me that missionaries and mission leaders have to spend at least a few moments in Gethsemane. Missionaries and mission leaders have to take at least a step or two toward the summit of Calvary. Now, please don’t misunderstand. I’m not talking about anything anywhere near what Christ experienced. That would be presumptuous and sacrilegious. But I believe that missionaries and investigators, to come to the truth, to come to salvation, to know something of this price that has been paid, will have to pay a token of that same price. For that reason I don’t believe missionary work has ever been easy, nor that conversion is, nor that retention is, nor that continued faithfulness is. I believe it is supposed to require some effort, something from the depths of our soul. If He could come forward in the night, kneel down, fall on His face, bleed from every pore, and cry, “Abba, Father (Papa), if this cup can pass, let it pass,” then little wonder that salvation is not a whimsical or easy thing for us. If you wonder if there isn't an easier way, you should remember you are not the first one to ask that. Someone a lot greater and a lot grander asked a long time ago if there wasn't an easier way. The Atonement will carry the missionaries perhaps even more importantly than it will carry the investigators. When you struggle, when you are rejected, when you are spit upon and cast out and made a hiss and a byword, you are standing with the best life this world has ever known, the only pure and perfect life ever lived. You have reason to stand tall and be grateful that the Living Son of the Living God knows all about your sorrows and afflictions. The only way to salvation is through Gethsemane and on to Calvary. The only way to eternity is through Him—the Way, the Truth, and the Life." </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I love this talk. It has changed my mind and helped me really understand the power of the atonement. And then I shared the scripture in 3 Nephi 18 5-10 about bringing other unto Christ. As we bring others unto Christ and help them understand the atonement, we at the same time will better understand the atonement. We then contacted a bit and found another new investigator! His name is Gabriel- <span style="color: black;"><span style="line-height: 18.7777786254883px;">he is an older guy and has been taught by missionaries before, we are not sure how interested he is, so we will be going back this next week and seeing if he wants to continue learning. He likes to talk and ask lots of questions.</span><span style="line-height: 18.7777786254883px;"> We then ate dinner with the Alvarez family and then had a lesson with them and read some of Alma 5 about really being prepared for when we see God. That night we had a lesson with the Morelos family and talked about the spirit world and the importance and power that it is to do the work of our dead in Holy temples of God. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18.7777786254883px;">Sunday- Church was good, we sadly didn't have anyone come. Aida was going to but then her ride couldn't go to church and then she wasn't ready for church when we stopped by...bummer. And then guess who came to the branch!??!!? HERMANA LAU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<wbr></wbr>!!!!! So I saw her coming into the church building and I ran down the hall and gave her the biggest hug ever!!!! I have missed that girl so much and it was so good to see her again. We then had a party/dinner at the Gutierrez for Hermana Lau and her family and then we left and contacted a bit and stopped by Carlos and had a lesson with him about the 5 principles of the gospel. And then that night we had a lesson with the Rasch family and the Rojas family. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18.7777786254883px;">Well family, I am loving my time here. I have been through hard times, but I have also been through great times. I have learned a lot and have more things to learn. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well this past week was better, a little bit more exciting, but I can't believe it is already the end of the transfer...where did the last 6 weeks go!?!?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Monday- We had a fun district activity, that was a NURF GUN war! It was fun! We set up tables in the gym and all had guns and pretty much just shot each other with darts! I was really bad, but it was still fun to watch the other missionaries. We played it like real life, so if you got shot in the arm - you lost that arm, or if you got shot in the leg you had to limp around. That night we ate dinner with the Juarez family and then had an FHE with them and taught them about the word of wisdom! After that we headed over to Sheila's and had a lesson with them and helped them share the gospel more with their friends. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Tuesday- I hit my 1 year in the field today! Crazy that a year ago I left the Mexico MTC and headed for the real deal! I am glad that phase is over, it was quite nerve wracking! haha. But we had a lesson with Esmeralda, she is a less active, and we talked about how we can help her daughter Rosemary get to church and then we shared a little bit from talk from Conference about keeping the commandments. After that we passed by Rosaura's, and she sadly told us that Maura (her daughter) and her son in law don't want us to come over any more because they think we are stealing, which is crazy. Rosaura was really sad and started to cry because we couldn't come over anymore. But we told her that we were going to stop by another time before she headed back to Mexico. We then had a lesson with Rosemary and read Ether 2-3 with her and talked about agency and how she has the choice to go to church or not, or to read or not, or to get baptized or not. But she must make that decision and follow it to reach her goals. That night we ate dinner with Hna Roman and then headed to the Alvarez family...but funny story, so we are running late and they called us to see where we were and they said they were waiting for us to...EAT DINNER!!...we got there and they had this huge dinner prepared...so that night we ate 2 dinners, and we were so full and felt so sick afterwards...haha. Life of a Spanish missionary...