also....how old are you??...lol
Con AMor
Hermana Sever
Monday, July 25, 2016
Villas 5/2
MOM!!!! I LOVE YOU!! HAppy birthdyy!!!!!!! I hope you are having ia great day...full of ove and presents and smileing faces!. hahaha...I cant wait to skype you on tuesday!....and sorry...First dont have time to write today! perdon!!!! Also I can skype you guys May 10th, for 30 minutes. at 6 pm my time. and my package has not arrived! and im super worried of all packages not to get to me!...ugh...well I will have lots to tell you on tuesday because im not able to write this week. BUt, love you all, and thanks for everything.!!
Villas 5/16
hey mom, im pretty sure you should have receive some pictures from some Hermana Marisol, tell me if you got them. I recieved the package. and again, I cant write this week, I got a little sick and didnt leave the house and we were waiting for an hermana to arrive at our house who will be living for us because she had to get operated on...3 times!...so yea...our house is like the hospital of the mission. but, yea Cant write really anything, but thanks for the love and support, I WILL WRITE NEXT WEEK! because fo the past 3 weeks I think I have barely written, eveything has just been popping up! jaja
Love you bunches it was great skyping you guys!!!
Con AMor
Hermana Sever
Villas 5/23
totally havnt heard about the slacks thing! but Im looking at the article righ now!! slacks!!! thats so weird!!! I dont know what ill do...lol there arnt alot of mosquito in Queretaro but If there are any I get bitten I have like 7 bits on my legs right now. lol but hey anyway Im finally writing again, I know its been forever!!! thanks for the patience. We have had alot happen and not much time to do the things we would like to. but!, all is well! So we have been teaching a new family latley, the Familiy Gomez, its a fmail of 4 and 3 are of the age of baptism. And the are super great! they have been coming to church with us and honestly we have been so desperate latley because we hardly had anybody to teach latley...low on numbers and it was disheartening. But, then we found this wonderful family!...and are investigator is getting married tomorrow so she can finally get baptized andalot of things turning around!But, I learned alot these past few weeks about the importance of diligence. First off its an attribute of Christ that we need to develope. we had our days when we came home just exhausted because we didnt enter into a single house sometimes only one lesson...and it was really disheartening but, we changed our attitude...more than one time, made plans to improve, and tried to keep upbeat about it all, but, more than anything we just focues on the work that the lord has for us, and that we cannot slack off, every moment in the mission is precious, because it goes by fast everyday we are a little bit closer to the day when we might not be able to focuse 100% on the lords work, but, here and now. we have that time and the means to do it. So, yea lots has happened and I have written most everything down in my journal. but, what else, oh! Im right now in my 3rd change with hermana Cruz in Villas! its crazy because that never happens 3 changes with the same companion!! I have never heard of it! but its super cool! and how is everyone doing back at homes??
How is the ward??
Con Amor
Hermana Sever
Villas 5/30
Hello family!! its been awhile hasnt it? jaja. any this week was pretty good, we found a new person to teach his name is Juan, we contacted him in the street. turns out he already had a book of mormon, and taken lessons, but had to move to Queretaro so he lost contact with the missionaries. But we found him! and he came to church with us and participated and was just super into it. It was awesome, we have a lesson planned with him this following week. We have had alot of things going on, and ive had to notice the blessings that the lord has given me. He really does provide for us in every moment. We got to go to the baptism of the companionship of hermana sliving with us. and it was super interesting because the lady getting baptized her name is Fanny, shes just fasinated with The united States and was like Hermana Sever has to come and take pictures with me! so I got a whole bunche of photos with her as well it was super sweet, I got to know her during divisions. shes a super sweet lady with alot of energy and happiness radiating from her shes from columbia, so her accent is super thick jaja. but shes great im super happy because she has made the decision to follow the lord. I love you all, never forget that the decision to follow the lord is a decision we make everyday. and it determines the outcome of everything.
Love you all!!
