Amber's News 8/8/2011

So I finally made it home from Chile. It has been a little different to be back. Especially the weather change from winter to summer. The change from spanish to english was a little rough in the beginning too. I had to realize that not everyone knew what I was saying but I wasn't really catching that I was speaking spanish till my family just stared at me.

I have been on a vacation for the last 3 weeks. Meaning that I don't have any responsibilities...yet haha well this week I plan on working out what I'm doing for school. I am going over to BYU this week to talk to them and then I'm going to be working on some job applications and getting back into everything.

The food here at home is....amazing. I liked chilean food but I love my moms food. Sometimes I wonder if I'm really eating it because I still feel like I'm dreaming.

For the first week and a half home I wasn't without a companion haha I switched off between my mom and my 2 sisters. When one of my sisters went to work I was with the other and when they were both gone I was hanging out with my mom. So now I am fine alone that was probably something hard for me to adjust to. I always enjoyed having someone to talk to.

I miss the people in Chile a lot. Facebook has been a blessing. Because I have been able to communicate with a bunch of the people there and have been able to talk with them. The people there are amazing and will always have a place in my heart.

Its been really weird to be home but it has been great to be with the family and start a new phase of my life.

- Amber Moss

Cody's News 8/1/2011

Things down here are decent but we are not having much progress with our investigators but we are working on getting them in church and on the road to repentance and baptism. We are happy as a couple of clams. Today we are going to eat some completos for lunch and then we are going to nap a bunch and those are the plans for the day. and for my Birthday we are going to buy a cake and then just work you know the normal routine. So that is what we are up to. Have a great week.

Love, Elder Moss

Amber's News 7/19/2011

She is home!!!!!!! We picked Amber up at the air port on July 19. It was so great to see her again after a mission well served. Her home coming talk was on the 24 of July. It was a testament to how good of a missionary she was. Now she is getting back into school and finding a job.

Amber's News 7/11/2011

Hi,

We have been pretty busy. We have two girls that we are teaching right now. Their names are Teresa and Catalina. They are both really, really great. I'm excited for them. They have been to church twice now and are so excited to go to church. My favorite thing that Teresa said was "It's amazing how strong the spirit testifies to your mind and your heart when you pray and ask if these things are true." They are reading a lot from The Book of Mormon. We went to an activity with them the other day and it was a load of fun.

We just finished visiting my converts. We went to Lampa and to Quilicura it was really great and now we are back in our sector to start our week again. I started getting a little sick yesterday. I have a little bit of a sore throat and am really tired but I will be ok it's not too bad. I'm doing really good it has been kinda hard to say good bye to everyone but I'm ready to see you all again.

Love,

Hermana Moss

Cody's News 7/11/2011

Hello,
Well today we cleaned the house, we went shopping and we ate some chorrianas they were yummy!! I enjoyed it, we baptized on Saturday, Patricia, Oscar and Sofia they want to go to the temple in a year and so I want to go to and see them get sealed as a family. You and Dad can come to. That was great we ate some carrot cake after the baptism with them. We are also teaching Natasha and she is really close to getting baptized this week, if not this week I think at least in this month. We are working on finding new people as always and we are also teaching Natasha's sister and the sisters boyfriend. So that is good they just need to get married because they are living together and then they could get baptized. There are also 2 girls that members have been bringing to church for a while now and they want to get baptized but they need permission for us to teach them. As soon as the mom lets us in to the house though they´ll get baptized. Elder Relyea and I have the goal of baptizing another 12 people in our time together so that is what we are after, we have around 5 people in our sights that have a decent possibility of getting baptized soon. That is great that you were able to spend some time with the Klassens, the senior couple in our mission are Clawson so thats funny you say it the same but it's different.

love you,
Elder Cody Moss

Amber's News 7/4/2011

The count down is on and the e-mails are getting shorter. :)

We found two really great girls this week that went to church with us and are really, really excited to be baptized. Their date is for the 31^st.

Hmna Hadlock is doing really good. We are great friends. I think she is kinda bummed about sending me home. She sent her last comp home too. So I think that is kinda hard.

Love, Amber

Cody's News 7/4/2011

Hi, my comp is Elder Colby Relyea from Mapleton Utah of all places, so I can just imagine you and his mom becoming best friends now. His Aunt and Uncle are Amber and Wade Hanks and he dated Bre Nielson, ( all of whom are our neighbors) so we have a bunch in common to talk about. It is freezing here. We are having the baptisms this Saturday and the Confirmations this Sunday. At 1 today we are going to eat barbeque for the 4th of July. Down here when they celebrate Independence day of Chile, September 18, they go crazy and have like 3 days off of work and all that stuff. They really go crazy.

Have a great week!

Love,

Elder Moss