tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80652253330676259962024-03-19T02:24:32.851-07:00Hermana en HondurasAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11042342550569507947noreply@blogger.comBlogger77125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8065225333067625996.post-67439362896811907592014-10-04T15:56:00.003-07:002014-10-04T15:56:54.046-07:00<div>
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Hola Flamilia, <br /></div>
Estoy feliz como una lombris. <br /></div>
This week has been really great. Every week is great. <br /></div>
We've
gone from 2 to 7 progressing investigators in a week (They're
progressing when they're reading the BOM or going to church and other
ward activities). We're working hard and trying to really transform
ourselves into <u>polished</u> tools for the Lord's hands. (It's easy to
be just a regular tool :)) The mission is full of ''up's'' and
''down's.'' Por ejemplo, the family of our recent convert, Freddy, is
starting to progress again and read the Book of Mormon! They committed
to coming to church! But our precious investigating family, la familia
Garmendia, isn't answering their phone or recieving us. It's actually
really worrisome. Will you please pray for them? Today we're starting a
fast. <br /></div>
This Wednesday we had changes! It was SO fun to see
Elder Hamilton! I wanted to hug him so bad! He's grown at least 10
inches since the last time I saw him. I wish I could send a picture, but
this computer is really bad. </div>
President changed the way we do
changes! Instead of knowing beforehand, all we know is whether or not we
have changes. So now everyone comes to the meeting without knowing
their new comp or new area and it's like a big ''harry potter sorting
hat'' kind of experience! It was really fun. The highlights are that
Jake Hamilton went to the South near the coast and our amazing AP is now
with another exAP and they're opening an area on an island called
Ampala!!! They're called to start up a branch! Basically the new
''Koli-pokis'' (Think Other Side of Heaven). <br /></div>
Yesterday, we
ended up spending a few hours in the ER with an Elder who is really
sick with Dengue. He'll be hospitalized for up to 4 days. It's always
nice to help out. <br /></div>
This morning, we woke up to a flooded
apartment. We have a problem with our pipes. So that took up a lot of
our Pday! But it's all cleaned up! </div>
Speaking of our bathroom, a
guy came a while ago and fixed our shower, so I now have had hot water
in the shower for officially 1/15 months of my mission! Woot Woot!!<br /></div>
Okay, I love you! Special shoutout to Grandma for her 75th birthday!!!! I love her SOOOOO much! <br /></div>
Love, <br /><br />Hermana FlynnAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11042342550569507947noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8065225333067625996.post-30200609451200842922014-09-20T10:10:00.004-07:002014-09-20T10:10:49.565-07:00
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">So much to
say. These past couple of days have been so... I don't know the word. Inspiring
and overwhelming and happy and stressful and refining. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">Elder
Duncan, the President of the Area 70, came to visit us for 3 days and he
instructed us in a multizone conference on Thursday and a leadership
''Consejo'' on Friday. How I wish he would have come at the start of my
mission! Man, he teaches with power and authority. I am so amazed at how our
leaders consecrate their lives and turn them over to God. We don't see half of
all they do. The church is SO organized. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">I'm
learning more and more that this work is the Lord's business. It's not a warm,
fuzzy work! But it is powerful and demanding and gratifying and definitely
worth every effort! I just can't believe how I didn't know anything about
missionary work before the mission! I was ''sleeping during the restoration!''
(--Pres. Uchtdorf.) Are you all sleeping like I was? Why didn't we ever invite
our nonmember neighbors or less actives to our family home evenings? Why didn't
we always carry books of mormon on our vacations? (Mom was actually really good
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">I've been
feeling the hastening of the Lord's work. And I'm seeing His merciful and
powerful hand in my life and in the lives of all those who won't push it away.
We really are in the last days. I'm so grateful for the powerful preparation
that is coming from honorable missionary service that is going to bless this
upcoming generation. We need strong parents to help raise righteous children in
an incresingly wicked world. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">We got to
go to the temple as ZL's and STL's with President and Hermana Bowler and it was
a great experience. Hermana Alegre and I sat in on 11 sealings and so we
practically got brainwashed with the promises God extends to all who willingly
and faithfully keep those powerful covenants. Wow, He really loves us. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">''Of all
the titles of respect and honor and admiration that are given to Diety, God has
asked us to address Him as Father.'' --La Primera Presidencia </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">Let's
remember that Christ has promised us ''all that the Father hath''! Let's get
moving and serve God with all our hearts, might, minds, and strength! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">I love my
mission. President Bowler made Hermana Alegre and I chocolate chip cookies! I
did divisions with a sister named Hermana Chub from guatemala and her email
that the mission made her says ''chub.chub.'' I died when I saw that. Probably
just because I'm still immature. We made a couple trips to the hospital with
Hermana Bowler recently to check out my adorable comp's thyroid. We spoke at
Consejo about missionary health. We get to hear about everyones' chronic
diarrhea. Life's good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">I'm
currently listening to past conference sessions and I could not be more
grateful for the gospel. Seriously. This gospel is a no-brainer. Only pride can
keep someone from accepting it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">I love
hearing from my baby brother in Italy! MIssionary work is honestly the best
thing that has ever happened to me! (And to the world!) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">We have a
family home evening in half an hour at our stake president's house with our
family!! They are the Garmendia family and are so golden! I love them SO much.
We've challenged them to get married and baptized on the 20th of september.
PRAY FOR THEM! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">I love you
all and hope you are inviting your friends to church activities and reading
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11042342550569507947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8065225333067625996.post-3690229245329786222014-09-06T14:22:00.003-07:002014-09-06T14:23:36.984-07:00<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">I'm already out of time, but I can't let this
week pass by without telling you about one of the sweetest experiences of my
entire mission...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">I held a baby monkey's hand. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">No, I'm totally kidding. I honestly had such a
special experience on Wednesday morning. But I did hold a baby monkey's
hand. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">I got to do divisions in La Joya, my first
area, on Tuesday and it was such a joy! I'll tell you all about it after the
mission. But here's the highlight:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">On Tuesday, we ended our day so late and
weren't able to go see the Matamoros Family. They're the family I activated
with Hermana Vasquez and we baptized their granddaughters, Ambar and Monica.
Marcelino made me the breathtaking wooden ''quadro'' of Christ looking over
Jerusalem. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">I couldn't bear to leave La Joya without
seeing them, so we went early in the morning to make the visit. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">The way Marcelino looked at me that morning
was unlike any expression I've ever seen. It was this mix of surprise and
wonder and Christlike love. They didn't know I was coming. In fact, they didn't
know I'd gotten moved back to the city. According to them, I was 4 and a half
hours away in Choluteca. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">We talked for a couple minutes with the family
and Marcelino told me he was going to church this Sunday. (They're less active
again.) He told me that he'd already made the decision because of an experience
he'd had this week, even though his son is coming home from the U.S. this
Sunday. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">He turned to his wife and asked, ''Should I
tell her?'' <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">He told me that the night before I came to La
Joya, he had a very vivid, very realistic dream. In his dream, I was sitting on
a bench outside. He came and sat with me on the bench and we talked about the
gospel for a long time. He didn't tell me what I said, but he said it left him
very impacted and very inspired and very full. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">And then I told him that the very last bus was
coming, and that he had to decide whether or not to get on. He realized that he
had his entire family behind him, following him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">He's choosing to get on. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">As he told me this, tears streamed down my
eyes for God's</span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;">timing.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;"> </span></i><span style="color: #222222;">I know with all my
heart that I'm supposed to be here. I know that I needed to meet these people.
