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