Still Here!

Wow. so much to reply to this week haha, sorry if my letter is all over the place.  

First of all, we had Cambios this week! Or I guess the english word is transfers.  Me and my comp are still here! I´m excited to have another six weeks with hermana Altamirano, she seriously is the greatest.  No one here in pocuro got changed so we will all have been together for 6 months here in pocuro! My comp will have 11 months here in her first sector.  CRAZY.  

Second.  Yep mal Idk what it is but I WANT TO GO TO LAKE POWELL SO BAD! That has been my biggest distraction this week.  Its like I´ll be studying and I hear a motor and I just start daydreaming of lake powell..... its awful hahaha.  

Also mal.... nice skirt.  Yep I´m not to that point yet.  I´m getting closer.  Like I don´t plan out my outfits too well but yeah.... there are still some things I refuse to wear.... but my style is definitely diminishing hahaha

 I really tried my best to just go and serve other people this week.  We had some weird experiences and some not so fun ones but what made me feel the best was that we were able to go over and do service for a few different people this week.  I like teaching lessons and all but I love when we get the opportunity to do other service as well, it really does make you feel better.  The biggest thing that made me super happy this week is seeing the progression of Cleber. Seriously this whole year and a half is worth it 100 percent if just for Cleber.  He blessed the sacrament this week and he got his temple recommend to go and do baptisms! When I´m feeling down all I need is to have a lesson with Cleber to see how much the gospel can change and sustain someones life.  Its wonderful to see his progression.  

We had another random person show up to the church on sunday to learn more... one of the great blessings of serving by the temple because people get really curious! Her name is marcela, I hope we can help her to accept the gospel! Normally if you can get someone to church, you can get them to accept baptism and work for it, sure lots fall through, but even having a baptismal date here is suuuper great.  We had one set for the last month that we were really excited for but it fell through.  But the work continues, I´m still here in Pocuro and I love these people, please pray for me and pray for people to progress.  Also if you have any advice on how to get people to make God a priority it would be greatly appreciated!

Question mom and dad, have you been sending me dear elders? Because I haven´t gotten any for like all of January...... Like I haven´t been getting almost any mail and it stinks because I´ll be expecting at least a pile of dear elders from you guys but for the past 3 or 4 weeks NOTHING.  So SEND ME DEAR ELDERS OR SOMETHING PLEASE!!!

Well, I have to go!

Oh one more thing, I had Benjamin Diaz add Alex and Spencer, if they would like to do some service it would be AWESOME if they could skype with him to practice english.  This kid is AMAZING.  He is like my little brother here, he grew up in an abusive home and had some pretty terrible experiences but now he is SO AWESOME he works sooo hard to be able to one day study in the United States (He wants to go to BYU) and he needs some help with English so he can speak well enough to get the scholarships that he needs. I seriously love this family to pieces so it would be AWESOME if you could practice English with him on Skype! 

Alright... now I gotta go Chau!

With Love

Kyrstin Millett

pictures on a bridge in my sector where all of the lovers put locks with their names on it, me and my comp always pass and say we are gonna take a pic but never did, as we were taking this pic there was a temblor and the whole bridge moved it was freaking scary.... 

our watermelon adventure... bought two watermelons and a cart to carry them... the cart broke after two minutes and we ended up having to carry the giant cart through santiago.... a bit embarrasing.... but good memories

Two Short Letters

sorry I don´t have much time to write because I have loooots that I wrote to Katie and I have a lot to talk to president about this week!! (But don´t worry all is well!!)

So where is your cruise to again? And until when? Hope you guys are loving the heat!!.... Cuz I´m.... loving it less.  The snow sounds pretty nice about now.

New appliances?!? I want pics!! Shoot I leave for five months and my whole world changes. New fridge, new washer and dryer, alex starts shaving.... whats next?!? Are we getting a dog??

Spencer WAY TO GO!!!!!! 36 on the reading section!?!?!? Get that science up and you´ll be a freaking capo! (professional)

Also spencer I need you to send me your testimony in an email for next week so I can give it to one of the youth in the ward! 

