Hi Family (: Well this week our investigators should finally be getting baptized!

Hi Family (:

Well this is the last week before changes! How weird is that?? I can't believe that I have been in this area for 3 months. It feels like i just got her. Well it sounds like everyone has been having a pretty good week and stuff! I miss you guys lots but I know that I am exactly where the Lord wants me to be. I can't believe all of the things I have learned in the last few months here in Cartago. Really it has been such a great blessing to me.

Well this week our investigators should finally be getting baptized! We had to wait a while for her to stop smoking but she has stopped and she is really really happy! (: They came to church all by themselves on sunday! We were so happy! 

This week we had a real miracle happen. We were in a lesson with a Recent Convert and we were running a little late so we were trying to teach fast but her son talks ALOT and so we were waiting to leave. Then finally we left and we were walking to our other cita,.

or like running because we were late. Then we were like hey maybe it will be faster if we cut through this park thing. Which we never usually do. Nor have we ever thought it was faster but we went that way that day. So we were walking and we ran into our other Recent convert there who was coming to play soccer. She told us are you serious why are you guys walking here. She told us that she had just gotten in a fight with her daughter and the whole way to the park she was praying that she could talk to us. That she needed to talk to us and was asking her Father in Heaven for help to know what to do. Honestly it was the neatest experience. We got to be the answer to her

prayer and we got to be the hands of our father in heaven. In that moment my testimony grew that The Lord knows every person. He is very aware of what is happening in everyones lives. He knows and listens to our prayers. I am so grateful to be here to help him answer the prayers of his children.

Well family I will let you know next week about changes! I am sure I will still be here my companion. who knows, but I love you guys! I hope everything is good at home! and good with Talmage! He is in my prayers! And Kendall for his job! I will fast for you too on saturday (: Love you guys!!

Hermana Chatwin

Hi family (: this week has been really great!

Hi family (:

well this week has been really great! We have been working really hard! We went on divisions this week and I had to stay here but I didn't get lost or anything (: so i was pretty happy. I guess when you have lived somewhere for 3 months you kind of know where things are. We still have 2 weeks until changes so we will see what happens. My companion has

6 months here so we are thinking she will have changes but I we will see. I am grateful for her and all the things we have learned together.

This week has been kind of a struggle with a few investigators who are preparing for Baptism this saturday. One of the Hermanas has been trying to quit smoking for almost 2 months she has progressed a lot but still didn't stop. So we asked our District leader if he wanted to try to help us teach her a little bit so we could help her stop smoking. So they came and we had a really REALLY good lesson abot the atonment and stuff. She decided she wanted to stop So it took a few days but this week she stopped completly! And she stopped drinking coffee! It has really jsut been a testimony builder to me that when we are keeping the commandments the lord gives us so many blessings. That when we do our part we can have the spirit more with us. We watche the video of the resturacion with her and her daughter and after we asked her how did you feel when Joseph Smith saw God and Jesus Christ? She said i just felt like this tingling feeling that really this was true. It was amazing the spirit was so strong! She was an investigator at first who told us she never needed to go to

church because she could feel the spirit in her house just fine. Then this week we asked her if she has asked God if this was his church and she said obviously I know it is or I wouldn't be going with you guys. She said a prayer and asked God if he could help her know if she needs to join his true church on the earth and be baptized. I just love that the spirit really does change people. That when people keep the commandments the Lord will always bless them. I just know that this is true there is no way that people could change their lives so drastically if this was not the Church of Jesus Christ.

Yesterday we went to a volcano with some members and the Elders in our ward. So that was fun. I took some pictures and I am trying to put them in the Dropbox but it is taking forever. So we got there and it was really sunny but then after about an hour it got really really foggy and you couldn't hardly see anything. So we left and went to the members house and ate some Hamburgers. The members here are really the best! (: I just love them!

Well Family I hope all is well at home! I hope everyone is doing good!
I would love it if you wrote me next week because mom was the only one who wrote me..... so write me or something! Love you guys

Hermana Chatwin

Happy 9 months!!!!! (:

Hi family!!! (: well this week I will official have 9 months in the mission..... How did that happen SO FAST! I feel like i just got here but at the same time i feel like I have been here forever. I love being a missionary with all my heart. It is the hardest thing I have ever done but it is the best thing i have ever done.

