tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6522424760209840182024-03-12T23:25:26.413-06:00Hermana PayneUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger84125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-652242476020984018.post-30835270474253221442011-11-29T16:56:00.001-07:002011-11-29T16:57:46.094-07:00And that's all she wrote :)2 John 1:12Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-652242476020984018.post-59184267515270471492011-11-21T10:22:00.000-07:002011-11-21T10:23:10.116-07:00body <br />Hola familia, its me again, Hna Payne!<br /><br /><br />Well we are working hard for some baptisms this week! Miracles are going to have to happen for them to go through(well, more miracles because we have already seen a lot!) But its going to happen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There is still time for miracles to happen! <br /><br /><br />We spoke on Sunday. I spoke on the ´´why´´ of the gospel. We had 8 people in church. Hopefully the Hna Hunt will see some progress with them. We had one lady walk to church with her 5 kids. We called her on Saturday night to remind her. She told us that she was planning at leaving at 6:30/7 to make it in time to start at 8. We didnt have anyone else to go get so we went out there. We got there at like 7 and she had already left. We finally caught up to them. She was carrying her little baby. We wanted to help her.. but of course we cant hold <br />them. Well she left way too early, and we got there at 730. The church isnt really that far, but with little kids it is. Well the little kids didnt eat breakfast because the OTHER church always gives them milk and doughnuts. And then the classes (which are first) started late and the mom just kept saying how the OTHER church always started on time... Well, I guess we introduced her to Mormon standard time =) And then the primary president which is my age, maybe... got there with her little toddler and freaked out because the little kids had the marks of chicken pocks... haha oops! They have had them for like 2 weeks now so i didnt (and still dont) think they were still contagious. I felt bad, but it was still funny. It just started our week of great! There must be baptisms this week =)<br /><br /><br />HAPPY THANKSGIVING THIS WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We truely have SOOOO much to be thankful for. What will yall do????? Fried turkey? YUM!<br /><br /><br />Yes, I have my debit card!<br /><br /><br />I dont really know my travel plans. Usually the people leave their area REALLY early on Thursday morning... have an interview with President and then have dinner with them, and then leave that night to BA which is like 10 hours bus ride. And then people get home on Saturdays.<br /><br /><br />Okay, well I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE yall! Have a great week!<br /><br /><br />Love,<br />Hna PayneUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-652242476020984018.post-73426090032863122572011-11-14T13:47:00.000-07:002011-11-14T13:48:07.063-07:00Hola familia!!! Its me again, Hna Payne!<br /><br /><br />How goes life on the home front?? Im sure its getting quite cold there. Well we had a great baptism on Saturday. She bought a really cute, white, shirt and skirt for her baptism. Her dad even got off of work to come. We werent sure that he was coming, but he showed up just in time. We have actually had a couple of lessons with him which is a miracle. We tried putting a date but he didnt accept. We just need him to accept getting married so that Ramona can get married. We are going to try and talk marriage with him this week. It will be a miracle if it happens. <br /><br /><br />We are working with 2 couples that are trying to get their document so they can get married. One of these guys has to quite smoking too. We will be needing divine help if they are to go through. But this isnt my work... so all we can do is our part. I will have lots to tell you if they actually go though =) but im done with writing... so sorrry.<br />Why I love Argentina story: So we got home the other night and we sitting there plannnig when all of a sudden a RAT came under our door. We both screamed. It crawled under our oven and was inside it..... YUK! Hna Hunt was in charge of shutting the doors and standing watch so that it would just run back outside and not in our room.....I sat there hitting the oven with a broom and it finally ran out..... into our room... yea, she didnt shut the door good. We were then looking in there forever and coudlnt find it. we moved luggage out and everything... Finally Hna Hunt starts hitting about the window where there is space for a rat to hide... and it ran out at us. It was terrible. We might have screamed a few times. But luckily the owner didnt hear us. Haha he would have thought we were dying. Well we freaked out.. but its not uncommon to have rats in your house here.... Eh!<br /><br /><br />Dad, is that guy a member? What are the chances of him moving here? That is way cool. <br /><br /><br />Okay, well im out of time! I love, love love yall! Have a great week!<br /><br />Love,<br />Hna PayneUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-652242476020984018.post-56288869341818478802011-11-07T15:32:00.001-07:002011-11-07T15:32:38.403-07:00Hola familia, its me again, Hna Payne! <br /> <br />Well these last two weeks have been such a blur! I feel like we are just running from one area to the next. We are working with some great people that can be baptized. We are really focusing in them, and so our other numbers are pretty low... but we are going to have baptisms. We just keep seeing miracles, and i know that more are going to come. <br />We have a baptism this saturday. Lorena, the daughter of Ramona that needs to get married first. She is doing great. She is always seminary and the activities. She is really progressing. <br /> <br />The conference was soo great. I just keep thinking how close they are to perfection... They live in the public eye... but there is never anything in there conduct that you can interpret as something different. They truely are representatives of Jesus Christ. People always say there is black and white... but they definitely choose the celestial white. That requires thinking ahead of actions and looking at how others could see you. It could be something soo innocent, but there are always others trying to find fault. They are examples to me in the way that they dedicate their life to the Lord.<br /> <br />I found out that my family in Formosa, Flia Ortiz, that there two last kids got baptized. The dad got baptized when i got there, his daughters had gotten baptized in December, and his wife was inactive but was baptized when she had 14. But there were two that were not interested in hearing the Gospel. Well, they just showed up to church one day and my comp asked if they could teach them and they said yes because they wanted to have an eternal family. They both want to go on missions. Miracles. This really is the Lord´s work. I LOVE hearing the those stories about the people that have NO interest, and then BAM, something changes. The mom is young womens president, and the dad is young mens president.<br /> <br />Dad, i finally met Elder Wasden. He seemed very outgoing and nice.<br /> <br />Okay, well i love, love, love yall!<br /> <br />Have a great week!<br /> <br />Hna PayneUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-652242476020984018.post-90570169140630994592011-10-31T15:13:00.001-06:002011-10-31T15:13:37.819-06:00Hola familia!!! Its me again, Hna Payne! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br /> <br />So this last week was back to normal. We are just two again, which is nice. That week was a little long, but this last week flew by soooo fast. I know that this week will go even faster with our conference with Elder Christofferson. We are sooooooo excited for that. We will be leaving here Friday evening in our own rented bus. Then we will be sleeping on the floor in Resistencia so that there wont be problems with getting everyone there on Saturday morning. It will be a once in a life time opportunity.<br /> <br />So we had 8 in church this last Sunday. And they were all good investigators too. What miracles! We are really trying to focus in the people that can be baptized... we have some great people that we are working with. Mable and her daughter listened to the missionaries not tooo long ago. They quit going about a year ago when she had some health problems going on. She knows that its true... she just has big doubts that she can endure to the end. I can only imagine. She also has to get married. That means that her husband has to go to Paraguay to get his documents so they can get married. That will cost them a few hundred pesos... and they are a very humble family.