Right now I am
writing you from my new sector Sotero del Rio. Its in Puente Alto. Now
none of you know what that means but if you were serving in Chile
Santiago East mission you would know that means two things
1) Flaite. In other words Ghetto. It's a leeeetttle
ghetto. That's why they call it puente ASAULT-O hahaha but don't worry I
may be in the ghetto area but not the ghetto of the ghetto area. Its
pretty flaite but I think I'm gonna love it
2) A little more receptive. That doesn't mean
everyone makes and keeps commitments. That is still a huuuuuge problem
(like baptisms wise they have had less than we had in pocuro). But at
least they let you in the door around here. At least there are doors
around here!! No more citofonos and doorbells that's for cuico people
(rich people) here. We just have to yell HAAAAAALLOOOOOO as loud as we
can. but Ive heard it will be a big change from good ole pocuro.
My companions name is Hermana Contreras. She is from
Chile. She has almost 5 months in the mission. The other hermanas
here in sotero with us are hermana bohman (the first hermana missionary I
met in the airport, we came to chile together!!!) and hermana Taylor
(she was studying at byu and only has two transfers left. She reminds me
a toooon of Sarah!)
I'd like you guys to pray for me that I can listen
and follow the spirit and adapt well to the sector please! Also if you
could pray for the family lagos martinez. It was really hard for me to
say goodbye to them and I really want them to keep progressing even if
I'm not there to see the progress!
Its been a really emotional week for me. Really
rewarding, tooooons of miracles (like the typical mission miracles you
see on the district or in Katie's letters... lucky lucky girl) but for
reals it was an AWESOME week and I was feeling pumped and ready to go
for another month in Pocuro and.....Nope. I got changed. I{m gonna copy
down my journal entry because my brain is fried and I don't have time
to think so here are my feelings from my journal:
Wow. I'm leaving. The Zone leaders called yesterday
and I'm going to Sotero delRio in Puente Alto!!!! I'm goin ghetto! It
hasn't really hit me yet but I'm happy and sad. My poor companion is
pretty sad. I'm gonna miss her! Hna Huber is coming to take my place, I
couldn't have picked anyone better! It was crazy I was thinking about
all the potential progress, people I love etc that I'm gonna be leaving
to someone else and I realized that I have left this sector better than I
found it. When I came here we had like 1 or 2 investigators, 3
conversos, 4 potential investigators and 4 less actives. Now we have
WAAAY more than that, so many people progressing, and so many miracles.
I've seen this sector come alive. I feel so privileged to have been the
Lord's servant and instrument to have done so much and seen so much. I
hadn't even realized but the progress I've seen in this sector has been
an absolute miracle. But not only am I leaving this sector better, it
has made me better. I'm leaving this sector a much better person than
when I came. I've learned to love even the hardest people to love, I've
come to love the scriptures (both ancient and modern), I've left many of
my bad habits, made life long friends, become more like my savior,
become more humble, and more patient, I've learned SPANISH!, experienced
the gift of tongues, learned to trust in the Lord when I don't know
what to do next. I've been able to trust in and desire the Lord's way
first. So I guess now I have to accept this change. I've been praying for a
month that the Lord would send me where the people need me most and now I
just have to trust that that is exactly what is happening now. I feel
good about it all. I'm ready to go even if its gonna be hard. I feel
like I'm leaving behind a huge part of my life, 1/2 of my mission! But
I'm ready for the next step.
So yeah I'm excited to be here, missing the people
but happy. Sunday was really really touching. Of course it was fast and
testimony meeting so everyone got up and bore their testimony about the
missionaries (because 3 of us left today). It was really really eye
opening. I've seriously have gone 9 months often thinking about the
stuff I
hadn't done right or that I could've done better, but seriously not one
bit of that mattered yesterday. EVERY SINGLE THING I have gone through
in the last 9 months was 100 percent worth it for yesterday. Yesterday
while
visiting people and talking to people at church everyone expressed so
much love for me. We
all cried and they shared their experiences and how I apparently had
made
such a big difference (even though I know that was really just the
Lord). But I was just shocked, ABSOLUTELY SHOCKED, to see how much I had
meant
to people. How sad they were to see me go, how sad I was to leave them,
it made it all worth it. It was a great day for me to realize that I
had really
been the Lord's servant in that area and despite all my weaknesses he
used me to bring miracles into their lives. And I didn't fully know it
until yesterday.
Well I have to go. But I'll send pics!
Kyrstin Millett
Explanation of Pictures
-my district and zone in las condes. Gonna miss them!
-A view of my old sector
-typical mission apartment, using the ironing table to eat food with and one of the desks to play a quick 20 min of -monopoly while eating during our lunch hour
-saying goodbye to baby mattie. :,( how sad.
Explanation of Pictures
-my district and zone in las condes. Gonna miss them!
-A view of my old sector
-typical mission apartment, using the ironing table to eat food with and one of the desks to play a quick 20 min of -monopoly while eating during our lunch hour
-saying goodbye to baby mattie. :,( how sad.
-My desk spot in pocuro.... gonna miss it (before I had to take down all of my photos and stuff)
-our asado chileno with the obra misional from the pocuro ward
-We went to
lunch this week with an hermana and what do you know her whole family
was out below the building -watching two of the soccer players from the
the seleccion de Chile for the FIFA mundial film a comercial. Hehe so I
got a free Chile seleccion tshirt and everything!
-saying goodbye to "reverendo" our evangelical conserje who always calls us the reverendas
-saying goodbye to angie and rodrigo. I{m gonna miss them soooooooo much. we cried a lot.
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