It's Beginning to Look a Not Like Christmas....

Haha wow it just keeps getting HOTTER AND HOTTER.... and I cannot believe its supposed to be Christmas next week... holy crap the time FLIES.  

Oh and yes.  I´m still in my area. I expect to be here for at least 3 more months possibly six more haha, my comp is still the same too! Like I said, president doesn´t make changes much, Hermana Jennings (a friend from my zone, nick and jackson emery´s cousin) finally left her sector El Golf after serving there for 10 and a half months.... so I think I´ll be here for a while! 

Yeah my christmas tree is pretty big! Whats great is that their are a billion little christmas presents under it, me and two of the others felt kinda bad that the other girls weren´t gonna get anything for their families so we all got them a couple little things and after a while all of it adds up, I hope they have a super special chrismtas! Its super great to see how each of the hermanas in my apartment tries so hard to make christmas really special for the other hermanas.  I love them all, they are so great.  

As far as temple recorridos go they are like an hour long and usually we will have 3 or 4 planned during the week, 2 or so on friday, and up to 5 or 6 on saturday but many times they fall through because the missionaries don´t plan it well with their investigators.  But yeah on a minimum we give 3 a week, and then maximum is like 10 a weekish? But yeah I LOOOVE recorridos. They are super great and they have been the number one thing to help me learn to teach the lessons well with examples and such and to help me learn spanish.  Oh and there are 2 other companionships that give tours :) 

The language is going well! Like I have experiences that remind me that I don´t know everything and that I am so far from fluent but I can express what I want and its not all that hard, the gift of tongues is so real! I´m seriously so greatful that Heavenly Father has helped me to feel comfortable with the language, I learn more every day but I don´t feel stressed about it so its nice!

Also, my mission doesn´t have a blog but you can add my presidents wife on facebook, here is her email so you can type it into the search bar and find her account: wrightbox@msn.com she said she will add you guys when she sees the invite! 

Agh so much business sorry! Jake, got your dear elder that you sent Nov 7th on Dec 10th.  So like a month haha.  Mom, I got one of the two boxes of Christmas stuff, I don´t know whats in it because the other hermanas wrapped it and put it under the tree but I told them to look out for my comps present so I can secretly wrap that one and surprise her haha but is there anything to set it apart from the other stuff that you gave me in general? I assume the second package got picked up by the elders before I had the chance to stop by the office and snag it... so we will see if I get it on thursday, if not I´ll stop by the office again (because the office is in the temple compound so its just as easy for me to pick it up rather than wait for the elders to pick it up and put it in the mail bag)

Have you gotten my package?.... Hope so.... if not it was a bunch of cheap stuff but I hope you get it! Let me know if so! 

Bueno.  Lets get started on the week.  We had zone conference which was suuuuper great, president talked about the atonement and the importance of understanding what it can do for us.  He talked about the healing power it has, the power of redeeming, and the power of comforting... and others but I don´t have my notes, but it was really wonderful.  I hope to have a better understanding of Christ when I return from my mission, I´m more than halfway through Jesus the Christ  and I´m loving it! Remember that Christmas wouldn´t have been special if it weren´t for the Atonement!

Also we had the Christmas Concert! So it was realllllly great and REALLY packed, it was kinda stressful saving seats for the investigators because the members were going CRAZY about how we shouldn´t be able to save seats for our investigators if they were only gonna show up an hour and a half early.  So we ended up having to sit in the seats to wait for our investigators instead of being able to be up and about contacting.  But the last night we didn´t stay for the concert we just got up and handed out reference cards, we did it kinda like we did the Hill Cumorah pageant but without costumes and stuff but I was glad that I had the experience of contacting at hill cumorah so that we could say and do similar things to get references, the third night we got about 20 (just me and my comp) so we were pretty happy! Then we all went and had language study in our apartment and watched the show from our balcony, that was fun too! It was really great to see how strongly people could feel the spirit during the christmas show!!

Agh.. I almost met David Archuleta.  We made friends with the lady in charge not knowing that she was the one taking care of Elder Archuleta for the weekend, so when she saw that we were super excited that he was coming she told me to come and find her ten minutes before the show and talk to her and she would discreetly introduce me and my comp.  But... we were contacting and we wanted to be obedient and not be there on the last night during the show because president wanted us to only watch the show once so because we had seen it the night before we had to leave and we missed meeting Elder Archuleta by like literally 3 seconds because as soon as we had left they came in..... bummer, but hey we were obedient and doing missionary work up to the last second! 

Also this week was Cleber´s birthday! We had lunch at a member´s house where Cleber is living... oh shoot forgot to explain this story.  So cleber is from brazil.  He has sooo little money and he is divorced, he works so hard to pay for everything for his son so the government will allow him the rights to see his son when he visits brazil, so money is suuuper tight, what makes things worse is that he got kicked out of his pieza (room? its not an apartment, just a room that people rent out) but the man renting it is a preacher of another religion and wouldn´t allow a Mormon to live in his house so after Cleber´s baptism he kicked him out... but Hermana Luz Maria allowed him to come live in the pieza that she rents out until he can get back on his feet and pay for his son and everything.  So we had lunch with her family and Cleber for his birthday on sunday and it was super great, I was so glad to see that despite all the problems he is having he is happy and faithful in the gospel.  Man I´m so lucky to have had the opportunity to teach him.  I seriously didn´t do anything because he came prepared but wow it makes me so happy to see how the ward is really taking care of him and how he has a little ward family here in Chile even if he has nothing else!

Speaking of Cleber, Dad did you accept his dropbox request? He told me he sent you one. If not, do it, because it has all of the pics that he takes with me and my comp and families in our ward etc!

The last thing I learned this week was that God blesses you for the little efforts you make.  My comp and I usually have our schedules full of appointments and stuff but I´ve been pushing for us to contact more even if its hot and sunny and we feel like we are going to die.  So we finally went and just contacted like crazy for a while, then we did it the next day, and then we started realizing that the days we contact more we feel happier! Even if they all shut the door in our face we just feel better at the end of the day! So we decided we would set aside time to contact every day even if its just a little bit because we can see the little blessings that come from it!

Bye!

Hermana Kyrstin Millett

pic of bowling last week with the hermanas from los platanos and pic of me by some grafiti...some of it is really cool!

I took looooots of pics of david archuleta... the zoom on my camera is THE BOMB.  I was not sitting super close at all haha

Prayers and a Christmas Tree

Haha first of all mal I never thought I´d hear you say chau chau besito.  They say that all the time here, or cuidese ya? or Un abrazo chau chau! And that stinks that you don´t have members to feed you, but what a fun place!!! We only have one sector that is really campo, maybe two, and I´m not gonna lie I think it would be really fun to serve there, mine is the most down town city part in all of my mission... it has its pros and cons, but I´d love to have somewhere pretty and quiet without all the city noise haha but I LOOOOVE my ward, we get fed every day and we have really soooo much support from the members its awesome.