I know that I needed them to meet me. God's plan is so intricate and perfect
and I am eternally grateful. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">When it comes to expressing my love for these
people and my gratitude towards God for letting me serve in Honduras and for
letting me come to be with all of you and be born under the covenant, both the
English and Spanish languages feel very limited. I couldn't ever let you all
know how much this all means to me. I know that Christ is the only one who
understands 100%. I hope He got to feel my highs as well as my lows when He
atoned for me. I love Him so much. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I loved seeing pictures and hearing about all that's going on in your worlds! I love you all very, very much. And I love Honduras! </div>
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This week was very full, spiritually and literally. We have a pretty packed schedule now with the office work and doing divisions with our 13 companionships during these 6 weeks. Sometimes we worry that we're neglecting our area too much, but we're juggling the best we can! And we're seeing a lot of miracles.</div>
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''God doesn't call the qualified, he qualifies the called.'' </div>
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On Tues, our AP's asked us to come to teach all the new missionaries in the Training Meeting. We came directly from finishing divisions with a really cool area in the mountains called Santa Lucia. We ate lunch there with Pres and Hna Bowler and then went with her to the hospital to help with the three sick missionaries. She was on the fifth floor handling the missionaries with more delicate problems and Hna Alegre and I were in the lab with another Elder who got Dengue this week. He's a trainer and his ''son'' in the mission was with Anziano Flynn in the MTC! That was fun! After the hospital, we went to the pharmacy to fill prescriptions and then to the office to get lots of meds ready to send to the South. Pres and Hna dropped us off in our area at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_296979519" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">6pm</span></span>. That's kinda how things have been! A little crazy! But I'm so happy! </div>
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This week is just another testament that when one door closes, another opens. We had a lesson with Hazel, who was going to get baptized today, but backed out. The spirit was so strong and I knew she felt it, but she told us no and wouldn't commit to another date. We were feeling really sad for her but then right after, we found a GOLDEN family! It's a 27 year old named Rigoberto and his 22 year old wife, Dayli. They have a 4 month old and seriously could not be more positive! Pray for them!! And pray for Hazel! She is so ready for baptism. </div>
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This week Hna Alegre hit her year mark!! I was able to do a special breakfast and we ate cake as a zone! She is such an amazing comp. I am seriously so blessed. I love her. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">I've got
4.5 minutes to write this. First of all, I love each one of you. Secondly, I
just got an email from an elder who went home last week and I never want to
come home. I'm officially 14 months old and it's making me sad! I have lots of
dreams of training again and going to Danli, but with two changes left, I don't
know how possible it will be! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">Well,
Hermana Alegre and I are doing great! This morning we had to wash our clothes
and we helped a 75 year old woman wash hers too. She workes washing clothes by
hand, getting paid 25 lempiras ($1.25) for every dozen. This woman is 75!! And
she can't stop working or she won't eat! I don't think we all realize how
blessed we are! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">We're
currently in downtown, downtown Teguc. It's super crowded and big and there's a
cool, huge cathedral and a Burger King that is 6 stories high!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">The work is
going well! We already had a baptism that the other sisters left us when they
closed the area! His name is Freddy and he's Mike's age. And we have 2 more
baptisms (possibly 3... pray!) next Saturday. It's pretty weird opening an
area, but I like it! lots of opportunities to talk to people and put the puzzle
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">We've
already have an elder with Dengue from this past week so we got to go to the
hospital with him and stuff. And we've had another girl in the ER and lots of
called about diarrhea, fevers, and pains in general. But I haven't been stressed
out yet, so that's a miracle! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">I'm in the
office Mon, Wed, and Fri and we do divisions with the sisters from the city on
Tues and Thurs. It's a tight schedule and there's lots to do so now we only get
Pday in the morning until lunchtime! But it doesn't phase me. I'm really happy
here! I love my mission! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">It's such a
blessing to work so closely with President and Hermana Bowler. They are such
consecrated people and I love them so sincerely. We are so blessed to have
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">Yesterday,
we got to help a Brazilian woman from the ward, Elza Jack, make Brazilian
treats for her son's birthday! They're called Begios (spelling?) It means
little kisses in Portugese. I'm totally making them for all the birthdays in
the flamilia for the rest of my life! She's the wife of an American embassador.
There are like 5 gringo embassador families in my ward! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">I love you
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Sarai, and Selina! </span></div>
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tell you some things last week: President Bowler authorized playing soccer and
basketball on Pdays and drinking coca cola! So basically this is the happiest
mission in the world right now. Everyone's going crazy with the coke. And my
comp got lice! But I'm pretty sure I'm clean!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">How about
in the drastic cambio de clima we're experiencing? Or better yet, about my
adorable new compañera!! I am with the new STL, Hermana Alegre, from Lima,
Peru. I love Peru! I love her! This girl is a Saint. And she is unbelievably
beautiful! We were both in the same zone in the South, so we're both IN HEAVEN
here in Teguc. Today the high is about 81 degrees and the low is 64. That's
more than 15 degrees cooler than it is in Choluteca right now! Yesterday it was
sprinkling but the sun was out and a huge rainbow stretched across the entire
sky. It wasn't even of this Earth. It was heavenly. But anyway, Hermana Alegre
and I are getting along really well and trying to learn about our new responsibilities
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I'm writing on a Saturday is because Hermana Bowler changed our Pday because
we'll be in the office all day on Mondays. All the office elders' Pdays are on
Saturday as well because Mondays get so crazy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">These past
two days, we've been in the office from around 9am-4:30pm with Hermana Bowler
and our nurse, Hermana Smart, learning everything from what all the meds are
for to insurance guarantees to billing to protocol to emergency scenarios. We
saw some gnarly pictures of medical conditions from past missionaries here. My
favorites were definitely ''jungle rot'' on a foot and a bump behind an elder's
ear that turned out to be filled with tons of larva!! If you get curious you
can google that. And poor Hermana Alegre was sitting there for 7 hours, trying
to take notes of all this info in English! She understands a lot of English and
speaks pretty well, but medical terminology? Insurance forms? She is such a
champ! When I ask her if she's overwhelmed, she just says she likes the challenge.
I know that this experience will be preparing us for our futures--these skills
will serve us in our future studies, careers, and homes. I am really grateful.
I feel God's love and His <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">trust </i>so
strongly right now. It is very humbling. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">I love Hermana
Bowler. She's been taking us out to lunch this week in our breaks from all this
training from the nurse (This is all new for Hna. Bowler, too) and she is just
adorable! I was walking with her and asked what makes her really mad. I asked
if she ever gets mad. She laughed and said, ''Oh yeah. I yelled at my son one
time!'' ''One time?'' I asked, and she answered, ''Well, I also yelled once at
my other son.'' This woman can count all the times she's yelled at her family
on one hand. I've yelled at you guys like 6.02x10</span><span style="color: #545454; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">^23 times! (Avogradro's number.) Can
you all forgive me? </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: #545454; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">When
I'm with Hermana Bowler I just smile because of all her obervations of
Honduras. It brings me back to my first days here. Everything is pretty
different. And I love it!</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: #545454; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Well,
we're opening an area called el 21 de Octubre and it could not be more
different than Choluteca! It's so mountainous and steep! There are so many
stairs. You know when Smeegle takes Frodo and Sam up those really scary
mountain stairs? That's exactly what my area looks like! But it's really
beautiful and straight up in the city. There are tons of cars that whip around
corners and big buildings closeby and lots of people packed into small spaces!
Right now there's a drought, so sometimes we don't have water in the apartment
and the electricity usually goes out daily because the main power source comes
from a reservoir that's now dry. Let's start rain-dancing! It's so fresco here.