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Wednesday- We headed up to MLC that morning and learned some really awesome things. A couple things they trained us on was faith. It seems that our mission is going through a rough patch with Faith, so we talked about how we can raise our faith and that we all must personally re-evaluate our faith. Also we talked about how to get our investigators at church because that is one of the hardest things to accomplish in missionary work. Later we shared a quick message with Hna Rodriguez about the Book of Mormon. Before dinner we did a bit of contacting and we had a referral named George and we found him at home and talked to him for awhile and simply shared the restoration and gave him a Book of Mormon! We are hoping to begin teaching him in the coming week. We then ate dinner at Hna America's and shared the restoration, which lasted an hour...haha. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thursday- We did our planning for week 6!! CRAZY how fast the transfer went by...like I don't get it anymore! We ate dinner with the Lara family and then contacted another referral named Susie- she is Sheila's friend and we got a return apt with her! We then passed by and taught Melanie (she is a 15 year old girl who got baptized about 2 years ago). And we also read with her in Ether 2-3, and something that has really stuck out to me in these 2 chapters is that God isn't always going to give us the answer to our prayers or questions, but he wants us to come to him with what we think is right and then he will let us know if it is right or not. What an </span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;">awesome lesson we can learn from the Book of Mormon. We then had a lesson with Pedro! And we were helping him share his favorite Book of Mormon scripture with those who are going through a tough time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Friday- We had ZTM this morning and Hna Soto and I gave a training on using family history work to find new investigators. We then contacted until dinner and found out that a few of our less actives don't live there anymore, but we found a couple potentials that said we could come back and share a message with them! We ate dinner with the Ramirez family and then had a lesson with the Morelos family and we taught about the fall of Adam and Eve, about agency, and then about the atonement of Jesus Christ. It was such a good lesson!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Saturday- We did some service at the Hilton's house- we were pulling weeds, and there were a bunch of spiders..so I was screaming a lot..haha. We then had a lesson with Chris Parra and it was so good! He is changing so much and has such a strong desire to be better and get to the temple. We contacted a bit before dinner with Hna Arnold. After dinner we made some church calls to get our investigators at church and then we had our coordination meeting with Hno. Gutierrez. And quickly before we headed home we passed by Hna Ponce de Leon, but she was already sleeping. So we didn't get to talk with her. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sunday- Well sadly no one showed up for church. It was disappointing because we were planning on 3 of our investigators on coming, and they didn't. We ate an early dinner and then contacted for an hour or so and we talked to this really cool guy named Saul, he knows a lot about the church and was asking us some questions. We then had a lesson with the Rasch family and had them do role plays to feel more comfortable in member present lessons. Members are so essential. I can't say that enough. There is something more powerful when members share their testimonies than the missionaries. MEMBERS must be involved! We then passed by Pedro and talked to him for a little bit and then we had a lesson with the Rojas family. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well family, the mission is a time to grow and learn. To grow your faith and to let it shine. There will always be hard time, but we have our Savior Jesus Christ and his atonement to help us and to lift us. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I love you all and I am so grateful to know you and to have your support.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Have a wonderful week and I will talk to you next week!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Con amor, Hermana Aase </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This past week was a little rough again...our appts fell through with almost all of our investigators because of some cold virus going around. BOO VIRUSES!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Monday- We didn't get to play sports with the Elders, so we made other plans! We went to Goodwill and I found a skirt and new shoes for $12! That night we had 2 of our appts cancel, so we contacted a potential that the Elders found for us and we talked with him for a while, but come to find out that he isn't quite ready for religion and all that. So we will check back up on him in a few months. We then stopped by Rosemary to see how she was and talked to her for a bit. And then we passed by a family in the branch and we shared with them Luke 15 about the lost sheep and rescuing those who have fallen away from Christ. