Well this is it

Well all,
this is it, I cannot believe that my time has come to an end ya. That is just insane, I honestly feel as if I just started my mission. ANd the thought of leave just kills me. Okay so get this, the familia Bustamante from Salinas, came to see me today in Tres Cruses that made me sooo happy, I can hardly express how I happy I am that they came.

Okay a little infor for todos. Dad, I will be realesed alla en California at 4 pm in the capilla de Highland. okay i will be realesed in Cal in the church of HIghland. ummm

KIm: I will be arriving to Oakland through American Airlines at 11:54 in the afternoon, I will look forward to seeing you both there

Bekah can you please send this email to Aunt karen, that would be great.

Dad, wait am I sharing a room or ...I just don´t understand, just to warn you I have ALOT of stuff that was just packed in the best that I could. I will try to send stuff of to spokane. We´ll see what I can do.

Well, thank you all very much for writing. Thank you for all of your love and support I am looking forward to see you soon.

with much love
hna deb yorke

stress attacks body

Okay, so no one warned me to let me know that EVERYTHING goes wrong your last cambio.
So we moved back into our house, our origanal house on Tuesday finaly thank goodness, I needed to get into my own house. Now the only thing is, is that I got sick this week too. On Monday my stomach was hurting all day, and by that night around 8 pm I just was not feeling good at all. That night I didn´t sleep at all I was awake every hour with the strong feeling that I was going to throw up. So on tuesday my poor companion packed everything into the car. i basically lifted myself out of bed to get into the car, and up the stairs to our house. Where I got into bed and stayed there for the last two days. I never did throw up and i am not sure if it is something that i ate or what but i am pretty sure that a big part of it is stress.

I today still feel really crapy and very weak. But it sucks soo badly because I only have a week left to work and here I am sick. But...I am just going to keep on going and pray that I will be back to normal soon, especaily before I get home. Yesterday the Hna Ashby called me to see how I was feeling and kind of got upset becaue I hadn´t gotten a blessing yet. So yesterday afternoon the zl came by and gave me a blessing. THe Hna Ashby said that she wanted me to get a blessing crawl back into bed and have the faith to let the blessing work. I woke up this morning almost feeling normal. But now... after actually doing stuff... Don´t feel so hot.

ANyways besides that whole drama...things are pretty good. I didn´t hear from many of you this week so I hope all is well. Don´t be embrassed to not write me ... especaily next week I WILL be checking my email. ANd you know what would be the best, is if I recieve an email from EVERYONE in the familia for the first time in my whole mission.

Anyways...we still need to find big time here in Ferroviario so... me being sick and out of working isn´t helping the work at all here. Please keep us in your prayers and the hearts of the people here so that they will open up to our message.

The friend of Esther-Juan Carlos (Cacho), well, he disapeared last week and we couldn´t find him. So we were really worried and bumbed that one of our only two invest. who are really going anywhere disappeared. Well great news... he came back this week, he had to take a trip to ROcha a different departamento to see or help his mom or something yo que sé. But he´s back now. So please keep him in your prayers.

Okay well, my energy is getting lower and lower so i am going to let you all go. my stomach hurts. But i love you all, and look forward to reading your emails next week.
love
hna deb yorke

it ´s freezing in Uruguay

Hola todos,
Okay so I am a day early I know it is because myldsmail will be down tomorrow. So...i might check my mail again on friday so that i can recieve my emails that have not yet been sent.

Well, let me think... we had the baptism on saturday and it went pretty well,there weren´t too many people there,por lomenos, everyone that was to participate in the program was there and the familia of Esther and Matias and then maybe 3 other people. But out of those 3 other people it is a friend of Esther and her husband and we are now teaching him. His name is Juan Carlos or Cacho as they call him. He is basically oro. He was listening years ago and told Esther after the baptism that he wanted to be baptized. WE taught him a first last night and it went pretty good. although it was a little crazy in thehouse last night.

I am very happy with the decision we have made, although we are now starting to pay for it. YOu see as I said the prest. of r.s. didn´t agree with it... she didn´t sustain esther in sacrament meeting. ANd now is making our livesa nightmare. Just being really mean and cruel. And it just makes me so sad because... we had a really good relationship with her and now... it is totaly different. ANd the fact that she is just blinded by her pride it is so sad. it islike sheis 15 and jealous or something. Usually the comments are made towards me... so I am hoping that she thinks that it was I who made the decision and that I just convinced my companion to go along with it so that when I am gone it won´t be too bad for my companion. SHe just makes childish comments like..."poor guy who ends up marring la hna yorke" or telling us that we´ve gained weight (which actually we have dang it, because of the family we are living with). or saying stuff about the other new converts about how they trust her more then us.

