Sept 7- 17

Hola Familia,

Thank you all for your love and support! You all are very thoughtful and sweet. I had the greatest birthday here on the mission! Hermana Lovell and all the missionaries from Villarica and Valdivia sang to me and the other missionaries who were going to have a birthday this month. I can't believe I'm 22 years old now. It's so cool that I'm here on the mission and living my adult life to the maximum. I've looked back on my life of 22 years and I'm so content with who I have become and I'm excited for my future too. Life is so fun and happy. I know that I am a daughter of God and a royal princess and that each one of us have great potential and we are heirs to His royal kingdom if we accept the price that Jesus paid so that we can rest in Their peace for all eternity.

My zone leaders Elder Merrill and Ellis called me in the morning to wish me a Happy Birthday. Then my companion made me a Salvadorian breakfast-in bed (only because it was cold in our house) with fried bananas that tastes like potatoes. She decorated the house with balloons and she sung a happy birthday song to me that I didn't know. Then we went to the Mamitas and she taught me how to make Empandas which is my favorite food here in Chile! I'm so excited because now I will be able to make Chilean food for all of you when I come home! It's delicious! Then I went to work like a normal day here on the mission, but we had to come home at sun down because September 11th is a bad day here in Chile too. President Lovell said that all the sister missionaries had to be in the house at sun down because Elder Merrill was serving in our area the past year and a man chased him and his companion for 6 blocks. So my companion and I worked on our mission binder and ate ice cream. MMmm...

We baptised Scarlet on the 12th of September. The service was very beautiful and she invited a lot of friends and family. She didn't want to invite anyone because she didn't think anyone would come but because we insisted that she invited her family and friends they came and supported this important decision in Scarlets life and witness a baptism like Jesus and now we have 5 more investigators from that baptism alone. I have a strong testimony that if we work with members and less active families that not all are members the Lord helps us do His work faster. Scarlets mom was inactive but now she is active!

Sunday we watched Ramon receive the priesthood who is a recent convert :)

I LOVE YOU !! Hermana Wade