Feliz Navidad...

Since I am gonna talk to you guys on Thursday, I used the internet time that I have today to send emails to my converts for the Navidad.. Sorry that I didn´t end up having time to write you guys a good email, but I´ll talk you y´all on THURSDAY!!! At 4 my time :)
Enjoy a few photos!

Love always and always,

Hermana Abigail Page

Feliz rich kid Navidad...

This week was quite the eventful one!
We had a ward party FINALLY! This ward never has activities, and us as missionaries have been pushing for one since before I got here entonces this week, we had a Christmas party! Woohooo! Ward activities are the best, de verdad! Cause everyone gets a little lose and out of the shell and it´s an easy way to invite friends and less actives.. and there is good food! This activity was super great cause tons of people brought their friends and lots of menos activos that we are working with went to the activity and had a great time! Seeing them smiling and participating and having a good time was honestly the best part.

Also this week we had a Christmas conference with President Kahnlein and it was so great..and he gave us cualquier present! Libros de mormon, books of mormons, mormons messages, new binders...Tons of cool stuff..but thinking about it now, it´s cool in a nerdy missionary way haha. Eh, whatever.

Yesterday, a less active family that we have been visiting (that honestly wasn´t progressing at all) shared something with us. They said that they had had a huge fight (the parents) and he was honestly going to leave. He had everything prepared to go and everything. Then right before, he decided to say a prayer, and since the experience that he had and what the espiritu told him, he has COMPLETELY changed as a person. A literal change of heart. And it just so happens that at the same time the he was praying at home, the wife was praying too, and she received the same counsel and answers/espiritu as him. And now we are working with them so that they can get to the temple as soon as worthily possible. When they told us the experience, the spirit was SO strong and I started to cry, and I had a super big confirmation that the church is true. That all of this is true. Because what else, other than the literal hand of God, can change hearts so drastically?

God lives, and He loves us enough to change us.

I love you all more than anything ever.

Have a wonder week and enjoy your cold Christmas :)

Love always and always,

Hermana Abigail Page


P.S. I sent a package home today, so keep your eyes peeled. BUT you can´t open it til I get home!

Don't go drinkin any yet...

Can I just start out by saying that I love the old church video of the pump? It is literally the best. Everytime I start thinking about it, I start laughing and it makes me so happy. Ahhhhh..classic.


So to fill y´all in more with the whole mouth shindig, I got a surprise root canal in Monday last week. I went for a "control" they told me. But then suddenly, I asked, "how do you say this "control process" in english?" And in her really accenty english she said "canal de root" and my companion yells, "ROOT CANAL??" I was so confused, but at that point I was already under the knife..so yep! And then on Thursday I went in for the operation thingy and my good old friend Doctor Mario, loaded me up with cualquier anestesia...but literally, I couldn´t feel the left side of my face and it was all droopy for about 5 hours or so. But he numbed me all up, cut open the top layer of my gums (to my bone) scraped out my quiste, and then did a few diggydiggy dos, and sewed me all up with stiches! My companion was right there the whole time in her operation outfit too and was there watching him and the nurse. Her occasional "ooooo´s" and "ahhhh´s" were very reassuring..haha. They sent the quiste off for a biopsy, so we´ll see how that turns out, and then I also have a few controls this week to check me out and all that fun stuff. But other than that, my mouth and my cheek are still a little swollen and sensitive....but I´m alive! Wooohooo!

...and that was my week! Oh! but also then the next day, I had to go to Viña (si o si...President´s orders) the next morning on Friday for the leadership meeting..I was all swollen and bleeding the whole time, but hey! It was a great conference with Presidente :)

If you haven´t already, watch the "He´s the gift" video..it´s a good one!

Love always and always,

Hermana Abigail Page

...and this little piggy went home

This week we had a ton of cool experiences with people changing their hearts. But literally! It was incredible. We have been sharing with people that did not believe that people could change..ever. Which basically means they were denying the power of the expiación de Jesu Cristo. And then suddenly, their hearts COMPLETELY changed, and now when we go over to their house they immediately want to sit down and read the scriptures and they want to sing the hymns and they long to pray with us...It was literally a Christmas miracle! And I know that it only happened because of the Atonement (expiación) changed them somehow..the spirit touched their hearts and POOF their was a total eclipse of the heart ;) The same thing that they were denying saved them...how ironic es la vida.

Diligence and obedience make one feliz. That is what I have learned this week. It´s por medio de DOING the work, KNOCKING the house, TALKING to the people, CALLING them to repentence...the action. Not just the desire or the thought, but the action of diligence and obedience make us happy in the end.


And the other thing that I find very important that I need to explain better is about my mouth problem thingy. (Sorry if this is grossly detailed)Okay okay, I´ll tell you what happened..but it´s kinda a long story..with details, so sorry about that. So about 2 months ago (when I got to my new area), my mouth/left canine tooth gum area started hurting really bad. But I didn´t think too much about it and I just made sure to floss and brush better and all that jazz. (Yo me cuido mis dientes mucho!) But then about a month later, I huge tumor-like ball formed on my gums above the tooth that was hurting. And it hurt to talk and smile and everything, so I called the nurse (naturally), and she thought it was an infection so she told me to do some stuff...but nothing helped. So then I finally got permission to go to the dentist. They gave me medicine to reduce the size of the ball thingy. And after cualquier visita and 2 slightly expensive x-rays, they figured out that I have a cyst..which basically is a tumor kind of thing. They said it´s really weird that I have one cause usually cysts form in your mouth when you have a cavity, then due to the cavity your nerves die, and then the dead nerves form a cyst. BUT in my case, I don´t have cavities and my tooth is still alive (the nerves that is). So all the doctors are really weirded out by the cyst in my mouth and they said that if I don´t take it out soon, it´ll spread to other teeth and attack my jaw bone. And last week, the president wasn´t sure if I could do the surgery here in the mission so there were a few days when they thought I might have to go home. Obviously I cried when they told me that. Cause I´m sooooo close to the end. I don´t want to go home early. But after reading my patriarchal blessing, I knew I´d be okay. And then a few days ago, Presidente gave me clearance to do the surgery. So what they said that they´re going to do is they are going to have to kill my nerves of my tooth in order to sack out the cyst. They´re going to open up my gums, take out the cyst, my tooth nerves, and the part of my bone that the cyst has already attacked. So basically, that´s where I´m at today! We are going to start with the prep stuff today in the tarde. At first I was really sad cause I love my teeth, and I watch out for them a lot...but something bad always seems to happen to them haha. But hey, at least I´ll still be able to talk, I´ll still have a tooth, and Hey, I ain´t dead, so it can´t get better then this! ;)

I just wanted to tell y´all everything in detail so that you´d know exactly wants happening with me..and why I am going to be spending a whole boat-ton of money...Sorry Daddy.

But that´s that. Gotta head to the dentist in Viña!

Love always and always,

Hermana Abigail Page

I will find another...

will find another...

Last week in the market, I bought 3 pounds of strawberries for 2 dollars. Hahaha I was literally in strawberry heaven all week long! And guess how many strawberries I have today? NADA. Let´s right.