I wish Icould just sit her down and talk to her like adults, about how... well one... we have no right to judge, and she has no right to decided who she will and won´t fellowship it is her calling whether she likes the person or not. BUt more talk to her and say "look I am sorry that you don´t understand why we baptized Esther but you know what I KNOW that it was what we were supposed to do."

But oh well, what cha gonna do. So we move back home on Friday adn I am so excited. It has been really nice to live there but tambien...like i said i´ve gainned weight. And this way i can controll a couple of things better and start jogging in the mornign.

Oh my goodness it has been so cold this week, you know how i said that it wasn´t really cold well,ever since that letter i have been freezing inpresionante.

Okay well, sorry but i dont´have too much time and this keyboard really kind of sucks. I love ya all. and hope to hear from you soon.

hey sparky... como andas...algo nuevo? como te sientes...estas vomitando o algo asi? Dime no he escuchado nada por un bueno rato...manda mis saludos a Drew ta? Te quiero.

bueno I love you all
love
hna deb yorke

the lessons we learn

Hola,
HOLY COW!!! Well yesterday I cumplited 18 meses en la mision. If that isn´t weird I don´t know what else is.

Well I must say that we have had probably the strangest winter. Okay I know I have only been through one but this is nothing like the other one. We have had only about 14 days of cold in the whole winter time (well at least that is how it feels) and that was in the end of May and June. We are now in July and it is just about always humid and hot, although we are getting some rain today.

Anyways, well, we had an interesting week, I can hardly believe that it is already thursday. That is insane. The temple was really good on Saturday, Beatriz was unable to go but Agueda went. And she just loved it.

We are doing well in the house of the familia martinez although it is still strange to me. But we heard last night that our house is just about done, on Monday after the entravistas Prest. Ashby will go by and check out the house and then we should be able to move back on Tuesday. It really has been wonderful to live with the familia martinez but i will not lie I am excited to move back to our house.

Okay so we have a baptism this saturday which is good. It is a women named Ester and her 8 yr old son Matias, she has been listening to the lessons for 2 yrs now, but has been waiting for some papers to get married. It is kind of a long story, but just a briefe. Her background is not that great. She has 14 kids, only 5 live at home and 2 of those 5 are already baptized and we will baptize matias on saturday. It has been really hard with this situation.

As I explained in my letter to the prest. this week it is amazing how words can be like poison and it is being fed to us with out even noticing, like leonti in Alma 47. But since we got here some people have been telling us nothing but bad stuff about her, i tried to form my own opnion but after time it just kind of went with the flow of what they were saying. sorry no time but, we as a companionship had to make a really tough decision whether or not ester would be baptized, the prest. de sociodad del socorro said that she and her presidency would not support the baptism at all and none of them would go. she believes that she should not be baptized,and i did too.

but after talking to prest. ashby things changed a bit, he said "hna i can´t make this decision you have to but all i have to say is that if you are going to make an error make on the side of mercy just as christ would do and did do many times". That made me think alot, and it is so true. Christ said "he who is without sin let him cast the first stone". i have no right and had no right to judge... that is all there is to it. Ester will be baptized and I believe we have upset Ana ( the prest. of R. S.) quite a bit, and it hurts, hurts to disapoint her or have her not want to talk to us or trust us, but. The salvation of this women is more important. It was a hard situation, because no one could tell us what to do. Only we have the power to recieve revelacion for our area and investigadores.

It is funny how if heavenly father wants us to learn something he´ll make sure we do si o si. It is hard to express in a quick e mail exactly everything but it is a lesson that i don´t ever want to forget.

just so everyone knows today have no time so sorry, there will be no personal emails. Bekah i am glad to hear that you enjoyed your trip. Bear... sorry... and i am glad that you are okay. Rachel thanks,

Kimberly thanks, and thank you for being so great. I wrote Kim Jacobsen so if you want to call her that would be good to. I would love to see her.

I love you all so very much
love hna deb yorke

wow what a week

Hola,
What a week, what a week. Well actually it´s been a long couple of weeks.
So I think I should feel you all in on the house problem a little better first. So as I said our bathroom had a leak for a long time. About 2 weeks ago our dueño came up to the house ( we live above the garage of our dueños) and saw what kind of condition it is in. And let me just tell you that they have the nicest Guayan house that I have EVER seen. Well anyways there is a member (not going to lie and older lady who likes to be in everyones business) who is the cousin of our dueño. so anyways friday the 7 of Agosto they all came over and this lady tells us (she is part of the other rama so we don´t even know her)... that we are going to be movin in with her on monday or tuesday (of last week), and then the workers would come and fixed the house. She said "don´t worry we´ve already talked to the mission prest. and it´s all been approved". Yeah all this done without consulting us or our zone leaders, so we were both pretty ticked off.

