Rojan!!!

Hey!!!

So, this week has been a crazy week!! :D I had transfers, I had the flu, and now I have a new calling. I am a capacitator for the sisters. That is interesting right? I am so happy that I am feeling better. That is all I want for Christmas is to have health so that I don't have to be in the house. Because when you are in the house it is the worst thing as a missionary. Jaja! I am now in Pajaritos it is the city and our sector is huge like usual, and my companion is pretty sweet, super cool and super funny, Hermana Goncalves (Hermana Gonsalves is the pronunciacion). She is from Brazil. Sweeetttt another Brazilian!!! :DD I love it!! Yah!! She is super special and great I am not going to lie!! But yeah so that happened! :D

The week was amazing as usual!! We were able to teach some great people and have them come to church on Sunday! Christina and Barbara!! Wooo hooo!! They will be baptized this transfer!! It was really hard for me to leave El Monte because the people there are so amazing and so strong in the gospel, on top of it all two of my converts are there. La Catalina and el Eloy. But it will be okay! I am happy that we are able to progress and they need to be without me to be able to progress now, and me without them.

So, let me tell you why my email is with this title. Last week we had almuerzo with a family super cool, but like soooo cool. I am telling you there are so cool! They are nerds! I love it when I find nerds because I am like nerds unite! Woohoo! They put on a CD from Lord of the Rings the sound track and the music was from the movie, and we were with the other hermanas from our ward and Hermana McNevin loves Lord of the Rings too, we are like best friends she and I (maybe it is because she reminds me of my sister, Alex) but we were like ROJAN!! and then the song dadadadadadadadaaaa bububububmmm dadadadadadadadaaaa bububububbmm. you have to sing the letters to the song. understand?... O.o is what you are probably thinking. jaja. I am just kidding. But yeah!! That is what happened. And then Hermana McNevin says to me later that day. You know we are like Frodo. We are here in the mission and when we think of home it is like the Shire. :DD ahaha!! jaja! I love that so much!

Then we had the fiesta for the Navidad. And everyone was like Hermana Durfee you are skinnier. And I was like what? I still eat the same and then I thought about it later, and the thing is, is that I was sick the other week! For that, well at least having the flu is good for something, no I am just kidding!! ;D Aha! But yeah! This was my week!! I love you guys so much!!

Hermana Durfee

Look for the talk from Elder Christofferson this conference passed about faith! It is amazing!

Flu and Transfers.

Okay first things first family, The time here is 2:09 my parents were asking for the time.yes Dad I have my information for Christmas!! lol. t i just love it when our investigators buy us sushi and then after we eat it we feel terrible... That is just amazing, right? So that is what happened to me. On Saturday, Claudia my investigator that I just love so much wants to share her sushi with us and so yeah we eat it, and of course it did not do anything to Hermana Espinoza because she has la sangre de una latina, but poor me, I feel so sick after, like I am trying to work and be myself but it was just one of those days. and like I am just trying to work, but then yeah later that night when I am trying to sleep I have to throw up instead, and I am saying to myself, well that is just perfect that I am here using this precious time to sleep to throw up instead, okay... and then all night it was me in the bathroom... and all day on Sunday me in my bed sleeping trying to fight the flipping bug out of my system so that I can preach and share the gospel. I really missed my mom, she really spoiled us when we were little.. lol :D

So, yeah, and then last night I received that I have transfers. And let me tell you (yes, Jeffrey) I knew that, that was coming, but I was trying to convince myself no that I was staying for another month and a half... but yeah well that is how the mission is, it almost is too hard, but then I remember baptism and the feelings that come to someone when they help someone come to Christ. I love this gospel! Thanks so much for all your support family. I just want you to know that I really do miss Missouri and my family, and the snow, but I know that this is the only time I got to be His representative, and on top of it all He has blessed me to learn Spanish. I love you!

Hermana Durfee

P.S. just so that you all know I cannot chat with you guys, meaning I can not just right away respond to the email I have to wait a week if you email me and I already respond. I love you!!

The Lord is My Shepherd, and banana guns....

Family, dearest family!!

1. I think I would like to begin with my testimony. The first thing that I would like to say is that I know that the Savior lives. I know with a surety and with out a doubt that He lives, that He suffered for my sins and for my errors. I am not a perfect person, but I know that through His atonement I can become perfect. It all takes the willingness to sacrifice and to be obedient. These two things together equal the love for God. It is these two things together that we are able to become consecrated. I am so excited for our mission right now, because we are truly trying to be better with our obedience and trying to show God that we really do love Him.

2. It is official now... I will now be coming home in February. I have extended my mission for a month more. 19 months in Chile, okay almost! Presidente changed my date for four weeks after January 26. I want you all to know that this was a really hard decision for me, but what it comes down to is that I had two very strong spiritual experiences when I began thinking about extending and then my fear and my want to go home blurred my vision... but I know, I KNOW that this is something that I have to do. I don't know why...., but for some reason He wants me here for February 2016. I am so willing to do His will, I would give everything I have to just follow Him. I would die for Him if He asked me to. I think of three people from the Book of Mormon Alma and Amulek when they had such a hard time before helping so many people come unto Christ, and also Lamoni's father. For those of you who are not familiar with the Book of Mormon, Lamoni is a king and his dad as well. His dad was willing to give all of his kingdom, all of the material things just to know God. I know that He has a plan for me.

3. Hemana Espinoza and I are always laughing. We are so funny together. I am a funnier person these days. ahaha! Today right before we came to write our families Hermana Marisol gave us two bananas, one for Hermana Espinoza and one for me. So, right after I began pretending that I was calling her and she did it to me. And then we pretended that we were in the wild west taking out our guns from our pockets with the bananas. And then we pretended that we were in an army plane driving and that we had walkie talkies. Then we pretended we were on the movie mission impossible, but the name is mission possible, because we are on a mision that is possible through the Lord!! LOL. And then we were really close to enter into the internet place and there were two men that said that we looked pretty today and we said thanks, but then we stopped because Hermana Espinoza had to fix her skirt and I look over and the men are just staring at us. I tell her that the creepy men are staring at us and that I should probably shoot them with our banana guns. It was really funny!! :D Ahaha!

4. Catalina Zuniga was baptized!! Her baptism was on Sunday!! I am so happy!! So, so so Happy!! I have a better understanding what baptism is these days. She is an eight year old litte girl and she decided that she wanted to be baptized. Her grandpa is a member so her family is a part family, and we help thrm go to church.Cata is a miracle for her family. She is going to help all of them come to Christ. She has already been at it, because after her baptism she went to go and look for Elder Harries and Brophy (they are our zone leaders) and their sector is the sector of her aunt and uncle and she told them that they needed to go and visit her aunt and uncle. Wow! Right? It is amazing this little girl!! :DD

I love being here in Chile. I love Chile. I love El Monte. I love the mission. I know my Savior lives!! Have an amazing week! Love you all very much!

Hermana Durfee

Well... I guess my last name is Espinoza as well...

Family!! Hey!!

1. So, the week just flies right? It just goes! What am I going to do?

2. I had a dream about having a baby in my arms. It was pretty sweet. It is because it has been a year and four months that I have held a baby. It was really cool. I remember it was like a Saturday night and when we went to church on Sunday I saw the Bishop´s two year old son, and I was like why am I having like a mas o menos de ja vu... It was really sweet and weird at the same time.