Oh and mal, holy cow you are TAN!!!!!!!!

Anyway as far as skype goes family, send me some times that would work for you too, remember there is like a three hour difference my time is three hours later than you guys and I need to be back to my apartment by 10 or 10:30 so just tell me what works! But I´d prefer to skype you guys with just you guys in the house (Grandpa too if he wants!) but yeah Idk what your plans are but I´d prefer not to skype during the family christmas party or anything, I just want to talk to you guys and see our christmas tree super bad! 

And more business, yes mom Elder Schade is in my district and he is an ap so I see him ALL THE TIME, and as for christmas decorating, yeah they are putting up some nativity things and lights we will be having a Christmas Concert on temple grounds three days this week.... there are rumors that david archuleta might be there.... he sang in it last year.... so we will see.....I´ll send pics! Also mom, transfer calls are this week so I´ll let you know, I´m like almost 100 percent sure that I´ll be staying, some people stay 10 months in one area... president doesn´t move us much!

As for this week, the first miracle... so remember how I was super homesick with christmas stuff and all last week? Well some of the members in our ward showed up with a full sized christmas tree and decorations, we put it up and wrapped presents under the tree, literally took almost all the homesickness away.  I love just sitting in the room with the tree and writing in my journal. Agh I love Christmas, that was such a miracle and answer to prayer.  I am constantly shocked by all of the tender mercies that I have had the priviledge of seeing here on my mission, everytime I get a little down Heavenly Father blesses me with another little miracle to make me smile! 

Second miracle, we were visiting Carolina one of our investigators preparing for baptism, she has 11 years.... she is 11 years old? her mom is less active and she is preparing for baptism! We finished the lesson and she said the prayer and pretty much said "Por favor, por favor, por favor heavenly father por favor bless the missionaries to be safe from all harm, don´t let anyone rob them, and let them be safe por favor!" It was the cutest thing ever and we told her we would be just fine, we have had a couple of scaryish situations with creepy men but my sector is pretty safe.  So we left and we were walking suuper fast to get to our next appointment on time and it was kinda dark when this 60 year old lady stops us because she needed help calling her friend on the intercom of the building.  We were SUUPER confused why she needed help to type in the number and call but we helped her anyway, about 1 min into it 2 guys that were on drugs and SUUUPER crazy walked by whistling and yelling a bunch of horrible stuff and they got super close until they saw we were with someone else trying to enter a building, and they left, but seriously we realized after we helped the lady inside that if she hadn´t stopped us we would have been walking all alone in a giant dark park with two crazy guys following us. Prayers work guys, even if its in the wierdest way, these guys were suuper scary and I´m really grateful that Carolina offered such a sweet prayer for our protection only 5 minutes earlier!

Well I´ll let you know what happens this week with transfers and all, love you all!!

With Love,

Kyrstin Millett

Some of the christmas decorations on temple grounds, and a pic with our conserje (consierge?) Wilson, we teach him or pray with him almost every night when we come in for the night. and a pray picture.

CRAZY, BUSY, WEEK

Holy Cow. I swear everything happened this week.... its been an emotional rollercoaster and very exhausting but over all quite memorable!

First, Katie has been sending me emails?!! I haven´t gotten any! I thought maybe she didn´t love me anymore haha.  Did she send it to kyrstin.millett@myldsmail.net? Mom, I play it probably at least for one thing every sunday... all the members want me to teach their kids piano but we don´t have time or materials so I tell them to talk to one of the elderly couples in our ward because we have like 10 elderly couples that work in the offices or in the temple.  

Also WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU THINKING!?!?!?!?! YOU DIDNT PUT UP THE GARLAND!?!?!?! PUT IT UP!! I LABELED EACH OF THE STRANDS TO MAKE IT STINKING EASY TO KNOW WHERE EACH ONE GOES AND I EXPECT TO SKYPE YOU GUYS ON CHRISTMAS WITH THE GARLANDS.  IF YOU DONT PUT THEM UP IM GONNA CRY!!!!!!!!!! ..... you guys should definitely put the garland up... make it Jake´s punishment next time he is a stink haha

Thanks for all the pics.... I´m sitting in the internet store bawling right now.  I LOVE being a missionary but I´m not gonna lie, being away from home for Christmas and Thanksgiving is really hard.  I´ve never been homesick before but seeing the pic of all the girl cousins without me and mal there is kinda sad! I hope you are loving the holidays, I think this might be one of the hardest times I´m gonna have on my mission (you all know how obsessed I am with Christmas... its not the same here... but I´ll try to make the best of it)

 On to the details of this crazy week.  

First.  Thanksgiving.  Yeah turkey doesn´t exist here so we all pitched in and bought kfc to surprise hermana mckinley for her nine month mark and thanksgiving.  It was really fun I love the hermanas here in pocuro they are some of my best friends and it was fun to pull together and do something for hermana mckinley! She was sad the whole day because we didn´t say a thing about her 9 month cumplemes which is a huge deal, but she was really happy when she walked in and saw all of the balloons and decorations that night!

This week we have been working with the wife from the couple that was fighting last week.  I seriously couldn´t love her more she is so sweet and so awesome, we have been getting her back to reading the book of mormon.  There are two things I like to keep in mind when it comes to the BOM, the first is something dad said, that he has never had anyone in his office with a problem that was reading the book of mormon everyday.  And second, Elder Holland in our devotional said that he has never seen anyone (Investigator, less active person, etc) come into the church unless they came reading the book of mormon.  He says when he has no idea what the need is of the person he bears his testimony about the importance of reading the book of mormon because it is the best missionary tool that God has.  So we have really been trying to work on that and I think it is really helping!

We have been trying to open our mouths more and it is surprising how many nice people we have found! Its funny how when we don´t want to contact everyone is really mean or creepy men, and then when we are trying to contact alot the people are so nice and accepting! Weird.  What a blessing.  

Also this week we had my Visa run, we got up at 5:30 in the morning and met up with all the people that went into the CCM at the same time as me to go get our visas we waited in lines for HOURS. We got there at 6:30 and there was already a 2 hour line, so we waited to get a paper, then we went to another line and waited another hour to get another paper, then we made copies and waited in another line for another 2 hours to give them all of the papers and apply for our carnet.... problem was I finally made it to the end of the last line gave him all my papers and on one of the billion papers they gave me they forgot to put a second T in my last name......... so we ran back only to find that the system crashed at the place we needed so we will be going on another adventure bright and early tomorrow morning... YAY! 

