My First Baptism!!

(Sorry this was from last week!)


Oh hello everyone!!

So we had a baptism this past Saturday!!!! Domitila got baptized, and it was so beautiful. She is 80 years old and so sweet. She calls us her grandaughters. She is so cute we love her. When we were planning her service there was a little bit of drama from her daughter, who wanted only certain members of the ward to participate and ended up making us change some things... It was annoying, but we asked Domitila if a certain person was okay and she was like, ''I don't care, I just want to get baptized!'' Haha. She's great. At the service there was about 35-40 people, which was great. A lot of her family came. Some are members and some are not. We also had good support from the ward. It was great! I totally cried. I am so so happy for her. She is just excited and happy that she made the decision to be baptized. We are helping that family one person at a time :) It makes me so happy.

I think I did mention Miguel once, he had a baptism date for the 28th also, but we haven't been able to find him since that first weekend when we met him :( he doesn't have a house, don't know if I mentioned that before... Or a phone. So we're bummed because he was so sweet and had a desire to learn more. Oh well.. Hopefully we'll find him again someday.

A little miracle this week- we saw a young lady with her son, he was probably about 6 and they were playing on a little playground. We started talking to her and she thought we were Jehovah's Witnesses or something but Hermana Hamblin had a Book of Mormon in her hand and the lady saw it and she was like ''Oh, you're Mormon!'' Yes, yes we are. She then told us that two weeks ago, she found in the trash, a Bible, Book of Mormon, agenda, and a couple other things de un Elder in our mission! His name was engraved on everything but she didn't have money to call any of the numbers in the agenda. But she knew they were important so she kept them in her house. Well we got her address, she didn't live in our area but we told the Elders in her area to go visit her. They called us a few days later and said that the Elder got his stuff stolen and I guess the thief threw away all his scriptures. But he said it made his day to get his stuff back. So that was fun that we got to help in a little miracle. :)

Another little cool thing, earlier in the week we were talking to this man named Larry. He didn't live in our area either (Temuco is a big city, and we're in the center of it, so a lot of people come here to visit and shop and stuff but live out of town). He worked with a Bishop years back, and the bishop talked to him a lot about the church and gave him a BoM. He lost his BoM when they were moving, so we gave him a new one and got his address to give to the elders in his area. Well, Saturday after the baptism we were contacting in a plaza and talked to this couple. The girl gave us her address to stop by, and it sounded really familiar to me. I looked back in my agenda from a few days back and she had the same address as Larry! I was like ''Do you live with someone named Larry?'' and she was like shocked, and told us it was her Dad! Nooo coincidences. I thiiiink Heavenly Father really wants this family to have the gospel, if we contacted two of them not even near their house. Pretty neat.

A little miracle for us, this guy, Rodrigo, showed up to our ward yesterday. One of his friends from work invited him to church but his friend lived in a different ward. Usually the person would just go with their friend but he came to our ward cause he lives over here! It was cool. He's done a lot of research on the church and knew quite a bit. We taught him a little lesson during Sunday school and he stayed for 3rd hour. Well every 5th sunday we have combined Priesthood and Relief Society so that was a little different. Hna. Hamblin and I taught for the beginning like 15 minutes, and then another man taught the rest. His lesson was good, but some of the members of the ward were just talking way too much and about random things. We were like ugh, shhh we don't want to freak out our investigator! I leaned over to Hna. Hamblin during this and said ''This is like if you're dating a guy... you want to make sure he really likes you before he meets your family... Our ward is like the family, and he's meeting them before he really likes us!!'' Hahah, it was funny. Thankfully he still wants to date us (kidding, wants to meet with us for missionary lessons) even with the crazy family. :P

Another funny thing this week is WE got contacted by some 7th day adventist missionaries. That was different. Haha.

Umm, so, yeah, life is awesome and I LOVE being a missionary!!! We are teaching some families right now which is the BEST. We are hoping to start preparing them for baptism soon.

I know this work is the work of Jesus Christ. We have too many miracles and incredible experiences for it not to be- I know He is at the head of this work.

I love you all so much!!! Thank you for your prayers and letters and love. :)

Con mucho amor,
Your favorite Missionary in Chile :)