Hermana Hansen and I have been doing servicio for every member de consejo del barrio. On Saturday, we did "spring cleaning" with the primary president in her house and her non-member husband was rockin out to 80´s music the whole time. It was actually really fun! And I didn´t realize it til then, but I actually miss spring cleaning haha.




My great moment of the week was companionship inventory...chunchunnn... Nuhh, just kidding. The first cambio that Hermana Hansen and I had together, we both felt like we were missing something...like there was just something off that we couldn´t figure out. And then on Thursday during companionship inventory, for the first time, Hermana Hansen really opened open. She told how she was feeling about herself, the mission, us...about everything. And as she was talking I realized that me and her are way similiar that it´s almost crazy. And I also realized that I had had a few of the same experiences as the ones that she is passing through now. I was able to comfort and listen and counsel her. In that moment, I really felt like we jumped a hurdle...and now we are ready to run the sprint. Since Thursday, it´s been a different spirit in our companionship..more unidad, amor, paciencia, understanding. I am just so grateful for the companions that I have had, have, and will have. I know that they are literally selected by God to be with me where and when they are. What a blessing!




Love always and always,

Hermana Abigail Page

Darn you 80's Classics...

Welp it´s always an exciting way to start out the P-day crying and scaring random Chilenos that are next to you. I am so very very sad about Smores. I really did cry....a lot. I am going to miss him so much, but I am so so so beyond grateful that he wondered up to our porch one day, cause he has literally changed our family..por lo mejor! He was our little stinky angel cat :)

Sidenote: Satan is a sneaky fella. Wanna know why? 80´s music, that´s why. Justo, hoy día, the internet tienda guy decided to listen to a bunch of 80´s clasics...like the good ones. Stinkin Satan. But I am being strong and tryin not listen...no se preocupe..don´t y´all worry.

Also, so you don´t worry.. Yes, I have a weird mouth infection thingy, but I have going to the dentist and getting xrays and taking anti-biotics and all that fun jazz, so I hope I´ll get better soon cause I love my teeth!

I actually had a really long informe to send to Presidente today so this is pretty much all the time I have to write you guys..sorry :/

At the end of the week, I am so grateful for the trails that God blesses us with..cause if you endure well, we always come out the other end changed and better and happier..and closer to Him. I am so so grateful that we have such a perfect Heavenly Father.

Love always and always,

Hermana Abigail Page


**Mom, can you send pictures of our house? Hermana Hansen wants to see!

Splat go the blueberries...

All of these Hermanas were Abigail's companion through out her mission:

Her Latino Sisters!

Bad news of the week: We went "market hunting" and finally found a cheap farmers market type thing that sales blueberries and strawberries for cheap. (cause in the grocery shore its like 5 bucks for a teeeeeeeeeennny container.....ya ain´t buyin those suckers!) So we were walking in the town center about to cross the main road and I was trying to rearrange my berries so that I didnt have so much in my hands, and suddenly PLOP..my bag broke open and my carton of deliciously cheap blueberries splattered everywhere. I felt like I was gonna throw up cause I was so sad. A good 8 blueberries survived...so I guess I´ll eat those later today..haha.

Random side note of the week: The micros (buses) here all race one another on the road in order to pickup the most passengers before the others can.. haha. It makes the public transportation a lot more interesting to use...but some times we are a little scared for our lives. A little road rage always does spice up the journey!


Good news of the week: I love being a missionary. The reason (for this week) why I love being a missionary is cause as Christ´s representative, I literally feel His love for His children. Like I´ve said before, I look at them and the spirit just fills me up and I almost start crying when I try and tell them of the love that God has for them. It has been one of the greatest blessings of my mission...being able to show the love of God towards His children. It really makes me feel like an effective hija de Dios. And I know that in turn the people feel the love of their Savior...what better way to live!




Love always and always,

Hermana Abigail Page

"God Bless America, Darlin!"...

En el lunes pasado, we made root beer floooooaats!! I was so beyond excited. We went to the grocery store like normal and suddenly, there was A&W root beer and I literally freaked out and bought it. And I enjoyed every single sip/bite of my float :) AND Hermana Hansen carved a pumpkin for Halloween! It was an eventful day.

I love my district leader. We literally have the best district leader ever. He really cares about our success, pero más allá que solo numbers. He prays and fasts and tries to follow the spirit to help and lead every one of us in his district. And he´s newer in the mission (6 meses), so he´s really nervous and funny still.

But something that happened yesterday was that Hermana Hansen and I kinda ended the semana a little down hearted and a little of that stuff for how the semana had gone and our work and all that jazz. And we were talkin to Elder Passey (LdD) about it, and he really gave us inspired advice in order to feel better. Su advice: fast more frequently and "mix things up funky". And he ordered us to start it right then by mixing up our beds/changing their placement. He said that sometimes, ya gotta change up the routine so you don´t get disanimated and routine-y. So now I am happy to announce that Hermana Hansen and I invented a new system of bunk-beds and so we now have bunk beds haha. But I am excited to "get funky with it" and enjoy this week!


Crazy John. A crazy abuelo chileno with a greencard for the States contacted us the other day. And he was telling us about how he lived there and all that, and Hna. Hansen and I would say "wow, are you serious" (ya know, just to be like wow that´s cool), but I guess he didn´t understand and so after we would say that we would yell at us and say "why don´t you guys believe me?! I´m not a liar! here, look at my laundry bag..it has english words." Haha and than afterwards crazy John got in a taxi to leave, but as he was leaving he rolled down the window, stuck half his body out, and shouted "GOD BLESS AMERICA, DARLIN...drive drive drive!" And then he drove away.

Just goes to show that every day can be an adventure.

I pray for y´all siempre.

Love always and always,

Hermana Abigail Page

The Beautiful Area she is now serving in:

Rubba dub dub...

I feel like my email this week is just going to be a collection of random pensamientos cause I don´t have any news to share, de verdad.
-This week I met a missionary from the Galápagos islands. She is the first missionary to leave from there and she´s really cool. Before her mission she worked with endangered turtles and sharks.
-Everyone here thinks that just cause your a gringo missionary you have cualquier idea for games of family home evening...and let me tell ya..that is false doctrine if I´ve ever heard it. Sometimes, when the whole ward knows all your games, you´ve gotta get despirate in inventing stuff off the top of your head. If anything, the mission is preparing me to have great FHE in the future!

-Chilenos are addicted to brownies. This is a typical "get to know you" conversion (even in the street) here: "Hola, whats your name?" "Hermana Page" "Y de donde es?" "Los Estados Unidos" "Ahhh...gringa.....Do you know how to make brownies?" (its a good thing she makes THE BEST BROWNIES!)

-Every chileno has a fanny pack and wears it with pride. I don´t know why, but I think of Dad everytime I see one haha.

-This week we found 2 huge poisonous/deadly spiders in our house this week. Se llaman "aranas de ricón" and they are one of the most deadly spiders in Chile. And lucky their natural climate/habitat just so happens to be the limits of our mission...oh happy day! But don´t worry, we bought Raid and Hermana Hansen practically sleeps with it next to her bed now haha.