Saturday we met up with Mxxxx to see how he was doing.... he feels like he isn´t worthy to be baptized this week because of something that happened but he figured it all out with his elders and he is on track to be baptized this saturday, I´m so happy for him!

We also had that baptism of Cleber!! He is literally such a great guy and the Lord has prepared him so well for this, literally I feel like as missionaries we haven´t really done a thing because he just had a testimony of it all before hand, but I am soooo grateful for the opportunity I´ve had to be a part of this special time in his life! It was cool because he was baptized by his friend who served a mission in Brazil (I think the Porto Alegre mission!) and he baptized him in Portugese! Afterwards Cleber bore his testimony and literally everyone in the room was just shocked the spirit was so strong and his conviction so strong, he has such a sweet testimony of the gospel despite everything! The baptism went by sooooo fast because we were running around getting everything ready but it went really well and Its crazy to see that people really are finding the gospel and changing their lives!! Hopefully I´ll be able to send you pics of marios baptism next week even if I won´t be able to go!

Well I gotta go, Chau!

A fun Halloween package from Nik's family.

 Below is Thanksgiving with KFC and the celebration for Hna McKinley half way mark (9 months)

Kyrstin thought it looked funny when her companion put tea bags on her eyes for some ailment.

Cleber's Baptism

Decorating for Christmas

A Hot November Week!

mal, yep I have no idea where the balance between bold and loving is.  Its HARD.  I tend to want to be bolder but it scares the crap outta me because people get offended so easily, my companion is sooooo loving and I am really learning that well, but I need to find a way to be lovingly bold..... Also haha thats really interesting about the haircuts haha here there are a MILLION peluquerias..... like seriously there is a whole mall 5 min from my apartment full of hair places.... and yeah I want to meet hermana leiva! What stake and ward is she from!? I possibly know the missionaries in her area!

Well this week has been an adventure, the Califon (no clue how to spell it) keeps breaking so we have been showering in ice cold water for 2 weeks (good thing its like 90 degrees outside and not the dead of winter) and I´ve been a little sick all week, its funny how a little sickness just DRAINS your energy, but its all good, we worked hard and tried to work a lot with members this week!

So we are still preparing cleber for his baptism (Dad he said he grew up in Porto Alegre and went to the military school there!) things are going really well and I am constantly so surprised at his faith.  He lives in a little pieza (room) in the house of a lady that is baptist, but she found out he is going to get baptized in the LDS church and is going to kick him out of the house if he does... but he continues forward and doesn´t let the mountain of struggles he has get in his way, he is awesome!! 

So funny story, we were teaching him the word of wisdom and we said that it prohibits coffee and tea, he told us that it doesn´t make sense why not Coke too because the caffeine is practically the same as iced tea, so I told him that many people choose not to drink coke either because of that so we talked about it for a while and basically left it as his choice as far as Coke goes.  The next day we had an FHE with him and a family in the ward and the first thing he showes me and my comp is that he bought juice instead of Coke when he was at work in the morning haha but then the family brings out a tray with 2 juices and 2 cokes, me and my comp take the juice without thinking and then Hermano Suarez hands Cleber a coke.  He was on the other couch talking to hermana suarez and he turns around and gives me the most priceless look I have ever seen! He had no Idea what to do!! I just burst out laughing because just that morning he had decided not to drink Coke and now he was in the house of a member that he had just met and they gave him Coke! I turned to my comp and asked what we should do (meanwhile cleber is staring at his coke in terror) and she just puts her juice on the table hoping cleber will get the hint... he faked taking a sip and put it down and later he asked for juice, but it was soooo funny and soooo awesome to see that for him the Word of Wisdom wasn´t "What specifically can´t I have?" but "How can I live this council as very best as I can?" He decided that if coke is at all similar then he didn´t want it, he is a cool guy, soooo excited for his baptism this sunday!!

I also learned a HUGE lesson yesterday. We had a lesson with a less active couple that are both returned missionaries and have only been married for a few years. They pretty much had an argument about their relationship for an hour in front of us.  We just sat and watched it all.  Then we had a lesson with a recent convert and his sweet wife that are working towards entering the temple, they have been married for a few years too.  It was CRAZY.  The difference between the two was TERRIFYING.  I really care about each of the couples but I realized how important it is to be careful who you marry and to put the other person before yourself because one couple was doing that and one couple was absolutely NOT.  Agh I basically just wanted to bawl my eyes out as I watched these two people have such a hard time in their marriage. Something that should be so beautiful and loving was full of sadness and blaming the other person.  I just wanted to say thanks mom and dad.  I got back to my apartment and me and my comp just sat there in shock and I cried.  I realized how blessed I am to have such a good example of what a marriage and a family should be.  There are so many people that just don´t have that kind of love here.  It made me think, what could prevent this couple from having so many problems? and the answer was pretty much be as careful as you can in picking someone and then once you are married stick with it, don´t be selfish, do what you can to make the other person happy not yourself.  This couple just couldn´t see that if they would only stop worrying about themselves and start trying to serve the other person their problems would be solved.  AGh it was sad sad sad sad sad. And I am so so glad that I have you guys as parents to show me such a good example of what a marriage can and should be.  I want to have a marriage relationship like yours and I am really greatful for the Lesson Heavenly Father taught me last night.  It was shocking.

Well.... gotta go now, but I love you all!

Hermana Kyrstin Millett

What A Week!

Wow its been a great week and looooots has happened.... I hope I can even begin to cover it!!

Well first of all we got to hear from Elder Holland, we left at like 6:30 in the morning but there were people that left at 3 or 4 in the morning and got there later than we did because we live close.  Haha it was pretty much a cheesy mormon movie in real life.  The metro pulls up to the station and we were getting on when my comp (the sweetest girl in the world literally an angel) sees some Elders in the front car of the train.  She turns to us with the most stern face I´ve ever seen and  says "Elderes......" So we are getting close to our station and she says "When we get out, we don´t greet them, we don´t smile, we just RUN!!!!!!!" So the doors open and the race begins, 4 hermanas and 40 elderes sprinting through the metro station, up the stairs, through a construction site and to the chapel.... It was CRAZY.  But the hermanas got there before the elderes so its all good, but we walk in at like 6:40 in the morning  (4 hours before the meeting) and the chapel was completely full and half the gym too..... terrible.  But miraculously we found two seats that they had shoved inbetween the wall and the benches and we were sitting 6 or 7 rows back.  AWESOME.  The best part: ELDER HOLLAND LOOKED ME STRAIGHT IN THE EYES.  I specifically noted the parts where he was looking right at me and saying it.

