Well HELLO everyone,
Coldest 4th of July of my life-- Dead of winter here in southern Chile.
Wow lotsss has happened. First of all, my companion is sick!! Ahhh like super sick. :( Like, was in lots of pain for two weeks but didn't say anything because she didn't want to make a big deal of it, but now it's like really really bad and we went to Concepcion Thursday to go to the doctor, and the meds didn't do anything. We basically haven't gone out to work since Wednesday. We worked a little bit Friday and Saturday morning. Went to church Sunday morning and then were home. Like I said she had meds but she was in so much pain... It was killing me so I called Hermana Martinez and we went to Conce Sunday night to the hospital. They took a bunch of tests and apparently one of her organs is infected and inflamed and that's why she is in so much pain. Ah I feel so bad. SO we've been in the house a lot... I feel really lazy I'm getting bored. But the most important is that she gets better so we can get out to work and save the world!!! We're going up to Conce again tomorrow for another doctor appointment. And I am doing the best I can to take care of her. Making food, making sure she takes her meds (which she hates)... We're getting to know each other a loot better, telling lots of stories and just kinda hanging out in the house. Which is weird. Haha. But, what can I do? Prayers for her please, she says she would like to throw herself in front of a car cause it hurts so bad :( ANnyyway, other news...
Giselle didn't come to church Sunday and we don't know why. Sad.. We gotta find her and see what's up. Also, Daniela we haven't seen as much lately and she needs our help to keep progressing. But they both have a lot of potential. Exciting news, I think I talked about the Familia Ramirez before. We found them knocking doors, the mom got baptized a long time ago with two of her kids. Sadly they died.. the kids, they drowned or something tragic and the mom hasn't been to church since. So we went back a few times to teach her and try to help her out, and then we ended up meeting her kids because they wanted to learn. Lorena is 21 and so cute. Alejandro is 20. He came with his mom to church a few weeks ago but Lorena always had work Sundays. But she would always read the Book of Mormon and pray and loved learning about the church. Well, this past week we'd been fasting with the Zone. We needed a miracle (I'll tell that story next). We had invited Lorena to ask her work if she could go in late on Sundays so she could go to church. We asked her Saturday morning (the only appointment we went to) if she had asked and she told us she actually doesn't have work there anymore. Obviously we feel bad about that, but now she can come to church!!! We taught them and put a fecha with both of them for July 28th!!! They are so excited and they know it is true. Wow! Sunday they both did come to church. There were only 20 people there, the smallest it's been my whole time here. Ugh, Los Alamos, I don't get it. There are lots of members but obviously not many who are truly converted and have a testimony. It was fast sunday so it was testimony meeting, and there was lots of silence because there was hardly anyone there haha. I was like thinking oh my gosh this is terrible. But Lorena still loved it! She was like smiling and felt so good and agreed with the things people were saying. It was awesome. They stayed for all three hours of church and afterwards they asked if they could move their baptismal date up a week, to the 21st because they want their family to be there and they're gonna be visiting then. YES!! How fantastic. What a blessing!! We are just having tons of blessings lately, it's ridiculous. Hard because we can't go out to teach and work more, but the Lord is still blessing us. Thank you!!
Gustavo is doing well. He's still in Concepcion, and I am dying I want to keep teaching him sooo bad. But we call him often and he went to church up there Sunday. HOPEFULLY he will be home soon!
SO the miracle in the zone of Lebu!!! Every month, we make a goal as a zone for how many baptisms we want to work for that month. Obviously, it's not about the numbers rather about the people and their eternal salvation, but it's important to have goals and to work for them. The goal that we put as a zone was 12 for the month of June. By the 17th of June we had 11! We were soo close, but there were lots of obstacles that kept coming up. The last week of the month, this kid, Pablo, had a fecha and was preparing for his baptism. He's 17 and so he needed permission from his mom. His baptism was going to be Friday, and the Elders there went Thursday night to get her to sign the permission slip. And she said no. She said unless God tells her in a dream that night, that he needed to be baptized the next day, it's not going to happen. We were all fasting and praying tons as a zone. Friday morning Pablo goes to his mom and he's like soo....??? And she goes, ''Okay. Where do I need to sign?'' She had a dream that he needed to be baptized!!! And she gave him permission. It was AMAZING. We were so happy and shocked. I don't know why I'm still surprised when Heavenly Father works miracles. I know He can do anything, according to our faith and His will. But it was amazing. The whole zone got permission to go to his baptism to support and I gave one of the talks. It was a great baptism and to see us complete our goal together, with so much unity and love. Yay! So, today, we are having a barbeque for the 4th of July because we completed our goal. Lebu is doing sooo well. Our zone is leading the mission with 40 baptisms this year. It's great that we are working so well together and understanding our purpose to help these people here. Love it.
Well, that's it for today. I love you all so much, thank you for all your support and prayers and love! Pray for my comp, Hermana Haycock, please. Love her tons and it kills me that she's in so much pain. We gotta get out there, we've got souls to save!
I know this is true, and I know God loves all his children.
Until next week, xo
Hermana Anderton :)
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