Serving in Santiago: Week 4 in the MTC

Ok I can't believe that it has been 4 weeks. A month ago I was saying good bye to you all and now I've been here a month! I have one more pday to write you guys here in the ccm and then you probably wont hear from me the next week because I go into the field!!

Haha mom I've been taking the dried fruit with LOOOTTTS of water and its helped A TON! I'm feeling much better and doing much better hahaha

I doubt I'd be able to find apple cider vinegar but I guess I've never looked so you never know!

OK I AM FREAKING OUT FOR MAL AND KATES.

Mal I hope you are dang excited. I know when I was in your shoes I was just nervous and scared and just way too many emotions, mostly because I was going to a different country though haha. So yeah don't be nervous, its just freaking awesome. Honestly right now the hardest thing for me is just accepting that I'm not perfect so I need to stop expecting myself to be perfect at spanish, focusing, and being a missionary. I just need to be obedient and try really hard and not worry about it. So yeah. Don't compare your success to that of others because thats not good and just love it so much. I've made so many great friends and I'm having a BLAST. So youre going to love it. HAHAHA BED BUGS IN PROVO?!?!?! Yeah we don't have that problem in the Chile CCM. They also do our laundry for us.... and we get to go outside in the city on pdays and its much more relaxed, and presidente plays volleyball with us.... and CHILE IS JUST THE GREATEST. Agh guys I'm just loving it. Missions are hard, and its going to be really scary in 2 weeks. but I'm so happy. so so so happy.

Katie. You better send me a video of you opening your call. I want to hear all about it. And I want you to get called to Chile REAL BAD. But I guess that one is in the Lords hands haha.

So the spanish is coming..... Our district is apparently waaaaaaaaaay further a long than most districts usually are because we are learning the things in our language books that many missionaries don't even get to in the CCM but I still feel like I have SOO MUCH LEFT TO GO. Lessons are going well though, I'm finally able to just go in, ask questions and teach whatever I feel prompted too, without notes or anything like that. Of course I have to sit there and stumble through it and think through it a ton but its coming. My gospel language is doing well..... its my street language that is non-existent hahaha

Oh and Mal, you are lucky, Argentine spanish is easy! I understand the argentines but the Chilenos are really hard to understand.... I'll get there though!!

Agh spency was the dance so fun?!?

Alex, I found a logo quiz for you, remember the car brand with the two little silver arrow things that we didn't know? Its everywhere here, its citroen I think. Maybe you already figured that one out haha.

Becca you would be in heaven here there are stray dogs everywhere and they are all really nice(Ok most of them are nice... some are really scary) and you would probably just make friends with all of them. I just want to clean them up and adopt them all, it really is sad to see such sweet little animals out on the streets haha

So a cool lesson I had this week, even though it is a fake investigator. So our teacher Hermano Traverso is using his investigator "Esteban" who we think is actually him from when he was 16 and inactive. And me and my comp walk in to our lesson and he has some leaves that are supposed to be marijuana on the table... and he was apparently on drugs during this lesson. The spirit was just completely gone and we weren't sure what to do, so we opened with prayer and my comp started talking and I just got this super strong prompting to ask him what he had on the table, I resisted at first cuz I already knew and it was awkward, but then I got the prompting again and I just said "Esteban, what is that?" he flicked it off the table, and as I kept asking he did everything he could to hide it, I looked him in the eye (Or the sunglasses I guess cuz he was wearing aviators... and a fake lip ring... super funny, but also helped us realize the personality and kind of person we were teaching) so yeah I looked at him and told him that the spirit couldnt be here in situations like this... then I went on to tell him how much the lord loved him how much we loved him and promised him blessings if he got rid of that stuff and then I said that if the spirit couldn't be there then neither could we and other stuff I can't even remember because It wasn't me saying it. We ended with a prayer and left. It was suuuper unexpected but I said words I didn't know, and there WAS SO MUCH POWER IN THAT ROOM. Then my teacher came in and taught us about the power that we can have as representatives of Christ and it was CRAZY. As missionaries directed by the spirit we really can make promises, and bring the spirit to testify and change people. Agh I can't even describe it but it was amazing, just a testimony to me that as missionaries we can't beat around the bush, boldly testify of Christ and the Spirit will boldly testify that what you are saying is true.

I played a musical number at the devotional on Sunday night! I played dr hatch's arrangement of our saviors love!

also mom and dad, the spanish scriptures we have aren't so fantabulous, and they are hard to work with because they don't stay open, have no tabs, and don't fit in any cases they have here, I want to buy a nice set but I also want to make sure thats ok with you guys? I finally found a usb charger for my camera, ipod, and speakers and I bought batteries and stuff too, so that should be showing up on the account also :)

We also had daylight savings so now I'm 3 hours ahead of you guys

Love you lots! Love Hermana Millett