Well sounds like we had a few of the same things as Mal in our devotional but also a lot of different 

First Elder Holland talked about how this time really is making history and that we can´t just think "Oh cool" We are on a curve of missionaries that the church has never seen before, a curve on the graph thats almost vertical, and we have to really prepare to make the ascent, this can´t just be the same its always been we have to do more, become more, and see more results because God has given us this miraculous opportunity and if we don´t take advantage of it He may not ever give us this big of an opportunity again.  

He also talked about the importance of doing this FOREVER.  THIS IS REAL LIFE.  We can´t just take a step into the mission, do the mission thing and step back into real life, because we can´t go back, we are progressing forward on our missions and when we go home God expects us to keep stepping forward, we aren´t stepping back into old life, we are stepping forward into the next step of life, but we have to be forever changed.  

He said that when he finds a missionary that doesn´t stay faithful he can´t understand it and never will, haha he said we don´t ever want to run into him if that is us because he can "Do things" "I can let air out of your tires, I can put pepper in your empanadas! I can do things!!!" But then he got really serious and started tearing up, he said this gets really personal for him because when we return home we speak in church and its his grandkids sitting there in the chapel deciding off of our testimonies whether or not to go so he begs us to go home and knock the back wall of the chapel our with our testimonies "go home and LEVEL THE PLACE"

The things he said when he looked me straight in the eye:

"How can you come here, serve, bear testimoney, beg these people to make changes, and not change your own self forever???"

"There have never ever been easy missions....DO NOT WASTE ONE MINUTE WONDERING WHY THIS IS HARD WHEN IT WAS NEVER EVER EASY FOR HIM." He talked about the sacrifice Christ made and that his mission wasn´t easy, ours wont be either! 

I also had divisions this week with Hermana Webb in Apoquindo! It was the first time I´ve seen stars in 3 months!! Here in pocuro we can only see 1 star... and I´m pretty sure its actually a planet (Hahaha one time we were giving a really spiritual recorrido (temple tour) and my companion was talking about the blessing to Abraham and that he would have posterity as numerous as the stars and we all look up and see...... 1 star....really anticlimatic... now its a big joke between me and my comp haha)

During divisions we ate lunch at presidents house that was pretty fun! Its interesting to see their personalities when its not just all business!

Also, some great things that happened this week: 2 more baptisimal dates set!! Its interesting to hear how things are in your mission mal, we are told to invite them on the 1st lesson too, but we have gotten plenty of nos, the dates we have set they are really sure of it, we definitely have less numbers I think but I think the people are pretty firmish to their commitments... I DEFINITELY need to contact more.  

So the first story I have is for Cleber, he is from Brazil and he is here for his work project, he was attending the ward with our zone leaders but they told him there was a ward closer to his pieza (room/apartment) and so they passed the reference to us, we gave the first lesson (which he practically gave himself because he already believes it all, he just didn´t know that there was a church that believes in the same standards and principles) and then we invited him to be baptized and he pretty much said "of course, when can I? What do I need to do?" We were shocked.  He is AWESOME he is sooooo dedicated to God, he lived on the street for 14 years, his wife left him for another guy, he has a lot of health difficulties and a lot of other problems but he has NEVER touched drugs, alcohol or cigarettes because he knew he had God and didn´t need anything else, so when he found a church that had the same principles he was thrilled! He also has always believed that it is important to have revelation from God in this day and this time and he told us when he first met us that before he even knew about the church he had a dream of his best friend (who is a member) baptizing him and he knew thats what he needed to do.... We are thrilled.  He is AWESOME.  But please please please pray for him he is having a hard time with his health and he could use some prayers!!!

Also we set a baptisimal date for Carolina, she is 11 and her mom was inactive, but she is coming back and wants her daughter to be baptized, she is THE CUTEST girl in the world and we LOVE their family so we are really excited for them!!

We met with the Elders from Mario´s sector, it was really hard to let him go, We may have cried a bit afterwards..... But we are super excited for him!! The Temple president is going to baptize him!!!! The president asked us to call our mission president again to see if the temple president can take us to the baptism and back because Mario could really use the support....but President Wright said no again.... bummer.   

Well thats all for this week! Love you all!

With love,

Kyrstin Millett

PS mom I bought stuff to send in the package, its not much but I got a little something for each of the kids and some candy and something for each of the exchange students its suuuper small and not much but hopefully you guys like it! 

Also, don´t know if you have sent the package but if you haven´t I would love to give something to my comp, Like a dr hatch cd and a shade shirt or two size small or medium would be awesome, sorry I forgot to say that in my last letter, I tried to tell benja (my chilean little bro) to tell you on facebook that I´m not sure if she is still gonna be my comp... but I think she will..... If you have already sent the package then don´t worry about it

Kyrstin at the meeting with Elder Holland, shoved in a corner, but up close.  She sees her MTC friend, Hna Harkins.

Elder Holland Eve

Its elder Holland Eve!! Tomorrow we have a devotional with him.... me and the other missionaries in my pension are leaving at 6 am tomorrow to get a good seat (it starts at 10....) we are pretty dang excited.

Ok mal you don´t have to rub it in my face that you have seen 3 apostles in like 3 weeks..... not everyone is so priviledged hahaha jk its all good.....

Ok mom, covers, here is the deal I´m getting them for my spanish scriptures, and its 95 chilean pesos to get them both which is like 190 dollars, but I have to pay in cash and I can´t get any cash out of my home card from these stinking atms so I am using cash from my mission card and using my home card to make all the purchases for personal needs.... so yeah i´ll take out the money from the home card a little at a time each week as I buy groceries (don´t worry I talked with the assistants to make sure that was ok with president) Also mom, I´m getting the temple pic, and OF COURSE I´m not getting the other wierd pic, it was skillfully done but bad choice of pic...... that is the case of another girl, I´m getting a pic of joseph smith in the sacred grove and a pic of Jesus (O jerusalem) on my triple, and I´m getting a picture of the temple and a picture of Jesus with Marry in front of the empty tomb (I think a version by greg olsen but I´m not sure) on my bible, and then the binding on one has my mission symbol and the binding on the other has the map of Chile, they should look pretty sweet!

