wow its almost my birthday, I
cant believe it! Im going to be 21... unlike most 21 year olds on their
birthday, i will be reading the scriptures and going to bed at 11pm....
you only live once haha. I also completed 10 months in the mission this
past week. Hna Espinoza reminds me everyday how old i am in the mission
and how i am going to "die" end the mission soon.
shout out to Scottie Happy Birthday! I love you and i wish we could celebrate together but next year sí o sí haha.
we
were blessed with a lot of miracles this week. we found some really
awesome people to teach and a couple new people who are going to
progress and we´re really excited. we taught 21 lessons total this week
which for me is a lot. we have an investigator with a baptism date,
M., but its not super official, only if she receives an answer.
we´ll see how that goes because she still hasn't come to church. yo tengo
fe.
we had a new investigator M. come to
church yesterday. and we've only taught him two times. the first time
was for 15 minutes on his front porch. he committed to read the Book of
Mormon and to pray and that if he receives and answer he would get
baptized.
we´ve been working a lot with less
active members. we taught D. two times, helped her make bread in
her bakery and everytime we come over to visit she gives us fresh bread.
its a pretty sweet deal. we also found 2 new less actives. that's the
thing about Chile, you can knock 10 doors and 2 out of 10 are less
active members that you didnt even know existed. we set up times to come
back and teach and visit them.
One of them is E. and
she was super receptive. she actually told us that right before we found
her she was just about to go take a shower where she wouldn't be able to
hear the doorbell but something told her to wait a couple minutes more,
like a voice in the back of her head... and five minutes later we
knocked on her door! miracle!
we had interviews with
president Obeso on thursday and they went super well. he helped me a lot
and gave me more advice, he also interviewed me for a new temple
recommend because i lost mine in my backpack. the APs, assistants to the
president, gave a training on lesson plans. we´re supposed to have
outlines of all the lessons and mine were in my scriptures which were
stolen. so i only had 1 lesson plan that i did in the morning haha. and
of course the Elder chose my 1 lesson plan to show in front of everyone.
it was a little embarrassing haha. but it was a really good training.
we
also had intercambios with the sister training leaders this week. i was
with hna Oross from california in my sector. we had a lot of fun
together... and to be honest we spoke a little in english. our
companions are latinas and we missed speaking english haha.
on
saturday we sang in a funeral in a catholic church. a member died and
her whole family is catholic so they had a catholic service but invited
all the missionaries to come and sing. it was my first time in a
catholic church and it was interesting. a couple elders said some words
and then we sang abide with me tis eventide. it was nice.
it has rained so much this
week! i have never seen so much rain in my whole life. last night i woke
up like 5 times because the rain was beating so hard on our roof. but
im okay, a member gave me her old, but still very nice umbrella and that
saved me this week.
hna espinoza is great,
she really likes to clean haha. she has a couple quirks that im still
getting used to. but we work really well together. we teach well, i don't
have to worry about her backing me up and its nice. she is very
responsible for a missionary that only has 6 months. we have a lot of
fun and laugh a lot. she is super funny.
we
worked really hard this week. and im starting to feel again that 8
months isnt long enough to do everything i need to do here, or change
myself in all the ways that i need to change. i feel like there's so much
more i can give. this sector has so much potential.
thank
you for all the birthday wishes! it means a lot. im excited to have a
birthday as a missionary. it will be a once in a life time experience.
God
is real, he loves us, miracles still happen and Jesus Christ is the
savior of the world. I know that with him i can do all things. im so
grateful to be a missionary.
love, hermana williams
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