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Tuesday- We started our exchange with Hna Poole, Han Usher and Hna Cartwright. I was with Hna Poole and Hna Usher - guess what that means?? THE OLDEST HERMANAS' ARE BACK TOGETHER AGAIN! It was a good time! We contacted in an area that we hadn't been before...no one was home, but we still tried! We then walked like 8 blocks because Hna Soto and Han Cartwright had the car and were in a lesson a little bit longer than normal and we had interviews to get to. So we walked to a members house and switched back quick and then headed to interviews. Interviews went well! A question President Wilson asked me in my interview was "what was the hardest thing going from a non missionary to a missionary?", and I told him not being able to talk to my family everyday, or text them. A cell phone, yeah that was hard at first, but that doesn't matter, and movies and music, I got over that quick. But talking and being with my family, that was and is the hardest part for me. He told me that I must have a great family and I smiled and said "yes, they are the greatest!" We then headed to dinner with the Alvarez family and sadly our night appts fell through, so we passed by the Juarez family and had an FHE with them. Even though our appts fell through, it was a good exchange and great to be back with old companions!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Wednesday- We ended our exchange and ate lunch with our hermanas' and our afternoon appts fell through, so we contacted a little bit before we headed to Rosemary's lesson. With Rosemary we went over her baptismal calendar and talked about things that she needs to do before her baptism on the 28th of March. We then had all our appts before dinner cancel, so that was not fun! We just contacted and talked to a few people. That night we went to the Relief Society activity and talked with some of our less actives. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thursday- We ate lunch with Sister Hilton and then we started AND finished planning. We planned out in the sun again :) it felt super nice! And then after dinner we contacted a bit and passed by a few potentials and then had a lesson with Pedro about sharing his favorite scripture in the Book of Mormon with those going through a hard time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Friday- District meeting was great! We learned that if we have the Love of God with us we have a 101% chance of succeeding in life. Wealth, looks, talent, etc won't make us succeed. But the love of God will. After district meeting we ate lunch with the daughter of my grandparents friends. She told us about her mission in Guatemala and it was cool to hear her Spanish too from so long ago. After that our afternoon appts cancelled as well...so we contacted until dinner with the Valdez family. After dinner we stayed and did role play practices with them so they can feel more comfortable sharing the gospel. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Saturday- We did some service at Sister Hilton's and helped clean a part of her house and we jammed out to Jenny Phillips! It was a lot of fun haha. I call Hna Soto and I the "Professional missionary house cleaners!" We then had our appts cancel again, so we stopped by Rosaura and had a quick lesson with her about the sacrament and the importance of going to church and then we passed by Rosemary and Aida's to invite them and see if they were planning on coming to church. They both are planning on it! So we are crossing our fingers. We then ate dinner with the Quinteros and after that had coordination meeting and then ran by Sheila's and got a referral from her! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sunday- well, no one showed up for church today :( sad day! We were so looking forward to seeing our investigators came and then they didn't come...After church and our studies, we had a lesson with the Rasch family and did the same thing we did with Pedro, we had them share their favorite Book of Mormon scripture with a friend going through a hard time. We then taught a cool guy named Edwin! He didn't become a new investigator because he didn't make a return appt and didn't want to get confused with the church he just started going to, but we know that he will get baptized sometime in the future! He has a lot of faith and is curious to know more. We ate dinner with the Parra's and then had a lesson with Presidente Rojas and his family and we started the 5 week program with them and did role plays to help them share the gospel more simply. And we celebrated their daughter Korina's birthday! We sang happy birthday and ate cupcakes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I hope all of you are safe, healthy, and happy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh and guess what, I hit my year mark of being IN the field tomorrow! Crazy how fast time flies!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">What a wonderful day today it is...it is a whole 50 degrees outside and I am dying...! What am I going to do when I get home and it hits winter...? But it is supposed to be warming up this weekend. So fingers crossed! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This past week was SOO, SOO much better. Like 3x better than the first 2 weeks put together. We had a great week of meeting and having lessons with our investigators and finding new people to teach!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Monday- Well, the Zone Activity that we had was SUPER fun! We went to this backyard giant play ground! It was cool! They also had a trampoline so I got to jump and flip on that. I was in heaven for sure! But, my body was hurting later..haha. That night we had a lesson with Miguel and we read more in the Book of Mormon and helped him see the importance of daily reading. We then had our other appts cancelled, so we went to a potential named Mary, and she was home! And she had her friend there, so we got to teach her and her friend! We then stopped by a members house, and invited her to a lesson we had with an investigator. