Walker's Week #45

So how's it going. Today was changes and guess what, I got changed. It sucks, I just want to be in an area more than 2 changes, But now I'm back in the city. Not super excited about that but oh well. Really I don't no anything about my area because today was the first day. But because I had changes I have a new companion, his name is Elder Caceres or somthing like that. I lived with him for a month and a half when I was in Alajuela it's wierd. I´m not sure how this is going to go but lets hope for the best. But I'm in an area called Guapulis or something like that. I don't know i'll talk more next week.

Okay photos, so the one is of the catholic church but the other is of someone that was companions with Brother Rust when Brother Rust was serving a mission. His name is Miguel somthing, can't remember the last name but he is from Punteranes

Yep I met him last sunday in church and he asked me where I was from so I told him like always and he asked if I new Brother Rust so I told him yep, so if you guys could get the address and email of Brother Rust that would be awesome.

Courtney's Week #38

Skyped with Courtney for 45 minutes.

Walker's Week #44

Talked to Walker on Phone for about 2 hours for Christmas.

Courtney's Week #37

Well, it´s almost Christmas! I don´t really have a whole lot to say today and so I sent you guys a few pictures. I am so happy that everything went well with your surgery mom. I was so worried. So pathetic story, last week I was thinking about mom and her surgery and everything during personal studies, I was studying about how we can recognize the spirit in Preach my Gospel and then all of the sudden I started thinking about Dad and his high blood pressure and how he could have a stroke or something and I started bawling during studies and it scared me because I was studying about the spirit, so I thought to myself, yeah, these thoughts are from the spirit. I bawled for probably half an hour or something, my companions just thought I was overtaken by the spirit or something. It was so pathetic. So anyways we had our interviews with Presidente last week, the day of your surgery actually, and at the end of my interview he asked if there was anything else that I wanted to talk about. I told him about my whole pathetic experience and how I was worried about you mom and everything and how it was a little bit harder this week to focus on the work. He gave me a great scripture that I want to share with you all, I don´t have my English scriptures with me so you will have to look it up DyC 6:36. He encouraged me to have Christ in both parts of my brain. In the part of my brain that sees images to have a picture of Christ up there and in the part that forms words to have a conversation with God in there. This helped me a lot because with this I was able to replace all of the fear that I had and instead focus on Christ and all that he does for me, and for my family. Presidente gave me a blessing, but guess what, the majority of the blessing was for you Mom. You were blessed through me! Hee, hee that sounds funny, but he also did bless me with comfort and strength and everything and it helped a lot.

Another thing that I realized today is that I don´t need to worry for you guys, you have a whole word family watching over you. I love our ward. Say thanks to everyone for me. It really is comforting to know that even though I am half-way across the world there are people who are taking care of my family and so I don´t need to worry at all.

 So there are all sorts of fruit trees here in my sector, I´m not really sure what type of fruit they are, but they are a nice snack while walking in the street.

El dia de deportes-Sports Day for the mission-me celebrating

 Well, I am just about out of time, but I love you guys and I will talk to you all this Sunday, Christmas! I am so excited!

Much Love, Hermana Evans

Walker's Week #43

Hey whats up. So this week was okay but this next week is going to be super awesome. First, tomorrow there is a multi zone conference and it's the one for Christmas. woot woot. And then on Friday we are going to have a baptism. And then on Saturday my companion is going to the Temple with a family he baptized. So if we baptize a family President gives us permission to go to the Temple with them when they get sealed. I won't go in but this means that I will be able to buy underwear. And I kind of need it . But yep, so I don't really know what to talk to you about because I will be calling on Sunday at like 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 or 8 or 9 or 3 or 2 or 1 yep I have no idea when I am going to call. It will probably be after 5 but I don't know. So I think I have enough money to call. I'm not sure because I have a package I have to go pay to get and it costs about 1.50 every day and I don't know how long its been there because I haven't been to San Jose since last changes. But I'm going tomorrow so yep. So I went to the beach again today it was cool, I'll send you pictures when I remember to bring my little converter thing. Well good buy, I'll talk to you Sunday