It feels delicious. My heat rash is almost completely gone! </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: #545454; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Well,
out of time! Tell my baby brother Jacob that I love him and hope he likes his
trainer! </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: #545454; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">xoxo, </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: #545454; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">hermana
Flynn</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">There is so
much to say. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">Fist off,
today was a perfect day. We went to the beach (40 min away) with the zone and
spent the morning playing sand soccer and laying in hammocks and eating pescado
con chismol y tajaditas (fried fish and pico de gallo with fried green banana
chips and limes.) ¡QUE RICO! I LOVE the beach! What a great way to spend my
last Pday in the South! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">I just got
news that I will be having changes (transfers?) on Wednesday, but I'll tell you
about that in a minute. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">This week,
we went to Consejo and it was wonderful, as always! The night before, we
(hermana Carias and I) were able to visit La Joya, my first area! And exaclty
one year ago, Hermana Carias received me as a brand new missionary there! It
was so fun to surprise the members with our visits! They were all shocked with
the progress I've made in a year. We got to eat hot dogs with my old mission
leader again! He used to feed us hot dogs every friday night. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">A couple
nights ago, my hammock was stolen! We had it tied out on the balcony for a
couple weeks. We thought because we live on the second floor and the apartments
have a gate that we'd be fine... But today I bought another one! Life is not as
beautiful without a Honduran hammock!! (Almost everyone here has one in the
front room--or only room--of their house!) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">Okay,
here's the big news. After 7 months in zone Porvenir in the South, I'm getting
moved! My AP just called and told me early that I will be having unusual
changes. From what President had told me, I thought I'd be training a new
misionera but it turns out that I'm not. But their closing my area (!!!) and
having 2 new STL's open it. And I will be opening the STL area (!!!) in Teguc!
And here's the craziest part. drumroll please...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">I'm the new
mission nurse!!! ¿¿¿What??? Our mission nurse, Hermana Smart, goes home to
Hurrican, Utah in a week and they're not sending us a new one immediately. So
now I will be working in the mission office for 2 mornings of the week with all
the nurse's responsibilites. But my primary responsibility will apparently
still be as an STL, looking after the girls in Teguc. Me, with basically no
medical training!!!! I am NOT a nurse!!!! I'll be working a lot with Sister
Bowler, so I'm excited about that. I still don't know who my new comp will be,
but she'll be the new STL. So I'll be training her as an STL and opening an
area and becoming the nurse of the 250ish frequently sick missionaries in
Tegucigalpa. PRAY FOR ME!!!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">I was NOT expecting
this at all. It's going to be so hard to leave Graneros. I absolutely love it
here! The members are incredible and I wish I could've spent more time getting
to know them. Pero irè y harè. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">The mission
is full of changes. Life is, too. I'm really grateful to feel God's hand so
presently in my life and for the strength He gives all of us to not only handle
our challenges, but to rise above them. I love Him. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">I love all
of you. I'll be hitting my 14 month mark soon and it's STRESSING ME OUT! Where the
heck is the time going?? I didn't feel the month of July at all. And now
Hermana Carias is finishing her mission (tomorrow is her last day) and I'm
realizing how much I need to take advantage of the time I have left! I really,
really love the mission! And I really love each one of you! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">Have a
wonderful, peaceful week, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">This Pday
morning, I washed about 50 articles of clothing by hand, including my sheets
and towel. I'm exhausted. The little Honduran women that do this every day are
made of hierro (iron.) Then we made a mango-maracuya-lime smoothie for
breakfast and went to get our eyebrows waxed at our neighbors house haha</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">This week
was excellent. I studied Elder Holland's talk from this past conference about
the cost and the blessings of discipleship and finished Matthew and John in the
new testment. Elder Holland talks about how people want a cushy, comfortable
God, not a demanding one. And ironically enough, so many people paint Christ as
one! Christ, who taught us that if our eye offends us, we must pluck it out and
cast it in the fire and that anyone who even <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">looks </i>upon a woman to lust after her has already sinned in his
heart! Christ commands us to leave our nets and take up our cross. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #4870b7; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #4870b7; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 14.5pt;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/25.23?lang=eng#22"><span style="color: #486fae; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">2 Nephi 25:23</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f393a; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">23 For <span style="background: #F6F2C3; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">we</span> labor diligently to write, to
persuade our children, and also our brethren, to believe in Christ, and to be
reconciled to God; for <span style="background: #F6F2C3; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">we</span>know
that it is by <span style="background: #F6F2C3; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">grace</span> that <span style="background: #F6F2C3; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">we</span> are saved, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: #F6F2C3; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">after</span> <span style="background: #F6F2C3; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">all</span> <span style="background: #F6F2C3; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">we</span> <span style="background: #F6F2C3; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">can</span> <span style="background: #F6F2C3; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">do</span>.</b></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I love what Brad Wilcox says
about this scripture!</span><span style="color: #2f393a; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; tab-stops: list 1.0in; text-indent: -.25in; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="color: #2f393a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We had a really special lesson yesterday with a man we found
named Eric. We ran into 3 really rebelious teens from the ward in the street
and they surprised us by saying that they wanted to come to our next lesson to
teach with us. Turns out that Eric talked about how he was in a gang and did
drugs and stuff and it was exactly what these kids needed to hear. They were
able to share their testimonies and this man, Eric, accepted the baptismal
challenge for the 16 of August. Tender mercies. </span><span style="color: #2f393a; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f393a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hey, I forgot to tell you guys this, but I had interviews
with the President a couple weeks ago. In the middle of our conversation, he
told me, ''I know this is going to surprise you, but I want to give you a
promotion... I want you to be a trainer.'' I sat there for a couple minutes
thinking, ''Doesn't he know I'm already a training leader? There isn't a
promotion available!'' And then it hit me: he wants me to train a new missionary
again. I started to cry!! Because my training experience was the Gethsemane of
my mission--really hard. But he assured me that he's choosing the strongest
missionaries to receive the new ones and that this is a huge compliment. I love
my President. So I don't know what will happen next wednesday in transfers.
I'll let you know! </span><span style="color: #2f393a; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f393a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Please pray for Eric, Julissa, Eduardo Rivera, Eduardo
Romero, Onida, Karen, Sofia, Angela, Melba, Paola, all the people of
Graneros. </span><span style="color: #2f393a; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">P.s. we found a turtle in the road
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">Flamilia, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">I just
remembered playing BANG with Jord and the fam! ''There's a new sheriff in
town!'' I love you all! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">So the 3
amigas are now a normal companionship--just me and Hermana Carìas! On Monday,
we received a special invitation from President to be at Hermana Flores' last
dinner in his house (really uncommon. it's usually strictly for missionaries
headed for home.) It was so special! Hermana Bowler made breakfast for
dinner--german pancakes and quieche--and then we got to hear their consejos
(counsels) for life at home. We dropped her off at the airport the next day. I
got to read her letter just barely and hear about all her first impressions! It
all just makes me grateful for the time I have left in the mission. Taking off
my nametag will take out my heart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">I got to go
to the temple yet again with my zone this week!! I've been learning so much
about our covenants. It's amazing how you can learn somthing new with each
visit. I am beginning to understand why the pioneers were willing to leave
everything behind in England and die in attempts to be able to make temple
covenants. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">I had
divisions a couple days ago and was able to visit by old area!! It was such a JOY.
None of my converts knew I was coming so it was an extra special surprise!
Melissa cried when she saw me. I got to be there for the weekly Noche de
Hermanamiento they do in my old ward and I was <u>filled</u> when I
watched my convert, Henry, direct the meeting and another, Edinson, give the
opening prayer. Henry excitedly pulled out a copy of Preach my Gospel and
Adapting to Missionary life to show me!! He carries them around everywhere!