-In the mornings for exercises, I am teaching Hermana Hansen a little bit of ballet (cause she´s always wanted to learn). It feels so werid to dance again...but I secretly love it. It makes me really happy inside!

-The ward that I´m in now is like a stateside ward.. with "cuicos" (mid-class/rich people). And I am not gonna lie, it´s been a weird adjustment. For over a year, I´ve been in wards that are "poorer" or country areas....like real "chilean wards" with "chilean people". And now, I´m all of a sudden thrown into area with really different people. And yesterday, I was talking to Hermana Hansen about it and I realized that I really missed the other types of area/barrio and that adjusting myself to the people and their way of living has been kinda hard in these past weeks. Than I realized that maybe the Lord sent me here so that I could adjust myself poco por poco to "normal" people, so that when I go home I didn´t completely break down.... Puede ser. I don´t know...just a thought that I had.


Hope my random thought process email wasn´t a complete waste of time to read haha. We will try to be more adventurous this week so I have something to share!


Love you all bunches. Portanse bien!


Love always and always,

Hermana Abigail Page

On the Road again...

Hermana Page with her "Momma" and her new Companion Hermana Hansen



Welp ladies and gents, after almost 8 months en La Serena, I was sent south for the summer! Now I am in an area named Placilla, en the zona of Valparaíso! I´ve never had a big city in my zone, so that´s different, but I do like it! The ward here is SO focused in on missionary work! But seriously!! Every thing that they do has that focus, and it is so cool! There´s just a new life and light in the ward! I love it! My companion´s name is Hermana Hansen, from Washington state. She´s just the bee´s knees and very sweet, and I can feel that we are gonna have a great time together! And after zone conference and general conference and consejo con Presidente, I am ready to get rockin and rollin!
The bus trip from the north to the south of the mission, has some of the prettiest views ever! Seriously! If you ever have free time, we should drive the Chilean highway! Country, and farms, and cliffs and ocean and lighthouses and sunsets over the pacific and mountains and valleys...oh my! :)

Also, I am glad for a new adventure. Yes, it was sad to leave La Serena and my familias there, but I felt that I wasn´t going to progress more there. I had reached a point where I needed a change (the same thing that happened in Limache). So I am grateful that the Lord knows my heart and sent me to where I am now :) Besides, He sent Hermana Barros in my place up there to La Serena con Hermana Cook, so I know that everything will be okay in my momma´s hands, right?

After general conference, all the elders were sayin "ohh, 6 meses...we´re gonna be at conference again before we know it!" And then, suddenly, I realized that I don´t have more conferences in the mission. And for the first time in my whole mission I realized how much time I have. And also how much time I have left...and it´s not too much.. :( Also from the pulpit in the cambios meeting, President called me a "veteran" in the mission....ahhhhhh nooooo! No no, I´m still a youngin! A baby practically! But anyways, enough with my denial. Now there´s no time to waste, and I am ready to sprint....my (exactly) 4 month sprint from today until I´m huggin Daddy in the Charlotte Douglas airport. One companion told me that if you get to the end of the race and you´re not dead, you could have run faster. So here I am now...get mark, get set, GO!

Love you all so much! Have a fantastic week, and enjoy a good ´ole North Carolina fall day for me, porfis!

Love always and always,

Hermana Abigail Page

Me encanta vel al templo...

Conference was awesome! 

Just as always. I love watching conference as a missionary... it´s just wonderful. And I feel like that ever since
I´ve been on the mission, I have really focused in on conference, and that it has come to be my favorite semi-annual time of the year!! I really loved Elder Lynn G. Robbins talk and the talk by Elder Jorg Keblingat. I liked that they were very straight forward and clear, but powerful and spiritual at the same time. I noticed that a lot this conference that everyone was very direct and bold and how they preached, but at the same time, they were so full of love. Goodness, I love conference :)

One thing that I have been coming to realize lately is that at the end of missionary work, the goal is the temple. It isn´t that they come to church, or that they pass they´re interviews, or that they simply get baptized...the purpose of everything is that they are convirted and faithful so that they can make it into the house of the Lord sobre la tierra. I´ve really come to feel that lately in my personal missionary work, and I feel like it´s changed my perspective on how I go about the work. I love the temple. I really do. And the truth is that I have only be able to go to the temple a handful of times, and the majority of those times were in Spanish when I still couldn´t understand when people told me "hola". But I know that the work that happens within those walls are sacred and true. And I know that the temple is literally a beacon and lighthouse of hope and love and faith. And I have come to realize that WHATEVER sacrafice that it takes, we have to go to the temple. We have to make it to those doors. We have to enter in that holy house. I know that miracles happen there, and that every person who enters into this gospel needs to start their journey with their feet and eyes set in towards the temple. That needs to be their mirada desde el PRIMER momento. I love this time that I have to be able to help people get to the temple. What a holy calling. I feel so blessed to be able to invite the whole world to be worth to enter in there. And I can honestly say that God was touched my heart in such a way that I know now, more than any other time in my life, that my life´s mission is and will be to always get to the temple. Always get to the mountain of the Lord. To His holy home. And I will settle for no less...nuh huh, no way, no how, see ya!

Goodness gracious, the gospel is so awesome.

Love y´all more than anything else. Vamos al templo :)

Love always and always,
Hermana Abigail Page

Welp, here we find ourselves again...

 

I´m going to start off with a side note that is that I loved hearing a southern accent in the women's broadcast!! But seriously, even with the spanish voice over, I could hear it a tiny bit and I thought I was going to cry it sounded so "home-y" :)

I love my companion, Hermana Cook. She is so great, and we just pass hours and hours laughing! It´s really fun. And I love learning from her point of view of things. ...It´s so cool that in the mission we get put together (by the will of God) with people that we have never met before, and we have to be with them 24/7, and you learn to love one another. I feel like it could be like some form of a funny reality show! But I am so grateful for the companions that I´ve had in my mission. I´ve had ups and downs, but I can honestly say that I have learned something that has changed me for the better from every companion, and for that I am eternally grateful to them. And even if I never see them again, their influence has left a mark forever...So I try to make it that they leave a good mark always!


Also, just wanna take a second to say that Dios nos ama (God loves us). Seriously, it blows my mind sometimes just how on top of things He is with all the blessings that He gives us! He must have a secretary or two to get it all down to the T! But either way, I love that I have such loving Heavenly Parents who know me well enough to bless and model me when and how they do it. Solo trato de disfrutar el viaje :)(Just trying to enjoy the journey) and so far it´s great!


Love always and always,

Hermana Abigail Page

I felt like Ammom or somethin'...

Okay so this week has been the definition of loca. But seriously, so much has happened.
First thingy: my companion Hermana Zimmerman left/finished her mission, so all week we were finalizing visas and plans and visits and packing and packing and packing and trying to get her bags in the right weight and all that fun jazz. And all week, we didn´t know what was going to happen to me. Then yesterday right before church, President called and told us that Hermana Zimmerman was leaving to go to Viña at 2pm, and that he was going to change the companionship of the second part of our ward and that the baby/new missionary in our ward was going to a completely different area and that la Hermana Cook (the one that Zach knows) was going to be called as una Hermana líder y que iba a ser mi nueva compañera. So after that, we all headed to church, had a great Sunday, had a miracle (which I will explain in just a second), picked up the luggage of the Hermana, went to the bus terminal, she left, we went back, helped the other Hermanas packup and clean, and then we sent the other Hermana to her new area and then Hermana Cook officially become my companion and moved to my house. And now we are working the whole ward..just the two of us. This story sound familiar? It kinda sounds like exactly what happened to me in Limache haha!


