May 26, 2014
Hola mi familia!!! I am so happy to read about all of your
fabulous news! I hope you are enjoying your day off! I am! Hermana Martinez and
I are going to take a nap later today! We are a bit tired after our mountain adventure last week.
This week was super crazy!!! We were in a trio again because a sister who
had extended her mission went home at a weird time during the transfer. We have
one more week until transfers and her companion, Hermana Woodbury is with us for
that week. She is one of the sisters I will be living with in Provo after the
mission. She works in an area next to ours, and she is our sister leader, so we
work in her sector and in our sector! It is crazy and hard but it is fun!!
We
started playing women`s soccer on Thursday nights this past week. You know how
all of the churches in the U.S. have basketball courts. Well in Chile they all
have canchas de fùtbol (street soccer courts outside) It is fun! But it is just
starting so not many came, and then the lights outside didn't work so we ended up
playing ping pong instead!
On Friday night we had an activity that we put on for
missionary work. We organized it with our Mission leader and it was a like a
advanced 18 de Septiembre. We had everyone come to enjoy a folk dancing night.
So people danced la cueka, and ate sopaipillas and we had a folk dancing/singing
group come and perform.
Javiera´s dad has a group of singers and dancers who
play instruments and sing while others dance. They are all firefighters, or
family members of firefighters. Their performance was amazing and the activity
was so much fun! As missionaries we also did a funny skit! Everyone loved it and
so many investigators came! 
The Relief Society provided all of the food! It was
a great success and really helped Mario and Yocelyn who were able to come.
Mario and Yocelyn came to church this week! As did Mirta, and old
investigator, and Fernando. Fernando is struggling so please pray for him, we
are going to teach him this week and help him prepare but he might not be
baptized this Saturday.
Mario and Yocelyn are progressing but they need lots of
prayers, as does Felix. We weren't able to visit him a lot this week because we
need members to enter, but he didn't come to church. Please pray for him!
This
week we found a less active sister whose family inactivated when she was 12 and
now she is grown up with a husband and 3 kids. She wants to come back to church
and so we are teaching her and her 10 year old daughter. Her husband is not a
member but he is never home when we go because he works out of town, but we are
working on helping their family. The mom is named Angie, and her daughter is
Anet! Please pray for them! We are working on finding more people and helping
them all progress, but we need to focus on these people right now. We also
couldn´t visit Cesar and Jasmine this week because they were out of town, but we
are still trying to work with them. Thank you for your prayers!
The best thing that happened this week is that Cesar received the Aaronic
Priesthood!!! Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!! So exciting because now he can baptize his other
daughters!!! I am so grateful for the Priesthood that our loving Heavenly Father
restored to Joseph Smith. I know that this power and authority is only given to
men who are worthy members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints! This is the church of Jesus Christ, the only one that has His authority and His
revelation. I am so grateful to be a member of His church and to have the
opportunity to share it and help others come unto Him and enjoy the richness of
the gospel!
There are so many things that I learned this week, but what I loved
most is that in personal study I read a little of preach my gospel that will
help our investigators, and I read the Book of Mormon, and the Bible, and Jesus
the Christ. This week I was reading 3 Nephi when Christ comes, and I just was
able to read and learn from our Savior and His example in all 4 of these books.
I am so grateful for our Savior and for his forgiveness.
On Sunday, my companion
gave a talk on forgiveness. She challenged us all to think about someone that we
have not forgiven yet, and to ask for the Savior´s help to forgive. I want to
challenge all of us to do the same. We cannot receive forgiveness if we do not
forgive. Our Savior and our Heavenly Father can only forgive us if we forgive
others. The best part is that they are so willing to help us forgive others. I
know that sometimes it is hard, but as we look to the Savior, and we ask for
His help and His strength to forgive, He will help us. I love you all so much!
You are so amazing and I and so proud! Have an amazing week and know I am
praying for you!
Love, Hermana Harris
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