He's preparing to leave on his mission in March. Joy! Joy! Joy! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">On Sunday,
our first counselor in the ward talked about Abinidi and how he died before
knowing that Alma was converted. But Alma went on to establish Christ's church
among the people and baptize thousands! I'm so grateful that I get to see the
fruits of my labors! I know that missionary work has such a ripple effect and
that every effort we make truly MAKES A DIFFERENCE. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">As I was
walking in my area, a truck full of kids from my old ward in San Luis passed by
and I've never felt more famous in my life! I was such a celebrity as a chorus
of high-pitched ''FLEEN, FLEEN, FLEEN!!!!!!!!'' filled the whole street.
I couldn't love these people more. I can't believe how blessed I am. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">Please read
the scriptures. I love the bible. I love the book of mormon. I love D&C. I
love the Pearl of Great Price. ''And I love you, random citizen!'' --Megamind</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">This week
was amazing. Every week is amazing. I am in so love with my mission. I don't
like to think about who I'd be if I hadn't come out here. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">Here are
some highlights: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">On Monday,
we organized an all girls Pday, which was really special and fun! I love all
the hermanas that we look after! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">On Tuesday,
we went to the temple with the ward! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">On
Wednesday, we were able to go to San Lorenzo (45 min away) to celebrate Hermana
Molina's birthday in the morning! We had a surprise lunch and bought her a
cake! We also had some beautiful lessons. </span></div>
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Thursday, Hermana Flores had her last District Meeting and we all ate at
Wendy's. We also found a couple new families with potential! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">On Friday,
we had a noche cultural (cultural night) with traditional dances and skits and
everything! I LOVE my ward. They are hilarious and amazing people. </span></div>
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Saturday, we surpised Hermana Flores with a zone surprise party! We told her we
were going to clean the capilla for our baptisms and the whole zone was waiting
with a cake and balloons and everything! And then they all smashed a dozen eggs
on her head and showered her with flour!! It's the Honduras tradition. And I'm not
even going home and my ZL smashed an egg on my head too. Me llenò con ira. That
night, we had our baptisms! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">So remember
when I told you about the dad and his daughter who approached us after we'd
finished our double fast and he told us that he'd read a ton of the triple and
already had a testimony of the prophet Joseph Smith? His name is Aracil
Rodriguez and he got baptized with his adorable daughter, Kirsten!! He is the
biggest miracle of my mission. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">Celinda
also got baptized, which is nothing short of a miracle! She had so many doubts
and problems with the church. But we were able to help her so much and I want
to tell you about some really cool experiences she had. Many missionaries had
visited her before, but one day we decided to give her a try and meet her. When
I got there, the first thing she told me was that she'd dreamt a couple weeks
back that a gringa missionary had come to her house to braid her hair and take
her to the church. Before her baptism, I braided her hair and reminded her of
her dream. (It's a really good thing I know how to braid!) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">Also, on
the morning of her baptism, she asked God that if she was supposed to get
baptized, He'd send her a sign. She asked Him to make it rain. There was not a
cloud in the sky all day until less than an hour before the service when it
mysteriously poured out of nowhere exactly over her house and the church. She
told God that she couldn't walk her kids to the church if it was pouring, so
she asked Him to stop the water if she was really supposed to be baptized. It
stopped within 5 minutes. She was astonished. So were we. Our old bishop grows
corn and said he was taking Celinda with him to water his crop.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">It was the
most special and spiritual baptism that I've ever had. I am so grateful. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">I wish I could
express all the miracles that I'm seeing here. They are so real and God is so
good! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">Last night,
Hermana Carias and I baked Hermana Flores a goodbye cake (she goes home today.
We're dropping her off in Teguc in 20 minutes.) and we had a mug made with our
picture on it! Here's a poem our friend wrote to present her the mug jajaja</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">hermanaza,
hermanaza, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">como ya te
vas para tu casa, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">te queremos
regalar esta taza, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">por si
algun dìa aluien no te abraza, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">podràs
encontrar amor en esta taza. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">I love you
guys. I love life. I hope you're all remembering what's important and doing all
we need to in order to qualify for God's blessings and spirit. </span></div>
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So much to say, so little time. </div>
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start with my new mission presidents, President and Hermana Bowler
(pronounced boler, not like irritable bowel.) We had Consejo this past
week so we went up to Teguc and slept over with them in President's
house! When our taxi pulled up, Hermana Bowler was waiting outside for
us and greeted us with big hugs saying, ''My daughters, my daughters!''
She is adorable. She actually reminds me a lot of mom! (Hair, voice,
etc.) She hardly speaks a word of Spanish and is experiencing some
serious culture shock. She kept apologizing because the downstairs
bathroom didn't have the little bar to put the toilet paper on. I
thought it was hilarious! She'll die when she starts using public
restrooms here. President Bowler is a Weasley (red head) and he served
in Argentina like Dad! His Spanish sounds a lot like Dad's Spanish, so
we'll pray for the gift of tongues. They are cattle ranchers from
Nevada, but Hermana grew up in Salt Lake. They are so humble and so
willing to serve. Their MTC experience lasted 5 days and in that short
time, they were able to hear from all 15 members of the quorum of the 12
apostles and the prophet's presidency. They brought the most pure and
beautiful and powerful spirit with them. </div>
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In Consejo, I translated for Hermana Bowler!! It was
the first message we heard from her and it touched my heart and made me
cry. She told us about their Sacrament meeting in the MTC with the
other 129 couples. They announced that there would only be one speaker
after the sacrament... President Thomas S. Monson. A few new Elders
preparing to go out into the field had the privilege of blessing and
passing the sacrament. Hermana Bowler said that she realized that the
prophet wasn't only there to fill the future Mission Presidents, but
also to send his special spirit with them for all of us. I know it's
true. I felt such a powerful testimony of our living prophet, seer, and
revelator. She shared 3 Nephi 18:3-4 and talked about how the Nephites
were <i>filled </i>with the sacrament. She asked us what we need to do to fill our lives. I love her. </div>
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President Bowler is so great. They have 3 boys and one adopted son
with some problems and have had many foster children, including new
borns. Basically, they're angels. I miss President Hernandez, but I
could not be more blessed to have this new leadership! </div>
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I've been learning a lot lately. A lot about God's
laws and about His plan. For example, the star that appeared when Jesus
was born didn't just magically appear out of nowhere. From the
foundation of the world, God <i>organized</i> it all so that a certain
star would shine brighter than ever before on that special night.