Courtney's Week #36

This week was pretty good, so our investigator Maria Soledad did not get baptized this week. When we went by on Tuesday she started bible bashing with us. It was so weird because it wasn´t like her at all. She had a little booklet of notes and a magazine from the Jehovah´s witnesses and started saying all kinds of things. It was so heart-breaking to watch her, I could see that she knew it was true, but there was something that was trying to influence her otherwise. I felt almost as if I was contending directly with one of the evil spirits that Jesus cast out in the New Testament, because it wasn´t Maria Soledad. We talked about the importance of consulting God to get our answers and not anyone else and bore testimony and left. As we were leaving she asked me if I was okay or if I was just really tired. I told her that I was just really sad. She asked why and I told her it was because we loved her and that it was hard to see her not accept happiness in her life. Her countenance changed and she promised us that she wouldn´t search anymore in her magazines or listen to her friends and that she was going to ask God.

Our next lesson we decided to teach the restoration again, but it was so hard. So we´ve discovered that Jorge, her husband is mentally ill. And he was there in that occasion, it was so funny, he started talking about random things, like how an important part of being a prophet is to have money and how money buys food and so we need money. It was so funny, but not a very condusive environment to help someone regain their testimony. It was so funny, I shared Helaman 5:12, my favorite scripture in the whole world and bore my testimony on how it has helped me that if we have our testimony built in Christ we have the promise that we won´t fall. The spirit was super strong. Afterwards, we waited for a second in silence so that things could sink in. Then Jorge said, "but sometimes when it´s dark outside we fall" and things that were just really random.

Anyways so we passed by yesterday and we decided to watch the 20 minute video of the Restoration. We started to watch it, but their DVD player would freeze every so often. We were about to give up, but Maria Soledad really wanted to watch it so we would start the movie over and fast-forward to where we were. We were all praying so hard that it would just work so that we could watch this movie with her. In the end we got through the whole video and Maria Soledad was crying. She told us that now she knows that it is true. In her prayer, she apologized to God that she doubted and that now she knew that the book of mormon was true and the Joseph Smith was a prophet. It was so cool and so powerful. This whole experience has been really cool. I think that someday Maria Soledad is going to be a great leader in the church, because Satan sure has been trying very hard to block the way for her. But she is going to get baptized the 25 of December, no important what Satan says.

Well, that is pretty much all that happened this week. Oh, I cut like 5 inches off my hair. It was too dang hot and I was sick of it, so I had my companion cut it that night. It´s not the best haircut in the world, but I´m in Chile, I don´t think it really matters.

I love you all! I´m going to send pictures next week!

Hermana Evans

Walker's Week #42

Hello family, I think I figured out how I am going to talk to you guys. So I think that for 25 dollars I can call the states, so I'm going to see where I can find that. I think quite a bit of fasting will be envolved but thats okay. So we have this investigator named Bismark, he is super cool, his whole family is members but the missionaries that were trying to baptize him were pushing to hard for the baptism, and forgot about him. So he didn't like that to much and told them no. So here we are me and my companion teaching him. So pretty much we are just focusing on prayer and how he needs to ask  god. But the last time that we taught him we taught him about temples and how we can be together with our families for forever. And I promised him that god would awnser his prayer that night. It was super awesome and super spiritual. But the next time that we were suposed to visit him I was in Liberia on divisions with the Zoneleaders so my companion didn't visit. So we went buy Friday night when I got home and he was super sick and his wife didn't want to let us in. but of coarse I had to use the bathroom wink wink. So she let us in so I could use the bathroom and when I came out I taught about the priesthood and about how we can give blessings so I gave him one and we left. But he is super shy and has a super hard time trusting the misionaries because of what happened the last time. but hes supér cool.

So another investigator, our mision leader come up to us and asked us if we could baptize this person that is always at his house the problem is is that he can't here or talk. He talks through signs and he can read to. So most of the time we are writing stuff to him. It's super hard. And I have no idea what happens with him. But we are going to try and baptize him the 23, it should be super spiritual, Because our mision leader is going to baptize and conform him.

So the other day my companion was showering and a scorpian climbed up the drain. it was pretty awesome.

So we live in a house of four but the other's are eEder Southern, it is his first change in the mision and Elder Espinal who is awesome. But I need to go I hope this email was better