Hola!!!!
Hola Mi familia!!! Como Esta!!!! How is my wonderful family doing!!! I love and miss you all so so much!! I am so glad that you guys had a wonderful anniversary and Seth had a wonderful birthday!! I am so happy he got a job working at Trice. That will be great until a tax job comes along. The Lord loves you Seth and he will bless your family immensely! Always put him first and then everything will fall into place!! But Happy Birthday and Anniversary!!!
This week was pretty good! Hard but good! There were no investigators at church again, but It is weird I have peace in my heart that everything is ok and we will have success here. I think these last 5 weeks has been more for me. I think the lord was breaking me down so that he could build me back up the way that he wants me to be!! And I am really glad I have had those really dark moments in my Mission already because I know how much I can take and with the Lord I can endure all things. Yes at times I seriously stare at the sky and wonder what in the world am I doing here and this is so so so hard but then I stop having my pity party and I know that this gospel is so right and so good and everyone needs to hear about it!!
Dad thank for your email and telling me to go and just talk to everyone and confront those fears of talking to people. That is exactly what I needed to hear! It is so true at times I am scared to talk to people but then I realize why should I be scared- no they should lol!!! Because this gospel is perfect and they need it in their lives even if they think that their life is fine. They haven’t experienced true love. The love that only comes from the Atonement and the Savior!!
But no we didn’t get the baptism. She is having problems and we’re not sure what her doubts or fears are but we are going to work really hard because I know Sughlie knows this church is true, she just is having doubts but we are working so hard with her. And other families we talked with just didn’t want anything and that is tough. But I need to have faith and the Lord will prepare those that are ready for His gospel!! And it is kind of like finding a needle in a hay stack but that just means I need to work harder!!
Oh but mom I wanted to tell you!!! So at the beginning of this change I was just having a rough time and we went over to a Senior Missionary’s house because they wanted to meet my new companion. They are really great! but anyway he could just tell I was having a hard time and he said would you like a blessing and I said “Yes please”! so he began and he and I started to cry and it was a beautiful blessing and he said you will be safe and healthy because your mom has prayed for this. But a couple of days later we ran into him again in the street and he said Sister Turnbaugh I never told you, but when I was giving you that blessing I could see your MOM Just standing there. I could see her as if she was really there in the house with us!! He said it was an incredible experience for him, he said!! Mom you have a very strong spirit I know that, because you are here with me and you were there with me in Jerusalem when I need you most. No matter how far away, You are there!! So I thought you should know that! That even though you have never been in person to Jerusalem and Costa Rica you have been in Spirit!! I will never for get that experience it was very Spiritual!!
But San Carlos is great!! Really I just need to work harder and confront all my fears and talk to everyone about this gospel. And I know that I will see the fruits of my labors here. It is hard though because a lot of Hermana Vegas converts are falling away so we have been visiting them so that we can re kindle their fire. But it is hard because Satan knows them and knows that this gospel is so true and he wants to make them fall back into their old habits, but Gods love is stronger!! Because we went to visit a man named Heraldo and he is a recent convert and he has had problems with the Pala bra de sabiduria lol I mean the word of wisdom and so last night we went to his house because for the past 2 weeks he hasn’t come to church and when he opened the door, there was a wall there, and he said I don’t want to come back and I found a different church. But Hermana Almengor and I, so lovingly talked to him about it and I bore testimony to him and said that he needs to, before he makes a decision ask God and He will tell him what he should do!
I know that he felt the spirit because as we were testifying the wall that was once there melted away and he said he would come to church on Sunday! so that is so awesome!! The Spirit is so powerful and it is so so powerful! I love it! It is truly my third companion because I have learned that without it our leccions are horrible but when it is there it work miracles!!! AHH I love this gospel!! It is so wonderful even through the tears and the pain it is so good and I love it with all my heart!!
I want to so bad work at the MTC when I get back because I want to help the missionaries be power houses because there is a war out here and it is not over lives but souls and I want to help them but on their armor before they go out to the field!! So Kiss will you help me? I know I have a while still but please can you help me get into BYU because to get a job at the MTC you need to be a student at BYU first!!