So for the little time that I have I just want to tell you guys that the best part of the mission is realizing Gods love for you. You see it through the never ending abundance of little miracles. Like Elder Holland coming, like the Christmas tree, Like praying to get chocolate chip cookies in the CCM and randomly having them that night, lately I´ve been seeing even more. For example, I stopped picking my split ends and popping my knuckles haha.  I remember to say the prayer on my food before I eat it. All of my little bad habits that I could never break are melting away.  My room is clean.... well mostly.  All of those are little miracles that are happening and helping me to see really how much a mission does for you even if its not this burning spiritual experience, testifying, calling people to repentance, and baptizing millions experience that you sometimes imagine.  Its subtle, but its nothing short of miraculous.  This is just a story that is kinda dumb but seriously spoke volumes to me.  I was sooooo excited to get reeses puffs for Christmas, probably the best present in the package.  And every day since then I ate a bowl of them.... I ran out yesterday.  The box was teeny like a fourth the size of my other cereal boxes and I ran out after 3 weeks.  My other boxes dont even last me a week and a half..... I finished the box and thought, what the heck how did this last so long??? Answer: MIRACLE.  Seriously so small and dumb because its just a cereal.  But thats just it, GOD IS IN THE DETAILS.  He knows its my favorite cereal in the whole world, and somehow although I ate it every day without fail, it made it 3 weeks.  Wow.. The mission is full of miracles.  

Well, sorry I gotta go now but love you all!! Have a great week!

Love Hermana Millett

I never know what to call these emails.  I swear its always, worst week ever and best week ever! Because thats so how it is.  Its like the awesomest thing ever and then the biggest emotional battle of your life at times.  Haha I don´t know.  

So wow, this week I got thinking and I was just like "HOLY COW; WHERE ARE ALL OF THESE BLESSINGS COMING FROM!!!!" Like I don´t know who has been praying for me but someone has done something for me the make so many blessings start coming.  This sunday was FULL with blessings, literally all the members were there filling our lunch schedule and wanting to have lessons with investigators with us.  Our whole planner for the week is practically full and filling by the minute, we found 4 new investigators this week (which for us is a TON) and wow the missionary work in my sector is doing really well and I am so grateful for all of the blessings I am seeing.  I´m so excited to work this week and I´m freaking out excited for all of the plans we have.  

Last night we went and visited a few ward members and investigators.  There was a new investigator from bolivia that got here a day or two ago that needed a place to live and a job and just a bunch of stuff, she came here just scared out of her mind not sure what to do and seriously the people in my sector just got together found contacts to get her a job in the next week found her a place to live with hermana Isabel (Who had her baby!!) Just all this stuff, I have seen so much distress and suffering from these people but they serve with serisously EVERYTHING THEY HAVE, which isn´t much but it goes a long way!!! Its quite amazing to have this experience to get to know people and see all that they do to serve.  Sometimes its really exhausting to hear and see all the struggles and complications that these people have in there lives and to worry so much for them that you can´t sleep (seriously have not slept well this week) but I love these people so much and am grateful for the opportunity I have to serve them even if the stress and stuff is getting to me.  

Well, I have to go now, tell Carli HAPPY BIRTHDAY.  And spencer too of course!! Hope you guys have a great bday!!! 

With Love, 

Kyrstin Millett

The Worst and The Best Week!

Hey mal, first before I forget, baking soda is bicarbonato, and also I´m sending you a birthday present, so it should get to the office of your mission in a few days and I hope you get it soon after (I´m sending it with one of the recently returned missionaries from JAS that helps us all the time and she is going back to visit argentina so I´m going to send some Chilean stuff with her) so HAPPY BDAY! (Soonish)

And holy crap Mal, Just do it.  I wasn´t thinking of the same phrase but I was thinking the exact same thing this week.