3. With Hermana Espinoza and I there is never a boring moment right! We did an activity with Cata and her family about service. We had them, Isabel, Manuel, and Cata write letters to someone beloved. Cata was the most normal one because she wrote the letter to her dad. Isabel, she is an older lady, decides to write it to Heavenly Father... haaha! There is nothing wrong with that, but it was so unexpected, and very funny. Manuel he writes his letter for the Sisters Espinoza... for us. Before he tells us, he asks me your name is Hermana Espinoza too, right? And I was like uuuh, no. And then I say to him but if you want me to be I will... it was really funny.

4. We had a lesson with Eloy on Wednesday right and so he decides to bring his friend. And his friend is just as mystical and hippy like him, but a younger version. And he says to us that there is water on mars, and Hermana Espinoza understood wrong and thought that he had said that there was water on cheese. It was really funny!!

The week was super great! I am so happy to be here in El Monte serving a mission. I love these people, my companion, my bishop here and at home! ;) And my dear Heavenly Father, and my older Brother Jesus Christ. God is real, and He loves us. I love Him so much and I try every single day to follow His example. I love to talk to Him, He is my friend. My best friend. I love Him. And you all too!

Hermana Durfee

(side not from sister)

If anyone wants to give Josie something for Christmas feel free to contact me by email.
alexmdurfee14@gmail.com

Have you ever heard the voice of God?

Family, Hey! So, we received transfers yesterday and we are both staying! QUE BUENO! But yeah!!

1. I fell yesterday, it was actually really funny. We were going to visit one of our less actives and she lives in these apartments right?, so we go upstairs and she is not home so we go back down stairs because we need to take money out too, so as I am going down the stairs one of our contacts on the bottom floor is opening the door and I see him, and then as I step down I don't even know what happened, I like rolled my ankle or something and tried to be cool. It is like the nerdy kid in high school that is trying to flirt with the cheerleader and he like klutzily falls over, that is what happened yesterday with the guy that we contacted the other day... but I am okay. It was actually really funny.

2. Eloi (Eloeee) is our miracle hippy! Let me tell you we had a flipping miracle! I love it when we find people and like a couple of weeks ago we had tracted a house and he was like yeah you guys can come on Saturday in the morning, and we were like okay cool so we passed on Saturday but late, because this sector is huge and we have to walk so like yeah... it was not a very good combo but hey, this leads me to yesterday we planned to pass for him yesterday and he was in the house! Woohoo with his mom so we could go into the house and everything, it was so great. And so yeah we teach him how to pray and he wanted to do the first prayer, so we were like yeah okay, you can do it. In the middle of his prayer he is like if you girls have something to say you can say it and Hermana Espinoza was like it is okay... haaha! something that you need to know is that he is like this hippy slash believe in God kind of guy and so it was all cool in the school kind of drift with him in the lesson. So, yeah we are like teaching him and everything, and he is like yeah sometimes I go to meditate. And then all serious and everything Have you ever heard the voice of God? He asks us and we are like no... and he is like I have, and we are like dumbstruck because it was cool and everything..., and so then we are like trying to close the lesson, but he asks us if we are thirsty and we are like sure, why not? so yeah we continue to teach him and I am inviting him to pray morning and night right, and he begins laughing, and I am like why are you laughing? And he is like you just answered my prayer. I was like uhhhh, okay. Yeah and then he was saying that he eats all healthy and everything and asks us do you guys eat healthy? And we are like ummm yeah! lol! And then he gives us this cookie as we finish the lesson, and it might have been... I don't know... maybe with something weird. I ate it, and might have acted a little interesting after, maybe I was laughing terribly too much, but hey!! I am okay... we told one of the sisters in our ward and she was like you guys probably were like drugged, like with a pot cookie or something.... But yeah! Don't worry I will be more careful.

3. We had a visit with Cata our baptismal date and helped her do her homework. It is always such a fun ride when we are with her family because therere is always something going on... Well this time we are doing homework and everything right, and we begin talking to her mom and she says that she is looking for a job and Cata is like SER MORMONA! or be mormon. and her mom is like they pay you? It was actally really funny!! These are my highlights!! Ahaah!! I love the gospel! I know that President is called of God, we didnt have interveiws yet, by the way! But yeah! I love you! Have a great week!

Hermana Durfee

I don´t know what I want to call this....

Family,

So, this week has been a good one. We have been working harder and are trying to be more obedient and more receptive to the Spirit. We had a training session on Thursday and I just felt that there was so many things that we need to do better. But hey then I remembered that I need to remember the things that we are doing right. One of the most amazing things about serving a mission is that you really get to learn what is the atonement of Jesus Christ. It is something that is so amazing!!! I love that I am not perfect because I get to learn how to apply it. But hey then I remember what I do wrong... It is like this cycle... ahaha. But hey, my little sister said that I was inspiring and so I just need to trust in her... lol. I don´t know if I would consider myself inspiring. But that is okay.

This week were are going to have interveiws with Presidente in the house!!!!! NOOO!! We cleaned for four hours of our p day today and we are whipped! Flipping whipped!!! I spent like three hours outside just playing ax murderer with all the flipping weeds that are in our front yard. I used a knife and a skirt because we had no equipment!! NO Fetching equipment!! Wooo! What are we going to do? I don´t know. We think that we are going to have interveiws tomorrow... wish us luck that the Hermana Barreiros will like the house. ahaha! The spiritual message... ummm make sure that the house is cleaned so that you have the Spirit with you at all times!! :DDD

I LOVE YOU!!

Hermana Durfee

Short and sweet!! this was from a month ago... sorry

Hey sorry this is going to be short!

I am doing really well!! We had transfers and my new compy is Hermana Espinoza. She is a lot different from Hermana Erthal, but that is okay I need to learn from her and her from me! She is from Las Vegas and has 23 years. She is really fun and I love her already!!

This week has been an amazing week!! Victor, Elena and Demi went to church again!! I am so excited because little by little they are progressing! I am so thankful!! President has called me Hermana Dulce in my letter and then he was like you guys need to seek baptism!! So, I will!!! We need to baptize. My dad wrote me and said that if his ward that he has is going to progress they need more converts. WE AS MISSIONARIES HAVE THE SACRED POWER TO TEACH AND TO BAPTIZE!!! I am so thankful for this so I encourage each and everyone of you to be a missionary this week!! Look for the little moments I am sure they are there! You can do it!!

I am so excited for the work. Hermana Espinoza and I are going to work for Demi to get baptized in two weeks!! We are going to do it!! I know we can!! I am so excited for her, and I know that through her she will be able to help her dad and mom get married and her dad to reactivate and in time her mom to be baptized. Dalia too, she is progressing little by little. She is amazing. And I love her I think she may be my other mom from Colombia!! Ahaha! But yeah, she went to the ward activity that we had on Saturday and it went so well!! I am so excited for her. I have learned a lot of patience with my investigators because conversion like Elder Holland says is not a cheap experience and takes time sometimes, but I know that it can happen!

I love you all!

Hermana Dulce!! lol!

I HAVE SURVIVED!!

My beloved son, I write to you again so that you know that I am still alive... - Moroni 9:1 I know that it is not a joke earthquakes and everything, it was just funny the scripture...

Hey beloved family, I just want you all to know that I am okay. We have had an earthquake here in Chile last night, and my companion and I have lived through it.We are all okay and happy, maybe a little bit psyched and with adrenaline, but yeah we are okay. Don´t worry, any of you, we are okay here in Chile.