Hermana Sever
Villas 6/6
I laughed pretty hard when I saw your message, and how you have been is school for like a week, and you already dont like it hahahaha, youll get used to the work load. im sure its nothing like kids. jaja
do you have a picture of the truck that preston is buying??
we still have a little bit until transfers, 2 weeks we are starting week 5 of 6. but alot has happened this week... we had to move houses! this is the second time in the mission I have had to do this, and hope I never have to again. WE ended up literally wasting 3 days of work trying to get everything in order in the house packing moving, cleaning painting an entire house, removing the lawn putting in new lawn, cleaning the house...again..and its not a small house....ugh...we ended up only working in our area for 3 and a half days...it was just a little bit of a wreck, but, I think everything has calmed down and we can work in are area like normal! yea! because we have a lot of investigators to visit! So with some things that have happened this week, Ive started thinking about planning, and how the dailing planning and weekly planning is on of the hardest and most stressful things for me in the mission, ill be real, dont like it. but, this week, we didnt plan hardly at all with all the changes that were happening...and I realized yesturday when again we didnt have plans for the day the importance to sets goals and to make plans inorder to achieve these goals. Its like what point is their to anything if we dont know where we are going. I remember a talk by thomas S. Monson, when he talked about alice and wonderland what the chesire cat said, so alice asks what path to tak, and the cat says, that depends on where you want to go, if you dont know, it dosenet matter what path you choose. In almost all aspects of life, there are things we want to achieve, but, do we ever make the planes to actually acheive them, or do we just hope that with our raw talents we will achieve it, or that maybe god will do everything for us,or quien sabe que mas. I dont know what your goals are, but I know that setting plans, to acheive is key. wether it be for oyur familiy, personal, school or work. We can achieve our goals if we plan for means to achieve them, where do we really want to end up when we end this life??
love you all, thanks for all your support!!
Con AMor
Hermana Sever
Villas 6/13
We can wear slacks....but its not super pressed...I still need to find the time to buy some! but ill get around to it. The weather is off and on...So far I have gotten pretty lucky, havnt been rained on much..only2 times..and the second time was a hard core....i was SOAKED!! but its always a little bit funner todo missionary work when soaking wet and you house is an hour and a half away walking. so you gotta tough it out. jjajajajaj. BUt, it rains just about every single day. during the day its super hot and sunny...that at about 6. in the afternoon, and keeps raining from there. I dont wear a hat because we look like jehovahs witnesses. jaja. awww, sidney got her wisdom teeth out!...how many did she have??? I didnt get the videos or the pictures by the way...not sure if you could send them again. please. Yea I got the pics of Jayden!! hes so cute!!! the ladies will be all over him when he has that perfect smile!!! jaja how tall is he???...is he taller than me yet?? I worry about that...like when I get home..he{ll be huge. jaja SO!!! I got called in today to renew my VISA!!!...but...it didnt get renewed we have to wait until the 22nd of June...when I officially have 11 months...I am living with my trainer hermana Sanchez, and she was like no...no way..no...you almost have a year in the mission..no...it was sweet, but a bitter reminder that she goes home this next transfer....the mission goes by so fast......but we have been working super hard this week...we have been in divisons because my companion got sick..so I was with another hermana but we made a whole bunch of plans and then I went to our area to complete them..jaja. bUt we really did work with all we had and we found 5 new people to teach, and one is a family! and they all came to church this sunday!! it was awesome...we also worked more with the members and it was just an awesome week. I learned again...how important it is to work work,work. be diligent, and be obedient....those 3 things can get you anyway...and bring the blessings of the lord straight to you...we were talking to a contact in the street named Francisco, and he told us he wasnt interested because he dosent like how people just ask god for things over and over and expect for them to happen..and there isnt any effort on our part...but, that is not the way our heavenly father works...we could as far as we can first...if our best is 50 percent we give that if its 70..we give.that if its 95 we give that we always need to give our best. then...he will provide the other 20 percent or 10 percent that we cant do ourselves. mayve francisco didnt accept us...but he did give us a reference of his grand mother in law...jaja i think... and she accepted us and is now listening to the lessons!...maybe the things we ask for dont always turn out the way we think, but if we put in our part...they will turn out to be in the way best for us and for our families.
read this scripture in the book of mormon,
Ether 12:27...I was reading it this week, and I learned something I had never known before....its amazing what the lord does for us to help us become perfect even as he is perfect.
