HOLA
Another beautiful day of monday! Its lots of fun in the mission you see the very spiritual times and the really funny times this week. Start out with the funny parts soo the hna that gives us breakfast couldnt come for three days and the truth was we didnt have anything in our house we have a stove but we dont have a pan ooops but we do have a micorwave yay!! but its not the same has haveing food from this hna and doesnt help that this week we have been running in the mornings which is great but you are really hungry. We aslo bought marshmellows and cookies to do smores with one family but they couldnt so my comp made like a cake out of cookies and marshmellows and put it in the microwave but this time didnt blow up the microwave. When sunday night came around we didnt have anything in the house to eat and we where hungry we had bought a little elefant marshmellow thing for a hna but my comp was super hungry and the hna was out of town sooo she ate it and i went to our little orange tree and ate a sour orange but it was good but super funny!
Its really great working with the members to teach we found two hnas that have been living with one hna cuz their house was damaged in the land side and they have been listening to us and they even came to church! Its great that they can see the example of this family how they are great members and with their testimonies they want to learn more. We also have been working with a nothe Hna of a member that was just baptised this last year when we started the lesson she started by saying that she had been talking to her family that she didnt want to be in two different churches cuz she had been going to a different church we talked to her that she needed to learn and then go and ask God what was right then this Hna and her husband told how they had said the same thing when the meet with the missionaires but after they started to listen and they told of all the blessings they had recieved from being members! It was amazing how we turned the lesson and she agreed to keep listening and learning I know it was from the testiomonies of this members. The funny part is we had finished part of the lesson cuz we have to teach parts for parts not the whole thing in the first lessions but then these members started talking about who was the prophet right now and bishops temples we the missionaries where like paulse no more info cuz this hna started getting confused but this is why we learn things line a upon line. I know this members just want the best for their family thats why they are so excited to share with others but sometimes we got to remember that some of these things we take has normal is totaly different for them and it needs to be done little by little first Milk then Meat.
Im so happy to be here serving I know there is still lots I need to learn like to have more faith but by little means we can do great things!
I love you all so much thanks for all that you do and think you do!
Hna Boully
Hna Mandy
Hola familia!
So this week we've seen evidence that the Lord really does wok in mysterious ways. About five weeks ago we were visiting a less active and this friend of hers happened to be there so we taught him and then we taught him again the next day and he was really cool so we asked his address but he didn't know exactly what it was and so we never found him again. Then this week my companion and I have been praying and working really hard to have a baptism and yesterday he comes walking in to the sacrament meeting!! He had the LdM we had given him and when we talked to him afterwards he said he would like to start assisting our church from now on, he stayed for the full three hours and even participated in the classes!! He gave us his address this time too! We were on cloud nine thinking that he was going to be our baptism but after church we ran to go check where he lives and discovered that he lives right on the line that divides our sector from the sector of the elders and al final he belongs to the elders. aaaaahhh!! We were so frustrated! We were happy for the elders but at the same time we were thinking "We found him! We want to keep teaching him!" So when we passed the reference to the elders they laughed a bit saying that they felt bad to have stolen our reference but were happy at the same time to have such a great investigator now. We were a bit bummed but then we thought that the lord's hand is in everything and al mejor he needed the elders to teach him in oder to be converted.
The good news is that we discovered a new part of our sector that we didn't know existed and it's full of awesome people that have all opened their doors to us thus far. It's kind of funny, awhile back I sent a picture of me at the limit of the mission, well turns out that there's a road that leads back behind all of the vineyards that has a bunch of houses that we've been contacting this week and we found a lot more peoople to teach!
The other good news is that we were able to do a lot of service this week. We were passing a street and someone saw our name tags and told us to go to a house because there had been a fire and they had lost everything. We went, presented ourselves and what we do and ended up helping them scrape paint off of one of the surviving walls. So while by companion worked the blow torch I followed behind scraping off the paint all the while singing hymns while we worked for about two hours and talking to the people that live there. I love service!
So two things about Chile, they're such fanatics of soccer that whenever there's a game we have to enter early, and at this time of year there are about a trillion monarch butterflies everywhere! With all the green that's around, the mountains and the vineyards I'm convinced this is the prettiest place in the world :) And this work I'm doing is also the best thing I've ever done :) Love you all have a good one!
Hna. Boully
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