It was a little bit funny last night because when the earthquake happened we were a little bit excited and we were visiting one of our investigators and she was super scared. But Hermana Erthal and I were like on a roller coaster... ready for more. Then we decided that we should go home, Hermana Erthal says to me that we should go home, and when she said that I felt that we should too. So we went home. We didn´t really sleep last night, but we are okay. We have leaders for a reason, and so we will be okay.

We had a little miracle because when we were walking to our house the bishop called us to see if we were okay. And it is just nice to know that he was worried about us. He told us to go straight home and not talk to anyone, and not open the door to anyone. Then when we got into the house our zone leaders called us and told us to go home. It was really an impression of the Holy Spirit. We are listening to his directions, don´t worry Mom, don´t worry Dad. We will be okay. I love you all, and just want you to know that everything happens for a reason. So yeah! Until Tuesday!! Love you all a bunch with so much love that is indescribagle!!!!!

Hermana Dulce (according to Hermana Erthal)

I love being tired after a day of missionary work....

Family!!

First I think that I would choose to go to Harry Potter world in this moment if I was at home... and I think that I have been around dogs for too long that I would love a cat right now. ;) I think that the only person who understands this is my little sister Alex.

So!! The work goes on, and on and on. It will never ever stop going on because Heavenly Father loves His children and for some weird reason He trusts in me to help Him out, here in El Monte. But yeah, so this week has been a great week. We have been working so hard. I got sick again on Saturday with a really weird cold thing that has my neck hurting and my throat really tight and everything so when this happened we stayed in the pension and did not go to the ward meeting on Sunday before sacrament meeting and my compy says to me [Amo el verano!* and let me tell you here in Chile it is already super hot.... what are we going to do when it is the end of the year!! Then yesterday I still felt really bad so, I went back to sleep and did not study because my neck was killing me. It is that season folks where everyone gets sick. How great!!

But yeah, so this past week was a week full of miracles. It was an amazing week, and let me tell you that Heavenly Father loves me and his children here in El Monte because we found 20 new investigators this past week, usually it is like eight but we found 20. In these past three weeks we have found 54, I know numbers are not important, but I think that Heavenly Father is puting people in our way so that we can have miracle. Two of these news went to church this Sunday, Claudia and Francisco. We invited them to be baptized and they accepted!!! We will help the Lord and they will be baptized. Today I am feeling a lot better just so that you know. I am a lot more awake and excite, I just need to be more careful. The weather here in Chile is really extreme in the morning it is really cold in the afternoon really hot and in the evening cold again, so I just need to be more careful.

I am so excited for this week!!! I hope that you are too!!!!!

I Love you all!!!

La Hermana Durfee

You never ever know with President...

So family!

How is everyone doing? I am doing so great! I am excited and working hard, trying to be worthy of the miracles that God gives me every single day. I am really anxious because I am being transferred, but yet I don´t know. I am so happy to have had the blessing and priveledge to have trained my daughter of the mission, Hermana Hatch. She is absolutely amazing. She makes me happy, and is always looking for ways to serve me. This transfer has been a rollercoaster of emotions like every transfer. We have miracles every day every week, every minute and every second. God loves us and wants us to be able to return to Him. Something that has just occurred to me while typing this letter is that the mission is a mini version of what it is like with our Heavenly Father. We leave for a short time from His presence trying to do the best we can and we are always short but Christ makes up for it. We leave our families for a short time and have to use the atonement the same.

When we were waiting or transfers on Saturday we were just waiting and waiting. Then our liders de zona called us saying that we havent had transfers, like all of the mission has not had transfers. And my compy and I were like uhh what? And he kept on talking telling us that there had been changes in the mission, but the transfers had not occurred yet. So, now as a mission we plan every Monday for our week and Tuesday is our Pday. Then last night when we were finishing to plan Elder Balarezo calls us and in his english that he knows tells us tht i have tranfers. It was funny in his english, but sad, because I love my ward so much. I still have to ready my suitcases, but yeah it does not matter. If there is one thing about the mission is that you NEVER EVER know with Presidente. He is always just so willing to to the will of the Lord. The mission so sweet, but yet so bitter. I love you alll!! Hermana DUrfeee

¿Donde hallo el solaz?

Donde hallo el solaz, donde el alivio cuando mi llanto nadie puede calmar cuando muy triste estoy o enojado y me aparto a meditar. Cuando la pena estal que languidezco, cuando las causas busco de mi dolar, Donde hallo a un ser que me consuele? quien puede compreder? Nuestro Senor. El siempre cerca esta, me da su mano. En mi Getsamani, es mi Salvador. El sabe dar la paz que tanto quiero. Con gran bondad y amor me da valor. This is Where can I turn for peace? in Spanish and lately it has been my theme song. When we are tracting and walking to appointments I have just been thinking about my Savior and my Heavenly Father and how insignificant I am but then how significant I am. How it is for everyone of His children. He knows us inside and out, everyone of us our Father in Heaven and His son, our older Brother Jesus Christ. I have never felt like this before. At this point in my mission I am realizing more and more that it is such an amazing priveledge to be able to invite others to come to Christ by helping them have faith in Him, repent, be baptized by immersion with someone who holds the preisthood authority and recieving the gift of the Holy Ghost and enduring to the end. It is so amazing that Heavenly Father trusts in us so much to preach His gospel. But yet we are human, we make mistakes, we sin, we get mad, we get sad.... What amazing gift He gives us to preach the gospel. So, I have never felt like this before one week before transfers. I am actually really, really sad. Because my zone and I we are united. We are here in Penaflor doing are best to hasten the work and I love everyone of these elders and sisters that I have been with for now three months they are amazing. Elder Alcaraz and Elder Balarezo are my zone leaders and they are just amazing. Can I tell you how amazing they are?! They make me want to be a better person. My district leader too. He is going home this transfer and it is really sad because he is an amazing missionary. His name is Elder Peel from Utah, he told us yesterday that they, him and his comp are so thankful that we are here in the district. That made me and Hermana Hatch cry. WE love him very much. But yeah!! Remember to do everything in you power and pray for help. Heavenly Father is here to help and loves you!! I love you too!! Have an amazgin week! Hermana Durfee

Sound the bugle now....

Oh Family, Hey. This week has been amazing. Firstly, I am sorry that the week before my letter was terrible, the technology just was being dumb. But yeah, so I have had an experience that I will never ever forget. Firstly, on Wednesday I received my birthday package and speaking of birthday!! Happy Birthday DAD!! I am so sorry that I didnt telly ou last week. But yeah, so on Wednesday I recieved my birthday package and when I opened it I read the letters. Here is a little background. During these past couple of weeks I have been feeling that I should add more time to my mission. And so during these past couple of weeks I have been studying the scriptures, praying and fasting. And on Wednesday I opened my package and just had an afirmation that I need to extend. When I recieved this it was just so hard for me to except, but I just knew that I needed to do it. I just felt that Heavenly Father was saying that for something I need to extend. And so, yeah, it was an experience that I will never forget. I will admit that I was terribly sad, because I have had this mentality all this time that I will be home in January, but Heavenly Father has a different plan for me. Yesterday we taught Angelina and she is amazing. I am so excited to continue teaching her because she is so receptive. She just needs to come to church. Her siblings were watching a movie. And I heard the music and it was from Spirit. I recognized it right away because well I grew up with my big sister and cousin and I just rocking out to the music... lol. That is why my title is that... it is good song. I think that it is the theme of my mission. The words are ¨sound the bugle now, play it just for me... and then Im a soldier now fighting in a battle to be free once more yeah that's worth fighting for.¨ I truly feel that I am a spirtual warrior in this war against good and evil. What a priveledge. Thanks to my father in Heaven. I lvoe you all!! Hermana Durfee

¨Tock, Tock,¨ ¨Quien es?¨ ¨Hatch,¨ ¨Hatch quien?¨ knock knock jokes dont really work in Spanish...

