Hello!

May 22, 2013, 11:58:25 AM MST

Family!

 

The baby was born! I'm so excited! Greyson Woolf looks really cute in the photos from mom. :) Hope you are all holding him and hugging him for me.

 

So this week was filled with a lot of weird stuff. Our GPS died (completely fried), which is bad because our area is huge and we got lost for about an hour or two because we had problems reading the many maps. BUT we made it home!!! YAY! That was sister Carcamo's first day in the mission. It turned out to be very fun, just kinda sad, but we talked to everyone we could for directions and then gave them a card to check our mormon.org. good stuff. Then the next day we were confident in not getting lost, then we got lost again at the opposite end of our area. :) Yup. I'm still directionally challenged but it's gotten better. Then We all got food poisoning from Wendy's and were throwing up for 2 days...stay away from the chicken sandwich. On top of that we just had a lot of sad things happen in the lives of the people we are teaching and all we could do was comfort them, a lot of deaths. Basically this week was very humbling and the good news is the Sister Carcamo still wants to stay on the mission. ahah. Not that she was about to leave. It was just a lot to handle in a first week. But all is picking back up and we are eating again. We have been really blessed! Maria Jose wont be getting baptized this week because her father now does not want her to, but I know that she will someday. She has such a strong desire.

 

I feel like every week I learn something new but then I look back and I realize that I tend to learn the same things over and over again, just in a new way. The hope that I continue to have is that the Lord does not give us more than we can handle. Life is full of changes and transitions and through these times if we continue to seek for the positive and continue to help others we can find a peace inside ourselves. I truly do love teaching these people the Gospel. Those that are willing to listen, feel the spirit, and they cannot deny it testifying of our message. There are so many questions, we just need to go to the right source. I love you all and I hope that everything is good!

 

Hasta luego

Hermana Corrinne Clement

Mother's Day!

May 8, 2013, 8:26:49 AM PDT

Happy Mother's Day!!

 

I don't know what you are all doing for mother's day, but here they're having a craft fair :) :) and the Men in our ward are doing a night of appreciation for the Women. Latino love songs!! Woo hoo! Also this Saturday we are doing this "missionary experience" with a big group of youth and we are taking them knocking doors...We don't really knock doors in our mission as much as other missions so this should be a fun experience. You never know who will answer the door nor what their response will be. It is pretty fun. ha. ALSO, we get to call home this Sunday night for 40 min....so we gotta make it good! I think we are 2-3 hours ahead of Arizona so I'll be planning to call that night anywhere from 6-8 (my time) so hopefully you guys can be around to wait. Sorry it's not very specific because we have the Visitor Center that night and we'll all be taking turns. But I'm excited to talk to you all!

 

So also, really cool news! We have events at the Visitor Center every month and one of them is called Night of Music and Inspiration which a sister is chosen to be in charge of. I was asked to do the next one!! How cool? So all of the theatre, workshops, and teaching kids is definitely being utilized in this mission. I'm still thinking of a catchy title that will cater to everyone (regardless of religion). But I'm putting together a version of There is Sunshine in My Soul Today (w/ the uke and 3 part harmony) Really excited! These events are so powerful and I love them because people from all different walks of life come and get to feel the spirit and feel uplifted when they leave. So if you have any ideas...write me!!

 

This last week has been really good with Hermana Shaw (from Utah). I was with her when she first came out and she has grown a lot. One of her biggest struggles has been Spanish, which I can relate to for sure, but this week I've been trying to step back and let her feel confident in doing this work. It sometimes gets overwhelming to balance both an area and the Visitor Center. It takes a lot of organization and multitasking (theatre has helped with that too). The cool thing is though, that even if everything falls through, you can still feel peaceful and unstressed knowing that you are doing your best and the rest is out of your control....I think that is something we need to always remember.

 

I love you all sooooo much!! And I am excited for Sunday! Take care!

 

Hermana Corrinne Clement

 

p.s. MARRISSAA is in the MTC!!! Yay!! Will you guys write her?? It makes the MTC experience a lot easier! Also, thank you for the recipe Kris and Ryan! I'm excited! Mom, thank you for your letters I love you!!

Short Message!

Wednesday, April 24, 2013 8:39 AM

Hello Everyone!

Short message this week because we are heading to the city today (Preparation Day) to watch the Nationals Game!! (Baseball) haha. It should be pretty cool and the whole mission is going together and it is a full day in the city.

How is everyone doing? I've seen some people here from Arizona and they say it is already up to the 90's. I actually miss the heat. ha. But it's been pretty nice here lately. We had some good experiences this last week and some that were sad. One that was kinda sad was the fact that we had Stake Conference (multiple wards in church for a bigger meeting) this last week and not even half of our Spanish ward showed up, including a few people that we have been teaching. So we called them to see what happened and they said that they drove the whole 30 min (our area is HUGE) to get to church but there were no more parking spots so they went back home.....so apparently this is what happened to a lot of the members and instead of parking on another street and walking they all went home. :) Kinda sad but more funny than anything. Good thing we have normal church next week. haha.

I think one of the coolest things that I have been seeing here on the mission is that even if you make plans and you feel super good about them, it doesn't always work out and that it's OKAY. I have seen some of the most amazing miracles and met some really open people because of plans falling through. I feel like us planning and then trying our best shows faith and then the Lord guides us, if we let him, to a better sometime weirder path...but it all works out at the end of the day. I feel so blessed and I feel tired all of the time but I know that it's because I have honestly never worked this hard in all of my life...Super weird, but I feel strengthened everyday. I love you all so much!!! Transfers are coming up this next week so we'll see what happens! I get to call you all on Mother's Day!! Yaya!

Love you!

Hermana Corrinne Clement