Thursday, September 15, 2011

Nothing much has happened here!

Dear Family and Friends, 9-12-11

So this week has been a lot of normal work, We did go running this week for our exercise along the beach and that was a lot of fun. We did go to the Beach last P-Day and that was pretty fun, took some cool pictures. The tide was coming in and me and Elder Driessen were on the beach near this cave and all the sudden the water raised a BUNCH in like 2 waves and we got stuck for a minute and the water got up to like our knees and my companion took some pictures but it was crazy because the water came from NO where, we were on dry land before the waves. We going back today with our zona and so that will be fun and we`ll see how high the water is then. I KNOW I`m not supposed to be in the water AT ALL, I`m not going in and I didn`t want to get wet that was the only time last week I touched the water, but to be honest, it felt good.
OK to be straight up honest I can`t think of anything special to tell you guys this week except that you all need to read the BOOK OF MORMON!!! I love that book and I have never understood it in my life like I do now. And when your reading keep a page or notebook to the side to write things down. there are a lot of times we mark our scriptures and then after don`t know what was so cool about that verse but I just finished reading alma and during the time I was reading I wrote bullet points and I have about 5 pages of bullet points just from alma and the reference to the scripture with it. ITS awesome and will be as well the best when I want to prepare a talk and can look through my own notes to find scriptures. I love that book. Especially alma from 30-42 or something like that. Those are the best! I`ll write you all next week about how I feel when I finish. I need to finish this week! I`ve also been super busy with a lot of things as a district and zone.
Love,
Elder Corbett
p.s. Ya I`ll try to think of something good about everyone, mom, I`ll have to look past all the bad things! ;-) jk I Iove my family!

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

I love Ancon!!!

Dear Family and Friends, 9-5-11

First THANK YOU for all the letters and love. I love receiving all your letters even though perhaps I don`t have the time to write you all back personally I want you to know it means so much to me when you write. Sometime you do feel a little alone in your mission, so far I`ve been lucky to have a good area (note: not Areas! lol I still sometime can`t believe that I have almost 10 months and only one area), good companions (all 3 from Guatemala) and I`m near the beach.

We worked hard this week and we saw the fruits. We have been looking for a lot of new people to teach and that will progress and sometimes it’s hard but we have an awesome 6 people that attended this week and I haven`t had that many in a while. It was really cool. We have been working our bums off though. And for all you that wonder, it doesn`t get too cold here, All winter it was probably the same as winter in Arizona, not cold but also remember there is no escape and so in your house the cold gets in. We are now starting summer again and the sun is finally shining every once in a while. That is something that’s different. Here in the winter it is clouded 24/7 and you never see the sun. It gets a little sad after a while but now we are going out again like normal without my jacket or anything and I only get a little cold sometimes when the sun goes down.

Umm this week nothing really out of the ordinary happened, oh when we were walking on the beach a last week we found a little seahorse and it was still alive. W took some pictures and I threw it back in the ocean. We are having a lot more success with lesson with members as well, we had 12 this week and only 6 without so that was a good jump for us! We are also going to new areas that I haven`t gone to before so that’s making me excited this week and we visited a less active in this area and they came to the church yesterday so that was cool! oh yea and I`m washing my clothes now, THANK GOODNESS, no one in our ward wants to wash our clothes and its been hopping around from person to person and this last member just stunk in the way she did it and didn`t really care so I ask my pension if I could use her washer and we would pay her for the water and electricity and we would do it ourselves. I`m so happy now because I`m sick of relying on other people for that. but that’s how it goes in our mission!! Anyway life is good, I had a dream this week that I finished my mission and was back in the ward and everything and it felt so real and then I woke up.... but hey I love this time sometime I feel like I want to come home but I don`t want to give up my nametag, so I`m always just so happy to be on my mission! time is just a weird when you do the same thing every day in the same area for 8 months. You just lose all ability to keep track of time!

And to end HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Mariah, Dad, Mom, and Abby!!! Hope this next year without seeing me is sad because you miss me! Nah I really hope you guys have a great year and all your wieldiest dreams come true! Love you all and I want to go bowling right now so so so bad! That’s ok someday again I will. Take Luck and have a great week!!!

Love,

Elder Corbett-El Anconero!

p.s. I hope the president forgives me for my trip to Brazil! (John was saying family prayer on Sunday night and blessed Carson in Brazil. We corrected him and then we all laughed. Everyone one of us had to mention this in our letter to him)

p.p.s. This letter is just all the things that came to my mind so it probably random but that’s ok!

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

I shook hands with a prophet!

