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.
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