Con Mucho Amor
Hermana Sever
Villas 6/20
SO!!! today is transfers!!! and guess what! Im.....STAYING IN VILLAS QUERETARO...ill have 6 months in this area crazy right!! but my companion for 3 transfers in a row hermana cruz had to leave she is now in salamanca...I was soo sad...i cried! it was weird the first time i cried for transfers...ugh. jaja. But We got really close shes and amazing sister and will do wonders her last to transfers before she goes home in salamanca. I received a new companion. Her name is her Hermana Velasquez she is from COLUMBIA!! has a su per cool spanish accent. also you want to know something we are still living 6 hermanas in one house and everyone is from a different country...we literally have all of north and south america covered. jaja we me-the united states, hna. sanchez-Mexico, hna. velasquez-columbia, hna.perez-Guatemala, hna. Maldonado-Bolivia, Hna. Esquivel-El Salvador. COOL RIGHT!!! its crazy! So we are receiving a new mission president this week, so much will change everybody is flipping out...we dont know what to do...but ill tell you what happens. I honestly will miss my mission president alot..i learned alot from him. The entire mejorada Family is great and were wonderful examples to all the mission. But they served their time...and i learned alot in the 11 months i had with them. but i know that for my last 7 months i will learn alot from our new mission president. so im excited to meet him. I dont have much to say this week, only that never stop doing the little things. i am learning lot from investigators in this aspect. I have an investigator that will probably be baptized this transfer, who is very very sick...was in the hospital for 2 months and now is super weak..cant walk can hardly do anything has no money...and yet makes his way to church at 8 in the morning...sure we give him a ride but just sitting down straight up for him takes strength or trying to walk outside or get in a car???....or the new convert that just got operated on but showed up to sacrament meeting...this are new converts or people that are learning about the gospel and exercising their faith in an incredible way...maybe alot of you are thinking they are a little crazy...no?..and when I think that I would stay home one sunday and not renew my covenants for a cold...and theseconverts to the gospel...are giving all they can because they comprend the importance of the sacrament and much more. love you guys lots, we can learn from every experience we have.
COn AMor
HErmana Sever
Villas 6/27
HELLO FAMILY AND FRIENDS!!! so I know you are all wondering about what happened this week....new mission presidnet and all well first!! he hasnt gotten here yet he gets her tonight at 7 o clock and starts meeting everyone tomorrow...also dont have anytime to write today because we were with president mejorada and his family all day!! playing futbol...talking having a party...with cake..and everything it was fun..and really sad...and everything...I learned alot from him...and his entire family means so much to me...it is one of the hardest things..saying goodbye. but, its not really goodbye. its nos vemos! jaja. well dont have time to write today and not much to tell..we slept in a hospital for 5 days so didnt get to work in our area much...dont worry it wasnt me. My companion has reumatoid arthritis...im pretty sure ispelled that wrong and she has been in alot of pain and when we talked to the docotor on the spot told us that she cant go back into the street like this. so we had to stay in the hospital it was hard..but we contacted all the doctors and got to know eachother real well...my companion is literally amazing...shes from columbia was raised in the forest...and just lots!!! and is one of the hardest workers i have ever met...i hope we can work more in the area this week. anyway..thanks for the love and letters ill have more next weekk!!!
CON AMOR!!
HErmana Sever
Villas 7/11
CAN I JUST TELL YOU THE MIRACLES I HAVE SEEN THIS WEEK!!! it has been a great great week, first off, not sure if you guys remember one of the vonerts i have, DArio, y lives inLa Pradera, well!!!! I was at the baptism of the zone leaders this past week, inorder to help with the musical number and play the piano, and Dario was there, so i started talking to him catching up and GUESS WHAT!!!! he is preparing to enter the temple!! in janurary inorder to go on a mission!!!!!!! im so happy!!! he is so so excited and he also told me he will end up baptizing his mom this month, and so many other things!! i was literally crying from joy! ALSO, we have a new investigator her name is Esme, and she is literally a gift from our heavenly father. She is so excited about the gospel, shes reading the book of mormon, she has been going to church for a month, and mutal activites..she is 14 years old..and she just loves everything and knows its true, and she accpeted to be baptized the 23rd of this month. then another investigtor we have, we invited to be baptized and we werent sure what would happen, because he is super shy, and his mom, all of a sudden was like you know what...dont want to hear anything else...but her son! hes 18years old, was like, I know its true, I love it and I want to be baptized!..hes going to get baptized the 30th of this month! those are just a couple of the people or accepted to be baptized this week, its amazing and brings me so much joy, to see that they are acting with Faith, and they are following the will of the Lord, its not many, that are willing to change their lives, completley sometimes, inorder to feel closer to their heavenly father. But, the blessing they wiull receive are great ones. honestly, I feel so blessed to be serving a mission, and to be here with my companion, with my investigators, its honestly been such a blessing. i cant even. and it goes by so fast. I hope everything is going by great for you this week, didnt get an email, but no se preocupe!!! im just happy that i can be called a missionary of this church, and to have an eternal family. HE LIVES!
