Called to Serve!!

Called to Serve!!
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Monday, January 25, 2016

La Muerte

well....I can´t believe this day´s arrived...i leave Coyhaique tomorrow, i´ll be in puerto montt that night, then wednesday we have our final dinner/devotional, then thursday i´ll be in santiago and i get to go to the temple there and then i´m off! 
This past week was a week of miracles, i´m so grateful God heard our prayers and blessed us with our desires.  I was so determined to work until the end and i was trying not to get discouraged cuz the past few weeks were rough cuz all our investigators had left on vacations and so were weren´t teaching very many people.  Our new goal as a mission is to have 21 formal lessons every week.  i prayed so hard these past few weeks and i know that God heard our prayers.  this last week we found so many new people and yesterday as we arrived home, we realized that we had taught our 21 lessons for the week, the majority with members!  I couldn´t be more content to leave the sector now that its progessing so much :)     

random funny story...i was reading eliza´s email and it made me laugh, and as i laughed i slapped the table that i´m at, and the part of the desk where the keyboard and mouse slide out suddenly broke and everything fell crashing to the ground leaving me stunned and then dying of laughing with everyone in the room staring at me...

I feel like my heart is being torn in 2.  During the week i was actually super calm and was able to work harder than ever without even thinking about time.  but then yesterday i about died in church as i had to give my farewell talk and then sing.  then in the classes....In sunday school the lesson was ¨missionary work¨  and so the whole class they´re talking about the importance of missionaries and how special our role is and such and of course the whole class i´m sitting there trying not to cry as i think ¨next week i won´t be a missionary...i don´t want to go home¨.  then we enter relief society where they talked about elder holland´s last general conference talk ¨here is your mother¨  and they talk about mothers and their love and sacrifice and such and i just sat there literally torn in 2, wanting to see mom so badly but not wanting to leave the mission at the same time... haha, i feel like i´ve turned bipolar recently...So yeah, i´ll just continue on, enjoying whatever life throws my way. I love the mission with all my heart but its gonna end and there´s nothing i can do, so i´ve just got to accept it and seguir adelante, enjoying every moment :)

      
Bueno, no quiero salir de la misión, yo creo que ya lo saben. estoy tan agradecida por el tiempo que tuve servir una misión.  Yo amo la misión con todo mi corazón.  Nunca he sentido tan cerca al Señor que ahora.  Espero que sepan que yo sé que mi Salvador vive, que está en cada momento porque él vive.  Nunca nos deja solo.  Yo he sentido su mano tantos veces en mi vida, su espíritu ha manifestado la verdad a mi mientras yo enseñe el mensaje de la restauración y de su evangelio.  Yo sé que el evangelio cambia vidas, lo he visto. Dios es un Dios de milagros y gracias a al expiación de su hijo, no hay nada imposible.  Estoy agradecido por el plan de salvación, que podemos ser familias eternas y voy a hacer todo en mi poder a lograrlo. Solo el evangelio nos trae felicidad eterna.  Estoy agradecida por el tiempo que tuve servir al Señor pero sé que esta obra nunca termina, que tenemos que seguir compartiendo el evangelio, que tenemos que seguir siendo discípulos de Cristo en cada momento.  Yo amo este evangelio y yo amo mi Salvador.
Nos Vemos Pronto!!!

Les quiero mucho!!!

-Hermana Hebdon

Monday, January 18, 2016

The final count down!

AHHH Maxwell is so cute!!! He couldn´t have waited one more week? haha, wow, Congrats Andrew, Jenny and Blake!!!!!!! I can´t wait to meet my new nephew! (and my new niece cuz i still don´t know Addie ;)    its amazing how fast a family can grow.

well, there´s really not much to say....i mean, i´ll be home in a week so its better to tell it all in person right? ;)   thats just my excuse for not wanting to write. hehe.  
I´m surprisingly really calm....except for my random breakdowns.... ;)  but yeah, i Love Chile, i love the mission, it´s been the best experience in the world.

This week i learned the importance of service.  we visited with a sister who is single, raising her grandson, and has cancer, she told us that she is incapable of doing a lot of stuff around her house and needs more help from the ward.  well, in the meanwhile, while we try to animate the ward to help her more, we returned the next day ready to help.  we cleaned her house and chopped a bunch of wood for her.  Its amazing to see how much you can help just by doing little things.  i´ve never seen someone so full of gratitude.  Its so important to look for the people who need help and give the time to help them.  Its better to forget ourselves and think of others.

