Trio, Carlos Progressing 5/11/15

Hola Hola Hola! 

This week has been a crazy week! We are now in a trio! I am now companions with Hna Hall and Hna Silberman. We are having so much fun together, They are great companions. It will only be for a week until we have cambios and Hna Hall will receive a new companion. 

Also this last monday, I decided that it would be a good idea to cut my hair. Yeah, it wasnt that good of an idea. This women destroyed my hair. Seriously it took all that was in me to not cry in the salon because I didnt want to offend the women but its so bad. Hna Hall says its like a mullet. Its bad. So hopefully it grows really really fast.

 

On the positive side, Carlos is progressing so much. This week when we talked to him, he told us that he is sure that he wants to be baptized! He has been going to church for 2 months straight now, its been a slow processs but its been worth it. He has a lesson last sunday on the priesthood in priesthood and he told us that his motivation for getting baptized is that he wants to have the priesthood, Before, he wanted to be a clergy in the catholic church but he liked women so in the end he couldnt do it. But he has always had desires to serve God. He has so much faith. He will be future bishop and stake president. His biggest challenge is that he has to stop drinking coffee. He hasnt drank in 5 days. We are pretty sure that he will not fall but he should be baptized the 23 May. Keep him in your prayers.

 

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

Hna Ayre

Interviews 5/4/14

Hola Hola Hola,

This week was a great week! We have seen many miracles. We have three baptismal dates that we are really excited about. Their names are Tabata, Daira and Andrea. 

Tabata turned 17 this week and last year she was listening the missionaries and was about to get baptized and her mom wouldnt sign the permission form. well, when I was with Hna Chapman, we contacted her mom one day in the street and she told us she didnt want us to pass by because the last time when the missionaries got changed it was really hard for them but after talking to her for a coulpe of minutes she gave us her direction so we could pass by. Well, this week we finally found them and they live in a really humble home, especially for Machali and its Tabata her mom and her brother and sister. The mom sister and brother didnt really want to listen to us but Tabata told us that she loves the church and that it is the church that she likes best of all of them that she has gone to. The only problem is that she told us she is a different person now than what she was a year ago and that if she gets baptized she has to change a lot of things in her life but she told us she wants to make changes! Her mom still isnt very supportive so we are praying for miracles.

 

We also had consejo de liderazgo this week which is also a very fun opportunity to learn from President and the other leaders also to see all of the friends from the mission. Hna Truman, who I lived with for 3 moths in Santa Cruz only has two months left in her mission, I cant believe it. We lived in the same building at BYU before the mission and I was convinced before i left on the mission that we would be companions. It still hasn't happened but we did practices in consejo and the assistants put us together, it was like a mini version of being comps. so that was fun.

 

Also we had interviews with President this week. He told me some really nice things. I feel so blessed to have him as President, he is so inspired and truly loves all us missionaries and the work. He asked me what are the things that I still want to accomplish while I am in the mission, it made me feel so weird. I cant believe how time flies in the mission. I just want to give it my all. I feel so blessed for this opportunity to serve the Lord.

 

Love you all, have a great week!

 

Besos

Hna Ayre

Book Of Mormon Challenge 4/27/15

HOla Todos!

 

Wow, this week has been a week of many experiences. But my companion and I are doing great. we are seeing miracles in our sector.  Carlos is so close to getting baptized. He is the most amazing investigator. We had a noche  de hogar as a ward on friday put on by the obra misional and him and his wife came and afterwords, he took the initiative to get to  know the members and he put together a basketball team to play basketball with   the members this upcoming saturday! He  is pretty much a member, he just needs to let go of his feelings for the catholic church. But we know that he will be baptized in this  change. Our noche de hogar went  great this week. Hna Silberman and I have had to take the initiative in putting on the activites  and bringing to life the activities  because we are lacking in energy among the missionaries in our ward so we have been trying really hard in our part to animate the members  because if it doesnt come from us, its not going to come from any of the other missionaries. But we did a noche de hogar on how to have a happier family and we taught  about a talk by elder Holland thats called Lo mas importante es lo que perdura. Sorry, I dont know what it would be called in english but you all should read it. Its a really great talk about how to  have better family relationships and how we can all live the gospel ttogether! 

