Aug. 11, 2014

Hola everyone!

Wow, this week flew! I can´t believe that I only have one week left with Hna Beeston, Im super sad about it. I would have loved to have more time with her.

This week, my knowledge of the sector was put to the test. Hna Beeston and Novoa went to the temple with president leaving me and hna Buttler here in our two sectors. Both of us only have two weeks in Rauquen. We had to work in the two sectors for two days and we were sooo lost. You could say we put some miles on our shoes those two days. Hna Beeston and Novoa will be going home next Monday and we will work those two sectors for the next three weeks. We will have lots of work to do. Those two days that we were in divisions I was a little stressed at first because I still felt so lost in the sector but I read a general conference talk and there was a quote in it that I love. It says, all of the easy things that have had to be done in the church have been done, from here on out its high adventure. It made me more excited for the work that we will be doing because it will be an adventure and that we will see lots of miracles. 

So crazy story of the week. There is a menos activo family that we are working with and they are really awesome, but their story is a little bit complicated. The dad and daughter are members of the church, the moms not and is divorced from the husband, but they all still live in the same house, but in different bedrooms. But we started teaching the mom the other day and she was so excited and we even put a baptismal date. But then we went to go visit the dad and the daughter and Patricia told that she's resigning from listening to us, so we were bummed, but like ok. Then we passed by on Saturday night when we were in divisions and Patricia opened the door and she looked at me and said why do you have to keep coming to our house. She was really upset with us and told us that jehovas witnesses only come out once a week and that we should too. I told her sorry for bothering her and that we hadn´t realized we had passed by every day (because we hadn´t passed by everyday) and then she felt bad and was yelling at us to come inside the house to talk with her. I was like yeah we´re going to call next time we come over, nos vemos.

  

This week I finished the Book of Mormon in Spanish! My testimony has really grown of that book and of the importance of reading it every single day. I feel like I have really grown to know my Savior better through my reading this time.

I love you all and hope you have a great week!

August 5th, 2014

Hola Todos! 

Wow, this week has been a really good week. I miss all of the people in my old sector, but I already love everyone here in Rauquén. My companion is awesome. I am sad that I only get three weeks with her. She has been a really great example to me of dilligence. 

Something that I have thought about this week a lot is the changes that occur in yourself when you are in the service of the Lord. As a mission, every month we are trying to develop a different attribute of Christ, and it has been something that has really blessed my life. Besides the fact that the mission is amazing because you get to help others make changes and come unto Christ, you yourself make changes and come unto Christ.  I love this work and I love that I have this opportunity to be one of His servants. I feel like day by day I get more converted to this gospel. I love that the more I learn about Christ, the more I love Him and the more I want to help los demas love him and serve him. 

This week we had a really cool lesson with a menos activo. She is a really deep thinker and really ponders about what we say to her. But this week we read in Ether 12 with her. At the end of the reading, we asked her what she could do personally to strengthen and show her faith in Jesus Christ. She said I suppose that I shouldn´t deny him. And Hermana Beeston asked her and in what ways can someone deny Christ. And she didn´t understand the question so we explained to her how when her son doesn´t do what she asks him to do he is denying her. And it clicked in her head. It was so cool to see her understand that you show your love for Jesus Christ by obeying Him. She had never thought in that before. But once she did she couldn´t stop talking about how it finally clicked in her head. It was something so simple but yet so profound. 

I love you all! 

Love 

Hna Ayre 

July 28th, 2014

Wow, this was a crazy week. On Tuesday, Hna Tidwell went to the temple because she will be leaving in three weeks, so I got the opportunity to go on divisions with my companion from the ccm, Hna cook. It was so fun to be with her again and see the progress that both her and I have made since we have been out in the field. Then we also had zone conference this week and it was amazing. I love learning from our leaders here in the mission. I feel so blessed that I have the Warnes as my mission presidents. They are two really amazing people and are both really inspired in what they do and say. When I´m around them, I always think about what mom and dad and the boys are up to and it always brings back memories of the zone conferences and interviews that I went to with mom and dad.

I learned on Saturday, that I will be going to Rauquen in Curico on Tuesday. I will be companions with Hna Beastin who is another gringa from Utah. I laugh because all of my companions have been from Utah so far. Hna Beastin only has three weeks left in the mission, so I will go be with her for her last three weeks and then she will leave and another girl in our house is leaving at the same time so I will become companions with whomever is the other girls companion is who is leaving. I have a feeling that we may be really lost for a little bit. I will only have three weeks to learn the sector. It has been really hard to say goodbye to the people here in Centinela. These people have become part of my family. I feel so blessed that I had the opportunity to start my mission in Centinela. 

Family and friends, our mission has started doing our family history and it is something super cool. I invite all of you to go to familysearch.org and start your family history too. There is a lot of work to be done in everyone's family history still and what I have learned here in the mission is that it is not only for old people. I have thouroughly enjoyed doing it. You can upload photos and memories about your ancestors and if I had the time I would love spending more time on the site learning about my ancestors. 

This work is super important because missionary work does not only happen on this earth, it is constantly happening in the spirit world too and we need to help with that work. I promise you all that if you take the time to do it, you will all feel a really cool connection with your ancestors.

 

I love you all and hope you have a great week.

Love 

Hna Ayre