Aug 10- 17

Family and friends

This week was good. It wasn’t perfect because we were not as successful as we know it can be, but now we had our companionship inventory and are now refocused. It is amazing how we have received this great calling to invite all the children of God unto Christ through baptism and how my companion and I constantly need to be thinking and talking about His Great Work and Glory so that we can be diligent and obedient. It can be overwhelming to think about the responsibility that we have but we know that that is the reason why God has restored the organization of His church newly on the earth again.

I LOVE Hna Maria Vallejos! She has helped me set goal to read the entire Bible. Write now I’m reading the New Testament in English and Spanish. As I also have restarted reading the Book of Mormon in Spanish for the second time. I finished putting the Preach My Gospel stickers in my scripture and all the investigators love them and all the missionaries want them.

I am guessing that I will be with Hna Vallejos for her last transfer and I’m really sad to let her go. She fills that I’m going to ‘kill’ her here in Radimadi when she returns to her home in Perú. Her family lives there in the Jungles of Perú with all the Anacondas and all types o serpents. You can imagine all of the stories that she has. I think I’ll go visit her one day. We are still working on her English so that she can accomplish her dream of living there in the US. She received a letter that a lot of things have changed there in her family so she is expecting or preparing for the worst and they are advising her to accept all the great opportunities that will be given to her here in Chile or there in the US. I’m worried about her going home and I want to personally know that someone will be there to pick her up. I want to be her companion there in Perú when she returns I want to cry when I think about her being there all alone because her family hasn’t written her for months.

We had the greatest Family Home Evening with the Cifuentes family in the house of the mamitas Edith and Anita Parra. I felt the Spirit and the greatest joy to listen to the testimonies that this family has. Rodrigo and Marcela have become ‘dry mormons’ and are only missing the water. Rodrigo is so cute because he is patiently waiting until his family receives this desire to be baptized too. He even ends in the name of Jesus Christ Amen every time he bares his testimony. Marcela now knows that Joseph is a prophet. Yesterday she told us that if my companion and I fast and pray for her cat to be saved from the deathly sickness that he has she will understand that miracle as the profound answer that she is looking for and has told us that she will be baptized at the end of this month. Then Rodrigo was excited because he told us that would mean that they would be baptize together. He is already making plans and is making his temple marriage goal known to everyone! He doesn’t want to obligate his daughters to be baptized but he doesn’t want to wait for his daughter Roxanna because she doesn’t have much time to be there during the lessons. I’m looking for ways to get her more interested because Lesly being the oldest loves everyone and doesn’t want Roxanna to be left behind so she stays at home with Roxanna when she is being lazy.

I would feel better if they fasted with us so that they could receive a testimony of the power of fasting. I felt a little un-easy about this challenge and hope that it is pleasing unto God that I am fasting for this purpose. They were taking about we need to be more faithful as members and fast for miracles to heal the bone cancer that Hna Vallejos mother has. I was so glad that German our mission leader was there to bear his testimony of when this ward fasted and prayed when his mother was on her death bed and the doctors didn’t know what it was and how she was saved and healed.

I know that that is why I will continue to fast pray and fight for my family because I will never loose the faith that they can be an eternal family.

Have a great week!

Hermana Krista Wade