Hey!!! So, today I am no longer a teenager... que triste. I am now twenty years old. I am so old.... Wow!! LOL. This week has been a good one!! I have been growing spiritually these past two months I have actually realized it. Lol. If you want to get to know the Savor more, and to become more like Him just go on a mission. It will do the job! Haha! I hope you all had a wonderful fourth of July. Here in Chile we had the Latina America Copa! Or Soccer. We won of course! :D I didn't watch the game, but we were cleaning the house because Presidente wanted us to be in the house at five on Saturday for our safety and so we cleaned and our neighbors were all cheering and we could here when we made goals, because they would yell GOAL!!!!!!! and yeah that was that. Also, Chile has been in need of much rain lately and so this fast Sunday as a country we fasted for rain I also wanted rain for my birthday. And something that happended that was super cool was after lunch on Sunday after the fast it began to rain really hard. And so here we are, my companion and I after lunch tromping in the rain thinking that we shoud take advantage of the time we have to proselyte because at four thirty we had a capacitacion (I forgot this word in English... sorry) with Presidente, and so we tracted in the rain and then went to the stake center and we were wet to the bone. But, something really funny was that we sang the song The wise man built his house upon the rock, the wise man built his house upon the rock. Ahajajaja!! It was really fun actually. So, with my title you all are probably wondering what I am talking about. Well, yesterday we went to visit Manuel after the capacitacion and he is so funny sometimes. We were talking and then he says to my companion ( her name is Hermana Hatch, this is information necesary), Say your name. She says hatch. and then he is like Salud, or bless you! Oh it was hilarious because he was so serious, he reminds me of you, Jeffrey. And then afterwards Hermana Hatch tries to do a knock knock joke in Spanish and well, I am sorry it just does not work!! Lol!! The joke in english is knock knock! Whos there? Hatch. Hatch who? Bless you. Try doing it in Spànish no sirve, it doesn't work.... LOL!! We have been working with Ignacia. She is a young teen of fourteen years. She is amazing really her experiences remind me of Joseph Smith because when we first began teaching her she didn't really know what church and who and if there was a God... and so she began looking and searching and the moment was perfect because we knew that we had what she needed. :) She now has a baptism date for the 18 of July. She and all of her family will be members. I KNOW IT!! God is amazing. I remember my mom asking me what I wanted for my birthday a couple of weeks ago and I think that everything that I asked for will come or has come to pass. I read an amazing talk that has helped me have comfort for those of my loved ones who need my prayers and are lost. God loves me. He knows that I am trying everyday. He knows my heart aches and that sometimes I feel alone without anyone, and that is when I kneel down and just yell and tell Him how I feel. God loves me. He knows that I don't mean to make mistakes, and that sometimes I am human and get grouchy or am mean. But He accepts who I am, was, and will be. That is the amazing thing about the atonement. I am so thankful the church is true. I am so thankful for Presidente and Hermana Barrieros. They are amazing and help me seguir adelante. I love my companion and my district and zone. They have all made this day amazing. I love my ward and my area. I hope that you have a great week!! I love you!!! Hna Durfee

Chile is called chile because when it is winter it is really cold!! Ahaha! I crack myself up!

Hey!!!!!!!! What is up there up there in Missouri, in Utah? What is going awwnn? Yeah yo soy gangster now! and also a missionary! You guys will not believe what happened to us this past week! My companion is cleaning the bathroom and it is just like anyother p day we getting ready to leave to go and eat lunch and by groceries. She is cleaning and I am down stairs eating a hard boiled egg and I hear ^HERMANA DURFEE!!!!`And I am like what has happened! So I runn up the stairs and there she is with water that is coming out of the bathroom pipe, and to make matters worse the water was hot. So yeah. I began laughing and she was like the water is hot! So I ran outside to turn off the water heater. And went back up stairs to take pictures.... Fortunately she figured out how to turn off the water, but now our bathrooms are falling a part. And today we talked to Elder Moore and he is like yeah I will call a maestro to fix your bathroom today! He was guilty! LOL. Aaahhh gee whiz you are never bored in the mission.

The other day we were walking and a this kid that likes weed, was like Hermanas! Hermanas! And we were like what!? He is like do you guys like the weed of chile? And I was like uhhh no. And then we invited him to the concert that we had yesterday! So, Sharlee, I am really trying not to do drugs! ;) LOL!!

I love you all So much!! Have faith in your trials!! Be of Good cheer the Savior has gone through it before us so we know that we can! Lucas 22:39-44. Manuel is doing better! Thank you to all who gave me a little advisce! I love you all1!

Hermana Durfee

There is a lake in our room...

So, this week has been a good one let me tell you!! Ahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!! Lalalalalalalalalalalalalalala! Gracias for the emails! I really appreciate it and all the prayers by the way. There is a kid here in Chile that really appreciates all that you guys do there in the States really, there is. But yeah. so today we were cleaning and the pipe in my companion's bathroom broke and so now we have a lake in our room. Don't worry we called the assistants but they didn't answer, but it will be okay. :D Haha!

Today has been a good day! Yesterday was amazing we had a great lesson with one of our investigators and let me tell you that my goodness miracles do happen every once in a while. And I am so thankful for this area that I am serving in for Obispo Faundes for Hermano Berrios. For everything here. I am just lleno con gratitud, say that in a country accent, it is funny. Ahah! But yeah! I am sorry this letter is bit short today. But yesterday we had a miracle and her name is Rebeca, she is amazing and I love her like I love my family. She is an eternigator, but pronto she will be member!! Aha! I gotta go! Have a great week! Alma 17;2-3

Have a wonderful DAY!!

Love you all with all of my heart might mind and soul!

Hermana Durfee

For the Family is of GOD!! La Familia es de Dios!!

The is a great need to rally the women of the church tgo stand with and for the brethren in stemming the time of evil that surrounds us and in moving forward the work of our Savior... So we entreat you to minister with your powerful influence for good in strengthening our families of our church and our communities.

This was from one sister in the conference for women. Sister Stephens, I think... :) I am in a good mood today. We have been seeing so many miracles here in Villa La Foresta. We have so many people who have gone to church the past two Sundays and I am like WHAT!? Oh yeah. That is what I am talking about!! We just need to invite them to be baptized and yeah! :D But, I will tell you one thing that I have learned. Having a convert too, is a lot of responsibility. This means that Heavenly Father is trusting in me to take care of His child. This means that I need to do all that I can for this man, Manuel Shuger, as a missionary. I am a little taken aback sometimes with the trust that Heavenly Father has given me. I mean He knows that I sin, He knows that sometimes my patience with people is very thin, He knows that sometimes I am prideful, but yet here He is giving me one of His children to care for and to help. It is an amazing responsibility but also a big one.

Something that I have learned throughout the mission is that the family is the center part of the gospel. I mean look we have a Father in Heaven who just wants us to return into his presence and so He gives us so many trials and things that we pass through everyday because he loves us. I hope that I will be able to pass the tests that Heavenly Father has in store for me here on Earth and I will be able to return into His presence safely with my family and all of my loved ones. Satan is attacking families like no other these days and it is just sad what passes in the family. But, let me tell you I have such a stronger and more abiding testimony in the family every single day because well let me tell you an experience, there is an inactive in my ward and the first time I met her I just felt like I knew her from something more. I just felt like we were connected. And then she is now receiving us with her boyfriend in her house and they went to church yesterday, and so I just know that through Christ EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE!!