Well last week we had a meeting with our Sister Training leaders and they told us that some of our metas of excelence were changing.... out numbers haven't been to good the past few weeks so we were a little bit taken back when they said the norms would be increasing. But we usually find 10 new investagators a week but now it is 15. So we were trying really hard do find people this week... We were working on tuesday and all our plans fell through so My companion said remember that one lady we talked to that lived by our house lets visit her. So we did and we found her family that has about 10 people in it. It was awesome! Then on saturday we had visited everyone but one person in our plans and no one was home. So we went to look for this lady. We walked up to this house and I said do you know a Myra she said oh that's me. But it wasn't the same lady we had talked to . She invited us in and we met her family too with was 4 people. Then we remembered someone else we had talked to and we found 2 more and then another we found 1. We found 14 new people to teach this week and every single one of them accepted a batismal date. The Lord is seriously preparing his children here to recieve the gospel and we are just the tools in his hands to help them find the truth.

Yesterday I was reading a few confrence talks from the October General Confrence. I was laying on my bed reading for about 4 hours yesterday while my companion wrote some letters and stuff. But when I was finished reading the Priesthood session I just had the most overwhelming feeling that I am exactly where my Heavenly Father wants me to be. That this is his work. That the church is true! I love the gospel with all my heart. Reading those talks really made me just realize how important the gospel really is. When I think about the person that I was 9 months ago and the person I am now i feel like I don't remember that person or want to be her every again. I have changed but for the good. I have realized what is truly important in my life and I know that there is nothing more important than the gospel of Jesus Christ. That nothing else could ever be as important as sharing the gospel with someone. It says in Preach My Gospel that we are not here just to baptize people or to increase the number of members in the church or to help people have a better life or be happier but we are here to help them enter the Kingdom of God. No one else can do that. This is the only church that has the authority to baptize people and they can enter the kingdom of God. I think sometimes we don't realize how important these things are. That sometimes we think well i have shared the gospel with everyone I know or my friends already told me they wont accept the missionaries or something like that but really there is no excuse for not sharing the gospel. The lord put us here to share the gospel and when we have to stand before him He will ask us what we did with the time and the knowledge he gave us of these things. I don't know about you but I want to be able to tell him that I shared the Gospel with everyone I knew. That everyone had the choice to accpet or regect the Gospel that I shared with them. I just know that the church is true with my whole heart. I have always had a testimony but my mission has taught me that really it the most important thing you can do is share the gospel. So hopefully you can think of someone to share the gospel with or something. (:

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

Hermana Chatwin 

Hi family

Hi family (:  it was so great to talk to you guys on Christmas! I hope you all had a great day! We had a good Christmas here. Didn't really feel to much like Christmas but that's okay. We had kind of a slow but good week.
This week we found a lot of people that really Heavenly Father put in our path. We were looking for one family and we couldn't find their house so we took a short bus ride and then we talked to this lady. Really the family lived before the Parada where we got off but this Lady asked us a bunch of questions and told he she was really interested and wanted to come to church. So we got her number and everything and are going to visit her today. I know that it is something silly that maybe we were a little bit lost but Heavenly Father knows his children. He knows exactly where they are and when we need to find them. I know that is so true.
Also this week we invited a recent convert to come to a lesson with us. She and her Daughter were baptized at the first of the month. She is really such a strong lady. She shared her testimony with our investigadora and she told her that at first she didn't really understand anything because everything was so different then her beliefs but she could feel the spirit when we went to her house. That she felt something different. She told her I still don't know everything But I know that I am where I am supposed to be and I am going to stay there. She is really just so great! It is amazing how you can see the gospel really changing the lives of these people.

Well family I hope you all have a great new years! 2015 how fast did that come?|? I love you all a whole lot....even if you didn't write me this week.... ( mom) (: love you|! have a good day!

HErmana chatwin

Hi family!!! Pues Feliz Navidad!!! (: Yay!! Que rapido paso el tiempo!

Hi family!!! Pues Feliz Navidad!!! (: Yay!! Que rapido paso el tiempo!

I am very excited to talk to you guys this week! I hope everything is going well there. We have had a slow week but we have actually found a few new investigators the past few days who are pretty positive. This week has been REALLY HOT! Like really hot so that has been different. Probably the only Hot christmas I will have in my life.

Well we have been visiting lots of members this week and less active members. Thsi week we were looking for a Less active family that the mom was baptized about 4 months ago so my companion and I dont know here but she is a recent convert. So we have been trying to call her and her family but they never are home or don't answer so we decided one day to just go to her house and see if they were home. We had no idea where she lived so we started looking and asking some people and finally we found there house! We walked up and they were just getting home from the store so they were outside taking things in the house. We asked them if they were the family and they said yes. The hermana was a little not very happy at first.But they invited us in.. So we talked about the atonment a little bit and how it works in our lives and set up another time to come back and visit them. So we put another time and everyone in the ward was saying they wont be there they are going to cancel but they were there (: So we visited them again and they all told us they want to come back to church! So we were really excited about that! The greatest thing is that Heavenly Father just knows his children so perfectly. He knew exactly when we needed to go to their house and what we needed to say to help this family come back to church. I love being a missionary so much!

