Thursday, October 20, 2011

EMAIL CHAT 10/19/11............

oh okay here we go LOL.... well first off we went to the doc(tor) it's because we are late... I am duh duh duh.... absolutely fine!!!!  Nothing is wrong with my body!!! Kyle wrote to me again, it was great!!!  And I will be with Hermana Lopez for the rest of the transfer.

(Jessie stopped emailing and I was beginning to wonder what happened….)  Sorry there was an investigator of the elders that I knew and she is sitting right next to us and I was talking to her.   She's been investigating a long time, I hope soon she'll be baptized.
………….I have learned I know I have heard it many times, and I'm still learning this, but our Heavenly Father knows all.... we may not understand many things, but He has a purpose for every one of us, if we are willing to work diligently and do according to his will. I found a cool scripture today in Doctrine and Covenants 88:67-68. I know that if we keep an eye single to the glory of God He will help us to fulfill our purpose and receive the blessings in His time, His way, and with His will. That's something so, so, so important we never will know. LOL.

…that’s the thing, I can't see it, but obviously my Heavenly Father has something in plan for me because He keeps showing me His trust in me..... and it's interesting every time I talk to president he always tells me wow how my Heavenly Father really does love me, he even bore witness of it on Sunday and he's shown it every time we talk.
67 And if your eye be single to my glory, your whole bodies shall be filled with light, and there shall be no darkness in you; and that body which is filled with light comprehendeth all things.

68 Therefore, sanctify yourselves that your minds become single to God, and the days will come that you shall see him; for he will unveil his face unto you, and it shall be in his own time, and in his own way, and according to his own will.

 1. President gave us a reference that is not a super familiar person in his family and asked us to baptize her in 2 weeks, catch is we probably can't meet her until Friday and she has never been to church hehehehe we'll see.
2. I love teaching youth and kids and to see their desire to learn. Out of anything I find joy with adults accepting the gospel, but I find more joy when youth and kids know that these things are true or want to go to church. Wow they are amazing!!!

3.We have one family we are working on that will be tough, Mom is learning with daughter, Husband is atheist, and they are not married but have been together for 21 years and the kids are theirs.... it's a doozey.

4. We were riding our bikes in Villa de Carmen and all of a sudden a man in a motorized wheelchair called us... we went by and he was stuttering in English... yep he was drunk and he was asking us to push him to his house. So I did... here I am a small, short, American girl pushing a heavy motorized wheelchair with a drunken man down the road to his house that was super far. The neighbors were watching and kind of laughing as we were too. Apparently it happens all the time when his battery dies. Fortunately there was someone who helped and plugged him up so his battery could charge, but it was quite the experience and we couldn't get a picture.

5. Someone in the ward died.... and it's super sad cuz I know him a little.

6. The baptisms that were supposed to happen didn’t.

yeah the death was unexpected... and have learned recently that many of the menos activos problems is they never read the Book of Mormon, prayed, or had a testimony.
That's something I want..... that utmost desire and love for the mission.... I'm still trying and it sometimes gets better. I want that when I come back too, to honestly say that I loved the mission.... I'm trying. I'm writing to Kyle right now at the same time, he wrote me and I love his emails they are great!!!

 (I expressed my belief that getting them to read the Book of Mormon and then pray to know it’s true will change their attitudes and re-activate them.   It would change everything for them.   Then, I told her this:

The other day someone in RS told us about a sign in front of a church.   I can’t remember the exact words but it said something about ‘Don’t read the Book of Mormon.   That’s how they get you.’    I don’t know…..something along those lines.   In other words, you’ll discover the truth of the gospel if you read the Book of Mormon so they’re telling their parishioners to stay away from it.   We all had a good laugh over that one. )

Yeah I've heard of that too, but with pastors and in churches. LOL.
.... umm.... I'm just finishing up my president's letter, and then we'll leave... no playing again today.... talking to you is my playing :P

(I asked if she’d received the box I sent a while ago.   It was full of weird miscellaneous stuff, which I collect and send all at once….)   No I like it, it's awesome thanks a bunch!!!! You truly are the best all the sisters here think and know you are amazing.... they always say you’re so sweet and awesome!!!!
(I commented……are you telling lies about me?   LOL……)   heheeh I am definitely not lying, you just always show it through your loving actions. You are the Best and I continue to grow to appreciate you more and more each day!!!!   (Now, isn’t that what EVERY mother longs to hear?   J   That kind of stuff makes up for all the fights over homework and all the teen drama.  JJJ)

