Happy New Year!

Well it was sure nice to skype with you all the other day. Bummer it was cutting out like crazy but I didnt feel too bad because Ill be seeing you all soon enough. My last transfer starts TODAY. I cant believe it. 6 weeks can be a long time but knowing how fast the transfers fly by Im a little worried! I cant believe its all gonna be coming to an end after this transfer. I guess all I can do is work my little rear end off as best as I can to take advantage of every last minute.

Mal Im startin to really worry for ya. When I see the poor missionaries that struggle with sickness or something like that here in this mission it makes me really sad to think "oh crap my sister is one of those!" That must be a struggle. Im sorry. Im prayin for ya! It was kinda wierd to think that you could possibly get home before me! I hope not! But if you do Ill be glad to be able to get used to home life together!

Enough about that though I hope you dont think Im trunky. Im not. Im really happy and I love my sector and ward and everything Im doing so much. 

I am very tired today. Our neighbors had a party 2 nights ago til 3 in the morning, the did that all the time but this one was by far the worst. Mal do you remember that day when we had to work at the hangtime party and they were blasting dubstep the whole time? It was like that loud I swear. But on the onthe other side of the wall behind my pillow. And there were drunk people talking and yelling practically in our front yard. So we called the police at 1:30 and they came and told them to turn the music down so they did until they left and 5 min after they left they turned it up even louder. I feel like if you lose sleep on the mish you never get it back. So Im trying not to be a zombie haha but yeah it was a funny experience. Id never called the police before. let alone in chile. 

This week we had a really cool experience. So We went to visit Elizabeth Quiñones the less active and her family that came with us to the christmas concert. Only elizabeth and her husband that is evangelical were there and he asked us about something about life after death and we began to talk about that and of course he was a little skeptical so we were showing him scriptures from the bible to help him see  and understand what we were talking about and we specifically talked a lot about baptisms for the dead and idk I felt kind of bad because sometimes its so hard to teach people that have different ideas and show them in the scriptures without it turning into a bible bash. So I was really trying to keep the spirit but also defend our beliefs and express the Lords love for him and stuff. At the end of the lesson though it was AMAZING because Elizabeth started to cry and told us that since she was little she has wondered if there was any way that her grandma could be saved because she never learned how to read so she didnt understand much about the bible and jesus christ so she just prayed to a little virgin statue and never got baptized, so elizabeth said that she was pretty sure that this was her answer that she needed to get baptized in the temple for her grandma. It was such a miracle and so inspired. Im so grateful to know that God knows what he is doing far better than I do and that if we listen to the spirit we will know what to do and say. We are so excited because her and her family are so receptive and so loving. Im so blessed to be serving where I am! 

Well the 4 other hermanas moved into our apartment today, so we are a little squished but I think its gonna be a lot of fun. (mom and dad I got pizza for all of us, some of them paid me back but yeah, youll be seeing that one on the card) Ill try to send some pics in the next few minutes. 

Ill be praying lots for Chris. I hope their family is doing alright! 

love you all!

Kyrstin Millett

The 6 girls in the apartment now

Our christmas eve sleepover in the living room, with an american breakfast in bed. 

Feliz Navidad!

Well. I just have to say that I am FLLLLLLIIIIIIIPPPIIIINNNNNGGGGG out excited to talk to you guys. I havent been this excited for something in a LONG time. I think I am more excited this time than the other two times. Idk porque but for reals its gonna be great to see you all and talk to you guys again! Plus the goodbye wont even be sad because next week I start my last transfer so we will all be seein each other soon enough.

