Hola mi familia!!! I love you all so much! Thank you for your letters and your prayers.
This week was amazing! It was hard, but it was amazing!! We had a lot of struggles, but we learned so much. The best part of this week is that VALENTINA WAS BAPTIZED ON SATURDAY!!!!!!
I had the special opportunity to help Valentina prepare for her baptism...
Isn't she cute!!!
In preparing the font we were afraid that the water was going to be too cold, so we spent some time heating the water, and then all of a sudden, the hot water started working and then it was too hot!!With prayers and cold water--it was perfect for the baptism!!
Now we are working with her mom, Carlina, so that she can be baptized too, and they can be an eternal family!
It was a wonderful celebration with family and friends!!
She was confirmed on Sunday morning, but almost didn't make it. We were praying and a nice brother in our ward offered to drive us to pick her up. We got in his car with another young women and drove to pick her and her brother up. Their family was going to follow, but the meeting had already started. I prayed for a miracle that their family would be able to arrive in time. I don't know how it happened, but they walked in 1 min before she was confirmed. I know the Lord made sure they could be there in time. Everything was wonderful!
We have a new branch presidency that were sustained and set apart on Sunday. We are so excited to work with them and really strengthen this branch! They asked me to sing in Sacrament meeting so I sang, Nearer My God to Thee! I also got to sing in Valentina´s baptism!
The Lord blessed us with another tender mercy last night. We have so many changes in our area, including a new neighborhood that they built recently, and we weren't sure if it was part of our area. But now, we think it is part of our area, so we received a few references from our neighboring sister missionaries. . One of these references is Elie.. She had accepted a baptismal date, but she wasn't able to come to church on Sunday. Well we visited her yesterday, and also met her son, Eduardo, and her daughter-in-law, Katy. We had an awesome lesson with them, and they are all new investigators! We found a family!!! Heavenly Father blessed us so much, and we are so grateful! This week we are going to work really hard to keep finding.
Today we were in Concepción for our P-day, we were doing everything so my
companion can receive her carnet! haha it was a little stressful, but we did it
with the Lord´s help!
A funny story for this week:
We were leaving Valentina´s house, and she lives
on a hill/mountain. Well, they have mountain goats as pets...We were walking
down their stairs, and a huge black mountain goat was in the way. I took one
look at his horns and I didn't know how we were going to get past him. We
called Valentina´s brother to help us. Ha ha only in Chile!!
This week was amazing, with so many blessings and tender mercies. I have learned that although we have challenges and may get discouraged, that the Lord loves us more than we can understand. If we will turn to him he will be with us every step of the way. I pray that I can share this love with the wonderful people in Frutillares!!
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