The past 8 months!

Hello Family how are you !! I hope that all is going well and that you all had a great Halloween. I still need to see pictures of the Christensen kids you know... Any way this week has been kind of slow so not much exciting happened, sorry. But Halloween was good....We planned all day long. Yeah exciting I know, but here in Albuquerque it is really not safe to be wondering around the streets after dark on Halloween, or just in the dark...Or just walking down some streets in the middle of the day is kind of sketchy. Oh well the Lord will protect us if we are not being stupid. So yeah it was a really slow week and most of the appointments that we had fell through. Um yeah that is really all that happened this week... boring I know. Well ok we did teach a few good lessons so I will tell you about those.

Story 1 The Tale of Cameron the Awesome

About 2 Sundays ago we were approached by the bishops daughter and 2 of her friends. She introduced Cameron to us and informed us that he was a non member, he had been going to church for a few weeks, and that he wants to take the lessons. We did have to think about it for a bit just to see if we really had the time to teach him. I mean he only came and asked us if we could teach him, and had already come to church 3 or 4 times. It was a tough choice but in the end we felt that he was really interested. So on Saturday we went to the bishops house to teach him, and it went awesome!! His parents are Buddhist and so he had no idea who Christ was, or any knowledge of the bible. But he was very egger to learn and had already started reading the book of Mormon. And also he accepted baptism on the 23 of November!! So that is very exciting!! He is just such a good kid and found the gospel because his friend invited him to church.

Story 2 The Tale of Ashley and Tony

Also on Saturday (right before we taught Cameron the awesome in fact)  we taught the Gonzales family. Ashley and Tony referred themselves online, because they were trying to find a good religion for family. And they had had lots of great Mormon influences through out there lives, that being said always be aware of what you do, because you never know who is watching you. Any way we started teaching them a few weeks ago but this past Saturdays lesson was awesome!! We discussed the plan of salvation with them and they both were moved to tears at one point or another. We are pretty sure that Ashley already feels the spirit telling her that this is true, but Tony is an electrical engineer and so he wants there to be more logic involved. He will feel the spirit but it may just take some time, but both of them will get baptized.

Story 3 the Tale of the Past 8 Months

In 2 days I will have been gone for 8 months. It is crazy to think how fast the time went and how much faster it will start going. These past 8 months have been some of the greatest and hardest times in my life. I have seen miracles happen and seen the Lords hand in so many things. In one month and 2 day's I will be half way done with my mission. I will be closer to the end than the start, and I am not sure how I feel about that. I miss you all so much and think of y'all every day, but I also love being able to do the work that heavenly father wants me to do. I will miss all of you this holiday season and cant wait to talk to all of you soon.

Sorry for the short email, again nothing really exciting happened this week. But I love you all and cant wait to hear from you soon!! Have a great week!!

Love Sister Chatwin    

These are the only new pictures she has sent this week.  

Say Cheese!

Wow, look how long her hair has gotten!