Oct pictures

I am in Cartago

Hey mom. Just so you know I had changes I am in Cartago which is about 1 hour from San Jose.  I left my area at like 7:30 this morning and just barely got here. I had to drop my old companion off with the new companion and then i had to go to san jose with some elders.,…. so that was weird... and then we had to go to our new area from San Jose. so we just barely got her like an hour ago. I dont have a ton of time to write today so i will write you all a long letter next week. My new companion is names Hermana Ellis she is from Utah and she just finished her training so she has about 3 months in the mission. I am excited to be here but I was very sad to leave my area. I love Cañas really it was like my home so i was a little sad to leave today. Mostly just to say goodbye to the branch and to the people I have taught. I love being a missionary. We had two baptisms this week I will send you pictures next week. This stupid computer wont let me go to my dropbox so i will see the pictures next week too. Well I love you and hope you have a good week!!!

 

Love Hermana Chatwin

GREAT WEEK

Hi family (: 

Well This week has been great! We have been working really hard and trying to find some new people to teach!  

We had a baptism of on of our golden investigators! Here is the picture! (: We have 2 baptisms for the next week! (: yay!!! I really love it here so much! This is the last week of the transfer so we will see if i have changes this week or the next transfer which is in 4 weeks... But who knows. 

I don't really have much to write this week.... I have been learning a lot about how we can work more with the members and have converts not just baptisms. This week we had a Noche De Hogar in the house of the Branch president and invited a few of our recent converts and investigators too. It was really awesome (: we talked about the Plan of Salvation. 

Then saturday we had our baptism and it was really awesome! There were a lot of people that came to support him so he could really feel the love of the branch. He shared his testimony after he was baptised and he said that he had been looking all of his life for the church even though he didn't know it. That really this was the way to come to Jesus Christ. It was really neat to hear his testimony.  I just love being a missionary. It is a little crazy to think that I have been doing the same thing everyday for 6 months of my life. But I love it! 

Well family! I don't have a ton to share this week but i love you all and miss ya like crazy! Hope everything is going well! Love you all so much! <3

Hermana Chatwin

Our week of Miracles oh and 6 MONTHS IN THE MISSION (: yay

Hi family (: 

I am so happy to write you all this week an tell you about our amazing week. Seriously this week has been a week of miracles!!!!! 

We had Zone Confrence last week ( i think there should be a picture on facebook of it (: ) But we had interviews with President Wilkinson. He is the best! I always feel so much better after I talk to him. He is the best! So we got back from that and we were working like normal. Then we got a text from an investigator that was going to be baptized that following saturday. He said Hermana I am not sure if this saturday will work. Maybe I need to wait a while longer... I was like oh no what happened what will we do. I need to call him So i called but he didn't answer. Sent a text and no answer..... So the whole night i was just praying saying Heavenly Father I know he is ready to be baptized what can I do. So the next day was his interview and we decided we would just take the Elders and have the Interview and he would be ready. So we went first because he moved and we weren't sure where his house was. So we called him and he answered!! He told us oh yeah i'm waiting for you in the street. So we got there and started talking. I asked him what changed and if he wanted to be baptized still. He said of course it's just that I don't have a white shirt or a tie for my confermation........ I was like Oh my don't even worry about it. Because we have started to buy a white shirt and tie for every male convert. So we were like ah now you know our surprise. So he had his interview and everything went great! 

Then Saturday we went to the chapel in the morning to fill up the font...... and there was no water in the Chapel..... LIke no water in any part. All the people around had water but we didn't. So we called the Elders and they told us we would wait just a minute and see what we could do. So we tried everything. We brought a hose.... no luck... we went to the fire department and asked them if they could fill up the font because they had done it before and they said no.... We literally tried everything. This was an all day event. Finally it was like 4:30 and the baptism was at 6. So my companion and I decided okay we have done everything we could we need to say a prayer. So we all knelt down and prayed together. Then we thought okay what else can we do. So we kept trying and about 5 minutes later the font started dripping water then it started coming out like normal. Literally it was a miracle! We were like crying it was so great! There were so many things that went wrong that day. The people were late. The clothes were dirty. There was not water to fill the font. But finally everything started great. 

So we were about to start the baptism and then someone called us and it was two investigatores that we had forgotten were going to come to the baptism because we had been so stressed. They said we are here but we don't know exactly where the chapel is. So they came. Also 3 more investigatores came to the baptism. And a ton of ward members. So it was great. We watched a movie while he was changing his clothes about Christ and everyone was crying including our investigators! Then he got up to bear his testimony and it was so powerful. He was crying and saying that he couldn't express the joy that he was feeling only with tears. He said that when he moved here he didn't know what church to go to but he was praying for Heavenly Father to help him find the way. Then we knocked on his door.... (: The truth is that we didn't do anything. He was prepared when we met him to be a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints. So that baptism was really the most spiritual thing I think I have ever felt. The spirit was so strong! 

