Hello Brother and Sister Payne,
Our daughter asked us to pass the following note on to you.
Thanks,
Ray and Kim Runyan
Dear Brother and Sister Payne!
Hola! Im Hérmana Runyan...the comp of your wonderful Hermana Payne. I just wanted to thank you for daughters birthday lunch....and for letting her share it with me :D It was delicious...as is pretty much everything here in Argentina :D
Thank you for your wonderful daughter. She always keeps me smiling and has taught me how to be a better missionary through her love, obedience and diligence. :D She is doing great things here in Resistencia :D
Thanks again!
Love,
Hna Runyan
Monday, March 14, 2011
Hola Familia! Its me again, Hna Payne! Sorry but im pretty much just sending pictures this week! Its been a while. Hopefully they all work.
The picture with me in the pink shirt is Mario and Nelly. We were walking by one evening and they were sitting outside, and asked what we were doing. We set another day to go talk to them. Mario told us his life story and why he is sick. He had been sick for a long time, and was depressed as well. We told him of the love that our Heavenly Father has for him and how aware he is of him. He always cried when we were there. We got him to come to church with us. We told them we were picking up Gladys for church and that we could swing by and get them. They agreed. When we got there Nelly wouldnt come though. She told us that she was from another church and couldnt. So we went to church with Mario. We werent too sure if he was all there. He had some pretty out there questions. But hey, he came to church and he liked it. The next week Nelly came with him. I could tell she didnt really like it. Ha she was quick to tell us that when we asked her. She said she would not come again, and she did NOT believe in our book.
They didnt come again. We decided they werent going to progress. And we really werent sure what he understood.
Another day they saw us and we stopped by. They asked us to come have lunch with them. I made sure to have my camera because he had said how he wanted a picture with us.
A few weeks later one of their neighbors that is a neighbor told us that he passed away. We tried to talk to Nelly but she wasnt there or didnt want to talk. About a month later we stopped by hoping to talk to her. She told us what happened. I think he drank himself to death. (he told us at lunch that water made him sick so he drank wine.. i guess that could explain him not being all there)
We were sad. To us he was a new person, a couple lessons, a lesson with a member, someone at church.. but for him.. we were the chicas and someone he felt good around when we were in church. It is always said that no effort goes unwasted... Nelly told us that he in the hospital, dying and he said Estoy en la casa de los mormones The doctor was just what?? How can you be in the house of the Mormons if you are in the hospital? He was like No, estoy en la casa de los mormones.创 That was a testimony to me that NO effort goes unwasted. I know that he is just chillin up in the spirit world, and two sister missionaries are going to walk by and he is going to say chicas! And there he will be able to listen and understand.
The other picture with the older couple is one of the faithful members. They are rock solid. We went to their house yesterday. My comp and I decided there is absolutely no way that we are going to make it to the Celestial Kingdom. Here they sacrifice sooo much. Sacrifices that we will never, ever have to. So how do we compete? Where is the fairness in it? Every day I am more and more humbled by the people that I talk to.. and the things that they have to do. How blessed I am. The other picture of the little girls is one of my favorites. They think that we are sooo cool. Some of them want to be missionaries some day. They started asking us if we knew Disney and what it was like. They kids will NEVER know Disney. I didnt know how lucky I was.
The really old lady is Hna Nuz. She is like 94 and still going like a mad women. She gives sooooo much to everyone. I could sit and talk about her allllll day. But im about out of time. But she is such an example to me in the way that she gives service.
We heard, but I dont think we were supposed to have heard... but we were in the house of a member of the stake something and he said that our President is from the US and that he is a lawyer from money... That is all I know.
Karan, I got your email today =) still waitin on the card =)
Okay, well I LOVE LOVE LOVE yall. Have a great week.
Love, Hna Payne
Monday, March 7, 2011
Hola Familia, its me again, Hna Payne!
Im sitting here again with out much to write. Sorry.
Thanks for all the birthday wishes. Dad you definitely made up for it with the luch special. It was a whole $12ish for me and my comp, and we ate well too! Ha thanks! I ate lamb today. I thought I might as well splurge =) It was pretty good. We had our training on wednesday and everyone sang to me. Hna Runyan made me a cake... sort of. Its called sopa paraguaya. The best way to describe it is cornbread delux x 100 it has onions and tons of cheese. YUUUMMM sooo good. I will make it someday. Yall made a good choice and went to CPK. I hope it was good. I liked the pics drew sent to me, Ha if only I looked like that now... oh well =)
We found Mirta again. She told us that she is really praying and reading to know if there things are true. We were really excited. She still doesnt want a baptism date. We were there at her house again and asked her what she read in the BoM. She said something about being a good mom or something like that. We about died. She wasnt reading the BoM. Hahah its funny because she comes to church and sees a new book and some how gets one. I said from the very beginning that she isnt going to read because she has every other book competing for her attention. Well we gave her some questions of the soul that the BoM answers. Hopefully now she will have interest to read. We watched the Joseph Smith movie with her that she really liked. We took The Testaments with us just in case something happened with the other. She wanted to watch that one right after. Im pretty sure she put that one in right after we left. I love Mirta. She is one of the sweetest, child-like women that I know. She WILL get baptized. She is soooo good.
The other day we were walkin down the street the other day and we ran into Hna Troncoso. He is one of my favorite old men.. (dont tell Danny Johnson =)) He was just like hey I was lookin for someone to pray for this old lady that he met on the street. Tender mercy for both of us. He needed someone to pray and we needed a lesson with a member. So we shared a scripture and prayed.
Another tender mercy: we were walkin home from church (with out investigators... again) when a husband of an inactive rode by us and asked us if we wanted some impanadas for free. We went and talked to his wife when we first got to the area. He wasnt very warm and friendly. But we always walk by their house in passing and say hi. Well we had to go in and wait for a minute for them to cook. Then the wife came and gave them to us giving us the opportunity to talk. She is one of our 15 families. We are waiting for our mission leader to pass by and ask if we can start coming by and teaching the family. Hopefully in the next week or two =) We are thinking that the husband might like us if he gave us food. Probably not.. but we can hope =) Always a tender mercy if we look for them and recognize them as such, a blessing from the Lord. I love 1 Nephi 1:20.
