¡Hola po!
Hey there loved ones! So this week has been amazing and I want to
tell you about everything! So I'm not sure what I told you in the last
email, but I hope that you got the pictures I sent along with it.
It is
so pretty here--it kind of reminds me of Utah and Arizona! Anyways, I
live in the best place ever. Really, I'm not sure how Heavenly Father
blesses me so much but everthing is just perfect. The little apartment I
live in is great. It has a working shower and everything. It's funny, in
order to have hot water in the morning we have to go out and turn on the
gas. But I don't care I get hot water so basically that's amazing!
I
want to tell you about all the people that we have been teaching and all
the new peeps that we keep finding that are falling into our laps.
Entonces, primero es Miguel! He is like straight out of an Ensign
article! Tell the missionaries that this kid has two church attendances
in one week of meeting the missionaries! That is like amazing. So, my
trainer met him on the street the Saturday before I got here. They
invited him to church the next day and he came. This is the first church
that he has ever attended and he loved it! His first lesson was with me
and we invited him to be baptized. A baptism date on my first day is
basically amazing. He is twenty years old and he lives in Rancagua but
comes to Graneros, just north of Rancagua, for work. We have met with
him every two days and he just eats up the Gospel.
We also have this
other couple who are progressing investigators, and they are basically
members. I'll tell you about them later, but they came with us to one of
Miguel's lessons. Rodrigo just testified of everything and the Spirit
was so strong--it was all I could do to hold
back the ocean of tears in my eyes!
Rodrigo and Maribel (the couple I mentioned before) are not members, yet. But they just love
the Gospel as well! We went and visited them this week--I
swear they could teach us the lessons. Their Book of Mormons are marked
up and they are just awesome. The only reason they are not baptized is
because they are not married. It is actually a big problem down here
because people don't get married, they just live with each other for years
and have a family and act like they are married. This couple is soo
good though. I just hope that I get to be here for their wedding and
their baptism. They are so good that we can count them as members when
they come with us to teach other investigators. Investigators teaching
investigators.
We have so many investigators it is crazy fun and I love it. We are
so busy everyday running from house to house or lining people up in the
church waiting for their appointments. People just keep coming out of
the wood works as well. We got 12 new investigators this week even! WOW so
crazy cool.
My Spanish is still really bad, but I do try and teach and
testify as much as possible. When I testify the Spirit is so strong though, it definitely reassures me that words don't matter. Everyday I
feel like I can understand a little bit more but they speak so fast and
they drop the 's' off of almost all of their words which makes it even
more difficult. For example, instead of saying maso menos, so-so, they say mao
meno. And I'm dumfounded, "Huh??" Ya, anyways, I wish I could speak more and get to
know more people, but a lot of the times I just sit there.
I know I said
that I wished I had a native companion but the Lord knows that I would
have gone crazy not knowing what was going
on and just following my trainer like a puppy. At least this way she
can explain important things to me and tell me about the investigators
and their needs.
I learned this week that the MOST important thing I need to do as a
missionary is have the Spirit. I don't teach anything. Even if I could
talk to them, without the Holy Ghost you cannot understand or learn
anything! It is so important to do everything to keep the Spírit and
bring it into the homes of those we teach. I just love being a
missionary already. It rocks!
Mom, I know you probably want to know what I have been eating. Well,
actually it's pretty normal stuff. We ate at a members house, the Relief
Society President, and I'm not sure what it was. At first it was just this
pile of stuff with potatoes on top, but it was actually really good.
Then another time we were eating at another members house and I
guess they think that if you eat cold things when you body is hot it
isn't good, so we eat lots of hot foods in the summertime. But we had
this potato and chicken soup and I was just sitting at the end of the
table sweating hard core, but it was good and I didn't prepare it so I
loved it. I also ate almost an entire plate full of tomatoes. Ya, just
let the record show!
Hermana Thacker
(Posted on Monday, January 30, 2012)
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