Hola!!
Conference was so great!! It seriously went soooo fast here, I couldn't even believe it. You know what ELSE I can't believe?? That they changed the age for sister missionaries to 19!!!! Are you kidding me!!? I waited 3 years til I was 21 to leave, and now, they change it!? Ha, no fair. But no worries, I know I am supposed to be here now, not 2 years ago. I love my mission and I wouldn't change anything. :)
SO, we have a baptism date!! For the first time in a lonng time! For October 20th. Yay! His name is Lionedes and he's the brother of a member in our ward. He is old... Well okay only 63, so not really that old, but he seems a lot older ha. He's come to church 2 weeks in a row now and wants to be baptized. Awesome. The only thing is we aren't sure how much he really understands, and he doesn't really live in our sector haha. So.. maybe he will be baptized in another sector. But his sister lives here and she is helping him. He's actually staying with her this month because he's sick. So we are teaching him for now.
Rocio and Amalia came to conference, too! Sunday morning. They loved it, but as far as we can tell it didn't change too much with them. We are going to go by their house later in the week to talk to them more about it.
One thing that was really great is this member who has been inactive for 7 years, Elena, came to conference! It was so great. She was really active in the church for a long time, RS president, Primary president, went to the temple, everything. But then she started smoking again (she smoked before she was baptized) and then went inactive. We found her one day ''by accident,'' and have been visiting her along with other members in the ward. It was so great to see her at church, wanting to make things right and have all the blessings of the gospel in her life again. Yay!
The funniest thing happened the other day. We met this family and they were super nice and said we could come back to visit with them. So we were passing by to see if they were available, and this little girl opens a window on the ground floor. So here in Chile, like EVERYONE has gates around their houses. It's super annoying cause we can't just go and knock their door we usually have to yell (ALO!!) unless they have a doorbell. But anyway the little girl (she was like 4 or 5) opened the window and was talking to us. We wanted to invite their family to conference and we had an invitation printed out to give them. But her dad was in the bathroom (she told us) so we were like oh okay, can you come get this paper then? So she climbed out the window which was like 2 feet off the ground. Took the paper, and the tried to get back in the window but couldn't!!! So there was the huge locked gate, so we couldn't go help her back in, and her house door was locked. Her dad opened the window upstairs and told us he couldn't come right now, he didn't have a shirt on we could see his bare shoulders, so we were like okkay awkward he's in the shower. We were telling the girl, ''You can do it! Get back in your house!'' and laughing soo hard. Her brother who's like 7 was just sitting on the bed inside and didn't do anything! Which made us laugh even more. We finally were like yelling to him to go open the front door for his sister haha. Eventually, he ended up just pulling her in through the window by her arms. Haha. Too funny.
In conference they talked a lot about service! Let us all develop more love for our family and friends, and show that love by serving! Even if we don't feel like it, serve anyway. That is how we develop the desire to do it. At least that's my experience. Sometimes, with companions, I would have a thought like, ''Oh I could do this for them.'' And sometimes I was lazy or just didn't know if I wanted to do it. But every time I had a thought like that I just started doing it, and it made me happy! With time, I started liking doing it and even searching for opportunities to help out. I remember a quote by I think it was Sister Beckstead, that said, ''Never suppress a charitable thought.'' We should all be more like that, love one another as Jesus loves you. :)
Well friends, that's all the time I've got for now. I will send pictures next week, I promise!
I know that God lives and that He loves us. Be happy, life is great! When you feel sad, just count your blessings and that will cheer you right up. :)
Lots of love,
Hermana Danielle Anderton
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