¡¡Yo se que vive mi Señor!!!

5 June 2017

Wow where do I even start! I think it was one of my favorite weeks here in the mission. We found 5 new people to teach and we truly feel so blessed to be finding people that are so ready to hear our message! I had intercambios with Hermana Bouza from Spain and it was really amazing to get to talk to her and hear her crazy story. She has a Mormon Channel video on her on how institute has blessed her life. You should all look it up, she is a warrior! We were able to have amazing lessons together in my sector! We had a lesson with Yennifer who we have talked to about 4 times... she has been reading what we leave and progressing a lot. She committed to coming to church but Saturday night after trying to call her she texted us and said she wouldn’t be coming with and that’s okay, I know she will come in her due time!

Here is the video about Hermana Bouza
https://www.lds.org/si/institute/overcoming-obstables?lang=eng

We also have a new family who we are teaching and her name is Nicol and his name is Roberto. They are not married and have two little boys. Nicol wants to get married but Roberto wants to wait until he has everything figured out money wise! We have only taught them twice and Roberto has been listening to every word we say and is so interested. He asked us about the Book of Mormon and how we baptize... so this week we will be inviting him to be baptized with his wife and we will get them married I just know it!

Friday, we had other intercambios and I was with Hermana Rivero from Bolivia and she has only been in the mission for 5 weeks and she is honestly one of the most amazing missionaries I have met here on the mission. She teaches with so much love and power and is just so happy! She is a convert of three years and is so happy to be here on the mission. In her sector, we found a new investigator and it was about 9 at night and we knocked her door and she gladly let us in to share our message.
It was a perfect way to end our night! Truly was so amazing getting to work with her!

Then we had a great activity this week and I won the musical chairs ha-ha. And our cutest investigator Dolly came with her two little kids. Nicol, her 4-year-old little daughter was so upset when they had to leave!

Yesterday was such a special Sunday! I got to lead the music for the sacrament meeting and we sang I Know That My Redeemer Lives and the Spirit was so strong listening to them all sing. The Spirit filled my whole body and as soon as Bishop sat down I was the first one to get up and share my testimony!
I feel so blessed to be in the most beautiful mission on earth. I’m so grateful to be a missionary in these last days. I know that Jesus Christ lives. I could feel Him with us yesterday in the sacrament meeting! I know that he can’t wait for the day to come in His glory and to save us from all the sadness we are going through. He loves each of us more than we will ever know.
I’m so grateful for the priesthood and that it was restored here on earth so that we can be together as a family! I’m so grateful that I can be with my family and loved ones forever and that I can be sealed with my future husband and children forever. This gospel is EVERYTHING AND MORE TO ME!

I know this is all over the place but it’s hard to explain all the gratitude I feel! I love my mission with my whole heart! Thank you all for your love and support! Make the changes necessary to come unto Christ and be firm in the gospel you won’t be happier than when you are doing the things the Savior asks!

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Hermana Falslev

 Our neighbors house burned down last night at 4 in the morning.. there are house fires everyday! It was scary, Hermana Adams and I woke up and heard so many fire trucks! 

Also this is where we write almost every Monday. The lady that works here is the best! 

Hermana Adams is the best companion ever making hash browns this morning!

The people here eat soooooo much bread! This is the bread corner. 

Using our sleeping bags because its so cold in our house! 

We made pancakes with Hermana Nichy for the activity! 

For those of you that can't read Spanish that text is from our investigator that said she was going to come to church and then she texted us at 1030 Saturday night saying she wouldn't be able to come :( it's okay I know they will come when they are ready! 

 Elder Le Seuer made pumpkin pie!

I had intercambios with Hermana Rivero on the left form Bolivia! 

 What we ate for food the other day... Mariscos del mar.  

Living After the Manner of Happiness (2 Nefi 5:27)

29 May 2017

Wow, this week was a great week. A week of learning, a week of happiness, a week of growing, a week of beauty!

This week we had Conferencia de Zona and it was AMAZING! I had 10 minutes to speak on endurance and I had it all planned and then in the last minutes right before I spoke the Spirit told me to share something different than what I had planned! I shared the scripture in 1 Nefi 13:37 and related it to us here in the Chile Osorno Mission. It was so fun to be able to talk and share my testimony about endurance in the mission and life in general! Conference was just so powerful and at the end President was talking about how to be more consecrated and so that is really what I am working on. To be more consecrated in the work and the gospel and give all that I have to the Lord and His gospel!

While President was doing interviews with all the Missionaries we stole Hermana Isom to come with us to our lesson with Dolly our investigator! We had the best lesson every about the Book of Mormon! Dolly is soooo excited to start reading it and it was the best to have Hermana Isom with us because her little boy is crazy and hermana Isom took him and he almost fell asleep in her arms and thanks to that we could invite Dolly to be baptized! The Spirit was so strong and she says she will study the Book of Mormon and pray to know! It was awesome, awesome, awesome!

During my intercambio with Hermana Piscoya I first lost my agenda with all the information of our investigators and contacts... and then we were walking down a steep hill in one of our sectors and I slipped and fell and got covered in mud! It was a rough hour ha-ha.

We found 8 new investigators to teach this week! Maria Ignacia is one of them and we really feel like she was just waiting for us to knock on her door. She is 19 years old and her great grandma got baptized 3 years ago in a city more north! In the summer when she would go visit her grandma, she would always go to church with her and she loved it! We invited her to be baptized when she knew this gospel was true and she said yes! We are so excited to continue to teach her!

There are so many more things I want to write but I just can’t fit it all in! I love this work so much and finding beautiful families to teach! Yesterday we found 2 amazing families that loved what we had to share! One of the families loved our voices so much when we sang that they asked if they could record us! The Lord has heard our prayers and is blessing us in so many ways! I feel so blessed to be here in Libertad 2 for my last sector! I AM SO HAPPY! And that’s why my scripture of the week is 2 Nefi 5:27 because in this part of the Book of Mormon Nefi and his family were the happiest people on earth because they were living the gospel of Jesus Christ and keeping the commandments! IF WE WANT TO BE HAPPY WE MUST LIVE THE GOSPEL AND DO ALL THAT THE LORD HAS ASKED US TO DO. It won’t be easy but as we do it 100% we will feel more joy than we can ever imagine and we will receive many blessings! Be happy and live the Gospel! Don’t go to church with a bad attitude... go to learn! Go to the temple… don’t just look at it from afar! Enjoy every day to the fullest! And don’t forget to read and study the scriptures! I am changed forever thanks to my beautiful mission here in Chile.... Love you all!

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Hermana Falslev

 Coming live from Frutillar, Chile

 One of the prettiest places I have been to on my mission. 

 In this building they have places to eat and a place for concerts! 

These pictures don't even compare to what its like in person! 

 I had two awesome intercambios this week with hermana Rueda from Colombia and hermana Piscoya who is from my same group and my literally like my sister! 

 Hermana Piscoya and I had to fill our thing up with gas so we had to make a funnel! 

 Beautiful food :) The food is sooooo good here! 

There is a book on how to speak Spanish here in Chile because there are so many words that they have made up! 

 We helped decorate for new beginnings for the young women!

 Investigators from my first sector!!! 

 Pamela is so beautiful and sweet! 

 We went to the cutest place for hot chocolate... and as we were drinking our hot chocolate the volcano was coming out from the clouds....