Hola familia!!!
I hope my email finds you guys well. This week just flew by so I can barely remember what happened.
I hope my email finds you guys well. This week just flew by so I can barely remember what happened.
This was our first week with our new mission president, President Diaz. I haven´t met him yet but I´m excited to!
This past weekend was full of weird days for us haha. On Saturday we had a wedding in our church. A couple that the elders are teaching got married on Saturday so the husband could get baptized on Sunday! So I was asked to play piano for the wedding. It made me laugh, the songs that the bride wanted to be played were öh esta todo bien¨ (All is Well (?) The classic pioneer hymn), I Stand All Amazed, and Nearer My God To Thee. The pioneer one just was random but I mean it´s her day right? So that was fun. It´s weird seeing a civil marriage. It makes me a little sad hearing it because I know that there is so much more when we get married in the temple, but that´s their goal so that´s awesome!
ALSO Saturday was the fourth of July!!! YAY AMERICA!! And I probably celebrated it in the most un-American way ever because Saturday was also the finals of the American Cup and Chile was playing against Argentina in the FINALS! Chile is not the best soccer team so everyone was way pumped that they made it all the way to the finals. AND our new president of the mission, being the true blooded Chilean that he is, gave us permission to watch it in the house of one of the ward leaders so we got to go! And CHILE WON!!!!!! It was crazy! It came back to a goal off in overtime and we won 3-2! The first time in history that Chile has won the Copa America! But then we had to keep working for the last hour of the day and everyone was in the streets making as much noise as possible and celebrating. I wanted to invite someone to be baptized right on the spot because they were all so happy that I was sure that they would say yes to anything but my plan unfortunately didn´t work out....
The work here in Sindempart keeps on going. It´s slow here though.. The sector that we have is HUGE. I think it might be my biggest yet so we lose time walking and there is not always people in the street to contact. Our main investigadors are 10 year old boys whose mom´s aren´t ready to give permission for them to get baptized. We find great people but then they are never home again. I´m trying SO hard to find people to get baptized before I leave but it seems the Lord might have different plans. It´s like everything is perfect on paper but it just isn´t working out in reality. Don´t get me wrong, I´m definitely not discouraged. We work hard and do all we can so I sleep well at night. It´s just sad because I want these people so bad to get baptized because it´s going to help them and I see them know that it´s true and that they have even received answers!
It was way cute though, ok so cute may not be the right word .... so we have an investigador Diego who´s 23 years old. He has come to church 6 times but is scared of commitment. Anyway we´d left him because he wasn´t progressing but we stopped by this week to see how he was doing. Turns out he´s been reading the Book of Mormon everyday and praying on his own to find answers. His question is not if the Book of Mormon is true or if José Smith is a prophet but it´s that he takes pills everyday to help him control his temper and calm him down and he wants to know if it's against the word of wisdom to take marijuana instead of his pills. hahaha it made me smile because he was like I just want to find where it says that it´s ok. We explained the word of wisdom better to him though (thank goodness he never came across the scripture in Alma that talks about the good quality of herbs that helped heal their illnesses...) BUT Diego was using the Book of Mormon as a source of answers AND he´s quit smoking AND he said that he´s seen a difference in his health. AH! Real life blessings right there for being obedient. But he won´t accept a baptism date. We have an awesomely spiritual lesson planned so I really hope he´ll be able to recognize the spirit and have a change of heart. He´s a good kid, the gospel will help him be even better.
Yesterday in testimony meeting at church, a little boy in our ward got up and bore his testimony. It was the basic cute little kid testimony and then he said something that caught my attention. He said how he loved everyone in the ward and that he was willing to give his life for them. Wow, that hit me. This 10 year old was willing to give his life for the people in his ward. I thought how many people would be that willing? And I thought of One. One who was that willing. One that actually did give His life for every single one of us. Because he loves us that much. Because He knew that giving anything less than His life would have made any thing we tried to do or sacrifice meaningless. What willingness. What sacrifice.
Then we had an awesome lesson in our gospel principles class about sacrifice. They were talking about the qualities of the lamb that they would sacrifice in olden times. How they had to wait until it was an adult and fat and it couldn´t have any stains and all that. The teacher made the point that all that took TIME because it had to be PREPARED: That was part of the reason Jesus got so mad at the people selling animals for sacrifices in the temple. Because people would go and buy the lamb and sacrifice it, skipping the whole time and preparation part of the sacrifice, losing that whole part. The Lord requires of us our time and preparation. It´s through the time we take and sacrifice that we become changed and that we can become better. It´s the time that makes it a true sacrifice. It was a good lesson to hear while we were fasting.
Well that was basically the highlights of this week. I´m really excited for this coming week to find people (preferably that don´t need their mom´s permission to get baptized..) and miracles. I know that they are there, waiting for us!
Hope you all have a great week!! Love you!
con todo el amor en mi corazon,
Hermana
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