Now onto the miracle! So on Saturday we went to teach a contact that we had done in the street a week early se llama Sugey (say it like "Sue-hey"). She´s from Colombina and super great. But really, she´s awesome. And we taught her and everything, and at the end of getting to know her and teaching her about the restoration, she asked us if she could share a dream that she has been having for about a year. This is the dream... "I went to a big building for a baptism and there were windows at the entrance. And to go to the baptism we had to go up a few stairs to the right and we went into a room. And to get into the baptismal font ya had to go around another way to get in and go down the steps into the water. And the water was crystal blue/clear. And they told me that the men had to do the baptism. The people in the water were dressed in white and they had to go completely under the water to be baptized. I wanted to take pictures, but they told me that it was sacred and that you couldn't take pictures of the baptism. Afterwards, we went back down a few stairs to the pulpit to hear a few testimonies of different Hermanos, and then we went back to a room and there were gringos cutting cake, and they told me that I could take pictures then cause it was more of a party now."

.........I know that y´all don't know my chapel here, but LITERALLY, she was describing OUR CAPILLA! Step for step! So we quickly invited her to church the next day. And during church, after Sunday school, we opened the doors to the baptismal font (that was in the process of filling up for a baptism that was going to happen after church) and when Sugey saw the font she gasped and started crying and shaking and she fell to her knees and said "its my dream! its exactly the same as my dream...the water the mirror...everything!" But literally, she fell to her knees, crying in joy. Hermana Zimmerman and I were also crying too and we then invited her to be baptized, and she accepted.

I literally felt like Alma or Ammon or algo, with all the fainting with joy!

But literally...I have never witnessed a miracle as wonderful and awesome as what happened yesterday with Sugey. I really in that moment felt like an instrument in God´s hands.

Never forget: Big or small, MILAGROS EXSITEN.

I love you guys and I wouldn´t trade a second of what I am doing right now for anything on the world. It´s God´s work and his hand is evident in EVERY day.

Love always and always,

Hermana Abigail Page

Hitch Hiking with the Evangelicos...

The best story of the week is that God really loves us. But seriously, I have seen the love of God so much in my life and especially in my mission, but yesterday, he literally just spoiled me and my companion.
So what happened was that it was a normal Sunday, doing the work of the Lord y yada yada. At the end of the day, we went by a blind member´s house to drop of her Libro de Mormon en braile. And when we finished there it was 9:30 so we had to get headin home. (we have until 10 to get home). Since we were in the other side of our area from our apartment we went to the bus stop to wait for una micro (bus) o un colectivo (taxi thing). Soon enough 9:30 turned to 9:40, then to 9:45, then to 9: 50 without anything passing by that had room in it. By this time we were freakin out a little bit cause we had less then 10 minutes to get on the other side of our area! That´s when my companion said, "alright Hermana, I´m gonna pray out loud and then we are gonna start walking towards home and trust that the lord will send someone...or anyone." (here we travel through hitchhiking on pulic transportacion). So my companion prayed, and then we got to steppin, not knowing how we were gonna make it home in time. As we were walking, I held my hand out in the side of the street so that if a collectivo o micro passed by, they would know that we wanted them. Not 10 steps later, a truck pulled over out of traffic and a women in church clothes popped out and said, "hey come on!" Thinking about it now I think of how sketchy that could have been. But we were only happy and thinking "DIOS NOS AMA". So we ran to her truck and jumped in. Turns out it was a family (mom, dad, son) of evangélicos. Or atleast we think that they were evangelicos cause they kept sayin "bendiciones, bendiciones". They were so friendly and really great people, and they took us right to the gates of our apartment complex.
But the blessings don´t end there!
When we got to the gate, the security guard wasn't there to open it. And the time literally turning into 10 o´clock, we thought NOOOOOOO. And right when I think how are we gonna open this door, the gate literally magically opened. LITERALLY! There was no one in sight and no one else opened it. GOD OPENED THE DOOR. (In fact the security guard saw us afterwards and asked how we got in, and when we said that the gate opened solo, and he said "huh, gracias a Dios" hahaha. And we were like Uhhhh OBVIOUSLY gracias a Dios!!) But yeah, so the door opened and immediately I start bookin it for the apartment and my companion was running behind me saying "how did the door open, who did it, what in the world, blahblahblah" I told her "We can wonder about the mysteries of God when we are inside the house. God did it. Keep running!" Hahaha.
Ahhhh, it was literally the best end to a day ever! So eventful. But literally I felt so spoiled by Heavenly Father. Best ever :)
Moral of the story: Dios nos ama.

Love you all! I´m fasting and praying for y´all tons! I hope you can see the infinite blessings of God in your life every day :)

Love always and always,
Hermana Abigail Page

So the curse continues...

So as apparently everyone already knows, I´m still here in La Serena...this is going to be my 5th change here..that´s a lot! And my companion that got here is going home/ending her mission this change so it looks like I might be here ANOTHER cambio afterwards. Crazy! But if the Lord wants me here, it´s gotta be for somethin good, right? So I´m excited. The members can´t believe it either. They´re all like, "You´re STILL here???" Haha.

My companion´s name is Hermana Zimmerman (my first gringa compañera). She´s pretty cool. Super sarcastic, which is a change after being with just latinas who don´t understand sarcasm. But I am adjusting again to gringo humor...haha. Everyone says that she is the best missionary in the mission...one Elder told me that if she was a man she would be an assistent to the president for her whole mission. So needless to say, I am excited for a miracle! We´ve got faith and dilligence, entonces vamos a ver lo que el Señor tiene preparado para nosotras este mes!

This week, the night of cambios until Saturday morning, I got strep throat and the flu, so I was pretty much dead for a few days. Stinkin´ Satan!! But now I am ready to work work work work work!! I missed talking to people and teaching them when I was locked inside! I kept thinking.. "okay, it´s now 5 o´clock....we could have saved like 3 souls by now.".

It was quite a shock that Hermana Mori left. She literally became my best friend. But I don´t feel sad. It was like "Hermana Mori, you´re leaving" cry cry.. "Hermana Mori, get on the bus to go" cry cry. But after that, nada mas. I´m not sad. I know that she´s okay and that I´ll see her again, so why do I need to be sad! I am just so grateful that in the time that I had with her, she is able to change me to be more of who the Savior wants me to be :) (Dad, I think she was my Elder Alcides).

Well that´s all for this week folks. Not toooooo exciting this week. Hope you all are doing wonderfully and that the lil peanut is behaving herself. Y´all are one my prayers literally every day, and I hope through my service you guys are being showered with protection and blessings. That is my prayer.

Until next week, enjoy a root beer float.

