Smilin´ in Sol del Pinar

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Hayley Imbler	10:25 AM (2 hours ago)
to Kathleen, me, Michael, Tania

I´m still here!!! Haha I´m continuing here in Sol del Pinar with Hermana Inca for another transfer! We are super excited and we´ve got some big plans.. and when I say big I mean marriages and baptisms.. we are praying and working really hard for those! 

So I forgot my missionary agenda and I always write while I am looking at it to remember every lesson that we had, so to be honest I really don´t know all of them, but I will do my best to remember the great things that happened this week. After lots of trials we really saw the blessings coming.. and coming fast! 

On Wednesday we had a lesson with Karina, the sister who came to church last Sunday and she told us that she had a dream. She prayed about Joseph Smith and when she fell asleep she dreamed of a pathway.. everything in front of her was clear and bright and beautiful. She turned around to look behind her and everything was dark and cloudy. She told us that she things this is the right path for her to follow because everything is clear. On Saturday we went to visit her again and we invited her to be baptized.. she said YES! When we told her the date she said, so that day I´m getting baptized? Welcome in baptism then! Wow we were so surprised, but so happy! She needs to get married but we will get working on that this week.. On Sunday she came to church again and we talked about Eternal Marriage (coincedence? I think not!) She loved the lesson and told me that she wants Joyca (her daughter, 6 years) and Jhonny, the baby to grow up to be missonaries just like us! Super cute!

Wednesday and Saturday we had lessons with a man named Juan. He´s about 65 years old and pretty much teaches himself in the lessons. It is actually amazing.. he retains everything and understands it.. now he just lacks going to church.. but he was super interested in the Book of Mormon which was cool.

Before I forget Thursday we had a training with President and then the assistents came and did a work visit with us.. At first I was nervous, but then we had three really great lessons and all turned out great. Ceclia is becoming more and more interested in everything we are teaching and has so many questions.. She said that ever since we started teaching her that she has had more peace in her life and she feels less scared all the time. She couldn´t go to church on Sunday because her little boy fell down the stairs but she will come this Sunday.

I´m getting cut off, love you all so much!! Take care!!

Hermana Imbler

Smilin` in Sol del Pinar

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Hayley Imbler	May 19 (7 days ago)
to Kathleen, me, Michael, Tania

Happy Monday! Feels good to say that again! And happy 11 months to me... is it even possible that I have been here for that long? I feel like just yesterday I was at the halfway mark and now two months more have passed by. First off, it was absolutely WONDERFUL to talk with all the family on Mother`s day. I think one of the highlights was when Gramps said ¨Te necesito¨ haha.. I have the greatest family! 

This week has been one of our best here in Sol del Pinar.. we finally got up to 31 lessons! It isn`t exactly as much as my old area, but I am feeling pretty good about it! It`s definitely progress! Also... great news.. We had investigators at church for the first time in this area!!! I was bursting from happiness! 

Monday.. we had P day as a mission! We headed to play soccer.. we played on teams by country (of course girls separate..) and the sisters from the U.S. won! Woohoo! Country pride! It was super fun to be with a lot of the missionaries I have met here and be able to catch up a little. We later had a lesson with Teolinda and Estanislao.. but we are thinking we might have to drop them as investigators for a while because they aren`t progressing at all.. it`s pretty sad, but maybe one day.

Tuesday we had a pretty slow day with only three lessons and we were a little frustrated by the end. Berta doesn`t want to commit to anything.. We talk to her about the commandments and she understands them but it`s like they don`t apply to her and only to others.. we aren`t sure whether we will keep teaching her or not. We feel like lately many of the people we find only want to listen a little bit but just don`t progress like we would like them too.. We decided to fast and pray the next day because we were feeling pretty down.. and then the miracles came!

Wednesday we had 6 lessons! AND we found three new investigators that we are teaching now.. blessings come and they come quick.. wow I have such a great testimony now of the power of fasting and prayer! We found Yolanda and Javier who are an older couple (the sister of Edgar). Javier isn`t super interested, but his wife is really sweet. 

Thursday, Friday, Saturday (sorry this always happens and I run out of time..) Thursday was slow, but we did have a short lesson with Edgar.. he`s been avaiding us for a while, but we`ll see what happens this week. Friday we had a good lesson with Cecilia and she told us that this next week she will come to church, yay! We also finally found a less active family that we have been searching for for quite a while. 

