Hello everyone!
Oh, life is good. Opening a sector is a little hard, like I've said,
cause we have to start from scratch. But we are teaching a couple
great people, and the members are helping out a LOT. So it's not that
bad!
One person that is super good is Rocio. She's 15 and good friends with
Cony, the granddaughter of Hna. Rosa that we live with! Rocio is super
receptive and her parents are good too. They like to listen but aren't
progressing as much as she is... We would love the whole family to be
baptized together. But we just don't know how serious they are about
it. Rocio did read in the BoM and pray about it, and she feels like it
is true! Ah! She is so great! Unfortunately in the lesson when she
said that, the member we brought with us (RS president) was talking a
TON with the mom, they both like to talk, so we didn't get a chance to
put a date with Rocio. But hopefully this week we will be able to get
her a baptism date and start progressing for that! Her family goes out
of town like almost every weekend, so that might be hard for her to
get to church. But we will see! Yay!
We also met this guy Benjamin, in a negocio.. which is like a little
store that they have everywhere in Chile, just like in neighborhoods
and whatnot. I wanted to buy mints haha and so of course we started
talking to the guy we were buying from. SUPER receptive! We gave him a
pamphlet on the Restoration. We were talking to him and teaching and
you could feel the spirit so strong! We invited him to be baptized
right there, ''if he came to know that these things are true.'' And he
said ''Wirthout a doubt.'' Ummm, awesome. We went back and his
girlfriend was there, Josselin. Oh yeah they are like 23 and 25 and
she was great too. They weren't able to come to church on Sunday but
they are soo good, and we are really excited to keep teaching them
too.
Funny thing, we have contacted members in the street so many times
haha. We just walk up to them and start getting to know them, talking
to them about the Gospel, ask if we can stop by to share more, etc,
and they tell us they are members of the church haha it's hilarious.
I talked to Hermana Haycock yesterday. And there is good news and bad
news in Los Alamos. Good news: Alejandro ALREADY finished the Book of
Mormon!!! And he receieved the Priesthood yesterday in church, and
gave his first talk. Ah! Lorena is doing great too, she's been out of
town with her sister but she is reading in Alma in the BoM so she's
about half way. I'M SO PROUD OF THEM they are amazing!!! :D
Bad news: Daniela and her family have a major road block- their dad.
He was always fine with us coming over to teach and everything, he
works out of town and comes home every couple weeks. So Daniela had
her fecha (baptism date) for the 25th, right? And Maria her mom and
Maria Jose her sister had been going to church every week too. Well,
now the dad decided that he is not okay with that and he said they
can't come to church anymore!! Ugh how terrible!! Seriously, I love
the Chileans but a lot of the men here have a problem with being
super.. machista. I don't know how to say it in English but like, the
man is in charge, the wife does whatever he asks and he is the boss
kind of thing. So sad!! So, I am really sad about that. :( But
Daniela turns 18 in a couple months and she is going to get baptized
later without his permission. They are going to keep going to church
when he's not home I think... :( So lame.
Hna. Shelton are running almost every day, super fun I love it. We
still are living with Hna. Rosa, but we are happy. We're kind of
spoiled here, she washes our clothes for us for free and keeps the
house warm. We know we need to move out though, so we are still
looking. But for now we're still living there with them.
So last week a little boy, Camilo, the son of our ward mission leader
was baptized. It was so cute. After, I asked him how he felt and he
said ''feliz.'' And I asked him, yeah, like how? And he said ''mas
grande'' or, bigger. :) Awwwww cutest thing ever!! I loved it. He is
such a sweet boy and I loved to see how happy he was/is. How even he,
an 8 year old boy, can feel the difference that baptism and the gift
of the Holy Ghost bring in your life. I know this is how we can truly
be clean of sins, and be happy, on the path following the plan that
God has for us, His beloved children.
I love being a missionary, so much! I am half way done, how crazy is
that? I love you all so much and I am so grateful for your letters and
emails, even if I can't respond to all of them right away.
Have a great week, be happy, work hard, and have fun!
Love and hugs,
Hermana Anderton
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