<br /> <br />Then we have Ramona, her daughter Lorena, and their neighbor girl Natalia. Loreana has a date to be baptized. We taught Lorena and Natalia the law of chastity (for the first time, and Ramona for the 2nd). The girls are 14 and 16. They said they really liked the lesson. Im pretty sure they thought it was kind of weird because they said that no one lives this in todays time..... (and especially here). President said that when he served here in argentina that it was very rare to find someone that wasnt married... and if you did it was because they were married to someone else and couldnt divorce... Wow, have times changed. Now its so rare to find someone actually married. The girls said they really liked the lesson. We dont have a date with Natalia because her dad wont allow her mom to come... so lame. but she is sooo great. She likes to read and ALWAYS reads what we leave her. I think she would like Personal Progress.<br /> <br />Then there is Miguel. He is married (but not really) to a member, and we eat with her mom on Fridays. I just love this family. They are all so great. He is just now warming up to the church. He knows a lot about the church because all the missionaries have passed by.. but i think he is being prepared. His brother in law is about to receive the Priesthood here in November and he said that its his goal to baptize him.. so naturally, we want to help him meet his goal =) we have a family home evening with them tonight. We will be eating bbq... ehh we ate soo much for pday...<br /> <br />Then there was a girl that Hna Juarez told me about that was about to be baptized but then didnt.... she was at church too! She is dating a less active guy...so yea we have some good people that we are working with. We told Ramona to pray about her decision. We taught the plan of salvation and told her there was no getting to the Celestial Kingdom with out this baptism. Maybe she will get the courage to leave her bum of a marido.<br /> <br />okay well, that is about all. thank you for alll you do!!! I love yall soo much!<br /> <br />Love,<br />Hna PayneUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-652242476020984018.post-77515501914079862382011-10-24T14:58:00.001-06:002011-10-24T15:00:16.685-06:00Hola Familia, its me again, Hna Payne!!!!!!<br /> <br />This week has been such a crazy blur. It was transfers and I got transferred, AGAIN!!!!! Okay, jk. Im still here in Lavalle with the Hna Hunt...... and Hna Juarez (my last compa). We thought we were going to get away with out any drama this transfer... but that was sure wrong. The ZLs called us to come get a missionary that was waiting for a mini. While she was with us we had about three floods in our apt. Okay, im being a little dramatic, but our toilet kept leaking, our dueño kept fixing it, and then something would happen and it would start running again. The water kept running into our room. What a mess. During all of that there were other missionaries calling us to go to the place where people get their birth certificates so they can get married. The missionaries are more than an hour away, but they had an investigator that is from here, that wanted to get married this last friday , and baptized saturday.... and then the people coudlnt find her history. Well then that missionary left at like 530 the next morning and then the ZLs called us to go get Hna Juarez that night in the terminal and that we were going to be a trio for like a week. Well, im super excited that its the Hna Juarez, but three-somes are just a pain. I think everyone thinks we are J-Dubs because we are a small group now. The assistants now told us we have to be in here area every other day. Ehhhh PAIN!!!!! We wont get anything done. But luckily we found a member that is somewhat willing to do splits with her for like a week. So we will have studies until 12 and then she will go with this girl and come back at night. im sure we will still lose time in all of this. Booooo! Hopefully they will find a mini ASAP! Im not complaining... just stating the obvious =)<br /> <br />Well, we thought we had a miracle this last week. We went to teach the law of chastity to Ramona this week. We explained everything and asked her if she and her bf had thought about getting married. She just casually explained that she couldnt sleep the night before and turned to him and asked him if he wanted to marry her, and he said yes. Haha i think our mouths dropped. We asked if he was really awake when she asked him.. She said yes, and that he wasnt drunk either. We had been worried about her husband not wanting to get married, and then she told us about the night before. We were pretty sure that that had never happened before... so then we were like well we need to get started on pre reqs.. and asked if her bf was really meaning it like NOW, and not in like 10 years. She said she was going to ask him again. That is where the sad news comes in. He said NO. We were all so sad. We went by on Saturday and her daughter said she wasnt able to have the lesson because she was arguing with her bf. She came to church on Sunday really sad. They were arguing about his drinking and drug habits. Sooo sad. She is just soooo great and he is a bum that tries to run from his problems. He has some hurt from a kid because his dad was never there... and well he is doing the same thing to his little 6 year old. He has got to break the cycle! Its soo sad. But we explained a little about priesthood blessings and asked if she would like one. She of course accepted. We have another lesson with her tomorrow. <br /> <br />We also found George, through the familia Rotela (matias, that cant be baptized, and his dad). George is an alcoholic. Im not really sure how to teach an alcoholic when they arent all there to understand and feel the spirit. He has ruined his life and his family. None of his kids want to be around him. He has tried killing himself before. I know that the Gospel of Jesus Christ can heal any wound, but if he doesnt have a support system or the will to do it... well... I am just soo thankful for the gospel that we have and the commandments that we have been given. We have the word of wisdom to just completely avoid these kinds of problems. If you dont drink, its quite impossible to become an alcoholic. Our Heavenly Father has given us every commandment for our protection. Maybe we cant understand the pain that could come from these things, but he does. We have to trust in Him and the commandments that he has given us.<br /> <br />Okay well, sorry that was a really scattered letter... but I love, love, love yall! Have a great week. <br /> <br />Love, <br />Hna Payne<br /> <br />Daddy!!! You cant tell me how sick you are about this other guy.. it makes me sad. But you cant change that it is happening... so you cant stress out about it... and besides your bbq is WAY better!<br /> <br />EVERYONE GO AND EAT AT BIG ALS TEXAS BBQ!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-652242476020984018.post-89973069355727245732011-10-17T16:24:00.001-06:002011-10-17T16:24:28.064-06:00Hola familia, its me again, Hna Payne!!!!!!!<br /> <br />So, mom i have to start of by wishing you a late happy mothers day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yesterday was the dia de la madre. sorry i forgot to tell you before. It was such a beautiful day. It really did feel like mothers day in the states. It was a harder day to get people to church for this reason... but we did have 4. All of the women that we are working with ARE´NT married and their husbands are super machistas. I dont know what word to use in english... but they dont let women do anything and they are always in control... They just tell them they cant go to church.. and they do it. Who has that authority to tell someone that they cant go to church or grow closer to God? It makes me soooooo sad. But Mabel was at church. She has had the lessons before and assisted for months and then just didnt go one day. She isnt married, and doesnt really want to get married, her bf doesnt want to either.. They have 3 kids. But he at least doesnt care if goes to church. He just doesnt really want to go. I think we can get somewhere with their family. Ramona was going to go with us to the relief society conference. Her husband said it was fine.. and then right after he changed his mind. We got to her house and she told us she couldnt go... LAME. And then she said she would be going to church either way the next day. Well that didnt happen. Not sure why.... we wanted to watch together forever with her family but her husband didnt want to because he gets home at like 8 at night and is tired. Hopefully this week!