Oops, just got kicked off the computer! Love you all.. more updates to come the next week! Take care!

Hermana Imbler

Smilin´ in Sol del Pinar

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Hayley Imbler	10:15 AM (2 hours ago)
to Kathleen, me, Michael, Tania

Happy Saturday? Well that`s a change.. here I am in internet because we are going to get the whole mission together on Monday.

Sorry I don`t have much time to write, but I just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Mother`s Day. Especially all of those mothers that have been a part of my life. Thank you for being amazing examples and helping me to get where I am today. I also have been able to meet some amazing moms here in Peru who have also given me wonderful examples and I know I will keep meeting more and more! 

I wish I had time to explain to you all of my week but alas they didn`t give me all the time in the world to be here, but a lot I will be able to explain tomorrow when we Skype! Yay! 

The only thing quickly I will tell you is that we visited Edgar this week which was awesome he said he had prayed and that things were just seeming to go better for him. At the end of the lesson he told us that he wanted to read the whole Book of Mormon when he went to visit his sister because it was 8 hours there and back.. wow! I will be so impressed if he really does it. We also invited him to be baptized.....................and he said YES! He said I really want to get to the point to be baptized and I will do what I can to get there! I really feel so blessed to have met him, I still pray every day that he will continue with these desires he has. This week I know we are going to find new people to teach and I really hope they will progress quickly. 

Thanks for all of your prayers, I can really feel the love from many of you! Until the next Monday (which will be transfer day... is it possible that it is coming so fast? Although I am quite positive I will stay here)! Take care everyone!!

Hermana Imbler

Smilin´ in Sol del Pinar

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Hayley Imbler	10:28 AM (28 minutes ago)
to Kathleen, me, Michael, Tania

Family and friends!

So I did change the subject line now because we really aren`t seeing sun at all. This week has gone a little bit better than the last.. (I think I always say that? But I guess it`s because I really love being here and every week just seems like such a blessing).

Monday.. Pday was probably one of the worst.. and I only say that because I spent the whole day without my companion. She went to immigrations and I was stuck in a trio with some other sisters.. We ate in a restaurant that was kind of weird and I ended up feeling pretty sick after.. haha that`s what I get from eating in the street here! I spent a little time with a young woman from another ward until we went to pick up Hermana Inca and then had a lesson with our pensionista. 

Tuesday was a really good day for us because we had 5 lessons.. for us here in this area it is really good.. but don`t worry I have big plans for getting us up to 8 or 9 in one day like in my other area.. because I know how wonderful it feels to teach all day every day! We were able to teach Aida and then Josefa.. two recent converts and Josefa finally told us why she wasn`t able to come to church, it`s really for her son that causes a lot of problems in the house when he drinks.. so we are going to try to find a solution for her. We also spoke with the Santos family and they are preparing to go to the temple to be sealed.. they just have to finish the temple prep classes. Lastly we had a great lesson with a less active member, Diana, we were able to help her with a lot of the problems she was having and she committed to come to church on Sunday.

Wednesday was a crazy crazy day because... WE MOVED! I think I am like the queen of moving here in Peru because I have now done it 3 times.. more than like anyone else in the whole mission I think haha. But we really like our new apartment, it is a little smaller which is actually a good thing, and it has the bathroom inside instead of on the roof yay! We finally got everything all unpacked and cleaned and then headed out to do our proselyting. The lessons we had weren`t all that special, but I think the less active members and the converts were able to be strengthened by our words in some form.

Thursday we had a pretty slow day, but we found a new investigator to teach, Alejandra! She is the niece of a less active member and is super cute. She`s 19 and really receptive and we will be going to visit her again on Tuesday this week. We also finally found out why Berta doesn`t want to get baptized.. She told us that she doesn`t want to commit and then later make a mistake.. We explained a little bit about repentance and how it is an ongoing process, but she still doesn`t feel like she is prepared.. We`ll keep going on that one.

Friday.. Highlight of my day.. Hamburger.. Haha ok maybe that`s not true but it had been almost 2 months since I had eaten anything super American and it was just so yummy! Here they put french fries on the burgers which is something I hadn`t thought about but is super good! Ok I`m going to stop talking about food cuz I`m getting hungry here sitting at the computer. On Friday we had a really great lesson with Jesser. He told us that he was going to now pray every day and read the Book of Mormon every day as well as come to church on Sunday (don`t get your hopes up.. we went to pick him up and he was sleeping and wouldn`t leave.. bummer).