This last week has warmed back up again. We had 2-3 weeks of nice weather. Its still not too bad though. The way people talked, I thought I was going to die. There were only a few nights that I tossed and turned from it being hot. Thankfully I think we are over the hottest part.
Im sooo thankful to be here. I love, love, love it here. I love the country and people more and more everyday. What a blessing to serve the Lord in this way. I know that the Lord loves everyone of us and he is always trying to show us his love. He gives us so many opportunities to learn and grow. When we dont quite measure up, which feels like always, there is the atonement to help us. I was reading in Ether the other day. Ether 12:27 The Lord gives up weaknesses to humble us. I cant say that it gets any easier to be humbled. It always hurts a little. But when we trust in the Lord and give him our heart, the Lord provides. He loves us enough to hurt us sometimes.
Mom, I got your bday card on March 1st =) I get letters in about 2 weeks. Well, at least while im in Resistencia with the office. It will take a lot longer when im not here. I still havent gotten my pics or your package.
Karan I got your email, still not the letter. Maybe this week =)
Okay well I love, love, love yall. Have a great week. Thank you, thank you, thank you for all you do.
Love,
Hna Payne
Im sitting here again with out much to write. Sorry.
Thanks for all the birthday wishes. Dad you definitely made up for it with the luch special. It was a whole $12ish for me and my comp, and we ate well too! Ha thanks! I ate lamb today. I thought I might as well splurge =) It was pretty good. We had our training on wednesday and everyone sang to me. Hna Runyan made me a cake... sort of. Its called sopa paraguaya. The best way to describe it is cornbread delux x 100 it has onions and tons of cheese. YUUUMMM sooo good. I will make it someday. Yall made a good choice and went to CPK. I hope it was good. I liked the pics drew sent to me, Ha if only I looked like that now... oh well =)
We found Mirta again. She told us that she is really praying and reading to know if there things are true. We were really excited. She still doesnt want a baptism date. We were there at her house again and asked her what she read in the BoM. She said something about being a good mom or something like that. We about died. She wasnt reading the BoM. Hahah its funny because she comes to church and sees a new book and some how gets one. I said from the very beginning that she isnt going to read because she has every other book competing for her attention. Well we gave her some questions of the soul that the BoM answers. Hopefully now she will have interest to read. We watched the Joseph Smith movie with her that she really liked. We took The Testaments with us just in case something happened with the other. She wanted to watch that one right after. Im pretty sure she put that one in right after we left. I love Mirta. She is one of the sweetest, child-like women that I know. She WILL get baptized. She is soooo good.
The other day we were walkin down the street the other day and we ran into Hna Troncoso. He is one of my favorite old men.. (dont tell Danny Johnson =)) He was just like hey I was lookin for someone to pray for this old lady that he met on the street. Tender mercy for both of us. He needed someone to pray and we needed a lesson with a member. So we shared a scripture and prayed.
Another tender mercy: we were walkin home from church (with out investigators... again) when a husband of an inactive rode by us and asked us if we wanted some impanadas for free. We went and talked to his wife when we first got to the area. He wasnt very warm and friendly. But we always walk by their house in passing and say hi. Well we had to go in and wait for a minute for them to cook. Then the wife came and gave them to us giving us the opportunity to talk. She is one of our 15 families. We are waiting for our mission leader to pass by and ask if we can start coming by and teaching the family. Hopefully in the next week or two =) We are thinking that the husband might like us if he gave us food. Probably not.. but we can hope =) Always a tender mercy if we look for them and recognize them as such, a blessing from the Lord. I love 1 Nephi 1:20.
This last week has warmed back up again. We had 2-3 weeks of nice weather. Its still not too bad though. The way people talked, I thought I was going to die. There were only a few nights that I tossed and turned from it being hot. Thankfully I think we are over the hottest part.
Im sooo thankful to be here. I love, love, love it here. I love the country and people more and more everyday. What a blessing to serve the Lord in this way. I know that the Lord loves everyone of us and he is always trying to show us his love. He gives us so many opportunities to learn and grow. When we dont quite measure up, which feels like always, there is the atonement to help us. I was reading in Ether the other day. Ether 12:27 The Lord gives up weaknesses to humble us. I cant say that it gets any easier to be humbled. It always hurts a little. But when we trust in the Lord and give him our heart, the Lord provides. He loves us enough to hurt us sometimes.
Mom, I got your bday card on March 1st =) I get letters in about 2 weeks. Well, at least while im in Resistencia with the office. It will take a lot longer when im not here. I still havent gotten my pics or your package.
Karan I got your email, still not the letter. Maybe this week =)
Okay well I love, love, love yall. Have a great week. Thank you, thank you, thank you for all you do.
Love,
Hna Payne
Monday, February 28, 2011
Hola Familia! Its me again, Hna Payne. Here it is another week and time to write again. Crazy.
This last week we only had one investigator. Hno Fantine. The husband of the member. Well I can officially call him an investigator. We asked him if we could start coming by and giving him the lessons. Im not really sure what to expect here. All the elders before have all tried getting a baptimal date but he doesnt like the pressure of that and I think it might have a little to do with his first wife and fam. But I think we are just going to start giving him the lessons and when we get to three we will ask him what it is that he wants. Not sure yet. But oh our poor little ward. I want to say we average about 45 every Sunday but we were even less than that this last sunday. The bishop called everyone to repentance and told them to bring inactives to church. But I dont think they know what they can do to fellowship someone. Eh we are trying to come up with a plan. We are trying to focus in men and families. THat is what our ward needs. Well, that is what everyone needs. We are just trying to all together avoid the moms that have the husbands that dont want to listen.
Hna Runyan and I started a new theme 创sacrifice brings forth the blessings of heaven创 from praise to the man. There was a guy that talked to us about when he was a mission president in Mexico and they had this theme. They started a room in the mission home where they all the missionaries could send in their possessions that were distracting them. He said he got soooo many things. Cds, photo albums, a guitar... etc. This room got to be FULL of stuff. And the results were more baptisms. Well, we dont have this theme in the mission, and we really dont have any guitars to send into President.. but we decided we could sacrifice more of ourselves. You know you leave on the mission, and that is the easy part... giving up school, work, families... etc like you have no choice in that part.. the hard part is consecrating ALL of yourself to the work. The things, you think about, some of the little rules, etc. Sooo much depends on sooooo little. I know that I have changed.. i have been here for 9 months.. but I still feel like the same old callie trying to do big girl things. Well there is ALWAYS more to sacrifice! 创Sacrifce brings forth the blessings of heaven.