<br /> <br />We had interviews this last week with President. The shortest interview ever.. he talked about the opportunity we have to be with of the 12 Apostles. He gave all the stats of the church in the whole world and that as the church continues to grow that the opportunities will become less and less. We are all very excited. My compa and I were the last interviews with another companionship of sisters. Just jokingly, but secretly wishing, i asked if we were all going to lunch after.... he said it might be a possibility but he wasnt promising anything.. but said that his wife was a real softy. Well, she of course loved the idea. We got pizza and eat down by the coast. I just love them, and that was before pizza. They are soooo great. They really are about trying to do what they can to help us. Its so weird to have interviews with both Presidents and feel that they really knew and know me. That cant be too easy with 200 missionaries.<br /> <br />Dad! YOU CANT GET ANYWHERE WITH OUT DREAMING!!!!!! I cant believe you open this week! Good luck, and break a leg... and dont stress out. Enjoy it. It will be a hit!<br /><br />Okay well, I love, love, love yall! Have a great week!<br /> <br />Love,<br />Hna PayneUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-652242476020984018.post-35146535442336352622011-10-11T15:40:00.001-06:002011-10-11T15:40:11.509-06:00Hola familia, its me again, Hna Payne!<br /> <br />How goes life on the home front?? Starting to cool down, huh! Its starting to get toasty here... well just a few days and then a cool front comes in and it rains. Well, today is our pday because yesterdsay was a holiday. We had a family home evening last night with one of our investigators, Ramona, that is really progressing... minus that she isnt married. We watched the Testaments. Such a good movie! Its now like the 100th time that i have seen it now. But she really, really liked it. She said that she is going to keep coming to church. Her daughter came too. Now we are just missing the bf and the 14 year old boy. She is just soooooo great and so humble. She is soo prepared for the gospel. We had 7 in church on Sunday. Definitely a good day. We had a mom (not married) that walked to church with her three kids because she didnt have money for the bus. Such sacrifices! I just want a little bus or van to go around and get all the families that dont have a way to get to church with out walking really far.... even a horse and buggy would be fine (there are quite a lot here) :) We are working with a guy named Gaston... he is a little odd, but really great... we think. We arent exactly sure if he is interested in our message.... or us. We choosing to think positively and we really do think he is interested. He has never been baptized so he knows he needs to do it. He keeps telling us that he is going to get some big calling in the church and be in front of everyone. Haha we tried to explain how all of that works but im not sure it sunk in. <br /> <br />So we found out that we have a conference the 5th of November for ALL of our mission. Elder Christofferson is coming. What a treat. We are definitely excited for that. <br /> <br />Mom, how can you miss the younger years. It just gets better with every year! Always new experiences! And now we have Brecken, and soon to be Quinn! Life is good!<br /> <br />okay well i dont have anything else to write... im soooo sorrry. I love, love, love, yall! Have a great week, and good luck with training and the store!<br /> <br />Love,<br />Hna PayneUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-652242476020984018.post-46198033924971570732011-10-03T15:19:00.000-06:002011-10-03T15:20:45.896-06:00Hola familia is me again, Hna Payne!!!!!!!<br /> <br />I just love, love, love conference. I hate waiting to get the magazine to read all the talks. I remember liking them but then to remember what they said is a different story. I really liked Elder Eyrings talk and the being living testimonies in all times and how he used examples from Book of Mormon heros. Why does it have to be so hard to change? But I was reading another confernece talk the other day that says it doesnt matter how hard we try to make the gospel complicated, its easy. We know exactly the things that we should be doing... its just overcoming our natural nature and really making Christ the center of our lives. When we do that the decisions become soo much easier and we remember exactly who we are and why we are here. We just need to make the decison to do it and move on, and stop thinking about it.<br /> <br /> We found Ramona and her daughter this last week and Ramona, the mom, came! We found her on Wednesday and told her we were coming back either the next day or friday depending on when a member could go with us. She talked to her husband (but they arent married. Do we just call them boyfriend in english? We use another word here that usually differentiates the difference in spanish) about going to conference and he wasnt too thrilled about the idea, but then she just told him that she was going because she wanted move on and change her family. She really liked it! Well of course she did. How can you not listen to conference and know that these people are called of God? We have another lesson with her today.<br /> <br />During the break of sessions I saw Tyler in vocal point on tv. Does he ever stop by these days? I saw Mckay too, but i dont think yall know him?<br /> <br />I cant believe we are in october! (they dont celebrate Halloween here mom) I feel like we are in May. I always have to stop and think about what month we are currently in. We got a little cool front the other day so today is really nice. But it is definitely starting to warm up here. Its soo weird to be back in humidity and to be sticky. President Heyman approved all the apts to have air conditioning now... so that will be a blessing to everyone. <br /> <br />That is sooo great that your store is about to open. Im excited to hear the news. HOw are they advertising this??<br /> <br />Hna Jones! How is the new DRAFT program going for trainers and new missionaries?? are yall doing that too? Two hours everyday?? <br /> <br />Okay well that is all i have for now. Thank you all for all you do for me. I love, love, love yall! Have a great week!<br /> <br />Love,<br />Hna PayneUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-652242476020984018.post-24299761634817138512011-09-26T21:00:00.000-06:002011-09-26T21:01:04.296-06:00Hola familia, its me again, Hna Payne!!!!!!!!<br /> <br />Dad, COOL SIGN!!!!!!!!! I cant believe that your dream is coming true! Its going to be soo cool.<br /> <br />im sorry this letter is already going to be lame. its going to be more like yours... rules are rules... you will get a letter =)<br /> <br />We have 7 in church on sunday. We had a mom and her four kids come. We taught her twice, and her husband once. He was sleeping the second time we went by. Hopefully we can work with all of the family. The mom didnt want to commit to a baptism date. But I think that she liked church. Relief society was all about the family. I just think 3 hours was a little long for her kids. They were a little loud in sacrament, which it our last meeting.<br /> <br />Matias still didnt come to church. We called him and he said he was about to leave, and then never came. We havent seen him since saturday. All of these things are sooo new to him.... things that arent hard... but sure arent easy to do on a continual basis. I dont know what we are going to do for this family. Sometimes the things we do just arent enough.<br /> <br />Well im super duper excited for conference this week. Yes, I will get to be at all the sessions, and yes, we will have investigators. They will have four chances to go and hear servants of the Lord. What a great opportunity!<br /> <br />Okay well i wrote a few people on here today and looked up some stuff for a family home evening tonight.. so ya im done and out of time. sorry. But life is great, and we are working hard. I love the mish and the opportunity to share something that I LOVE and that i has changed my life! If only everyone would accept to have a better life.<br /> <br />Okay well have a great week!<br />Love,<br />Hna PayneUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-652242476020984018.post-34276470956401109562011-09-19T15:17:00.001-06:002011-09-19T15:17:58.998-06:00Hola familia, its me again, Hna Payne!!!!!!!!!