I LOVE YOU!! HAPPY FATHERS DAY, DAD!

Hermana Durfee

La Expiacion es real. Don't worry it is not in Spanish... jaja! ;)

Hello my dearest family,

This week has been a little rough for me. I don't really know why. Like usually when I wake up in the morning I feel great and am ready to work and do the Lord's will, but for some reason this week I have had this weird feeling in my chest. So, I just went forward at the beginning of the week just siguiendo adelante. Or moving forward. We were working really hard and finding so many people and teaching lessons and yeah it was just great. But the feeling in my chest had been there all week. And so on Thursday we had splits. My sweet compy stayed in our sector and I went to our leaders sector. And let me tell you I just told my leader everything that was on my mind and I felt better. Lilke, okay lately I just have felt calloused. I mean like I am not going to lie the mission is hard sometimes. So, I told my leader that I felt that my heart had just been developing a callous for some time because of the things that I have experienced in the mission, so she told me she felt the same way too sometimes and counciled me to pray to have more faith. So now I am supplicating with all my might to have more faith in my prayers.

But, then on Sunday yesterday I just felt really bad. The week had many things happen and Sunday I just didn't feel up to my potential. So, I told my companion what was on my mind and it helped a little. But after we went to Hermana Rebeca's house, she is an eternal investigator, well not really she is just waiting to get married we went to her house and I just broke down sobbing and she gave me a hug and told me that I should not fall, that Christ fell, and that was for us because we should not have to fall. I am okay now. Don't worry, I am happy because I had good studies this morning I read in Alma 19:8-10 about faith and felt so much better. I love you all! I know God lives and His son lives. The atonement is for every one of us.

I love you all!

Hermana Durfee

Heyyy!!!! What´s up Sister?!

Hey!! There is a girl here in Chile who is super happy!!

Hey guys! So, you guys have all been anxiously waiting for a week to know who I am training.... drum roll please! Hermana Hatch!!!!! Wooooo! She is from Idaho and speaks really well the spanish language! It is so awesome! And let me tell you something I won't write anymore in spanish... Well I will try not to. I understand that I am weird and need to speak english because I am forgetting... haha! I am very funny. But yeah so this email  is a little short but I just want to share my testimony with you all.

I know that my Heavenly Father loves me and that for some reason he is trusting me with his daughter Hermana Hatch. For some reason he has decided that it is my time to train. I feel I have a big responsibility, but i know that with the help of the Lord I am able to do anything. I know that my Savior lives and loves me. I know that I am a daughter of God. I know with all my heart that I am here in Chile for a reason. I know that the book of mormon is the key to our religion and we need it. We NEED to read it, and study and ponder the words and stories. I say this in the name of Jesus Christ amen.

I love you!!! Have a fantastic, but really a FANTASTIC week!

Hermana Durfee

What!!??? Training! You gotta be kidding! No, jk, I'll go where you want me to go! As the song says...

So everyone!! Listen to me!! Listen to what has happened here in good 'ol Chile! Dududududuuuu!!! Is everyone listening? Everyone?

Today we had cambios! And you know what that means there are cambios in the mission! Ahaha! I make myself laugh, I am so funny! If you don't know what cambios means go look on google translate, no, just kidding I will tell you it means changes. But yeah, so my beloved compy had changes and so she is now on the beach and I am like what!? How cool is that?!! LOL!! But, yeah! And now you must all know what has happened to me! I have been called to train. I know right?! (Said in valley girl accent). But yeah, the direction that Presidente recieves I just go with it, y'know? Y'know what I mean, Vern? (Dad, ;)) But yah, so that happened.

But yeah so let me tell you, (yeah Jeff I know, let me tell you) this past week has been a little crazy. Would you all like to know why? Well, I am not gonna tell you (said sassily) no just kidding, I will tell you, on Thursday we had an appointment with Manuel and we didn't go because tambien nuestro lider misional querría todos de nosotros a ir a la correlacion temprano, para que pudo despedirnos, (como mi companera, porque sabiamos, advinamos que ella se iba) so we didn't pass by and the second day we went at six, which was Friday and he was not there, and his mom was like super, I mean super mal. She was bawling and had been bawling all night because he just like left and didn't tell her anything and tampoco tenia un cellular...... and so yeah we went into the house to comfort her but we began to cry as well because we didn't know where he flipping was. For all we knew he could be dead. I said a prayer that day with my comp and his mom, Monica. I gave the prayer and I am never going to forget how I prayed that day supplicating with all my might asking the Father, our Father if He would protect Manuel. So, yeah we shared some scriptures with her about hope and faith to help comfort her and as well us because we were upset as well. So, then we left and it was so hard to work because we could not stop thinking about Manuel. Imagine this okay, put yourself in my shoes. We have this responsibility that God has given us, this young Son of God! And he was lost for two days! But he returned late Saturday night and we visited him yesterday. I am so thankful that he is okay! Oh Heavenly Father answers prayers!! God exists!! I am so thankful for prayer!!

This happened in my week!! I hope you all have a fantastic week!!
I LOVE YOOOOOOUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]]oooooooooooooooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hermana Durfee!!! Dyc 11:11-12

Wat's up yall?

Hey yall!!

So, this week has been a good one! One thing for certain is that every day is like a flipping dream. I mean I can't believe that another day has gone by, another week! In the scriptures Jacob is talking and saying that our life is like a dream! And let me tell you I feel like I am living in evidence of this every single day! I am so happy! Presidente said to me when we had interviews a couple weeks ago that I am always happy! And I am so proud that my happiness is able to be seen when people are far away because well yah! If he notices then I am sure that everyone else does too!!

So, let me tell you what I have been up to this week, well, on Monday I sent some letters home! And this is like the first time that I have done this well maybe the second if the pictures count but I am so excited for my family to find them in the mailbox!! It is so fun sometimes being here in a different country and having pen pals that write me every week! This one is for you, Mom!! :) LOL!!! But yeah!! That was fun!

And on Saturday we had an amazing miracle with my dear friend, and brother Manuel, our golden investigator!! We talked about not procrastinating the sacred ordinance of baptism and wanted to change his date to yesterday, but he is super firm in this coming weekend!! And AND!! He is talking to his mom about us and about the church we are going to have her be a new soon!!! I am so excited!!! So excited!! Hey did you know I am EXCITED!!!? But yeah, and yesterday he went to church again!!! AGAAIIINNN!! Woo hoo! and let me tell you it was super great because it was fast and testimony meeting! He got to hear a lot of testimonies!! Oh how coool! But yeah! I feel like my letters are shorter and shorter. Oh well... lol

I love yall a bunch!

Hermana Durfee

Time flies when you are having fun...

So, what has happened this week?! Hmmmmmmmm..... Well, one thing that has happened this week is that my compy has been sick with a cold. She had really bad headaches in the morning and so we stayed in the house a couple of days. And those who have served missions will understand that being in the house is the worst place in the whole world for a missionary... I mean sorry Mom, for my language, but it sucks! It is the pits to be in the house when you know that there is no one that is caring and saving your area because your in the house... But yeah, she is better now. She had a blessing on Wednesday when we were in our district meeting, and then Hermana McCain gave us a call, she is the mission nurse, to help us out with somethings. But, yeah so the is one of the things that happened.