Drew! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU. HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR DREEEEEWWWW. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! You definitely need to go eat at cheesecake factory and eat a chocolate Godiva cheesecake for me. AND an oreo, butterfinger shake from jcw and dedicate them both to me =)
Thank you Drew, mom, Karan and Grandma for the Bday wishes =) I still havent gotten any mail in like forever.. so I will let everyone know when I get something from them.
I thought that I was going to have lunch this Thursday with the Bishop and his wife (every thurday is lunch with the bishop). Turns out we have an orientation thing all day instead. Ohh well. The lunches are always good at least.
Kels, That is sooooo cool. You didnt write when any of this will take place. Like next week? Where is this house? And Im still waitin on the other good news... but then again it wont get there in time.. boo.
Hna Jones! I dont need anything. Just send me a letter =) As always I love hearing how you are. Im sorry you arent in the mountains anymore. Yes, I am still in my second area with my second companion. We could very easily have another transfer together. If we do have another one it will be 6 months together as companions, and then before that we were in the same district. I think Hna Runyan just might be an eteral mission companion. Well she goes home in June so I guess it cant be forever. I love her though. We have fun
DADDY! That is way super cool! It sounds like you are getting a dream come true.
Okay well i give up sending pictures. i have been trying the last month. I had a good story and everything.. and wanted to send the photo. I cant just tell you the story now. Boo.
Okay well I love yall soo much. Thanks for all you do for me. Have a great week.
Love,
Hna Payne
This last week we only had one investigator. Hno Fantine. The husband of the member. Well I can officially call him an investigator. We asked him if we could start coming by and giving him the lessons. Im not really sure what to expect here. All the elders before have all tried getting a baptimal date but he doesnt like the pressure of that and I think it might have a little to do with his first wife and fam. But I think we are just going to start giving him the lessons and when we get to three we will ask him what it is that he wants. Not sure yet. But oh our poor little ward. I want to say we average about 45 every Sunday but we were even less than that this last sunday. The bishop called everyone to repentance and told them to bring inactives to church. But I dont think they know what they can do to fellowship someone. Eh we are trying to come up with a plan. We are trying to focus in men and families. THat is what our ward needs. Well, that is what everyone needs. We are just trying to all together avoid the moms that have the husbands that dont want to listen.
Hna Runyan and I started a new theme 创sacrifice brings forth the blessings of heaven创 from praise to the man. There was a guy that talked to us about when he was a mission president in Mexico and they had this theme. They started a room in the mission home where they all the missionaries could send in their possessions that were distracting them. He said he got soooo many things. Cds, photo albums, a guitar... etc. This room got to be FULL of stuff. And the results were more baptisms. Well, we dont have this theme in the mission, and we really dont have any guitars to send into President.. but we decided we could sacrifice more of ourselves. You know you leave on the mission, and that is the easy part... giving up school, work, families... etc like you have no choice in that part.. the hard part is consecrating ALL of yourself to the work. The things, you think about, some of the little rules, etc. Sooo much depends on sooooo little. I know that I have changed.. i have been here for 9 months.. but I still feel like the same old callie trying to do big girl things. Well there is ALWAYS more to sacrifice! 创Sacrifce brings forth the blessings of heaven.
Drew! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU. HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR DREEEEEWWWW. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! You definitely need to go eat at cheesecake factory and eat a chocolate Godiva cheesecake for me. AND an oreo, butterfinger shake from jcw and dedicate them both to me =)
Thank you Drew, mom, Karan and Grandma for the Bday wishes =) I still havent gotten any mail in like forever.. so I will let everyone know when I get something from them.
I thought that I was going to have lunch this Thursday with the Bishop and his wife (every thurday is lunch with the bishop). Turns out we have an orientation thing all day instead. Ohh well. The lunches are always good at least.
Kels, That is sooooo cool. You didnt write when any of this will take place. Like next week? Where is this house? And Im still waitin on the other good news... but then again it wont get there in time.. boo.
Hna Jones! I dont need anything. Just send me a letter =) As always I love hearing how you are. Im sorry you arent in the mountains anymore. Yes, I am still in my second area with my second companion. We could very easily have another transfer together. If we do have another one it will be 6 months together as companions, and then before that we were in the same district. I think Hna Runyan just might be an eteral mission companion. Well she goes home in June so I guess it cant be forever. I love her though. We have fun
DADDY! That is way super cool! It sounds like you are getting a dream come true.
Okay well i give up sending pictures. i have been trying the last month. I had a good story and everything.. and wanted to send the photo. I cant just tell you the story now. Boo.
Okay well I love yall soo much. Thanks for all you do for me. Have a great week.
Love,
Hna Payne
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Hola! Its me again, Hna Payne!
Life is just about as good as it can be. Not a lot of time to write today.. thats okay, I dont have much to say anyways.. Eh I just tried sending photos again... but its not coming up... =( what pics did I send last? Did i ever send one in my hat?
Yesterday we had zone conference so this morning we get to write. I love zone conference. We only have them like every 3 months. I wish we could have them every week. They are always so spiritually uplifting, but then at the same time soo....hard. Ha we always walk away knowing we arent doing enough. Sooo much depends on sooo little. Always lots of room for improvement.
Mirta was at church this last Sunday. She still doesnt have a baptismal date. She said she would call us this week because she is on vacations. We dont really know how we can help her. She went and talked to the Bishop after church though. Maybe he gave her some great words of wisdom. We know that she isnt reading the Book of Mormon. Some how we have got to change that. We talk about the BoM all the time. But she isnt going to get a strong testimony of these things with out reading.. .its just not going to happen.
