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