Another thing that has happened this week is we had interveiws with Presidente!!! Oh, can I just tell you that there are two men in the world that I love with all my heart and they are my Dad, and my mission president. Presidente is amazing. And I learned that he loves peanut butter and jelly sandwiches!! I love peanut butter and jelly sandwiches too!! OH MY GOSH! We are like in sync or something! But yeah my interveiw went super great! And can I just tell you that he also receives revelation! He is called of God. He shared a scripture with all the missionaries, but it was like for me personally. It is Doctrine y Convenios 103, versiculo 36. And can i just tell you that the night before I was like kind of discouraged and grouchy and was not really nice to my compy, but when I had the interveiw I felt super better! He is truly called of God! I love my dear mission President, President Barrieros!

But yeah! I am sorry this is short! Manuel is progressing! We are truly seeing so many miracles with him!!

I love you all!!

Les amo!!

Hermana Durfee

I am not a perfect missionary...

Sooo, I just wanted to give a shout out to my awesome brother in the whole wide world, Jeffrey!! Happy Birthday, Jeff!!! I hope that you will have an amazing birthday and that you still feel young! Lol!! You are not old... or maybe you are... ;) Ahaha!! But yeah! Happy Birthday!

So, this week has been super great! We have been working hard! My compy is pretty amazing. I am so thankful to her and the knowledge that she has in the gospel! We have had pretty awesome success in teaching Manuel! He is so cool. Yesterday he went to church! I told yall that he would go! :) I am soo flipin happy that he went! It was funny because I was up in the stand playing the piano for the hymns during sacrament meeting. And he came in and sat by our ward mission leader and saw me and smiled. Then when we went to visit him. He asked me what I was doing up there was I like controlling the music with a computer or something. It was super funny. And then we began explaining the hymn book again. Like a review with him and he was so funny. He says to us, the letters are so small and then made a face and a noise it was so funny. I wish you guys could have been there!

But yeah! I have been realizing that sometime life is hard. The mission is so rosey compared to the real world... But that is okay. I am here to learn and to help bring people to Christ. I love the gospel. Yesterday we watched a video with one of our members in the world about the sacrament. and can I just say that I am so thankful for the sacrament. I am so thankful. I make mistakes every flipping day and gracias a la santa cena yo puedo arrepentirme.

I love you all so flipping much!! And can I just say that I am proud to be an American!!

I love you!

Hermana Durfee

What does the fox say?!!! Wowowowowowowowowo

Hola everyone!!! My name is Hermana Durfee and I am from good ol Hamilton Missouri in the United States! I am serving in Chile Santiago Oeste! The mission of the flipping best! YAH! DEAL WITH IT!  No just kidding!

I am so like jumping out of my skin right now. I don't really know why? I think I may have psychological issues... :P No, I am totally fine! I am just happy. Because I am happy! La lala! like Despicable me right? But yeah!

So, I just have had an amazing week that's all... if you all really wanted to know. Lol. We have an amazing investigator, I told yall about him last week, but his name is Manuel if you forgot. He is flipin, oh my goodness, Uhhmayzing! He is totally interested in changing his life and totally reading and praying the only thing that he needs to do is go to church. He went to conference, but yesterday didn't go to church! I mean cmon! Cmon! But, yeah he has plans to go next Sunday and I know that he is going to go!! He is going! :)

But yeah, so I have some news right now and it is a little funny. This past week we have been showering with cold water because the water heater broke and so we have to shower so the water is flipping cold. I mean cold Man! And everytime I get into the shower I feel like I am on a rollercaoster. Like talking myself into just getting it overwith and the results afterward is that I am clean! But yeah so this weekend the guy that has been fixing our water heater asked me if my bishop writes me every week. And he said that every bishop should right there missionaries that are serving every single week. And I said well as of right now yeah my bishop has been writing me every week because my bishop is my dad. and that made him laugh! Ahaha! He then asked me when did your dad become bishop and I was like well like for two weeks now... Ahaha. It was a little funny if I do say so myself. (In British accent, if I do say so myself).

I don't know what I have but I feel really goofy right now. Ohh speaking of which guess this song! Nobody else but you, lalala something something! Nobody else but you! And then Goofy kisses Max on the head and Max is like Aaah Dad! all embarrassed and everything! Lol. I may have given it away, but there is still room to guess so do it! Just do it, right now. But Yeaha!!! We are going to rescue these people here in Chile!! Yeahahahaha!!!

Have an amazing week yall!

Con todo de mi amor,

Hermana Durfee

I'm so excited!!!!!!!!!

I am so amazed that I can have this kind of energy when I am walking all day and I only sleep for eight hours or less everyday. I just am jumping literally jumping out of my skin. Today is P day. We had an activity this morning como zona and we played soccer and I just loved it soooooooo much. I really like being athletic because my heart gets pumping and I sweat. Call me gross but I like it when I sweat because I know that I am working hard. Ahaha!

Sooo, this week has been a crazy week! My companion and I are finally getting a rythym and I finally feel that we are in harmony with one another. She is the best. I love her very much and she has been teaching me everyday. So, Thursday we were doing proselytismo and there was this dog and he was like staring me down, and approaching me very hostiley. And I was choked up with nerves and temor and all of a sudden he is like running at my leg and tried to bite me. But have no fear Mom, he didnt even leave a mark on my leg. I ran away when he ran away and then after my compy was just laughing so hard, and I will admit it was so funny because.. well lo siento you had to be there...

And so yeah on Saturday we went to the temple!!!!! We went to the temple with maria jose and her family. She is a conversa reciente and is amazing! She is so pure and I just love her. She is not my convert, but she is as good as. It was such a spiritual experience. I am so thankful for the temple and the spiritual strength that I was able to receive.

The last thing that has happened this week was Manuel!!! We have a baptismal date with him and i know that he is going to be a fantastic member!!! I am sooooo full of energy and excitement! Look for the new video graciasaquelvive and the missionary work and the atonement there are two videos!

Have a great week! I love you all!

Hermana durfee

Hola my wonderful family

Hey!

So, this week has been a bit more interesting. First things first yesterday we had the opportunity to have two of the seventy speak to us in una reunion de estaca. I am sorry I am truly forgetting english. It was super cool because I was trying to entertain to of the daughters of one of our menos activas and so I was not putting much of my attention in the meeting, but something happened that is undescribable. I randomly felt little bursts of warmth like I was being hugged by someone and I am able to testify that it was the Holy Ghost just giving me strength for the week to keep on pushing forward. It was so cool. I am so thankful for that experience that I had yesterday. And another thing is that my mission president is truly called of God. He bore his testimony during the meeting and I just know that he is my leader, he is my mission dad for lack of a better term. He and Hermana Barreiros are my parents here in the mission and I am so thankful to them. I am so happy to be able to say that they are my leaders. :)

Another thing happened yesterday that was really weird, so my companion needed a bathroom and here in Chile there are no such things as free bathrooms and so we went to a members home. Her name is Hermana Luz and she is always willing to let us use her bathroom, but her husband is a little creepy sometimes. And so my companion went to the bathroom and I was left outside and Hermana Luz went to another room and I was just sitting there waiting and when I shook his hand he was like don't look at me with those eyes, I can't take you seriously with those eyes of yours. And I didn't know what to say and I was trying to release my hand from his grip but he would not let me go. But finally he let me go... and I couldn't look at him after. It was so weird, afterwards we noticed that he was drinking, and so this is why... but have no fear he is this small little man named Oscar... Haha.