We decided that we are going to be focusing more in men and families. That is what we need here. Something interesting that President told us a while back was that Elder Foster (in the seventy) was telling him how the work here for gringos is coming to an end.. how we need the Latinos to serve here. Which im sure that has always been the idea and goal. It just seems that they are really going to try pushin it more. President asked us yesterday that we need to send in all the names of young boys that are floating around in our wards. I dont know if they have some kind of plan for them.. but he said that we are going to be needing all of the gringos in china. Its cool to know that the work continues to move forward. It will be interesting if one day that is where all of the gringos are called.
Karan! I got your email and xmas card. Sorry I didnt mention that one. I have had that for a long time. And it is never too late to send my bday card. It might be after, but it will be something to open =)
Mom, I need some sunscreen.. the spray rub in kind. Crystal light packets are always welcome, especially raspberry ice. And I need a snickers bar. Someone was asking me about one. I just decided i like opening things =) Oh and a couple of tooth brushes!
Dad, im still waiting on my package of dried bananas and apricots =)
I cant find the email with camie´s address.
Has Hope left on the mission yet? Which mission is it again?
Kels, I loved the pics. Soo cute
Okay, well I love yall and miss yall. Have a great week!
Love,
Hna Payne
Life is just about as good as it can be. Not a lot of time to write today.. thats okay, I dont have much to say anyways.. Eh I just tried sending photos again... but its not coming up... =( what pics did I send last? Did i ever send one in my hat?
Yesterday we had zone conference so this morning we get to write. I love zone conference. We only have them like every 3 months. I wish we could have them every week. They are always so spiritually uplifting, but then at the same time soo....hard. Ha we always walk away knowing we arent doing enough. Sooo much depends on sooo little. Always lots of room for improvement.
Mirta was at church this last Sunday. She still doesnt have a baptismal date. She said she would call us this week because she is on vacations. We dont really know how we can help her. She went and talked to the Bishop after church though. Maybe he gave her some great words of wisdom. We know that she isnt reading the Book of Mormon. Some how we have got to change that. We talk about the BoM all the time. But she isnt going to get a strong testimony of these things with out reading.. .its just not going to happen.
We decided that we are going to be focusing more in men and families. That is what we need here. Something interesting that President told us a while back was that Elder Foster (in the seventy) was telling him how the work here for gringos is coming to an end.. how we need the Latinos to serve here. Which im sure that has always been the idea and goal. It just seems that they are really going to try pushin it more. President asked us yesterday that we need to send in all the names of young boys that are floating around in our wards. I dont know if they have some kind of plan for them.. but he said that we are going to be needing all of the gringos in china. Its cool to know that the work continues to move forward. It will be interesting if one day that is where all of the gringos are called.
Karan! I got your email and xmas card. Sorry I didnt mention that one. I have had that for a long time. And it is never too late to send my bday card. It might be after, but it will be something to open =)
Mom, I need some sunscreen.. the spray rub in kind. Crystal light packets are always welcome, especially raspberry ice. And I need a snickers bar. Someone was asking me about one. I just decided i like opening things =) Oh and a couple of tooth brushes!
Dad, im still waiting on my package of dried bananas and apricots =)
I cant find the email with camie´s address.
Has Hope left on the mission yet? Which mission is it again?
Kels, I loved the pics. Soo cute
Okay, well I love yall and miss yall. Have a great week!
Love,
Hna Payne
Monday, February 14, 2011
Hola! Its me again, Hna Payne!
Well, Im still here in good ol Resistencia, with the same ol companion =) I was really sad though when we got transfer calls and I wasnt changing. Ha THEN the assistant called.. I guess to say bye or something (im not going to say that I was glad.. or that I really like the new one) he said that I was movin up the senior and that I was gettin a latina, Hna Nava, another missionary close. I was sooo excited. But that I didnt hear, was him say that he was just joking. He went on to talk to my comp for like 10 minutes all the while I was wondering what i was going to do the next day. Then I found out he was kidding. Ha talk about sad day. Oh well. I love Hna Runyan, so if I have to spend it with a gringa, it might as well be her. THe response back from President was four words ´´patience is the word´´ Eh, im not a patient person! And what does that mean? That we will be together ANOTHER transfer. Ha if that were to happen it would be 6 months together as comps and three just knowing each other. Or next transfer I could have a mini. Oh I hope not. A mini is a regular person from our mission that comes in for a transfer when missionaries dont get here. I think we will have like 4-7 minis. It all depends on how many sisters we get. I could be making up that number... but i think we have like 3ish now.. and like 4 sisters leave this transfer (one of them being my trainer.) Any ways im enjoying the journey.. where ever that takes me.
This week we finally talked to Mirta!!! Our zone leaders called us telling us that Mirtas employee callled them to tell us to keep going by, that she was worried that we were mad at her because she missed out appointments. The thing is that we had gone by every other day if not every day. The kids just hadnt been giving her the messages. Anyways she came to church, which means she has 3 times in church, which means she can be baptized!!!!!!!!!!!!! We just havent been able to talk to her in like 2 weeks, and she has only had the 1st lesson. We have an appointment with her tomorrow. Hopefully we can get a fecha with her.
I dont have a whole lot so I will send pics =)
Karan, I got your letter! Since Im absolutely horrible with letters, I will at least give a shout out every week! =)
Mom, I didnt get your package.. maybe tomorrow =)
Dirty, No excuses =)
okay well it didnt work.. my pictures... really i just dont have time now. sorry.
Maybe next time =) i was even going to send one in my hat.
Okay well have a great week. I love yall!
Love,
Hna Payne
Well, Im still here in good ol Resistencia, with the same ol companion =) I was really sad though when we got transfer calls and I wasnt changing. Ha THEN the assistant called.. I guess to say bye or something (im not going to say that I was glad.. or that I really like the new one) he said that I was movin up the senior and that I was gettin a latina, Hna Nava, another missionary close. I was sooo excited. But that I didnt hear, was him say that he was just joking. He went on to talk to my comp for like 10 minutes all the while I was wondering what i was going to do the next day. Then I found out he was kidding. Ha talk about sad day. Oh well. I love Hna Runyan, so if I have to spend it with a gringa, it might as well be her. THe response back from President was four words ´´patience is the word´´ Eh, im not a patient person! And what does that mean? That we will be together ANOTHER transfer. Ha if that were to happen it would be 6 months together as comps and three just knowing each other. Or next transfer I could have a mini. Oh I hope not. A mini is a regular person from our mission that comes in for a transfer when missionaries dont get here. I think we will have like 4-7 minis. It all depends on how many sisters we get. I could be making up that number... but i think we have like 3ish now.. and like 4 sisters leave this transfer (one of them being my trainer.) Any ways im enjoying the journey.. where ever that takes me.
