Week 13: An Awesome New Family and a Chilean Halloween

These sister missionaries in my zone are so amazing. I love them all!

Hola Familia!!!

This week was so awesome!! We got a reference from some elders about a woman and we went to visit her on Wednesday. Her name is Marcela and she has 4 daughters and one son. She has a boyfriend who lives in Concepcion and is a member. She has been looking into the church and wants to get baptized! What's more is that one of her daughters received a Book of Mormon from a friend a few years ago. She has been reading it and wants to get baptized too!! We are working with her other daughters and hopefully they will want to learn more about the church too! The mom is Marcela and her daughters are Leslie (26) (she has downs syndrome and is one of the sweetest people I've ever met) Denise (20), Angie (19), Camila (16), and her 7-year-old son Patricio. Patricio always screams MISIONERAS MISIONERAS whenever we come to the door and he is always sooooo excited to see us. haha! We wish everyone had the same reaction when they see us. haha! But the whole family came to church (except Denise) and the ward received them with soo much love! They loved church! Camila and Angie want to do personal progress together and Hermana Wurdel and I are praying we can help them all get baptized together on November 18th! So pray really hard for Marcela and her family!!

Anyways that was our miracle! I absolutely love this family with my whole heart. Camila always asks when we are going to come back and visit and she is like our best friend!

This week we had basically a water balloon fight for our zone activity at the stake center. It started off as the game where you launch water balloons from towels, but it was so freaking hot that we just started chucking them at each other. It was so so fun! ALSO IM NOT THE NEWEST MISSIONARY IN MY ZONE ANYMORE! haha! A new hermana just arrived from the CCM and I tried to talk to her in English and it was actually kind of hard to speak in English haha!!

Also, Halloween was fun. We were out contacting and so many people saw us and were like "haha! they are dressed as missionaries" Lol! No, we aren't dressed as missionaries we ARE missionaries! haha! We didn't get much work done, but it was fun to see all the kids all dressed up and trick or treating. Halloween is the same in Chile, but the kids say dulce o truco (sweet or trick) instead of trick or treat. haha!

But that was my week! Super awesome! I hope you guys have a great week! I love this work and I love being a missionary!

Con amor, Hermana Snyder

p.s. Here's a few things that are just things:

No, we don't have AC in our apartment.
We did a lot of running this week. Trying to get everyone to come to church and trying to make it to our appointments on time.
It is really really hot and I got a gnarly sunburn on my neck.
There is a truck in front of our apartment that beeps so loud every morning at 5 a.m.!!