This past week we had a mini cosechon! I don't know what it is called in english but it was super great! We went to the area of the Elders in our district and we worked like there was no tomorrow. I loved it. And the elders in our district helped us find new investigators as well! When we did it the first time they were in our sector and they put a date with an old lady. And we found out that she really doesn't understand. It was really funny, because we have this picture of Christ being baptized and every time she saw it, she was like oh how beautiful.

When the elders put the baptism date on, they showed this picture and she was like oh how linda, or how pretty. And Elder Chavez, my zone leader was like oh thank you pretending that she was referring to him. And she was like no the photo. Ahaha! It was really funny. But yeah! This is some of the things that happened this week! I hope that you all have an amazing week! LIke my dad says Work hard!

Love,

Hermana Durfee

Villa La Foresta

13. He aqui, soy discipulo de Jesucristo, el Hijo de Dios. He sido llamado por el para declarar su palabra entre los de su pueblo, a fin de que alcancen la vida eterna.

20. Por tanto, debeis seguir adelante con firmeza en Cristo, teniendo un fulgor perfecto de esperanza y amor por Dios y por todos los hombre. Por tanto, si marchais adelante, deleitandoos en la palabra de Cristo, y perseverais hasta el fin, he aqui, asi dice el Padre: Tendreis la vida eterna.

There is my spiritual scriptures for the week! They are in Spanish because well I have a Spanish Book of Mormon and so I might as well use it! :) I am doing so great! I am working hard and hardly working as my dad says. Haha! I am learning so much and progressing I can feel in myself that I am growing up as a person and growing spiritually. The church is true!

We had transfers this weekend and let me tell you I have had transfers. I am now in Villa de las Forestas. With my new companion, her name is Hermana Martinez and is of Colombia. I hope that we are going to be a great companionship and that we will learn lots from eachother. My mom of the mission has gone home to Honduras. She has completed her mission. She is such a great example to me. Hermana Flores will forever be my trainer. I will always remember my first three months in the mission with her! :) Hermana Buiza too is going home to her country, to Peru. She was such a great example to me as well! I learned so much with her too! :) Something that I learned with my first two companions is that all good things have to come to an end. It is really sad but really happy at the same time.

Nataly was progressing so much and she is going to be baptized during this transfer. She wasn't baptized when I was in Los Heroes, but she is so close. Soooo close! We just need to exercise more faith as a mission!

Presidente has said that we can do anything we put our minds to if we have the faith of Ammon, of Alma, of Amulek. Which brings me to something that I would like to share. Yesterday when Presidente and Hermana Barrieros were leaving the chapel after the go-homers were done saying goodbye a little boy came up to Presidente and asked him, You are the President of the missinaries? And Presidente responded, Yes, I am. And the boy asked how can I become like you? And Presidente responded go to primary, be obedient to your parents. And so I would just like to say keep praying, reading the scriptures and going to church, and being obedient we can do anything with the Lord!

I love you all,

Hermana Durfee

3 Nefi 5:13 2 Nefi 31:20

13. He aqui, soy discipulo de Jesucristo, el Hijo de Dios. He sido llamado por el para declarar su palabra entre los de su pueblo, a fin de que alcancen la vida eterna.

20. Por tanto, debeis seguir adelante con firmeza en Cristo, teniendo un fulgor perfecto de esperanza y amor por Dios y por todos los hombre. Por tanto, si marchais adelante, deleitandoos en la palabra de Cristo, y perseverais hasta el fin, he aqui, asi dice el Padre: Tendreis la vida eterna.

There is my spiritual scriptures for the week! They are in Spanish because well I have a Spanish Book of Mormon and so I might as well use it! :) I am doing so great! I am working hard and hardly working as my dad says. Haha! I am learning so much and progressing I can feel in myself that I am growing up as a person and growing spiritually. The church is true!

We had transfers this weekend and let me tell you I have had transfers. I am now in Villa de las Forestas. With my new companion, her name is Hermana Martinez and is of Colombia. I hope that we are going to be a great companionship and that we will learn lots from eachother. My mom of the mission has gone home to Honduras. She has completed her mission. She is such a great example to me. Hermana Flores will forever be my trainer. I will always remember my first three months in the mission with her! :) Hermana Buiza too is going home to her country, to Peru. She was such a great example to me as well! I learned so much with her too! :) Something that I learned with my first two companions is that all good things have to come to an end. It is really sad but really happy at the same time.

Nataly was progressing so much and she is going to be baptized during this transfer. She wasn't baptized when I was in Los Heroes, but she is so close. Soooo close! We just need to exercise more faith as a mission!

Presidente has said that we can do anything we put our minds to if we have the faith of Ammon, of Alma, of Amulek. Which brings me to something that I would like to share. Yesterday when Presidente and Hermana Barrieros were leaving the chapel after the go-homers were done saying goodbye a little boy came up to Presidente and asked him, You are the President of the missinaries? And Presidente responded, Yes, I am. And the boy asked how can I become like you? And Presidente responded go to primary, be obedient to your parents. And so I would just like to say keep praying, reading the scriptures and going to church, and being obedient we can do anything with the Lord!

I love you all,

Hermana Durfee

Comida, Comida, y Mas Comida

Hey everyone!

It is always such a race with the time that I have to email, but it is all good. When I opened up my inbox it was super lleno de cartas. Super full of letters. It was a wonderful surprise. :) Especially to hear from people that I have not heard from in a while and to hear from my mom and dad! I was going to send some pictures, but something happened with this silly machine. Sometimes technology and I don't get a long... But hey beggers can't be choosers.

That's enough about the computer. Let me tell you about a miracle! Yesterday, Hermana Buiza and I had an amazing thing happen in our ward! The asistencia was 102!! Usually in our ward the asistence is like 50 people. But yeah yesterday was a great day! And Nataly came to church with her dad and brother! It was so cool to have an experience like this! I just so full of gratitude right now. With the miracles that are occuring here in Los Heroes and with all the letters that I received. I just feel loved. Haha!! :)

I feel cheesey because sometimes when I am at the computer emailing yall I have tears running down my cheeks because I feel your support and desire for this amazing work we call missionary work.

My companion is pretty amazing if I do say so myself. I am learning so much from her. And she has so many great ideas that I know I will apply during the rest of my mission.

Something that I have noticed though is that the time just goes. It doesn't stop. This is why it is important to be wise with it. I have to go!

Con mucho amor,

Hermana Durfee. :)))

Hello!!!

Hey everyone!

It is always such a race with the time that I have to email, but it is all good. When I opened up my inbox it was super lleno de cartas. Super full of letters. It was a wonderful surprise. :) Especially to hear from people that I have not heard from in a while and to hear from my mom and dad! I was going to send some pictures, but something happened with this silly machine. Sometimes technology and I don't get a long... But hey beggers can't be choosers.

That's enough about the computer. Let me tell you about a miracle! Yesterday, Hermana Buiza and I had an amazing thing happen in our ward! The asistencia was 102!! Usually in our ward the asistence is like 50 people. But yeah yesterday was a great day! And Nataly came to church with her dad and brother! It was so cool to have an experience like this! I just so full of gratitude right now. With the miracles that are occuring here in Los Heroes and with all the letters that I received. I just feel loved. Haha!! :)

I feel cheesey because sometimes when I am at the computer emailing yall I have tears running down my cheeks because I feel your support and desire for this amazing work we call missionary work.

My companion is pretty amazing if I do say so myself. I am learning so much from her. And she has so many great ideas that I know I will apply during the rest of my mission.

Something that I have noticed though is that the time just goes. It doesn't stop. This is why it is important to be wise with it. I have to go!