Everything is perfectly orchestrated. </div>
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When I learn here, I feel like Lehi in his dream when he partakes
of the fruit (the love of God) and immediately searches out his family
to share it with them. I wish you could all be here, learning and loving
and experiencing with me. It is so rich and refining. </div>
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Here is a poem that speaks to my soul. Aly Carter sent it to me. </div>
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<span style="color: #000033; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 20px;">Disturb us, Lord, when </span><em style="color: #000033; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;"></span></em><br style="color: #000033; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;" />
<span style="color: #000033; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 20px;">We are too pleased with ourselves,<br />When our dreams have come true<br />Because we dreamed too little,<br />When we arrived safely<br />Because we sailed too close to the shore.<br />
</span><em style="color: #000033; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"></em><br style="color: #000033; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #000033; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 20px;">Disturb us, Lord, when<br />
With the abundance of things we possess<br />We have lost our thirst<br />For the waters of life;<br />Having fallen in love with life,<br />We have ceased to dream of eternity<br />And in our efforts to build a new earth,<br />We have allowed our vision<br />
Of the new Heaven to dim.<br /><br />Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly,<br />To venture on wilder seas<br />Where storms will show Your mastery;<br />Where losing sight of land,<br />We shall find the stars.<br /><br />We ask you to push back<br />
The horizons of our hopes;<br />And to push back the future<br />In strength, courage, hope, and love.<br /><br />This we ask in the name of our Captain,<br />Who is Jesus Christ.</span></div>
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could never thank you all enough for all that you've taught me and for
all the ways you've served me. Just trust me when I say that every
sacrifice and every extra mile we go to obey God's commandments and
progress spiritually is worth it.<br />
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There is so much more to come! </div>
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Flynn Family for Eternity! </div>
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So far we haven't had a single baptism this month. If we don't
baptize this Saturday, then it will be the first time in over 7 months
without a baptism. I'm in an area with a lot of potential and support
from the members, so we have all the resources to bring people into
God's fold. We have 4 possibilities for this Saturday, but none of them
is certain. Please pray for me and my area! Pray for Celinda, Isabel,
Jose, Dorian, Kirsten, Aracil, Eduardo, Jorge and Julissa! Even though
at times it makes me ask myself ''What am I doing wrong?'' I'm grateful
that the work has been a little harder lately because it makes me more
humble and is teaching me to keep the ''animo'' even when we don't see
the results we're hoping for! </div>
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Here are some recent experiences that I don't want to forget:</div>
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As
I prepared to offer the closing prayer during a lesson, I asked if
there was anything special Celinda wanted me to ask God for. She
answered, ''Pray for rain.'' because she didn't have water to bathe
herself or to pour in her toilet. </div>
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Our friend, Alba, was crying outside her house
yesterday. Her husband had said he was going to go sell their TV to buy
food for their family. He ended up selling the TV and his bike, which is
the bike he uses to go sell vegetables to provide for the family--his
only source of income, and used <u>all</u> the money to drink. His children went hungry. He's now abandoning them and going to live in San Pedro Sula. </div>
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We are so blessed. I wish I could
tell you all that I've seen and experienced here. I promise you that
your problems are small in comparison to what the people suffer here. </div>
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Here's a picture of what it looks like outside right now.
The power just went out after a HUGE boom of thunder but it came back
within 5 minutes. I'm grateful that gmail automatically saves drafts. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">I love you
all very, very much. More than I could ever tell. And I want to send a very
special shoutout to my Pop for Father's Day! I love you, Dad! </span></div>
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divisions continue, and I love them! God is helping me to be both humble and a
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we had our last Zone Conference with Pres! It's a big meeting with all the
zones of the south. Hermana Flores and I gave a 20 min presentation that
President and Hermana Hernandez loved! It went really smoothly and I felt so
grateful because I was nervous! I also sang at the conference with a sister
named Hermana Blazzard. She was a Brighton Beehive Camp counselor so we sang a
song called ''I Heard Him Come,'' from the camp songbook! The whole thing was
inspiring and uplifting and I felt so happy afterward! Here's the link to our
presentation if you want to check it out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">We taught
our first lesson with Hermana Aracil, the man I told you about last week that
has studied so much of Doctrine and Covenants and the Pearl of Great Price and
the BOM. It was such an incredible lesson. When we arrived, he had his
scriptures ready on the table and gave his precious 12 year old daughter a clip
board to take notes for him! He is so pilas! Teaching him is incredible. There
are no limits. We can use any scripture or modern day revelation, because he
comprehends and accepts all of them. We went in with plans to teach lesson 1, The
Restoration, but we ended up teaching The Plan of Salvation instead. We talked
about the war in heaven and about Adam and Eve and we talked about God's
expectations and about the Spirit World and temple ordances. We were there for
more than 2 hours. It was so amazing and I've NEVER felt the spirit so strong
in a lesson because I've never been able to share so much light and knowledge
with an investigator. This man is like a message from God saying, ''Sarah, I
trust you with this child of mine, your brother. I've prepared him for you and
now I just want you to teach him the truth.'' It is a remarkable feeling. </span></div>
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we've felt a lot of rejection and have had to drop some investigators, but we
feel so much strength and such a strong confirmation each day that this is
God's church and His work and He's moving it along through His clumsy, young
servants. My testimony is undeniable. I know that all of this is true. There's
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">I love
hearing about all the exciting changes in the family! Congrats to Jake for
graduating and getting ordained an Elder! I hope you're all enjoying your summer
vacation and making good choices.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">This week
was incredible. On wednesday, I had my first ''consejo,'' or monthly meeting
with President and Hermana Hernandez, the AP's, ZL's, and STL'S. We rode the 4
hour bus up to Teguc on Tuesday and slept over with Hna. Snelson and Hna.
Carias, my trainer! (Sidenote: of the 7 other STL's, I've been comps with 4
already! Not including Snelson, who was in my zone for my first 10 months!) The
meeting was so great. We talked about all the mission dats and goals and received
instruction from the AP's and President and his wife. It was their very last
Consejo, so it was extra special. We ate lunch there in the church and then
President surprised us with a trip to the temple!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">We filled
up an entire session! But first I got to do initiatory with Hermana Flores for
the first time in the mission! The session was so, so special, but the most
special was at the end. When I entered the celestial room, President and
Hermana were there waiting for me. I hugged Hermana and then looked at
President as he smiled and said, ''This is an exception,'' and held out his
arms for a hug. Needless to say, I started crying and kept crying as I sat and
watched all the missionaries enter one by one and embrace President. As I sat
there, I pulled out my Patriarchal Blessing and found a line that jumped out at
me: ''You will feel that Heavenly Father is close and will <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">marvel </b>at His love and goodness and be ever-grateful for the
gospel.'' I do marvel. He is so good to me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">Afterward,
we all ate together at Pizza Hut, where someone knocked over their big glass of
horchata all over me and my backpack and then I accidentally dumped an entire
bottle of chile flakes on my pizza. It was hilarious! I was sitting right next
to President and I think he was second thinking His decision. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">Then
Hermana Flores and I decided that we needed to do a double fast to see miracles
in our area. So we fasted 24 hours and then ate lunch and then immediately
started another 24 hour fast. And we are seriously seeing the results!! Por
ejemplo, last night we were walking to our dinner appointment and passed a man
and his 12 year old daughter standing on the sidewalk, looking up at the moon.
I just said ''buenas noches,'' as we passed and he started talking to us about
how Joseph Smith saw a pillar of light and about how the moon reminds him of
the first vision. He excitedly started talking to us about the Book of Mormon
and church history and the Pearl of Great Price and Doctrine and Covenants. He
said that he works with some Mormons and noticed that even the way they talk is
different from the rest. So he asked for a Book of Mormon and someone gave him
a triple. He has read SO MUCH! And kept saying that what calls his attention is
that the invitation is to read and then to pray directly to God to ask if it's
true! He kept saying ''I feel restless. I just have to keep reading!'' This man
is hungry to hear God's word (amos 8:12.) He has never even talked to
missionaries before! And he lives in our area! We're going to visit him on Wednesday.
He seriously talked for 20 minutes straight, practically bearing his testimony
on Joseph Smith and all the holy scriptures!! We were stunned. Completely
shocked. Pray for him! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">I did more
divisions this week with a 28 year old sister who's a lawyer from Guatemala who
got baptized 2 years ago! It was awesome. On our way back, our bus broke down
and we got stranded in the middle of nowhere! But a really nice Evangelist guy
picked us up and took us into town. God looks out for us. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">Oh, another
thing! When we slept in Teguc on Tuesday, we ate dinner with a recent convert
of Hermana Flores and he bought Hna. Snelson and me a delicious cake for our
one year anniversary!! It was adorable because I didn't even eat cake for my
birthday and this complete stranger shared his with me for hitting the year
mark! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">I love the
mission. Seriously love it. It's the best decision I've ever made in my whole
life. Every challenge is so worth it. Every day is such a blessing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">FLYNN
FAMILY FOREVER, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">Hermana
Flynn</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">P.s. Hna.