Also this week we had our christmas activity! We went to the temple it was so great to go and do a session! The temple here is so beautiful! Then we went to a church and had lunch that was SO good! Mashed potatoes and some kind of meet with salad and brownies (: we were in heaven! Then we had a little devotional and listened to President wilkinson talk about christmas. He is awesome I really just love that guy! They also made a really REALLY exciting anouncment that......... THEY ARE OPENING A NEW MISSION IN COSTA RICA!!!! (: yay!!!!! In june they will have a Mision West and  mission East. We are all so stinking excited! He told us that the Apostles were in a meeting where they said they wanted to make 10 new missions this year. Elder Cook said if we could only make one new mission it would be in Costa Rica. Those people are ready for the Gospel. (: We were all so excited!!! And then we got some christmas presents from the Wilkinsons and your chocolates mom (: they were a hit! They told me to tell you thanks so much that was so nice of you!

Well family I hope you are all doing well I love talking to you and hearing about your lives! Your kids are all getting so big! I can't wait to talk to them. Tell them they have to talk to me though they can't be shy (: haha well i love you all so much! Hope you all have a merry christmas!

Hermana Chatwin 

Re: merry christmas i guess ???

Dear family and Friends, Sorry my email is really short, We have been working really hard. this week has been good

well. im not really sure what to write right now. 

it{s okay mom, we have a pet mouse too. but i dont know how to get rid of it so...

here{s a video you shold watch but change it to english obviously first.

navidad.mormon.org

loves,
Hermana Chatwin

pic 1 christmas tree

pic2 we sang for the relief society christmas dinner

pic 3 baptism of Bernarda y her daughter allison (ps they were confirmed this week.)

Full of Miracles

Hi family (:

Well this week has been a pretty rough week but so full of miracles it is not even funny! Where do I even start.....

So we had this family a mom and daughter who were preparing to be baptized this week. They were both progressing really well and they have had a lot of help from the members. They come to church every week and they really love it. But on saturday of course Satan knew that they were going to get baptized and he did not want that all. They had a few problems with one of the member families that they were going to church with so they said they weren't sure if they wanted to get baptized on Sunday. The worst part was because the Hermana, the mom, she said I know I am ready to get baptized I just don't know if I am going to tomorrow. So we didn't really know what to say.... We just sat there for a few minutes in silence and then I said okay Hermana we are going to give you a chapter to read in the book of Mormon and pray and ask your Heavenly Father if you should be baptized tomorrow. She said okay and then we left. We got to our house and both just started crying and prayed for a good while. Then we tried to go to sleep but really I don't think we slept at all. The next morning we called her and she sounded really sick. She told me she had been throwing up all night. That when she is stressed she gets sick. So we went to her house with the Elders. This was at 8:00 and church starts at 9:00. They gave her a blessing and then after I asked her so Hermana what do you want to do. I asked her did you pray last night. She said yes. I asked her and what is your answer? She said that I need to get baptized today. So I said well then VAMOS hermana (: So she got up at like 8:30 and got ready. And all of us went to church! She was SO happy. All of the meetings on Sunday she was just saying "Hey me and my daughter are getting baptized today!" She was so happy! So the baptism went off without a problem! Then after they asked her and her daughter to share their testimony, She just said I am grateful that I have the priviledge to be baptized today. Really it was the most amazing thing that had happened. We put this fecha with her almost a month ago. We were sure that really it was under inspiration and we were fasting for her so that everything would work out. 

THis week my testimony has grown so much in that really when we are doing our part the Lord will ALWAYS do his. We might have to work hard or their might be a few minutes when we doubt but he will NEVER doubt us. I know that he knows every single one of us and he has a plan better than we can imagine! I know that really like it says in Ether 12:6 really you don't recieve the witness until after the trail of your faith. But when you recieve the witness your testimony can grow until you have a sure knowledge that the Lord is doing his work. I know that this is the work of the Lord. That he is hastining his work. You can feel it. Everyone is getting ready for him to return to the Earth. What a great opportunity we have to help other people come to the knowledge of the truth! I love the gospel with all my heart! Being a missionary is hard stuff but it is the best thing I have ever done in all my life! I wouldn't change it for the world!

Can't wait to talk to you guys in a few weeks! Love you all a lot!

Hermana Chatwin