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

It's Beginning to Look a Not Like Christmas....

Haha wow it just keeps getting HOTTER AND HOTTER.... and I cannot believe its supposed to be Christmas next week... holy crap the time FLIES.  

Oh and yes.  I´m still in my area. I expect to be here for at least 3 more months possibly six more haha, my comp is still the same too! Like I said, president doesn´t make changes much, Hermana Jennings (a friend from my zone, nick and jackson emery´s cousin) finally left her sector El Golf after serving there for 10 and a half months.... so I think I´ll be here for a while! 

Yeah my christmas tree is pretty big! Whats great is that their are a billion little christmas presents under it, me and two of the others felt kinda bad that the other girls weren´t gonna get anything for their families so we all got them a couple little things and after a while all of it adds up, I hope they have a super special chrismtas! Its super great to see how each of the hermanas in my apartment tries so hard to make christmas really special for the other hermanas.  I love them all, they are so great.  

As far as temple recorridos go they are like an hour long and usually we will have 3 or 4 planned during the week, 2 or so on friday, and up to 5 or 6 on saturday but many times they fall through because the missionaries don´t plan it well with their investigators.  But yeah on a minimum we give 3 a week, and then maximum is like 10 a weekish? But yeah I LOOOVE recorridos. They are super great and they have been the number one thing to help me learn to teach the lessons well with examples and such and to help me learn spanish.  Oh and there are 2 other companionships that give tours :) 

The language is going well! Like I have experiences that remind me that I don´t know everything and that I am so far from fluent but I can express what I want and its not all that hard, the gift of tongues is so real! I´m seriously so greatful that Heavenly Father has helped me to feel comfortable with the language, I learn more every day but I don´t feel stressed about it so its nice!

Also, my mission doesn´t have a blog but you can add my presidents wife on facebook, here is her email so you can type it into the search bar and find her account: wrightbox@msn.com she said she will add you guys when she sees the invite! 

Agh so much business sorry! Jake, got your dear elder that you sent Nov 7th on Dec 10th.  So like a month haha.  Mom, I got one of the two boxes of Christmas stuff, I don´t know whats in it because the other hermanas wrapped it and put it under the tree but I told them to look out for my comps present so I can secretly wrap that one and surprise her haha but is there anything to set it apart from the other stuff that you gave me in general? I assume the second package got picked up by the elders before I had the chance to stop by the office and snag it... so we will see if I get it on thursday, if not I´ll stop by the office again (because the office is in the temple compound so its just as easy for me to pick it up rather than wait for the elders to pick it up and put it in the mail bag)

Have you gotten my package?.... Hope so.... if not it was a bunch of cheap stuff but I hope you get it! Let me know if so! 

Bueno.  Lets get started on the week.  We had zone conference which was suuuuper great, president talked about the atonement and the importance of understanding what it can do for us.  He talked about the healing power it has, the power of redeeming, and the power of comforting... and others but I don´t have my notes, but it was really wonderful.  I hope to have a better understanding of Christ when I return from my mission, I´m more than halfway through Jesus the Christ  and I´m loving it! Remember that Christmas wouldn´t have been special if it weren´t for the Atonement!

Also we had the Christmas Concert! So it was realllllly great and REALLY packed, it was kinda stressful saving seats for the investigators because the members were going CRAZY about how we shouldn´t be able to save seats for our investigators if they were only gonna show up an hour and a half early.  So we ended up having to sit in the seats to wait for our investigators instead of being able to be up and about contacting.  But the last night we didn´t stay for the concert we just got up and handed out reference cards, we did it kinda like we did the Hill Cumorah pageant but without costumes and stuff but I was glad that I had the experience of contacting at hill cumorah so that we could say and do similar things to get references, the third night we got about 20 (just me and my comp) so we were pretty happy! Then we all went and had language study in our apartment and watched the show from our balcony, that was fun too! It was really great to see how strongly people could feel the spirit during the christmas show!!

Agh.. I almost met David Archuleta.  We made friends with the lady in charge not knowing that she was the one taking care of Elder Archuleta for the weekend, so when she saw that we were super excited that he was coming she told me to come and find her ten minutes before the show and talk to her and she would discreetly introduce me and my comp.  But... we were contacting and we wanted to be obedient and not be there on the last night during the show because president wanted us to only watch the show once so because we had seen it the night before we had to leave and we missed meeting Elder Archuleta by like literally 3 seconds because as soon as we had left they came in..... bummer, but hey we were obedient and doing missionary work up to the last second! 