Alright and now to my week, sorry lots of business to cover haha.  So Hilight of my week MARIO.  Bummer of my week MARIO. Good news, HE IS GOING TO GET BAPTIZED!!!!! I can´t even tell you how excited I am for him, I may be in south america but that doesn´t mean that people get baptized here very easily, we live in one of the richest parts of chile, and the richest zone of our mission and much of our zone is businesses (and Nik haha that is crazy that your sector is bigger than my mission haha I can´t even imagine, I can walk from one corner of mine to the other in 45 min, and its one of the biggest sectors in the mission!), anyway it has been MIRACLE after MIRACLE with Mario and we have watched him change so much, he has always had a million questions but at first he just wanted to know the facts and he was skeptical of anything spiritual, but each lesson he comes back a little more softened, it was the best feeling ever when he said that he could see what we meant by getting a witness of the spirit instead of physical evidence, its so wonderful when he recognizes that he is feeling the spirit and feeling it change his life. I invited him to be baptized on tuesday and I was FREAKING OUT nervous, but he sat there for a minute and said, yeah I think so! you guys think I´m ready?! and we said yes of course! Haha then he went to the last part of institute with Ingrid (basically the third member of our companionship, a member in our ward) and she said that he announced in front of the whole class that he was going to get baptized and how blessed he felt to be invited to make such an important covenant.  THIS GUY IS GOLDEN.  He has had a terrible past and a really hard life, especially in his family but he is SO WILLING to leave EVERYTHING behind, and each time we teach him a new commandment he is just so willing to follow it and he tells us about how before he found the church he thought that the LDS church was crazy but now he just wants to follow these commandments with all his heart because he can see how it brings real happiness.  And each time he sees the temple he just tells us that he is going to enter and he will do any thing he needs to make covenants in the temple..... wow. Also haha he is already planning on serving a mission.... Man Mario is the best, we LOVE teaching him.   NOW.... for the bad news. When we first asked mario where he lived he said Pio Nono which is a street at the end of our sector, but he said he preffered to have lessons on the temple grounds because he goes to the university accross the street.  So we didn´t worry about it.  But after we got him a baptisimal date we asked for his address.... he lives one block or less outside of our sector, right off of pio nono..... whats worse, its not just another ward or stake, ITS ANOTHER MISSION.  We talked to our leaders there is nothing they can do.  So we have to pass him off to the Elders of the Santiago North mission..... We also asked President if he would allow us to attend his baptism in 2 weeks.  He said no... :(.... I may have cried a lot.  Its hard sometimes to accept the rules, we understand that there is a rule that you can´t leave the mission boundaries, but here its tough because we leave them ALL THE TIME for pdays (with presidents permission of course) and to get our Carnet cards (VISA stuff) and for various things like that, but for some reason he is ok with us leaving to visit tourist sites but not our investigators baptism.... we were bummed I cried a lot..... but its ok I guess.  What is important is that he is going to get baptized!!

Well, I´m sorry I don´t have time to tell the stories of all of the people we are working with, but will you guys pray for these people/things?

Isabel Leon: Pray for her health and the health of her baby

Maria Eugenia: Pray that she can open up, and feel the need to act on her faith

Patricia y Cesar: Humility to do what they need to do to come back to the church

Mario: that he can find new friends in the new ward and stay strong in the gospel

Carolina: Pray for her to have time to meet with us!

Fma Lago: Time to meet with us, desire to learn more about the church

ME..... I really need help with contacting.... It honestly scares me a lot, pray for me to find it more enjoyable and to be less afraid to do it.... haha we fill our time with appointments but we also need to do better at finding new investigators to maximize our time!

Well family I hope all is going well, love hearing about everything that is happening!!

Have a great week!

With Love

Hermana Kyrstin Millett

PS mom I got dear elders this last week! Loved it! I´d love to get cassidy and natalies letters in dear elder!! Oh and tell Allison I LOVE getting her dear elders! It was awesome to hear a little bit about how jonathan is doing on his mission and I loved the advice allison gave me in her first dear elder, it was great!

Another Great Week

Haha Mal, its wierd not eating dinner huh? I thought i was going to starve at night but i´m doing ok, i guess thats because we get breakfast and a big lunch though.  Wow i thought my mission president was strict.... nope, guess not in comparison haha.  WOW you guys teach A LOT of people, the people here are more open then like european missions but they are all really busy, we can´t knock doors because they live in tall apartment buildings with closed gates, and they definitely have a different culture here haha but I´m loving it and we are still almost always really busy with appointments.

And as far as the earthquake, was it in the south?? I assume so, there was a tremor here and my comp felt it and looked over at me and i was moving back and forth but in all honesty I didn´t even notice hahaha I guess they have tremors here all the time i´ll let you know if I actually feel one haha but no worries everything is just fine!!

Alex hope you had a GREAT bday!!!!! Its been a fun week! Halloween was different haha pretty uneventful and really empty so it was hard to contact when all of our plans fell through but we did our best! We drew a face on a pumpkin and that was about it.... really fun halloween...... or not. 

Jake i got your letters!! IT MADE MY WEEK!!! Seriously I don´t care how long ago you wrote them just to get something fun in the middle of the week was AWESOME.  Seriously its like the best day of my life when I get a letter or a dear elder!

Things with investigators are going really well! Its been another miracle filled week! We have been teaching Mario (the one that came to church on his own last week to investigate) He has SO MANY questions so our lessons with him last forever but he is progressing so fast and we just see the spirit working in him its awesome.  Our first lesson with him this week his questions were good but a little skeptical, I left the lesson just feeling horribly worried that he would let the physical evidence that he wanted ruin his faith and his conviction of the spiritual evidence he is receiving.  So i was praying about it because i was just so worried about how we would convince him that it was true etc and I just got this strong impression to STOP WORRYING.  It was like i heard a voice say, ¨Stop worrying, he is my son.¨ It was crazy how simple it was but I realized, he isn´t MY investigator, he is HIS son.  HE brought him to church, not me.  It is by HIS spirit that we can know the truth, not what I say.  He has a plan, HE knows how to best help each of his children NOT ME.  So I stopped worrying about it, I just turned to my comp who was also worrying and said, I think its all going to be ok.  The next lesson we had was a recorrido of the chapel and the temple..... AWESOME.  His doubts were gone, he still didn´t understand everything but when we entered into the first little waiting room of the temple you could just see that he was finally understanding exactly what we meant by the feelings of the spirit.  We left and he just kept saying ¨Que raro!¨ Which means How wierd!!! I asked him what he meant and he said ¨There really is something different in there....... I really felt something different then we are just out walking on the street...... but its a gooood different¨ The rest of the recorrido was just awesome, he looooves learning and it is so awesome to see someone progress so quickly in the gospel! 

Also, a miracle this week. I was fasting for 3 investigators in specific, Mario, Maria Eugenia (who hasn´t been progressing or doing practically anything), and Carolina (who we had practically given up on because we haven´t been able to succesfullly have an appointment with them in 6 weeks).... Before church we couldn´t get ahold of any of them, but I kneeled down and prayed for each of them specifically to come to church (which none of them have in the past 6 weeks except for mario last week) we got to church..... and throughout sacrament meeting ALL of them came.  I can´t even explain what a huge miracle that is... we have been working SOOOOO hard to get Carolina and maria eugenia to come with no success but this week they just came! Out of nowhere because we couldn´t even call them! MIRACLES HAPPEN!!!!  Once again I learned that God ALWAYS answers prayers when we ask in faith. 