I hope you have our emails because this is my journal. LOL.   (That means she’ll have A LOT of editing to do………)  
and that's okay I'm willing to edit because I don't have a journal really.  (Well, technically she has a journal………she just isn’t writing in it.    J)

Oh so I have a joke.  I know you need to leave.... but here there is a name called Leticia.... the nickname is Letti. So the people here get confused when I say my name because it's como-letti... meaning "like letti (Leticia)... so people think my name is Letti. So when I have a girl her name will be Leticia, mission memory... I hope my husband won't mind.
(I said that at least she wouldn’t be Letti Comoletti, unless she married someone with a similar Italian name.   I think it’s a fun story for why a child has a name.)

…. but how kind of fun would that be. LOL.....honestly it's not my favorite name, but the story is fun....
OKAY I LOVE YOU SO MUCHHHHH!!!!!!!!! xxoxoxoxoxxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxxoxoxoxoxoxxo

Email chat 10/12/11...........

Oh I am glad you’re here. I need mommy love as usual. LOL.

I think Kayliegh returns next month (Jessie’s good friend from HS currently serving a mission in Virginia)....
(about Hermana Lopez…)  We received an unexpected call the night before her birthday that we had an all day meeting... so we spent our day in a meeting.... we decorated her desk with things from my bday and two other sisters came down for the meeting too and helped me with that. They took our car away until 1 hour they gave us an uglier old one that now we have to get an inspection. That's my second third time they have given me a car to get inspections. Today is a holiday and the libraries are closed and I am at the bishop's house.
We do not have baptisms still.... but we will be attending 2 baptisms of women we are helping..... Yesterday we did a service project where we went to the middle of nowhere in the mountains to a single woman who collects street dogs. She had about 100+ and all different forms. She lives in a super humble setting and she has a bunch of tarantula caves near her house. Terrified.  LOL..... we tried teaching and helping. The elders are building her dog houses.... and one of the dogs got injured... so I did operation one on one where I had to clean his bloody ear with alcohol that what interesting. LOL... I'll send a picture next week. We are going to return and teach her and we were at her house really late and we were supposed to go to another person's house that we were planning, but when we went to their house which is a project, she told us that little bit earlier (when we planned to be there) was a shooting near her building..... The Lord works in mysterious ways. We will be teaching another day with her.... she'll be baptized this Saturday. Both these women are named Maria.

(I mentioned how much more money the woman with the dogs would have if she could find homes for the dogs and only keep a couple of them.   I also expressed my gratitude that the dog Jessie helped didn’t bite her.)   She works hard and uses the money to buy food.... and the dog didn't have teeth it was 20 years old
Yeah it's totally true, she's a great woman too with a great heart.... she says it’s a sanctuary and that she feels close to God with them... God's creatures.

When I had gotten my (scripture) cover from the man in Ponce.... he saw my last name and said he is studying the Italian language and he told me that he had a musical disc in Italian. He asked if I wanted it for free and I said okay why not .... so for a long time now I have had this record of Italian music... well it's finally going to be used productively. This Friday we will have an International night where ward members will set up tables with different countries... and the patriarch's family has Italy. I told them about the record they could use for decoration and they will use it and absolutely love it.   (I mentioned that it was kind of random that the vendor gave Jessie the record, but cool too.)   Yeah it was random, but now the family can use it which is cool.
They switched cars, gave elders our new one and then gave us an old one I don't know the reason.

We met a couple that seems interesting and could be good, we'll have to see this week


Not mine.... they are the elders we are attending (the women getting baptized are not Jessie’s investigators)
They’re in the other ward we don't serve in anymore. LOL, we’re helping so the elders can teach lessons before the baptisms.... but they are super cool. One is a mom and the other is a 9 year old girl who will be baptized in a river.

(I asked about the river……is it deep?   Cold?   Clean?)   I have no idea, LOL, how it’s like hehehe we'll have to see.
Well I think I have to go, it's Hermana Lopez's turn.... but I love you and always thank you for every single thing you do for me and show the love, it means the world to me!!!!!!!!!!

LOVE YOU SO MUCH AND MISS YOU TERRIBLY!!!!!!
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxxoxo

Thursday, October 6, 2011

EMAIL CHAT 10/5/11………..

Elder and Sister Vickery -
a senior missionary couple who were great to Jessie
and have now completed their assignment and gone home.

