PUNTA ARENAS OVEJERO

FAMILY

Whahooo!!! What a great week! I said good-bye to all of my friends in Alerce on Tuesday. We took pictures and got addresses for after the mission. I love them all so much and I feel good about the work I’ve done in Alerce. My companion gave me my last advice and I wrote them down so that I could remember them 1) always be ready 2) always look at my agenda and search for the addresses 3) always seek to attain the good attributes of those around me 4) serve everyone around me including my companion 5) have enthusiasm everyday 6) don’t critique others 7) read the Book of Mormon everyday

The flight to Punta Arenas was great! My temporary companion was Hna. Alvarez. She is such a sweetheart we had a great time taking pictures with the 3 elders that flew with us acting like we were on a roller coaster but with out the screaming hehe hahaha ; ) After we dropped off 3 Elders in Coyaique, Hermana Alvarez and I enjoyed sharing the gospel with a married man with a little family. It’s little moments like this that I treasure where the seed has been planted and I hope it grows.


When I landed I felt this overwhelming peace knowing that this is the place that Heavenly Father wanted me to serve right now because he was the only person that I talked to about my desire to serve here in Punta Arenas because my companion always talked about how much she learned, and how much she loved the people and the food.

When we were driving to meet up with my new companion, I noticed right away that all the trees were horizontal as I was soaking up the new territory. I thought this was very strange and I realized what I was getting myself into....a lot of wind! The trees grew at a slant because of the force of the wind....its crazy!

My new companion is AMAZING, Wonderful, everything I could ever ask for. I LOVE HER SO MUCH!!!!! She is a super missionary and I feel very loved around her. We contact everyone we see whether they are in our path across the main streets, arriving home, working in there garden, peeking through their window from across the street! We even go door to door!! Ok I have to tell my favorite stories!

The man that was peeking at us through the window was golden! He was alone, so we ended up teaching the first lesson about God, Jesus, prophets, priesthood, and families. I could feel the Holy Ghost prompt us on what to share and we ended up asking him to pray about the things we shared and when he received a answer to his prayers to follow his feelings and the example of Jesus Christ and be baptized in His church, and he agreed, I can’t wait to teach him again with his family.

Then when we were going door to door my companion got bit by a big dog on her finger! The family that owned this dog immediately took us in and cleaned the wounds and gave us strawberry milk (Mmmm). I was amazed how their little family of four went to work fixing my companions finger and making us feel welcomed into there home. This family felt so bad because an 11 year old boy had died from a dog bit last year (I’m not sure if it was because there dog) and she started crying. So we comforted her and told her everything was going to be ok. She sat us down and made us dinner and then I told her that we were missionaries and that we were here to share a message about Jesus and how her family could be eternal. She said she shared with missionaries before and she wasn’t interested because she was catholic, but she wanted us to come by the next day to see how Hna. Aguilar's finger was doing. We taught her lesson 2 about the Plan of Happiness the next day we gave her a Book of Mormon but she was only interested in being our friends, I have hope that because she has accepted us, she will accept our Master Jesus Christ also.

I love seeing how the Lord always blesses us with the Golden new investigators at the end of the day when we have had a long day at work. We contacted a man that had a beautiful view of the sea and we taught him on his field because he was alone also. He had many great questions and was very intelligent and receptive. My companion and I gave him a Book of Mormon and pamphlet to schedule another appointment with a member of the ward.


I’m serving ocean side in a ward called Ovejero. I Love this name because it translates to sheep! In the Bible Jesus asks Simon Peter, ‘do you love me?’, Simon says, ‘Lord thou knowest that I love Thee’, and Jesus says, ‘Feed My Sheep!’ I love it I feel like the disciples in the olden days, and I feel like Jesus leaving the 99 to find the 1 that is lost! It is a powerful feeling. I don’t feel alone, as I walk I feel like Jesus, his disciples, and all his faithful servants are with me. I’m a simple instrument in the hands of the Lord, but I’m helping great things come to pass!

I bore my testimony in my ward to start off on a good note so that all the members would know that I was here to work for the Lord and to help them bring their friends and family into the fold of the Shepherd. I told them of my goal to open a temple somewhere in the Osorno Chile mission, and I knew that if we all did our part and followed the commandments with exactness, this great blessing would come to pass! I told them that I love the temple and those covenants are so important, but that I was there primarily to help neighbors make their first covenant of baptism. The ward was very nice and welcoming. My companion has great confidence in me and makes me feel important and of worth by letting me share my feelings and thoughts in all meetings with the bishopric. We are working on putting a music festival together and we are working on getting more references.

Today my companion and I deep cleaned our house, Krista style! It’s a good way to start off new with a bang! I love cleaning, it’s therapy! I love seeing how dirty it was at first and seeing the difference and progress afterwards. We gutted out all the cupboards, organized the shelves, cleaned the fridge, and threw out 6 loads of garbage! My companion and I are so happy and love our new little house. All I have to do know is put up a bunch of pictures of Jesus and then I’ll be finished, because a clean organized house is a House of God.


Love your daughter, Hermana Wade

Ps. It was so funny, last night my companion and I couldn’t fall asleep because of the mate! I love it!