Love always and always,

Hermana Abigail Page


**Mom! In the next package that you send me (whenever it is) I need you to send me quarters that have North Carolina in the tail side. Everyone always asks me for a dollar..but I don´t have any dollars. And then I started thinkin and I thought that it´ll be cooler if I give ´em quarters from NC...cause that´s somethin more customized, right?!

The Mish...

So the other week, I was so excited about little Scarlett that I printed some of the pictures that y´all sent me. But when we got to the the house, they were no where to be found. Seriously. I prayed all week in order to find them, but nada. So all week when I said "I´M AN AUNT", everyone said, pictures pictures..and there I was...without a single picture. Sigh. But today I printed a ton de nuevo so now I´m locked and loaded!

This week is cambios. I now have 6 months in Brillador in La Serena...so vamos a ver que pasa CHUNCHUNCHUUUUUNNN. Part of me wants to stay here 1 time more with Hermana Mori and part of me is calm with leaving...so I guess we´ll just wait and see! The will of God be done, right? :)

I don´t have much to write about....hmmmm. I guess I´ll just say that I am so excited to have me, Tory, Katie, and Cameron (and all the other friends and everyone) out serving missions together. This morning during companionship study, I was talking with my companion about the mission and the plan of salvation and just how perfect everything is. And I started to cry, cause I left the spirit so strong. The mission is like living in the celestial kingdom and looking down at the telestial... I love being able to feel the spirit and and then see how it can help others and then explaining to them the perfect love and plan that God has for them. It has been the biggest blessing of my life to serve a mission. Without a doubt. The hardest blessing, but the best. I can´t imagine anything better for my life. If you know anyone who is thinking about going on a mission but isn´t sure, EXHORT them to go! Seriously, it´ll only change them for the better. If we serve with an open heart and a humble spirit, miracles happen. What could be better than to see and be a miracle and angel in the lives of other people?? Nothing, that´s what.

Be the light for the world. Look for miracles. And smile always.


Love you guys more than anything and I pray with all my heart for every one of you everyday.

Love always and always,

Hermana Abigail Page

The Church is true...

Firstly, our family is just a family of 13´s isn´t it?? My year mark, the aniversary of mom and dad, and my little nació!! Best day ever :) I love her already..even though it hasn´t sunk in yet. I think it´ll hit me when I come down the escalador in the airport and there´s a baby! Haha, but I´m gonna get there in the perfect time..right when she´s ready to start playing ;) Ay...my little peanut.

Also, I am officially one year older and wiser too in my mission! I literally cannot believe it...I only have 6 months left.....AHHH. ...Okay, time to change the topic.


What I wanted to tell you guys más que nada is a experience that I had this week. Gradually I have been feeling bad and badder inside my mind and heart. Ya know, Satan working hard so that I´m sad and all that. But anyways, as a mission, we are doing a 40 day fast so that we can consagrate us to the obra even more. And every person in the mission is sacrificing things individually. But Satan (the sneaky little guy) obviously doesn´t want me to be happy, so He has been amping up the things that I am trying to change for my fast. Long story short, I have been praying and fasting and I got a blessing and every thing, but I have been feeling really bad. So on Saturday night I was just fed up with Satan and how I have been feeling, so at like 11:30 at night I rolled over in my bed, got on my knees and began to cry while praying, pleading with the Lord that He can help me change. That He can tell me what I need to do to really change who I am..the things that I lack, in order to really use these last 6 months with all my heart, might, mind, and strength. At the end of my prayer, I asked God to tell me what I needed to change during church the next day. That something that I felt or heard could help my to know the next step cause I seriously didn´t know what else to do.
And just to let ya know...God loves us. And He listens to us with ears of a loving Father. And if we are willing to change our heart, He will answer us.
During Church, I got my answer, and now I know what I am going to strive to do better so that I can give it all to the Lord.

This is the best time of my life.
I love my Savior, and I know that He literally watches over me.

Love always and always,
Hermana Abigail Page

Ps...send my little peanut ALL my love...and lots of kisses from her favorite aunt ;) Hey! We´ve gotta train her while she´s little...put a picture of me and say "tia favorita"

(sin tema especifico​)

(sin tema especifico​)

The truth is..that sometimes I don´t know what to write. There are a million things and experiences or feelings that are in my head, and I wanna share them all! But obviously time is my enemy so I won´t be able to go on rabbling for too long. But seriously, I´m better at rabbling out my feeling than typing them out (like you all are fully aware).

I guess I´ll just say that I love my Savior. I love that His atonement isn´t conditional. It´s infinite. And it doesn´t matter how many times we mess up, or how many times we fall down, or how many times we feel lost...there He is..waiting patiently for us. Sometimes I literally imagine walking on a path next to Christ...walkin walkin walkin, when suddenly we look over to the side and we get distracted by a butterfly or a plane or superman or whatever and we take a "short cut of doom" into the woods by the path. And Christ tries to talk us out of it, pleading us to keep walking with Him cause we will get to "grandma´s house" soon. But us, being tan porfiados, we ignore Him and go into the woods... and then after falling and getting lost and scraped up, we make it back to the path again, and there is Christ...waiting patiently right where we left Him, and he stretches his hand out to us and says "...yeah, are you ready to keep going?". Without anger, without giving us guilt, without chewing us out for being tan tonto. Nada de eso! Just lovingly accepting us and helping us to "keep on swimming".

How awesome is Christ´s love?? Goodness, it just blows my mind sometimes :) I love Him so much, and I am so glad and grateful from the time He has given me to lovingly explain and demonstrate a portion of that same love with His children here in Chile.

Another thing...I am so excited for my little peanut!! And I think I´m with dad..cause she´s gonna be born on the 13th! Anniversary of Mom and Dad and my year mark in the mission! 13 is just our number, isn´t it?

But that´s all that I´ve got time for! I love you all a boatload! Give my lil peanut Scarlet lots of love from my part!!!!!!

Until next week!

Love always and always,

Hermana Abigail Page

Bedtime Stories...

Once upon a time, in a far away land se llama La Serena, there once were two brave princesses named Page y Mori. They had been searching high and low for "the chosen one". The one that had been promised to them by the wise scorcerer (Presidente). Far and long, high and low, left and right they searched trying to find the special soul. But on and on they went without any trace of the person. Without even a hint or clue of how to recognize the chosen one, they began to lose hope that they could be the ones to accomplish the task. "How can it be" they said. "Maybe the scorcerer was wrong...maybe we weren´t meant to find the chosen one.." But either way, with some of the last drops of hope, they went. Looking even harder. Knocking every castle door, searching in every pasture, talking to every peasant and prince and knight that passed them on their path.
One day, when passing through a familiar path that the two princesses usually used to arrive in town, there was a young maid outside a cottage washing out the stagecouch. Not thinking too much about the young lady, they gave a friendly hello and kept walking. Not 4 steps after crossing in front of the young woman, Page and Mori were brought to a hault in the path. Their feet could not go another step. "Turn around" said a voice. "Talk to the maid. What do you have to lose?" So without trying to overthink the still voice, Page and Mori turned and began to talk to the woman. She asked what their purpose on their path was and where were they going. They replied that they were pricesses on a noble quest to find the chosen one..the soul that could become the heir to the kingdom. The young maid, intriged in how two ladies so young would embark on such an errand, began to question the reasoning of the two princesses. With a flicker of hope, Page and Mori, invited the maid to the castle in order to explain the purpose of the quest more clearly. The maid, Francisca, began to come to the castle frequently (and Page and Mori traveled to her cottage as well) to learn about the kingdom, the quest, and the chosen one. After a few visits, Page and Mori told the Francisca that they believed her to be the chosen one..the one from the fortune of the sorcerer. Doubting herself, but also trusting in the princesses, the Francisca did not know what she should do. "Ask the king" Page and Mori told her.