But it is so awesome! seriously my spanish is getting so much better. I can understand so so so much better!!!! It is a miracle and I know it is not me but the Savior. He is the only one that can help me with this language!! I am speaking so much more in the lessons and not only bearing testimony but actually contributing to the lesson it is awesome!! I still have a long way to go but it is exciting when I can understand and I can help teach and talk about my experiences in spanish!! So hopefully when I get to call home I can speak to Laren and Casey and they will be able to understand me!!
Oh but yes Dad they do love their children down here. There is a day for them. The day of children where they have parades and fiestas por them in the schools. It is pretty cool and then on the 15th of this month is there independence day so we are going to have an activity at the church. It will be a picnic so that will be fun. We have been really working with the members because seriously members are key!! It is 10 times better to have referrals from the members because then the investigator has a friend and people to rely on and that is so great!!
But I love this gospel! It is so perfect and I know and testify that my Savior lives and this is His work. He is at the head of this church and he loves us with a perfect love!! To find pure happiness we need to turn to him: I love you all. Thanks for all your prayers and thoughts for me everyday, they are such a blessing for me!! Thank you!!
Pura Vida!!
Love always and forever Hermana Turnbaugh!!!
Oh thanks for ordering those scripture covers mom that is perfect that they will come in December that is totally fine and ok I will see about shirts here!! I love you all!!!! Like a Costa Rican loves Plantanos!!! LOL!!!!!
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
9-6-2010
Dearest Familia!!!!
How is the most wonderful family doing in the whole wide world? And I should know I have been around the world!! LOL!!!
I loved your letters this week they totally made my day! I needed them! this week was a toughie!! But things are better and I am trying not to be down because life is good and like you said what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger!! I sure hope not because it is pretty hard, the roller coaster of emotions, you have to go through on a mission!! But thanks for your words of wisdom and encouragement!! and go mom go mom!!!! You are awesome for climbing the Castle Rock Rock!! And I bet that Bella’s blessing was so wonderful. I was thinking about her and the family a lot! So I am glad that it was beautiful and that Bella did so well during the blessing!!
So my Birthday was awesome! Thank you so so so much for your packages. I got them on my birthday from my zone leaders and it totally made my day and I cried when I opened them. Thanks for your letters and pictures of the kids! I loved seeing them. And the card with all your voices. I’m pretty sure I cried like a little baby and I had to listen to it over and over again. But yes! I got them and the shirts and your package full of goodies!!!! It was really good!
So around five a member in our branch wanted to make a cake for me. So I went over there and then my companion said we had a cita but the elders had to go with us. So I said ok because that is not strange for them to come with us.
So my comp said we have to go to Hermana Aledia’s. She is our cook and wait for the elders and so we waited and they showed up but we then had to wait bc our cita didn’t get off of work, they said till 8 pm.
In my mind I thought that is late but oh well!! So as we were waiting Hermana Aledia made us food and I looked at the clock and it was 8:30 and I was like shouldn’t we go, it is getting late and my comp said yes we will in just a minute. But she had her camera out and she was taking pictures and she told everyone to get together and take a picture and make a fish face so I did. And as I closed my eyes I feel wet gooey stuff running down my head and in front of me was a cake with candles on it! It was so wonderful because I didn’t think really that they would do anything for me but they did and it was so fun!! I want to start that tradition after I get home!! LOL!!
But as for the rest of the week it was a little different. We worked so hard and taught so many lessons and we didn’t again have a single investigator at church, it was horrible. I think that is seriously the worst feeling in the world when you walk into church and all the members are watching you and you don’t have anyone there and the gospel principles teacher didn’t hold class because no one was in his class. I felt so sad!!
I don’t know what we are doing wrong. We are studying, being Obedient and fasting and praying, but no investigators. We have prospects but none want to come to church which is so hard. And then..... We were going to have a baptism this last Saturday of an investigator that Hermana Vega found but she didn’t come on Saturday and we waited for her at the church for 3 hours with the president of the rama and our zone leaders were there and she didn’t show up! It was horrible. I was so embarrassed and so sad. But after going around and searching for her we found out that her baby was really sick and she took him to the hospital and she couldn’t tell us. So no baptism on Saturday but hopefully next Saturday!! So it was a week full of ups and downs and just wondering how can I be a better missionary? How can I be the missionary that God wants me to be!! I want to be the kind of missionary that he knows I can be!!
But this week is a new week and we are going to work so hard because I only have 2 more weeks left with Hermana Almengor and we and she needs to have a baptism before she goes home!! She doesn’t want to go home at all because she loves Costa Rica!! She cries a lot and wants more time. It is cool for me to see this because it is hard for me right now getting over this learning curve but I know that I will feel the same way as her when I leave!!