Quiridos Familia y Amigos, 8-29-11

Entonces porque Ustedes no quieren escribirme este es su recompensa! Espero que pueden entender mi español porque nadie me escribieron. Este semana fue tan rapido que sentì como solo pasò 2 dias. Un poco mas de èxito esta semana pero solo tres asistieron a la reunion secramental. (Quiridos family and friends, 8-29-11
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because you do not want to write this is your reward! I hope you can understand mySpanish because no one wrote me. This week was so fast that sentì as only begins 2 days. Alittle success this week but only three attended the reunion secramental
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ok mom made up for all of you and because I received her letter I will write to you all in English. We have alot of promising things this week and its been great. We had transfers and just took a little of that day to recharge and start over, we changed around our study room and that helped me out a lot. Some days I feel like I want a different area just to get another start but other days it’s just nice to be comfortable. I was looking at the transfers and I thought, If I stay in this area one more transfer I will leave 2 days before my 1 year mark. That’s crazy how quick the time is going. But I feel super charged again and happy more than anything to be here and get to testify of Christ EVERYDAY!! IT’S THE BEST!!! No one in the world has a better thing that they could do all day.

So Wednesday, I don`t know if I told you guys that we had one of the quorum of the 12 apostles, It was really cool, it was with 3 missions! in one chapel, it was so cool. I finally got to see some of my friends from the mission and as well some from other missions. You guys don`t know any of them but it was cool. It first started off with him wanting to shake our hands. all of us! and us one by one got to shake his hand, then the 1st and 2nd counselors of the seventy of the south America northeast presidency spoke so great! it was awesome and then he got up and spoke to us, he spoke to us in Spanish but it sounded like he was speaking French. He served in France and was a mission president in France but speaks a little of Portuguese and Spanish. Can you guess yet who it is? truly his Spanish was horrible but there was a spirit there that I can`t deny. He testified to the divinity of Christ and as well of his special calling. He said he is an ordinary man but his calling is something Extraordinary. And he told us our calling might be a little bit like that. We are normal kids trying to do what’s right, we don`t know a ton but we know that this is true and I will never deny it! This is the true church of God and I know that Elder Neil A. Anderson is a Apostle of Jesus Christ himself. He holds the keys of the kingdom of heaven and only 14 other men in the world hold those keys! He is a witness of the things unseen and how real the spiritual part is. He told us he came without a talk and as were shaking his hands he wanted to know what he should talk to us about. He talked to us about what really the 1st presidency expects of us as missionaries and he had 4 points that were wonderful. It was a good good day!!!

Oh and just a funny story I was at church yesterday and we sit near the door to great people when they come in but this family walked in and behind them this super white "gringo" walks in behind them and I was like WHAT?! cool I wonder what he`s doing here and church had already started but I said Hi to him and didn`t talk to him until the 3rd hour. and he was normal, real laid back so I thought he understood Spanish and everything and we were in Elders Quorum and we (THEY) were talking about what kind of women are the LDS women and how their the best and what we expect in young women (for those that didn`t have wives) and he ask this kid (he probably is 18 years old) what he expects of a young lady. and he just says with a smile "no entiendo" haha I wanted to laugh so hard because he was just listening like he could understand everything. But then I translated for the teacher and he gave me his answer and I translated back, it was a little funny! I then talked to him after and he is visiting his family that’s here and he`s from Sacramento, California and will be here for 5 or 6 weeks. I thought that was so cool so maybe I`ll help him out a little bit!

Well for this week that’s about it, we have a baptism for the 17th of September and we want to have like 5 or 6 that day so we will see what happens!!

Love you all and thanks for you prayers and have a wonderful week,

Elder Corbett-El Anconero!

Monday, September 12, 2011

Transfers come transfers go and Elder Corbett stays!

Dear Family and Friends, 8-22-11

Well another transfer comes and I guess there is just someone more I need to find. I just can`t figure out where but this transfers going to be the best, we only had 2 baptisms this last transfer but this next one I`m looking at 5 or 6 and they are a little more sure then in the past. but we will see what happens. One is the best his name is Andres and this last weekend he was AWESOME he loves going to church and all the activities and we taught the word of wisdom last week and he doesn`t drink a lot or anything but sometimes he`ll have a cup or something at a activity because its normal here, but we went to his house yesterday and he told us he went to an activity and he was so excited to tell us that he didn`t drink a drop! We were so happy we are hoping he will except the invitation and be baptized this sat.

Oh and I got your package this last week and oh so good all the things it has and just loved it all. I`m going to celebrate today with some other missionaries my birthday again because I didn`t do anything. But I love that tie everyone is always jealous of all the ties I get in my package because they are the best! We are still working hard, I just don`t like doing contacts anymore because it’s just the same place for the last 7 months doing the same things ALL DAY!!! I`m doing it and trying my best and the other elders in our ward had 8 baptisms this week and they were great, I actually was the one that started the teaching of one of the families when it was all my area and now they are the best so I got to baptize the sister because she remembers I found her family and then another family that they baptized was a reference of ours that I gave them and they just except everything but its cool that by little things great families are brought into the light, so that was a good experience for me.

Besides that I can`t think of anymore things to tell you guys because I have been just so nervous about transfers and I was 100% sure I was out of here and so now I`m astonished. But it’s awesome!!!

Anyway thanks for all your prayers and love and I will read all your cards after but they always make my day!!! Love you all and take care!

Con Amor,

Elder Corbett "El Anconero"