I want to welcome you to my blog. I have truly enjoyed putting my book of remembrance together and I hope that I continue to do so. There are elven post here. If you get to the botton just click on the link that says "older posts". I hope you enjoy it!
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Family Pictures
Here are some pictures of my family!!!
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| Jason, lea and me |
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| Our family |
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| Nancy, Ryan and Lea |
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| lea |
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| Our family |
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| My nieces: Mati and Kameily |
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| Keally and Mati |
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| Dad and Isabella |
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| Lucas |
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| My sister and her daughter Daniella |
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| My mom and brother |
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| My family! |
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| My parents and Keally |
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| Grandma Theda and Lea |
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| Grandma Margarita with my aunt Nora and cousins |
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| Grandparents: Amador and Margarita Donoso |
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| Great grandparents: Jose Luis Riquelme and Beria Mercedes Campos |
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| My Grandma Raquel |
Monday, December 10, 2012
Goals for the future
I love doing family history work. It brings such peace and comfort to my life. Family history is so essential and important in our lives to help us grow and help our loved ones receive the ordinances that need to be completed. At times when I haven’t set a time to sit down and complete it I’ve felt empty and disappointed in my self. I know that I can do better and so can my family. It is essential for the Plan of Heavenly Father.
Define in writing a character trait that you desire to work on in order to realize more success in your future family history efforts.
I hope that I can be more diligent and less distracted. Sometimes when I’m doing family History work I get distracted easily and I wish that I can just focus on it and get as many things as accomplished as I can.
Write specific goals you feel to set for yourself concerning your future work in family history and temple service. Consider breaking the goals into short, medium, and long-term.
Do about 40 batches of indexing a week. Attend the temple once a month. Find at least six new family names to do ordinances for by the end of the year.
Identify challenges that may derail your goals.
Some challenges that I may encounter are not having my computer with me because I’m on vacation, not having all the resources that I need to find names and not able to find a babysitter on time.
Make plans that will enable you to realize your goals. Don’t just identify what you want to do, also state how you will do it.
Set a time daily of 10-15 minutes to work on indexing. Either have my husband watch my daughter or do it when she is sleeping. Set a day and time of the month in which both my husband and I will go to the temple. Find a babysitter a couple of weeks before. Prepare each day to be a worthy temple recommend holder by obeying the commandments and keeping my covenants. Set out a day for about three hours in the month and work especially on my personal family history. I need to make sure that there are no distractions and that I have the needed resources that I will need to accomplish my goal.
My Dreams
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| ---Goal 1--- Lose 4 lbs. By January 1st, 2013 | Daily:
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| ---Goal 2--- Have all A’s next semester | Daily:3
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| ---Goal 3--- Find six new family members to do ordinances for by the end of the year | Daily:
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Saturday, December 8, 2012
Family Records Retention
I decided to collect some family pictures. I collected some from my mom that she was able to send to me. I also got in contact with some of my cousins that live in Chile. They were able to share some pictures with me through Facebook. I decided to make a video that included some pictures that I was able to collect. Here it is, Enjoy!!!
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Ancestral Histories #2
Luis Amador Donoso was born the 22nd of March of
1922. His parents were very well of. They own a lot of land in the town of
Pichidegua. Amador loved school. He started school when he was ten and excelled
in all his classes although he didn’t have any school prior.
He has always been a hardworking individuals. He would work
for his dad on his lands.
Luis got married at age 17 to Margarita Acevedo. She was 15
years old at that time. Prior to their marriage he had a relationship with
another woman which he had a child with at the age of fifteen. She was sent
away and never got to see Luis ever again. They had a son together. Luis first
son never meet him until late adulthood.
After he married margarita they had their first child a year
later and then thirteen kids. He had to work mornings and nights. During the
days he works in his dad’s land and at night he work in a metal mine. He was
always working and looking for ways to improve their family’s needs.
In every house that they lived in, he built with his own
hands. He would always share with his children that when he was young he was
very tall for his age. His father would leave at night to go out and drink.
After a few hours Luis would go to the bar and carry his drunk father home.
Amador was always seeking for opportunities. In 1970 his
family and him moved to Santiago to get a better life of living and they did.
They went through a few struggles, but they were successful.
In the late 1990’s they decided to head back to Pichidegua.
He again built their own home. In 2006 he passed away. He has always been known
as a very knowledge man. He always had a great heart and was always willing to
serve those who he loved.
Ancestral Histories #1
Margarita de las Mercedes was born the 18th of
September, 1924. She was born in Pichidegua, Chile. She had a horse, which she
loved. Margarita wasn’t able to attend school very often. She had to ride her
horse for miles and miles to attend school.
One day when she rode her horse to school, she had to cross
a river which was flooded. When she did so, the horse fell into the water and
the current almost took it away. But she was able to save it. She only attended 3rd and 4th
grade.
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| Margarita |
Margarita was married at age 15. She married Luis Amador
Donoso in Pichidegua. It was an arranged marriage. One day Amador looked at her
and decided that he liked her so he told his parents. They offered a dowry to
margarita’s parents. Her mom did not want her to marry at such a young age. But
her dad did so she got married. Luis Amador gave a cow as a dowry.