But I love you all so much!! Always remember this!!! You are the best family in the world and I know that this gospel is so true!!!! I know and testify that Christ lives! His hand is in all things and when there is, it seems like darkness and no light at the end of the tunnel, we just need to look and turn towards him because he is the Light of the world!! I feel Him close to me especially when I don’t think I can go one more step or get rejected one more time. But He is there at every door with me and If I put everything in His hands I will have exito on my mission. I love you and I pray for you! Remember that this gospel is true and it is restored on the earth again! this knowledge is beautiful!!! And I am so thankful I get to wear Christ’s name on my chest for the next 13 months!! I will work hard so I have no regrets!!! I love this gospel! It is perfect! Keep me in your prayers you are the best!!
Love always and forever!! Hermana Turnbaugh
Ps: did you ever order those scripture cases? oh and is there button up nice shirts at Ross because I like mine but they are so hot that clip you but lol so it you see any there that would be awesome because here they are sooooo expensive for like one shirt is about 9000 and that is about 18 dollars!! So much but if you could just look for cute button up shirts that would be so awesome!!!
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Pictures, Pictures, Pictures
This is Kaylie's 1st Apartment
And this is the animal that was living abover her bed!!!!!!!!
The Flood
The Flood
Cleaning up after the flood
Kaylie's 1st ward
Kaylie with a wig on
Looking over Costa Rica
Kaylie with a few of teh children
Saturday, September 4, 2010
8-30-2010
Hola Mi Familia!!!
Como Esta!!! How is the most wonderful family doing thank you for all your emails wishing me a happy birthday they ALL mean so so much to me!!
It will be fun to turn 22 in Costa Rica! It is weird to think, I turned 21 in Jerusalem and now another birthday in another country!! LOL!! But I am not sure what I am going to do. Our little cook lady said to come over Wednesday night so I am not sure! But here in Costa Rica on your birthday they crack eggs on your head. So everyone in the ward tells me that I need to get ready because I will have 22 eggs on my head this Wednesday!! I don't know why they do it. It is just a tradition!! LOL!!
But I am not sure but I won't get my packages until the end of the month because they are in San Jose and I am not going down there till the end of the month but hopefully my leaders are and they will bring them to me! But as soon as I do I will let you know. You guys are so great thanks!!!
So this week has been good, a little easier but still adjusting!! We have been tracking alot and found a couple of families who are pura vida!! So hopefully they will want to learn more!! We have been working so hard and yes my Spanish is improving a lot. Still not great but getting better!! I have to talk so much more, so that is wonderful and a blessing. I know the Lord has been blessing me and walking with me these last two weeks!!
My interview with the president went well. He is awesome! I love him so much and his wife. He is so Christlike. I am so blessed to have him as my president but... so my companion finishes her mission in October but the problem is? there isn't cambios in October so she would get changed in November. But the mission president has decided to send the people who are leaving in October home in September now, at the end of the month, so once again I will have another companion in this area that I will have to show around! crazy huh!?! Heavenly Father sure thinks I can do this huh!¿! lol No I can! It will be hard because my companion will be new but I will know the area so much better!!
So crazy story. So it is their winter here and it rains everyday!! And on Saturday it was a little chilly in the morning so I wore a little jacket thing but by the afternoon it was so hot so we went home to change just for a second and while we were in the house it started to pour! not just rain but pour like buckets full of water. For about 1 hour and guess what our apartment was completely full of water!! We opened the door and it was a river flowing through our house!!!! It was crazy! all we could do was laugh and of course take pictures and the outside was full of water! it was crazy! I have never seen so much water. It was crazy but good thing we were home, that we got everything up off the floor, so nothing got ruined. So it was a blessing in disguise that we went home when we did!! So I will send picture!!
But one sad thing this week is we didn't have investigators at church this week which is always hard my first time because they were either sick or didn't answer the phone which is discouraging. But I know the Lord will help us and next week we will have so many!!
