Week 70: Christmas Time is the Best Time to be a Missionary!

Pictures with Santa for our Christmas Activity (Santa was actually an Elder in our mission who is a little on the chubby side. haha! He was so funny! )

Hola Familia!!

Ok, so I'm not gonna lie it has been a few hard weeks here in Coquimbo. We have been working so so hard, I think the hardest I've ever worked in my mission and we just kept hitting dead end after dead end. Some people we are teaching are now ignoring us and don't want to recieve us, other people just don't want to make commitments, and we are a little discouraged because we have just been doing every possible thing to bring people to Christ. Saturday night we were a little sad looking at all the work we did and the few "results" that we are seeing. But Sunday was a day of miracles!

After sacrament meeting a women came up to us and said she wants us to teach the guy she is dating. The woman's name is Antionetta and her boyfriends name is Gonzalo. We went and taught him that same afternoon and the spirit was so strong when we taught about the first vision. After, we asked Antionetta to give her testimony about the Book of Mormon and Gonzalo started to tear up. He told us that this is what he has been looking for in his life and that he is interested in getting baptized. We set a date for him to get baptized on january 11th!! its in about a month, and we have a lot of faith in him. He has already been going to church for about a month and a half and we have seen him every Sunday. That's huge! He seems really prepared and he is just the miracle we needed to not give up hope!

Last week we also went to the center of Coquimbo and we put up banners of Light the World and sang christmans hymns with the zone. I think a lot of people thought it was kind of weird but I think a lot of people enjoyed it too. The Chilenos arent really used to people singing Christmas carols in the street, so it was kind of cool to see all the people smile as they passed us.

Christmas is the best time to be a missionary! Its the best time to talk about Christ and his role in all of our lives.

Hope all went well with Zach and Maelynn's wedding. So happy for them!

Love you all,

Hermana Snyder