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Tuesday- We headed over to the soup kitchen and did service there, but guess what?! NO one showed up to volunteer in the kitchen, so Hna Soto and I took care of the WHOLE kitchen by ourselves!! Stressful?...just a tad! We then passed by a members, Hna Rodriguez, and shared a short message with her. And then we headed to a different street and contacted until dinner time. After dinner we passed by another members house and shared a message about the lost sheep parable in Luke 15. I love this parable, because we, at one point in life, have been lost, but others and the Savior can help us come back to the fold and be happy and safe. After that we had a lesson with Sheila and her family. We are starting to do a 5 week program with some active families, less active families, and recent converts in the branch. The program is to help them feel more comfortable sharing the gospel with their friends and family. We did a role play with Sheila and her family about sharing the message of the Restoration in 3 minutes. That was a blast!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Wednesday- Was a busy busy day! We had a lesson with Rosaura in the morning and we talked about the importance of baptism and we set her with a baptismal date for March 21, right before she heads back to Mexico. We then had a lesson with Rosemary and we talked about the power of fasting and prayer. And we talked to her about how she is feeling about baptism, and she still feels good about it, so we decided to pray with her and help her pick a date. While praying she felt sometime in March, so then we prayed again, and she felt the 28th of March, so we prayed one last time to have her confirm for that date and she just smiled and said "yes, this is the day"! The spirit was really strong in that lesson and we were so happy! We hope and pray that she will be baptized at the end of March! After that lesson we did a bit of contacting before our lesson with Aida. With Aida we taught about the importance of going to church, praying and reading. We call this CPR - just as CPR revives your heart when you stop breathing, going to church, praying and reading revive your spirit when it is down. Aida then told us that she wanted to come to church! So we hope to see her on Sunday! We then ate a quick dinner and headed to a lesson we had scheduled with a potential named Andres. He was waiting for us to come when we got there! Who does that?? We taught him the Restoration and he had a few questions but committed to read the Book of Mormon. And lastly we visited the Alvarez family because Hna Soto hadn't met them yet, and we talked and then shared the parable of the lost sheep. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thursday- We didn't have such a busy day, but our appt with Rosaura got cancelled, so we tried to visit a couple of Hna Arnold's friends that she wants to share the gospel with, but none were home. We then sat outside on our balcony and planned in the sun! It felt so good to feel the sun on my skin. That night we stopped by Enrique and Claudia to see what was going on because we haven't seem them in 2 weeks. Enrique was sleeping, but we got to talk to Claudia for a bit and see how she is feeling. She told us that she isn't ready to commit and change religions, but would still like to learn. It was good to see her and she what she was feeling. That night we headed over to Pedro's and did the 5 week program with him and it was so much fun!! He was getting mad cause we were quizzing him on the lesson, but he got to role play and practice sharing the gospel. I am sure I say this about Pedro every time we have a lesson with him, but he is so awesome!! He is growing and everything!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Friday- We headed to District meeting and I had the training for it and I talked first about being personable, with all that we come in contact with- so smiling, being open, asking questions, and the most important, listening. Listening is key and if we don't listen to our investigators or members, then they wont be as open to telling us what they are thinking or feeling. And then the other thing I trained on was attitude. Now, I always feel like when you are assigned a talk in training, it is more for you then those you are teaching...haha. But I talked about how we need to have that positive attitude all the time in missionary work, we are doing the Lord's work, that should give us joy right!? What I like to think is, "happy attitude = good things to come." After lunch we started our exchange with Hna Meacham and Hna Flood. I was with Hna Flood and we started the day out with contacting. We met this guy named Tino and we talked with him for like 45 minutes about church and the gospel. We are planning on going back for sure! We then contacted a bit more before we went to dinner, and then after dinner we stopped by a former investigator's and talked to her for a little bit and made an appt with her! Then we had a lesson with Maria Morelos and we taught about the Atonement and what it can do for us in our lives right now. It was a good lesson where our Spanish was being tested for sure! haha. Lastly we went to a lesson with the Valdez family and did the 5 week program with them as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Saturday- We got out and contacted a little bit, and then the Hermana's left to go back to their area, and we contacted for the afternoon. Before dinner the bike elders in our branch did a blitz in our area and helped us find a couple more people to teach and talk to. After dinner we passed by Hna Paty and talked to her about family history work, had correlation, and then tried to visit a couple investigator, but none were home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sunday- Aida came to church!! And she loved it! We were so happy she came. After church we had a lesson with the Rasch family and started the 5 week program with them as well, and it was really fun to watch them do role plays and to practice sharing the gospel with their friends. After that we did a bit of contacting and talked to a few people. Later that night we visited the Rojas family and shared with them what this 5 week program is all about and invited them to do it as well, and then we shared a quick message with them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">All in all it was a much better week! We are excited for this week! We have exchanges and interviews with President. So, it should be fun!