Well I have to go now, but i love you all, have a great week!!

Ciao!

Hermana Kyrstin Millett

Kyrstin wants these for Christmas.

Investigator Mario

Another Humbling but Wonderful Week

ahaha Mal its so fun to here from you in Argentina!! It sounds suuper similar to Chile.  Haha everyone is catholic, here we cant clap either because they are in apartments but we yell HALOOO or we tocar citophonos (like intercom doorbells).  Mal you Chilena roomie, what ward is she from? I meet people from loottss of different wards for recorridos so I might know people she knows haha.  Also mal there is a type of candy you need to try its called FULL its a lemon candy, idk if they have it in Argentina but ask your Chilena roomie she might know.  

Also mom I need you to get a message to Savannah, there is a member family here that is practically like my chilena family (Luz Maria Diaz is like my mom, Enrique her dad is like a sweet grandpa, and her son is Benjamin) So Benja is working really hard to learn english well enough to get sponsored to travel to New Zealand and to be able to study in the US for college, also many of the YW here are stinkers and he needs a good example of a good girl, he is savannah Luceros age and it would be sooooo great if she could add him on facebook and message him to practice, he is such a great kid and like my little brother here! I think he added both me and her on facebook but I don´t know if Savannah accepted haha so if she would be willing to do that it would be GREAT.  If not its all good, let me know!


So this week we said goodbye to Ruben and Teresa, He got a kidney transplant and has been living with his nephew for a month but this week he was finally able to return home, so we went to see them one last time and watched the restoration video, at the end we bore testimony and talked for a while.  We all cried when we said goodbye, Teresa said she would always remember us as her little angels that helped her to find the path for her family, they both want to continue to pray for an answer to know for sure that this is the path for them but they pretty much said that they know already, they also said that they are going to go to there house and share this message with all of their family because it had changed there life and they want their family to have the same thing. So we gave them our doctrine and covenants videos to keep learning with the missionaries that live in there area.  We hugged teresa goodbye and gave Ruben a handshake and he pulled us into a hug.... we were kinda freaking out and we were like we cant give hugs!! And he was like I know, but you changed my familys life, I don´t care! Haha it was funny, I´m sure going to miss them, they have really showed me what the gospel can do for families.  Wow.  

So this week we were also having a lesson in a park with a menos activa (less active member) we were finishing with a song and a prayer and afterwards we look up and a man is standing in front of us.  He said he was passing by heard the prayer and got really emotional, he rembered the feelings he had when he was investigating the church 20 years ago and stuff like that, so we got talking (mostly my companion haha) and set up an appointment for a recorrido (tour) of the chapel and temple grounds.  We are super excited, what a miracle!!

This week in Church we experienced another miracle, we got out of ward council meeting and there was a guy about 24 years old sitting on one of the benches in the hallway reading 3 ne 11 in the book of mormon.  We started talking and he told us that his name is Mario, he is Catholic by culture, but Atheist by choice but he met some of the CCM missionaries that gave him a Book of Mormon and he decided to come and see the church because the gate was open, we invited him to the church service that was starting in an hour and then we had to leave to pick up another investigator, as soon as we got out of the building me and my comp turn to look at one another we were both shocked out of our minds because she has been here for almost 6 months and nothing like that has happened.  So we get back after our other investigator didn´t want to come, we were feeling a little down but then we look and see Mario sitting in the Chapel with the ward Secretary talking and smiling/laughing.  Throughout the day it was almost as if planned (but it wasn´t) that another member would come say hi get to know him, and take him to his next class, by the end of the day he had like 10 new best friends in the chapel! Holy cow these members are pros at making people feel welcome and accepted!! What was even better was another kid with almost the same situation showed up and had the same experience, by the end of church they were super good friends and they had lots of new friends in the church.   They both just said they were soooo confused as to why they were here because before they had no interest in religion     but that they were just drawn here, they were both super interested in learning more, and they are planning on attending institute tomorrow together.  Mario lives in our sector so we get to teach him and Diego the other joven lives in Hermana Mckinley and hermana Nuñez´s sector, but we were both FREAKING OUT EXCITED.  Wow. Super miracles and a super great ward! Oh and I forgot, what made it better was that sacrament meeting was the primary program!!! It was the cutes thing I´ve ever seen, I just cried the whole time, and Mario and Diego loved it! It was nice to see that throughout the meeting they both had friends to explain what was happening and help them. 

Sunday night we visited a less active member who had just moved into our ward, I was sooooo humbled to see her humbling conditions and realize just how blessed I am.  The people here live in small spaces, and don´t have as much, but they still have what they need, we visited Hermana Isabel and I was holding back tears the whole time.  She lives in a pieza which is basically a small room with a little area as a bathroom and a stove for a kitchen.  She is about 50 years old, maybe a little more, she is single and pregnant and she has almost nothing.  She has no furniture only a matress on the floor, and a reaaaalllly old half broken tv propped up on her suitcase.  Other than that she has practically nothing, a few dishes, soap and a brush.  It was crazy.  I realized that this lady has NOTHING, no husband, no family that is able to support her, no parents that are living, no friends in this country, and no way to leave to her home country to be with any friends.  She works all day every day just to pay for her apartment and has nothing to take care of her fast approaching baby boy.  But she has SOOOO MUCCCH FAITH. She just keeps saying she has no idea what is next but she is greatful to live where she does in peace and grateful for the church, I realized that when we have the gospel we always have something.  We will ALWAYS be okay if we have the gospel.  I´m so grateful for that.  I´m also so grateful for the support of such a good family! Wow I never realized how lucky I am!! THANKS MOM AND DAD SOOOOO MUCH.  I seriously never have thanked you guys enough for everything.  I´m so glad you guys have always worked so hard to make sure I was a good kid even if I didn´t always understand and even if I didn´t take it very well, I´m so glad I´m here.  I know I wouldn´t     be without your examples! I´m so glad that you work so dang hard dad! We have such a nice house and we have cars to get places, we have so much fun, and we have so much peace in our house (even if     the boys won´t stop beating each other up), I´m so glad I got to learn piano, travel places, and do things with my life.  Thanks for making it possible for me to serve a mission!! And go to college!! And just everything!!! Wow my life could be so hopeless and terrible right now but it is WONDERFUL all because of everything you guys did to make sure that I would have a good life when I grew up.  Thanks.  Seriously I went home and cried Sunday night after visiting Hermana Isabel.  I realized that I´m kind of a spoiled brat even if I try not to be, I have soooooo much and I never expressed my appreciation for it.  But THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.  I can see now     that the most important thing in the world is the gospel.  So many people make excuses for why they didn´t come to church, didn´t read their scriptures, didn´t keep a commitment etc, they all say that they don´t have time.  But I´m realizing THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE TIME FOR.  We are here to prepare to live with God, the gospel is what we have time for. 

