Week 8: I Felt Your Prayers!

Hola Familia!!

This week was better than last! I still have really hard days, but I'm doing better! Thank you so much for all your prayers. This week whenever I felt sad or discouraged, I thought of all you and how you are all praying for me and I am so so so grateful! I love you guys so so much!

This week our investigator with a baptismal date fell through. She had some problems in her life and she was living with a member and that member basically didn't want to deal with her problems so she doesn't live in our sector anymore. But we had two people come to church yesterday!! They are the cutest little old couple but they both came to church and loved it and we're teaching them tomorrow. We also have two other new people we're teaching who are awesome! One of them is named Alejandro and he is so receptive. He basically said he is looking for the truth and doesn't know where to find it. We said he is just like Joseph Smith and we bore our testimonies to him. I'm not sure exactly how he feels because I still can't understand that much, but I hope he continues with the lessons and comes to church ( or general conference this week).

Mom, I don't know if you got a picture the other day, but the sister that always sends you pictures is Hermana Duran. So this week Hermana Duran's house sort of caught on fire. I'm not exactly sure what happened, but her whole kitchen was completely black and she called us in tears to come help. Of course we did because she is like the best. Hermana Wurdel and I and the other elders in the next sector scrubbed her whole kitchen clean of ash. Nothing was destroyed just covered in a thick layer of ash. But it was kind of fun. We listened to efy music and sang all the words, and I think her kitchen has never been cleaner.

We also had intercambios and I was with Hermana Crook! I'm not gonna lie it was sooooo nice to be with a gringa and we basically talked in English the whole time! She's also a dancer, so we had a lot to talk about... it was so fun!

Ok some stuff about Chile, We have almuerzo (lunch) everyday with members and its sooooooo much food. We never eat dinner and I hardly eat breakfast cuz we get so much food at lunch haha! Also there are dogs EVERYWHERE!!! Peña Blanca has its fair share of hills, but nothing compared to Viña del Mar. I love the people here though...for the most part. haha! They almost never keep their appointments, so most of the time we teach lessons if they just happen to be home and let us in. But we teach lessons everyday. We have the cutest family we are teaching! The mom always cancels appointments with us, but whenever we pass by they let us in haha. The kids are so cute and they love us. I gave them a Book of Mormon and testified of its truthfulness and I think the dad in the family was interested.

Anyways I love you all so much and want to thank everyone for the prayers and love! I really felt it so much this week!