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Can you believe that I only have 5 months left...NOT COOL! haha. But "come what may and love it" right? I just gotta love and cherish every moment here. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Love, Hermana Aase</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Monday- After emailing we did shopping and had a bit of time to relax at home before we came back to the church and played sports with the other missionaries. We then ate dinner with the Rasch family. Sadly our 6 and 7 o'clock appts cancelled, so we ended up contacting a bit and then we had FHE with Sheila and her family. We read Ephesians 6:11-18 about the armor of God and drew a lovely picture with it. After that we had our "refreshments" and Hna Soto decided to warm hers up in the microwave, but forgot about it, and 3 minutes later there was smoke coming out of the microwave...haha. We opened all the windows and doors and let the house air out. It was pretty funny. The whole bottom of the dish was melted...Good times, good times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Tuesday- We did service with Miguel and helped him clean up his yard and then we had a lesson with him and read in the Book of Mormon. We then contacted for pretty much the rest of the night until our appt with Claudia and Enrique was cancelled, so we headed over to a friend or Hno. Gutierrez and we taught him about the Restoration and it was a spiritual lesson! He is interested and already had a Book of Mormon. After that we ran by Hna. Ponce de Leon and shared the Armor of God with her as well. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Wednesday- the definition of Wednesday was contacting...having our appts cancelled..and more contacting. BUT we found some really awesome people who want us to come back. God has a different plan for us, and it is our responsibility to align our will with God's. That night we had a lesson with Chris about the power of the Atonement and it was, like always a good lesson. He is changing more and more every time we go over there! It is so awesome to see! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thursday- We had a companion study with the AP's and we did this really cool role play where we were contacting people and we had to talk to them about other things for 5 minutes before we introduced ourselves. It was fun! I love just talking to people, it is a lot more natural and easy flowing. Who would have thought! We then stopped by and visited a less active for a little bit and then headed home to plan! That night we had a lesson with the Valdez family about baptism. The youngest daughter is turning 8 this summer, so she is getting ready to be baptized. SO the lesson was more for her...funny thing is is that she fell asleep haha. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Friday- We had district meeting in the morning and we did a similar role play where we got to know the person first and then shared a small gospel message. And then guess what we did..CONTACTED! haha. But here is a funny story for you all, we knocked on this guys door and no one answered, so we knocked again...a second later this guy pops his head out of the top window and he is shirtless and is like "I am busy right now, so it isn't a good time!"...so we asked if we could come back another time, and he was like "I am busy right now, so it isn't a good time..." The funny people we find here in Lancaster...haha. Our appts later that day were cancelled, so we picked a couple streets and knocked doors and we found a few interested people so that was a miracle! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Saturday- Valentines day! The holiday that means nothing to missionaries..haha. But we contacted all day, and the good things was because it was valentines day, they were all nice to us! Win win for us! Hna Soto and I took ourselves out to eat and then we got some ice cream, thanks to my grandma :) And then we had a lesson with Pedro, and we also taught him about the armor of God. He enjoyed it! Like most people do. haha</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sunday- Sadly we didn't have any investigators come to church, but we had a guy named Mario that we met while tracting come to church! And he brought his friend..who didn't know any Spanish..so I translated...(well, tried to translate) sacrament meeting for him. He said that is was good. He has never met/talked with missionaries before, so it was a really cool experience to just share a bit of what we believe with him. Later we had a lesson with the Rasch's before dinner about family responsibilities and we watched a Mormon message called "Heavenly Father, earthly father". If you haven't seen it, I am telling you to see it! It is such a good message! That night we had a hard time finding people at home, but we made it through!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well, I hope all is well with you! I am doing good! Just pushing on every day. I love what I am doing and it is crazy to think that I only have 5 months left!... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thank you for all the support and prayers, I can feel them for sure on those hard days. </span></div>