Well. Where to start. This week has been different than I would have expected. Omar didnt get baptized. I wish I could explain the crazy feelings and thoughts that have been running through my heart and my mind. It was kinda hard on saturday. He has been an amazing investigator and he was so dang set on baptism. He had his interview, tried on his baptismal clothes, we went to see him EVERY DAY to make sure he was ok. But ONE little thing made it all blow up. He didnt tell his girlfriend. And she is pretty controling, so by the time he told her the DAY BEFORE she flipped out and it all came crashing down. It was sad to see how so much progress and faith and happiness could be forgotten in the blink of an eye. So saturday my companion and I kneeled together in a little room after a meeting we had with the whole mission and we asked for the lords help and comfort before calling omar to hear his final decision and when he said no we just tried to put a smile on and jump on the metro back to our sector to work. So we didnt talk about it much nor did I let myself think about it too much because I didnt want to get desanimated (unmotivated? idk what the word is) but sunday night I was thinking and I couldnt help but think of Mario, my first investigator that got baptized in the other mission and how heartbroken I was to see him turn away from all he had experienced and learned as well. And idk it was cool because I just felt such a profound love and concern for mario and omar that I knelt down in my bed with the lights off and prayed for both of them, I started the prayer feeling a little sad and a little bit like all of our efforts were worthless because what do we have to show for it? But as I prayed I felt a great calm and comfort come over me and I knew that Heavenly father was very much aware of Mario and Omar and that he has a plan for them, he knows what satan will do to try to stop it and he knows how to help each of his children come back. I felt very strongly that Heavenly Father was very aware and grateful for what I had been able to do for them. Even if I leave my mission and neither one is active in the church I felt very strongly that I along with my companions had been able to touch and change their lives in a way that will help them for the rest of their lives, and that one day they will return. Whether it be while Im here on my mission or no, Omar AND Mario are gonna come back. It was a really cool experience. I havent felt such strong promptings from the Lord in a loooong time. I cried the whole time. Im so grateful for a heavenly father that knows us and speaks to us personally. :)

So please pray lots for omar this week. I cant ask you to fast for him because it says I can in the manual misional so I wont...... but if you decided on your own that you wanted to do that this fast sunday Im just saying I wouldnt be opposed....

Well. Other than that we are starting something SUPER COOL in the sudameria sur area. We are only reporting 2 key indicators 1) baptisms and confirmations and 2) total sacrament meeting attendance. So we had a really cool meeting about it and why we were doing it  and I am really excited because it just changes your focus to a higher level of thinking and it puts your efforts and thoughts to where they need to be. Hard to explain but its gonna be really cool Im really excited. 

Well I gotta go but Ill be talking to you all soon enough! Im happy and doing well, Im so grateful for this wonderful sector and the wonderful people we are working with. Even though we had a bit of a dissapointing saturday we saw so many miracles with other investigators afterwards so I know that God is taking care of me and my comp and we are gonna be doing great! Sorry not gonna be, we ARE doing great :) :)

With love, 

Kyrstin Millett

District and Zone Picture

 Divisions!

Cookies with Javiera and Maria our investigators (we were gonna make them for the baptism...........but that didnt happen. so we took them around to investigators to make their day)

 pic of some of my favorite graffiti in the sector. Puente Alto is FULL of graffiti, gotta love it

Happy!

Well. It has been a fantastic week. Im really just happy happy happy. I think this week seemed like it was a year long. But jam packed with awesomeness. 

So in reply to the weekly family update:

I have less than two months. Im hyperventilating. Gonna try to push that out of my mind. 

Mom, I havent had any stomach issues. Ive been doing really good health wise, lets pray that continues because it seems to me like everyones body starts breaking down at the end of the mission and I do not want that to happen to me!

Ill for sure let you all know when I get my package. Hopefully soon! Im really excited haha you guys talked about the april trip (which I am also FREAKING OUT EXCITED to find out about) and when you said you wouldnt be doing much else for christmas I thought that meant you werent gonna send me a package either because mal couldnt get one anyway. So I wasnt expecting one, so then when I heard youd be sending one I got REALLY EXCITED. I love christmas. 

Haha its good to hear that Hna Orton came over! I love her. Haha I thought you would like the Coronado mom, I assumed the boys would think it was gross. But I figured they should try the drink I have every time people invite us over for "once" (their substitute for dinner) we always have bread with avocado or completos with ecco (or coronado) or herbal tea yummy stuff. And Manjar is the best. I hope you love it on your icecream. BTW I bought some more food/treats to bring home today so that and the last things we bought for the family we are giving a little christmas to should show up on the card. 

Becca tebbs is engaged. BLOWS MY MIND. I still feel like a little kid. I feel like time froze after high school and we are all too young to get married, at least until Im ready to. Wierd wierd wierd. But yay Im so dang excited for her. Haha hopefully she gets married after Feb9th so I can see her at her reception.

Haha last week the kiddos got into the iphones this week and my package candy last week. Sounds like they are being real stinks!

Well, now lets get to how the week went. It was pretty crazy but awesome. 