Well as of two months ago, president challenged us to read the Book of Mormon and to finish before April 30 and so I am in my last week before i will finish the Book of Mormon, but it has been the greatest experience. I love how everytime I read it, I find something new and I find the Lords council  for me just at the time right when I need it. Something that I read this week that marked me was in 3 Nephi, the people prayed for the thing that they most desired and that thing was the holy Ghost.  Also afterwards Jesus prays for them too that they might have the Holy Ghost and that they might be one with him. It was intersting because I realized that we really can only be one with God and Jesus Christ if we have the Holy Ghost and if we dont have it, we are not one with him. Thats why it is so important that we have the Holy Ghost with us at all times and that we listen to His council.

 

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

Besitos

Hna Ayre

Fecha Bautismal 4/20/15

Hola Todos! 

This week has been a good week here in Machali! Hna Silberman and I are such great friends. Seriously we feel so blessed to be together, also it's so great because she is such a great teacher and has so much fe that it is so fun to teach with her. I learn more every day. We are working hard here. Its interesting because here in Machali the people are wealthier people and are a little bit harder hearted but those who let us into their homes usually truly are interested in learning about the gospel. So thats good. 

This week, we taught a lesson to Carlos with President and Hermana Warne and we put a fecha bautismal. And Carlos accepted! We are so excited for him because he is seriously so amazing and has experienced so many changes. He will be an amazing member. Future bishop and stake president.

But it was funny because we are having zone conferences this transfer and president has been talking about faith and fecha bautismales and he has been sharing our story with the whole mission. it was weird for us but thats ok. also I had to direct the zone conference and it was fine but I was so nervous that we spent the two days before the zone conference practicing directing the meeting, I think Hna Silberman got tired of me, but thats ok.

Sorry family but I dont have much time this week but I will write more next week! 

Que tengan una linda semana. 

Hna Ayre 

Week of Miracles, Carlos 4/13/15

Hola todos! 

Wow this has been a week full of miracles. My new companion is so awesome. Her name is Hna Silberman, de Brazil. Everyone think she is gringa for her last name and the fact that she has red hair. But she is such an example to me because she is the only member of her family and had to sacrifice so much to come on the mission. Really I am so grateful for the circumstances and the family life that I come from, sometimes I think I take for granted the fact that I was born in the church and that I have so much support from my family and friends. But also I am so grateful for people like my companion who are truly converted to the evangelio. It is such a testimony to me that this church is true and that God never asks too much of us. When God calls, doesnt matter what our circumstances are, we need to obey him. And when we do, we have His promises and those are more important than all of the other things that happen in this life.

 

Well, funny story for the week. We ate lunch on saturday and the members were late bringing us to our house and late in serving the food and so we were just going to stay in our sector to work but we had forgotten so many things at home so we decided that we needed to go back to the house, which is about 20 or 30 minutes from our sector. So the member brought us back to the house and my comp had to use the bathroom really bad so while I was waiting for her I got the supplies we needed and then I looked into the room where our bunk beds are and to my surprise, the floor was completeley soaked. We live in a really old house and the bathroom drain sometimes doesnt work really well for the hermanas and so accidentally, one of the hermanas had left dripping the faucet and it overfilled the sink and soaked the entire house in merely 4 hours. It was such a miracle that we had forgotten our materials because the house would have been a disaster if we had arrived later. But we had to clean up all the water and we lifted the carpet wich is not an easy task to do. While we were cleaning we found 2 huge spider rincones which are super poisonous. we have lots of them in our house. It was an adventure to say the least. We left the carpet outside to dry and our room seriously looks like a prison cell now because underneath the carpet is cement and its awful. But as we sing here Es la Mision, esta es la obra.

