This week....and Dengue

so this week we were either in the hospital or in the house but we got out and we were able to work like 2 days so we found this cambo area and it was awesome! haha im gonna try to send the video but lets see.. 

so this week is cambios and i a officailly starting my last 6 weeks here in paraguay and Lucerito... its wierd and thats all im gonna say for the next 6 weeks about going home... haha

So we were in the house casue my comp has signs of dengue. the doctors think its another thing... typical... but we really believe that she does.... just without the fever. But ya.... so we were in house for like this week.... 

BUT something awesome.. like a miracle happened! one of our investigators came to CHURCH!!!!!! her name is Lucia and SHE CAME!!! and a menos activo came too! it was awesome!!! i was freaking out! She came and loved it and we think shes gonna come again. She studied the JWs before and so she kept making comparasins with our church and theirs but she really loved sacrament and everything! She has a bpatism date for the 4th of febuary! woohooo!! were excited! shes like reading and praying almost everyday now and it is awesome!!!!! haha

Anyways here is some pics.... we see wildliife EVERYWHERE!! haha so theres some ducks.... when they were crossing the street they like would stop and stare at us... we thought they were like gonna charge at us haha 

The other is me in pants in our new campo area that we found!

Love you guys lots!

Hermana Breon

To Mom:

so im staying in this area! and hermana Killian is gonna be my comp! haha! we did a month map thing for this cambio and hermana killian is like counting down the days to freak me out.... im officailly the oldest in the mission of the hermanas.... just me and 2 other latina hermanas are going home with a TON of elders. Im kinda freaking out.... but im not letting myself think too much of it... haha! 

Oh  was thinking about this this week.... we were in the house all week so i studied and had a lot of time to think. Dangerous.... but this is good.... when i get home the first thing i wanna do is go to the temple. thats like at the top of the list. haha and then we can go and do other things. haha but thats at the top haha! im really down for any kind of american fast food besides mcdonalds and burger king.... i eat that here. haha 

And im thinking about trying to get a job at deseret book... i know wierd right? haha so can you hook me up? haha 

So we had an investigator come to church and that was awesome! 

I feel like the ward doesnt love me as much as my comp but whateves... im sure this cambio ill connect haha. Its just kinda wierd for me haha they all think im new haha im like ummmmm no im finishing haha! haha oh well. 

This week we ran to the hospital like more than twice and ya haha! 

i wanna send videos but i dont know how! thats what we do most of the time haha their like super funny! haha but i dont now how to send them haha

Anyways im doing ok! I fel like its the beginning of my mission all over again with the hospital but its been fun! haha but ya! 

Anyways love you lots!

Hayley

 

We were drenched from the rain!

 

This week...CRAZINESS!!!

So this week we taught the family who came to church this last sunday with a family from the ward. WE have an FHE night and we taught the restauration and showed the fist vision. The girl, Daisy, was like i dont believe that it is possible but Manuel, her boyfriend, was like i know that this is true! So we were super excited to teach them and feel the spirit there... super strong! They didnt come this week to church but we have an appointment this week with them to visit them and see how they are progressing with the Book of Mormon. 

Also we visited a investigator that we havent vivited in a long time because of me and my comps health problems haha but we vivisted her and she was like i wanna be baptized! I was reading the book and i recieved that its true. But she hasnt about jose smith. so we told her to pray about it and see and so she is! 

Anyways that was the week this week!

Love you guys lots!

Hermana Breon

To Mom: 

I was really impressed by a personal thing that Presidente told me about my missionary work and i have relized that throughout my mission that i can do hard things. There is always disapointments, trials, sicknesses, and stuff like that but that really its all in the Lords plan for us. And that we can see miracles everyday. I dont wanna come home becasue i see how much good there is and happiness if we just trust in the Lord and His timing. He knows it  and us perfectly. But i know that this mission has prepared me for whats to come when im home. 

Thats awesome about dad! dont pul out his trache. thats bad haha! 

i know about coming home... my comp has just been reminding me everyday haha! shes got a countdown. haha! 

I went to the hospitla 2 last week because one was for hermana Killian and the other was for my hip. We were on a colectivo and i poped out my hip and stretched it accedentally when i was stopping. So it hurt alot. The i went in cause my stomache was hurting. Everything is fine now! 

Im like super nervous. Im gonna be starting my last cambio here next week and im freaking out. haha!

Anyways!

thats was the week.... there wasnt really much that happened this week. we wer in the hospital alot so ya not in out area much. I had check ups for my stomache but everything is fine! 

Love ya lots!

Hayley

What I have learned...

... anyways after that whole shock..... 

seeing Dad....