Well, monday comes around and we start packing and we call her to see if we can come move in and she says no, that she´s not ready and until some man from Montevideo comes that we were not to go anywhere. then on Tuesday a different member the one that is going to repaint the whole house comes, expecting us to not be there. Says that we need to be out by tomorrow (wed) so that he can start. We call our leaders talk to them, call up this member and she says that no we can´t move in... she basically likes to be in charge of everything. Mean while I am not to thrilled to have to move during my last cambio especailly not to live with someone I DON¨T KNOW. Who doesn´t understand the life of a missionary how we come and go we study we don´t hang out and chat. The Uruguayans love to chat.

Anyways so finally we decide to drop the subject and I decided "I don´t care, I am not going to let this run my life... the work must go on."
So Monday 17 Julio we have zone conf. and afterwards the Prest and his wife and the asst. all come over to our house ( thank goodness it was basically clean because we were not expecting that they didn´t tell us until we got to the conf.) Anyways prest wasn´t too happy with what has happened to the house and really doesn´t want to have problems. He said that work was to be started asap. The zone leaders asked me how quickly we could move and I told him I would call the member. I call her and she says that she hasn´t heared anything and that we can´t move in yet. I asked her serveral times "when is the soonest we can move in" She said "I am going to call Hno. Blanco (the man that will be painting the house) and I will find out this this and this ." I put my foot down and in a nice way told her that she isn´t allowed to do that. That the leaders are the ones in charge and I would be calling them to find out. I don´t think she was too happy about that.
Sorry really long story
So anyways that night at about 9 pm the zone leaders called me and said that si o si we had to be out of the house by mañana (tuesday). I tried to call the hna ALL night and there was no one home. Tuesday morning we got up and got to work I finally got a hold of her at about 9 am and told her that we had to move in that day and that i tried to let her no sooner and pidi disculpas. Well she said that we couldn´t move in, that she couldn´t do it tuesday or wed. I told her "hna we have no choice we have to move si o si today" and she said "well who told you that" "our leaders" I told her.

I then called the zone leaders and let them know how frustrated i was and how much I DIDNOT want to move in with her. They said to try to talk to her one more time and that if we really couldn´t we would figure something out. Well i finally got ahold of her again and talked with her she said okay to 4:00 o´clock to move in. The zone leaders would be ther to help and so would a member with a van (one of the few members with cars that we have).

Well she came by at 2 and asked if we were ready I said no. That I had said 4 and that we have a lot of stuff. As much as I told her she would not listen she was convinced that we only had clothes.

Well 4 o´clock comes around, we get most of it loaded up not all, ( we had to bring our mattresses because she didn´t have some for us) anyways, my companion and i go by to ask her a question... it´s only about a block and a half away, and she for the first time (because she kept saying no we couldn´t see the room) for the first time showed us the room.

Oh my goodness this room was sooo tiny, there was not enough room for anything, maybe for eather my stuff or my companions but not even, no room at all. We went back to the leaders and told them.

To make this super long story a little bit shorter, we are now living with the family that has the van. They live afuera, en el campo... yup I now know how it feels to live aboutt a mile from your neighbor. We are living with a GUAYAN family. It´s the familia that we passed pday with last week. It is definantly weird.

I´ve decided that it is the lord telling me "whether you are ready or not you little mission bubble is going to pop." Yup, there is the mom, dad two daughters one that has 27 yrs and the other 17 yrs, the 27 yr old is not active and has a 3 yr old boy, so I thiknk that is to help me to get ready to live with wyatt. :)

It´s weird, the tv is always going the radio they move about doing their thing... the tv ALWAYS ON. I am not so sure that I like that.

Okay so ... a little bit of a break from the crazy life that i am in right now... oh yeah they said that it should only take about 2 weeks to fix the house. I hope so, I love it here but i just want to be in my house... plus i feel bad that they have to take us into town and pick us up EVERYDAY.

okay so ... on saturday... i rolled my ankle. It is still pretty swollen and definantly different colors. We couldn´t work on Sat. sunday we took it slowly ... it still hurts a bit and i can´t walk at full speed.

Let´s see, on monday we had my last zone conf. Man was that weird, and i had to give my sabio testimony that is deffinantly something that i never thought and never wanted to happen.

This saturday we will be going to the temple with Beatriz and Agueda and the sociodad del Secorro and I am so excited, they are just the cutest. and they are friends now.

Okay well ... I think that I am going to let you all go now, it´s been kind of a long crazy letter.

I love you all much and konw that you are all in my prayers
love hna deb yorke

what a week

Hola todos,
Well, I can´t believe that yet another week has gone by that is absolutly insane to me, but at the same time I am glad that finally this week is finally over. It was such a long week and it all started last monday on teh 3 of July. Pero por suerte the baptisms went very well and the both of them are doing very good.