Also this week was Cleber´s birthday! We had lunch at a member´s house where Cleber is living... oh shoot forgot to explain this story.  So cleber is from brazil.  He has sooo little money and he is divorced, he works so hard to pay for everything for his son so the government will allow him the rights to see his son when he visits brazil, so money is suuuper tight, what makes things worse is that he got kicked out of his pieza (room? its not an apartment, just a room that people rent out) but the man renting it is a preacher of another religion and wouldn´t allow a Mormon to live in his house so after Cleber´s baptism he kicked him out... but Hermana Luz Maria allowed him to come live in the pieza that she rents out until he can get back on his feet and pay for his son and everything.  So we had lunch with her family and Cleber for his birthday on sunday and it was super great, I was so glad to see that despite all the problems he is having he is happy and faithful in the gospel.  Man I´m so lucky to have had the opportunity to teach him.  I seriously didn´t do anything because he came prepared but wow it makes me so happy to see how the ward is really taking care of him and how he has a little ward family here in Chile even if he has nothing else!

Speaking of Cleber, Dad did you accept his dropbox request? He told me he sent you one. If not, do it, because it has all of the pics that he takes with me and my comp and families in our ward etc!

The last thing I learned this week was that God blesses you for the little efforts you make.  My comp and I usually have our schedules full of appointments and stuff but I´ve been pushing for us to contact more even if its hot and sunny and we feel like we are going to die.  So we finally went and just contacted like crazy for a while, then we did it the next day, and then we started realizing that the days we contact more we feel happier! Even if they all shut the door in our face we just feel better at the end of the day! So we decided we would set aside time to contact every day even if its just a little bit because we can see the little blessings that come from it!

Bye!

Hermana Kyrstin Millett

pic of bowling last week with the hermanas from los platanos and pic of me by some grafiti...some of it is really cool!

I took looooots of pics of david archuleta... the zoom on my camera is THE BOMB.  I was not sitting super close at all haha

Prayers and a Christmas Tree

Haha first of all mal I never thought I´d hear you say chau chau besito.  They say that all the time here, or cuidese ya? or Un abrazo chau chau! And that stinks that you don´t have members to feed you, but what a fun place!!! We only have one sector that is really campo, maybe two, and I´m not gonna lie I think it would be really fun to serve there, mine is the most down town city part in all of my mission... it has its pros and cons, but I´d love to have somewhere pretty and quiet without all the city noise haha but I LOOOOVE my ward, we get fed every day and we have really soooo much support from the members its awesome.

Oh and mal, holy cow you are TAN!!!!!!!!

Anyway as far as skype goes family, send me some times that would work for you too, remember there is like a three hour difference my time is three hours later than you guys and I need to be back to my apartment by 10 or 10:30 so just tell me what works! But I´d prefer to skype you guys with just you guys in the house (Grandpa too if he wants!) but yeah Idk what your plans are but I´d prefer not to skype during the family christmas party or anything, I just want to talk to you guys and see our christmas tree super bad! 

And more business, yes mom Elder Schade is in my district and he is an ap so I see him ALL THE TIME, and as for christmas decorating, yeah they are putting up some nativity things and lights we will be having a Christmas Concert on temple grounds three days this week.... there are rumors that david archuleta might be there.... he sang in it last year.... so we will see.....I´ll send pics! Also mom, transfer calls are this week so I´ll let you know, I´m like almost 100 percent sure that I´ll be staying, some people stay 10 months in one area... president doesn´t move us much!

As for this week, the first miracle... so remember how I was super homesick with christmas stuff and all last week? Well some of the members in our ward showed up with a full sized christmas tree and decorations, we put it up and wrapped presents under the tree, literally took almost all the homesickness away.  I love just sitting in the room with the tree and writing in my journal. Agh I love Christmas, that was such a miracle and answer to prayer.  I am constantly shocked by all of the tender mercies that I have had the priviledge of seeing here on my mission, everytime I get a little down Heavenly Father blesses me with another little miracle to make me smile! 

Second miracle, we were visiting Carolina one of our investigators preparing for baptism, she has 11 years.... she is 11 years old? her mom is less active and she is preparing for baptism! We finished the lesson and she said the prayer and pretty much said "Por favor, por favor, por favor heavenly father por favor bless the missionaries to be safe from all harm, don´t let anyone rob them, and let them be safe por favor!" It was the cutest thing ever and we told her we would be just fine, we have had a couple of scaryish situations with creepy men but my sector is pretty safe.  So we left and we were walking suuper fast to get to our next appointment on time and it was kinda dark when this 60 year old lady stops us because she needed help calling her friend on the intercom of the building.  We were SUUPER confused why she needed help to type in the number and call but we helped her anyway, about 1 min into it 2 guys that were on drugs and SUUUPER crazy walked by whistling and yelling a bunch of horrible stuff and they got super close until they saw we were with someone else trying to enter a building, and they left, but seriously we realized after we helped the lady inside that if she hadn´t stopped us we would have been walking all alone in a giant dark park with two crazy guys following us. Prayers work guys, even if its in the wierdest way, these guys were suuper scary and I´m really grateful that Carolina offered such a sweet prayer for our protection only 5 minutes earlier!

Well I´ll let you know what happens this week with transfers and all, love you all!!

With Love,

Kyrstin Millett

Some of the christmas decorations on temple grounds, and a pic with our conserje (consierge?) Wilson, we teach him or pray with him almost every night when we come in for the night. and a pray picture.

