Saying Goodbye 8/18/2014

Hola Everyone! 

Wow, what a crazy week. Hna Beeston left this morning to go home and it was so sad to say goodbye. I wish I could have had more time with her. We seriously were instant best friends. Even better we both wanted to work really hard. I am so grateful that I got to be with her because she taught me a lot about consecration. 

Our time here in the mission really is short and it is so important to give it our all even when times get hard.  This week we found an amazing investigator. She was walking in the street and she had a face like she wanted to talk to us so we stopped and talked to her and supposedly Hna Novoa and Buttler had taught her one time, but then she moved houses and couldn't get a hold of them. We put a cita with her and returned to her house and she is super interested in the gospel. Her husband was killed in Ecuador in April and she is now living alone with her son of 4. She has just been so sad but she called Hna Novoa and Buttler after our lesson and told them that she just feels so much peace when were in her house. She also came to church on Sunday. I know that we are going to be able to help her find the peace and comfort in her life that she is looking for. I´m so grateful that Hna Beeston and I were paying attention when we saw her in the street because I know God put us in her path for a reason. She really is so prepared to hear the message of the gospel. I am so excited to keep teaching her and have the ability to see the healing powers of the atonement take place in her life. 

I know that God knows us personally and is always there for us if we but only go to him. He lets us go through trials because He wants us to become like Him and we can only do that if we go through these trials and learn from them and improve.  And even more we start to understand what true happiness is.

 

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

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 

The Marriage

Hola Todos!

I hope you all have had a great week. Wow, time is starting to fly by here. I cannot believe that another week has come and gone. This week was super crazy for us. We had to move to a different house and that took up one day of work and then we had like three activities in the branch and so we were with the ward lots this week too.

 

Well two really great things happened this week. Our menos activo Maritza finally got a calling in the branch! She will be the secretary in the Young Womens. We are super excited for her. The only bad part is that she did not show up to church on Sunday which was a real bummer. We haven´t been able to talk to her so we hope that everything is alright. 

The other great news is that Carlos and Marcela got married this morning! It was so beautiful and so happy. I was sitting there listening to the vows and it made me think about how grateful I am for temples. It is such a blessing that we can be sealed to our families for all eternity. It is so sad the idea that some people will only have the opportunity to be married til death do they part. I am so excited for Carlos and Marcela because really that is just the beginning of their process to become an eternal family. This morning was so special for their family. Their son Wladimir had told them ever since he was little that they should get married and now they are. He was so happy.

 

It is such a blessing in my life that I have the opportunity to be God´s mouth piece in this marvelous work. I know that real happiness comes from the gospel of Jesus Christ and our obedience to it. I know that without a doubt we have a Father in Heaven who loves us more than we can know and we all have the opportunity to return to live in His presence again. We have to be obedient too though, because He is a just God and nothing impure can live in his presence. I hope that we can all return together to his presence one day and be accepted into His kingdom. 

I invite you all to share what you know to be true with someone else who needs that help this week. I love you all!  Have  a great week! 

Con Muchisimo Amor

Hna Ayre 

5 Month Mark

Hola todos!

How is everyone doing? The time is flying by for me here in the mission. I cannot believe that it is already July. This week I will complete 5 months in the mission! 

This week was a crazy week. All of the people that we normally visit in the week had their appointments fall through. We would go to their house and we couldn´t enter because they either weren´t there or that it was just a man alone. One of our investigators Brian, accepted a baptismal date last week and who accepted to live the word of wisdom and live the law of chastity totally blew us off this week. I don´t know what is happening with him but I hope that everything is alright still. Yesterday we saw him walking in the street and I made eye contact with him and he looked down and walked away, so I made sure to say hi really loud as he walked pàst and then he stopped and said hi. I was a little bit hurt by that because it felt that he was making such good progress and that he confided in us, but I just hope everything is alright with him. 

Our other investigators Carlos and Marcela are supposedly going to the registro civil to put an hour today to get married which we are really excited about. I've been worrying about Marcela because she has a really bad back and has been bed ridden many times which has impeded her from coming to church. I think one of her disks slipped out like moms. The problem is that she needs a surgery, but its too expensive so she can´t get it. She got a blessing and I hope that she can start feeling better. 

Even though this week as far as appointment goes, wasn´t how we planned, it was still a good week. Especially Sunday, the two girls Cata and Feña hadn´t come to church since the day that they got confirmed and this week their whole family came. It made me so happy because they are like my second family here in Centinela and to see them sitting all there together was a very special moment for me. Their brother Pablo still has not been baptized and we are working with him to arrive at that point. I just want them to be able to have the opportunity to be an eternal family. 

Something that I have thought alot about this week is the importance of obedience. The commandments we have been given have been given to us because God loves us and knows what is best for us. To obey brings us the most happiness we can have. 

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

Love 

Hna Ayre 

Transfers 6/23/14

Hi everyone! How is everyone doing?

This week was a crazy week with transfers and everything, but it was still a good week. My new companion, Hna Tidwell is from Provo Utah and she only has two months left in her mission. She is an awesome missionary and I have learned lots of things from her already in just this first week. 

We are working with a family right now who are literally so amazing. They have a lot of faith. They have been together for 22 years and aren't married, but we invited them to get married and Carlos will be going to the Registro Civil to put an appointment so that they can get married this Wednesday. Marcela said that she never had a reason to get married before, but that after she read the Proclamation to the Family she understands the importance of marriage.

 

Something that I have studied a lot this week is the Atonement of Jesus Christ. We can't even begin to imagine everything that He sufferred through, but we can know how much He loves us for the sacrifice that he made. He understands when we make mistakes because he suffered for our pains and temptations and he has felt the guilt that we have felt when we make mistakes. Thanks to Him, we can repent and be completely made clean again. I read a general conference talk that said, we are never too far away from Christs love that we can't come back again. All of us make mistakes, but to repent of them we can feel the biggest joy that we can feel in this life. 

I love you all and hope that everyone is all doing really well!

 

Love 

Hna Ayre