Flores and I bought fabric in the market and paid a lady in our ward 100 lemps
($5) to make us the dresses we wore to the temple! They're cool, huh? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">This week
flew by. I still LOVE my area and my companion. We live in a beautiful
apartment building on the second floor right next to the other two misioneras
that we share an area with: Hna. Blazzard, from Morgan, Utah and Hna. Morales,
from northern Nicaragua. They are so great! This morning, we made a french
toast and banana oatmeal smoothie breakfast together and ate it in my
apartment. (I'll attach a picture.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">I love how
the Mormon ''Mundo'' is so small! I've met people here that served their
missions with Nelson Johansen, Connor Johnson, and Sam Neff! It's so fun to
hear about all their success (all three of those guys were AP's) and
experiences. I love being a member of la Iglesia de Jesucristo de los Santos de
los Ultimos Dìas. It's such a joy! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">We had a
baptism this past Saturday and the Primary Presidency went over the top! We
baptized Brithany, a DARLING 10 year old whose mom and brother are already new
members. The sisters from Graneros A (We're Graneros B) also baptized two
little girls. We were also helping a less active family baptize their 8 year
old, but she cried and wouldn't do it because she was afraid of the water..
Here's a picture of the three dressed in white. (Brithany's the one in the
middle.) A pre-mission teen did the ordinance, which was a mistake because he
really struggled and had to repeat the baptism of the littlest girl 6 times.
She was crying and the other missionaries had to convince her to stay in the
font until he did it right! Oh my goodness, it was interesting. But what's done
is done and the important thing is that they're baptized! We'll just trust that
the Spirit will help everyone forget the painful attempts. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">Good news!
Hna Flores and I are going to the temple tomorrow with our ward! We get to go
watch a family from our area get sealed!!! There's a girl named Yadira, who
served in our zone as a mini missionary for 6 weeks because Hna. Blazzard
didn't have a comp. Her mom and siblings had been praying for her formarly
alcoholic father to change and come back to church for years, and now they've
been preparing for the temple and will be sealed tomorrow! She's so great! I'm
so grateful for the opportunity to be there in the sealing! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">Now for the
sad part of this email. As you probably know, an elder from the mission passed
away this week. Elder Martinez from El Savlador. On Thursday, they missed their
mini bus to go to Distric Meeting, and decided to catch a ride because it was
far away. Months ago, President had strictly banned riding in the bed of
trucks, which is a difficult rule in many areas because of lack of public
transportation and long distances. But they got into the bed of a truck with
some other people and the truck got into an accident. Four passengers died on
impact and the two elders survived and were taken to a clinic, where Elder
Martinez died and Elder Lewis survived. The nurse tells me that Elder Lewis
miraculously suffered the accident with no brain or spinal damage. She says his
injury is pretty much all in the face. He lost all his front teeth and broke
his cheek bone and I think he dislocated his jaw. They sent him to the U.S. 2
days ago. He had 5 months in the mission and wasn't in the South so I didn't
know him. I'd only seen Elder Martinez once I think. He had 9 months. He was 27
years old and the only member in his family. Hna. Flores knew him and says that
because he's a little older, he had to jump through a lot of hoops to come out
in the mission. She says he was an excellent, consecrated missionary and served
as branch president in one of his areas. The nurse tells me that his parents
have also lost 2 of his sisters. Pray for his family. They don't understand
that he's still serving as a missionary, only now in the Spirit World. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">It breaks
my heart that this happened to President Hernandez in the last month of his
mission. Especially because he's already instructed us not to ride in truck
beds. And it's an elder from his own country. That poor man is going through
Gethsemene right now. It breaks my heart. Pray for him. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">I am so
grateful for God's perfect plan and for temples here to bind things in heaven.
I love, love, love God and His gospel of joy! I know with all my heart that
everything bears record of Him and that we have everything we need right now in
this restored church. I love being a missionary. I can't wait for Jake to get
out there and serve! And Michael and Jenny and Elizapo! What a great time to be
on Earth! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">Hope, Hope
Hope! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">Flynn
Family Forever, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">Hermana
Flynn</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">Here's a
picture I took during a thunder storm one night this week. It's so cool because
I took it right as lightning struck, so it looks like midday when it was
totally black at 10pm. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">This week
was super genial (great.) Some fun things happened! A bird pooped on my head.
And I found cat-sized paw prints on my bed a couple nights ago...? Also, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">I GOT
TRANSFERRED!! And guess where to? To a place 5 minutes from my area!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">Yes, I am
still in the South and I'm so happy! I'm in the same Stake, in the same zone,
in the same district. The reason for the transfer is that I got made a Sister
Training Leader. So now I'm in the STL area and I absolutely love it. I am with
Hermana Flores, a beautiful 24 year old from El Salvador that has about 5 weeks
left in her mission! So I'm going to kill her, which is the mission way of
saying that I'm her last companion! She is going to train me as an ''Hermana
AP'' and then go home. I already love her so much. She is a wonderful
missionary. And she is also the niece of President and Hermana Hernandez, who
are also going home in 5 weeks! Crazy! So I'll welcome in a Greenie Gringo
President next transfer. Lots of excited changes in the mission! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">This transfer
has been an enormous blessing in my life. I was able to feel God's love so
strongly through all of it. And this new calling is a little bit intimidating,
but I'm going to repent more frequently and place myself in God's hands to
shape me and stretch me and ''make weak things become strong.'' </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">''The Lord
doesn't call the qualified. He qualifies the called.''</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">My new area
is called Graneros and we go to church in the Stake Center, which has air
conditioning in the chapel (!!!)<u> and</u> the nice benches and we only
live 4 blocks away. It's so great to be so closeby because I get to see my
''hija'', Hermana Cortes, at least twice a week and all the members and my
converts from San Luis in the stake activities! This week was the ''Week of the
Family'' so I got to see them a lot! It's the biggest tender mercy from the
Lord. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">I love
Graneros. The members are honestly incredible. This is a zion society. They see
us in the street and ask when they can make visits with us and what they can do
to help with the work. They help bring our investigators to church and walk
with us all day. I've already met incredible people and I'm working with lots
of <u>families</u>, which should be our focus as missionaries! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">I'm a
little nervous because I'm going to have to recieve and likely train a new STL
next transfer and because I'm going to start divisions soon. The STL's do
divisions with all the hermanas in their area (My area is the south, in
Choluteca) to see how they are and to help them with tough investigators. I
definitely feel very average, so it's a huge compliment that President trusts
me to do this. Pray for me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">So we had a
Stake Cultural Night on Saturday that was so fun! The Young Women danced with
the Young Men in their big traditional dresses and different wards did skits and
the whole thing was beautiful! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">Well,
that's all I have time for, but I hope you all know that Heavenly Father is
giving me the most beautiful experiences here in Honduras. I don't believe that
there is a missionary more blessed than I am. I love Him. And I love you
all. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">Flynn
Family Forever, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">Hermana
Flynn</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">P.S. Last
week I was in one of my ''retentions'' with my recent convert, Javier, who had
4 strokes and lost his ability to talk well and walk well. We had just finished
the lesson and were enjoying the spirit after our closing prayer when he looks
over at my companion, Hermana Cortes, and out of nowhere says ''You have a
mustache.'' I was dying. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">P.P.S. In
my last lesson with my new convert, Edinson, he gave me a little jar of
luciernagas (fireflies) because he knows how much I love them. Here's a picture
of them in the light because my camera didn't do well with taking a picture of
them shining in the dark. But they glowed in my little room and it made me so
happy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">You don't
know how much talking to you guys meant to me yesterday! It was such a joy. I
really love you all. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">We have a
weekly ward FHE on Fridays for the obra misional and this week's message was
given by Jairo, 2nd counselor of the Bishopric. We watched a Mormon Message and
