December 26th Letter

Hola!!
Yay for SKYPE!!! I love technology!! Thanks so much for getting together and talking with me !! I had a great time getting to see all your beautiful faces!!  I enjoyed hearing how everyone is doing and practicing my Spanish with you. hahah um.. So yeah nothing new to really share cause we talked yesterday!! which was awesome..  Oh i forgot to mention that Chileans love mayonnaise the put it on everything and I'm turning Chilean cause i put it on my rice and salad just like them. its pretty funny. there mayo has a different flavor though its not normal.. um oh and we visit this one less active grandma Briecida and my comp has bad  allergies right now and the old lady said i have an answer. she went and grabbed rubbing alcohol and then splashed it on her face.. it was so funny... then my comp did it and said l oh ah it burns!!! haha I was laughing sooooo hard..  sorry this is random!!!
 Were visiting a few of investigators tonight with our DL so we get them committed to baptisms!!!  I want you all to make the new years goal with me of completing the Book of Mormon !! read it (Roland) not just listen and I know that as we  read a verse or page or a chapter a day the Lord will bless and help us through all our difficulties!! Thank you for your prayers and your support I love you all and cant wait to see your great faces again!!! Hopefully my Spanish will be better and  I{ll be skinner!!
Love you,
Hermana Burnett

December 19th Letter

Hola mama!!!

Ah only SEVEN  more days till I get to see your beautiful faces!! I'm supppppperrr excited..  I will be on the computer here at 8pm.. So 4 pm Utah time..  don't forget!! okay. Its going really slow here in Copayapu. We don´t have any investigators yet but we are visiting tons of less actives. We had a person that we contacted on the street show up for church today named Emilo. This was pretty cool. We taught him a lesson after church with 2 RM and one futuro it was intense.  he seems pretty interested but he doesn't live in our area so we have to give him to the elders. So last week I spoke in church and I'm pretty sure it was horrible cause  i  only had a hour to prepare, anyways i was thinking it will be along time till i speak again right. oh now our awesome first counselor called and asked if we could sing two songs in church a duet. so us being missionaries said yes. We practiced God be with you till we meet^ which pretty good. however the other song silent night in Spanish is super hard!! yeah we could not get it. Luckily our prayers were answered and we only had to sing God be with you till we meet. I'm so thankful cause noche de luz es no bueno.  Um we have a ward party this Friday which will be fun!! and then we are going to be caroling in the´plaza this weekend.  We were able to watch the  Christmas devotional which was pretty. I loved the movie of Christ´s birth.

I'm struggling a lot still to speak Spanish, but I'm learning a lot of patience.
I love you all and hope you have a wonderful Christmas, sorry if my cards are late.. better late then never and its from chile .
Con amor, Hermana Burnett

enjoy the picture of hna Low and Quitny being Mary and Joseph!!

December 12th Letter

Hola,

So this week was so so it was long and very hot.. The highlight of this week was our mission president came and we had a Copiapo  conference. So I was able to speak with the Elders that took over Vallenar and they told me my Alex investigator was baptized in Oct. and that he received the Aaronic priesthood and that he  will be going to the temple this month !! how cool!!! and that another invest. of ours is getting baptized this week!! ah I love hearing the fruit of our work being baptized. We had nice talks given about the wise men and it was so great to hear all the faith and hard work that they did to visit Christ. I challenge you all to truly read the 12 verse about them again and pull out all the great details. Pres. Bruce talked about obedience and how this 2012 is going to be amazing in Antofagasta.  We had a small Christmas program with everyone. I gave away syrup and a toy and Elder Koons was so stoked to receive  it. I got Jenga and a neat journal from president. so I'm super excited for that...  we decorated some sugar cookies and I had pizza for the first time here and it was alright.. it really made me miss  the states pizza.. I'm doing alright my Spanish is worse and we have no investigators so this is hard but we have been visiting a lot of great less actives. we just need to get them to attend church. Sorry this week letter is lame and small.

I love you all and can´t wait to see your beautiful faces Christmas day..
next week I´ll have details

love hna Burnett

December 5th Letter

Birthday cake with Hna Lindner

Woleska´s baptism 12/3/2011

Hola  Familia,

   Mom I got my package and I'm so excited to open it!! I gave it to Hna Low to hide so I couldn't peek inside.
  Ah Copyapu has been really hard its been a big adjustment but I have had much patience and trust in the Lord. This Thurs We had a meeting with Elder San Martin who is our  (Zone Leader)  just my comp and I about what our difficulties are.  He asked and I wanted to say everything is difficult right now : my comp, the language, the new area, new ward. But I didn't I shared the area has been hard. He then shared a scripture and gave me hope for overcoming my difficulties which was perfect for me. He then asked my comp for her´s which has been confidence in Spanish and as he was directing her difficulty I was learned something too. I learned a lot about how to become more humble and to be more outward focus.  It was a perfect meeting all my difficulties were truly answered and it was because the Lord was waiting for this moment and to see if I would trust him  . I am so grateful I did or I would have made my companionship harder then it needed to be.
  This weekend we were able to baptize Woleska who is a young mother. I had only known her for 2 weeks but hna Viña says she has changed a lot  these  last 2 weeks , which I believe its cause she need us two  hermanas. We don't have a lot of investigators right now but have a lot of less actives which has been great. Its amazing how they become in active for years and forget how to pray or who is Joseph Smith.  Seeing all this people fall away has made my testimony of Home and Visiting Teaching more strong. We as members need to do all we can to be involved with everyone in the ward always . We always need to be a friend and praying for those in our ward. As we do this, the less actives will feel Christ love through us and have the desire to return.
  Remember the saying from the conference ¨WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER¨¨  We are only has strong as our weakest member. Take a stand today to serve the Lord more, especially with the Christmas right around the corner. Start today to make a difference in someones live, to make someones day.

 I love you all and can´t wait to hear from you in 20 days, no worries I'm not counting :)

p.s. Bro Patton became the bishop in ridge
p.s. mom are you forwarding these to Susan  and Brother Patton? if not, will you please

Con amor
hna burnett