The only thing is that it rained and rained and rained that night. There was such a storm that it shock the capilla and there was a tone of lightening and thounder.

Well, I can´t believe that I have entered into this tapa de mi mision. I have to have my pdays planned out very very well to make sure that I get everything done that I want to do. Today we decided to make it a girls day and so we are here at the house of a member just kind of hanging out. We made pancakes and they are making luch the classic ñiokis which I will be sure to make for you all when I get home. We are also just going to enjoy this time together. WE are with the two missioneras de rama Paul and Patricia they are 17 and 16 and they are just wonderful.

Well, next week is the time that is coming which I never thought would come and to tell you the truth which I never wanted to come. WE are having our zone conf next week which means it will be the time for me to give my sabio testimoni. YIKES!!!!! That is not supposed to happen.

A ver, still trying to find, haven´t had too much luck this week, and the problem with our house isn´t helping. Oh that´s right I didn´t tell you. our house is messed up. It was really really dirty when we got there we cleaned alot and have just kind of gotten used to living there. Well our bathroom has had a leak this whole time and now it is dripping down to the house of our dueños.

Well, I will cut this drama short because the truth of the matter is that I am sick of dealing with it and it is just getting annoying. But the gist of it is that the mission has to pay to fix up the house and everything and we have to move out while they work, there is a lady we don´t know who without telling us planned everything talk to the district prest. because this is a district not a stake who talked to the mission prest. well more like the asstents and it has been decided we would live with her. I explained to the asst. that she is not even in our Rama and that we don´t konw her, and that it is weird and going to be hard. If it is for two weeks like they say then that is fine. We don´t know no one is telling us anything.

Well I am just all together sick of it. So I am not going to talk about it anymore. Okay well, I am going to let you all go. I love you all very much and hope that all is well.

love
hna deb yorke

holy stinking cow...

Hola,
Holy Cow!!!!! I cannot believe how fast this cambio has gone by, it is absolutly insane. I almost feel as if I am sufficating at the thought of lacking so much time.
So today we got to go to Montevideo even though we did not have cambios. Yup I am still with the Hna Stanfield which means that I have a total of two companions that I will be with for more then 6 weeks. But anyways, we went to Montevideo because we had a special mission conference. The first time ever in my whole mission that I was together with the whole entire mission. We had a special conference to meet the new mission Prest and his wife. Prest. Ashby. They seem really really nice and that it they are just going to be wonderful. I am really sad that I will not be around for longer to get to know them better.

The Hna Ashby doesn´t speak spanish but Prest. does... his spanish is a little rusty but I guess that is what happens when you pass 30 yrs. without using it a whole lot. I dont´know if I told you all but he served his mission here in Uruguay back when it was the Uruguay Paraguay mission. And then his son is here in this mission too. So that is also interesting.

It is weird to have such a young prest but cool at the same time. They have 8 kids but only two that are here with them a boy who is 16 and a little girl who is 10 I believe. They are cute, the little girl Anni sang Soy un hijo de Dios. It was so cute to see her trying to pronounce the words. It´s strange, but I like it at the same time.

Well, I got a chance to see hna Christianson and the two elders from my mtc district Elders Peterson y Chandler and we took a pic together one last time. I cannot believe that Hna Christianson is going home. And I got to see the Hna Neighbor too, that made me soo happy I just love her soo much. She really is the companion that turn out to be more of a sister then anythone else.

Anyways, So this week... well, I got the oportunidad to talk to the new prest. before most people. See we will be having two baptisms on Saturday, Agueda y Beatriz... yup that´s right Beatriz quite smoking. And I am sooo happy... I knew that she could do it. And then there is Agueda who is just amazing... I feel like she is my golden convert... 5 weeks she is getting baptized after 5 weeks... no more 4 weeks because we didn´t meet her until about the 2nd week here. But she was being taught by the elders before and just wasn´t going anywhere. Anyways, on Monday night we found out something, and found out that Agueda would need to be interviewed by the mission prest. The sad thing is that he wasn´t going to be able to come over here until next week and so we were going to have to change her fecha which I really didn´t want to do, and neather did he. Well, we worked it all out and she will be interviewed by the zone leaders and be able to be baptized on Saturday... I am so very excited. Now I just hope that the rama comes out to support us.

Anyways, so right now the world cup is goign on and really you can´t go anywhere with out hearing about it or seeing parts of it. I was rutting for Paraguay but they lost a long time ago. Yesterday, France beat Portugaul which means that on sunday will be the big game France against Italia. We will see who will win.

Anyways, I hope that everyone is doing well. Remember that you are all in my prayers and please keep my investigadores in your prayers too, and that we will be able to find people to teach becasue we really don´t have that many.

bueno
les quiero
hna deb yorke