I am really starting to love it here!! At times it is hard and I want to give up but then I think of my Savior and remember that he never gave up! When he asked if it would be thy will let this cup pass from me he said but NEVERTHELESS thy will be done. I Love that word NEVERTHELESS! He had the power to not Atone for our sins but he loved us. And everyday when It is hard, I remember these words nevertheless and go out and work and love the people as Christ would love the people. I have come to know my Savior so much more personally this last year and I know I will come to know him even better this next year!! Because this is His work and His glory and I am just an instrument in his hands. And I want to work so so hard to pay back all that he has given me!!!
I know that this gospel is true. I know and testify that Christ lives and loves us! His atonement is real and when we use it everyday we are showing how much we love him!!!
I love being a missionary!! Keep me in your prayers because I pray for you everyday!!
I love you so so so much!!! And miss you more than I can possible say!!! But these next 14 months will fly by!!! I love you!!
Love always and forever!! Hermana Turnabugh
Como Esta!!! How is the most wonderful family doing thank you for all your emails wishing me a happy birthday they ALL mean so so much to me!!
It will be fun to turn 22 in Costa Rica! It is weird to think, I turned 21 in Jerusalem and now another birthday in another country!! LOL!! But I am not sure what I am going to do. Our little cook lady said to come over Wednesday night so I am not sure! But here in Costa Rica on your birthday they crack eggs on your head. So everyone in the ward tells me that I need to get ready because I will have 22 eggs on my head this Wednesday!! I don't know why they do it. It is just a tradition!! LOL!!
But I am not sure but I won't get my packages until the end of the month because they are in San Jose and I am not going down there till the end of the month but hopefully my leaders are and they will bring them to me! But as soon as I do I will let you know. You guys are so great thanks!!!
So this week has been good, a little easier but still adjusting!! We have been tracking alot and found a couple of families who are pura vida!! So hopefully they will want to learn more!! We have been working so hard and yes my Spanish is improving a lot. Still not great but getting better!! I have to talk so much more, so that is wonderful and a blessing. I know the Lord has been blessing me and walking with me these last two weeks!!
My interview with the president went well. He is awesome! I love him so much and his wife. He is so Christlike. I am so blessed to have him as my president but... so my companion finishes her mission in October but the problem is? there isn't cambios in October so she would get changed in November. But the mission president has decided to send the people who are leaving in October home in September now, at the end of the month, so once again I will have another companion in this area that I will have to show around! crazy huh!?! Heavenly Father sure thinks I can do this huh!¿! lol No I can! It will be hard because my companion will be new but I will know the area so much better!!
So crazy story. So it is their winter here and it rains everyday!! And on Saturday it was a little chilly in the morning so I wore a little jacket thing but by the afternoon it was so hot so we went home to change just for a second and while we were in the house it started to pour! not just rain but pour like buckets full of water. For about 1 hour and guess what our apartment was completely full of water!! We opened the door and it was a river flowing through our house!!!! It was crazy! all we could do was laugh and of course take pictures and the outside was full of water! it was crazy! I have never seen so much water. It was crazy but good thing we were home, that we got everything up off the floor, so nothing got ruined. So it was a blessing in disguise that we went home when we did!! So I will send picture!!
But one sad thing this week is we didn't have investigators at church this week which is always hard my first time because they were either sick or didn't answer the phone which is discouraging. But I know the Lord will help us and next week we will have so many!!
I am really starting to love it here!! At times it is hard and I want to give up but then I think of my Savior and remember that he never gave up! When he asked if it would be thy will let this cup pass from me he said but NEVERTHELESS thy will be done. I Love that word NEVERTHELESS! He had the power to not Atone for our sins but he loved us. And everyday when It is hard, I remember these words nevertheless and go out and work and love the people as Christ would love the people. I have come to know my Savior so much more personally this last year and I know I will come to know him even better this next year!! Because this is His work and His glory and I am just an instrument in his hands. And I want to work so so hard to pay back all that he has given me!!!
I know that this gospel is true. I know and testify that Christ lives and loves us! His atonement is real and when we use it everyday we are showing how much we love him!!!
I love being a missionary!! Keep me in your prayers because I pray for you everyday!!
I love you so so so much!!! And miss you more than I can possible say!!! But these next 14 months will fly by!!! I love you!!
Love always and forever!! Hermana Turnabugh
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
8-23-2010
Hola mi Familia!!
How is the most wonderful family doing!!! I am doing pretty good!
