Terrys lose a son, I gain a missionary brother!

Hey hey hey waddup my little gringos. :) Today is a sad/happy day for the Terry Family. Were losing one brave young man thats taking two years of his life to serve the people in Chile. Im so unbelieveabley proud of you bro. Youre gonna kill it.:) Share that strong testimony of yours and the people of Chile will be changed forever. CANT WAIT TO TALK IN SPANISH I MEAN CASTELLANO WIH YOU. QUE TRISTE QUE NO VA A APRENDER EL MEJOR IDIOMA EN TODO EL MUNDO. Castellano. Che. Vos. Cheee. VOS. Hah.

This morning I read a quote that Id like to share with yall :
How do I change?
If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.

BE HAPPY YALL. MOM DONT CRY DAD DONT CRY EMMA DONT CRY PAUL DONT CRY LUKE DONT CRY. MAX WILL BE OKAY! HES IN GODS HANDS!!!

Well well well. This week was a week full of miracles. We had a conference meeting and I learned soo much. My mind is like so enlightened right now. I FEEL LIKE I CAN DO ANYTHING! THERE CAN BE MILAGROS WHEN YOU BELIEVE. <i feel so inspired!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! President ayre talked about SUCCESS=THE VISION. and the vision is what we believe we can do on the mish. We talked about what is a succesful missionary and there was one comment that I loved... A missionary that has success is a missionary that has a testimony of the ATONEMENT. I love that. The more I learn about Christ and his atonement... the more I just wanna go out and run and scream this message to people. You could say Im a little EXCITED:) We also talked about success is knowing how to win. :) And then Pres showed a video... of......... MESSI. OH. OH. OH. Who wouldve thought that I would feel the spirit in a video of messi shooting his goals? WOW. I cried. HAHA. Messi is my hero. I wrote in my journal that Miss Marie the missionary WILL BE LIKE MESSI. I WILL WIN. I WILL FIND GODS CHILDREN AND BRING THEM TO THE WATERS OF BAPTISM.

Bueno and then Pres did something super embarassing and he called me up in front of everyone and he was like Hermana Terry is always happy. She always makes me happy when I talk to her. How do you do it? And my comp was like.. ITS TRUE SHES NEVER MAD OR SAD. Hahahaha. Its funny pres said that because now that I think of it... I am happy. Like truly deep down HAPPY. And I dont know why?! ALL I know is that this happiness comes from GOD. It comes from serving on this mission, not surface happy, but happy that God loves his children and he will use you to love them if you let him.  Thats joy people!  Pure Joy!  You love people in their heartache and pain and give of yourself freely to those God asks you to help, and hello happiness!   Thanks God for giving me the opportunity to serve in the best mission in the entire world.  This mission IS GROWING LIKE CRAZY! ITS AN HONOR to be serving in this time where the numbers are doublinggg. All thanks to he hermanasss. HOLLA.

They showed another video of ¨¨the race¨¨ The spirit hit me so strong and whispered to me.. THAT IS YOU. I wanna be like that girl. Nothing will get in my way.

And then Pres talked about how he wanted to start his own business and he kept failing.. and failing... and failing.. so many unfair things had happened to him. he had a day of just crying... he felt so useless. He turned on the tv and the micael jordan commercial came on. YOU guys gotta watch it. He says something in the video that hit me like a ton of bricks. ¨¨Ive failed over and over and over again but THAT IS WHY I SUCCEED.¨¨¨AND THEN THE SPIRIT WAS SO KIND TO ME AND GAVE ME A MEMORY THAT MADE ME APPRECIATE THE PARENTS THAT GOD HAS GIVEN ME. I remembered when dad got laid off from his job and it felt like the end of the world. I remembered the christmas where mom and dad were so worried about spending a dime on anything. But guess what came from this?! DAD HAD A THOUGHT THAT I BELIEVE GOD PUT IN HIS HEAD.. START YOUR OWN BUSINESS. And wow. Dad now has his very own business and it is growing like crazzy now. And mom supported you every step of the way.  She always encouraged you and faith it would work.  I even heard her praying for you and your business alot. Dad you are THE PERFECT EXAMPLE of SUCCESS. Miracles happen when we believe. I just know it. Thats how all the sinners and the sick were healed because THEY BELIEVED that CHRIST could heal them. I can do all things IN CHRIST!! It was truly a meeting that changed my mission.

So ya. Pres pretty much told us this month was special and that we needed to baptize alll of the anitgos investigadores that we had. No importa cuanto asistencia que tienen... baptize them all.

ME AND BABY G (jajaja my name for Hermana Gonzalez) WERE SOOO PUMPED!!!! WE HAD LIKE 20 old INVESTIGATORS THAT WE NEEDED TO FIND AND BAPTIZE BY THIS SUNDAY (LAST SUNDAY)

WE HAD 3 BAPTISMS READY TO GO yesterday... but they all canceled. It was a huge trial of our faith.. but I will say I AM SO HAPPY because I know we did everything and more to achieve our goal. WE FOUND an investigator ON FRIDAY that had all the lessons and was ready to be baptized THIS SUNDAY but had problems with the law of chastity. BUT NO IMPORTA because he wants to change. Thats whats so beautiful about being a missionary. I get to help people overcome their bad habits. I have faith Pablo will be baptized.

CHRISTIAN was so close to be baptized but in the end told us he feels pressure. its true. Weve reallly been pushing it with him. He is a smoker but for some MIRACLE hes done o one ciggarette a day. He told us on Friday that he really needed to smoke but when he tried to, he could move his ARM. And there was a pain in his chest. He told us that in that moment he elt God was really lookin out for him and wants to prepare him to be baptized and be a new christian. isnt that so cool??!!

And theres Angel. Hes 11 years old:) ES UN CAPO!! His two older siblings and dad are members. :) OUr goal is to have him and his mom be baptized:) FAMILIES CAN BE TOGETHER FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!

Pray for us. OUr goal at the beginning of his transfer was to baptize 3 souls. I KNOW. I KNOW I KNOW THIS WILL HAPPEN. I BELIEVE! :):)

Also this week President came to la boca and came with us to visit our investigators. LEGIT!!!! SO AMAZING!!!!

OKay well. IM SO IN LOVE WITH LA BOCA. I love life. Im praying for Max and you guys. ALllll my love.

HERMANA TERRYBLE.

 ok so I know you wont approve of this picture but we all take a picture like this when we hit our nine month mark.  Get It?  Nine months?  And birth is ready!  HAHAHA!  Dont judge people, we all gotta take the picture.  I dont wanna be left out.