Tender Mercies

Hola Familia

Well it was super fun to talk to you all. I think that one hour isn´t enough time, but oh well. It was sufficient for the time being....I guess. 

 

 

So this week was a lot more than I told you about yesterday. Each day is filled with things to tell, but there is only so much time and air to tell everything. Even in a journal you can´t capture every moment. I wish I could show a video of my life to you guys. SO, I have to admit that I am siting in the ciber in Rancagua and I forgot my cord to email my pictures...so maybe next week I won´t send a very big letter and I will spend most of my time attaching photos to send. 

 

 

UM...ok JULES..I know you will read this so I´m going to say THANK YOU FOR THE LETTERS! Wow you have no idea how much joy I get receiving and reading your letters. I seriously read them like four or five times and then tell myself I need to put them away so they don´t distract me! But I love them soo much. I am working on getting your letters sent out too so hopefully in a few weeks you can look for my letters!

This week was pretty good and not pretty good. It was kind of a weird week for us and in the middle we went to Santiago. I like going to Santiago because I get to see a little more of Chile when we ride the train but then I also loath it because it takes an entire day and we are soo tired afterwards. We only have so much time to work and teach and when an entire day is taken away the work only doubles and we have to work that much harder to get back our day we lost. 

 

 

This week it was really hard for us to find members to come out with us to our citas. And only one of our investigators came to church this Sunday... I don´t know what happened and maybe now that it is getting colder the people aren´t as willing to sacrifice to leave their warm homes and go to church. Who knows, but we also struggled finding new people to teach. Lots of people listened but either the person didn´t live in our sector or they didn´t have "time" for us to return. Or in other words they really don´t want us to come back. We did talk to a couple of golden contacts and we are really looking forward to our citas with them. Once again yesterday we talked with an older woman who has cancer, and she was so sweet and really wants to have the missionaries teach her, but she was visiting her son and doesn´t live in our sector.....dang...well, we found a golden contact for the other hermanas!

Even though this week was kind of.....I don´t know the word..a little difficult...I think what I learned is that everyday Heavenly Father gives us little miracles and tender mercies. One day this week we had lots of time to knock and contact people. Well, we received a list of references so we decided to go and find them. The first person we were looking for lived in a house that didn´t exist on this street. So in the process of finding the house we found two really amazing contacts that have great potential to be great investigators and then great members of the church. We didn´t actually contact any of our references, but the Lord placed people in our way that needed to hear the gospel and that were prepared in this moment to listen to us.

Our investigators are at a stand still right now and I´m not really sure what we can do for them. Ivan, our fecha, is doing amazing and we had a really amazing lesson with him about the Atonement and he was in church on Sunday and is just eating the gospel up like peaches and cream.... :) But then we have other investigators that want to be baptized, and tell us they want to be baptized but then won´t come to church..or read the Book of Mormón..ugh...The hardest part is that I don´t want to drop any of them. Anyways we have some good plans for this week and hopefully with our plans and faith we are going to see a lot of little miracles take place!!

Well, sorry about the pictures again...I really am going to send them next week....sorry mom I know you are rolling your eyes at me right now... :)

LOVE YOU ALL SOOO MUCH!!
Hermana Thacker

LIST OF THINGS TO SEND
Maybelline Dream matte mousse pressed powder
Beef jerky--a cd of the primary songs in English (if you can find one, this is for my companion for her birthday..she really wants these songs in English but I want to surprise her with a cd (if you can, if not it's totally fine!).
Olay original face lotion
Neutrogena face make-up remover (in a blue bottle)

 

(Received May 14, 2012)