I sang in church yesterday, part of my ¨farewell¨ even though i still have 1 sunday left...  and after they heard the song they asked me to sing again this next sunday...

well, there really isn´t much to tell....we´re working hard. working until the last day!!!  I love you all!!! see you all soon!

Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Hahaha!

hehehe, i have no idea what i did but my email somehow sent...... FAIL.   that´s not embarrasing at all.....

yeah, but my continuation....i don´t remember where i left off.......uhhhh
yeah, basically we´re going to baptize millions here!  we can accomplish a lot in 2 weeks!
So after the conference in Osorno we stayed the night in Puerto Montt and had an experience muy muy lindo y especial with karina, the less active that started going to church again when i was there!  but its gonna take an hour to write so i figure it´ll be better to tell it in person in 2 weeks :)

Well, when we were in Osorno we were frying cuz it was so hot, so i was super excited to return to our perfect climate in Coyhaique, well we got here only to find out that its exactly the same, if not worse here.  it heated up really fast.  i love the sun but walking all day long in this heat (after 1 1/2 yrs in pure rain & cold) is killing me.  but i´m gonna enjoy it while it lasts cuz i´m gonna return home and freeze...

Today we climbed up to the top of one of the mini mountains ( i don´t know how to call it in english) its a really big hill..?  yeah, but we climbed up in 2 hours, and as we arrived at this beautiful look-out we were so excited to sit down and have our picnik, but at the very top there was SO much wind!!! freezing cold wind. we took 2 bites of our sandwitch and decided to climb down the mountain to eat cuz we were gonna die from hypothermia.  hehe, i´ve never been in so much wind in my life, it was super fun, but we didn´t think to bring jackets cuz in the valley its so hot.

So i made my list of why i´m excited to come home, i´ve been dreading it this whole transfer and i decided that´s not going to help me adjust when i get home, its time to move on and put into practice all i learned in the mission.  so to help excite me to come home i made a list of the reasons why i´m happy to come home. haha, its growing a little everyday ;)

Well i love you all!  Happy birthday Curtis!!! and Happy birthday to the best mom in the world! I love you so much and i can never thank you enough for everything you´ve done for me and for your wonderful example to me! I can´t wait to see you! I love you tons!!!!! (curtis you too ;)

-Hna Hebdon

p.s, hey mom, I NEED my topic for my homecoming talk so i can plan it (and practice it in english hehe)

Monday, January 4, 2016

Mi cuerpo sabe que estoy muriendo

Feliz año nuevo!!!
I never want to eat meat again!!! i might just change to be vegetarian.  for new years their tradition is roast lamb, and boy did we eat roast lamb...on new years eve we had to be in our house at 9:30, so we didn´t do much that day, they told us we had to work like normal.  ....well we worked like normal...or at least as normal as you can when no one wants you to enter their house. haha, we walked a ton... but then new years day we were supposed to work a normal day as well....(supposed to) we left in the morning and the streets were deserted.  then we had lunch with the gomez family and they picked us up and told us we were going to have lunch at their grandparents house in campo.  so we drive 20 minutes out into the country thinking we were going to have a quick delicious lunch and they´d drive us back....well, when we arrived hermana gomez is all ¨i hope you know that you´re going to be here all afternoon with us¨   i just looked at my companion worried, thinking what in the world we were gonna do,  but what could we do? they were determined not to bring us home after lunch because ¨there were too many drunk people out¨   so, we ended us staying with them out in the country all day long.  and we ate a TON of lamb, cake and soda.   i never want to eat again.  but at least we enjoyed the new year.  i discovered the new year here is the equivalent of our thanksgiving, so i figured it was ok cuz i didn´t celebrate thanksgiving at all this year.

bueno, so i´m dying in the mission and i think my body knows it.  haha, i was sick all week with a sore throat and some infection that reached my eyes and my whole body just aches.  but i was stubborn and refused to call the mission nurse cuz i thought it´d pass in 3 days.  well...it didn´t.   so on the 7th day when my sore throat got worse i finally decided to call and she put me on some medication.  i feel a bunch better now :) (well...my back still hurts but whatever..)

We´re still working hard, we talked with so many people this week ....maybe that´s what caused the sore throat ;)    haha, but seriously, we didn´t let anyone pass without talking to them.  oh, and tomorrow we travel to osorno for leaders conference!!!!
we went to aysen today and took a little tour with the other hermanas, we went to a waterfall and some other super pretty places....

y....eso.    i´m loving life, enjoying every minute y yup....

i love you all! 

