Aug 31- Sept 7‏

SORRY THE NEXT P-DAY WILL BE ON 17TH OF SEPTEMBER BECAUSE OF THE CHILEAN INDEPENDENCE HOLIDAY 18-19!

Hello Family and friends!

This week was great! My companion and I had our companionship inventory and I am a witness that communication is the key to any bad feelings that you can have toward another person. Test me! Go up to someone that you have problems with and sit down and just talk and I promise you will fill better. Of course when one is talking the other must listen with an open heart and receive counsel. Another thing that helps is start and end with a prayer.

I love my companion Hermana Guevara! She means the world to me! I know that she is a great tool in the hands of the Lord because of all the struggles that she faces in her personal life and her life her on the mission. Satan has been trying her patience here and she is winning triumphantly with her faith and she is still so happy. Her water boots broke then she got sick because it has been really rainy and really cold. Don’t worry she is better now and there have been more sunny days. Hermana Guevara has been the greatest help to me when we were talking in the kitchen next to the fire she comforted me as I was crying and she shared a scripture that I needed exactly in this moment and now I have made this scripture mine by putting my name Krista in the spot of a missionary named Thomas in Doctrine and Covenants chapter 31. I love my family with all my heart! These are examples of things that I have learned on the mission from studying, listening to my companion and being obedient. (1,2) I have so much faith in my Heavenly Father and his work that I left my family in their afflictions because I knew that I could be like a white lamb and sacrifice a year and a half of my life as an offering to God to show my love and faith for Him and my eternal family. I love my Allan, Kelly, Alicia, Nathan, Tanner, Briana, Tessa, and Spencer. I have total faith that the promises in the scriptures will be completed because God is unchangeable and He will complete all prophesies that the prophets have received and preached. I know that my family will grow and know the truth and they will be one with me in His church. (3) I don’t need to be worried about my family because the hour of my mission has come and I need to declare good news of great joy to this generation. (4) Those who work with all their heart, might, and strength their sins are forgiven. (6)The time in the mission is short but if I declare the words of God to this pueblo in Chile God will prepare a place for my family. (9)We all need to have patience in the tribulations and govern our house with peace and be diligent! (10) I’m going to be a doctor for the Church and for the world! Hahaha (11) I need to follow the path that Christ has lived which is His will and through the Holy Ghost I will know where to go and what to do. (12) Pray always so that temptation will not loose me. I know that if we pray always Satan has now power over us. If you have fallen you are not praying always. Be more faithful and diligent God will help your righteous desires. (13) Be firm and faithful to the end because God is with us these are the words of Christ our Redeemer and the will of our powerful God and not of man.


I LOVE THE SCRIPTURES!!! Wow they are so powerful because they really are the words of God. Study the Scriptures daily…Pray, Read (pray), Meditate (pray), Act (pray), receive Testimony (pray), and share your testimony with everyone that will listen. It is our responsibility as members of the church of Jesus Christ to understand the doctrine and then open our mouth and share it! Then our confidence will wax strong in the sight of God and all of our friends and family that we promised to teach and convert in this life that we knew and loved in the pre-mortal life. I have a strong testimony that this is true and that we have a specific mission in this life, and that our families and friends will be saved through us.


This Sunday was the most spiritually powerful meeting that I have been in. Hno Patricio was baptized yesterday and today he was confirmed a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through the gift of the Holy Ghost. The Spirits presence was in abundance I was overflowing with joy for this act of faith to this sacred covenant that was made with God and His Son. He was baptized by 15-year-old Gustavo, and confirmed by our Branch President Maldonado, and is now preparing to receive the Priesthood from President Lovell our Mission President, and then will be preparing to seal his family in September 2010 for time and all eternity! Then another baby was blessed whose family is members all except for her dad. My companion and I have been working with the family and have plans to work with the dad this week. The baby was blessed by her Grandpa who just got back from the Santiago temple from being sealed to his wife. They shared their testimonies of temples along with Hermana Ines who went with them and is the only member of the church in her family that lives in Argentina. Really all of the testimonies were perfect and exactly what we needed to hear. I love the Vólcan branch here in Villarica.

The presidents of the District and Branch have been having meetings with us and have shown their love of the Lords work through their desire to work in the manner that God has designed. The President Maldonado gave 4 new callings to our members which is always great when the president receives revelation, and the members accept. We even received a Mission Leader for our branch, Hno Jorge Binavides, from Columbia. What a great blessing it is to be in this ward at this time!!

I was able to find the Carrasco family that has been less active for a long time. There is a new program here in Chile for the less actives members that was received by revelation through our Prophet Thomas S. Monson from God. This program is called “Permaneced” and now all the missionaries have to pass by 10 families every week and every active family needs to pass by for 5 other families. The Carrasco family is excited to come back to church and we are looking forward to sealing their family and sending their 18-year old son on a mission

I love you all!! Hugs and kisses! XOXOXO

Love Hermana Krista Wade :D