A few days went by as Francisca wrote a correspondence to the king and waited for her response..explaining her feelings, her thoughts, her doubts, her desires.

One day Page and Mori, hopefully that by then the king had sent a response to Francisca, headed towards her cottage to see if she was ready to accept her title as the chosen heir. When they arrived, the Francisca sat them down at the small table. With the fireplace crackling and the hearts of Page and Mori pounding, Francisca said "I recieved my reply from the king. And I have my answer..........I am ready."

Rejoicing was had throughout the kingdom as the royal court planned the correlacion and the ball to celebrate! When the day arrived, Francisca, nervous but ready, took on her title of heir to the kingdom and realized for herself that she was indeed chosen...special...the Princess of a King.

And from that moment on, the Princesses Page and Mori followed on with other quests and the Francisca resumed her training to one day become queen.

And they all lived happily ever after.

Love always and always,

Hermana Abigail Page

Uh oh Spagettio....

Wow..so after a week in el CCM,(MTC) Tory sounds completely different! Haha but seriously, he sounds like a zone leader already ;) I love that he is serving at the same time as me! I always tell all the people "yeah, me brother is serving a mission too!!" I can´t wait to see a picture of him with his placa!

Funny story: This week we were in a colectivo (like a taxi), and we were talking to the driver about the church and everything, and like always he asked us why the boy missionaries all have the same name of "Elder". So we were explaing what "elder" means y blah blahblahh, and I looked out the window right then and a little bit further ahead I saw (from behind) two latinos walking with backpacks and suits. And I think "Hey Elders"....so I tell the driver "hey look, speaking of the devils, there are two elders right there walking". So the driver starts honking his horn and my companion and I are waving like crazy people at the "Elders". Hearing the rucus from the car, the two latinos turn and look at us, and I think, "Hey, where are your placas? (Name Tags) Why are they walkin around without their placas-- OH NO...those aren´t elders.... TESTIGOS! (witnesses) ...Hermana , stop waving, stop honking, DRIVE DRIVE DRIVE!"
Turns out that the two "elders" were two Testigos de Jehovah (Jehovah Witnesses) hahahahaha. We had a good laugh about it with the driver of the colectivo (taxi) afterwards :)
Other than that, our investigador Francisca is gonna get baptized in Sunday! She is literally made of gold. And she is really trying the act on all of her faith so that she can recieve blessings and come to know her Savior. She is sooooo great! The other day, my companion asked her, "Francisca, do you remember for what date (of baptism) you are preparing?" And she said, "Yes, the 3rd...I am so ready to be born again!" We set there trying not to starting dancing for joy. Miracles, folks. Pure miracles.
One last thing.. the other day, I was sitting with another missionary and I was just thinking to myself about everything...pondering and whatnot. And suddenly a really awesome feeling came over me and I realized that now, I have come to the point when I am really in love. De nada, I realized that it´s true... I really do love my mission. With my whole heart. What a blessing it is to be a missionary.....oh goodness, I love it.
Pero eso! I hope you all are having wonderful adventures up there in the North American continent. Enjoy them for me, take lots of pictures, and tell me all about ´em, yeah? Estan en mis oraciones :)
Love always and always,
Hermana Abigail Page

Let's go back, back to the beginning...

Miracles miracles miracles...just poppin outta the snow..like DAISIES!
I have less than 10 minutes to write so I´m gonna give the summed up fast version!
-We have an investigator of GOLD that now has a fecha of baptism se llama Francisca. She is literally of the of most amazing investigadores that I have ever had! Super excited and has tons of faith and wants to learn and loves going to Noche de Hogares and says that "this is the time...her time to get baptized"! Haha super great, and just a great big buddled up miracle for us to enjoy after mucho tiempo de nada!
-A recent convert of the other Hermanas (Javier) brought a friend to church yesterday, and she is excited to learn more! ...But what happened was is that Javier was working and a girl walked up to him and started talking to him..like flirtin a lil bit. So the exchanged Facebooks and numbers, and then he said "Hey...on Sunday, meet my on the corner of Nicaragua y Gaspar Marin (the address of the church) and I´ll take you somewhere special!" And ella, having no idea and thinking that he was going to take her on a date was like "yeah, OKAY". And then Sunday came, and they meet at the corner and he brought her to church! Hahahahaha, if she gets baptized, that´ll be the best conversion story ever! :)
-Tomorrow we are going to a millionares house to eat "gringo food".
-Isidora is loving being baptized and now wants to serve a mission!
-A general authority is coming to the mission in Thursday to talk to us!!
....Just loads of fun and blessings!
But now I´ve got to go! I love you all A LOT!!!
Can you pass me the email address of Tory so that I can write him too?! Thank you!!
Love always and always,
Hermana Abigail Page

I'm so glad they called me on a mission....

Isidora got baptized on Saturday!! Her dad worked so hard to be worthy to baptize her, and he was able to do it al final. Such a special day...Her dad Jesus was crying while reciting the words of the baptism prayer, Isidora was crying afterwards when she shared her testimony, her mom July was crying so much when Isi came up out of the waters of baptism and was hugging her Dad so tight. Goodness gracious..words can not describe how beautiful of an experience it was. Best baptism ever. I think it was so great cause it was a difficult path in order to get there! I have loved being part of her family´s path to the temple. It has literally been one of the most memorable moments of my mission so far! I have loved seeing them push through it all. Whatever trial comes their way, they just trust in the Lord and keep going! Literally. They have taught me so much about forgiveness and hope and the importance of the temple. I have really felt like an instrument in the Lord´s hands. And I honestly don´t think that there is a joy more full than when someone tells you "thank you for being our angel in our path to a familia eterna". It is seriously the best feeling in the entire world. Goodness, I love being a missionary. I love spending my time in the Lord´s service! Is there anything greater? I think NOT! Sleep, eat, preach...I´m living the life! I am so grateful for my brothers and for their examples of wonderful missionaries. I am so grateful for my Daddy and for starting a grand tradicion of serving missions in the Page-Jenkins family :) I am so grateful for my hermanito...Elder Tory Page..for being such an example to me my whole life, for being worthy to serve the Lord in California as His literal representative, for his faith, that we get to serve at the same time...Que genial :) Tory, you´re gonna move mountains with your faith, I just know it! :) Just keep swimming when the going gets rough or when you can´t find anyone whos wants to progress or when you just feel down. Pray...pray LOTS...on your knees. Be focused and consecrate every moment to the Lord. He is gonna bless the dickens out of you, kid! Disfrutela :) Be who the Lord wants you to be, and see the miracles! Know the when you are in the service of the Lord, you are entitled to the blessings of heaven...envoke them! Ask for angels, and I know they´ll be by your side. And more then anything, know that I love you un montón, and that I am and will be praying for you every single day.
....Again, I love being a missionary. I just love it so much.
I love you all, and I pray that you´re enjoying every moment together!
Until next week. Les amo!
Love always and always,
Hermana Abigail Page
**Ps, the video with the pictures and the song "this is home" that was on the blog....is literally my favorite thing ever! I always say "this is my family" and then I show it to the members haha. And if it´s possible, I would love a copy somehow!