Monday: After writing we had a NDH with Elizabeth Quiñones (a less active) and her family that arent members. It was really cool because they havent had missionaries visit them since a little bit after her baptism 13ish years ago, so its nice to be able to start out fresh and be able to help them come to the church now as a family! We really felt the spirit and they all said theyd read the book of mormon :)

Tuesday: A crazy emotional day. First we had an awesome zone conference and then me, hna Clawson, and Hna Altamirano hopped into presidents car and he took us to the temple to see cleber get his endowments. He was so happy! I was so happy! I hadnt been to the temple in 8 months! It was so special to enter in the celestial room and see hna altamirano and cleber there. It was sad though because from there president and hna wright had to take hna A straight to the airport so soon after entering the celestial room I had to say goodbye to Hermana Altamirano right there in the celestial room. There were many tears shed and it was a little hard to contain myself. She has been one of my greatest supports and one of my best friends here on the mission its crazy to think that it might be quite some time before I see her again. :(. I hope she moves to Utah or something. Thatd be great. But yeah overall it was a great day. 

Wednesday. District class and a million lessons. We taught omar, he is doing great and is ready to be baptized this coming saturday. Im so excited. Please pray for him lots this next week he is gonna need it because the adversary always fights hardest the week before a baptism. Haha afterwards we ate completos with his family. Its like a hot dog with a TON of tomato, avocado, and mayonaise on top. They are delicious but messy and filling. They are so huge that there is just know way to take bite without half of the toppings going up your nose haha. I thought I was good after eating just one but nooooooo... they gave us three. I walked out feeling like I was gonna explode. 

Thursday. We had divisions, I went back to the north side of the mish. Back with the cuicos. Goodness am I grateful for my sector. Sotero is my home sweeeeet home. It wsa good though because I was able to work with some hermanas struggling with animos and stuff and I was able to relate to them because Id experienced the same thing in the beginning of my mission so I felt like the Lord was able to work through me to help them. 

Friday. Lots of Planning and SERVICE. We visited the family pinchetti (the family we bought food for) It was hard to see them struggling so much and going through such a hard time but it was so nice because later that night we were able to drop off boxes of needed food and we brought an hermano to yell "haaaaallloooooo" (so they wouldnt know it was us by our gringa accents) and we all ran away. As I was running I couldnt help but think of how crazy good every simple act of service feels. There I was running around in a foreign country and sweating bullets in an ugly old skirt and a pony tail. But I couldnt have been happier. 

Saturday. We had a new missionary meeting. It was an answer to prayer and EXACTLY what I needed to hear. President really focused on The Lords role and character as our defender and Satans role/character as an accusor. He really helped me to see the mercy that the Lord has for us imperfect people. Even if we mess up he doesnt accuse us, nor listen to satans accusations. He desires to forgive us, clean us, and fill us with confidence. 

Sunday. we went to the christmas concert in Pocuro. It was wonderful, even if David archuleta wasnt there this year it was really beautiful and we got to go with Elizabeth Quiñones and her family!

Well Im outta time but I love you all and will be talking to you soon!

Chaito!

Kyrstin Millett

Zone conference, our matching sock buns. Not on purpose.

Me and Hna Altamirano on her last day (she made me a "trunky agenda" my planner for my last transfer)

The family altamirano (Hna A is the grandma, me and hna flake her daughters, and hna clawson and christensen her granddaughters)

All of the missionaries that were with Cleber in his endowments session

With cleber after the session (Cleber is Kyrstin's investigator from the beginning of the mission)

At the christmas concert at the temple with a family we are working with :) love them. 

Quick Letter

Well. Im sorry I have very little time so ill try to get through everything fast. And Ill send more pics next week. 

so. This week we worked really hard and things are going really well. We are excited because omar is doing so great and is really excited to get baptized in 2 weeks. 

Please pray for javier to make the decision to get baptized! He comes to chruch every week and is studying and everything but sometimes I think he just looks too deeply into things and doesnt realize that the answer is right in front of him. 

Me and my companion are doing great. She is so sweet and and amazing missionary. I cannot wait to see what type of a missionary she becomes in time because she is starting it off so well and helps me so dang much. I love her. 

Well. Tomorrow I get to go to the temple for the first time in 7 months. I am absolutely feaking out excited to see cleber and other people from my old ward. 

Im loving the christmas decorations! We have been decorating. Next week Ill send you a pic of my neighbors that live in front of us, they go all out. I think god know what he was doing me sending me to my house where I can look out and see all that christmas cheer. I love this time of year. 

Well. Christmas is coming up. We are already a third of the way through our advent calendars! Crazy crazy. 

Mom and dad, I spent a bit today on the card, there is a family we have been teaching for a long time and just recently the dad and his son lost their jobs and they are struggling to get by and arent gonna have a christmas.... so we bought them a bunch of food and are gonna get them maybe a little something next week to give them a little christmas...... I hope thats ok. 

