Hola!! Happy Thanksgiving!! Disfruta Los Festivos!! Nov. 25, 2013
This week was amazing!!! We were going to have the baptism of Marcela on
Sat. but it has been postponed for a few weeks. It is okay, she has stopped
smoking, and is following all of the commitments and we weren't sure if she was
going to come to church on Sunday, but she came!!!! She is so amazing! Thank you
for your prayers in her behalf! She is doing so well.
Ramon and Maria were
struggling a bit, but we had a good lesson with them this week and they both
came to church! Our miracle for this week was Cristian. He is 21 and we met his
wife, Yesenia, one day contacting. She is a member from Peru, and they were
living in Santiago together with plans to get married. They are expecting a
baby, and he should be born this week! But Cristian was taking the lessons from
the missionaries in Santiago and he was going to be baptized on the 10th of
November, but his mom. who lives in Frutillares, wanted to meet his bride
before they got married, so they came here. And they got married about 5 days
before we met them, and they are going to stay here for some time because
Yesenia will have her baby soon. So, he is all ready for baptism, and has a date
for the 7th of December.What a miracle their family is! Ramon and Maria have a
date for the 14th of December, and Marcela either the 7th or the 14th. We
couldn't visit Camila but hope to help here prepared for baptism and have a
date. Please pray for them that everything will go well. Our biggest challenge
is finding new people to teach, we are going to work more with the members this
week. They are the key to strengthening the kingdom of God because they have new
converts, less actives, and they help find new people to teach. Without them,
and without the Lord, we as missionaries can't do anything. I am excited for this
week, and the miracles we will see and the challenges we will
conquer!
Today is going to be an awesome day! It was Hermana Valdiviezos birthday
yesterday, so we are going to heart attack her door, and then we are going with
the other sisters to eat lunch with a member who is making pizza for us. and
then we are going with Hermana Valdiviezo to the house of another member to
learn how to make queques or cakecays is how they pronounce it. It is like
muffins/cupcakes. I am so excited! This past week I got sunburned a little on my
neck haha and then I started peeling and that wasn't funny haha. It's okay, I now
use sunscreen. My goal is to look like a native Chilean. We will see at
Christmas!
This week was so awesome! I learned so much, and I love improving. It was
hard, but we saw the miracles of the Lord as we had 4 investigators come to
church. Last week we had 0, so the Lord is really blessing us. I want to be a
perfect missionary and so every week I strive to be better. This week I was
reading in the Book of Mormon, the story of Ammon and Aaron teaching the
Lamanites. I am reading in Spanish so I am a little
slower, I will try to finish by Christmas too! But anyway, I love this story
because it shows what a truly prepared investigator is like.
Hermana Amayas favorite scriptures is in Ch. 22, vs. 18 which says: God,
Aaron hath told me that there is a God, and if there is a God, and if thou art
God, wilt thou make thyself known unto me, and I will give away all my sins to
know thee, and that I may be raised from the dead, and be saved at the last
day...This scripture is the prayer that King Lamonis father offers in order to
know God. He had such faith in his prayer, that although he wasn't sure if God
existed, he was willing to repent of all of his sins, and give everything in
order to know God. This is how those who are prepared will be. They will have
this faith and this desire. This king wanted to kill Ammon at first, he wasn't receptive,
but as Ammon and Aaron continued to share their examples and testimonies, the
Lord changed his heart. Our investigator Marcela had a similar experience. She
shared with missionaries for years, but always said that she would never get
baptized. One day she prayed with real intent, and she felt like she should get
baptized. The Lord changed her too! These are miracles of the Lord, this is His
work, and His glory. We must share with everyone because He knows who is
prepared, and who will become prepared, and we are instruments in His hands to
find them, and help them.
I love you all so much and I am so proud of all of
you! I hope you have an amazing week and just know how special you are!! Love
you!! Hasta luego!
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