So this week has been a little rough.  I got the stomach flu, I did divisions twice so I was running around santiago meeting up with people like a mad woman, we had one day where it litterally was like everyone felt like ripping apart the standards and beliefs that are the most important to me (One of which was mario that called us and told us that he thinks his baptism was a mistake and that he cant believe they make us do what we do in the mission and that we obey like robots and there is no way we really have testimonies we have just convinced ourselves that this is true and yadayada.  That was a little hard to take in) but yeah it has been hot and stressful, and saddening and difficult this week.  As far as difficulty and bad things happening I´d say its just about one of the worst weeks I´ve ever had.

But it was also the greatest week I think I´ve ever had on the mission.  I was so happy.  Ï saw so many miracles.  Satan just tries to attack you when he know the good stuff is comin.  I love what you said last week in the email mom that the blessings come when you push yourself just a little bit past what you think you can do.  THAT IS 100 PERCENT TRUE.  I was on divisions with people that weren´t from my sector and we had planned to meet with a few people that I was quite frankly terrified to teach without my companion, and I was scared to contact without my companion to help me and I was scared to do a lot of things without her because you just get so used to your system of doing things together and recognizing needs and passing the conversation over to your companion or helping her when she needs help etc but I remembered that email and thought, wow if anyone needs the blessings for pushing a little harder its me so I just decided what the heck we are going to do EVERYTHING that I´m afraid of.  So we went to visit the investigators that I didn´t want to visit, we contacted like crazy, we called the people that even Hermana Altamirano and I were afraid to call when we were together.  We just did it all.  And honestly none of the difficult investigators were there, none of them answered their phones, and we just contacted the whole time.  AND IT WAS THE GREATEST THING EVER. I just don´t know how to explain, normally the people on the street turn and walk the other way or stick their nose up or say something rude the second you say hi to them but this day when I was with divisions we said hi and they stopped walking and asked us to hear our message etc, we shared a couple of awesome lessons, and had a lot of great contacts.  All because I just decided to push myself a little harder.

Well I have to go I´m super out of time, we had a visitors center in the chapel this week which was a fun stressful big event and I don´t have time to talk about it but yeah love you all!!!

Kyrstin Millett

Picture of all the references they received after the "Visitor Center in the Chapel" Night

Chilean Pants!

Two Short Holiday Letters

This week has been interesting, my comp was called as a sister training leader, so we will be doing divisions every week and we will have lots to do with meetings and stuff!!

There was a temblor this week!! Dont know how to say it in english... mini earthquake? SCARED THE CRAP OUTTA ME.  Seriously I was terrified.  We were sitting at the table and I was writing in my journal and the table started to shake and I look up at my companion, she saw how terrified I was and to calm me down (because two of the other hermanas were screaming in the other room) she told me to count to 20 slowly and if it didnt stop we would get somewhere more secure, so we sat still at counted to 20 it stopped at like 15.... freak though I was soooo scared!!! I cried... wow, you dont realize how fast something like that can just come on! And you never know if its gonna be something little or something devastatingly huge.  Luckily it was small, and Im fine.  

Well, I got the flu this week.  That was no fun.  Me and my comp decided we would rather be out in the heat with people slamming the door in our faces than have to stay inside any more because someone is sick.  

I got the other package mom! Hermana Mckinley wrapped it and she said she saw the stuff that was for me and my comp and its all taken care of haha

I got my cases! I havent seen them because they are wrapped but all of the hermanas in my apartment said they are GORGEOUS, I saw my companions cases, they are way cool, so Ill show you on christmas!

Ive decided that this is going to be a super different christmas but because of that it has to be the absolute best christmas.  I was so touched to see how much Heavenly Father blessed me this week. I was kinda down last week, missing you all and missing Christmas and seriously it was like every day a member or investigator did something to make me feel so loved and I realized that out here baptisms or no, I am making a difference in the lives of these people, I love them and they love me.  This is going to be the best Christmas of my life and I cant wait to talk to you guys!!!

