Little Popcorn

Hola!!!

I loved all your emails!!! 

Everything is still great here. I just love it here! I cant even tell you how much I love it.

Today we got to go to the temple again, and that was great! 

Spanish is really fun but it definitely gets harder everyday. Lots to learn. I love it! 

My district is SO awesome. They are the 8 people that I study with/spend basically every minute with. Me and Hermana N have so much fun with them. We just said goodbye to all the older kids who have been here at the CCM for 6 weeks! It was sad saying goodbye to all of our friends but also exciting because now they get to leave the CCM and be real life missionaries!! I am so happy for them. 

Me and Hermana N are slowly getting better at teaching. This week we taught a woman named Ana. She is SO sweet and we adore her. It is fun getting to teach people about something you love so much, and we definitely have had some tender moments teaching these people. We also sometimes get discouraged cause we cannot say all that we want, but then we remember that we just need to try our best and do all that we can to invite the Spirit into the lesson. We just have to have faith and work super hard! Good thing that is what we do all day.

Some funny things that happened this week: 

-The Latina Hermana's who are our BEST friends call me Hermanita Palomita... cause my last name starts with Corn and they think its funny to call me Little Sister Popcorn. I think it is the best.

-We live next to a club/bar thing...and they had a fiesta the other night and it was CRAZY! In the middle of the night we all woke up to fireworks. We felt like we were at Disneyland.

So much to write and so little time. 

I just hope you know that I love you and I pray for you everyday! I know I have been called here for a reason and I am so glad to have this gospel in my life. I know that Heavenly Father knows each of us and that he sends angels to our lives to bless us and help us in hard times. I know He loves you!!! 

Being a missionary is the best. I have so much to learn and so much room for improvement and I am excited to work hard.

Love you forever and for always!!

Hermana Cornelison 

Safe and Sound

Hola!!!!

Where do I even start? Well, I am SOOO happy here in the CCM. Flying here was so surreal, and it all went really well. The CCM ...MTC... is really small and also really nice. I LOVE IT!

When I got here I was greeted by Hermana Jesse Thompson! She lived in Stover at BYU! It was soooo comforting to see someone I knew. Honestly though, everyone is SO nice here. At least we think that they are since we don't speak the same language.

My companion is Hermana Naeata. She is half tongan and half samoan. She is from Dallas Texas and is HILARIOUS. She plays the Uke and she is teaching me tongan. She sings pretty songs to me!! I laugh SO hard everyday with her. We are the only two girls who are from America in our CCM group. All the other girls speak spanish. So you could say that we have a lot of fun trying to figure what people are saying every day. Mostly people just laugh at us. We love it.

So me and Hermana M. are teaching a man named Pedro Morales. He is a super nice guy and we have had the opportunity of teaching him 4 times, in spanish!!! The first lesson was okay but we left our second lesson feeling a little discouraged. We wanted to say so many things but we have such limited spanish. So we decided we had to work harder and we prayed and prayed it would go better the next time. The next day we had a lesson with him and we went in with faith that it would be better. IT DID! We really felt the Spirit guiding the lesson and he even teared up a little. We were so happy that he could feel the Spirit and he agreed to come to church!!!! It was so awesome. We knew that God had answered our prayers and we are so excited to teach him again.

Some other fun things that happened this week:

The Latina Hermanas taught us how to sing I see the Light from Tangled...in spanish!!!

I was giddy.

I spoke in church!!! EN ESPANOL the WHOLE time. WOOO!

Today we got to go to the Guatemala City Temple. It is such a wonderful place to be.

We also got to go outside and walk to a store. It was the first time I actually felt like I was in another country. It is really gorgeous here. Nice people!!!!

I love Spanish! It is challenging at times, but it is SO worth it when you get to testify of this gospel. I know I will learn it. I really love this gospel and I know that God hears and answers our prayers. You matter to Him.

Well, I do not have much time...But I hope you know I love you and I am praying for you daily.

Thank you for being in my life.

Love you!!!

Hermana Cornelison

   If you want to reach her, her email is: rachel.cornelison@myldsmail.net.

    Her address at the mtc is:

                    Sister Rachel Jean Cornelison

                    Guatemala Guatemala City Central Mission

                    Guatemala Missionary Training Center

                    Bulevar Vista Hermosa 23-71

                    Vista Hermosa I, Zona 15

                    Guatemala City 01015

                    GUATEMALA

I know that she would love to hear from you all !