<br /> <br />We didnt have a baptism this week....................... =( We were soooo sad, well, still are. But maybe it was good because he didnt even come to church yesterday. We called them twice too! Well went by and told them how sad we were that they werent there. Its sooo hard to help people understand the importance of going to church EVERY week. This isnt just a commitment with God that you can just make and break when you want. This is a huge promise with eternal consequences!!!!! But then they are sooo new too that they DONT understand. I guess we will be working harder with them this week =) <br /> <br />We spoke in church yesterday. It was super weird, they gave us a few weeks notice. In my last area they gave us a couple minutes if we were lucky. Im actually kind of grateful for that too because now im a lot more comfortable of doing something in the moment. I talked about how we all just have to open our mouths and talk!!!!!! Maybe the people that we share the gospel with wont get baptized... but we still have to share it with people. The gospel is the biggest blessing i have in my life, and I LOVE sharing it. Its the little moments when you can see that someone really understands that makes it all worth it. Maybe they dont get baptized. But in that moment you KNOW that they felt something. The other day I was talkin to a man in the street that said he was atheist. He really wasnt, but when his dad died he turned his back on God because of betrayal he felt from God. I have always struggled with answering ´´why´´ or at least where they can have a little bit of understanding. I know that this is really random but do you remember the part in Steal Magnolias when Shelby is pregnant and she tells her mom? Well her mom is soooo mad because she knows the danger it would be. But I love Shelby´s response. She says that she would rather have 5 minutes of wonderful than a whole life time of nothing. She gets her five minutes of wonderful. She dies, but I know that she wouldn't have changed those five minutes that she had with her little boy. Death is a part of our lifes. We know the hard because we know the easy. We know happiness because we know sadness. We know the good because of the bad. But in the end I know we wouldn't change the outcome if it meant not having the people be a part of our lives. The other part of the story, that not many know is that families CAN be together forever. Im soo thankful for the Plan of Salvation and the assurance that if we do our part that we can see our family again. I gave him that example about 5 minutes of wonderful and testified that families can be together after this life. It is our Heavenly Father that has given us all that we have. We cant turn our backs when we have to experience sorrows. I think that was one of my most spiritual experiences. The spirit was soo strong, and I KNOW that he felt something. <br /> <br />We had another zone conference this last week, but with the Fosters (the area 70) That was really good. There is always soooo much to learn. I always get so overwhelmed after these with all the things that i should be doing better. Where do we start??? But thats life. Its a constant struggle to do our best everyday and become better!<br /> <br />Okay well thats all i have for this week!!!!!!!!<br /><br />I love, love, love yall! Have a great week!<br /> <br />Love,<br />Hna PayneUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-652242476020984018.post-88421908948407033122011-09-12T18:10:00.000-06:002011-09-12T18:11:09.354-06:00Hola, its me again, Hna Payne!<br /> <br />So we had transfers last week........... I got a new companion. Ya, uh, im training. I think someone messed up. Im going to die with a gringa. Okay, now that i was just stating the obvious, and not complaining, her name is Hermana Hunt from Farmington. Luckily she understands a lot and we dont speak english. That is a blessing. My only complaint is we walk slow... but she will learn =) Oh and we have companionship study for 2 hours. Its sooooo long! There is a new program for ALL new missionaries that they have to do for 2 transfers with their trainers. My companion before was on her second transfer when i got here. But this program is an inspired one, so there is lots to learn. Its really weird to see where i used to be and where i am now.. with the language and teaching. Haha but i was tons worse than here when i got here. I now do not have any kind of crutch! Its me and another gringa! Its soo great.. i think! hah it has to be!<br /> <br />So our baptism is for this Saturday. It was never for last saturday. I was thinking that it was going to happen with out problems. Big mistake. The weeks of baptisms ALWAYS have something happen. Well we went to their house for a lesson yesterday and Matias and his dad told us that the mom isnt okay with it. She doesnt even want to talk to them about it. NOOOOOOOOoooooooo!!! They were going to try and talk to her last night again. We are all going to do a fast tomorrow. I didnt see this being a problem because well one, they dont have rules for their kids. and 2 the dad is always in the lessons. They (minus the mom) are coming to the church tonight to watch the Joseph Smith movie. Hopefully we will get some good news.<br /> <br />Well, sorry this is a lame letter.... but I love, love, love yall !!!!! Have a great week.<br /> <br />Love,<br />Hna PayneUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-652242476020984018.post-3274754621580477382011-09-07T17:55:00.000-06:002011-09-07T17:56:27.057-06:00Hola familia, its me again, Hna Payne!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br /> <br />Today is a windy, cool day. Tomorrow is supposed to be cold again. I hear that things have been really crazy with the weather the last couple of weeks in the states????? That or we are being punished?????<br /> <br />This week was good. We have five investigators in church. Matias and his dad. Matias has a baptism date for next saturday. He wants to be baptized but still doesnt know if its true. (He hasnt really been praying to know) We are trying to find a baptism to go to this week so he can see one. The dad still cant be baptized because he has to get married. We talked to the wife this week and she said that she didnt want to get married. We asked her why and she just said because I dont want to. Lame. Im not sure what we are goint to do. They are of course in our prayers and fasts. She still doent want to come to church either. BUT she is in all of the lessons now. Its definitely progress. The other 3 that came are a investigators that are married! But with out a baptism date because they didnt accept it. They are from another part in misiones and only have plans to be here until the end of the year. There isnt a church where they live either. We havent talked to them since yesterday so we will see what we can do.<br /><br />This week we were told that we are going to hell. HAHAH It was a guy that looks just like Tall Evan! He even had the same tone of voice. Weird. This guy was a pass along from other Elders. They just told us that they had a lessson with him and that he had the Book of Mormon. He just gave us scriptures, scriptures, and more scriptures from the Bible. We just listened. We figured that he would give us time to talk. In the end it was evident that he wasnt. We finally cut him off and asked him if he had a question about the BOM. He brought polygamy. He tried giving us anti mormon literature from a guy that was high up in the church or something and of course now isnt. He wanted to read it with us and when we said no, he insisted that we at least read it when we get home. Its soo funny and irritating because he was sooooo nice. He had the best intentions in the whole world. He was just concerned for our souls and didnt want us to go do hell. There are many people that let intelligence rob them of faith. My comp about lost it and was about in tears. She told him she at least wanted to bear her testimony. He wanted to argue with our testimonies. I basically yelled at him, (not really, or at least not in the way that you are thinking) that he had been speaking the whole time and we hadnt said anything!!!! And all we wanted to do was bear him our testimonies. He was about ready to argue but thought it best other wise. A waste of a lesson. He wasnt there to listen.<br /> <br />Dad congrats on your store! So exciting!!!!<br /> <br />Okay well im out of time... i love, love, love yall! Have a great week. Until next time!<br /> <br />Love,<br />Hna PayneUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-652242476020984018.post-47475276790156201502011-08-29T21:35:00.001-06:002011-08-29T21:35:48.058-06:00Hola familia, its me again, Hna Payne. Its definitely not cold this week. Its 78 and beautiful. Life is good. Today we went to Villa Cabello to have lunch with Hna Maimo, my mom in my first area. It was soo weird. I wanted to go visit some of the families, but President didnt like that idea. He was fine for lunch, but not to be in the elders area running around. Boo. But it was sooooooooo good to be there. The hna is so sweet. She made us her homemade pasta. Yum! And while we were there another hna that we used to have lunch with (one that i wanted to visit) showed up. I will get to see them in next month at General Conference. WHAT!??!?!?!?!? Next month??? Where has time gone. Everday goes by that much faster. This week went by way fast because pday was on tuesday.