Yes this week has been so hard for me at times I felt like, what am I doing!?! But it is getting better! My companion is really great. I do like her al lot but we are so lost because she and I don’t really know the area that well, so it is so hard. I am trying to be positive so I won’t say anymore about my Spanish and that, but it is hard to be new but then thrown into kind of the senior companion and tell her where to go and when and where the members live which was so tough. Tuesday was especially hard. I truly missed Hermana Vega so so so much!! I was lost without her. She is truly a very special person. And what is hard was that all the members loved her too, so Sunday was just a little different. But my new companion is so patient and kind and we are getting along really well. We work well together so that is really great!!!! This week though as I said was hard especially because some of our recent converts didn’t come to church this Sunday, which is so hard. Really when investigators and recent converts don’t come or follow through with commitments it is so painful! It is probably the worst pain in your heart because you love them and when they dont do what you know they can do, it is so tough. And one of Hermana Vegas recent converts we went and met with him and he told us that he doesn’t know if the church is true anymore which made my heart sink. But we are meeting with him on Thursday to just talk and listen.
This work is tough and Satan works so so so hard with our investigators and also our new converts. But everything will workout ok! Hermana Almengor and I kind of had to start from scratch again because we dont have investigators so we have been contacting and knocking on doors all this week. We found a couple of familias and we are going to meet with them this week! So pray that their hearts will be softened! We had one investigator come to church and she only stayed for the first hour because she said she had to go to A different church which was hard but we are going to keep teaching her and hopefully next week she will stay the whole time!!
Oh the new elders are good but guess what one is super new, this is his first area so literally we are all new to this area! I feel so bad for them but they will do great. They are hard workers. The new elder is a gringo and he is from Vacaville and he knows Caitlin and Dana. Hansen, Lindsey, I don't know his first name but his last name is Hansen!
But my spanish is getting so much better because I have to talk so much more because Hermana Almengor doesn’t know anyone, so it has been good for me and Hermana Almengor pushes me but not to much just enough for me to try and grow so she is really a blessing in my life!! I know that I will grow a lot from her. She is super small but so cute. She is 25 though but she looks 15. She is different than Hermana Vega but I like her a lot so that is good!
Oh so funny story!! So on Monday night when we got home from cambios we were walking to our house and our house is connected to another house and our landlord lives there and so I walk up and guess what they are killing chickens!!! and hanging them up to let them bleed out! I couldn’t believe it! I was like Yes! Yes! I am in a different country where they kill chicken in their front yard! I laughed because the land lady had blood on her hands but she still gave us kisses. LOL!!!
I do love it here! It is a roller coaster of emotions but I know that this is where I am meant to be!! And it will get easier! I just need to get over the greenie hump and I know that I will be just fine and these 14 months will fly by!!
Tomorrow we are going to have intervistas with the President and I am so excited. He is so amazing!! His spirit is so strong and he truly is like Christ. I want to get to know him and become close to him because he is awesome!! And this week we are just going to work so so so hard and find a family that is so ready for this gospel! When we just go out and work I love it! Because I don’t think about anything, just the people and my Savior and I feel so good about myself. Oh and on the 6th we are going as a zone to the volcano near by so I am so excited for that it will be fun! It is so close to us like an hour in bus and 45 mins by car. so it can be my birthday present!!
I have felt my Savior so close this past week because I needed to rely on him so much I don’t think I have ever prayed and cried so much in my life to my Savior! I also have been reading Jesus the Christ and I love him!! He was and is so perfect and when I feel like I can’t do this and I feel lost and lonely I know that He is with me. And like dad said I held onto your hands for these past 21 years, but now I am holding onto the hands of my Savior.
I know he is here with me and he knows all of my fears and all that I have to learn! I love him and I know that he loves the people of Costa Rica and with that knowledge I love the people of Costa Rica too!!
Keep praying for me like I know you are!! I love you all. The church is true! this gospel is perfect! and with Christ we can do all things, like live in another country and learn another language!!
Oh my word I bawled Kiss when I saw the pictures of your three angels, they truly are angels!! I miss my family so much. I never knew I could ache this much for all of you!!! I love you all!!!
Love always and forever Hermana Turnbaugh
p.s oh mom I am so so so sorry I don’t know why it cost 56 dollars that is so expensive. I thought 20 dollars I don't know what should I do!!?? Should I stop using my card? I am so sorry it shouldn’t have been that much!
How is the most wonderful family doing!!! I am doing pretty good!
