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