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<br />This last week we only had Fabian in church. Sad, but I was super content with life because he came all by himself. We talked to him early in the week and he said he wanted to come again.. but would have to see what happened. Well we had another lesson with them on Saturday, but only Matias, the son was there because the dad had to work. He said that he would be coming whether we went by for him or not. Sunday morning we were waiting for him to come and it was like 9:30 when we called him and the mom said they had left. It turns out that only the dad came because Matias was sleeping. BOO. Miracle! Another miracle is that when we were at their house on Saturday the mom told us that she was about to leave but that she wanted to start the lessons on saturdays. Its definitely progress! Matias and Fabian have dates for September 17th. Well Fabian isnt going to make that date because he has to get married... and im not sure where we are at on that. He said he was going to talk to his wife about church before the whole marriage thing. But Matias is going good for the 17th. He even goes to seminary. We have another family that we are working with that needs to get married to. The husband has been inactive for years. We are trying to get him a testimony. Getting people to church is soooo hard. They want to know the church is true before going.
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<br />Mom you asked about heat and transportation. No one has heat here. The people have little space heaters if they are lucky. We have one, but dont sleep with it. Its really ghetto and not super trustworthy. But luckily we dont need it this week. We use the bus more. Our area is really big so its nice to have something. We only used buses to go to church in Formosa. Formosa was TINY.
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<br />Mom! Thank you for gettin my license taken care of! Did you do it all by yourself? Or did you talk to Jess?
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<br />Dad, congrats on your coming soon store·!!!
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<br />Hilly! what are you having¿???
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<br />well that is all! Have a great week. I love, love, love yall!!!!!!!!!!
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<br />Hna PayneUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-652242476020984018.post-3642301906780365242011-08-26T10:27:00.000-06:002011-08-26T10:29:14.385-06:00Hola familia!!!!!!! Its me again, Hna PAYNE!!!!!!!!!!
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<br />Its sooooo cold here. Im ready for the heat! These last few days have been very cold. I sleep with five layers and 3 blankets! Heat is such a blessing!!!!!!!!Im sooo cold natured. Well, im sure it will be over in the next couple of days and be hot again. Thats the way it is here in Posadas.
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<br />Well we had part of the family Rotela in church. The dad, and the son.. The mom still isnt on board and one of the kids.. (everyone has free agency here and the kids do what they want) But we have another lesson with them tonight and will be talking a lot about the family. The kid told us they arent married so we will be talking about that too!
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<br />We have some good people! Its just getting them to want to change or feel the need to change. If they would just think a few things through...... We talked to a girl yesterday that didnt know very much at all about Christ. She told us she was interested in listening about Christ because her church focuses in Mary and saints, not our Heavenly Father and Christ. WHAT!?!? Its fun reading the Book of Mormon and seeing all of the effects of the apostasy. Its truly incredible. I love the Gospel and love getting to know different kinds of people. I mean who has the opportunity to just go up to any door, knock, and ask if we can come in? Getting to know someone else´s story of life is so fun, and lots of times very hard. We are trying to teach a lady with two kids and a boyfriend/husband. When they met she wasnt a church going girl but somewhere in the years she changed. they have gone through some really hard things, but instead of growing together through the trials, they grew in opposite directions. They dont talk. He just laughs at her when she talks about God. He doesnt want her to go to church so he doesnt go to work to try and get what he wants. The other day her kid was sick and she had to take him and her other kid on her bike to the doctors because the husband didnt have, or wouldn't give her money for the bus. She has no options. no money. and no family. She promised to go to church with us this sunday if she is still with her husband. You cant help but walk away from lessons with some of the weight of these people. And what can i do? I can only invite her to come unto Christ and be baptized in His church. I dont know how, but i know the Lord will provide for her. My eyes have been opened to the problems of the world. We are truly blessed to have the Gospel of Jesus Christ in our lives and family. Im definitely learning the importance of family, and the role the gospel has in our family. It would be soo much harder to live the commandments, and return to live with our Heavenly Father again, just by ourselves. Im thankful for the Plan of Salvation and that our families are vital to this plan. The best place to learn of Christ and his principles is in the family. Thank you mom and dad for giving that to me. I know that its through your sacrifices that I could grow up in gospel, and that its now easy for me. Now, to help other families so it can one day be easy for their kids!
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<br />Okay, well I love, love, love yall! Have a great week!
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<br />Hna PayneUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-652242476020984018.post-41331802968867190482011-08-17T14:48:00.001-06:002011-08-17T14:48:31.894-06:00Hola familia, its me again, Hna Payne!
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<br />This last week was a great week. We have zone conference and I just love President and his wife. They are just soooo great.
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<br />I am always soo surprised to find new investigators and see the way they live their lives. It hurts my heart. We found a woman the other day with two little girls that lives with the mom/gma. She is living with her mom because she is waiting to get back with the dad of her little two year old. They arent together now because he went off with someone else and she may or may not be pregnant. He told her that he wants to get back with her if the other one isnt pregnant. This guy has beat her and her child, but she doesnt care. She only wants what is ´´rightfully hers´´. She made a promise with God that if she gets her man back that she would get baptized in the Evangelical church. The way she treated her child was terrible. I was just sooo sad for her and her kids. I just dont get it. These little girls are going to grow up thinking that the man is supposed to beat them. What!? Some people should not be allowed to have kids. But the gospel can change their lives! If only they would let it. There are soo many willing to do ANYTHING for their kids physically, but they dont find the spiritual part important. Or there are sooooo many catholics that dont agree with half of the things their church does, but go along with it because of the tradition of the family. Well, that is why we are here, no?? INVITE others to Christ and not force them. If only it were easier =) But where would the lessons learned be??
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<br />We had one 14 year old in church with a baptism date. All of his family have dates too, but didnt come because of work? But when we went by to take the kid home, the mom and dad were both there. We went to get another fam and they didnt come because the dad had to work, and one of the kids had a cold or something. This week for sure. We will be working with them a lot! They have interest though for their kids. They will have to get married. It just takes time to get the appointment to do it. We will be talkin marriage with them this week =)
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<br />So i was always kind of looking to see someone from my old area. I knew it wasnt likely, but i couldnt help but keep an eye out. We were walking to our last stop to invite someone to church for the next day. This road was dark, and very deserted. I commented to my comp how Sunday nights are very dead and that the guy a long ways in front of us was going to kill us and there would be no one around to witness it or hear us scream. We finally reached the person and we were on opposite side of the street. She asked us if we were the missionaries. I let out a squeal of delight as i realized who it was. It was Hna Maimo!!!! She was like our mom in my first area. She was in the area for a dinner appointment with a friend and decided to see if we were in the apt until she realized that it was too early. She just happened to walk the same road that we were, when our paths met. Tender mercy! She is one of the most loving people in the whole wide world. You know what else was great?? I understood and could talk to her. Well, that would be a given now but when i left the area, no! She invited us to lunch one pday. We were going to get permission to go today but we couldnt get a hold of her. Maybe next week.
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<br />Okay well that is about all.... Have a great week. I love, love, love yall!