Con mucho amor,

Hermana Durfee. :)))

Consagracion

Hey everyone!

It is always such a race with the time that I have to email, but it is all good. When I opened up my inbox it was super lleno de cartas. Super full of letters. It was a wonderful surprise. :) Especially to hear from people that I have not heard from in a while and to hear from my mom and dad! I was going to send some pictures, but something happened with this silly machine. Sometimes technology and I don't get a long... But hey beggers can't be choosers.

That's enough about the computer. Let me tell you about a miracle! Yesterday, Hermana Buiza and I had an amazing thing happen in our ward! The asistencia was 102!! Usually in our ward the asistence is like 50 people. But yeah yesterday was a great day! And Nataly came to church with her dad and brother! It was so cool to have an experience like this! I just so full of gratitude right now. With the miracles that are occuring here in Los Heroes and with all the letters that I received. I just feel loved. Haha!! :)

I feel cheesey because sometimes when I am at the computer emailing yall I have tears running down my cheeks because I feel your support and desire for this amazing work we call missionary work.

My companion is pretty amazing if I do say so myself. I am learning so much from her. And she has so many great ideas that I know I will apply during the rest of my mission.

Something that I have noticed though is that the time just goes. It doesn't stop. This is why it is important to be wise with it. I have to go!

Con mucho amor,

Hermana Durfee. :)))

As a do And Toilet Paper Dodgeball

Hey everyone!

It is always such a race with the time that I have to email, but it is all good. When I opened up my inbox it was super lleno de cartas. Super full of letters. It was a wonderful surprise. :) Especially to hear from people that I have not heard from in a while and to hear from my mom and dad! I was going to send some pictures, but something happened with this silly machine. Sometimes technology and I don't get a long... But hey beggers can't be choosers.

That's enough about the computer. Let me tell you about a miracle! Yesterday, Hermana Buiza and I had an amazing thing happen in our ward! The asistencia was 102!! Usually in our ward the asistence is like 50 people. But yeah yesterday was a great day! And Nataly came to church with her dad and brother! It was so cool to have an experience like this! I just so full of gratitude right now. With the miracles that are occuring here in Los Heroes and with all the letters that I received. I just feel loved. Haha!! :)

I feel cheesey because sometimes when I am at the computer emailing yall I have tears running down my cheeks because I feel your support and desire for this amazing work we call missionary work.

My companion is pretty amazing if I do say so myself. I am learning so much from her. And she has so many great ideas that I know I will apply during the rest of my mission.

Something that I have noticed though is that the time just goes. It doesn't stop. This is why it is important to be wise with it. I have to go!

Con mucho amor,

Hermana Durfee. :)))

It's Always Such A Race

Hey everyone!

It is always such a race with the time that I have to email, but it is all good. When I opened up my inbox it was super lleno de cartas. Super full of letters. It was a wonderful surprise. :) Especially to hear from people that I have not heard from in a while and to hear from my mom and dad! I was going to send some pictures, but something happened with this silly machine. Sometimes technology and I don't get a long... But hey beggers can't be choosers.

That's enough about the computer. Let me tell you about a miracle! Yesterday, Hermana Buiza and I had an amazing thing happen in our ward! The asistencia was 102!! Usually in our ward the asistence is like 50 people. But yeah yesterday was a great day! And Nataly came to church with her dad and brother! It was so cool to have an experience like this! I just so full of gratitude right now. With the miracles that are occuring here in Los Heroes and with all the letters that I received. I just feel loved. Haha!! :)

I feel cheesey because sometimes when I am at the computer emailing yall I have tears running down my cheeks because I feel your support and desire for this amazing work we call missionary work.

My companion is pretty amazing if I do say so myself. I am learning so much from her. And she has so many great ideas that I know I will apply during the rest of my mission.

Something that I have noticed though is that the time just goes. It doesn't stop. This is why it is important to be wise with it. I have to go!

Con mucho amor,

Hermana Durfee. :)))

Liberty Missouri

Queridos hermanos y hermanas,

Right now I am just full of love and gratitude for my Father in Heaven. On Saturday we had transfers and I was scared that I would be going. But thankfully I am not quite yet. I do not want to go just yet because we are seeing so many miracles here in Los Heroes. When I was with my mom of the mission, Hermana Flores we found this family and we started teaching the daughter. Her name is Ricy Nataly. And she is super, super great. I think I might have already mentioned this to yall before, but yeah. She is super amazing! And we almost had her get dunked, but she ran into some challlenges with her self and her family. So we just gave her some space last week and we were praying super hard for her. We then called her on Saturday and she said that we could come and visit her and her family. So, we went to her house and talked to to her mom and dad. And taught The Restoration to her family. And her dad said that if we ask him to go to church this coming Sunday he will, he wasn´t able to go yesterday because of work but this coming Sunday SIII!! It was super, super cool!!

Hoy tuvimos cambios. Todavia me quede en Los Heroes, but that is just fine with me. With Nataly so close and with my companion I am learning so much right now! It is super great! I can't really beleive how fast the time has gone. It is already January. I have been in the mission for seis meses. Wow! The promise of Gordon B. Hinckley of forgetting yourself is so true. I was telling my family about this in Skype how when I forget about myself that the time just flies by. We have studies we proselite and we are already returing to the house.

I just would like to bear testimony that I know the church is true. I know htat the Book of Mormon is true and the voice of our Heavenly Father. I know that the Gift of tongues and interpretation of tongues are true gifts. I am experiencing this in my life right now.

I would like to share a story that I received from the Stake presidencey, or at least a part of it: It is a part of He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver story.

...Oh yes, madam, replied the silversmith, I must sit with eye steadily fivxed on the furnace, for is the time necessary for refining be exceeded in the slightes degree, the silver will be injured. aply this to yourself and jesus

con amor
Hermana Durfee

Accepting the Will Of The Father... and Feliz Ano

Hola quirida familia,

This week was a trying week. I am not going to lie. It was a really great week too, but there was a lot of trials of my faith. The other day I was studying and I just read a lot of scriptures about accepting the will of the Father and that with that He will be able to work miracles. It was a big eye opener. :)

This week was super fast as well. On Monday we had trouble with our money funds and so we didn`t buy anything at Lider. Oh fyi, Lider here is Walmart in the states. We just wrote President and our families and then went home. We then did proselyting and one of the families in the ward knew that we didn`t have much money and so they did an amazing thing for us. They took us home and we didn't have any idea what they were going to do next. They went to the super market and bought us groceries. It was amazing. Heavenly Father was and is always looking out for us. I thought a lot about my Mom in this moment and how she would do the same for the missionaries. I remember one thing she told me kind of like this, I don't remember word for word. But she is willing to love the missionaries and help the missionaries not only because she wants to, but because too she worries about her children when they are on their missions and the people in the ward feeding us, and helping and caring for us. Mom, you are awesome and are always in my thoughts.

Our año nuevo was fantasticly fun missionary style. We had a rule that we needed to return to the house by 8 and so we did that, and planned and did the usual, but then after we danced. Hermana Buiza and I, and the other hermanas in the pension, hermana Martinez and Hermana Mittlesteadt. Hermana Mittlesteadt is of Idaho and so she, and I showed the others a country dance, the cotton eyed joe line dance. It was super fun. Then Hermana Buiza and Martinez showed some latina dances. We then ate icecream and cheesecake. It was fun! I have two minutes now! :(

But the thing is this:

Having an ability serves as nothing if the missionary does not use it. The great men have only readched the summeit by the strength that come from facing adversity!

I love you,

HErmana Durfee