Monday, December 28, 2015

Bueno

Well it was great to see and talk to you guys on Christmas, sorry for the technical difficulties, but it all worked out ok in the end.   and sorry that i can´t really communicate in english anymore.......Mom really i beg you to change the date of my homecoming talk. there is NO way that i´ll be able to talk in english in church 2 days after i get back. it will be the most embarrasing thing of my life.......if you want me to give my whole talk in spanish. great, i´ll do it without hesitation.

I really said all there is to say on Christmas....so, 
Feliz Navidad to those who i didn´t see on christmas, i hope you enjoyed celebrating that special day.  Thanks for all the gifts/cards, i love you all so much!

Monday, December 21, 2015

Andando en un trio.

well, life still is just as crazy as before.  haha, i thought it´d be a bit calmer this week but...no.  Chile and its strikes.  So Hermana Sambrano left on Tuesday, so we were gonna be in a trio for 2 days while we waited for the new companion of Hermana Talimatasi who was gonna arrive on thursday.  we had everything worked out, that we were gonna work in Coyhaique in my sector one day and the next in Puerto Aysen and then go pick up the new greenie who´s coming.   Well, It just so happened that the day she was gonna arrive, Chile´s airlines entered in a strike. So, pobrecita new companion got stuck in Puerto Montt.  So we´ve been in a trio all week long.  Its actually a lot of fun being in a trio, all the lessons are 3X more powerful haha.   but its been super hard to work in our sectors. we were in Coyhaique 2 days and Aysen 2 days.  then for Saturday and Sunday we were gonna run into a bunch of problems cuz we both had important appointments and had to bring people to church the next day.  So, i got permission from the APs to stay with a member.  So Rocio became my companion for 2 days, she´s already working on her mission papers so it was a great experience for her to be a missionary for 2 days :)    

We still don´t know when Hna Talimatasi´s new companion´s gonna arrive, apparently the strike ended but now they´re so backed up, we´re just hoping that its before Christmas. 

yeah, so Christmas...we actually don´t have much planned.....i actually have no idea what we´re gonna do. hehe (way to plan ahead eh?)    

Ok, so, On christmas day i´m gonna call you guys on Skype (i believe mom´s skype) at 6:00pm CHILE TIME (i´m not gonna do the math, you can figure out what time that is in Utah.)  So be ready!  (lindz, i hope you´re ready to be my traductor ;) hehe   btw, i´ve been practicing my english this week, there´s a million tourists here!

i hope you enjoy your Christmas! I love you all tons, Talk to you soon!

-Hna Hebdon

Monday, December 14, 2015

Quick trip to Puerto Montt

Well, this week flew by, we didn´t have a moment to stop and think.  i´ll admit i´ve been a bit stressed just by the fact that my companion leaves tomorrow and my new and last companion arrives.  I know all will be fine, but honestly i´ve come to love Hna Sambrano with all my heart.  She was a bit different from my other companions and i for that we´re best of friends instead of just companions. It may sound strange, but we fought like Emma and I do, and for that, those rough moments that we had to work out, we ended up being stronger than before.  I´m gonna miss her a ton. :/

So we traveled to Puerto Montt, which completely exhausted me, traveling there and back, i just want to sleep today haha.  but it was great to be back in puerto montt.  But it was interesting too, being back there made me realize how blessed i am to be in Coyhaique. haha, i love puerto montt, but i had almost forgotten how many people bug us on the street.  Coyhaique is a lot more tranquilo.
the Conference was amazing, exactly what i needed to gain the animo to finish my mission strong.  (it was amazing but filled with way too many embarrasing moments, i was not in the right mind, only things like that would happen to me when i´m in front of a general authority, i´ll tell what happened when i get home, its too embarrasing to tell in an email...) 

I got to see Gina!!!!!!   Her son Franco is gonna be baptized on Christmas day!  It was so great to see her, and to see she´s still strong in the church.
I think the other reason i´ve been so stressed this week is for all the information the members told be of what´s happened in my ward there. Some very strong families are passing for very hard trials, it was just too much to hear. :/
But on the bright side, i saw my friends in Puerto Montt and enjoyed spending time with them :)  oh, and I saw Hna Sarceño in the conference!!!!! she´s doing great, she sends her love and Thanks for the packages and everything you´ve done for her :)

So we returned from Puerto Montt on Thursday and had to quickly plan the baptism.  Alejandro and Izidora were baptized on saturday by their grandpa who is Patriarch.  It was so special, izidora looked like an angel in her white dress :)

Well, i hope all is well! Wish me luck this week with my new companion (hna Caldera from Guatamala!)

i love you all!

-Hna Hebdon