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