Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 4:05 PM Happy pie day!!!!! 3.14 (coming up!)

Oh my goodness!!! THIS WEEK HAS BEEN AMAZING!!!! Well, a little explanation. Our mission president extended an invitation to read the talk, "The Fourth Missionary", by Lawrence Corbridge (something like that). And then BE the fourth missionary. Its the only intelligent thing to do anyways :)  well so I have been reading it and studying it, and I just feel so much happier. The fourth missionary is a missionary who just forgets about himself/herself and works to help others. I felt like I was closer to being the fourth missionary before the mission ha ha but as it is necessary, we all need to pass through trials that take us low so we can learn to grow and be strengthened! :)   I have been praying and fasting, and just studying and doing all my part to be that fourth missionary, and I truly feel a difference. This week was marvelous. I learn so much every day :) Just learning how to be a better disciple of Christ :)

Well, Tuesday, we made 3 cookies...twice! ha ha we went with Maria Fernanda and her two kids and taught the word of wisdom. It was truly a great night. She truly wants to know more about the Church and wants the best for her and her 2 children :)  She wants to get baptized, but has to make some changes in her life before doing so. Then, we went with la familia Santellan. They are active members of the Church, but the Bishop asked us to visit this family and help them. It was awesome!!! And then Hno Santellan told us that He was excommunicated. And we told him we'd help him get back up, but.... we found out Thursday that we can't teach excommunicated people, or at least him right now. but we saw him and his wife on Wednesday and they told us that they were so happy to have us in the ward. they can truly see a light in us and they feel sooooo comfortable and happy talking to us. That really made us soooo happy!!! :D it was amazing! 

Ha ha on Wednesday, we were walking up this fat hill and there was a guy walking down the hill and we passed him and said buenas tardes and kept on walking, but something inside was like call him! and I didn't think twice haha and just turned around and was like HEYYY!!!! (already a good distance away) ajahaha and we talked to him and turns out, he is the brother of one of our investigators!! crazy right!? haha we are going to see him this week :)  Then we were able to meet Tamia's father!!! He actually really wants his children to follow the right path. so we don't feel too scared to get his permission for Tamia to get baptized!  :) we are all so happy!! and feel like he is going to give the permission!! :)

Thursday, we were able to do division with the Hermana Líderers. that was suuuuch a great experience, as always. I learned so much and we were able to find a few families that haven't come to church in like two months and share with them. They were so happy! WE WERE SO HAPPY!!! and we found so many new people who are stoked about the Gospel!!! Woot!!  and while teaching English, some mom heard us and asked us what we were doing and we presented ourselves and she wants her son to learn English too, so we're thinking about starting an English club for kids! :) ya ye!!! its been so fun! I'm so proud of my students. hahhahaha ;)

Friday, we had a beautiful day and met with a less active member. she is sooooo great!!!! she was so happy to have us over. We helped her peel corn as she explained what was happening in the Korean soap opera that she was watching haha it was dope. ;D hahahhah     but yeah she was telling us that she actually wants to serve a mission and that she has a friend who is interested in the gospel and we actually have a family home evening with them tonight!! we are so excited!!! :)

Saturday, we woke up at 5 to go clean the chapel because we had 3 tours planned for the day, We went and..... oh my gosh. well... there are a lot of children.... and the building was . a MESS! It actually made us so sad and frustrated that the members let the chapel reach that point..... but we cleaned up and listened to church songs and we accumulated a pile of trash..... quite large, but I don't want to rag on anyone. We are going to give a lesson about keeping the chapel clean. and... then all three tours fell through. oh well... but it was a great day!!

SUNDAY WAS THE BEST DAY EVER!!! We don't know if it was because we had cleaned the chapel or WHAT, bu we could feel the spirit so much stronger. We had 5 investigators come to church!!! I have never had ONE come to church. it was amazing. and we did divisions with the bishops wife to pick everyone up and we talked and dang this woman is so strong. The Spirit was soooo strong in church. the messages were in Spanish. The members all welcomed our guests and we taught gospel principles to a good group. man. then we went to celebrate a birthday and they gave us guinea pig! YUM!!! and the spiritual thought that we shared was .... awesome. it was amazing. and then we went to have another with a less active family and ... MAN THE SPIRIT. soooo strong. 

