Don't you worry, don't you worry child! See heaven's got a plan for you!

Y ahora bien, he aquí, te digo que lo que será de mayor valor para ti será declarar el arrepentimiento a este pueblo, a fin de que traigas almas a mí, para que con ellas reposes en el reino de mi Padre.” DyC 15:6

Soooooo, this week was just a week of trial. I am with good cheer today, don't worry, but it was like Satan was like working double time with Hermana Durfee last week. But heay! that is okay, if that is what he is going to do, well he can bring it on, I have a body and so I can fight back a lot harder than he can, and with the Savior I can do anything.

But yeah, it was a week of a lot of traveling from the North of Chile to our mission and back. We had to help an Hermana go home and so like we just traveled in all parts of Santiago, and it was really tiring. And then we also had to go to the durmatologist for my companion, and I did not sleep for two nights in a row until like two in the morning. Then on Thursday we were exercising and I kinked my neck like really bad, so bad that I had to go to the Mtc in the East mission to get it looked at and so we traveled out of our area again... wuhr. And then let me tell you ( yeah Jeff) we had a training session so we were not working that much on Friday either, and on Thursday we had to wait with Hermana Espinoza so that she could go home. and then on Friday we had the training session like I said earlier, and then we did splits because one of our sisters that is our group hurt her foot so I was with her in the pension and Hermana Harden and Villanueva were working while we were resting... ( don't get me wrong, but it really is the pits to be in the house when you are in the mission) I actually really hate it. And then we had to plan on Saturday and then a meeting with our ward mission leader and he just like talks forever... dad, I remember when you were ward mission leader and let me tell you, you are the ideal mission leader... but hey I am thankful I have one. I love this gospe! This morning I read about faith. This past week I was feeling super bad, but then I read a talk by Elder Anderson in the last conference, and can I just say that I am so thankful that I have had a week of trials to help me increase my faith. And then I remembered that song in the title, and I am just happy that God has a plan!! I accept His plan! This week I am so excited to sacar la mugre in my area!! Or to whip out the dirt. It is a Chilean saying. I love you all so very much! Thanks so much for your support and I just want you to know that a little note goes a long way for a missionary that has been away from home for a year and a half... it almost seems like a dream!

Hermana Durfee

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