Mal, on the bright side you are used to having investigators in church right? If one of our investigators comes to church they are pretty much baptized 2 or 3 weeks later..... so out of the 5.5 transfers I´ve been here you can see how many times we have had an investigator in church..... its rough. But hey being a missionary isn´t all about the numbers!
Well. Glad to see that you heard I saw the Schades! It was super funny because I was sitting in the chapel in my district class and I looked back and saw in the window blonde hair. And like I immediately knew that it was Sister Schades I like yelled out THATS LORI SCHADE!!!! And everyone was like what the heck? What are you talking about? No thats just some lady with sunglasses! And then Brother schade opened the door and was like Happy Birthday Kyrstin! I FREAKED OUT. I like ran up and gave him the best handshake I knew how. It was wierd seeing elder schade in normal clothes. Haha talking with sister Schade it seemed like you are worried about me mom. Hahahaha DONT WORRY IM FINE. She asked me about my spanish a bunch. I guess I don´t say much about how my spanish is doing but thats because I feel completely comfortable so I´m not ever thinking about how my spanish is. I am seriously seeing the gift of tongues and my setting apart blessing coming true and I guess its working so well that I just don´t even think about it! I have much to learn to assimilate the Chilean accent (Something elder schade does perfectly) but I can talk and understand just fine! It was so awesome to see the Schades though. A little wierd to have my two worlds mix for a bit but I was super happy. I couldn´t believe that they would take the time to come find me in district class even if they´d already been in the offices where they could´ve dropped off my package much more easily. That was super nice of them! Made my week.
So mom. I about died of laughter. The other hermanas opened my package while I was in the other room to take out the tights I needed and stuff and I asked them to look at the boots to tell me if they were cute. Hna Mckinley was like...... uhhh hermana? They look......... I don´t know. And I was like "What are they ugly??" She told me that they were cute but just a little similar to the ones I already had.... I made her show them to me.... MOM THEY ARE THE EXACT SAME BOOTS AS THE ONES I ALREADY HAVE!!!!!!!Like The EXACT ones. I´m gonna send you a pic of me wearing the two of them.... you can hardly see the difference. Hahahaha I figure maybe when I explained my boots you were in a hurry or something and just bought what I explained thinking its what I wanted..... but no.... its what I already had. But its all good I found a little shoe guy that can change the color of the boots and its pretty cheap so if that works great I´ll be good with two colors.... if it doesn´t...... what do I do?
Yeah I think If the time difference is two hours (But you still haven´t told me if it is or not) I´ll skype you guys around 8ish my time (which would be 6 your time right?) if that works let me know
Well anyway. I loved this week. It was a bit rough because me and my comp were both just a bit hormonal and in bad moods at times if you know what I mean, but usually that means its the worst week of my life because I just can´t control my emotions and I´m angry and sad at everything! But this week even though I was constantly having to remind myself to live with an attitude of grattitude or to not get offended at all of the little things people said that couldve been offensive I was HAPPY. SOOOO HAPPY.
It started off with a visit we had with a less active. Her name is Dalila. When we first started visiting her like 6 months ago I basically didn´t ever want to go back because one time I went when I was on divisions before I could speak much spanish and she talked for 3 hours without stopping and I didn´t have a clue how to stop a chilean when they get talking. So I listened.... for 3 hours and it was AWEFUL. I just kept thinking that this lady wouldn´t be less active if she could just stop thinking about what others do wrong and just worry about her own problems or what she can control. But we have gone to visit her and worked with her for 6 months and seriously this week was just a miracle.
From day one 6 months ago she told us how she can´t cry and how she justwishes she could let all of the emotions she has bottled up inside of her come out. Just recently as we have gotten really close to her she has opened up about how her husband was super abusive and how much that affected her. But this week when we visited her we asked a bit more about it and it was seriously AMAZING how much started to make sense as she finally unravelled the whole story that she had had hidden for 25 years of what happened and why she is inactive and how much the abusive relationship she endured had really damaged her ability to live life normally because of all of her fears and lack of self confidence but as she told us all of this she was basically crying without tears coming but it was amazing to see her beginning to show emotions! I just cannot express the DEEP love and sympathy I felt for her in this moment, I realized that she has become one of the most important people to me while I´ve been here in Chile and that I´d do anything to help her. It was rough because I didn´t know what to do or exactly how I could help her but then I remembered the Atonement. I´ve been studying about it and looking for how the Atonement can really help us with things other than just forgiveness and in that moment I was able to just bear my testimony about the healing power of the atonement that it can make her better, take away the bad feelings, replace the confidence EVERYTHING. So I bore my testimony and we asked her to pray (something she doesn´t like doing because her exhusband always made her feel bad for praying out loud) but as she began to pray it was the most BEAUTIFUL prayer I have ever heard in my life and I began to BAWL. The whole time she just thanked God for sending us and for what we had done for her (which was really just the Lord) but yeah I was crying so hard because I just felt so happy. I just felt like finally I was able to be an instrument in the Lords hand to help someone, to love someone, and to make a real difference. That for the first time someone here in Chile needed ME. Not just anyone but that the Lord used ME for who I am to help one of his children here in Chile. I´d really never felt that so strongly before. So she finished the prayer and I looked up to see that Dalila was crying too!!! I´d never seen that before even with all the other emotional lessons we had had, she just kept crying and told us it was an absolute miracle. I cried more. It was beautiful. I love being a missionary.
Well I soooo have to go. Love you all! Chau!
Kyrstin Millett
Explanation of Pictures:
Oops Kyrst's mom (ME) sent her the same boots she already had. The funny thing was they had that boot in every color. She had bought those boots herself and I hadn't remembered. I just thought the boots looked like something she would like.
A picture of Dalia and Kyrst and Comp
Picture with the Schade family who went to pick up their son from Kyrst's mission and they took the package to her.
Kyrst with her package and her DEAR Elders
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