Adventures of Hermana Martines

Sent from my iPad > On Oct 28, 2017, at 12:39 PM, Chelsea Anne Martines < chelsea.martines@myldsmail.net > wrote: > > PICTURES > 1. Monday when I jammed my finger, I had ice for a couple days haha > 2.our cute fall decorations/ Halloween decor!! > 3. One of the other murals/paintings, it is beautiful > 4/5. My compañera, hna mallet and I in our mirror selfie hahha and > matching mission shirts > 6. Another mural/painting in the new buildings! > <mime-attachment.txt> > <image1.JPG> > <image2.JPG> > <mime-attachment.txt> > <image3.JPG> > <mime-attachment.txt> > <image4.JPG> > <mime-attachment.txt> > <image5.JPG> > <mime-attachment.txt> > <image6.JPG> > <mime-attachment.txt> Sorry more pictures! I forgot! Some of My Spanish scriptures, with the cute case I got! and the sunset the other day you could see on the 6t...

Sent from my iPad > On Oct 28, 2017, at 12:03 PM, Chelsea Anne Martines < chelsea.martines@myldsmail.net > wrote: > > Hola Todos, > > I hope you are all doing well!! I have made it on my mision here now for 1 MONTH! Yay! Our 1 month mark was yesterday, so I am 1/18 down haha. It has felt like 2 or 3 months though because the time here is so weird??!! Each week feels like a whole month because we are doing so much stuff haha. So we got our flight plans yesterday as well!! YAY! CRAZY! So me and most of the other girls are leaving next monday, in a week, on November 6th to Argentina!! we leave at 8:50 to go to the airport in Salt lake and such, but our flight is at 2:11 that afternoon. We go to Atlanta first, then that night we go at like 9:30 to Buenos Aires! Ah! That will so so cool! But so it is over night, so we don't get there until 12 hours later, at 9:20 that next morning on Tuesday the 7th. But my companion doesn't leav...

Hola Todos, I hope you are all doing well!! I have made it on my mision here now for 1 MONTH! Yay! Our 1 month mark was yesterday, so I am 1/18 down haha. It has felt like 2 or 3 months though because the time here is so weird??!! Each week feels like a whole month because we are doing so much stuff haha. So we got our flight plans yesterday as well!! YAY! CRAZY! So me and most of the other girls are leaving next monday, in a week, on November 6th to Argentina!! we leave at 8:50 to go to the airport in Salt lake and such, but our flight is at 2:11 that afternoon. We go to Atlanta first, then that night we go at like 9:30 to Buenos Aires! Ah! That will so so cool! But so it is over night, so we don't get there until 12 hours later, at 9:20 that next morning on Tuesday the 7th. But my companion doesn't leave until the 8th on Wednesday, so she will be alone until then after we all leave :(, but be adopted by another group of girls! So this week I discovered that I am no longer a p...

Hola Todos, This week has been pretty good, much better than the last! I learned so much this week. It is the most amazing opportunity to be here (once again), I know I've said that before but it really is so so true!! I love it with my whole heart; there is no place I would rather be and I know I am supposed to be here. There's no doubt. Monday we played volleyball again, we are starting to do that for every exercise time haha and we're basically professionals now. It is so fun!! Our whole district plays sometimes, but the elders somestimes will go and do something else instead but its okay haha. BUT I keep bruising my thumb!! my poor pulgar (thumb) has become purple almost every time, lol I don't know how I keep hitting the ball with my thumb?!  Tuesday we had an AMAZING devotional! It was with the missionary executive directors of the church! Elder Brent. H. Nielsen and his wife spoke to us, and it was the best fireside here yet. They answered so many prayers and que...

Quote of the week: Spencer W. Kimball said: "I have learned that where there is a prayerful heart, a hungering after righteousness, a forsaking of sins, and obedience to the commandments of God, the Lord pours out more and more light until there is finally power to pierce the heavenly veil. ... A person of such righteousness has the priceless promise that one day he shall see the Lord's face and know that he is" This week a lot happened. I guess you don't anticipate when hard times come usually, haha, that's definitely not easy to learn. Our district went through some tough things this week. Me, and my companion did. But part of serving the lord, and striving to learn to be a great missionary, includes difficult downturns. But the important thing to help you in those times, is to look to the Lord for grace and mercy, and to remember the reasons you're out here serving God!  Monday was good, I got two adorable packages from some friends which was such a...

Sent from my iPad On Oct 7, 2017, at 4:54 PM, Chelsea Anne Martines < chelsea.martines@myldsmail.net > wrote: So my first few days in the MTC have been pretty good! I have been exhausted though and it is hard to remember everything we have done in the past few days. So I got here on Wednesday at 1:15ish. That day was stressful and long because we had woke up at 4am. We went to the salt lake temple for 5 hours after I got to salt lake, and then we went to dinner after. It was so nice and fun to be able to go to the temple with my extended family! I love the temple so much. I was so tired though because I got barely any sleep the night before, so I kept almost falling asleep in the temple and at dinner!  The next day was when I reported to the MTC. Me and my mom went running a little that morning, and got packed and ready, all dressed to go. I ate some breakfast and then we had to get going to Provo, from Layton to meet my other family then go to the MTC! We ate at an argenti...

So my first few days in the MTC have been pretty good! I have been exhausted though and it is hard to remember everything we have done in the past few days. So I got here on Wednesday at 1:15ish. That day was stressful and long because we had woke up at 4am. We went to the salt lake temple for 5 hours after I got to salt lake, and then we went to dinner after. It was so nice and fun to be able to go to the temple with my extended family! I love the temple so much. I was so tired though because I got barely any sleep the night before, so I kept almost falling asleep in the temple and at dinner!  The next day was when I reported to the MTC. Me and my mom went running a little that morning, and got packed and ready, all dressed to go. I ate some breakfast and then we had to get going to Provo, from Layton to meet my other family then go to the MTC! We ate at an argentine restaurant and then went to the temple to say goodbye and take pictures. It was so sad and emotional. They droppe...

Hola todos! > > So I made it to the mtc! The missionary training center is what it > stands for haha. So I am here for 6 weeks until November 7, then leave > for Argentina! I'll send my address out later if you need it to write > me or send me anything. But I'm really busy right now so I've been > writing this email in between breaks so I'll find my address later. > It's also in my Facebook. > > So funny story real quick, when I left on Tuesday with my mom for > Utah, the plane had TVs and everyone was watching movies. But > missionaries can't watch regular tv haha, and the old guy next to me > was watching baywatch! Haha of course I couldn't watch that as a > missionary, but it had zac Efron in it! And I feel asleep on him on > accident!! Ahhh! Haha embarrassing it was funny, he just said it was > alright but laughed anyway. At least I didn't drool on him. Later I > was exhausted that day b...

SORRY MORE I FORGOT TO WRITE!  We decided that English is the first Language, Spanglish is the second language, then Spanish in the third part! Jaja we are good st Spanglish. It was funny today we we were reading the Joseph smith story, and I said josé smith, in Spanish in accident! Haha y mi compañero y yo were testing each other on Spanish words earlier today, and she told me them in English but I thought she was just talking to me, saying like 'I'm sorry' and I was like uh what for? You're fine haha! But then I realized she was telling me to say 'I'm sorry' in español! Jajaja!  Everyone here is so good at Spanish, the first day after I got my companion and room we went to class after being there for 30 minutes! They all knew Spanish already so welL! I was beginning to question if I should be in an advanced class..haha, and everyone has such great amazing testimonies! We met our branch president last night, and everyone shared why they were on misions, and...