 

We are seeing miracles in our sector. Last week hna Chapman and I went to a semi reference from one of our investigators, Carlos. Carlos works with all women in metlife and there was a women whose name is Andrea who was passing through a really hard moment and Carlos told her that she needed to pray and talked to her a little about the church. Well we had met Andrea in a contact about a month before Carlos told us that story so we made it a priority to go visit her. Our first visit was good and we got a second visit to go visit her again. We were had planned to teach her about the Book of Mormon but we had left the house late due to a certain situation, but  it slipped our mind to bring the Book of Mormon. So we got to Andreas house we planned that we were going to clear her doubts about the first lesson and get another appointment. Well, in the visit, Hna Silberman asked her, what questions do you have for us? and she told us, the only question I have is how you baptize in the church. We explained to her super well baptism and about the proper authority and afterwords we invited her to be baptized May 9, at first she said, isn´t it a little fast and then afterwords goes, no I just need to do it. I need to prepare myself to be baptized. And then she asked us what she needed to do to be prepared for the fecha. She is amazing! I have never had an experience like that in my mission. Wow, my testimony was strengthened that day that God truly prepares people for us. I know that there are even more people prepared and we just have to be valient in extending invitations to them. I also know that Andrea will be able to help Carlos be ready for baptism too. He is so close.

 

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

Con amor

Hna Ayre

New Companion (Hna. Silberman) 4/6/15

Hola Familia! 

Wow,we have had many things happen in this past week here in Machali. But this was the last week of transfers and we will now be getting split apart Hna Chapman and I. We´re very sad but we knew that we weren´t going to stay together. When you get along so well with your companion, its a sign that its not going to last very long. My new companion will be Hna Silberman. She is from Brazil but has red hair and looks like a gringa, she has 4 months here in the mission. Voy a falar portuguese. Im excited President told me that she is great. Its funny because for the majority of my tranfers I have known them before hand.

 

But this week we had an amazing experience. We have been teaching this man named Carlos this whole transfer and he was very close to the catholic church and went every single day to  the church to pray at lunch time. But his wife is a member menos activo and two weeks ago, we gave Carlos a talk from president Monson, Examine the Paths of your feet and when we went back to talk to him, we asked him if he thought what was said in the talk was true and if he believed that Monson was a prophet of God and he told us Si! He actually cried in the lesson because he told us that he has seen so many changes in his life and he knows its because he met us. He told us that he knows the church is true! It was a miracle! I am very grateful for a living prophet and His words and that God still talks to his children in these days.

 

Speaking of conference, it was so great! I don't remember who´s talk it was but I loved the talk that talked about how we just need to be truly good and without guile. We don't need the praises of the world or positions of leadership to do good. The apostle said, actually some of greatest acts of service will only be recognized by God. It made me think of Grandma. I think she is one of the greatest examples of me to be truly good and without guile. Also I loved Uchtdorf´s talk on grace. We´re not saved because of all that we can do, rather we are saved after all that we can do, there is a huge difference. I think of Hollands talk too about the two brothers. Truly we cannot save ourselves. Only our Lord Jesus Christ could do it for us. I think to myself how grateful I am for Him. What a miracle it is to me that God could love such unworthy people even so much that He would give His own son to us. We fall short so many times but we have the hope that He is always there. I think it is the greatest blessing in the world that I have this time in the mission to be able to help other people know their Savior and feel of his love. Well I love you all and hope you have a great week! 

besitos

Hna Ayre

Week Full of Surprises 3/30/15

Hola Todos!

 

Wow this week was a week full of surprises. We got more hermanas in the house this week. We are so happy. I got used to living with one hermana and then the other hermanas got special changed here and we have been having so much fun together. The sad part is that the hermanas got a call and they will be having another special change and Hermana Mccubbins will be going to Talca. We were all shocked. So sad. But God always knows better and he is always doing what we need to keep progressing.

 

This week my companion and I have been studying alot about the atonement because it is the week before easter and it is amazing to me that eveysingle time we study more in depths about the atonement the more we learn and teh more we can rely upon him. We were studying a talk by James E Faust The Atonement, our greatest hope. Everyone should read it to help us prepare for this special week. I love it because we have been talking to everyone about the atonement and what it means to them personally, and for everyone it is something different because we all have experienced the tender mercies of the Lord in different ways. But yesterday in our lesson about the atonemnet our menos activo started talking about the second coming and we talked about how important it is that we live every moment in a way that if He were to come tomorrow, we would be prepared for Him. I always like to think, would I be ready if in two minutes I had to be judged by the Lord. We always need to be aplying the atonement and we always need to be relying upon him. Its the only true way that we can be happy in this life.

 

Well I love you all and hope that you are all prepareing for general conference because it is going to be amazing! We are getting really excited here! take advantage of the opportunity that you have to listen to a living prophet. It is such a blessing.

 

besitos

Hna Ayre