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Hermana Maren Aasehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040080304683311791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988860452708514114.post-26825596407462557492015-02-10T11:46:00.002-07:002015-02-10T11:46:24.817-07:00"Sal solcito calientame poquito"<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">Good Morning family! Can I just say that today didn't come fast enough! But that I am excited for this next week to be better! Heads up, this letter is very short! Not much happened.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Tuesday- We headed off to transfer meeting and Hna Lau left to head for the airport and I pretty much sat and cried through the whole meeting...did I try and hold it back...not really. Haha. I just didn't have the energy to. We got back to Lancaster and went over plans and then headed to our lessons with Claudia and Enrique. We taught them the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and set them with baptismal dates of March 28. They are prepared, but it will take a little time to get them to church and all that jazz. After that we went grocery shopping and unpacked. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Wednesday- We had our Mission Leadership Meeting and Elder Garns from the Seventy came and talked to us about working with members. It was good! And there were a ton of new faces, so it was cool! We got back and headed to a lesson with Chris and talked about fasting and the blessing of that. It was a super good lesson! And then we met some of the members so Hna Soto could meet them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thursday- We contacted in the day because all our appointments fell through, and then we planned for most of the day. After dinner we stopped by the Gutierrez family so Han Soto could meet them as well, and then we planned for ZTM.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Friday- ZTM, and it was good! Hna Soto is a natural at presenting! We talked about gaining the trust of the members. Later that afternoon we had a lesson with the Morelos family and talked about the Plan of Salvation. They are seriously progressing so much! It is so exciting to see! We then ate dinner and had a lesson with the Valdez family and then finished planning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Saturday- was FULL of knocking doors and no one talking to us. So yeah. But I learned a song from Han Soto that comes from the Inca's (from Peru). It goes like this, "Sal solcito calientame un poquite por hoy y manana, por toda la semana..." The Inca's would sing this when the sun was hiding and it was supposed to make the sun come out. We tried this and it worked!! :) haha. That night we had a short lesson with Melanie and then had correlation and talked with Presidente Rojas for a bit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sunday- Church was good! Maria Morelos came to church! And she told us that the next week she was going to come and stay all 3 hours! After church we had a lesson with Maria Reynosa about the Plan of Salvation. After dinner we found Miguel at home!! So we read with him in the Book of Mormon! He is still doing good, he is just super busy with work so it is hard for him to come home. We did a bit of contacting and then visited Hna Harding from the ward and showed her how to share Mormon messages on her FB. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So about my companion. She has been out about 7 months. She was born and raised until 10 in Peru and then her family moved to Florida. She is 24, graduated from college with a bachelors in psychology. She has helped me a ton so far with my Spanish. She is an amazing missionary and I am excited to work with her here in Joshua! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thank you for all the love and support! Can't believe it is February...and then it'll be March. The weather is getting warmer and that makes me happy! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Also, will you all pray for Chad Newey. He is my best friend and had a bad accident last week and is in the hospital with head injury. </span></div>
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Hermana Maren Aasehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040080304683311791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988860452708514114.post-41925123735281351282015-02-10T11:38:00.005-07:002015-02-10T11:38:52.615-07:00#I'mtheonlyonewhospeaksspanish...!<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">Well family, can you believe another transfer has come and gone? It just feels like it was the beginning of December...nope...it is February now! This past week was crazy busy, but an amazing way to end the transfer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Monday- For our p-day activity we went down to Palmdale and went to the swap meet! It wasn't as cool as I was expecting, but I still found a California sweatshirt! That night, our FHE with the Juarez family cancelled because they were all sick, so we passed by a less active, and then ran by Hna Gutierrez house to explain more in detail about the activity we were planning. And then right before going we passed by Sheila's house and got a referral from her. Her friend is moving into the same apt complex and she wants us to help her move/teach her!