I love the people of Chile!!

                                                                                                                                        May 6, 2013

 

Hola my beautiful family!!! I love you all so much! Thank your for your emails!!

 

                     I had an amazing week! Let me give you a quick update on our investigators:

We have Cristina, Marta, and Loreto who we were working with this week. We were praying and we fasted on Sunday that all of them would attend church. but only Loreto came. But it was a miracle that she came! Her husband had to work and she was afraid to go alone, but we visited her on Saturday and she said she would come. We also had a really neat experience with Loreto on Friday. We weren´t suppose to visit her until Saturday, and we were suppose to have a mini planning session after companionship study on Friday, but for some reason we forgot and went out to work an hour early. We passed by her home to tell her about a church activity the following day. She was on the phone and listened to us for a little and then we left to work. While we were working we got a phone call from our friend. He asked how our planning session went, we realized we had forgotten and hurriedly returned home. At the end of our shortened planning session we got a call from Loreto. She said she needed to talk with us urgently. We were so worried. We said a prayer that everything would be okay and then went over to her house. She was having a hard day and she said that she called us because we had walked by when she was having a hard time, and she had thought that that could not have been a coincidence. Her faith is incredible! We were able to share our testimonies, and help strengthen her immensely that day, and I know that it was because our Heavenly Father knew that His daughter needed His help and His love that day, and so He sent us. I am so grateful that I was able to be a part of that incredible experience.

So, Loreto came to church, and she loved Sacrament meeting. We promised her that if she brought a question or concern to church, it would be answered in that meeting. She did, and her question was answered! She loved church but still has some concerns. So, please pray for a miracle, we need her to come so that her baptism date doesn´t fall through. We are preparing to have two baptisms this month, but I know that as we increase our goals each month, and continue to work as hard as possible, the Lord will prepare a way for us to be able to increase our goals, and set the goals that He desires. Loreto wants us to meet with her Mom and Dad this week, so we are very excited for that. Her dad has read the Book of Mormon multiple times! I love all these people so much, and I know that the true gospel of Jesus Christ will bless their lives so much! I want to share it with everyone!

As branch builders, we are also working with less actives and I love all of these people so much as well! It is amazing to see their progress. We have the opportunity to organize a branch activity each week, which is sometimes difficult, but the branch is being very supportive and we are going to start meeting with the new branch president and new ward mission leader who were just called and work together closely with them.

We are having a Mexican night this Saturday, with fun games, and tacos, and each organization (relief society, priesthood, YM, and YW) are building a pinata this week because we are having a pinata competition. Last week we had Karaoke and a dessert competition and we had more people than at any of our other activities, but we are excited for the numbers to keep increasing. My companion and I have a blast serving together, and are always laughing, when appropriate of course. It has been fun to work with her. I will try to send some pictures of us.

This week, I have been trying to talk more, and it has been amazing to see how the Spirit helps me know what to share, and it touches the people that we are teaching even though it is in broken Spanish. I am excited to be more confident and more talkative this week!  I love you all and hope you have a great week! With all my love, Hermana Harris!