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!