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<br />Love, Hna PayneUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-652242476020984018.post-82483112650089946632011-08-08T11:02:00.000-06:002011-08-08T11:06:12.552-06:00Last Monday was freezing and raining, and today is very warm. Crazy, crazy weather. I love being back in Posadas(the city) and Misiones (the state). Its so nice to have a big area that doesnt feel like everyone knows the missionaries already. This week turned out to be a great week... well, after church (we only had one person in church. we have 16 people with baptism dates but none are appearing very promising.). After church we took the bus out to the border of our area for a lesson that we had planned. We got there a little early so we started lookin for some new people. We found a girl named Jessica. We are really working hard to teach to the needs of the people.. which is sometimes really hard for me to relate everything back to them... but when we teach to their needs, walking away from the lesson is soo much easier. Maybe they wont get baptized.. but at least we did our part to declare. She accepted to come to church and be baptized... (like lots of other people, but the lesson just felt different.) We then took another bus to another area to find a guy that helped us find someones house a couple weeks back. We of course asked him if we could come by his house. He said he was never home except for lunch. We took the chance of a Sunday night. We didnt find him or the direction but we found another guy that accepted a date to be baptized. We were sitting outside of whats called a kiosko which is like a little concession stand with all the normal things that people buy. While we were teaching him a guy with his baby came by two different times to buy something. We were leaving and this guy was at another kiosko buying something. We passed by him. Then I turned around to go and talk to him. He was walking towards us. I told him who we were and he told us that he was listening but didnt say anything because he didnt want to interrupt. It turns out that he has listened to the missionaries before (i dont know how much). He wanted to know when we could go by his house. Yay!!!!! Then the Sunday before a drunk man found us and asked us when we were coming by his house. He said that there were kids and he wanted a change for them and his family or something like that (remember he was drunk). He said that it was Sunday so he was a little drunk but wouldnt be the following day. We went by several times that week but he wasnt there, but found him on Saturday. He was a completely different man. Its amazing what alcohol can do to you. He said he will be home today and that we can come by. Well we called him last night to make sure he was going to be home. He was soo drunk. He kept telling me to listen to him and kept asking the time that we were going to come by. He wanted to know how we planned on helping him and how he didnt want to waste his time. Haha and it was him that was asking for our help! Well if there is anything that can change this man it would definitely be the Gospel of Jesus Chirst. Im excited for our lesson whith him tonight... that is if he is sober =)
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<br />Sorry, that was a lot of details about a lot of nothing for yall.. but It should be a good week. We definitely have to work on getting people to church. But when i got here we didnt have anyone so i figure it takes a couple weeks to get some good people and get them to church. They usually never come the first sunday. Its sooo hard to get in, give them the lesson, commit them to read, pray, get baptized with a specific date, and get them to church. Lots of commitments! But if they arent keeping commitments then they arent repenting and coming unto Christ =)
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<br />This Friday we have zone conference. Im super excited. Its great because they are centered just for us. As of right now there arent any big new rules. The same ones are still here.
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<br />Samantha, I got your letter! Thank you sooo much. Please let me know where you are going. You can email me!
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<br />ANNNGGEEELL!!! Congrats on the BABY GIRL!!!!!!! What is hill having???
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<br />Okay fam that is about all from me. Thanks for all you do. I love yall!
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<br />P.S. JUAN CARLOS GOT BAPTIZED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-652242476020984018.post-76733411155274099732011-08-01T10:06:00.001-06:002011-08-01T10:06:19.713-06:00Hola familia! Its me again, Hna Payne, from Good ol´ Posadas, Misiones, Where the red ´´dirt´´ grows! Yes, I am back where I started! Well, not the same ward, but super close. I was super excited to get transfer calls to say that I was going home =) I HATE good byes, but LOVE changes. My companion is Hna Juarez from Guatemala. This is her second transfer and we are excited for this transfer. She is really nice, and a little shy, but all with a super willing spirit. I got here and they had two baptism dates because her trainer refused to put, or even try to put dates. Haha little does my comp know that putting baptismal dates is the easy part... its getting them to church thats the hard part. Our area is huge! Its going to be sooo fun to try and learn the area... not. Ha my comp doesnt really know either... I guess its time to learn how to read a map =) Im guessing there will be lots of room to laugh!<br /><br />I have NO CLUE about Juan Carlos =( He went out of town Tuesday and got back Friday) He was to have his interview in the afternoon on Friday and his baptism Saturday?????? <br /><br />Okay, well Im sorry this is an extremely lame letter, not a lot to say! Next weeks will be bettter! Have a great week!!!!!<br /><br />Love, <br />Hna Payne<br /><br />Send my hellos to mike! Wish him luck for me.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-652242476020984018.post-59425196464144719022011-07-25T16:10:00.001-06:002011-07-25T16:10:28.969-06:00Hola Familia, its me again, Hna Payne! Im always in denial at how fast time passes. But then im here again writing. Boo.<br /> <br />I always love getting yalls emails that say how discouraged i was the week before. No. I just sometimes write very dry with out feeling. That doesnt make my week bad =) I dont mean to make it sound like im judging or that i dont love the people. I do! I think that is why it makes it harder. <br /> <br />As for baptisms... no. No one got baptized. Juan Carlos as of right now will be this Saturday. But transfers are tomorrow.... who knows what will happen. We went to a baptism on Saturday and Juan Carlos finally came which is great because he is afraid of water. Romina came too. (she still isnt comitted to anything)The church was quite a ways a way. We of course took the bus.. but I made a mistake and we got off to early. I was sure that we were at our stop. We ended up having to walk quite a ways after. I felt really bad. Juan Carlos is fine to walk but he is pretty old. Oops. It reminded me of hiking up corner canyon and there being a ´´short cut´´ but i was positive it didnt work. Well im done with directions and wont trust my good sense of direction the next time. Okay, i knew it was always bad... but im officially done trying. It was nice to walk in a different place tho. We could see the colors from the sunset. The sunsets are BEAUTIFUL here! But we made it in good timing for the baptism. My comp and I got asked to be the speakers about 5 seconds before. Gotta love being the replacement for a year and a half. (we speak a lot in our branch too)But i can say that im definitely more comfortable with speaking in front of people. I still dont like it, and i still get nervous... but not as much. Gotta love the mish =) <br /> <br />We had a talent show with all the missionaries in our zone this last weekend.... Haha i still havent found my talents.. im still lookin hard for them. So i did my next best thing.... I juggled! Haha ya i know, i was desperate. I dont really know the point of the show.. who wants to come and see missionaries sing (very poorly) and juggle? It would have been a lot better to invite the members to participate. We finally have a ward mission leader instead of the President. (Im pretty sure we got that because he is now our neighbor and didnt want to hear any complaints. They invited us to lunch this last week. The wife told us that she could wash our clothes. We understood that we could bring them to her Tuesday or Thursday, but she told us at lunch that she wants them both days, and she doesnt have a problem washing EVERYTHING. Wow! That is super nice and means we dont have to hand wash!) Its soo nice, and he is soo great. He helps us a lot. But we are now trying to plan activities in the ward. Hopefully that will help us have more unity. We have a movie and popcorn planned for the beginning of August.