Feb. 3, 2016
Well,
Hello
Family! So yeah just received the news about grandpa. Wow. I guess I should
have expected it but it still is hard. I read moms email that she sent me and I
just really felt at peace, really felt the spirit and I feel like grandpa
knows, and he is just having a great time with his brother and parents in
heaven! Haha makes me think of the memories I have with him, how I was the only
lefty in the fam! And I remember him yelling at me one time for riding a bike
that was way too small for me, and he scared the crap out of me haha! I was
pretty young!! But, I just regret not
being able to spend more time with him, spending more time. He was super calm
and quiet, just trying to think back on all the memories that we had, which is
hard to remember which makes me sad! But I just love him! Him and his jumpsuits! Haha love them!
But it makes me think of
the plan of salvation. To the people who I have seen who are so firm, so firm
in their beliefs, compared to the people who don’t have this knowledge and are
just destroyed. I am just grateful to have the knowledge. I don’t know, I feel
just off right now, don’t know! Hard, but I know that I will see him again someday!
How are all of you guys?
Also, one of the guys
that we baptized, hermano Juan, he passed away too this week which is kind of
hard. He was a really good guy and he was old, but he got baptized and was a
firm member for the 4 months that he had, he was a saint! Haha. Kind of just a
week of dying. Sucks! But this isn’t the only life. No doubt about that.
I don’t really know what
else to say this week! Umm it was good, it has been an interesting journey. I
feel like I really need fast Sunday this week, with everything that has
happened and that is going on. I really just need to rely on the knowledge that
I have, the testimony that I do have, and just grow! I am really thankful to
share this gospel with the people here. It really can change your life. I have
seen it. God loves all of his children so much! I guess that’s it for this
week! I love you all! God is good. There is a plan. No doubt about that. Till
we meet again, it’s not the end! Love you all. Praying for you all!
Please pray for me too.
Elder Carney
January 27, 2016
Sick in Santiago
Hello
family! Haha sooo this past week kind of sucked! I was sick! Haha on Saturday I
actually felt like I was getting better, and then Sunday it just hit me! I was
on antibiotics last Wednesday but they were not working. Finally, Monday, I
just couldn’t do anything. My body was so week, had a fever, just everything
hurt, yeah haha so that was fun. Then Tuesday I got new antibiotics (the nurse
here doesn’t really know crap, I’m gonna be honest) and then I just laid in
bed, just trying to get better haha so its hasn’t really been all that fun.
Being sick on the mission is SOOO much worse than being sick in college,
because in college you can just snuggle up, watch Netflix all day, do whatever,
well, the mission, you’re in a foreign country, you can’t really watch Netflix,
you just lay there. It sucks!!! Haha just want to go out and get rejected haha
nah, but just wanted to go outside. Being sick sucks on the mish.
But I am getting better.
I feel a lot better today, so that’s good! Oh but I think I have a sinus
infection, but all is well!
What’s new this week?
Well, this area, it’s interesting. The ward should be a branch. It just has NO
priesthood, no leadership. Just kind of sad, but the members who are firm are
are really great people!
This kid, Ivan, we found
him like 3 weeks ago, he is a menos (less) active, and he is just INCREDIBLE.
He keeps asking us about a mission and he is just a homie, he is 23 and he was
actually searching for the missionaries for a long time, but could never find
them, and finally we should up one day at his doorstep and it was just super
cool. He is awesome!
Hmm what else? Oh I am
not only learning Spanish but also Spanish sign language, haha yep our ward
mission leader is deaf. So I am just learning, this other missionary here is
like fluent, its super cool to see. But yeah, guess I need to learn that too
know. I can pray in it, which is cool, but other than that I am a lost
puppy!
This past week was good.
Nothing really knew happened, haha just sick and felt like crap. But oh, I was
just feeling a little down yesterday, being sick for so long and just feeling
like crap, and then I got the letter that Katy sent and the package that mom
you sent, and it just made me day. Thank you. I really needed it, funny how God
sends us things when we need them, at the right time.
We are reading the Book
of Mormon as a mission and it’s been good! I encourage you all the read it,
start now! Man I am learning so much, but super cool to see! Nephi is a beast,
heck all those people are just the best! God is the best. What a guy. I love
you all, please tell me about your lives!!!!
Praying for all of
you!!!
Elder Carney
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