Well I have to go,

Love you all

Hermana Millett

Another Great Week in Chile

Well mal, I hope all goes really well in Argentina!! I´m excited to hear about everything and see pics! So wierd I can´t believe I got on the plane and left more than 2 months ago... time flies... but at the same time it feels like I have been here FOREVER!!

Well first of all I just want to stop and take some time to just talk about what I love about being here.  I feel like every day I just try so hard to be better and sometimes quite frankly I do terrible, but I´m constantly finding ways to improve. Agh but I find that when I´m trying to improve I focus too much on my negative aspects or what is wrong or hard, etc.  So yeah I just want to talk about what is great about being here.  First, I LOOOVVEE my companion.  She is such a great trainer.  She is so patient and caring and has a sense of humor, and agh she is just great. I´m soooo grateful that she is my comp.  Literally I am never frustrated with her, or with the spanish when I´m with her, we can just talk and talk and talk in spanish and she is so good at helping me to learn.  Heavenly Father knew just what I needed in a companion, I am so blessed.  Second, I am SOOOO happy that I am a missionary by the temple, I can see it out of my apartment and I LOVE giving recorridos (tours) they are the most spiritual part of my week and I love seeing so many people preparing to be baptized or enter the temple.  I also love seeing the success and hard work of other missionaries and how in tune they are with the spirit and how close they are with these investigators that they bring for recorridos.  I am soooo glad that I have a north american friend in my apartment, Hermana Mckinley.  She is from Orem and its so great because when I just want to tell a story or talk in English we can just talk and let it all out, its fun because our comps can understand english too so we have spanglish conversations because we are all very fluent in spanglish.  I love my zone.  They are sooo fun! conference with them was a blast and I love making tons of new friends! I also love that they language is coming so easily.  Like I know I can´t understand everything.  But when I am in spanish mode I converse and laugh and have fun with the people I am talking with.  Haha I even half understood a conversation with 3 chilenos speaking at the same time a million miles per hour about dialysis, kidney transplants, and medications! MIRACLES.  I am literally so shocked that I am doing as well as I am and I am SO GRATEFUL.  My first day here I wrote in my journal that it would be a miracle if I could leave the CCM and understand a north american speaking only gospel terms.  Yet time and time again I see how much the Lord is blessing me as he helps me to understand what I need and helps me to feel comfortable with my speaking and understanding.  Agh so crazy.  Haha I also love the people here.  Most of the buildings in my area are big apartment buildings with conserjes.... I think its Concierge in English? Its fun because we have began teaching some of the conserjes in our building, and several times we have gone to teach a family in another building only to find that the real reason we needed to be there was to bear our testimonies to the conserje.  Haha one of the conserjes in our building is an Evangelical preacher, he calls us the reverendas haha I love feeling like there are familiar faces and people I love here already.  I also LOVE my ward, they are soooo great its almost like being home.  Man, I really love it here and I am sooooo greatful for the opportunity I have to be a missionary here in Chile!

Well, I hope you are all enjoying Fall, its HOT here!! Its super wierd to see halloween candy in the stores (not NEARLY as much as in Utah haha) but its green and sunny as ever outside.  With palm trees, wierd.  

I also wanted to talk for a minute about member and missionary work.  I hope you all noticed that almost every single talk in conference was about that, it is SOOO IMPORTANT.  WE had an awesome lesson this week with Ruben, an uncle of a recent convert and his wife who are in our ward, he got a new kidney a week or two ago and is stayin with his Nephew for the next month.  It was our second lesson with him and the spirit was SOOO STRONG, and it was all because of the members, they told their stories and shared their feelings and you just see it in the example of their lives that they know this is true, the effect of members in missionary work is HUGE.  I hope you all are really taking Elder Ballards challenge to heart (I think it was elder Ballard?) To prayerfully search for someone for the missionaries to teach.  Elder Ballard promised that EVERY MEMBER that prayerfully searched would find someone by Christmas.  Not every ward, not every family, EVERY MEMBER.  So I expect you guys to go do just that, find someone for the missionaries to teach BEFORE CHRISTMAS.  That doesn´t mean simply refer a name of someone who isn´t a member to the missionaries and you are done. It means help them, become their friend, work with them, invite them, teach by example, BE A PART OF SOMEONES CONVERSION.  Out here I get fed a lot of food by the members, its great.  But I think many members miss the point.  WE MISSIONARIES WOULD RATHER GO HUNGRY AND HAVE PEOPLE TO TEACH THAN BE FED EVERY MEAL EVERY DAY BUT SPEND THE REST OF THE DAY KNOCKING DOORS.  If you can only do one thing to help the missionaries, help them teach and help them find.  We love a good meal, but we love a good lesson better.  I can´t tell you how good it feels to teach people the gospel, I´m not gonna lie sometimes I get really homesick and its hard being in a foreign country, but after I spend an hour or so sharing the gospel with someone, and after I can watch the spirit touch someones heart, I could care less about home! I LOVE being a missionary.  and I LOVE sharing the gospel, please please please help the missionaries to love their missions too, help them change peoples lives!! There is a great talk about member missionary work that I´m sure you can find on the internet, its by Clayton Christensen, and I can´t remember the exact title but its like 7 principles of sharing the gospel or something like that, look it up, its great!

Well, gotta go! Love you all!!

Hermana Kyrstin Millett

PS mom and dad you would be sooooo proud! Haha like every single desert that we have is canned peaches..... and you know how much I hate canned peaches, but I eat it anyway, and I pretend like its the best thing I´ve ever eaten in my life.  Literally they apologize when the only dessert they have is icecream but they brag about what a wonderful surprise they have for dessert and come out with a giant bowl of canned peaches.  Oh joy. We also have all sorts of food that to me is far worse than broccoli haha but I choke it down with a smile. Haha just thought I should let you know that I am eating my food even when I don´t want to hahaha

Cumplemes: 2 Months in Mission

Today is my Cumplemes, its like your birthday but it happens each month on the day you started your mission.  Today I´ve completed 2 months! Its been the longest and shortest 2 months of my life!