This week we finally talked to Mirta!!! Our zone leaders called us telling us that Mirtas employee callled them to tell us to keep going by, that she was worried that we were mad at her because she missed out appointments. The thing is that we had gone by every other day if not every day. The kids just hadnt been giving her the messages. Anyways she came to church, which means she has 3 times in church, which means she can be baptized!!!!!!!!!!!!! We just havent been able to talk to her in like 2 weeks, and she has only had the 1st lesson. We have an appointment with her tomorrow. Hopefully we can get a fecha with her.
I dont have a whole lot so I will send pics =)
Karan, I got your letter! Since Im absolutely horrible with letters, I will at least give a shout out every week! =)
Mom, I didnt get your package.. maybe tomorrow =)
Dirty, No excuses =)
okay well it didnt work.. my pictures... really i just dont have time now. sorry.
Maybe next time =) i was even going to send one in my hat.
Okay well have a great week. I love yall!
Love,
Hna Payne
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Hola familia! Its me again, hna payne. Have I ever mentioned that I hate writing? Again, I dont have anything to say =) I will give it my best go though.
This week at church.. well we got to go to sacrament after we went to get three families... none of which came. It rained like cats and dogs the day before and it was sooo muddy walkin on the dirt roads. That was fun. There was one investigator in church. I say one.. but his wife is a memeber and we still arent teaching him. Hopefully the bishop will talk to him soon. Our sad little ward. There was like 35 people in church. Soo many inactives =( The people had been praying for hermanas. Now we are here and I feel like we are failing them. Well, we continue to go on and do our best.
Mirta wasnt at church this last week. We werent able to get a hold of her in any way. The one time we talked to her by phone and got an appointment, she wasnt there. And then we went by other times too. Hopefully this week will be different. We had another family promise us they were going to come.. then last minute on saturday night they just werent. We were even going to go get them in a taxi. The culture is soo different down in this area. I dont know how to describe it with out being negative and judgemental. Maybe this Sunday =)
Transfers are tomorrow. I love Hna Runyan but I really want and need a latina. I asked president in my letter. Ha we will see if it happens. But I REALLY need it. I have 9 months and I cant talk, i dont understand. Eh I only have 9 months left. I feel done before I even get started. What if I never get it? Maybe its best if I come home before I completely fail. Totally kidding. And I know, I know... ´´Forget myself and go to work!´´ Great council =) Dont worry im not down or discouraged or anything.. just stating the obvious.. okay and maybe complaining just a taddy bit =)
Why I love Argentina story: It was raining cats and dogs the other day and we were down ´´north.´´ We were walkin the dirt roads. They were sooo muddy and we were slippin and slidding. I was wearing my rain boots but Hna Runyan was in her normal shoes. She decided to walk on the side walk to try and help her. What she didnt notice was that the sidewalk ended (because everything looked just muddy) and she fell into one of their ditches. Ha she was soaked. There were a couple of kids that were watching and they just died laughing.. along with us of course. She is probably going to die from a parasite or something. We arent sure if their sewage runs out in them. Gross.
Dad I have a cd with the Shenandoah (fix spelling) song on it. I think of you. What is the story again? I remember watching it one time... I also eat lots of peaches. I think of you when I have to peel my own =)
I got my hair cut.. that was an experice. It was a by a guy named Ramon (one of the other hermanas went the week before). I just thought he would have had a more gentle touch when he was washing my hair. It hurt. But I still have my long hair, so thats good.
Sounds like you have options with the business. That doesnt sound like you to let strangers in on it.. and to share you bean recipe. Here I was banking on a job when I got home.. and a good one. Ha oh well.
We went to wal mart and mcdonalds today. Not that exciting. Mom you asked about my clothes. We wash them by hand. Or sometimes we ask one of the members that said she could. I will NEVER complain about doing laundry one day when I have a washer and a dryer.. even if I do have 12 kids. The little things (or the big things) that we take for granted.
Okay well I love yall. Thanks for all yall do. Have a great week.
Love,
Hna Payne
This week at church.. well we got to go to sacrament after we went to get three families... none of which came. It rained like cats and dogs the day before and it was sooo muddy walkin on the dirt roads. That was fun. There was one investigator in church. I say one.. but his wife is a memeber and we still arent teaching him. Hopefully the bishop will talk to him soon. Our sad little ward. There was like 35 people in church. Soo many inactives =( The people had been praying for hermanas. Now we are here and I feel like we are failing them. Well, we continue to go on and do our best.
Mirta wasnt at church this last week. We werent able to get a hold of her in any way. The one time we talked to her by phone and got an appointment, she wasnt there. And then we went by other times too. Hopefully this week will be different. We had another family promise us they were going to come.. then last minute on saturday night they just werent. We were even going to go get them in a taxi. The culture is soo different down in this area. I dont know how to describe it with out being negative and judgemental. Maybe this Sunday =)
Transfers are tomorrow. I love Hna Runyan but I really want and need a latina. I asked president in my letter. Ha we will see if it happens. But I REALLY need it. I have 9 months and I cant talk, i dont understand. Eh I only have 9 months left. I feel done before I even get started. What if I never get it? Maybe its best if I come home before I completely fail. Totally kidding. And I know, I know... ´´Forget myself and go to work!´´ Great council =) Dont worry im not down or discouraged or anything.. just stating the obvious.. okay and maybe complaining just a taddy bit =)
Why I love Argentina story: It was raining cats and dogs the other day and we were down ´´north.´´ We were walkin the dirt roads. They were sooo muddy and we were slippin and slidding. I was wearing my rain boots but Hna Runyan was in her normal shoes. She decided to walk on the side walk to try and help her. What she didnt notice was that the sidewalk ended (because everything looked just muddy) and she fell into one of their ditches. Ha she was soaked. There were a couple of kids that were watching and they just died laughing.. along with us of course. She is probably going to die from a parasite or something. We arent sure if their sewage runs out in them. Gross.