<br /> <br />Okay well I love, love, love yall! Have a great week!<br /> <br />Love, Hna Payne<br /> <br />Dad.. no more trunky comments! =)<br />The photo of the lake is gorgeous!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-652242476020984018.post-63266115872049529512011-07-18T16:06:00.001-06:002011-07-18T16:06:48.478-06:00Hola Familia! Its me again, Hna Payne. HOw goes life on the home front??<br /> <br />Well this week was..... kind of a downer week. Hey, but now its a whole new week... but really life is always great. We are supposed to have 2 baptisms this Saturday... but neither one of them were in church on Sunday. They both have 3 times in church so they havent lost their date yet. We tried going by both houses yesterday but neither one of them were home. Juan Carlos doesnt understand a whole lot.. but has desires to be baptized?? And then there is Romina that says she understands. We will be going by tonight to see how the end of the week will play out. Are they ready?? Or is it what we want? Eh sometimes I dont know if im helping my cause by being here in the mish or just condemning myself......(Jacob1:19)<br /> <br />We had a mini MTC here in Formosa with all the kids in the stake. Well there were lots of kids... but not a soul from Parque went. We called the president to ask what time they were going to meet up. He casually told us that the girls just didnt want to go.. and that the guys werent going because of soccer. WHAT!?!?!?!? Soccer wasnt until 6:30 at night. They expect all these kids to go on a mission but arent doing anything to help them. These kids live for soccer and play station. Nonthing else matters... and it doesnt seem that anyone else is trying to tell them otherwise. Well of course they arent... our branch really doesnt function. The young men and women dont have leaders. They had some.. but then the president took away the callings and put himself in charge..... Boo! We had 20 people in church on sunday. it rained. when it rains, no one does anything. Oh argentina.<br /> <br />The Zone leaders called us on thursday when we started our 3 hour planning session. They were outside of our apt. We were outside planning because our power was out. We had to move our table because of all the dog poop and the smell. There is a tiny area of dirt, and it just so happens to be right in front of our door and they never clean up right there. But the elders were great sports and volunteered to clean it up. <br /> <br />So i ordered scriptures the other day. I went to put them in my scripture cases that i ordered in Resistencia.... and they dont fit!!!!!!!!!!! Im sooo mad. I dont understand why. Hna Runyan has the same ones and hers fit! We cant call the office, so i cant ask aobut it. My zl said he is going to ask the elders in the office that are in charge of talkin to the man.. but i dont kno if i have a lot of hope in any of them.. and the elder that was in the office is now in the field. My whole scripture experience has been an expensive one. Hopefully i will eventually get my cases... They cost a lot... especially not to be able to use them. <br /> <br />Okay well im out of time. i love, love, love yall! Have a great time in CO.<br /> <br />Love,<br />Hna PayneUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-652242476020984018.post-87951839121322428702011-07-11T21:15:00.000-06:002011-07-11T21:17:41.239-06:00Hola familia! Its me again, Hna Payne!<br /><br />Today is pday and we just got out of interviews with President. Oh, he<br />is soooooo great. And his wife too. She would say that she is learning<br />spanish, but really its great. She knows a lot. Our interview wasnt<br />very long, but he is just soo nice and complamentry, and he of course<br />had just met me. One of his themes and visions is the Spirit. Are we<br />doing all we can to live by the Spirit.<br /><br />So what happened this week????? We now have new neighbors with 2 dogs.<br />We live in an apt in the back.. and The president of the branch and<br />his wife just moved in. You would think that would be a good thing. Im<br />not soo sure. Lots of people in the branch have problems with him. I<br />know there are always more than one story to every side.. but after a<br />while when you hear the same things, and see a little evidence of<br />things... well you start to understand. On a super bright note the<br />wife has a washer and a little machine that sucks all the extra water<br />out of your clothes that she offered to let us use. YAY! The weather<br />is crazy and sometimes it takes FOREVER to dry. But not with this<br />little machine.<br /><br />We are teaching an 18 year old girl that now has assisted 3 times in<br />church. We have taught her the law of chastity 3 times now. The first<br />time, well we didnt teach it very well. The second time was great.<br />Very direct, very informative. You know in the Book of Mormon when<br />prophets are giving their dying testimonies saying that they have done<br />everything in their power to bring souls unto God and that the blood<br />of their sins will be upon the peoples own garments. And that they<br />will be waiting at the judgement bar of God?? We left feeling that we<br />would write our dying testimony. She absolutely understands the law of<br />chastity. And understands that she is still acountable even if she<br />doesnt get baptized. We taught the law of chastity yesterday too to<br />her boyfriendthat is visiting. He lives hours away, and they never see<br />each other. He flat out said he didnt agree and that he wasnt going to<br />live this commandment. Eh!!!!! I hope that she was strong enough in<br />her commitment. But she is 18 and totally in love with this 23 year<br />old (who she has been with for 4 years. and in this time he has been<br />with other girls) We have another lesson with her today. Her date to<br />be baptized is the 23rd. She said that if he wasnt going to be okay<br />with her decision that he could leave and do whatever. If only the<br />things that we say were as easy to do then say.<br /><br />I just love, love, love this work and this gospel. I know that life<br />isnt easy.... but with the gospel it can be. Okay i know that im<br />saying this as a 22 year old girl that hasnt lived very much of life.<br />But i do KNOW that this gospel can change lives and that it can at<br />least be a lot easier. When we understand the Plan of Salvation and<br />what it has to offer then our priorities are different. We understand<br />that we really can live with our families forever. We have the power<br />to do this if we are willing to work for it, sacrifice who we are- to<br />become better, and live the council and commandments that God has<br />given to us through a prophet. I just wish that people could just<br />listen more with an open heart because they already KNOW this gospel.<br />Everyone was taught this and accepted this plan before we ever came<br />here. We chose the side of our Savior, Jesus Christ. And everyone CAN<br />know it again. Im soo thankful for the knowledge and understanding<br />that we have. We know why we are here, and what we have to do. Now,<br />its just the doing that is the hard part.<br /><br />Mom, IM soo glad you could go to Hna Runyans homecoming. She is just<br />soooo great. I just love her. I couldnt have picked a better american<br />companion that i will be able to stay in close contact with. I like<br />your garden and door too!<br /><br />DREW! We had someone give a talk on sunday about the importance of<br />Family home evening. I remember a certain letter that asked us the<br />last time that we had FHE. Ha how are yours going?<br /><br />Hna Jones! I found hna wheelers add. You asked for it one time, but I<br />didnt think i had it...<br /><br />Britnie Wheeler<br />Canada Toranto East Mission Office<br />24 Fernand Drive Suite 300<br />Don mills ON M3C 3V4<br />Canada<br /><br />Okay well I love, love, love yall! Have a great week!<br /><br />Love,<br />Hna PayneUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-652242476020984018.post-73614212391365572052011-07-04T10:21:00.001-06:002011-07-04T10:21:16.812-06:00Hola familia! Its me again, Hna Payne!<br /> <br />HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Its soo hot for yall and soo cold for me! Sometimes i forget what month im in because of the different seasons.<br /> <br />Well, we now have a new president. We have had no contact with him.. but he is indeed here. We have interviews with him this next monday.