Saturday was a good day as well.. We had a lesson with the Dominguez family.. We are teaching the mom, dad, and their two sons, as well as their niece.. We are praying and praying for the 5 of them.. Then after we found our GOLDEN INVESTIGATOR, Edgar is an older man who is absolutely prepared, from what we are seeing right now. He went to church when he was living in Brazil with his family and then moved here for work alone. At the end of the lesson he told us that he really wanted to pray, that he was going to talk to his boss so that he didn`t have to work Sundays so he can come to church and then asked us what homework we had for him. It was really a miracle that we had to get to know him.

Sunday President and Hermana Erickson came to our ward to visit which was super great. It was testimony meeting and they both got up to speak. In the middle of the testimony the microphone started being weird and we couldn`t hear much of what Hermana Erickson said, so they turned the microphone off and President Erickson just kind of yelled.. it was pretty great, they are so wonderful and I am so grateful to have them as my mission presidents.

Hope this week goes great for everyone and that you all have a great Mother`s day. Thanks Mom for being so wonderful and helping me through everything as well as my sweet grandmothers and all the other wonderful women and mothers I have come to know! Take care!

Hermana Imbler

Sunny in Sol del Pinar

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Hayley Imbler	10:31 AM (11 hours ago)
to Kathleen, me, Michael

I´m going to have to change the subject line because it really isn´t very sunny anymore.. We are coming into Autumn and it is starting to get colder.. one day sunny the next day cloudy.. every morning and night it´s cold.. darn.. I really hoped I could work a little more on my missionary tan.. haha! 

Monday we went and played soccer at a nice field.. I was the only sister that wanted to play.. and of course then the elders told us that only the sisters could shoot goals.. we won.. by a lot! Haha! It was super fun to get to play again.. although I really missed my goalie gloves.. Later we had a family home evening with a recent convert and her friend, we also then talked to a less active member and her daughter and shared a video that is awesome called On the Way Home.. if you get a chance to watch it even though it is ancient it´s super powerful!

Tuesday we had a pretty good day, we talked to a less active member who told us that she is now planning on coming back to church.. we pray that that is the truth, but we´ll have to see how that goes. We also talked to Alicia, but she is progressing really slowly.. it´s hard for her to commit to do things and follow through.. Jesser accepted baptism!!!! We were super excited! He wasn´t able to come to church this week because they had to pick up his aunt from the hospital but when I invited him to be baptized he said yes and then asked me, but what time is the baptism? Haha I just said.. you decide and we´ll do the rest! 

Wednesday was a little slower but we did finally find a less active member we have been searching for for a month and had a short lesson with him.. later we talked with Teolinda and Estanislao again. They are super great, but they barely remember what we teach so it has been pretty hard to have them progress.. Lastly we talked with Berta, the mom of a recent convert Edson.. she also is really great but doesn´t follow through with the commitments we make..

Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday...  Haha this always happens.. I get to the end of my time and I still have half a week left to write. Not a whole lot happened that was really interesting but I do know that we now have a new spirit.. my companion and I were able to talk to the President on Friday.. he gave us some wonderful advice and I am quite positive that we are just going to be working like crazy now in our area.. even more than before! We are helping a less active family now that are going to be sealed in the temple.. they are taking the classes.. and really it is the happiest feeling to know that I am helping people to go to the temple. Also Lizbeth and Jenny called me last night and they are going to start their papers to prepare for the mission! I really could never be happier to know that I was able to help them and then they are going to help even more people.. who will help more and more.. the chain reaction is incredible.. Never underestimate how much of a difference you can make by helping one person! 

Love you all and hope you have a wonderful week!!

Hermana Imbler

Hayley Imbler	10:21 AM (7 minutes ago)
to Kathleen, me, Michael

Hola!!! 

Well this week has been a very interesting one and finally I have time to write about what is going on here in this little part of Peru! First I wanted to describe a little bit of my area. It´s flat.. there are no hills! I finally reached the other side of the street! Haha.. but looks like I shouldn´t have been too excited.. this side of the street is a little richer. In a sense it´s kinda fun to see the houses a little more decorated.. (my artsy side coming out, but..) on the other hand.. the people are a little bit harder to teach.. They are a little colder than those that live on the hill side.. Also we have an area that I am pretty sure is empty.. Ok not really, but barely anyone is in the street during the day! It really surprised me! Like you have seen our ward is tiny.. we meet in a house.. but all is good because we are going to reactivate the less actives so that our ward will be a lot more full on Sundays! Now for my week..