With love, Kyrstin Millett

Well, it was fun to talk to you guys, I was freaking out before hand because I didn´t want to get all homesick and it was hard to say goodbye and everything but in the end it was great.  Biggest miracle was how I felt afterwards.  (And I don´t mean this as an offense to you guys because I love you and miss you all) I hung up, looked at my comp, wiped my tears off and thought oh well lets go.  We walked back to our pension and when I walked in I felt home.  I was like yess I´m hooooommmee!!!!! Haha I seriously felt like, well just talked to my fam.... theyre the same..... I´m not missing a thing.  This is my home and I have work to do.  So we got all our stuff in the apartment and went to work and I haven´t felt homesick since! Miracle.  Seriously I was DYING before Christmas doing everything I could to just not feel homesick and now I feel GREAT.  I LOVE it here I really do.  I feel like I got all the negative stuff out with you guys (Sorry) and now I just feel good.  I love these people, they are my second family and I sure as heck don´t know what I´ll do when Ill have to leave them.  So yeah all is good.  

Glad you guys got the packages too!!!! haha hope they liked it all and hope you liked the pics, the next time I send my memory card I´ll try to take some more videos to say hi or something

So this week we went to pirque for pday, that was an adventure... so sorry I have less time to write because we were traveling forever.  But it was interesting to see a different part of my mission the CAMPO  it was so nice and peaceful, there weren´t cars every second, it was quiet, there were mountains and trees and dirt and fields and a whole bunch of stuff we don´t have in the middle of the city.  But I was talking to hermana Jennings (Nick and Jackson Emerys cousin, the one that was in the rich sector El Golf for 11 months then sent to pirque out in the boonies) and she is having a ROUGH time.  She fainted the second day in the heat and their branch is a mess which makes it really hard to work with.  It made me first of all so greatful for the WONDERFUL ward I work with that literally dedicates almost every lesson to missionary work and greatful for such wonderful examples of good attitudes in my mission, she has such a good attitude even though she is having the roughest time in her new sector.  It was super fun to go visit them today!!

For the weekend before christmas we went caroling at a bunch of different houses in a different sector of pocuro each night, it was amazing to see how each one of the people we visited reacted differently but they were all grateful for the opportunity to remember the true meaning of Christmas... definitely organizing that with my next ward next Christmas!

Then on Christmas eve we went to Ingrids house which was nice!! For Christmas we ate in the pension for lunch because it got cancelled.... good ole rice and ketchup (surprisingly really good) then we went and ate with Luz Maria, Cleber, Cecelia and their families.  I love them all so much and it was AWESOME to see them all together on Christmas!! (I bet cleber posted pics on FB so if you aren´t friends with him add him!) And mom I tried to teach Family History!! We went to go try it with Benjamin (Luz Marias son, that is friends with savannah on facebook) but we searched and searched and NOTHING, then we found out the problem, almost NONE of it has been indexed!!!! So we downloaded indexing and I taught him that! Haha I told him about how fun and simple it was and we pulled it up and we were like WHATT!?!?!?! In Chile its like a long document that you have to read through to find out the information, not just a chart or a list but paragraphs in spanish about the burial and everything..... not so easy.... not so fun.... no wonder no one has indexed the Chilean records!! So we did a bit and then we had to go, the crazy thing was I came back a few days later and his mom was like, WHAT THE HECK DID YOU TEACH MY SON!! I thought she was mad... but then she went off about how he hadn´t touched the xbox in days and that all day instead of sleeping or doing other less useful things he just indexes and indexes.  Haha I was pretty happy.  Good ole Benja he decided that if he couldn´t find his family because it wasn´t indexed that someone had to start somewhere and he seriously hasn´t stopped since!! Love this family.  

So, super sorry but I don´t have a ton of stories for you and I don´t have a lot of time because of our adventures today and because I needed to send pics one at a time haha but I love you all, hope you have a good week!!

Kyrstin Millett

P-day adventure to Pirque

I never see streets that are empty of any traffic

 Grammy's Christmas Package

 Christmas Morning with the Hermanas

Christmas eve dinner with Ingrid and Hermana Thompson (Ingrid is a member that is like our second companion, and hermana Thompson is the mission psychologist) and me with all the stuff I got. SOO MUCH STUFF.  Thanks to everyone seriously.  My apartment is going to get sick eating nothing but candy for the next year.  So great