ALSO, we had interviews with our new mission president, he is so sweet! and soo sooo humble! AND!!! I got to have my interview in english! it was cool, he was laughing almost the entire time at my english, but thats alright, i need the correction..i dont even want to here mysef talk when i get back. I can write alright...but speaking is a whole different thing...
CON MUCHO AMOR!
Hermana Sever
Villas 7/18
This is a picture I took while touring Queretaro.
today we had a lime eating conest, we ate the entire lime, with seeds and skin and everything. also wearing my Mexico soccer jersey! Im basically mexican. oh and thats elder varney! I know his brother from SVU! jaja small world.
Also today we had a carne asada with the zone! it was super fun and we played Mafia, it was great! Im pretty sure I was yelling over them and lost my voice....then then Mexicans that are in our zone did there..flag salute, and then us 3 americans did ours...I forgot it...Now i feel bad, you would think that afer years and years of saying the pledge of allegiance that you wouldnt forget it...but i did. jaja. I have been studying alot this week about Joseph Smith, why is that he was chosen to be the prophet of the Restoration? What made him different from the rest asking which church was true, and NOW! I learned a little bit about why...but it mainly just left with a whole bunch of desires to watch the full version of the Restoration. jaja. we have it in the house...but nothing to watch it with...oh the horror!!!! So we had to learn alot about patience this week, with all the things going on...basically ALL OF OUR APPOINTMENTS Fell through even in divisions! but, we kept working hard and ended up visiting, whom I believe really needed us at the time. Sometimes I feel as though the mission is like50% preaching the gospel and the other 50% is life and marriage counseling. its interesting....not sure if its like that in the united states, but the people here are super open, and share everything with us,even if we just met them on the street. Its hoenstly really cool,and helps us to focus in on the needs of others rather than our own more often. I have pics to send this week! so I wont forget to send them! love you all and thanks for the love and prayers!
CON AMOR
Hermana Sever
Villas 7/25
These are all the sister missionaries in our house...each of us from a different country.
Picture below is from a zone conference last week--I'm the one in the green shirt standing up.
Below is a foto of a group of us missionaries touring Queretaro.
(Regarding a question about whether she spoke English to other missionaries)::
ALSO!! guess what happened this week! on 22nd of July this week, I completed exactly 1 year in the mission!...ORALES!!! we celebrated...but dont worry...didnt burn any skirts. also our investigator had a baby. I might have mentioned that last week not sure, I will send you a pic of him! Also, Esme...didnt get baptized...because someone passed away in her family and she had to go to Nuevo Leon...she gets back on Wednesday and will be baptized on Sunday. Actually alot has happend alot of pèople or family members passing away...3 this week, nobody I know family members of our investigators so its been a rough week for all. but, it can be an opportunity to draw nearer to our Heavenly Father. But, enough with the sadness, a good part about this week was that we were able to give alot of service, and I bought an umbrella so I hope I want get so wet when it rains, and I wont get so sunburned during the day! ALSO! almost got bit by a stray dog in the street 3 just came out of no where and started chasing after us we started runiing so fast! jajaja it was actually kind of funny. and dont worry, we got away safe and sound. BUt, one of the best things that happened this week, was we were visiting a recent convert, Ana Laura, she has been super strong this past year as a member going to church every week with her little 2 year old boy Emiliano, and her husband also a recent convert, just stopped and has been super object to the entire church...we would just tell her to keep doing what she needed to and Things would turn around and they did!!! her husband came to sacrament meeting this sunday!! and they are starting to pray together and their entire relationship has changed, and honestly all of it has to do with the patience and diligence of this hermana. So it was great to see them as a family in church, and I hope to see things continue progressing. We have transfers next sunday...lets see what happens..honestly I have no idea...I have 6months in Villas, but its looking like I might not be changed...we will see!
CON MUCHO AMOR
HERMANA SEVER
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