Easter Weekend | The Island of Chiloe

17 April 2017

This weekend was one of the best! 

So Tuesday we had Conference with President and we got all ready to go and we get the the church house and no one was there. So we called Hermana Isom and it was on the other side of Puerto Montt and we were the only ones that the Zone Leaders didn't tell.. But Conference was amazing.. It was so fun talking to all the Missionaries about how to be happy in the mission! Then we did a surprise for President and Hermana Isom... we had a member make cakes for them and we sang to them! It was so awesome, we sang Love at Home. They have been married for 43 years. 

After Conference, President had interviews and so Hermana Isom came with us to two of our appointments with our amazing investigators and Hermana Isom shared the most beautiful testimony with each of them and even though they were in English they both cried because they could feel the Spirit so strong, it was amazing. Hermana Isom wants to speak Spanish so badly. But even as we translated our investigators were able to feel the spirit so strongly! She had as all crying! 

Thursday we got to meet the mom of Monserrat, a little girl that is nine, that loves us and wants to get baptized. Her mom is so ready for the Gospel and was bawling as we spoke to her about the Plan of Salvation. I know they will both be baptized! Heavenly Father works in beautiful ways.. we ran into Monserrat in the street right after fasting! We are visiting them tonight and will be inviting them to be baptized! 

Then Friday we left for the Island of Chiloe early in the morning and it was a beautiful drive to Castro the capital which was about 4 hours to drive! We got to Chiloe and I got to work with Hermana Heath from New Zealand!!! Wow she is an amazing missionary and we had so much fun! She and I found 4 new investigators and we seriously had so much fun working together! They are doing amazing things in Chiloe.. there haven’t been Hermana’s there for a long time! I want it to be my next sector, it’s so amazing! Hermana Heath taught me so much and is one of the most amazing missionaries I have ever worked with.. such a blessing to work with her! No wonder my mom loved her mission so much in New Zealand! 

We had so much fun it almost seemed like a vacation! Cutest, happiest Hermanas on the Island of Chiloe! 

Yesterday was an amazing Easter! My first and only Easter here in Chile! The people don't celebrate it a whole lot here, but we made it fun! I woke up and wrote a letter to my companion and put chocolate on her desk. Then we went to look for our investigator to come to church! The talks were amazing and they all talked so beautifully of Jesus Christ! We left church filled with the spirit! Then we went to lunch and they gave us so much food!  We had soup and then we had lasagna and it almost covered the whole plate. We felt so overly full after, it was bad. We then had so many amazing things happen. We had a leccion with our Investigators Macarena 14 , Daniela 16 and their mom came at the end of our lesson. They had read what we left them to read and they had questions for us about the Plan of Salvation! They are golden investigators. When their mom finally got there she told us that after we left last time, Daniela said she wanted to be a missionary like us one day! They are the sweetest family and Rosa the mom is giving us so many referencias of her family so we can visit and help them! Then we had the best contacts and everyone wanted to talk to us! One contact we had with Natalie was amazing... We were talking about how we are hear to prepare the people for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ and I wish you all could have seen her face.. she was shocked.. She was like is He really going to come? She invited us to come by this week! We found so many amazing people yesterday! It truly was such a perfect week.. it’s impossible to put it all into a little email! I love this Country!

The only thing that has been bothering me is all the people that want to talk about Donald Trump and all the horrible things that are going on in other countries.. I don’t like it! 

l love you all so much! THIS WORK IS AMAZING!!!!! I love being a missionary in these last days! He is coming and we must be ready! Start now.. read the scriptures, pray, and go to church.. serve in the temple!! Do what He asks! I love you all so much! 

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Hermana Falslev

Bringing Souls Unto Christ

10 April 2017

Lets see, where do I begin.. It was an amazing week!!! I think one of my favorite things this week was getting to work with Hermana HANOSEK in her sector. She has grown and become even more amazing. It was so fun to work with her… she is really happy in her beautiful sector that has the most amazing view of two volcanos. We were both so happy contacting and catching up! I also had two other intercambios this week with the cutest hermanas.. one from Argentina and one from Chile.. I’ll attach pictures! 

On Saturday I was with Hermana Campos in our sector and we were walking and we were walking into a sector that has a ton of houses and we started talking to the lady behind us and she was just like waiting for us to talk to her.. She started telling us about her two girls Macarena 14 and Daniela 16 .. She was on the way to her house and invited us to come. When I met her two girls I felt like we were supposed to meet. They remind me so much of my little sister :) We had an AMAZING lesson! We testified of Jesus Christ and shared the new Easter video with them and they were so quite and the spirit was so strong.. They wanted to come to church the next day and we found a ride for the three of them but they couldn’t make it.. They are amazing and I’m so excited to continue to teach them this week! The mom Rosa at the end gave us a reference for her sister in another city so we passed to reference to the Hermanas there.. This family is GOLDEN! 

This week we were able to find 8 new people to teach.. This sector is amazing and so fun! We found a family PF where the mom is the only member and we found them at the most perfect time and they are so excited to read the Book of Mormon and we have only had one lesson with them.. their names is the Yañez Nuñez family and they are so amazing. We are going to visit them tonight and Waldo the dad is going to receive a blessing of health because he hurt his leg really bad and can barely walk. They are so amazing and we found them because we were lost looking for a contact and she ran into us and told us to come to their house!

