6 Month Mark

Querida Familia mia

 

¿Como estan? Wow well the weeks keep flying by like seconds in the day and I really don´t like it. This next week I will have hit my 6 month mark in the mission. WHAT!!!!¡¡!¡! Ya that is so crazy! Life seems to keep moving for you guys though. Mom sounds like life is only getting busier for you in catering. I guess that's a good thing though. 

 

 

Ok, so there is one thing that you can eat this weekend with the family in memory of me on my mission. The pictures are of completos which are Chilean hot dogs...and I´m never going to eat a hot dog any other way but this way for the rest of my life!! That is a little over the top, but they are so good. I thought that this is a good start for moms recipes since I don´t have to work so hard to translate things! But anyways for the Completos

You need home made buns..this is key..

Then diced tomatoes..yup i said it..

Next avocados.

Mustard.

Mayo. 

Ketchup.

Salsa verde!! 

So the mustard here in Chile is different..it's more sweet, but not like a honey mustard. Anyways, then you can have home made french fries and you all can have your Chilean once (ohnsay). It's like a late dinner.

This week was pretty good. We had some really amazing miracles happen this week that just were sooo awesome. First of all we are teaching this little family of women. A mom, Margarita, and her two daughters Anais and Denis. We found them in the Area Book because they were old investigators, but Margarita has had a really strong desire to be baptized from the beginning and right now we are working with her daughters so that they can have the same desire as their mom. This week we taught the Word of Wisdom, because we saw her smoking the week before and if she is going to be baptized as soon as possible she needs to start living the WofW right away. When we taught them about the things they shouldn´t drink or eat she just started to laugh and said, "Oh no, I smoke and drink tea and coffee."  IN our minds we were like, 'Ya we know!'  But we had them all make goals at the end of lesson on how they were going to overcome their difficulties. Before the lesson we purchased herbal tea and Ecco (which is like a substitute for coffee) and then we traded with them their coffee and tea! It was super cool! Now the next step is to get them in church. They have been before but keep leaving to see their grandma every Sunday because she is sick right now. But I have tons of faith in all of them.

Then we met, Ivan who is 29 years old, and we happened to contact him in the street one day. We had a lesson with him that was really amazing, but when we invited him to be baptized it was a little weird and my comp and I still don´t know why. But he accepted and then after the lesson he told us we couldn´t see him for a whole week. But in the next days we passed by his house just to see how he was doing or if he needed anything and he was never home. We thought for sure we had just scared off a really golden investigator. So this Thursday when we showed up to the church for our lesson we were waiting for like 20 minutes and then we decided that we should just go to his house. Right at this moment when we were leaving he was walking up to the church. HALLELUIAH!! :) And he was happy!! We had another good lesson with him and invited him to Church an activity for young single adults (that was yesterday). He went to both with his daughter who 6 and they both loved it. 

 

Yesterday we had the activity for the young single adults in Rancagua because Elder Zabellos, the area 70, spoke and we had an amazing musical number by one of our famous missionaries! But we had a challenge to bring an investigator with us. It was truly a tender mercy that Ivan came with us. I think that it was a really good experience for him as well. We also brought an inactive member with us who I absolutely adore her. Anyways, it was a really neat experience.  Elder Zebellos talked about reaching our potential and how we need to climb the hill in front of us first before we can take on the next challenge. We have to walk before we can run! IT was good. And then we got to listen to Elder Archuleta sing a couple of songs. And yes I got to shake his hand...just throwing that in there. haha

Ok, time is up and I couldn´t get the pictures attached. Sorry, the card wouldn´t work with this computer.

LOVE YOU ALL!! Talk to you later!! literally!

 

Hermana Thacker!

 

 

(Received  May 7, 2012)