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Tuesday- We did service in the morning, thank heavens we did not get bible bashed this time! After that we had a short lesson with a lady in the ward and we read and talked about the Articles of Faith. Each time I read those I realize how easy and basic our beliefs are, and how easy it is to share it with our friends. We then ran to the Gutierrez home again, but this time we taught Hna Gutierrez how to bake a delicious, but easy cake. Well, we then continued to run around like crazy, and we contacted a bit before dinner, and then after dinner we had a super good lesson with Claudia, which we brought Hna Gutierrez with us and she shared with Claudia all her experiences and how the gospel has helped her and has changed her family. Claudia just sat there in amazement...the spirit was there really strong. We then passed by a member to prep her for a lesson the next day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Wednesday- We had the chiropractor in the morning and then treated ourselves to Jamba Juice because we weren't going home for lunch. We had a lesson with Pedro where we finished talking about the Plan of Salvation. Pedro is so awesome!! Every time we teach him I just get so happy inside. We then ran to Rosaura's and had a lesson with her, we read in Enos about prayer and invited her to pray about baptism and whether it was something she needs to do. After that we contacted a bit before our lesson with Rosemary. We read the talk "Let your Faith Show" by Elder Nelson, and she really enjoyed that. We then ran to our next lesson with Aida and FREAK she is so awesome. She read the introduction and the testimonies of the Prophet...no one does that! But she has such a strong desire to learn. After that we had dinner and then stopped by a member to prep her for a lesson.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thursday- Not a lot happened...thank heavens. After Tuesday and Wednesday Hna Lau and I were both dead. haha We (well I) planned while Hna Lau packed. Something that we discovered was it takes half the time to plan when you are by yourself then when you are planning with your companion haha. We then ate dinner with Hna Arnold and she fed us the MOST AMAZING verde enchilada...we both ate 5...well I almost ate 5. I couldn't finish...haha. They were so good, but I was so full after that! We then headed to have a lesson with Claudia and Enrique, but they had unexpected company arrive, so we rescheduled it, and then stopped and visited a couple less actives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Friday- We were up early, and got Hna Lau off to the departing temple trip. So for the day I was with Sis Winnie, which her companion was also at the temple. We had district meeting and then did some contacting and found a ton of cool Spanish potentials #<wbr></wbr>thatmomentwhenyouaretheonlyone<wbr></wbr>whocanspeakspanishinthecompani<wbr></wbr>onship. It was a good experience! We then headed to the west side of Lancaster where Sis.Winnie's area was and visited a few less actives over there. Hna Lau got back and we headed to dinner and then had a great lesson with Maria Morelos about the 10 commandments. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Saturday- We ate lunch with the Alvarez, and she made bombing awesome empandas! We were full, let's just say that! After that we contacted a bit and found a really cool potential that wants us to come back and teach her. After that we had a lesson with Chris about obedience and tithing. Something that my companion brought up that I have never noticed is that one of the blessings of paying tithing is that we will have more power to overcome temptation. It is amazing to know what blessings we can receive when we keep the commandments. We then ran and ate dinner with the Miranda Family and then ran to the church to get things all set up for the branch activity! We had a fantastic turn out! Lots of the members came and less actives and brought friends! We had a blast and we laughed A TON!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sunday- Church was amazing. It was a good testimony meeting, and guess what I got up and bore my testimony IN SPANISH!! And I think everyone understood me! (hopefully). ALSO!!! PEDRO BLESSED THE SACRAMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<wbr></wbr>!!! Hna Lau and I were about in tears, we were so excited for him :) The rest of the night we ran by a bunch of members so Han Lau could say bye. Pedro threw her a party, and we ate super yummy sopes! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well family, I will be here again in Joshua. My new companion is from Peru (well she lives in Florida now), and her name is Hna Soto :) I am excited to work with her and learn more Spanish!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I love you all and I hope that all is well with you :)</span></div>
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Hermana Maren Aasehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040080304683311791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988860452708514114.post-83169332444861452462015-02-10T11:25:00.003-07:002015-02-10T11:25:26.163-07:001 Year out and loving every mintue<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Good morning my wonderful family and friends!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This past week was a SUPER DUPER good week for a whole bunch of reasons :) So you wanna know why!? Well here we go --</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Monday- We had our normal p-day festivities, sports and emailing and shopping! We then had dinner with the Quinteros family and then had an FHE (well we taught how to do an FHE) with Maria Roman and that was good! She wanted to do them with her family, which her daughter and husband aren't members, so it is a great missionary moment! We then had a wonderful lesson with Pedro! We taught him the Plan of Salvation and seriously, I am so happy when we teach Pedro - He is my PRIDE AND JOY!! I kinda know how it feels to have a child that does good things :) haha. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Tuesday- Was a bit of a slower day, but it was still good. We did service at the Homeless shelter making bags of groceries. Oh and guess what happened...this lady started to bible bash with us...! Hna Lau and I just looked at each other and were like, "this is not the place or time we wanted to have a bible bash / we aren't going to bash back, that's not what we do," so we tried to answer her questions and then went back to bagging donuts. The rest of that day was full of contacting and no one opening their doors...But then we had dinner with the Rojas family and got to talk about missionary work!