Its been so special last month and this month to really focus on the Resurrection of Jesus Christ and testifying to EVERYONE that they will have resurrected bodies! The Spirit testifies so strongly to them! 

Tomorrow President Isom asked me to give a 10 minute talk in a conference of.. How to be happy in the mission! I am nervous, but looking forward to it.. I think it’s because I always end my weekly emails to him by saying I'm one of the happiest missionaries in the mission... haha.. I love him!

I know this week is going to be amazing and we get to go to Chiloe to visit our amazing sister missionaries there! And lots more! President and Hermana Isom have their wedding anniversary this week so we ordered them a really yummy cake to celebrate after our conference with him!! Love you all so very much! I am enjoying every second of the mission. Can’t believe I completed 13 months yesterday!! Love you all!!! 

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Hermana Falslev

My Companion Broke A Window

3 April 2017

MY COMPANION BROKE A WINDOW THIS WEEK!!!!! We were playing soccer and I passed it to her and she kicked it super hard and shatterd the window.. Bishop told her not to worry about it! haha. So bad! She is my best friend! 

What a crazy unpredictable week!! We had lots to do this week and nothing went right! Tuesday we had an amazing lesson with Claudia who is our new investigator! A member in our ward gave us her as a reference.. so we went to the first lesson with her! President really wants us to focus on the Resurrection and so that’s what we shared about for the first lesson.. The first question we had planned to ask was.. What do you think will happen after this life? Just from that question she started bawling and couldn’t speak for about 2 minutes.. The spirit was so strong and she told us about a dream she has had about her grandma in a beautiful place with a beautiful white dress and that she was really happy! We began to share with her about the Plan of Salvation and she listened intently to all we had to say! She continued to feel the Spirit through the whole lesson and really is open to our message! I love it because her best friend that is a member was there sharing her testimony along side us! 

Then Wednesday we had Zone Meeting and me and Hermana Adams introduced our new theme of the month to the missionaries! Then we started intercambios with the Hermanas from my first sector and I got to go have lunch with my favorite family .. familia Rodriguez! Then I got a call and we had to meet up with Hermanas that weren’t doing so well and so we had to change everything around and I ended up staying in a completely different sector.. and my companion went back to our sector with another Hermana, it was crazy! Its been a long week to keep it short! 

Conference was AMAZING! Hna Adams and I both had chills listening to Elder Eyring speak in his first talk about the gathering of Gods family.. It’s happening, the gathering of Israel! Jesus is coming soon! The Spirit was so strong during all the talks. So much about our loving Heavenly Father. Do you know how much 

He loves you all? He has a perfect plan for all of us and is cheering us on everyday of our lives! All of my questions were answered! I know what Thomas S. Monson said was the truth, that the Book of Mormom is so important.. If you are not reading it everyday.. DO IT! As we have a testimony of it then we will have a testimony of EVERYTHING! I am so grateful for leaders to guide us today! Are you all preparing daily for the coming of Jesus Christ!? He is waiting for us to come unto Him! I loved how in every talk they were talking about Him, our Lord, Savior and Redeemer! He’s coming and we must be ready! 

I love you all! Thank you for all your love and support! I am so happy with so many things to do! Keep my sweet companion in your prayers she is having problems with her health! Con Mucho amor... Hermana Falslev! 

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Hermana Falslev

Look who I got to see this week on Intercambios!!!!! FAMILIA RODRIGUEZ from my first sector!  Best feeling ever to be with them again! 

Back in Puerto Montt!!!

27 March 2017

I wish I could tell you all how truly happy I am! I love Hermana Adams so very much, we are already the best of friends! She is so sweet and we are already working so well together and found four people to teach this week! She is from Laguna Beach, California. She has been a convert for a little over two years. She is the only member in her family and her boyfriend is the one that shared the gospel with her and he was the one that baptized her before he left on his mission. She has such a strong beautiful testimony of the gospel and I feel so strongly that we were supposed to be companions! I’m serious when I say we are best friends in just the five days we have had together. I know we are going to do amazing things together! She ends her mission in 2 transfers! 

At church I was so overwhelmed because there were SO many members.. I couldn't believe it! We have so many people we are teaching and I still don't know them all yet! We have soooo much to do! We planned all of our intercambios that we are going to do with the Hermanas and I will get to go work in my first sector with a new Hermana! Then next week we are going to Chiloe…I am so excited! Haha It’s a little island about 5 hours from  Puerto Montt!  

This week we have a lot of things to do and 2 intercambios with Hermanas! I feel so blessed to be back here in Puerto Montt, but it does feel weird to be back but  I love it! Heavenly Father is blessing me with the best companions and sectors! I couldn't be more happy in this final part of my mission! I will have more things to talk about next week! We had lots of planning and getting to know the sector and investigators this week! 

We were waiting for a collectivo (taxi) to go to a part of our sector and Hermana Adams was telling me how she was being prepared for the gospel like a year before she was baptized and then this kid named Matius came up to us and asked us if we could tell him about our church and then the next day we had an amazing lesson with him behind the church house! He is looking for the true church and one of his friends told him that he needed to look for the truth and that’s when he was walking and saw us it was so cool! We were so happy after and went to the side of the road and thanked Heavenly Father for putting us in his path!

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Hermana Falslev