<br /> <br />So yesterday at church was one of those days that you just want to kill people for being who they are, and not thinking... and just being one of [those people] We were in relief society and the lady giving the lesson decided to give a whole class about the way we should dress for church. Well, EVERYONE in the class minus Noelia (recent convert) and her investigator friend and antoher investigator were in jeans. Its one thing to comment for a couple minutes.. but a whole class period when the ONLY people in jeans are investigators. Por Favor! If only people could think what its like for new people. And Noelia was already in a sad mood because her mom is visiting and isnt okay that she got baptized. She is thinking about not coming anymore. Why cant it be easy for new converts? Its one thing for us because we understand.. Its kind of like a baby thats sick and crying.. you just feel soo bad because you cant take away the pain, and they dont understand why they are hurting. But when its an adult they can at least understand and handle it in a different way. New converts are the baby that have to learn to deal with adversity in a different way than they have had to in the past... and a lot of times they dont understand why. I dont know if any of that made sense... She needs friends in the church. as of right now we are her only support. I wish she could find a boyfriend that would help her along. She is going to institute.. but its hard to be new.. and people forget that too and then dont grab them and bring them into their circle. She also doesnt have a phone. that makes things harder.<br /> <br />Well we have struggled finding people these last few weeks. It seems that we dont really have a pool of anyone. but we will continue forward putting our faith in the Lord that there are people waiting for the gospel. We are still working with Margarita, abel, and Juan Carlos. We havent had a lot of progress. Juan Carlos still has a baptism date, so we are working with him.<br /> <br />Well that is about all. im about out of time. I love, love, love yall!<br /> <br />Have a great week!<br /> <br />Love,<br />Hna payne!<br /> <br />I got my packages and card! thank you!!!!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-652242476020984018.post-45248018581407703862011-06-27T16:12:00.000-06:002011-06-27T16:13:15.839-06:00Hola Familia! Its me again, hna Payne! <br /><br />Ah, It turned cold this last week and Im freezing! Its probably not even that cold.. but it is when you dont have a fireplace and heater =) The weather is definitely bipolar. One week is very warm and then bam! We have a little space heather thing but half of it went out today so im guessing its not going to last. And i definitely hate showering because the water isnt very hot and there is a partially opened window. Im not complaining, just stating the obvious and giving details =)<br /><br />We were supposed to have had the baptism of Juan Carlos this last week but fell through because his family here isnt supportive. but he has a brother in Buenos Aires and his wife is a member that are coming here in a month for vacation. So he now has date right before transfers. Juan Carlos is soo great. He is 62 and is just sooo sweet and happy. He really doesnt understand a lot, but has desires to be baptized. He is the neighbor of Margarita and Abel. They are still around.. but not really progressing. We had a recent convert come with us the other day and it helped a lot. Abel had plans to sell food on Sunday and wasnt going to come. He then made plans to have someone else sell the food. But at the last minute his plan fell through. <br /><br />I read Our Legacy the other day! Its soo good. I loved it. It shows all the sacrifices of all early pioneers of the church. This work is soooo much bigger than you and me. I love the pioneer stories, they are sooo humbling. And sometimes i dare to think that my work is hard. Shame on me! Why does it have to be soo hard to be perfect. Or at least feel satisfied with the work that we have done?<br /><br />I still havent gotten my hose or debit card. Im thinking that I will get it next tuesday. But who knows. Dad, I got my other debit card last tuesday. Im really not sure what happened to it I think it went through water and fire to get here. I know you think im exaggerating, but im really not. It was It had gotten wet and it was partially opened with brown rusty looking spots. Oh and by the way you had part of the address wrong. One of the numbers was off. maybe that is why it took so long to get here. Or maybe it didnt really matter, i dont know... but its a good thing you sent another one just to be on the safe side.<br /><br />Hna Jones. I got your letter! WHAT!?!?!?! You ended your experience so suddenly like it was noooo big deal!?!?<br /><br />Well, that is all i have got for now. Sorry my letters just keeping getting more lame. Have a great week!!!<br /><br /><br />Love,<br />Hna PayneUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-652242476020984018.post-41835583425598973802011-06-21T15:16:00.000-06:002011-06-21T15:17:29.545-06:00Hola familia! Its me again, Hna Payne!<br /><br />Today is our pday because yesterday was a holiday. Thats sooo sad<br />because im sure everything was open yesterday. We never have time to<br />do anything because of the siesta. Oh well, what can you do. Today we<br />went and got our hair cut. I know, we are sooo exciting. She did a<br />cleansing thing that took out all the dirt, grease, and shampoo. My<br />hair feels soooooo clean! I think the shampoo and conditioner that i<br />use are really cheap so it doesnt do a lot for my hair. I dont know what my problem is.<br /><br />I heard about Chile and the problems it was causing for people. I also<br />heard about the family of this kid. That is really sad. As far as I<br />know the andrews got here. I havent seen them. I dont know that I will<br />either. Im sure they just left my package in the office. Speaking of<br />the office. I had to go into Resistencia on Thursday to do something<br />for my visa. Well, with the luck that I have it just happend to be the<br />day that all the missionaries that were about to leave were in the<br />office as well. So I got to see the hna Runyan!!!! It was sooooooo<br />good to see her! She told me about all that had gone on in her area<br />since I left. They had 2 little girls get baptized of an inactive<br />member that is going again. The ward has really helped her come back.<br /><br />Margarita.... well she defininetly wont be getting married. Her<br />husband is a snake. And he wont leave. He difinitely puts on a show<br />for us. She still doesnt have a testimony.. but likes going to church.<br />She wants to pay tithing and everything. She said that she is waiting<br />for God to remember her. Hearing her stories just makes me sooooooo<br />thankful for the gospel. I know with out a doubt the protection that<br />it has for us if we will just live it. I always knew the gospel was<br />true and loved it. But now it just has a new meaning in my life. If<br />only i could explain to yall in words... even then i think my words<br />would sound a bit hallow. But I love, love , love the gospel and this<br />work. Im sooo grateful the Lord has given me this oportunity to really<br />learn about others, myself, the gospel, and a million other things.<br /><br />Well I love, love, love yall! Have a great week!<br /><br />Love,<br />Hna PayneUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-652242476020984018.post-5174548124824560922011-06-13T15:44:00.000-06:002011-06-13T15:46:23.220-06:00Hola familia its me again, hna Payne! Another week has come and gone..<br />time just goes faster and faster and that just means its time to write<br />again. Eh.. im about done with writing. i know yall are too. I told<br />you all i give full permission not to write. I will of course send in<br />my few lines because it is required =)<br /><br />This week.... well we had stake conference yesterday. It was<br />broadcasted in Buenos Aires with Elder Packer in charge. Well it was<br />all great and dandy until the power went out. Lame! It was out for<br />about 30 minutes and then came back on. Magarita and her neighbor were<br />there. The husband was selling food. The daughter isnt interested, and<br />the son we have never really talked too. I wouldnt really call them<br />progressing in this moment. Hopefully something will change this week.<br /><br />Transfers are tomorrow. Who knows what will happen. There are a few<br />hermanas leaving but no new ones come, and we already have hnas with<br />out companions. Today is Hna Runyans last pday. Weird. It doesnt feel<br />like other people exist if im not there with them.. so it feels like<br />she will stay in resistencia. Ignorance is bliss =)<br /><br />Today for pday we called president for permission to leave our area to<br />go and take pictures. Its kind of a rainy and yucky day but who knows<br />what will happen next week so we are going anyways.<br /><br />Kelsie HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! Sorry i forgot to tell you last monday!<br /><br />Dad HAPPY FATHERS DAY yesterday! Again, sorry i forget last monday!<br /><br />DAd HAPPY BIRTHDAY this week!<br /><br />Okay well im out of time!!!!! I love, love, love yall!<br /><br />Love, hna PayneUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0