Hello!
So we have been VERY blessed in Consti with amazing sunny weather for the past few weeks! Yay! I am sure that there will be rain this winter but it’s just coming later.
So I found out today that I am staying in Consti for another 6 weeks! That means I will be here for 9 months…half my misión! But I am excited and a little nervous. Mostly because my new companion will be a brandnew one! Which means that there will be 4 of us again in Consti. Crazy. I will know more about her net week.
This week we made bread with a family we are teaching. We made it without a bread machine, without a mixer, and without even an oven!! We honestly put it over a fire we built ourselves! It was awesome!
I am sending a picture of Cecilia who we have been sharing with. Her pololo (boyfriend) is there with her. They met becuase of us! Haha.
Well I love and miss you all!
Hermana Gamboa
P.S. KH: La foto de Rodrigo y Presidente Chávez es de la conferencia de Estaca en Talca: ). Él está mejor pero sigue siendo Rodrigo…
Friday, July 17, 2009
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009
Hello!
So this week was a very busy week. We had 8 baptisms on Saturday which made for a lot of work. It rained a ton that day and I was so nervous about how everything was going to turn out but everything was well planned out and it went beautifully. I am sending a picture of everyone together. I am also sending a beautiful picture of the amazing family that we have been teaching. They are so great! Although they were already an amazing family before we ever taught them, their lives have improved a ton for having accepted the Gospel in their lives. The Dad, Edgardo has changed a lot in particular. He has learned to be a more loving and kind husband and father. Their family is absolutely beautiful and I am so blessed to have been able to share with them.
Juan is another man who is in the big group picture (all the way on the right). He is the owner of the pool hall here in Consti (all of the jóvenes in the ward are excited about that!). It’s crazy how he has changed his life as well.
Well the work is good and I am happy to be doing it! Thanks to everyone for your love and support.
Hermana G.
So this week was a very busy week. We had 8 baptisms on Saturday which made for a lot of work. It rained a ton that day and I was so nervous about how everything was going to turn out but everything was well planned out and it went beautifully. I am sending a picture of everyone together. I am also sending a beautiful picture of the amazing family that we have been teaching. They are so great! Although they were already an amazing family before we ever taught them, their lives have improved a ton for having accepted the Gospel in their lives. The Dad, Edgardo has changed a lot in particular. He has learned to be a more loving and kind husband and father. Their family is absolutely beautiful and I am so blessed to have been able to share with them.
Juan is another man who is in the big group picture (all the way on the right). He is the owner of the pool hall here in Consti (all of the jóvenes in the ward are excited about that!). It’s crazy how he has changed his life as well.
Well the work is good and I am happy to be doing it! Thanks to everyone for your love and support.
Hermana G.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
HOLA,
Well this week was very busy and very out of the ordinary. Really the misión life is like the same thing everyday but at the same time everyday is different. Well Friday was very different. We got to travel 5 ½ hours south to Concepción to hear Elder Oaks speak. No, I did not end up translating for his wife. They actually had a translator with them which put my mind at ease. Anyway, he was an amazing speaker. His words were very inspirational. He spoke a lot about focusing on the work, about finding yourself, and about being instruments in the Lords hands and what it takes to do that. It was so great just to hear his voice. We also all got to meet him and his wife which was awesome. But we weren’t allowed to shake hands because of the swine flu (the Sisters in Concepción had it) so we all bumped elbows instead which was funny. He has an amazingly deep voice and is really funny. So we ended up leaving really late and didn’t make it back to Consti that night. We had to stay the night in the apartment of some Elders in Talca, which is about 2 hours from home. DON’T WORRY…the Elders stayed in another apartment. But it was still weird for us to stay in their place…needless to say it was an experience!! I am sending a picture of the enire misión (I’m in the middle towards the back), of the 4 of us who were in the MTC together, and of me and hermana Egbert (Carol) who is from Rancho.
So the rain finally came this week! Only for 2 days but it completely changed the work! The streets were completely flooded up to our knees. Everyone thought we were crazy and no one wanted to let us in their houses drenched…I think I am going to be doing a LOT of praying this Winter!! But I’m looking forward to it: )
So I am also sending a picture of Clarisa who was recently baptized. Her story is amazing. It is so awesome to see that as people become closer to the Lord, they are able to make changes that they were never able to make before in their lives. Clarisa found the strength to get out of an abusive relationship and is way happier now and confident. I am so happy to have been able to see her transformation. We have a lot of other amazing people we are working with. There is a lot of work to be done here in Consti. Please pray for us!