Dad I have a cd with the Shenandoah (fix spelling) song on it. I think of you. What is the story again? I remember watching it one time... I also eat lots of peaches. I think of you when I have to peel my own =)
I got my hair cut.. that was an experice. It was a by a guy named Ramon (one of the other hermanas went the week before). I just thought he would have had a more gentle touch when he was washing my hair. It hurt. But I still have my long hair, so thats good.
Sounds like you have options with the business. That doesnt sound like you to let strangers in on it.. and to share you bean recipe. Here I was banking on a job when I got home.. and a good one. Ha oh well.
We went to wal mart and mcdonalds today. Not that exciting. Mom you asked about my clothes. We wash them by hand. Or sometimes we ask one of the members that said she could. I will NEVER complain about doing laundry one day when I have a washer and a dryer.. even if I do have 12 kids. The little things (or the big things) that we take for granted.
Okay well I love yall. Thanks for all yall do. Have a great week.
Love,
Hna Payne
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Hola! Its me again, Hna Payne.
Life here is about as good as it can be. Quite an eventful week. I say that... Now I cant remember anything. I hate writing. I know yall do too. Maybe I will just send pics from here on out. Less pressure =)
Mirta was at church again this week. We are going to try and put another baptism date with her. She rejected the first one. She is sooo great though. We need to find a way to talk to her kids though. Im pretty sure they dont have any interest... but that can change. We need her to tell them. We will also be talkin about that.
Hno Fantine was also there. He is the member that isnt really a member. His 2nd wife is a member and her two daughters. Hna Fantine is our mom here. She is always wanting to help us do something. Other elders have given him the lessons before. She wants us to start. But we have a mission plan here that some high up people came up with. The Bishop picks 15 inactive families that he wants us to start teaching, but someone in the bishopric has to stop by first and tell them that we are going to start. Well since he isnt inactive (one of the daughters is) we figured it would be okay to start.. but he wants to talk to him first. We need him to get rolling on that. There will be baptisms in these families!
We went out with a member this last week. He is sooo great. He is in the stake and always in and out of our ward. He told us he had some references for us and wanted to go with us. We figured he had been a member forever, and served a mission, and all that goes with that. Turns out he is a convert of 3 years. He worked in a casino and found a Joseph Smith pamphlet under a bottle of beer. He started to read it and heard a voice that said he needed to prepare to be baptized. He walked to the only mormon church that he knew of and talked to someone that was working in the yard. He casually asked how he could be baptized. WOW. Every missionary´s dream! There are people ready =) The Lord´s promises are sure.. live worthy and he will help us fulfill our purpose.
Why I love Argentina story:
Well, Argentina is quite a confidence booster when it comes to our looks. We always feel so...... gross and not at all like a girl. But that doesnt stop the men of Argentina. We are always getting cat (i dont know how to spell that) calls, whistles, kisses (the sound, not the real ones, except for a couple of times on accident), and even marriage proposals. This last week was all of the above. We were walking down the street when we decided to cross early to avoid one of our many boyfriends. Well he happened to be on the wrong side and tried getting us to talk to him. We kept walking as we told him we didnt have time, that we had a appointment. He realized we werent going to stay and talk so he desperately blurted that he wanted to get married with me. What!? Who does or says that? The desperates I guess. I kept walking as I tried to tell him that I was like a nun. But instead I told him I was single. I think the word that I was looking for was that Im celibate. Ha Im not even exactly sure what that means. Okay no i do know what that means, but its what a nun is and it means that i am not avaliable to get married. Im thinking that would have been a better word.. any words would have been better than ´´im single.´´ Again, I know that if the whole mission thing doesnt work out.. i still have options =)
Why I love my companion story:
We were sitting there planning at night when my companion said that her head itched. Yup, you know where this is going. We finished planning and she went to shower. Then she did a little scream/yelp. I figured there was some huge bug in the bathroom, until i remembered she said that her head itched. I went in and she asked what the tiny little bug was on her finger. Yup, my companion had/probably still has LICE. We called Hna Del Castillo and she told us to go buy stuff at the pharmacy. I bought a shampoo as a preventive treatment, she bought the hard stuff. We were up till 2 in the morning pulling little licey bugs out of her hair. I knew the mission prepared people to be married and to be parents.. but I never thought in this way. Gross. We dont have a washing machine to wash all of our stuff. We dont have a vacuum for the carpet. Pretty sure im the next victim. Great. But its different here. We went over to a member home, a nicer home. We told her we didnt want to come in because of the lice. She just told us not to worry about it, and that its really common. They didnt even battt an eye. Needless to say my hair will be up for the rest of my time here =)
Brit and Ang I got your letters! Thanks.
Karan you will have a card in the mail next week. Promise!
Okay well Im glad yall had a good time with Miss B. SOunds like she is lots of fun. Have a great week. I love yall.
Love,
Hna Payne
Life here is about as good as it can be. Quite an eventful week. I say that... Now I cant remember anything. I hate writing. I know yall do too. Maybe I will just send pics from here on out. Less pressure =)
Mirta was at church again this week. We are going to try and put another baptism date with her. She rejected the first one. She is sooo great though. We need to find a way to talk to her kids though. Im pretty sure they dont have any interest... but that can change. We need her to tell them. We will also be talkin about that.
Hno Fantine was also there. He is the member that isnt really a member. His 2nd wife is a member and her two daughters. Hna Fantine is our mom here. She is always wanting to help us do something. Other elders have given him the lessons before. She wants us to start. But we have a mission plan here that some high up people came up with. The Bishop picks 15 inactive families that he wants us to start teaching, but someone in the bishopric has to stop by first and tell them that we are going to start. Well since he isnt inactive (one of the daughters is) we figured it would be okay to start.. but he wants to talk to him first. We need him to get rolling on that. There will be baptisms in these families!