he talked about love. He talked about how we don't tell people we love them as
often as we should. He was asking individuals when was the last time they told
their moms they loved her and they couldn't even remember. But then in front of
everyone he said, ''I bet Hermana Flynn says it every day because in her family
they always yell 'Flynn Family for all eternity!''' I'd completely forgotten that
I'd told him about our ''Flynn Family Forever'' like 2 months ago! It made me
laugh. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">Well, I'll
tell you a bit about our birthday and our baptisms! On the morning of May 10th,
I woke up at like 5-something a.m. to sing La Mañanitas to my comp and then went
back to bed (because I'd gone to bed at 1am decorating and getting her present
ready.) Then I awoke to her singing me the mañanitas with paper confetti
raining on me! Later that day I mentioned singing her the mañanitas and she
didn't believe that I did it because she didn't remember it at all!! It was
hilarious! But I made banana pancakes in the morning and added honduran
m&m's to them. And we ate them with peanut butter!! Then we went and did a
mini service project in a member's house, coloring mother's day cards for the
primary to give away. There, we found a wild turtle that had wandered into the
house (I'll send you a picture.) And the hermanas that share our area surprised
us with peanut butter as our birthday present! We got fed lunch there and then
went to eat yet another lunch with Hermana Magdalena. We pretty much just got
things ready for the baptisms from there on out and it went so smoothly, which
was the Lord's blessing to us. Afterwards, we went to straighten a less active
mom's hair for mother's day while her kids climbed all over me! We got home
late and tired, but happy!! I learned that you don't need cake or anything
special to have an awesome birthday! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">One of the
people we baptized is 21 years old and named Edinson (almost like Thomas
Edison) and I love teaching him because we sit under his orange and mango
trees, outside his house made of mud and branches as the sun sets and the
fireflies come out. I'd never seen real life fireflies before I came and
they're gorgeous! Honduras is heavenly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">If I go in
this transfer, I'll miss the South. Even though it's so hot and I have
countless bug bites, I'll miss this place. I really love it here. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">Breaking
news: I think my comp is in the first stages of Chicken Pox! Ahhhhh no. Please
pray for her because it's so un-fun to be around her when she's sick! Poor
girl. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">Well, I
hope you're all succeeding in all that you're involved in. And I hope you're
all succeeding in the Lord's eyes (with the things that matter most.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">I love you
more than I could ever tell. I pray for you always. You are my life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">xoxo, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">Hermana
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">P.S.
There's a horrible tradition to break raw eggs on people's heads on their
birthdays. So in our district meeting, our district got us good. We
reiked!!!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">First off,
thank you so much for the birthday package! I'm saving the letters until my
actual birthday, but I love all the stuff you sent me! I especially love the
darling notebook and I've already started writing the tender mercies I see each
day here in Honduras. Thank you! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">I cannot
wait to see you all on Sunday at 5pm! My recent convert, Carolina, is lending
us her laptop so pray that the connection will be good! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">Life is
wonderful here. I had a really hard day with my companion and we were able to
humble ourselves and fix things before going to the temple the next day. I've
had almost all Latin comps and I admit that it's not always easy to work with
them. Their culture is much more dramatic, I've found, which can make life a little
bit more difficult. But I'm grateful for these companion trials because I know
they're preparing me to be a more patient and kind wife and mother. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">The temple
was such a blessing. Henry, my convert from March, paid his ticket before
anyone else and went to do baptisms. He is so pilas! He's the one sitting by us
in the picture. He's preparing for his mission next year. And we also brought
Maria Celeste, the girl we're baptizing this Saturday. I attached a picture of
us on the busride home. She loves me... I'm so normal...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">I was able
to do a session with my companion and sit by the dear friend who cooks us lunch
every day and washes our clothes by hand. Her name is Hermana Magdalena (like
Magdeline) and I love her SO much. She is my mom here. She's about 4'11 and
weighs less than 100 pounds. We pay her $25 every 15 days to feed us each lunch
(which is the main meal of the day) and to wash our clothes once a week. So we
spend lots of time in her house and she is one of the most special women of my
mission. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">Anyway, we
woke up at 2am to go to the temple as a ward on a yellow school bus. It's about
a 4 hour drive. I'm so touched by the sacrifices of the members here. They had
to pay 100 lemps each ($5), which is a sacrifice for them!! We got home around
8 pm and were exhausted, but so spiritually enriched. I LOVE THE TEGUC TEMPLE!
I have such a testimony of the holy temple. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">I love God.
Our president asked us to study the atonement this month and gave us lots of
homework. I am loving it! This week I have been softened and shaped by the
Lord. I'm also trying to meet my high goal of finishing the BOM before next
Wednesday...I'm in Alma 15... We'll see how that goes! I just love the
scriptures. I really love Jesus Christ. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">Here's your
family home evening homework: each one of you take the quiz at the end of
chapter 6 in Preach my Gospel about the attributes of Jesus Christ!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">I love
Honduras. The winter is already starting here, meaning there are now insane
thunder storms. Lightning and thunder like I've <u>never </u>experienced
before. It's startling. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">Here are a
couple things I haven't told you guys:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">We take a
45 min bus in order to go to the stake center that's 10 min away in taxi in
order to save 8 lemps each way ($0.40). If not, we run out of money. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">We can't
flush paper in central america. No one flushes paper. There are always garbage
cans by the toilets to throw your paper away. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">When the
people have a toothache, they go to the public hospital to get their teeth
pulled for 20 lempiras ($1)... without anesthetic. I love all the toothless
smiles! They warm my heart. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">The men in
the street are ridiculously disrespectful about women. And incredibly verbal. A
man polishing shoes just barely yelled after me, ''I'll marry you this instant!
I'm loving your little skirt!'' Haha my little skirt that hits me mid-calf!
These men are crazy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">Well,
that's all for now, but I'll see you soon! I'll send more pics of the
wedding. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">HAPPY
MOTHER'S DAY!!! You are the BEST mom I've ever had, and I mean that. haha</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">Seriously
though, I've never been more grateful to you than I am right now. I love you
dearly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">xoxo, </span></div>
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Flynn</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">So, it's
happened! Mauricio and Melissa were married and baptized in the church on
Saturday! And the wedding was stressful, but very beautiful and successful. God
has blessed us more than I can tell! They are so grateful and happy to be
members and will be going to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">temple </b>to
do baptisms this Thursday! And guess what? We're going with them! We're going
to do a session while they're in the font! I am seriously so excited. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">The temple
is <u>such</u> a treat for me! We're going to leave at 3:15am and we're also
going with Henry, the teenager we baptized in March, and a 12 year old
investigator named Maria Celeste, who's on date for May 10th! I love to see the
sacrifices of the members here. They have to pay 100 lempiras for the bus ($5)
and pay for breakfast and lunch there and it's a significant sacrifice for
them. I cannot express how grateful I am to have been born in the United States
into the covenant. I love my country and I <u>love </u>this gospel. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">Henry and a
lot of other youth went to Teguc this week to go see a gringo dentist who came
to do their mission appointments for free and take out their wisdom teeth. It's
so interesting to be on the recieving ends of these services here in Honduras!
I was so grateful for the dentist who gave my comp a free root cannal. If I go
into medicine, I want to come back to do humanitarian work. These people need
so much help! This is such a poor country! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">I always
have to comment (complain) on the weather here. This week it hit 112 degrees
and I have heat rash all over my body to prove it! Ahhhh. I don't understand
how people can live here! But despite it all, I'm happy! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">Missions
are so great. So hard. I think only RM's can understand what I'm talking about.
