Jan 6, 2014

Well we have officially been on a mission for 6 months and 4 days... WHATT. It is so crazy to think that we are a fourth of the way done with our missions (it’s even worse for you Hermana’s...you’re like a third of the way done)

So this is the first time that I am writing to all you, my FRIENDS from the CCM and family. Hope all is well in all of your different your sectors, states and countries. as for the Spanish, its way better than it was in México, but I still haven’t mastered how to be funny in a different language, and I’m also not that funny in English so that might be one reason.

As for me I am working hard here in Talcahuana Sur! Where there is a lot of wind, a lot of dirt and a lot of apartment buildings that we can’t enter because there always LOCKED. Sometimes we get lucky and follow someone inside, or catch the door when someone’s leaving but other than that it’s hopeless. I think soon I might resort to throwing rocks at their windows. 

This past cambio I have been seeing so many miracles in my sector, in this new ward and in the people we are working with. An old investigator names Rodrigo called us this week. Said that his family had a family home evening and felt the spirit. And he wants to be baptized this Saturday. His wife is a less active and about 5 months ago other missionaries married them but stopped working with them because Rodrigo didn’t want anything more to do with us Mormons. But not all of that has changed and he is ready to take this step in following Christ. He is also very, very sick with stomach problems and might not make it through this year depending on what the doctors tell him today. Pray for him and his family.

In our ward we have completed 4 baptisms in 5 weeks and we have 1 more this Saturday. It has been more than a year since this ward has seen this success. This energy is beginning to affect the members as well and animating them to help us in the work. The Lords has is truly guiding this work and we have the opportunity, the privilege, to help. We are the Lords hands and it’s AWESOME.

Family, friends strive to be the Lord’s hands.

Also this week we also went to the beach for a zone activity! Enjoy my photos.