For the first time of marriage, she did not want to be with him. But she was a little forced to. A year after their marriage Margarita had her first child. It was a beautiful daughter. After that and not too much longer she had about twenty more children which only thirteen survived. My mom is the eleventh child. Margarita was a very busy woman and mother. She did not have time for all her children, so the kids took care of each other.
They lived in a huge home that had ten rooms and a lot of
land where the kids were able to play.
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| My mom and grndma |
Margarita was also a industrious woman. She was great a
cooking so she had her own bakery business that helped support the big family
that they had. Margarita and Luis were able to open a restaurant a little
sooner than they thought. They had several individuals employed.
In 1970, Amador and Margarita decided to leave the small town
of Pichidegua and headed to the big city of Santiago. There they were also able
to sell and build a home.
After many of their children married, they headed back to Pichidegua. They build several homes, which had enough rooms for several of their children if they wanted to come home. They had many chickens and land in which they grew corn, potatoes and several other vegetables.
Margarita always had a resentful feeling towards her husband
until late in their lives. A few years before Luis passed away they apologized to
each other for all the things that they had done.
Margarita is still alive and lives with her oldest daughter
in Pichedegua.
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Personal Biography
I
was born in Santiago, Chile. On December 21, 1991. I grew up mostly in one home
until I was 10. We lived in Maipu, Santiago, Chile. Our house was beautiful! From
kindergarden to fifth grade I attended an elementary school that was called, Collegio
Republica the Guatemala, in Chile. I had great grades. My best friend was
Denise. She was a little older than me but we will always do things together at
school.
At
that time in my life I has two siblings, a sister and a brother. Both of them
are older than me. My sisters name is Carolina and my brother is Patricio. When
I was about eight, my sister got the opportunity to be an exchange student in
California, United States. She stayed with some of my cousins there. When she came
back and started college, she told my parents she wanted to go back. She did!
She left Chile and went to Oregon to stay with some family friends. Soon after
my brother thought that it wasn’t fair that my sister was the only one in the
United States so he also came to the States with a student Visa. He was able to
start college here. Two years later my parents and I made a trip to the United
States in the winter of 2001. We loved it in Oregon. After a month of vacation
we went back to Chile so I could start my school year. By the beginning of
November my parents have made the plan to move to the United States because my
mom was experiences mayor depression.
That day I called my best friend to tell her about what was happening. I
was so exited to make the move!
I
was able to finish fifth grade a little earlier than usual because I has great
grades. My school friends through a party for me and wrote me notes about what
they thought of me. I was lovely to hear them say such nice things and to also
hear about many boys that had crushes on me.
We
left Chile December 2, 2002. Our first stop was in Atlanta, Georgia. Huge Airport!! I’ve never seen so many
African Americans in my entire life. I was such a great experience for me to
realize that not all Americans were blonde with blue eyes. Then our second stop
was in Salt Lake City, Utah. My aunt and her husband picked us up to spend a
couple of days with them.
Then
we made our big entrance to Oregon, where my siblings lived. When we got out of
the plane there was no one waiting for us! We did not know how to communicate
with anyone. We waited for about an hour until my siblings came to pick us up.
They forgot what time the plane landed. The drive was beautiful! We were able
to make it to their small apartment and be there as a family.
We
went through really hard times at first. My dad did not have a job so we
weren’t able to help out as much. My siblings were living a crazy life and my
parents went through some struggles with them. For several months my parents and
I slept on the living room of our apartment, because my sibling had a roommate
in there too. After a few months, the roommate was able to move out and my
parents finally got the master room!
Our
first day at church was different. I didn’t understand anything. I would only
look at the cute boys. I remember going to my Sunday school class and only
having three kids there. It was shocking to me because my class in Chile was
much bigger. Our teacher also gave us licorice. It was cross!! I did not want
to eat it.
The
next Sunday was better! I had one kid come up to me and he gave me brand new
scriptures in Spanish. I was in shocked that his parents would of bought those
for me but they probably noticed that I have not brought them to church the
previous Sunday.
I
started sixth grade in January. I had to get caught up with my immunizations,
so that’s what we did over the winter break before school started. Once school
started it was a whole new experience. I didn’t know and I didn’t recognize
anyone, except for one girl named Whitney who was in my Sunday school Class.
I
had to follow around a student from Mexico named Blanca. She was supposed to
help me around the school. Well, she wasn’t a big help. She did not like to do
that. I did not know how to open my locker, and she would never help me. So I
had to ask one girl whose locker was below me to help me to open mine, her name
is Kelli.
Blanca
one day also stole my P.E. Clothes from my backpack. Well.. That’s my story
with her. At the end of that year she finally moved, and I didn’t need her
anymore. But interestingly, my senior or junior year of high school I received
a call from her. She called to apologize for all the things that she had done
to me. I told her that it was okay. I have no doubt that she felt guilty for
all the mean and stupid things that she did to me.
My
mom, Isabel, got pregnant with my little sister, Keally. She is asorable and so
fat. I can’t believe I have a little sister. I could be her mom. I’m a little
like her mom!