I'm glad he is doing really good now! so he's still there because  he has to learn how to breathe still? and why not home care? the docs said no? why? anyways.... tell dad hi for me and remember to give him the Ipad! haha but ya everything is good.... 

so what I've learned.....

*That following the spirit is better than your own guts

*pray always

*look for miracles cause they are everywhere all day everyday

*even if its SO STINKIN HOT.... youre still happy!

*you can actually smile after somebody tells you your from the devil church... and you feel bad that theydon't  want to know about the church. 

*when you don't think that a person will progress, this miracle happens when you go to the lesson that you are prepared to say, well you are not progressing, bye, they say before you can say it.... I know this church is true and cry... and you sit there in shock and then after that lesson, you dance down the street super happy and loving ALL the moments of the doors ALL slammed in your face, people running from you, and getting told that you need to go back to your home cause that person that told you that you need to go home and he  is a messenger from your parents and grandparents and the messiah and hes telling you that your parents want you to go home... people screaming jesus! at you and your like okay.... 

Then  you realize that its all worth it.... all those moments....

So ya a lot has happend and if you ask me how I've  changed.. I don't know how cause I don't remember when I left and how I was. But I know that God has given me, I don't know how many trials and how many difficulties and how much stuff, how many moments I just wanted to give up and go home,  but I'm still here and I know that president really was told in the beginning that I needed to stay becasue I can see in some ways of how I have changed. 

But ya.. I'm sure there is many more things, but I realized that I can be myself and that people like me and ya... its wierd... really a mission is the wierdest thing ever.... and I'm still excited I have 9 weeks left... cause I'm still learning everyday! 

Anyways thats that haha

So ya I'm not trunky, but I'm pretty excited to go but not at the same time.... I don't want to end this experience. So ya... 

Anyways I feel like I still have to work on knowing Christ a little bit more and i feel like I have more to progress on, but I'm doing pretty good I think haha 

.. Hermana Killian... she's similar to me and its super fun, but we also work a TON! we work till we are dead everyday! but we feel like we are doing awesome! we have had so many lessons that I can't believe it! the most in my mission that I have EVER had! and we get better every week! 

anyways! so ya! ttell my friends to write if they ask.... but ya Haha!

Anyways,  

Love you guys lots!

Hayley

To Mom (after I asked what she would like when she gets home.)...

Oh!...I do want Mexican food.... Serranos!  I don't know anything Mexican.  I'm good with... taccos at home! I don't know! haha oh probably visit the temple right when I get home and eat and let me sleep for a little bit.. I'm gonna be super tired haha! But other than that I'm doing good... you can plan the rest... I just want dr pepper and a rootbeer. haha! and redvines. and A BIG SALAD! I really miss vegetables! They don't eat them here very much. oh and a dentist appt and doc appt.... I don't know if I have parasites or not haha! 

Love you tons!

Hayley

wow its already christmas!

So this week was pretty good! it was one of the best weeks of my mission numberwise! so on monday and tuesday we were in the house cause my comp was on reposo. Then we worked on wednesday and we found 17 new people and we had 15 lessons!  it was crazy! for one day that was nuts! we came home completely exhausted! haha but ya we finished the week with 24 new people to teach and 30 lessons! seriously so cool! haha we are loving this place and stuff! we took a pic of an ostrich which was in norte so we had to zoom in really far cause we could cross to take a pic haha then we saw cows.... lots of stuff haha! 

Well i cant believe its like christmas! haha OH and this week we found this less active member who told us that she feels like we are the missionaries that are gonna help her to be active and get her husband baptized so that they can be sealed one day! and on Sunday she showed up to church! it was so cool! we were super excited! haha! 

Anyways that was the week!

Love yoiu guys lots!

Hermana Breon

To Mom:  

why would Dad have to go to a home? just have a nurse come to the house and take care of him for a few weeks and then she can leave and stuff. why a home... tell the doc/insurance to get over the facility. gosh. ok I'm all good now. haha! 

about the Skype... I'll be skyping at like 7 my time....so like 3 your time? im not sure... but ya 7 my time... our goal is like from the 6-8 range. so ya. just put your phone on the hot spot and then use that for the WIFI. instead of the hospital. 

That sounds like dad! he sounds like he is just the energizer bunny" haha

So I did get the call from Hermana Wilson... shes the one who responded. She was like your dad is fine! He's doing good! i had honestly forgot a little but then i was like oh ya! i felt like he was gonna be fine and ya... anyways she was like your mom wrote on President and Hermana Wilson facebook page haha 

the phone call didn't go through cause there have been big meetings with the mish and stuff haha so that's why... Hermana Wilson, I love them so much! i think she's gonna wanna talk with me tomorrow cause we have the big meeting in Asunción tomorrow! haha

anyways I'm loving the area and loving my comp! she's seriously so awesome! we are like talking about BYUI ALL the time haha anyways ya its been super fun... theres a lot of work to do here, but its been fun!