I am loving it here and having a great time. I am also FREAKING OUT seeing all of the people coming home. I about flipped out when I saw that pic of natalie. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE TIME!?! Crazy crazy crazy. 

Well I love you all and I hope you guys have a GREAT WEEK!

Hermana Millett

ps this is an awkward selfie pic of me and hna berthelson on divs :)

zebras at the zoo today

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Thanksgiving Gone! Christmas Here We Come!

It's been a good week. They are all good but just thought Id let you know that it was another good one :)

Shoot mal. I hope you are ok. Its THE WORST having to go out and work on a sick stomach. And yes we have mantecol. But Id still be happy to get it from you and eat it because its not in everystore and its not the cheapest. Yay Im excited. Whats your address? I wrote you a letter in estudio del idioma but I couldnt send it today because I didnt have your address. 

Oh yay Im glad that Curt came back! Hope he is doing well! Tell him Hi for me!

Goodness gracious. I just miss you all but in a happy way. This may be terrible but today I have been really happy thinking that Im gonna be able to spend time with you all in 2 months and a week. It will be a great next 2 monthsish but man will I be happy to spend time with you all. Im excited. Not trunky. But maybe beginning to be excited. 

Hansen is home. Wow what the heck happened to time. I also got Grammys november letter and she mentioned that Sam (Katies... friend) was home. I think I had a heartattack. Its wierd to think back on a year from today, what I was like, what was going on etc. It was Clebers baptism and the day I bawled my eyes out as I decorated my pathetic 8 inch Christmas tree (before we got the big one) Now this next week I am going to be able to enter the temple with Hna Altamirano my trainer (the day she leaves home to Peru) to see cleber receive his endowments. HOW COOL IS THAT. And today we will be decorating for Christmas but this time it will just be really really happy. 

Agh tell all of the boys that I am freaking out about how LAME it is that they didnt want to decorate. Goodness the little scrooges need some christmas spirit. I was just telling my comp that one of the number one things I am excited for next year is decorating for christmas to the Osmond family Christmas CD. AND JUST SO YOU KNOW I 100 PERCENT EXPECT YOU TO PUT UP THE GARLANDS THIS YEAR. I didnt label them and organize them for nothing. I made it as easy as possible so you could do it while Im gone and I will be offended if you dont do it tonight. So dont let me down guys. ;)

Haha well I think at least jake is gonna like the present that I will be bringing him home.....

Yeah so as far as skyping.... I dont know that Id be able to do the morning for you guys. Because morning for you is Lunch hour for Chile and Almuerzo (especially on Christmas) is sagrado. So idk if we could find members that would let us skype during lunch time or if we could work our lunch with members around that.... so in the tarde would probably be better for me. But what are the plans for the family christmas party and stuff? I can try and work around that stuff I think or I can do it in the eeaaarrllly morning but I think it would make me sad the rest of the day thinking about it already being over haha. 

Well. This week was good. My comp and I tried to contact a lot. It was nice. I really feel so much happier when I am sharing the gospel with everyone. And yes mal we are working with El es la Dadiva tambien! Its so great. Its literally the coolest thing to me that the church ifs buying up all the advertising on you tube for a day and advertising in Times Square and stuff. Cool cool cool. Please guys pray that this Christmas we can find a lot of new investigators that are truly interested. That would be the best Christmas gift ever. 

Well. I dont have a ton more to say. sorry that was a bunch of business and stuff. the biggest miracle I saw this week was just how much God loves us and blesses us for just going to work. Haha on saturday in MLC I had to run out every five minutes to go to the bathroom.... haha my stomach wasnt too happy with something I ate..... and then I was just bajo de animos (like... not feeling so motivated?... theres not a good translation into english) and my comp was feeling kinda bajo de animos too so then we just prayed and it was funny to see how many things happened to make us laugh and that we found some really cool people while contacting. So then we felt better and knew that God really cares and desires to help us when we are feeling down :)

Omar is doing great. He is all ready for baptism. We had a cool little FHE with his family and a member family this week. Im really excited for him :) Thank you for the prayers. 

Well I gotta go, love you all LOTS

Kyrstin Millett

Pictures:

On thanksgiving night eating stuffing on the fancy paper plates we got from the anderson family (THANKS SO MUCH!) with rootbeer that i was able to get my hands on and some of the extra pumpkin pie filling we had left over cooked in a mug in the microwave......... good stuff :)

And the advent calendar begins :) (Once again to the anderson family THANK YOU! We love the advent calendar :) )

At a lesson with an investigator named Gabriela

Me and Hna Leishman (a mission friend) at MLC

Eating Gelato today for Pday :)