Guys. I know that this Church is the Church of Jesus Christ. I have no doubts. I am so happy to just forget about myself and think about the people here and just do all that I can to help them come unto Christ!!!! I love life and I love everything about everything. soo I have no time, but today we went to a waterfal in the jungle. that was doope hahahaha    The Church is true I promise. and I invite you all to pray for charity this week!! LOVE EVERYONE!!!

con mucho amor,

Ñaña Tangedal

mom if you can upload the pics i sent you to my blog :) love you all!!!

and my comp slipped and fell in cow poop yesterday.

ñañatangedalsings08 Date: Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 3:08 PM

It was a beautiful week :) more info to come next monday, but remember the Gospel is true. I love it. I love to see the smiles and the light in peoples´eyes when we teach the ultimate truths of the eternity :)

con amor,

ñaña Tangedal

ALLI CHICISHI!! Ñuca micani ñaña Tangedal!

February 24, 2014

Good afternoon! I am sister Tangedal! hahhaa learning kichwa. trying... trying.. it's hard!! This week, the fleas and bedbugs violated me hahaha.   I have the prettiest bites all over my body. We all do. Those of us that have served in Otavalo, it's the mark. hahahaha,  but his week has been amazing.:)  We had our reunión de distrito ( district meeting) and it was great! it's just us and 2 elders, and it was about talking to all the people, because it's not right that we walk past people all the time and don't share the message with them!! And so, mi compañera y yo (my companion and I) decided to put that in practice and seriously follow the spirit, sooo we had a plan fall through and we were like.. hmm lets go find Martiza!! and we went, but we found a young mom instead and we have an appointment with her this week. Then we went to Martizas house and we found her dad that TOTALLY blew us off. and we're like.. ok... so we said a prayer and thought, where should we go?  I super felt like we neded to contact this one house, but there was a dog....... but  what's new? the dog is going to try to kill us? Nothing new. I'm just so thankful that I haven't been biten yet!!! - knocks on wood-,  and so we went and the guy just blew us off and we just stood there and didn't move and then like a minute later, his wife came out of nowhere and we started talking to them and they had so many questions and want to know more.  :))) yaye!! they wanted to come to church, but we had ...uh voting? they voted for the mayor of the pueblo, sooooo they couldn't come, but they accepted a fecha bautismal (a baptismal date), and we're soooo happy!!! :D

From there, we went walking to find another investigator, but along the way, I felt like. hey we need to contact that house, and so we did and the lady, Gabriela, had so many questions that are ALL answered by the plan of salvation and the restoration. ahhhh so happy!!!! she is stoed about the gospel and we are going to try to teach her when her esposo, husband, who is catolic also, is home. Man, what a greatlife. hahahhahaohhhhhhhhh

Soooo there is this family, less active and one daughter hasn't gotten baptized, but she is super rebelious. we invited her to get baptized, but then since then she told the family to lie to us and say she's not there. I think the mom is doing the same, but just to be annoying, we go every single day to see how they are dfoing hahaha and the litle boy is like 4 always says, they're not here!!! And I was like... oh is your mom here? and hes like no

your dad? no

your sister? no.

your other sister? no.

your other sister? no.

your other sister? no.

your other sister? no.

Ohhh OK, then why do I hear them talking in the house???? and he just looked at me like ohhh crappp- hahahahahah and I was like. "kuyak, why are you lying to us?" haha yeah. that's right. and he just stayed silent. Little liar,  then seconds later, the dad came and he's a less active recent convert and he's awesome. we want to fet him back in the church, but he is ealing with guilt because he isn't keeping the WOW (Word of Wisdom);  and he saw his son and was like "kuyak, is mom home?" and he was like................yeah............   and the dad told him to go get her, and he was like... she says she doesn't want to come, she's busy.

Soooo, they have been lying to us forever. haha not surprised, but I was soooo happy to have caught him in his lie!!!  hhahhahhaa,  man I love my mission. omg!!! 