Haha Mal it soooo is an EFY prison.  Others in the CCM laughed when I got so excited to leave the ¨Compound¨but it for reals is like the best time ever in a prison like compound.  Agh I´m so excited for you to get out into the field!! Okay, Santiago is HUUUGGEEE but Yeah ok Adian I´ll remember that, if they can get a referral through then the missionaries that live in his area in Chile will get a text with his info to go visit him.... so yeah if they can refer his address and number in Chile that would be AWESOME. Also Mal, remember those talks from conference because they are going to be PERFECT for your soon to be investigators! It was so cool to watch conference and find that each talk was directly applicable to someone we´ve been teaching. Also Mal its funny you guys did matching blue day (nice shirt by the way) haha because we did that too!! And Violeta Viernes... but it was viernes and we were only allowed to take pics on pday in the CCM. Fome. (Lame). AAAGH mal you are coming to South America I´m so freaking excited for you!! Don´t be too worried about the language, I honestly can´t speak that much but man el Don de Lenguas is real, pray for it every day! And just be patient and then its not that bad haha some people freak out about not knowing the language, I just expected it so every bit of progress is a miracle to me!!

Agh Sounds like some AWESOME things are happening on the Millett Side of the family, CONGRATS Millie!!!!! And Brad!!! And Lindsey!! Agh so dang excited for all of you!! So cool. 

Oh spence So glad you are liking DECA hope its going well!! If you have any questions let me know!

Yes mom and dad sometimes I can print, but I have limited time on the computer and not gonna lie I don´t know how to say much about printing in spanish so I get scared to ask about it hahaha so yeah a Dear Elder would be great!!

Ok that would be WAY cool if your email did get to Elder Holland dad! Haha so crazy I can´t even believe it.  Guys prayer works.  Remember that prayer is literally talking with our loving Heavenly Father, he knows your personally and you have a deeply personal relationship with him.  The better we understand that, the better our lives will be, I´ve really been learning that a lot in the past 2 months here on my mission.

Ok so First, This week President and Hermana Wright came to our companionship study this week on wednesday.  That was fun, kind of nerve racking because they are a lot quicker to correct my spanish than my comp is haha but it went well, they have an AMAZING knowledge of the scriptures so its awesome to hear what they have to say. 

Also I had divisions in Apoquindo this week.  Apoquindo is up in the foothills of the Andes and it feels like Utah with Palm Trees and more Graffiti.  It was fun and wow we had quite the adventure haha.  So me and Hermana Webb (my comp for divisions) were contacting in the street and this lady was crying.  So we asked if we could help her and she stopped.  She was acting kinda wierd and at first she wouldn´t let us come near her but after a while of her telling us about how her parents had died she was sobbing and hugging us and we were trying to teach the plan of salvation haha.  After a few minutes though we figured out that she was SOOOO DRRUNNNKKK.  Seriously she was SOOO out of it.  So then we asked if we could walk with her to her house, she at first was reluctant but we were pretty persistent and she let us come (Good thing too because we had to literally restrain her from running out into a road with 10 lanes of nonstop cars.) So we walked and she told us about her experience with the Elders that used to be in the Area and that her kids were members, then she Stopped and said ¨You Are Missionaries!! You can give Blessings!! She needs a blessing!!!¨And started Running and telling us to follow.  WE were super confused but we tried to explain that we can call the elders if someone needs a blessing but that we don´t have the priesthood haha.  She just kept saying NO NO NO you are missionaries! She needs a blessing! She is sick! She is in my house!! At this point she is literally dragging us to ¨her house¨(this is a STRONG lady) So we get to what she called her house and OF COURSE its a catholic Chapel.  There are people crying all over the courtyard and we realize we are at a catholic funeral, and she wants us to bless the dead body back to life.... So she tries to drag us into the gates of the courtyard but we aren´t allowed to go in so I literally just held on to the gates and she was just crying and screaming ¨She NEEDS A BLESSING!! YOU CAN SAVE HER!!! YOU NEED TO COME!!!¨When we wouldn´t come she runs in (at this point we would have left but we were carrying her stuff and we needed to give it to her) and she comes back with none other than the pastor and his wife.  So now they are trying to bring us in, we are both gringas trying to explain in broken spanish that we can´t come in because its a mission rule, and that we need to go, and the drunk lady is now crying and screaming I DONT BELIEVE IN YOU ANY MORE!!! SHE NEEDS A BLESSING SHE IS SICK!!!!! And we gave her her stuff, and ran away as politely as we could.....In the end we were glad we were able to help the lady get to her church without getting hit by a car and I learned that its important to  follow the mission rules even when it is hard haha.  It was a very eventful first time doing splits haha.

This week I really felt the love that God has for us and our families individually.  He has a plan for everyone and if you will let him, he will work through you to bring about his plan.  We got a referral my first week here for the Family Lagos, the first day we got to the building and the Concierge wouldn´t let us use the citofono (intercom thingy) to call their room and let them know they had a visitor.  We tried and tried but he would not let us use it.  So we left, and the next day I just COULD NOT stop thinking about this family, so we decided to go back, and their was a different concierge.  But when we called the family Alejandra answered and said she didn´t have time.  So we felt like we should leave a pass a long card for her but we couldn´t find my pen.  While we were looking for it, her 5 year old son got on and yelled MISSIONARIES? HI!!! And his mom got back on to apologize and reluctantly said we could come up.  Come to find out she had been inactive for 25 years and she said it was an absolute miracle because she works all day in La Reina but she had chosen that day to be at home.  Anyway after that she was always busy and we could never set up a time to meet with her.  But for 2 weeks they were constantly on my mind.  So we decided if we couldnt meet with them we would leave them cookies to let them know that we cared about them personally and wanted to help.  So we get there and call on the citofono and she was there!! So she invited us up and we shared the cookies, all was going well, she said it was another miracle that we came and then the spirit really came into the room SO STRONG, we had planned on Hermana Altamirano sharing the scripture but she turned to me and said that I needed to share one.  So I flipped open to one and was about to read when I felt the spirit tell me that it wasn´t the right scripture, that happened two more times and then finally I didn´t know what to do so I just opened up to my favorite Go To scripture DC 6: 36-37 and asked Alejandra to read it... she got through two words before she burst into tears and had to read it silently because she couldn´t speak.  It was just what she needed and the spirit was so strong.  We bore our testimonies that the Lord wouldn´t let us forget her family and we were here to help, please pray for miracles to work out with schedules so we can meet with her more!!

Also, explanation for the pics.  Rosillo is a daughter of an investigator we have and she is soooo sweet I just love her to death.  The first day I came and I had my sister missionary that Becca made me connected to my backpack and she could not stop touching it and hugging it and playing with it, it was so cute.  So we decided to bring her the Lizard Becca made me, Haha Becca I hope you don´t mind I gave it to her because I knew she would love it and she did.  She was freaking out she was so excited, so I took some pictures with her and the lizard to show becca haha. 

Well I have to go, but I love you guys!!

Hermana Millett