Yes this week has been so hard for me at times I felt like, what am I doing!?! But it is getting better! My companion is really great. I do like her al lot but we are so lost because she and I don’t really know the area that well, so it is so hard. I am trying to be positive so I won’t say anymore about my Spanish and that, but it is hard to be new but then thrown into kind of the senior companion and tell her where to go and when and where the members live which was so tough. Tuesday was especially hard. I truly missed Hermana Vega so so so much!! I was lost without her. She is truly a very special person. And what is hard was that all the members loved her too, so Sunday was just a little different. But my new companion is so patient and kind and we are getting along really well. We work well together so that is really great!!!! This week though as I said was hard especially because some of our recent converts didn’t come to church this Sunday, which is so hard. Really when investigators and recent converts don’t come or follow through with commitments it is so painful! It is probably the worst pain in your heart because you love them and when they dont do what you know they can do, it is so tough. And one of Hermana Vegas recent converts we went and met with him and he told us that he doesn’t know if the church is true anymore which made my heart sink. But we are meeting with him on Thursday to just talk and listen.
This work is tough and Satan works so so so hard with our investigators and also our new converts. But everything will workout ok! Hermana Almengor and I kind of had to start from scratch again because we dont have investigators so we have been contacting and knocking on doors all this week. We found a couple of familias and we are going to meet with them this week! So pray that their hearts will be softened! We had one investigator come to church and she only stayed for the first hour because she said she had to go to A different church which was hard but we are going to keep teaching her and hopefully next week she will stay the whole time!!
Oh the new elders are good but guess what one is super new, this is his first area so literally we are all new to this area! I feel so bad for them but they will do great. They are hard workers. The new elder is a gringo and he is from Vacaville and he knows Caitlin and Dana. Hansen, Lindsey, I don't know his first name but his last name is Hansen!
But my spanish is getting so much better because I have to talk so much more because Hermana Almengor doesn’t know anyone, so it has been good for me and Hermana Almengor pushes me but not to much just enough for me to try and grow so she is really a blessing in my life!! I know that I will grow a lot from her. She is super small but so cute. She is 25 though but she looks 15. She is different than Hermana Vega but I like her a lot so that is good!
Oh so funny story!! So on Monday night when we got home from cambios we were walking to our house and our house is connected to another house and our landlord lives there and so I walk up and guess what they are killing chickens!!! and hanging them up to let them bleed out! I couldn’t believe it! I was like Yes! Yes! I am in a different country where they kill chicken in their front yard! I laughed because the land lady had blood on her hands but she still gave us kisses. LOL!!!
I do love it here! It is a roller coaster of emotions but I know that this is where I am meant to be!! And it will get easier! I just need to get over the greenie hump and I know that I will be just fine and these 14 months will fly by!!
Tomorrow we are going to have intervistas with the President and I am so excited. He is so amazing!! His spirit is so strong and he truly is like Christ. I want to get to know him and become close to him because he is awesome!! And this week we are just going to work so so so hard and find a family that is so ready for this gospel! When we just go out and work I love it! Because I don’t think about anything, just the people and my Savior and I feel so good about myself. Oh and on the 6th we are going as a zone to the volcano near by so I am so excited for that it will be fun! It is so close to us like an hour in bus and 45 mins by car. so it can be my birthday present!!
I have felt my Savior so close this past week because I needed to rely on him so much I don’t think I have ever prayed and cried so much in my life to my Savior! I also have been reading Jesus the Christ and I love him!! He was and is so perfect and when I feel like I can’t do this and I feel lost and lonely I know that He is with me. And like dad said I held onto your hands for these past 21 years, but now I am holding onto the hands of my Savior.
I know he is here with me and he knows all of my fears and all that I have to learn! I love him and I know that he loves the people of Costa Rica and with that knowledge I love the people of Costa Rica too!!
Keep praying for me like I know you are!! I love you all. The church is true! this gospel is perfect! and with Christ we can do all things, like live in another country and learn another language!!
Oh my word I bawled Kiss when I saw the pictures of your three angels, they truly are angels!! I miss my family so much. I never knew I could ache this much for all of you!!! I love you all!!!
Love always and forever Hermana Turnbaugh
p.s oh mom I am so so so sorry I don’t know why it cost 56 dollars that is so expensive. I thought 20 dollars I don't know what should I do!!?? Should I stop using my card? I am so sorry it shouldn’t have been that much!