CRAZY, BUSY, WEEK

Holy Cow. I swear everything happened this week.... its been an emotional rollercoaster and very exhausting but over all quite memorable!

First, Katie has been sending me emails?!! I haven´t gotten any! I thought maybe she didn´t love me anymore haha.  Did she send it to kyrstin.millett@myldsmail.net? Mom, I play it probably at least for one thing every sunday... all the members want me to teach their kids piano but we don´t have time or materials so I tell them to talk to one of the elderly couples in our ward because we have like 10 elderly couples that work in the offices or in the temple.  

Also WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU THINKING!?!?!?!?! YOU DIDNT PUT UP THE GARLAND!?!?!?! PUT IT UP!! I LABELED EACH OF THE STRANDS TO MAKE IT STINKING EASY TO KNOW WHERE EACH ONE GOES AND I EXPECT TO SKYPE YOU GUYS ON CHRISTMAS WITH THE GARLANDS.  IF YOU DONT PUT THEM UP IM GONNA CRY!!!!!!!!!! ..... you guys should definitely put the garland up... make it Jake´s punishment next time he is a stink haha

Thanks for all the pics.... I´m sitting in the internet store bawling right now.  I LOVE being a missionary but I´m not gonna lie, being away from home for Christmas and Thanksgiving is really hard.  I´ve never been homesick before but seeing the pic of all the girl cousins without me and mal there is kinda sad! I hope you are loving the holidays, I think this might be one of the hardest times I´m gonna have on my mission (you all know how obsessed I am with Christmas... its not the same here... but I´ll try to make the best of it)

 On to the details of this crazy week.  

First.  Thanksgiving.  Yeah turkey doesn´t exist here so we all pitched in and bought kfc to surprise hermana mckinley for her nine month mark and thanksgiving.  It was really fun I love the hermanas here in pocuro they are some of my best friends and it was fun to pull together and do something for hermana mckinley! She was sad the whole day because we didn´t say a thing about her 9 month cumplemes which is a huge deal, but she was really happy when she walked in and saw all of the balloons and decorations that night!

This week we have been working with the wife from the couple that was fighting last week.  I seriously couldn´t love her more she is so sweet and so awesome, we have been getting her back to reading the book of mormon.  There are two things I like to keep in mind when it comes to the BOM, the first is something dad said, that he has never had anyone in his office with a problem that was reading the book of mormon everyday.  And second, Elder Holland in our devotional said that he has never seen anyone (Investigator, less active person, etc) come into the church unless they came reading the book of mormon.  He says when he has no idea what the need is of the person he bears his testimony about the importance of reading the book of mormon because it is the best missionary tool that God has.  So we have really been trying to work on that and I think it is really helping!

We have been trying to open our mouths more and it is surprising how many nice people we have found! Its funny how when we don´t want to contact everyone is really mean or creepy men, and then when we are trying to contact alot the people are so nice and accepting! Weird.  What a blessing.  

Also this week we had my Visa run, we got up at 5:30 in the morning and met up with all the people that went into the CCM at the same time as me to go get our visas we waited in lines for HOURS. We got there at 6:30 and there was already a 2 hour line, so we waited to get a paper, then we went to another line and waited another hour to get another paper, then we made copies and waited in another line for another 2 hours to give them all of the papers and apply for our carnet.... problem was I finally made it to the end of the last line gave him all my papers and on one of the billion papers they gave me they forgot to put a second T in my last name......... so we ran back only to find that the system crashed at the place we needed so we will be going on another adventure bright and early tomorrow morning... YAY! 

Saturday we met up with Mxxxx to see how he was doing.... he feels like he isn´t worthy to be baptized this week because of something that happened but he figured it all out with his elders and he is on track to be baptized this saturday, I´m so happy for him!

We also had that baptism of Cleber!! He is literally such a great guy and the Lord has prepared him so well for this, literally I feel like as missionaries we haven´t really done a thing because he just had a testimony of it all before hand, but I am soooo grateful for the opportunity I´ve had to be a part of this special time in his life! It was cool because he was baptized by his friend who served a mission in Brazil (I think the Porto Alegre mission!) and he baptized him in Portugese! Afterwards Cleber bore his testimony and literally everyone in the room was just shocked the spirit was so strong and his conviction so strong, he has such a sweet testimony of the gospel despite everything! The baptism went by sooooo fast because we were running around getting everything ready but it went really well and Its crazy to see that people really are finding the gospel and changing their lives!! Hopefully I´ll be able to send you pics of marios baptism next week even if I won´t be able to go!

Well I gotta go, Chau!

A fun Halloween package from Nik's family.

 Below is Thanksgiving with KFC and the celebration for Hna McKinley half way mark (9 months)

Kyrstin thought it looked funny when her companion put tea bags on her eyes for some ailment.

Cleber's Baptism

Decorating for Christmas