We went out with a member this last week. He is sooo great. He is in the stake and always in and out of our ward. He told us he had some references for us and wanted to go with us. We figured he had been a member forever, and served a mission, and all that goes with that. Turns out he is a convert of 3 years. He worked in a casino and found a Joseph Smith pamphlet under a bottle of beer. He started to read it and heard a voice that said he needed to prepare to be baptized. He walked to the only mormon church that he knew of and talked to someone that was working in the yard. He casually asked how he could be baptized. WOW. Every missionary´s dream! There are people ready =) The Lord´s promises are sure.. live worthy and he will help us fulfill our purpose.
Why I love Argentina story:
Well, Argentina is quite a confidence booster when it comes to our looks. We always feel so...... gross and not at all like a girl. But that doesnt stop the men of Argentina. We are always getting cat (i dont know how to spell that) calls, whistles, kisses (the sound, not the real ones, except for a couple of times on accident), and even marriage proposals. This last week was all of the above. We were walking down the street when we decided to cross early to avoid one of our many boyfriends. Well he happened to be on the wrong side and tried getting us to talk to him. We kept walking as we told him we didnt have time, that we had a appointment. He realized we werent going to stay and talk so he desperately blurted that he wanted to get married with me. What!? Who does or says that? The desperates I guess. I kept walking as I tried to tell him that I was like a nun. But instead I told him I was single. I think the word that I was looking for was that Im celibate. Ha Im not even exactly sure what that means. Okay no i do know what that means, but its what a nun is and it means that i am not avaliable to get married. Im thinking that would have been a better word.. any words would have been better than ´´im single.´´ Again, I know that if the whole mission thing doesnt work out.. i still have options =)
Why I love my companion story:
We were sitting there planning at night when my companion said that her head itched. Yup, you know where this is going. We finished planning and she went to shower. Then she did a little scream/yelp. I figured there was some huge bug in the bathroom, until i remembered she said that her head itched. I went in and she asked what the tiny little bug was on her finger. Yup, my companion had/probably still has LICE. We called Hna Del Castillo and she told us to go buy stuff at the pharmacy. I bought a shampoo as a preventive treatment, she bought the hard stuff. We were up till 2 in the morning pulling little licey bugs out of her hair. I knew the mission prepared people to be married and to be parents.. but I never thought in this way. Gross. We dont have a washing machine to wash all of our stuff. We dont have a vacuum for the carpet. Pretty sure im the next victim. Great. But its different here. We went over to a member home, a nicer home. We told her we didnt want to come in because of the lice. She just told us not to worry about it, and that its really common. They didnt even battt an eye. Needless to say my hair will be up for the rest of my time here =)
Brit and Ang I got your letters! Thanks.
Karan you will have a card in the mail next week. Promise!
Okay well Im glad yall had a good time with Miss B. SOunds like she is lots of fun. Have a great week. I love yall.
Love,
Hna Payne
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Ahhh
sorry this letter is going to be super lame. The place that we are at
is kicking us out. I really dont have much to write about anyways.
My testimony is growing in member missionary work! I have about
decided it is impossible with out the help of the members. We had two
different members help us with Mirta this last week. One of them went
and picked her up for church, and then the Bishops wife knew her from
work. When she walked in the door they just wrapped her in a hug and
dragged her to sit down with them. We didnt have to do anything or
worry. That is the way its supposed to be. But hey, i was never a good
member missionary. I didnt see the importance for it. Which living in
utah is harder. Not impossible, just harder. But like Elder Bednar
said, its the members work.. the missionaries are there to help. If
only it could be that way. Well, until then we will keep working hard
finding new people and getting the members to help.
Its getting hotter here. Ha we were walking down a dirt road and a
little kid called out to us. I turned around and he lodged a water
balloon at us. Ha he hit my companion. I love argentina. There are
sooo many things that are soo different, but it makes it argentina.
Hey, this week I took some cigerettes from a guy. He said he was on
his last one. So I asked him if I could have his other ones. Then I
had them all day and didnt know what to do with them. He was supposed
to have come to chuch yesterdsay. He has a baptism date and
everything. Ha im having faith here that he didnt say yes to all of
these things because we are two missionaries. I would say cute
missionaries... but lets be honest we lost that a long time ago.
Okay well dad let me know about the bus. mom I will let you know about
the pics.
Have fun with miss B and Kels. I love yall so much.
Ang and kb thanks for the letter.
Angie you have a letter going in the mail today.
Love,
Hna Payne
sorry this letter is going to be super lame. The place that we are at
is kicking us out. I really dont have much to write about anyways.
My testimony is growing in member missionary work! I have about
decided it is impossible with out the help of the members. We had two
different members help us with Mirta this last week. One of them went
and picked her up for church, and then the Bishops wife knew her from
work. When she walked in the door they just wrapped her in a hug and
dragged her to sit down with them. We didnt have to do anything or
worry. That is the way its supposed to be. But hey, i was never a good
member missionary. I didnt see the importance for it. Which living in
utah is harder. Not impossible, just harder. But like Elder Bednar
said, its the members work.. the missionaries are there to help. If
only it could be that way. Well, until then we will keep working hard
finding new people and getting the members to help.
Its getting hotter here. Ha we were walking down a dirt road and a
little kid called out to us. I turned around and he lodged a water
balloon at us. Ha he hit my companion. I love argentina. There are
sooo many things that are soo different, but it makes it argentina.
Hey, this week I took some cigerettes from a guy. He said he was on
his last one. So I asked him if I could have his other ones. Then I
had them all day and didnt know what to do with them. He was supposed
to have come to chuch yesterdsay. He has a baptism date and
everything. Ha im having faith here that he didnt say yes to all of
these things because we are two missionaries. I would say cute
missionaries... but lets be honest we lost that a long time ago.
Okay well dad let me know about the bus. mom I will let you know about
the pics.
Have fun with miss B and Kels. I love yall so much.
Ang and kb thanks for the letter.
Angie you have a letter going in the mail today.
Love,
Hna Payne
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Hola familia! Its me again, Hna Payne. Life is pretty good. Ha are you reading into that? Okay, so it was kind of a rough week, not really any reason why. Just the way it goes I guess. But now its pday and I have forgotten about last week. The weather is actually cool today. It was definitely heaven sent. It is starting to get a lot hotter and its harder to sleep. Boo but then again, it was because we were fasting. We decided we cant complain about how hot it is because at least we have water. It is pure torture to fast with out water.