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Monday August 16th, 2010
Familia!!!!
How is the most wonderful familia doing? I am good! Yes cambios were today and yes it was soooooooo hard to say goodbye to Hermana Vega!! She is so awesome and we had so much fun together and when we said goodbye we both cried like little babies!!! She was not only my companion but my really good friend and I will miss her so much!!. I feel so lost without her but my new companion is really nice her name is Hermana Almengor and she is from Panama and she only has 3 months left, so once again, I will be sending another one of my companions home. But she seems really nice. She is so short but so cute! And I was talking to one of the AP´s last night and he said she is a great missionary!
But.... guess what so they transferred all the missionaries out of San Carlos and we are getting all new elders and then my companion so I am pretty much the only one that knows the area and I am so scared! Because my companion doesn’t know the area so it will have to be me showing her around like I am the senior companion but everything is a blessing in disguise for me Right? it says that in my blessing. So I am trying not to feel scared and just know this will help me to grow. It will help my Spanish and help me to be a better missionary! Oh and the elders that are moving into this area, one is brand new and the other is his trainer but doesn’t know the area. But we will all work together and it will be great!!
YES!!!! Antonia did get baptized on Saturday and her and her family was all confirmed on Sunday! It was wonderful. We went over to her house one night to talk to just find out her fears and doubts and we had an impression to just talk to her alone and so we did. We took her in the other room and just asked her questions and she opened up to us. Her fears were that on Sunday there was to many people and she was nervous with all the people because she doesn’t like attention like that. So we told her that if she only wanted her baptism to be only with her family then she can, because it is up to her, and that is what she wanted. So on Saturday she was baptized and it was only us missionaries and the president of the Rama and it was special and she did so great!! Oh something so cute so she wanted to wear her baptismal dress there so she did wear it on the bus the the Capella, I mean church it was so awesome! But I cant even tell you how much this gospel changes people she is a very quite person and usually when I kiss her on her cheek and give her a hug she doesn’t respond back at all but after her baptism I was in the dressing room to help her get out of the baptismal font and she came in and gave me the biggest hug. She was dripping wet but we just stood there holding onto each other! It was very special!! And then we had a mothers day activity because mothers day here is Aug 15th but she was so happy and cheery and lovey dovey with her husband. I know with every fiber of my being that this church is true. That the Atonement is real and that this gospel is a gospel of happiness. If people say other wise they need to come and see what it has done for this family! They are new creatures in Christ and it is as if someone wiped away dust from a dirty window. It is wonderful to see the Lords hand in all things!!
Speaking of the Lords hand in all things I have an amazing story how the Lord knows us and our needs. So Hermana Vega for her final goodbye dinner with the president and his wife tonight wanted to look really nice and a member in the ward made her a dress and she really wanted these black high heels so I bought her some because she doesn’t have money, her family is so so poor but anyways yes I did buy shoes mom, no one has my card, but she also wanted black earrings and we both didn’t have money and we looked for some that were cheap and nothing. So on Saturday night our land lady comes in to say goodbye to her and gives her a small little wooden box and in that box is a gold package and Hermana opens it up and her mouth drops and I looked at her and said “no way black earrings”? and she shakes her head and says yes!! I know the Lord knew she wanted earring and I know that he works through people. I know his hand is in all things. That he know everything, even the smallest detail of black earrings. I love Him and I love this Gospel.
My bite is better, the medication helped so much, it is still a little tender but so so much better! I am doing great and I know that this new change will be good!!! Pray for me OK!! Oh guess what so all the missionaries that are leaving gets to go to the temple so I got to go too and guess what I did it all in Spanish! it was so hard but a cool experience. I was there for so long getting all the wording correct, but I did it!! whoop whoop!!!
Tell Tytan HAPPY BIRTHDAY and that I love him so so much!!!
LOL Dad I laughed so hard when you told me that story of Martine and the sloth and no it was not my boyfriend!! LOL!! And mom no it didn’t remind me of you because it had green fur not red still, those red little marmots in Jerusalem remind me of you!! LOL Oh how is miss you all so much!! I try not to think about how long I have, but I miss you all so much!!!
Thanks for everything! Thanks for that song Mom that is what I needed to hear!!
I love you
Love always and forever Hermana Turnbaugh
On my scripture covers Hermana Kaylie Turnbaugh yes and the one of Christ in the red robe Thanks so much!!!