Pruebas...

This week was a good week. We went to Viña for Consejo and I got my package..on the 4th of July! How perfect :) All the Elders that were traveling back to the North with us attacked my Cheez-its and Monster mix haha...but I just thought "oh, poor little guys..yeah okay, have a little bit". Pero I was in Heaven with this package momma! Thank you thank you thank you! It was seriously a package of my favorite things! Hermana Mori sends lots of love yalls way too! She cried cause she was so happy to recieve yalls letters :) So thanks again.
This week my companion and I realized that our area is literally a trial. I love my area and my ward and the people and everything, so don´t get me wrong....It´s just that ever since my first cambio here, I´ve been living in a big trial....the refiner´s fire of my mission. A trial of paciencia. A trial of depression. A trial of animo. A trial of obedience. A trial of bad health. A trial of working hard but NO ONE progressing. A trial of...well, everything that happens that´s a trial in a mission... is our area...Brillador, La Serena haha. And I´m not gonna sugar-coat it, there have been some pretty hard moments. When we have just felt down right mal. And I acknowledge that there have been a million miracles too. On Saturday, we were started our fast with a prayer and we prayed for miracles y for us, for our animo and all that jazz. We ended our pray and went to work...and from that moment to the end of the day: 1 investigator that has a fecha is going out of town for the month, two others that we were going to give a fecha disappeared from their house without warning of anyone (even there neighbors dont know), a progressing investigador moved away, all of our appointments fell through, an evangelico chewed us out, and two of my converts (Cristina y Sebastian) moved away to the country with out telling anyone. So in the middle of all that, I looked over at Hermana Mori, and I just started to laugh and I said... "Wow Hermana...this area really is a trial....we´re even fasting haha". But even through all that that happened on Saturday. We were both so happy. So happy. And I realized....what a blessing it is that the Lord loves us so much that He gives us trials. I am so grateful for my area. I am so grateful that it is my refiner´s fire in the mission. Y I am so excited to (through all this) become who the Lord wants me to be. I am so thankful for my trials. And I am so grateful for the Lord that supports us through every step en el camino. What a blessing it is to be children of God :)

I love you all. I hope that everyone can learn to love their trials, and that we can all come to know the Lord through every minute of them. Trials are evidence that God loves us :) Disfrutelas!
Love always and always,
Hermana Abigail Page

Faith in every footstep...

On Saturday, it was around 11 pm (when we go to sleep) and I said goodnight to my companion...and I was layin there when suddenly I screamed "GASP! ....my brother is MARRIED right now!! AHHH, que loco!" My companion started laughing so hard at me. But it just hadn´t come to my mind until that moment! That´s so crazy....I hope everything went super great in the weddings and that everyone just enjoyed every moment!

The game of Chile and Brasil was CRAZY....not that we watched it but we could hear the reactions of everyone else when we were in the street, and they were all really worked up! Haha.. down to the last penalty to decide the game..yikes!

On Thursday, my companion and I had a day of literally being instruments in the Lord´s hands...and I can honestly say that every step that we took was because the Lord wanted us to. So we had weekly planning and so we started the day after lunch. We ate lunch with a less active and her family and she talked and talked and talked, so we thought yeah, we gotta go. And literally 15 steps away from her house, we ran into my conversos that we havent seen in a long time (Cristina y Sebastian), so we visited with them and they talked and talked and talked so after a while we thought (again) yeah okay, we gotta go. So we were literally 5 steps outside of there apartment and we ran into another progressing less active and she was like "Are you guys coming to my house?"...so we went to visit with them, and (again) they talked and talked and talked, and we thought okay we´ve gotta go (again). So 10 steps away from there front door we passed the front door of a member and right when we were there, she opened her door (not knowing that we were there..so we kinda scared her) and said "Hermanas! I needed to talk with you two", so we talked with her.....and she talked and talked and talked, and it was time to go home so we thought (again) okay, we´ve gotta go. And 5 steps away from her front door, our investigator that´s gonna get baptized (Isidora) and her family passed by in their truck and said "HEY, do you guys wanna ride home?" Hahaha...so yep. I have such a strong testimony ahora that it´s true that God will put us in the path of the people that need us most. And it was a really great experience! Maybe we didn´t do many contacts, or no one came and said BAPTIZE ME, but I can honestly say that it was a great day enjoying being in instrument in the Lord´s hands and seeing that He is in control of His work :)

I love you all so much, and I am BEYOND happy to hear and see that you are all progressing and growing and doing great and fun things all the time. It´s the best news that I could recieve while being on a mission...that everyone is progressing for the better!

Have a great week...and send my pictures of the wedding!!

Love always and always,

Hermana Abigail Page

Se cayo de los cielos...el dentro una pila baptismal

On Tuesday we went to Viña and Elder Robbins had a conference with us..the WHOLE MISSION! And it was loco. It was the first time that we have all been together since Presidente got here! The conference was so great! He did it like a question answer kind of thing, so it was great to receive counsel personally for what we needed as a mission. And AGAIN, I received such a powerful witness that President Kahnlein is called of God to be our mission president. What a blessing! I swany, he´s gonna be a member of the Seventy one day!
Also, I finally saw family Schramm! She was reading every nametag trying to find me for mom!

And the miracle of the week is... (backstory) we have been in a rut in the work. And honestly, it´s been pretty hard to find people, especially people that wanna progress... and thus el animo has been difficult to retain also. We prayed, and worked, and fasted, and worked...and prayed again, but something always seemed to happen with our investigators. And this past week was the last week that we could find people that could potentially be baptized in June. And so after a cambio (transver) and a half without many frutos,(fruits) we tried to kick it into gear this past week and on Saturday at 8 o´clock at night, we ran into our bishop and he said, "Hey! I´ve got a reference for you". Turns out, that a girl had gone to the church website, looked for la capilla (chapel) nearest her, and the bishop´s number was on there too, so she texted the bishop and asked if she could attend church on Sunday. Obviously, he send yes! Haha So we passed by her house on Sunday morning and walked to church together; she cried during church cause she had such a great experience; we went to her house later that night to teach her; and she accepted a baptismal date for the last day of June!!!!! When we prayed for a miracle, we had no idea that she would quite literally fall from heaven and into her baptismal font, pero BUENO! Hahaha. WE were almost crying we were so happy. I felt like los pueblos in the Book of Mormon..when they literally couldn´t go anymore and in THAT moment was when the Lord blessed them in abundance. But...yep.
OH! Also something about Katy (the chica), a few weeks ago we felt prompted to knock her street, so we knocked and knocked and knocked and then we realized that we were late for an appointment, so we said "we´ll knock until the white house and then we´ll go".....and guess what, we found out who lives in the white house?? KATY! The miracle girl..hahaha. We were like WHAT!! Pero bueno. We didn´t find her, so she came and found us! And all´s well that ends well!