Hermana Lopez (Bronx) and Hermana Comoletti


Today, October 6th, marks Jessie’s one year mark on her mission.   For her it’s been a long, hard year and for me, as her mom, it’s been far shorter than I anticipated.   It also happens to be her companion’s birthday, Hermana Lopez.   They are working hard today, but I hope they throw in a little fun on the side.

1. Hermana Lopez is cool...
2. In 1 year of my mission I have only had technically 1 baptism... what a sad missionary I am right....

(I reminded her of the other great work she’s doing with in-actives and companions.   This was her response:  “I'm worried about baptisms because that is why we go on missions....”)

3. ……………………….

4. Kiersty Lemon who lived with me in EFY for the week, was in the same district as Hermana Lopez in the MTC, small world eh
5. Our first day we were driving back from San Juan from transfers and our gas was super low. We didn't want to get lost in San Juan so we looked for gas stations, but all seemed on the opposite sides. So we found the exit for the direction to Ponce, we decided we could take an exit and get gas.... well the light went on and we were in the middle of mountains where there were no gas stations or exits.... I was praying that we could make it.... still driving miraculously we found one tiny gas station on the side. We drive in and we go to pay with the church gas card and it says they don't accept. I was like you gotta be kidding me. I never carry cash with .... but our Heavenly Father inspires others to help us in our lives. About a few days before I received a nice card from Grandma. I hadn't heard from her in a while and when I get cards from her if they contain money it’s because it's a holiday. This card contained 20 and I had put the money in my walmart (wallet??? LOL). Thanks to Grandma we were able to buy gas and drive safely back.

6. Second miracle.... the door to the house automatically locks. So once it closes we are locked out.... well we both went to put the bikes on the car.... usually I just leave the door open and it stays... well this one time I didn't bring the keys out with me, the wind decided to pull a trick on me and close the door. The keys, as well as spare keys and cell phone were locked in the house. The windows here are weird and not like normal windows in the US. We were locked out. We talked to our neighbor to see if he could call the landlord (dueno). We called and he was on another island that is called Vieques here in Puerto Rico.... he said that if we waited he could come and help.... I felt awful... so I said a little prayer and looked through the windows with our screens. The keys were just right on my desk near the window. I figured if we could cut the screens we could get the keys.... then the neighbor remembered something that he had done once... he just pushed the screens a little and it popped out in a certain way... we grabbed the keys and all was well, we fixed the screen after.
*The Lord definitely takes good care of me always

7. I'm so ready for a stress-free, fun Pday.  LOL.
(I suggested they wander around the pier for a little while.   She said:  “We're not allowed anymore near the piers... and we never have time.”)

8. Today we got the package for Hermana Lopez, when she received the notice yesterday she was freaking out, saying "who sent me saying, there's no one I know who knows this address" and other comments.... I was playing with it the whole time. Then today when she found out she was shocked and super funny, I was thoroughly entertained. So she is now saying she is so extremely happy and super grateful, she'll probably send you an email.   (I sent Hermana Lopez a couple of small gifts for her birthday.)
(I asked if they’d be doing anything fun on PDay to celebrate the birthday.   She said:  We wanted to get our nails done for her birthday and my one (year) mark but we don't have any more time really today to do it. LOL.... we found a place that does it for 12 a set.... awesome huh and 10 for refills.”) 

9. ……………….
10. The cover guy didn't respond to me either (man in the DR who makes scripture cases for missionaries).... don't know what's going on.... but I'll try sending on my email, but that's it, who knows... but those Guatemalan cases that you looked for in BYU Hermana Lopez has one and bought it at the MTC for pretty cheap.... so I was wondering is the one brother still working there? If so maybe he can grab one for me at the bookstore in the MTC and you can mail it?

(I asked about the visit to the doctor.   She said:  “Got my results back, need to return to the doctor, but from what I understand I am perfectly fine.”)
(Did they tell you the test results?   If so, why do you need another visit?   “No I just guessed and read the results....”   Oh Jes!   J)

Well I gotta go, I LOVE YOU TONS AND GIVE KYLE A HUGE HUG FROM ME xoxoxOXOXoxoXOXOXOXoXo MISS YOU GUYS SO MUCH, SO READY FOR THE FAMILY!
THANKS NOW LET’S HOPE THAT THE OTHER
 MONTHS TURN OUT GOOD. LOL. WOW THAT SEEMS SO LONG.  LOL.  (almost 7 months left on her mission
J)