Nov 9- 16

Hello loved ones!

Well it looks like no one wrote me for the first time in the mission. Haha very funny. I’m sure there is a good explanation but I hope everything is ok because it’s not usual.

This week was good. We are teaching Michael and his brother Sebastian and they are dynamite! I love them like my little brothers! They are so special to me because I had contacted him one day in the street and I fixed an appointment with him and wasn’t able to pass by and then one day God being loving and merciful led me by his door and I felt an urge go through one gate to contact the family that lived in the back of another house and when Michael (Caupolican 1540B) opened the door he said he had been waiting for me! I felt embarrassed that I had forgot him because we talk to so many people everyday that it is hard to remember all of them I was so grateful that God gave me a second chance to bless this boy and his big family with the joyful message that I have been send to give him. Sebastian has really changed too! He is such a bright innocent kid. He listens to us and feels the Spirit and knows that we teach the truth. I love how sweet and pure little children are and that is why I Love the scripture Mosiah 3:19! Children are obedient, humble, and full of love. Ramon and his brother Carlos are recent converts and are helping us teach them and be their friends.

We have been passing by for Hna Loreto that is in-active. It’s sad to see her miss out on so many blessings that her family could have but it’s just because she doesn’t understand and her pride gets the best of her. She has a great man but dosen’t want to get married. She has a bad relationship with her oldest twin daughters that are 10 years old because the oldest wants to get baptised but the mom won’t let her because she lies. Pati is a good girl, I know that things would be a lot better if she had the support of her parents and the gift of the Holy Ghost to help her make good decisions. Pati said that her primary teacher told her that if she didn’t get baptized the sin would be on the head of her parents and of course Loreto was upset by this but it’s true and she can’t be mad at God for the truth. God has blessed her with 4 beautiful kids and one on the way. It makes me sad that way she talks to her kids and she dosen’t even want to say prayers. We made her comite to having FHE with her family every week. I am hoping to see big great results.

My companion and I are focused on having lessons with members and we have been seeing great miracles. We have found less actives and have found old investigators. Which has also been a great way to find new people to teach.A less active member, Laura, found us in the street and she wanted us to pass by her house right away and so right after the appointment that we had we stopped by. She was frustrated and didn’t know what to do about her husband that had left her and her kids. She told us that this happened 10 years ago because he had 7 other kids with 7 other women. She was worried about money but I told her the best thing that she could do is get divorced to him and start attending church so that she could be ok in the sight of the Lord.

Emilio and Estefanys are good and we taught them about following the prophet with Hno Patricio. We didn’t talk about marriage because we think they are burned out by the topic. It is hard to work with people that don’t understand the great value of being obedient.

We talked to Eliseu who is ‘Atheist’. He dosen’t understand God and he told us that Satan visits him in his dreams. He likes the Mormons because he admires how the pioneers made the long trip and because we are good at farming and because of the old belief of many wives. It is sad to see the way Satan destroys good men. My companion couldn’t help but laugh at this couple because his wife is a loud Catholic woman and is always screaming at her deaf husband.

We visited Yerty with the Allende family and I loved how special they make our investigators feel. They took the time to tell her that they felt very special in her presents and that they knew that she would be a great member someday.

Then the Allende family got to know Alicia and Luis who are catholics as my companion and I did service washing dishes. I loved how they taught and shared scriptures with them because they were catholics before too. Hno Allende shared his testimony with authority and challenged Luis to prepare to hold the priesthood. They are reading the book of mormon and they think it is really interesting. They are Mapuche (which is the indians in Chile) so my companion and I hope that they see how the people in the BOM are the same.

The “papitos” are serious about getting separated. I don’t understand people that can let little things get the better of them. If only there was more love, forgiveness, and understanding that we let into our hearts. Why don’t people take the baptism covenant and the temple covenant more seriously. Do they understand that their salvation is at stake? I know for a fact that it is because small and simple things that we do or don’t do everyday that will be for our salvation or destruction. Like in all cases it is because they are not reading the scriptures, saying companion prayer, and working on Sundays. We will be having a FHE with them this week together hopefully so that we can talk them out of it. This will make it hard to baptize the dad of Ida and to activate her family now that they are thinking about separation.Really separation can happen to anyone that is not daily trying to make things better.

Fransisco refused to sing a hymn, say a prayer and talk to us about religion. But we did anyways. He wants to get married to Hna Otilia but she wont get married to him unless he is a member. He has a lot of pride and dosen’t understand God. He dosen’t want to pray, read scriptures, or attend our church because he was raised Evangelical. But as my companion showed him that all of these bad feelings come from Satan and not from God he told us that we would attend church with us and then that evening attend his church to see the difference in Spirit.

Well I think my companion is going to be leaving me. We ate lunch with the Elders but they didn’t want to tell us the changes so I guess the next week will be a surprise for you too to know if I have a new companion or not. I know I HAVE A LOT OF WORK TO DO. And I will not rest until it is done. I’m setting higher goals and I know I will reach them with the help of my Savior. I’ll be sad loseing her because we both talk in Spanish, English and Sign Languagae.

Sunday is always a highlight of the week when investigators come to church. This Sunday was very special because we reached our standards and because it was Seminary Graduation! Patricio Huillquemia received top awards and it was special because his less active family came. Hno Onate helped set apart his wife as the Relief Society President secretary.

Hermana Wade

PS. If anyone is wanting to know what I would like for Christmas it would be black thick dance tights, and the book of Mormon in Spanish on CD because there are alot of investigators that can’t read and I even have a couple who are blind. To order “El libro de Mormon” in Spanish here it is 25.000 mil pesos. Is there anyway that you could send me 5 copys. I would like if it is on DVD so it only takes up one instead of 5 CD’s.