This last week was a funny experience. We went home to have lunch and my comp wanted to cook. She couldnt get the burner lit for the stove though. We figured we were just out of gas and called for replacement. They told us it would be about an hour before they could get there. Well as I was sitting there eating I jokingly told my companion that our gas tank was probably stolen. (we had two neighbors tell us that we needed to buy a lock for our gas, that someone had stolen someone elses in our apt building. We just kind of shrugged it off and figured we would get around to it eventually.) Well Hna Runyan went out just to look and came back in telling me that it was gone. I of course didnt believe her until I went and looked for myself. It was indeed gone. Well by that time we had already called for the replacement. We had no idea what a new tank cost. Turns out it was more than 200 pesos. Usually its only like 30 for a refill.We then went back and contemplated life and how we were going to buy more gas... we figured we could just live off of cereal forever.. but then that didnt really solve the problem. What would we tell president? ¨hey we were warned but didnt buy a lock, and now its gone..can we have more money?¨ Well, then we had to leave and go to our district meeting when I happened to see a piece of paper on the ground by the door. I started to laugh and thought it was from the people that stole our tank telling us sorry for taking it and such. Ha well it was definitely from the person that took it alright. It was our next door neighbor, Laudi. It turns out that someone tried to steal it that morning and she just happened to go outside at that time. He ran away and she ran after him, and found another guy in the same color shirt and grabbed his collar. Ha this lady is old and fat, with a heart of gold! She saved our gas!!!
So then we were just trying to apply this to others and ourselves. But its like the people that we are teaching. I dont really blame them for not wanting to change their lives. They think that life is great, that they dont need anything else. Yet, they have the next door neighbors (the missionaries) warning them what is to come, and what they could have, NOW. They may like the feelings, the message, and have intentions to ONE DAY buy the lock for the gas, that will keep it safe (accept the gospel, and live the commandments which ensures a different kind of security that they have never fully experienced)
I guess that is the way our Heavenly Father feels when he has given us his council and we chose to disobey. He absolutely knows better. He sees the big picture that we cant. He knows what will really make us happy. He tells us now, so that we can have peace and happiness right NOW. Right now we have the opportunity to change and repent. But one day its going to be to late. It is too easy to think ´´one day I will do it, one day i will change.´´ That is how Satan gets us. He pulls us into a false sense of security.
What else happened this week......? We found a really good investigator yesterday. She is a reference from the elders. She said that she is looking for something in her life and that she is going to read the Book of Mormon and come to church. Why is it that we need hard things to turn us to the Lord? Eh, I really dont blame people for now wanting to listen. They think their life is good.
Sorry
Rachel Thomas?????
Camie I need your address so i can send you a letter back! It was soo good to hear from you.
Dusty, you can send yellow envelopes that dont count as packages, and they are of course a lot cheaper =) Ask my mom is you dont know what im talkin about.
Mom, I need a family pic with the whole fam! I have different pics of everyone but not one all together.
Karan, I got your letters! Thank you. I love you.
Okay, well that is about all. I love you all lots. Thanks for all your prayers and support.
Love,
Hna Payne
This last week was a funny experience. We went home to have lunch and my comp wanted to cook. She couldnt get the burner lit for the stove though. We figured we were just out of gas and called for replacement. They told us it would be about an hour before they could get there. Well as I was sitting there eating I jokingly told my companion that our gas tank was probably stolen. (we had two neighbors tell us that we needed to buy a lock for our gas, that someone had stolen someone elses in our apt building. We just kind of shrugged it off and figured we would get around to it eventually.) Well Hna Runyan went out just to look and came back in telling me that it was gone. I of course didnt believe her until I went and looked for myself. It was indeed gone. Well by that time we had already called for the replacement. We had no idea what a new tank cost. Turns out it was more than 200 pesos. Usually its only like 30 for a refill.We then went back and contemplated life and how we were going to buy more gas... we figured we could just live off of cereal forever.. but then that didnt really solve the problem. What would we tell president? ¨hey we were warned but didnt buy a lock, and now its gone..can we have more money?¨ Well, then we had to leave and go to our district meeting when I happened to see a piece of paper on the ground by the door. I started to laugh and thought it was from the people that stole our tank telling us sorry for taking it and such. Ha well it was definitely from the person that took it alright. It was our next door neighbor, Laudi. It turns out that someone tried to steal it that morning and she just happened to go outside at that time. He ran away and she ran after him, and found another guy in the same color shirt and grabbed his collar. Ha this lady is old and fat, with a heart of gold! She saved our gas!!!
So then we were just trying to apply this to others and ourselves. But its like the people that we are teaching. I dont really blame them for not wanting to change their lives. They think that life is great, that they dont need anything else. Yet, they have the next door neighbors (the missionaries) warning them what is to come, and what they could have, NOW. They may like the feelings, the message, and have intentions to ONE DAY buy the lock for the gas, that will keep it safe (accept the gospel, and live the commandments which ensures a different kind of security that they have never fully experienced)
I guess that is the way our Heavenly Father feels when he has given us his council and we chose to disobey. He absolutely knows better. He sees the big picture that we cant. He knows what will really make us happy. He tells us now, so that we can have peace and happiness right NOW. Right now we have the opportunity to change and repent. But one day its going to be to late. It is too easy to think ´´one day I will do it, one day i will change.´´ That is how Satan gets us. He pulls us into a false sense of security.
What else happened this week......? We found a really good investigator yesterday. She is a reference from the elders. She said that she is looking for something in her life and that she is going to read the Book of Mormon and come to church. Why is it that we need hard things to turn us to the Lord? Eh, I really dont blame people for now wanting to listen. They think their life is good.
Sorry
Rachel Thomas?????
Camie I need your address so i can send you a letter back! It was soo good to hear from you.
Dusty, you can send yellow envelopes that dont count as packages, and they are of course a lot cheaper =) Ask my mom is you dont know what im talkin about.
Mom, I need a family pic with the whole fam! I have different pics of everyone but not one all together.
Karan, I got your letters! Thank you. I love you.
Okay, well that is about all. I love you all lots. Thanks for all your prayers and support.
Love,
Hna Payne
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