Un besito a todos: )
Camille
Well this week was very busy and very out of the ordinary. Really the misión life is like the same thing everyday but at the same time everyday is different. Well Friday was very different. We got to travel 5 ½ hours south to Concepción to hear Elder Oaks speak. No, I did not end up translating for his wife. They actually had a translator with them which put my mind at ease. Anyway, he was an amazing speaker. His words were very inspirational. He spoke a lot about focusing on the work, about finding yourself, and about being instruments in the Lords hands and what it takes to do that. It was so great just to hear his voice. We also all got to meet him and his wife which was awesome. But we weren’t allowed to shake hands because of the swine flu (the Sisters in Concepción had it) so we all bumped elbows instead which was funny. He has an amazingly deep voice and is really funny. So we ended up leaving really late and didn’t make it back to Consti that night. We had to stay the night in the apartment of some Elders in Talca, which is about 2 hours from home. DON’T WORRY…the Elders stayed in another apartment. But it was still weird for us to stay in their place…needless to say it was an experience!! I am sending a picture of the enire misión (I’m in the middle towards the back), of the 4 of us who were in the MTC together, and of me and hermana Egbert (Carol) who is from Rancho.
So the rain finally came this week! Only for 2 days but it completely changed the work! The streets were completely flooded up to our knees. Everyone thought we were crazy and no one wanted to let us in their houses drenched…I think I am going to be doing a LOT of praying this Winter!! But I’m looking forward to it: )
So I am also sending a picture of Clarisa who was recently baptized. Her story is amazing. It is so awesome to see that as people become closer to the Lord, they are able to make changes that they were never able to make before in their lives. Clarisa found the strength to get out of an abusive relationship and is way happier now and confident. I am so happy to have been able to see her transformation. We have a lot of other amazing people we are working with. There is a lot of work to be done here in Consti. Please pray for us!
Un besito a todos: )
Camille
Monday, June 15, 2009
6.15.09
Hola,
Primero I want to publicly send Birthday wishes to el Amor de mi vida:
¡Feliz cumpleaños mi sobrinito chiquitito y gordito! Eres la huahuita más bonita de todo el mundo, amorcito. Te quiero con todo mi corazón.
Ahora, I want to publicly send Father’s day wishes to my Papita:
¡Feliz día de Papá, mi papita gordito! Eres el Papá mejor del mundo y te quiero caleta! (Gordito is a term of endearment fyi :).
And finally, I world like to publicly congratulate the best basketball team of all the world for their championship: GO LAAKKKKEERRSSS!! (Don’t worry they didn’t even televise the games in Chile so I wasn’t distracted. Mom and Dad: I hope you keep the championship game on Tivo: )
SO Elder Dallin H Oaks is coming to Concepción and he wants to meet all of the missionaries of our mission and of the Concepción South mission! So we will be travelling about 6 hours by bus (or 3 by car if we can work that out) this Friday! We are all way excited! The mission president called me the other day to see if I could translate for Sister Oaks. He said that of all of the Sisters he thought of me (too bad Hermana Hutchinsons isn’t here!!). I know that this is going to sound horrible but I kind of said no. I didn’t exactly say no. I told him that if they needed me too that I would be happy to do it but that I knew of some other Sisters whose Spanish is better than mine.
The people who are sharing with are doing well! Our one amazing family keeps being amazing. There is this one woman who the other sisters were working with for a long time and we just figured out what her problem really is. It turns out she had an abusive boyfriend. We are helping her to let him go. It is so rewarding to so her progress!
Well I love you all and am sooooo greatful for your support!
Hermana Gamboa
Primero I want to publicly send Birthday wishes to el Amor de mi vida:
¡Feliz cumpleaños mi sobrinito chiquitito y gordito! Eres la huahuita más bonita de todo el mundo, amorcito. Te quiero con todo mi corazón.
Ahora, I want to publicly send Father’s day wishes to my Papita:
¡Feliz día de Papá, mi papita gordito! Eres el Papá mejor del mundo y te quiero caleta! (Gordito is a term of endearment fyi :).
And finally, I world like to publicly congratulate the best basketball team of all the world for their championship: GO LAAKKKKEERRSSS!! (Don’t worry they didn’t even televise the games in Chile so I wasn’t distracted. Mom and Dad: I hope you keep the championship game on Tivo: )
SO Elder Dallin H Oaks is coming to Concepción and he wants to meet all of the missionaries of our mission and of the Concepción South mission! So we will be travelling about 6 hours by bus (or 3 by car if we can work that out) this Friday! We are all way excited! The mission president called me the other day to see if I could translate for Sister Oaks. He said that of all of the Sisters he thought of me (too bad Hermana Hutchinsons isn’t here!!). I know that this is going to sound horrible but I kind of said no. I didn’t exactly say no. I told him that if they needed me too that I would be happy to do it but that I knew of some other Sisters whose Spanish is better than mine.
The people who are sharing with are doing well! Our one amazing family keeps being amazing. There is this one woman who the other sisters were working with for a long time and we just figured out what her problem really is. It turns out she had an abusive boyfriend. We are helping her to let him go. It is so rewarding to so her progress!
Well I love you all and am sooooo greatful for your support!
Hermana Gamboa
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