Then in Sunday he showed up in his white shirt and tie and was confirmed. Along with another Hermano whose baptism was last week. They both had their new white shirts and ties. (: It was awesome! Then we were sitting there at the back of the chapel counting the attendance and one of our investigators got up to the pulpit. She is the daughter in law of the Branch president. We have only taught her once because her family is really evangelico. She came to the baptism the day before and has come to church 3 or 4 times. But she always said I don't know I will see what happens. Then yesterday she got up and said she was praying before church that if she should be baptized God would help her know what to do. Then during the testimony meeting she said she felt like it was right she felt something she had never felt before and said she wanted to be baptized. It was a miracle! Then after she said Hermana can you come over today and teach me what i need to do to be baptized. So we said of course! We went over and committed her to be baptized on the 25th of this month! And her husband is going to be able to baptize her. She is the cutest girl in the whole wide world. 

Honestly This week has been the most spiritual week of my mission. I have learned that really Heavenly Father answers prayers. That reallly this is his work not ours. That he knows his children and we are just here to show them the way to come back to him. I can't explain the love I am starting to have for these people. We have an investigator that we contacted on the street then for months she wasn't home but we walked past her house and she was there. So we stopped by and taught her a lesson then she came to church and we committed her to baptism on the 1st of November. I know that really my heavenly father sent me here to find these people. To help them learn the gospel and listen to the spirit. I love being a missionary so much! 

Also this week I will have 6 months in the mission. How weird is that. I don't know where the time has gone. Really i feel like i just got her. So this change is only four weeks so we have 2 weeks left and the next change is 4 weeks then the next one is 8 weeks for the airline tickets or something. SO i  am not sure how much more time i will have here in Canas but I love it here so much! I love the Branch and the people! I love my companion and I love being a missionary. 

I love you all so much (: hope all is well with you guys! 

Love Hermana Chatwin

Hola Familia (:

Well this week has been such a great growing experience! As you all know my companion left this week :( how crazy! So This week has been a week of adjustments and trying to figure out how the other one works. We started working together Tuesday. I was a little bit overwhelmed at the beginning but tuesday went well. Then wednesday came and that was the day that our companions left. So it was a little weird. We has some good lessons and found some new people to teach so it wasn't horrible. But thursday was really rough. We called to confirm appointments and everything was falling through so we went to lunch and I was really stressed. We were eating and just trying to think what can we do today. Then I asked my district leader to give me a blessing because I was just feeling really overwhelmed. So he gave me a blessing and instantly I just felt this peace come over me. That day was actually really good. We found some new investigators and had some really good lessons.

Then saturday we went to conferance and some of our investigators came!! Yay!!! (: we were so happy. Then we went out to work after and found 3 new investigators! Yay! One of them was an old investigator that Hermana Garcia and I taught maybe one or two times. Then after that we could never find her again. So it was a miricle that she was in her house. We taught her the first lesson and she told us that she would come to church with us the following day.  Then that night we had a baptism! He is the son of the Lady who was baptized last week. It was really a neat experience. She was crying and saying I am just so happy that my son has decided to follow this path and that we can live together forever. It was really just a sweet experience! Then Sunday morning we went to look for a few investigators to bring them to the church. We went to look for this lady but she wasn't there then we saw her in the street and thought oh how cool she is ready to go. But she told us she had to go to a thing for her daughter but she wanted to come to church later. So we went to the first session and then went back to her house. She wasn't there but we waited like 5 minutes and she came back. Then we said Hermana are you ready to go to church? And she said of course. So she and her 3 daughters came to church with us. We were so happy. And the talk of Elder Bednar was perfect for her. She was feeling a little bit like maybe she didn't want to change her church because she felt like she was okay where she was but she really liked the church and invited us to have lunch with her this week! She is really great! I am so grateful that the Lord is preparing people here to recieve the gospel.

We also have an investigator that the other hermanas were teaching. We taught him the Word of Wisdom this week which is really hard for people to keep or understand here because EVERYONE drinks coffee. But he told us he would try to stop drinking it. Then yesterday he came to the second session of conferance and I asked him how It was going with the coffee and he told me that he hadn't had coffee since our lesson! I was so happy (:

Our other investigator that we have been waiting for him to move finally moved this week so he can be baptized this saturday!! (:

I cannot describe the feeling that I have about my mission. I am not going to lie it is harder than hard but when you have someone that comes to church and is really starting to apply the atonment of Jesus Christ in their lives it is the neatest feeling in the world. There have been days when I have felt like wow why am here I could go home and be with my family and not have to do this hard thing but then I remember that really this is the most important thing I have ever done. That these people are my brothers and sisters. That EVERY person needs to and deserves to hear the gospel of Jesus Christ. That Everyone deserves the chance to have the same blessings I have! The happiness that the Gopel brings is for every child of God!

Well family i hope everything is going well at home! Hope you know I love you all so stinkin much! <3<3

Love Hermana Chatwin

This is the Hermano who was baptised this week. And his mom (: and my new companion Hermana De Leon!