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Wednesday- The day started out a lot better! We talked with Nury and got things set up for the branch activity this upcoming Saturday (1/31). We then had a lesson with Rosauara and we brought Hna Arnold with us and they were a perfect match! We talked about faith and baptism and how she can receive the peace she wants through baptism and receiving the Holy Ghost. We then had a lesson with Aida and we had Hna Paty there with us. She was a perfect fit! We taught the restoration and Aida understood all of it and told us that she really wants to learn and read the Book of Mormon. AH! It was such a good lesson. We then ran to dinner with a less active and she fed us yummy pupusas! And then we headed over to the church for the Relief Society activity, sadly it was zumba, so we couldn't dance along, but we watched and talked to the members there! After that, we had a lesson with Patricia (a less active) and made scarves and talked about how she can share the gospel. </span></div>
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(<i>Hna Usher and I celebrating our 1 year mark!</i>)</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thursday- MY 1 YEAR MARK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<wbr></wbr>!!!!!!!!! Oh my goodness! I can't believe that I hit my one year mark. That whole day I couldn't wrap my mind around the fact that I have been out a year. Every day after this one I would have been a missionary already! okay okay, enough with my year mark rant! The day was one of the best days ever! We had a lesson with a less active, Esmeralda (Rosemary's mom) and that was great. We read the talk "Yes, Lord I Will Follow Thee" and she enjoyed that! We then ate lunch with another less active Ana Gutierrez, and guess what she fed us...breakfast burritos...with tons of eggs...I just about died haha! But Heavenly Father blessed me that I couldn't taste the eggs...thank heavens! haha. I lasted a year on my mission without eating eggs. I say that is pretty good! We then met our sisters (Hna Usher and Meacham) at gelato and then we had a chiropractor appt. After that we ran to a lesson with Rosemary and we read in the Book of Mormon with her and she told us that she has been praying about a baptismal date and she told us sometime in February! :) We then had dinner with the Morelos family and celebrated Thalia's birthday! They are becoming a lot more comfortable with us!!! After that we had a lesson with Claudia (the new investigator that we found last week) and we talked to her about our purpose as missionaries and she told us that she just wants to learn because she knows that this will help her and her family. After that we ran to Pedro's house and we had a lesson with him and read about the priesthood in D&C 84.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Friday- In the morning we had desayuno (brunch) with Hna Arnold. She fed us tamales, lemon cake, and champurrado (hot chocolate). It was filling for sure! We then headed to district meeting. After that we passed by Miguel's house and guess what -- HE WAS HOME!!! FINALLY!!! We read with him in the Book of Mormon and saw how interested he still is (which he is!) He has just been super busy with work. We had a lesson with Rosaura...that was an alright lesson. Not the direction we wanted it to go, but we got to watch the Restoration DVD and she thought it was good. Hopefully she will pray about our message. She told us she didn't want to be baptized right now, but maybe in the future. Then we planned, since we had no time on Thursday to plan! That night we had a lesson with the Valdez family and talked about family responsibilities. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Saturday- We had a lesson with Chris in the morning and read Alma 18-19 about the story of King Lamoni and his conversion to the gospel and how we can change our lives around no matter what happened in the past. We then went contacting and started talking to this guy named Juan...he went on for an hour without letting us talk...haha. It was...fun. We then did some more planning and had correlation. </span></div>
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(<i>Joshua District (Hna Lau, Hna Aase, Elder Johnson, Elder Meacham (on the floor), Elder Warby, Elder Hullinger, Elder Willyerd, and Elder Holt)</i>)</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sunday- CHURCH CHURCH CHURCH!! Church was wonderful today! We prayed this morning for Maria Morelos and her family to come to church and at the last minute MARIA walked in! And she stayed for two hours and she liked it a lot! :) we are super happy! We then ate dinner with the Rasch family and then had a lesson with the Alvarez family and that was fun! And then we stopped by the Rodriguez family and shared a quick message about missionary work. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well family and friends, I sure do love and miss you all! I hope that you are staying warm! Thank you for all the love and support over the past year. I have loved every minute and am so excited to see what my mission brings for the last 6 months. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I have a testimony of this gospel, it is true and it has brought me so much comfort and joy. I know that the Book of Mormon is true. I have come to know that my Savior lives and loves me dearly. I love teaching people and helping them come to know that they have a Heavenly Father that loves them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Have a great week!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Love, Hermana Aase</span></div>
Hermana Maren Aasehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040080304683311791noreply@blogger.com0