But only RM's can understand the blessings and joy that comes from this work.
This is a gospel of JOY! I love teaching it. I love feeling God's patience with
me as I struggle to worthily represent Him. I love His mercy. I love His
goodness. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">And I love
all of you! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">Have a great week and send me lots of pictures! I'll see you
in a couple weeks!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">Hermana
Flynn</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">First off,
loved the Easter pictures!! I feel a little ripped off because they don't
celebrate it here. They just eat fish soup the whole week. But it was good fish
soup! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">Wow, we are
feeling very blessed here. Especially because this weekend, we will be
baptizing our very first FAMILY!! Mauricio and Melissa are getting MARRIED and
BAPTIZED this Saturday!!! Thank you for all your prayers on their behalf. And
mine! We have one week to get everything planned for the ''boda.'' But today,
we went with Mitch and Jossela (a gringo who served here about 2 years ago who
came back and married a darling Honduran girl) to get all the paperwork done!
Weddings are so expensive for the missionaries because almost everything comes
out of our personal mission money. But we are feeling a lot of support from the
ward and from our zone. We want to make it as beautiful as possible for them!
At 5pm they're going to do the civil marriage, at 6pm the baptism, and at 7pm
the reception! Her colors are light blue and silver and we're going to have the
party outide on the church cement basketball court (elegant, I know.) We're
working to gather decorations and scraping to buy a cake! The relief society
are working to provide chicken sandwiches and soda. Most of the party is a surprise
for the couple, who are so humble and never thought they'd be able to have
something nice like this! We're so excited. A sister offered to lend us her
wedding dress and when we pulled Melissa out of her house and took her to try
it on, the surprise made her cry! She just said ''I never thought I'd be able
to have a white dress!'' Organizing all this really makes me feel like a fairy
godmother to a Cinderella because Melissa is such a sweet, hard-working, loving
girl who deserves so much! The gratitude of the people here is so inspiring,
especially when compared to our culture, who has so much and is grateful for so
little. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">I'll send
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So I'm officially 10 months old here. Time is flying. Easter is
coming up, but they don't really celebrate the day like we do in the
U.S., rather the entire week, and they celebrate by relaxing on the
beach. So it'll be a little harder to teach this week with everyone out
of the house! But challenge accepted. </div>
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I can't believe both Jake and Dad had trips to the ER. That's
really scary. I'm praying hard for you and the family. Please keep me
updated. </div>
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Mauricio went to church! But without Melissa because
she started working this week. So their wedding and baptismal date got
pushed back to the 26th. THEY NEED YOUR PRAYERS! They don't have money.
Like, they haven't been eating because they don't have money. It's so
sad to live in a place where the people suffer like this. In the last
hour of church, we sat in a classroom with Mauricio as he expressed
concern because one of the families in our ward apparently goes to a
witchdoctor to sacrifice chickens frequently and worship idols. We keep
telling him to forget about the members faults and sins and focus on his
own testimony. It turned into a conversation that last over and hour as
he bore his whole soul to us. A few members waited 20 minutes after
church ended to invite him and his wife to a family home evening they
planned today. It made me want to cry because I was so grateful for the
support they're offering. </div>
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There are so many ups and downs in the mission. Our bishop just got
emergency released for sexual sin and we are currently bishop-less.
Please pray for my ward. Please pray for Honduras. </div>
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I hope you
all know that I love the mission! I've been reflecting on the changes
it's made in my life. I am not the same person. And that is a very good
thing! I didn't even realize how much I was sinning before I came. I
didn't realize how much is expected of me. I love the attributes I'm
developing and the goals I've made to develop more. </div>
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One of the most important lessons that I'm learning is that pride
is destructive and that service is the secret to all relationships. And
not self-righteous service, but humble and sincere service. </div>
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I love you all more than you can possibly imagine. </div>
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Send me pictures! </div>
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xoxo, </div>
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Hermana Flynn</div>
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HAPPY EASTER!</div>
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General conference is so much better than Christmas here. Those
words are the best gifts. I especially loved Uchtdorf's talk on
gratitude and Pres. Monson's on love. The prophet receives direct
communication from God, and it's interesting to think that the message
that God really wants us to receive right now is the importance of
love. </div>
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This week was wonderful. I love the mission. It's hitting around
110 some of these days. They should move me out of the south to cool it
down a little (wink.) </div>
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I'm going to send you guys some fun pictures! </div>
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One is some graffiti we found here. I love the spelling. </div>
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The
other is from the dentist's office. My poor comp always has something
going on! We went to Teguc and she got a root cannal. The adorable
dentist helped us FOR FREE because she is also a member and serving a
mission in May at 24 years old! The procedure lasted 4 and a half hours
and I got to watch the whole thing. Really facsinating. And thanks to
the Teguc trip, we got to sleep over with Hna Garfield in La Joya!!!!!!
It felt like going home. There's nothing like your first area in the
mission. </div>
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We brought Mauricio and Melissa to conference and they loved it.
I'll send a picture for them. Please pray for them and all my
investigators! </div>
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Love, love, love, </div>
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Hermana Flynn</div>
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isn't functioning well from this Honduran internet cafe,so we'll see how this
goes... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">This
morning we went as Zone Porvenir to the beach! I was so blissfully happy. I
need to live on the beach someday. I'll try to send you lots of photos because
I think I took about 1000! We played beach volleyball and walked along the
sand. We couldn't touch the water, but it was still a dream come true! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">This week
we saw so many miracles! First of all, we were able to bring the new couple,
Mauricio and Melissa Rivera to a ''Noche de hermanamiento'' (ward family night)
this wednesday. Mauricio was with the Jehova's Witnesses and then with the
Pentecostal church (Is that how you say it in English??) but he said that those
churches lacked one thing. He didn't tell us what that one thing was, but that
he was going to look for it in our church. The activity was really beautiful
and as we shook his hand and kissed his wife good by, he just looked us in the
eyes and said, ''I found what I've been looking for...and more.'' </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">We went and
taught them the Restoration afterward and they were so receptive and are
reading the BOM together and praying as a couple. It is such a blessing in my
life. How great will be your joy if you bring one soul to the kingdom of my
father....how great will be your joy if you should bring many souls unto
me! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">I seriously
LOVE missionary work!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">Yesterday,
we asked if we could teach this little cute abuelita sitting outside and after
we taught her, we challenged her to be baptized. She replied, ''When can I do
it?'' She is the most adorable old lady and could not stop hugging us and
kissing us!! She's probably 90 years old, which is perfect because she'll be
clean when she leaves this life! Celestial Kingdom, baby! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">Breaking
news: Today, it's 104 degrees in Choluteca and this week isn't suppose to drop
below 102! The highest being 105. The little comment below todays temp says
''feels like 109.'' Thanks to the beautiful weather, I have a visible and very
unsightly heat rash all over my neck. We walk around with a big umbrella to try
not to burn too much, but it's tough to avoid! Of all the things I took for
granted in Salt Lake, AC was one of the biggest! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">I am SO excited
for la Conferencia General! Seriously, I keep telling my comp it's way better
than Christmas here and I think she's tired of all my comments. Can't wait. I
started the tradition last conference to read the entire Conference Ensign
before the next one begins. I'm almost done!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">Wow, I
seriously LOVE YOU ALL! I think about you all the time, but not in an ''I wish
I were home,'' kind of way. Just remember that I'm praying for each of you and
I always will. Being here has opened my eyes to how richly blessed we
are--especially to have the family we have. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">FLYNN
FAMILY FOREVER! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">love, </span></div>
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