 We watched a sister milk her cow and the cow was calling it's baby and the bull came running and we were like omg! haha and ran in the house right in front of us! and then the little boy was like oh yeah that bull is very aggressive. hahaha and then, then we saw steam coming from the bulls nose!!! I thought that was only in cartoons!!!!!! hahahha   and so we taught a short lesson to the little boy who's house we ran into and he prayed for us to be safe from the bulls and we felt so much better hahahah.    

Oh my gosh. andnadhajsdhksjfhh   and last Sunday hahhhahaha we invited a less active member to come to church, but he tried escaping, so we went by the door to block it and we saw  this truck coming to the church and all the dogs chasing it and barking and then this dog came out of nowhere and pushed one of the dogs under the car and it got run over and I was like jkdfhgjhgjkhgjkhsdgsdfjkh blahhhhh fgjdgkjhdghdgfh in shock and we're like omg "anote la placa !! anote la placa!!! (get the licence plate) OMG!!!! it's familia Guajan Panama!!!" Hahhahahah it was a famiily from the church, hahah.  The dog is fine, it just has a broken leg, but it's a punk anyway, haha trust no dogs here!!! No dogs.   I gave a dog a piece of chicken though and it came and kissed my feet later that day hahha I was like yeah that's right,, ñusta Tangedal  (queen tangedal in kichwa).   what else...

Oh gosh, and carnival is starting and we're hiding in an Internet cafe because the people outside are throwing water balloons at every girl who walks by and is shooting foam at them and flour.    During carnaval we are going to be locked inside unless we have sure appointments, otherwise, no, we can't go outside. Apparently, our sector gets super crazy. hahaha woot!!! Well, life is great!   The genocide of the fleas starts when my comp and I get home. We gon kill em!! kill em all!! ohh hahahahha

We had our house blessed and dedicated because that ghost just wanted to make a mess!!! First it spilled the oil, then makes creepy noises, then oh this week, I was sleeping and then all of the sudden, the light switch flipped on and off. It wasn't just the light, it was the switch, and then, we were sitting at our desk and it smacked a stack of papers on the floor right off sister Cajas desk! hahaha then... i think it was yesterday when the door opened to the balcony while we were just siting there. We don't feel scared, but it's just like... really?, leave us alone ghost! Go home ghost. you drunk! hahahah :) but the house feels better now that it has been dedicated. :) o  man I love my mission. so many crazy awesome things.   Friday, we had personal revelation after personal revelation and it was the best thing ever! I know Heavenly Father is blessing us, our families, and is preparing these people for us.  I love everything!!!   yeah it's hard, but I have learned a lot of things that I needed to learn and I feel so much better :)   Still, I'm the bruja,( witch), because I have been super following the spirit this week,  it is like to the point that I'm picking names out of heads. haha I love it!!!   And this week we have been talking super fresa, just joking, but omg I have almost peed my pants hna Cajas does it sooo funny!!! mom you know what fresa is , right?

Anyways, I love you guys and know that I am safe, covered in bites, but safe and life is awesome!!!!! Always follow the spirit!!  Oh yeah last story hahha, so this dog that lives next door omg. tries to kill us. but today and yesterday it hasn't barked at us... Idk what happened!!?? But anyways, one night I felt, "take out the keys" but I didn't do it because I was like nahhhh, and we advanced and see the dog on the balcony and I was like be careful there is the dog! And we do, and she comes down and starts barking and chasing us and hna cajas picks up a rock and then the dog backs off a little and then comes closer and then she picks up another rock and it backs off and then comes closer and we're like inching to the house as I'm SCRAMBLING for the key!!!! and she's like LLAVES! KEYS!!!! Hahaha and I'm like I'm trying I'm trying !! ROCK!!! And the dog keeps advancing and finally I open the door and we jump inside and slam the door and just BUST UP LAUGHING. omg,.   God is so funny.

Despite there not being too much spiritual material in here, this week has been amazing :) I'm so happy with it.:)  We were able to find so many new people and we feel soooo great about them and them progressing!!! :D yaye!!!

Well, I will try not to die this week : hahahha nah I wont. God is seriously soooo freaking awesome I love Him!!!!

Get closer to God this week, and if you can, do some service for someone :)))))) read the liahonas. charity is the pure love of Christ. Man, life is awesome!

Love you all!! con mucho amor,

Hna. Tangedal

my legs a week ago. there are more bites now. hahha