Monday was P day.. we didn´t do all that much.. played volleyball as a zone and then my companion and I went to buy a few things we needed. Later we went to visit a 16 year old girl and found her older sister who was super interested, we didn´t have a lesson but we talked about the Book of Mormon and she said she really wanted one to read because we caught her attention with the history of it. Then we went to visit Alicia and her two kids Fernando and Gaby. She is really sweet but she still doesn´t want to come to church.. we talked about the Plan of Salvation and I heard one of my favorite responses ¨I had no idea that we lived with Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ before coming here to the earth.. and that it was necesary for Adam and Eve to eat the fruit..etc.. Thank you SO much for teaching me this.. wow!¨ Seriously so cool to see reactions like that! Then we had a small family home evening with a single mom in our ward and her two little kids.

Tuesday we had our district meeting and I got to play the piano (it´s one of the highlights of my week). Later we had a lesson with Josefa, a less active-recent-convert... we are working on teaching her daughter Brisvany as well and she is receptive, but not home very much.. bummer! Later we had a lesson with a cute lady in our ward who also has a piano in her house (lucky me.. except it´s really out of tune) and we helped her with a little problem.. but great news: We helped to reactivate her and her husband just came back from the U.S. and now they are preparing to be sealed in the temple!! Wow I have never been more excited! I really hope that I will be able to go to see it because they are really a great older couple! Later we had a lesson with the mom and sister of a recent convert, Edson. They are receptive as well, but I think his sister faults a little bit of a push from him.. they are twins so should be a little easier we hope!

Wednesday was a pretty slow day because we had to do our weekly planning a day early but we were able to go out and teach with Lizbeth (my convert from my first area) which was super wonderful!! I also got a call and my sister training leader said we were going to do a work visit on Thursday.. surprise! 

Thursday we at something super yummy that is called Pachamanka.. and then after lunch I headed off to do a work visit in an area called Tungasuka and I was able to get to know some great people there.. who knows maybe I´ll get sent there next. 

Friday we visited Teolinda and Estanislao, they are a cute older couple we are teaching from Ankash.. I think I told you all that they speak a language called Chetuah.. (bad spelling). We also had a lesson that was super spritual with the husband of a less active member and then when we invited him to pray about Joseph Smith he just flat out said No.. the Spirit left the room so fast.. I really hadn´t felt so bad after a lesson.. Saturday and Sunday we found some new investigators and we are going to work with them this week! 

Hope everything goes great this week for everyone! Love you all!

Hermana Imbler

 

Hermana Hayley was a little or a lot sick last Saturday & Sunday . . . feeling a little better today. But well on the  mend.

Mike

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From: Hayley Imbler <hayley.imbler@myldsmail.net>
Date: Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 9:49 AM
Subject: Sunny in Sol del Pinar
To: Kathleen Imbler <kanni.rn@gmail.com>, Michael Imbler <marthur22@gmail.com>, Michael Moon <michael.moon@myldsmail.net>

I told my mom I wasn´t going to write an email this week and she said just write something quick so everyone doesn´t think you are dead.. haha.. Well here I am, alive! I´m going to apologize now for the lack of a good long letter.. I am sitting here at the computer without even a speck of energy.. I got sick on Saturday night thanks to something I ate and spent Sunday in my bed almost without being able to wake up.. But don´t worry, the worst has past and this week will be even better than the last... which was pretty good! We upped our number of lessons and we are finding some new people to teach.. we´re still lacking, but it looks like we will be making this area burst in just a few weeks. We just need a little more help from the members and I´m sure we will be doing well! Today are transfers, but I´m pretty sure I will stay here! I´ll have to let you all know next week.. haha but don´t get your hopes up I´ve only been here two and a half weeks, don´t think President wants to get rid of me that fast. Hope you all enjoyed conference! I loved the Saturday sessions, but unfortunately couldn´t watch Sunday.. But I will leave you with this:

We have to be in this world, but we don´t have to be of this world.

Hermana Imbler