Week 69: Follow the Spirit!

Zone Activity at a Fort in Coquimbo

Hola Familia!!

Last week we traveled to Viña for our the leadership council and it was so fun to see hermana Varela, hermana Rice, hermana Sanchez and all my friends from the mission. We talked for like an hour about modifying the standards of excellence and it made my head hurt cuz ive never been really good and the whole numbers and goals thing. haha. Afterwards I said to all the other hermanas, "we should have 1 standard of excellence that says FOLLOW THE SPIRIT. I know making goals and keeping track of numbers is important, but sometimes you've got to take a step back and remember that following the spirit is the most important part. 

We didnt do anything special for Thanksgiving because they dont have that here in Chile so that was a little sad but hermana brooks made us some mashed potatoes when we got back to the apartment. haha. (that was the closest we had to thanksgiving food) 

We did intercambios last week and I was with Hermana burns who only has one cambio less than I do. and OMG she is INCREDIBLE!! She teaches so well and I learned so much from her about following and teaching with the spirit. That day we had a ton of lessons and we were literally sprinting around our area trying to get to them all. 

We were able to teach Marialex again and when we taught the plan of salvation she said that it answered so many of her questions. She is really curious and asked a bunch of questions and at the end said that she believes that its true and feels like it helps her know who she truly is. She is so sweet and so mature for her age. She still cant come to church though, but she said her mom might be coming from Venezuela this month and if she does, she will move out of her uncle's house and won't have to work every sunday! we are praying for a miracle honestly. 

Brenda and Vicente let us down and slept in instead of coming to church. We had a member ready to pick them up, we went to their house and knocked on the door, and vicente answered and said that he wantd to go but that his mom didnt want to wake up😒 So that was frustrating. We need our people to progress and right now I'm not really sure how to help them do that. Please pray for them! I feel like I'm kind of at a stand still. We are teaching a bunch of people but they just aren't progressing or keeping their commitments. 

Today we went to a fort in Coquimbo. It was cool and had a really pretty view of the ocean (I'm not gonna lie it made me miss California a lot) we took a bunch of pictures and it was fun to hang out with the zone.