How is the most wonderful familia doing? I am good! Yes cambios were today and yes it was soooooooo hard to say goodbye to Hermana Vega!! She is so awesome and we had so much fun together and when we said goodbye we both cried like little babies!!! She was not only my companion but my really good friend and I will miss her so much!!. I feel so lost without her but my new companion is really nice her name is Hermana Almengor and she is from Panama and she only has 3 months left, so once again, I will be sending another one of my companions home. But she seems really nice. She is so short but so cute! And I was talking to one of the AP´s last night and he said she is a great missionary!
But.... guess what so they transferred all the missionaries out of San Carlos and we are getting all new elders and then my companion so I am pretty much the only one that knows the area and I am so scared! Because my companion doesn’t know the area so it will have to be me showing her around like I am the senior companion but everything is a blessing in disguise for me Right? it says that in my blessing. So I am trying not to feel scared and just know this will help me to grow. It will help my Spanish and help me to be a better missionary! Oh and the elders that are moving into this area, one is brand new and the other is his trainer but doesn’t know the area. But we will all work together and it will be great!!
YES!!!! Antonia did get baptized on Saturday and her and her family was all confirmed on Sunday! It was wonderful. We went over to her house one night to talk to just find out her fears and doubts and we had an impression to just talk to her alone and so we did. We took her in the other room and just asked her questions and she opened up to us. Her fears were that on Sunday there was to many people and she was nervous with all the people because she doesn’t like attention like that. So we told her that if she only wanted her baptism to be only with her family then she can, because it is up to her, and that is what she wanted. So on Saturday she was baptized and it was only us missionaries and the president of the Rama and it was special and she did so great!! Oh something so cute so she wanted to wear her baptismal dress there so she did wear it on the bus the the Capella, I mean church it was so awesome! But I cant even tell you how much this gospel changes people she is a very quite person and usually when I kiss her on her cheek and give her a hug she doesn’t respond back at all but after her baptism I was in the dressing room to help her get out of the baptismal font and she came in and gave me the biggest hug. She was dripping wet but we just stood there holding onto each other! It was very special!! And then we had a mothers day activity because mothers day here is Aug 15th but she was so happy and cheery and lovey dovey with her husband. I know with every fiber of my being that this church is true. That the Atonement is real and that this gospel is a gospel of happiness. If people say other wise they need to come and see what it has done for this family! They are new creatures in Christ and it is as if someone wiped away dust from a dirty window. It is wonderful to see the Lords hand in all things!!
Speaking of the Lords hand in all things I have an amazing story how the Lord knows us and our needs. So Hermana Vega for her final goodbye dinner with the president and his wife tonight wanted to look really nice and a member in the ward made her a dress and she really wanted these black high heels so I bought her some because she doesn’t have money, her family is so so poor but anyways yes I did buy shoes mom, no one has my card, but she also wanted black earrings and we both didn’t have money and we looked for some that were cheap and nothing. So on Saturday night our land lady comes in to say goodbye to her and gives her a small little wooden box and in that box is a gold package and Hermana opens it up and her mouth drops and I looked at her and said “no way black earrings”? and she shakes her head and says yes!! I know the Lord knew she wanted earring and I know that he works through people. I know his hand is in all things. That he know everything, even the smallest detail of black earrings. I love Him and I love this Gospel.
My bite is better, the medication helped so much, it is still a little tender but so so much better! I am doing great and I know that this new change will be good!!! Pray for me OK!! Oh guess what so all the missionaries that are leaving gets to go to the temple so I got to go too and guess what I did it all in Spanish! it was so hard but a cool experience. I was there for so long getting all the wording correct, but I did it!! whoop whoop!!!
Tell Tytan HAPPY BIRTHDAY and that I love him so so much!!!
LOL Dad I laughed so hard when you told me that story of Martine and the sloth and no it was not my boyfriend!! LOL!! And mom no it didn’t remind me of you because it had green fur not red still, those red little marmots in Jerusalem remind me of you!! LOL Oh how is miss you all so much!! I try not to think about how long I have, but I miss you all so much!!!
Thanks for everything! Thanks for that song Mom that is what I needed to hear!!
I love you
Love always and forever Hermana Turnbaugh
On my scripture covers Hermana Kaylie Turnbaugh yes and the one of Christ in the red robe Thanks so much!!!
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