The beginning of my
adolescence was primary focused on understanding as much as I could of the
language and the American culture. When I lived in Chile, I was well known in
school, I was the student body president, I was involved in various activities,
I had excellent grades and I was one of the top students in my class. When I
came to the United States, everything changed. I was not at the top of the
chain anymore. I felt, simply, invisible. During that time, I put all my energy
into trying to fit in by learning the language and watching my peers. By next
school year, I was able to speak the language well enough to communicate with
others and actually have friends in school. I remember that moment very
vividly. I felt less of an outcast and a little more integrated into the
culture. At that time, I realize that it was the beginning of a new experience.
I still had to learn how to behave socially, but I did not have to worry about
not being able to understand and speak the language.
My high school years were different than a normal American teen. Many teens go
on vacations or out with their friends during summer time. That was not the
case for me. Both of my parents had to work in the summer and I had to stay
home to watch my little sister. I was not able to have the opportunity to spend
time with my peers during breaks. I was always around my family because they
needed me to translate, watch and teach my little sister the things that she
needed to know for next school year. That is part of our culture. Family and the
well being of our loved ones always come first.
Even though I didn’t
spend my adolescence summers with my peers, I was taught to be more
responsibilities. At times I felt like my sister’s mom. To this day she likes
to pretend that I am her mom. Spending my summers with her had a huge impact on
my adolescence. I became more mature because I was the homemaker while my
parents were gone and I did not only have responsibility over myself but also
my little sister. To this day, because of that experience, I have grown to
learn about responsibilities and how to handle struggles with young children
which has helped now as my husband and I raise our daughter.
One of the best experiences that I had in my adolescence was joining the high
school dance team. I did not only gain more friendships through dance team, but
I was able to focus on just me rather than my whole family. That was my time. I
was in dance team for four years and I made long lasting friendships that help
me find my role as an adolescent not as an adult. I was able to learn so
much about myself through that experience. Dance team was a small escape that
allowed me to be a teen. This experience helped me understand that everyone
needs their own time. Even though a family should always be united it is
important that children feel like they are children and that they do things
that children need to do.
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| Dance Team |
Getting my driver’s license was also an experience that opened the door to more
freedom. In Chile, individuals do not get a driver’s license until they are
eighteen. Getting a driver’s license as young as fifteen was a little shock to
me. Why would they trust teens on the road? Getting my driver’s license was
huge climax in my adolescence. At that time, I did not feel left out at all
because everyone was doing the same. I was able to fit in with my peers and
gain more freedom to do the things that I wanted to do with my friends.
After
Graduating from High school, I meet Jason, my husband. He came to High school graduation to “actually
see Ben Butterfield”. What a lie!! He was there to see me!! Well after that we
started talking.
Jason
and I knew each other from high school. We never really talked to each other
because he was a Senior and I a Freshman. Actually, at a Mormon dance he
tried hooking me up with a boy my age ( aka Nathanael). Secretly, I did
have a crush on Jason that year. But because he was so much older than me, I
never figured anything could happen. When Tara and Andrew got married, I helped
at the reception. Nancy (Jason’s mom) asked me if I could take a picture with a
cut out of Jason (He was on his mission). I obviously said yes. I guess
his mom sent him the pic and he couldn’t remember my name. He though it was
Sylvia. Well... Kinda close. I invited Nancy to my graduation. I was so excited
that she was going to come because she was my first Seminary teacher. I love
her. Surprisingly, Jason wanted to come too. When they came over to
congratulate me, I saw him there and I froze. I was like wow... he is here..this
is awkward... I don’t know what to say... So I ignored him. I gave a hug to his
mom and I was going to shake his hand, but he gave me a hug. I really didn’t
talk to him. My sister and my parents did. I just talked to his mom.
Well my sister and his mom were
secretly talking on Facebook trying to figure out how they can get us to go on
a date. I guess Nancy told my sister that Jason could help register for classes
and then my sister told me. Jason and I talked on Facebook a few times after
graduation. When it was time for registration he did help. I actually knew more
than him!!!!
That summer we started dating and by the fourth of July we
were girlfriend and boyfriend. We attended BYU-I together. Jason Proposed on
December 25th, 2009 in front of the Christmas tree. He had to go
back to school and I stayed home working and planning the wedding. We got
married April 16, 2010. I was eighteen and Jason was Twenty two. We married in the Portland, Oregon Temple. One of the
happiest days of my life!
We lived
with his parent for a few months to save some money. Then we came to BYU-Idaho together. We met so
many wonderful people, the Hallams, Diamonds, and Melancons, Bradys. We got
pregnant with Lea around December. We found out we were having a baby in
January around Jason’s b-day! In April we found out that we were having a girl.
Leiahna Erika Andrus was born September 16, 2011. She is the joy of our lives.
School has been hard especially because I want to be home with her. She
recently turns one and she is a blast. During the summer we with Jason’s family
went to Hawaii. It was so much fun. I also watched Keally my little sister
during the summer.
The fall
semester is going great so far. We are both in School and will graduate this
semester. Can’t wait to be done!
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