***I had to use a Spanish-English dictionary to write parts of this email cause I couldn´t think of the words..or how to spell them...hahaha how sad! I don´t know if thats good or bad honestly.


-Mom, I´ll write the letter for Matt and Kimber and send it next week! And sorry, no photos cause my companion is using my camera today.

-I can´t believe that Tory graduated from high school!! Que loco!


Have a great week!! Have a wonderful trip to Utah and preparing for the wedding and all that jazz. Love you all bunches of honey oats!

I pray for y´all todos los días.

Love always and always,

Hermana Abigail Page

Rápido y furioso

Wow! My package must have been flown to the States by Superman cause I went to the post office on Monday in the afternoon..and it was on our front porch on Saturday! I´m so glad that you guys liked the stuff inside! I tried really hard to find stuff that you guys would like..lucky my companion was patient with my medio bipolar choices.. "si..no...maybe..I dont know if they'll like it...oh, maybe this is better...ahhh, why are there so many people in my family" hahaha.

So I remember one time when Dallin got home from his mission, we were eating hotdogs and he put mayonaise on his hotdog. And everyone was like awwww gross, how fatty blah blah. Welp, a couple of blocks from our apartment, there's a lady that sells completos...its like a latino hotdog...and it is fuuulllll of different types of mayo. And let´s just say that now I´m converted to the completos! And I would like to take this moment to ask for Dallin's forgiveness. Because he was more wise than I was at that time.

This past week were cambios. And............Im in Brillador de nuevo con Hermana Mori! Whoop whooop. I was really happy cause our investigator Isidora and her family are progressing so much (they are working towards a temple sealing at the end of the year), and I wanted to be here to see her baptism!

Then on Friday we went to Viña again for a consejo with Presidente. Working so close with all the leaders is the best! I feel like I am/will progress a lot in this calling.

*Sometimes being the clay for the Master Potter is rough. Cause we get squished and pulled and pressured por todos lados! And through all that, we gotta keep the faith that we are gonna end up being the prettiest pots ever.. Sometimes that´s the hard part. But then we live up from where we are splattered on the wheel and we realize that, it´s okay, that we´re okay..cause he is still the Master Potter...And we know and can feel that it´s His hands shaping and supporting and changing us. It´s a dizzy process spinning around and around like that, but I know that we will end up perfectly shaped, glazed, and beautiful in His eyes :) ..So my goal now is to enjoy the time we have as clay in His hands!

Also tomorrow we are heading to Viña AGAIN! (I feel like I live in the bus terminal!) Cause Elder Lynn G Robbins de the presidency of the seventy is gonna talk to us!! I´ll let yall know how it goes!

Love you all! Thank you for your prayers, cause I need em! I pray you you guys every day! Lets of lovin y´alls way :)

Love always and always,

Hermana Abigail Page

**Can ya throw in an issue of the general conference ensign in the package!

"hey now, hey now, this is what dreams are made of..."

 

 

This week: 

-we left our apartment complex to go tracting and there were a herd of horses that had escaped from I don´t know where and they were grazing in the park across the street. LUCKY I had an apple in my hands, so I ran over and fed it to a horse haha. It was a green apple, so afterwards, he had green spit and he started to follow us cause he wanted more and his green spit was flying everywhere. Plus, my companion has a fear of horses, and Willis (cause that´s what I named him) was trying to eat her backpack and she was running away and there he was...following right behind her. Pobrecita. 9poor little thing) 

-I completed an item off of my bucket list!! In my bucket list, there is one adventure that says "see the Pacific ocean and put my feet in." Well when I arrived in La Serena, I completed the "see" part...but as a missionary, we can´t go galivanting on the beach...nor can our feet touch enter the sand part. So it seemed as though my dream would go unfulfilled. But one day I mentioned my dream to a member (the mom of Isidora..that´s gonna get baptized in June.......I talked with you guys from their house...they´re the ones!) So the other P-day, they said "we are gonna take you guys on a special trip for P-day", and we went to El Faro...the lighthouse. And they had brought a bucket, and they went to the water, got some from a wave, and brought it to the pavement/lighthouse where we were so that I could fulfill my dream!! So I sacked my shoes and put my feet in...and boy was it cold! BUT, CHECK that one off the good ´ole bucketlist :) DREAMS DO COME TRUE.

-The Lord watched over me and blessed me lots. When I´m down, or when we need a miracle, I can honestly say that God is ALWAYS there, and He always supports us. Always. Siempre jamas. How lucky are we that we have a father that loves us so much :) ....He blesses, but he doesn´t spoil ;)

By the way- I sent off a package today! With lots of gifts inside :) The wrapping job is thanks to Hermana Mori...you´ll understand what I mean when ya get it ha ha. 

Momma, can you send me music? Hymns or piano or classical...or Enya! haha. BUT NO EFY...or things of that sort. Thank you!

Gots to get heading. Know that literally every one of yall are in my prayers EVERY day. Remember prayer is the passport to power. Share a smile and a cookie with another. Enjoy every moment of sun.

Love always and always, 

Hermana Abigail Page

Why I oughta...

You guys have had an eventful week to say for the menos.! (to say the least) Lotsof trials. but lots of blessings. Funny, how when we are righteous, we are blessed amidst trials. And I have no doubts that the Lord literally gives me strength and peace and comfort here because when something happens at home (when I read it on this side of the world) immediately it’s like "it’s okay, it’s in His hands, I’m here serving Him so they will be okay..blah blah. " For that I´m so grateful. I´ll be sure to pray and fast this week for you guys so that every one’s okay, especially Matt and Mom. (It´s funny cause right when y´all told me that Matt got beat up in the face, I thought OH NO, HIS SMILE! Hahaha even before you guys said the same).

This week I realized just how much Satan doesn´t like the work of the Lord...nor his missionaries. And this week, Satan didn´t like me very much and gave me a hard time...tan pesado él! (how sad) But thanks to the Lord and my amazing companion, I´m feelin’ better.

This week we had a huge activity in the ward. It was a karaoke night thingy, and I don´t know why but Latinos LOVE karoake haha. Tons of people came with less actives and with friends, and everyone was laughing and eating and just having a good ole time. We (the missionaries) planned everything, so it felt really good that it was such a success. I think I’m gonna miss crazy latino ward activities when I get home.

We also found a girl to teach and she is so awesome! Hopefully she´ll make it to her fecha en June!! Her name´s Jelen (Helen). She´s medio hippie..sunshine and God is love... BUT she is progressing really well already and I am really grateful that the Lord sends cualquier persona (people) to teach. In that sense, the work is so cool! We meet random people in the street, invite them to change their lives, and then help them do it! Que bacán. (how cool)

Gots to get headin. Thank you for all your prayers and support. If there is something that I can do to support you guys more, let me know and I´ll do it. Call me beep me if you need to reach me ;)
Thanks for being my forever family.
Love always and always,
Hermana Abigail Page