Love you lots!

Hayley

this week.... WHITE WASH?!?!?!?

So this week was pretty good. We taught Pedro and Celcilia this week and they arent gonna get married. Cecilia was pretty adamant about it. I was kinda frusterated. I was like just get marriend and pedro can be baptized and he can go to the temple which he is dying to do and ya... i was kinda upset but i realized something. That her heart will be softened and he will be baptized one day. So he came to church and everything and he is doing pretty well! Progressing a ful! im so sad i wont see him baptized but one  day he will! i just know it! 

WE also taught Marciela this wekk. She is a super nice lady who has had a really hard past. But she loves what we teach her and everything! 

Also this week, like everybody rejected us. Like everybody. I was shocked. I was like realy? but thats ok. they will one day find the gosple and it wil help them! I just know it!

This week was hermana Becks last week in trainging and we are both sad, It went by super fast and we had a ton of fun! she is gonna be a great missionary!

SO.... latest news that i found out before i got to write.... we are being WHITE WASHED!!!! )that means me and hermana beck are leaving the area and two new misisnoaries are coming in. Two elders are coming in! we are super sad because we have investigators and stuff and we just love the peopl here! im going to be whitewashing another area with a hermana who only has 3 cambios in her missino! so its gonna be fun! im like freaking out! haha

Anyways love you guys lots°!!!

Hermana BReon

To Mom:

Im like so sad that we are leaving the area together! i love hermana beck she is seriously so awesoem! Pedro is doing really good. im sad that we are leaving and i hope that this doesnt affect him going to church and stuff.

But now we are leaving and im going to a new area with an hermana who has never been there either and im like freaking out! haha! its seriously so crazy! my new comp only has 3 combios and ya. its nuts. Haha

 

 

 

Pictures!

      

Pedro and awesomenessssss

So this week was a pretty crazy and the best week we had! so we tauht pedro on friday with the bishop and it was an awesome lesson! full of the spirit! we talked about recognizing the spirit and if he had recieved his answer and he said yes! He was like i want to be baptized sooooo bad! and then bishop talked about temples and he was even more excited! he wants to go to the temple sooo bad! it is seriously so awesome because bishop is a temple worker and anyways ya! awesoem! but Cecliia doesnt wanna get married or go to church and its so cute because pedro knows that she would feel so happy there and she doesnt want it. anyways he came to church and he was like looking around (he wears jeans and a shirt to church) nd he goes hey next week im going to wear my dress pants and i white shirt and tie. i was like awesome! haha hes like practically a member now! anyways and then after bishop was like ok... lets get him ready to be baptized the ward is gona help him with lessons with you guys and trying to get the whole marriage situation thing figured out. AWESOME!!! so we have support from the ward and we are super excited! he has a baptism date for the 17 of december!

We also have found some more people to teach! we were working a ton and had like almost 30 lessons this week! thats the most ive ever had in my mission! we are working so much and loving it! 

It rained so hard yesterday and lightning and thunder and ya... we were out in it with a borrowed umbrella and it was like a rushing torrent of waer going down the streets! it was crazy! but luckly we got home in time and ya.... soked! haha

Anyways Love you guys bunches!

Hermana Breon

To Mom:

Hermana Beck is awesome! she is hilarious and ya... we are like super comfy with each other and we are like burping in front of each other... we are like close haha! she has it in her mind that I'm gonna be married by the end of her mission.... ummm NOOOOOO haha i was like how? i dont have a boyfriend nobody in the prospects and ya haha it was really funny... shes the one who has all these guys asking her to marry them! haha 

Ummm ya i was super stressed last week and stuff. just our numbers and stuf and that we didnt have vrey many investigators who are progressing and stuff like that but this week we were working prety hard and we didnt have a lot of time cause hermana beck had to go back to the doc for her ingrown toenails... they were pretty bad. that girl shes gonna be an awesome misisonary! shes a worker bee and is like come on lets get it done! hhaa shes a little concerned about gaining wieght but it joke about it all the time.... we dont eat taha great haha! we say we are gonna eat better but then.... ya... haha! 

Thanksgiving we had a meeting with the elders in our ward and our mission lider for the ward. and the elders made PUMPKIN PIE!!!! it was crazy!!! haha! it was so good. we were like... home! haha me and hermana beck had bought cranberry jelly but withnothing else haha so we ate that... was a little gross by its self hhaahaÇ!!

Anyways thing were going good this week.