Familia-
It was so cool to get to talk to y'all on Christmas!! I hope it was enjoyable for everyone. It was pretty hot here, and we had a lot of ice cream that day... We did a lot to lead up to Christmas this week. We were giving out the rest of our cookies, we did some caroling in the plaza in our sector, we had lessons with our investigators about the Spirit of Christmas. Over all it was a good week. They don´t celebrate Christmas like they do in the states. And it definitely didn´t feel like Christmas- it passed pretty quickly actually. But we had a fun Christmas morning, the four of us in our pension. I told them about dad, and how he has to shower, get ready, eat his bowl of cereal before we can open presents. And about Karen`s delicious Christmas breakfast creations... haha. It was fun though. We opened presents that we bought for each other and I made pancakes and eggs for everyone. After, we caroled for the man who works outside of our apartment building and went to the Lopez´s house to eat lunch and talk to our families. But we worked like normal on Christmas after I finished talking with you guys.
It was Hermana Salazar`s birthday on Friday. We had planned to go to the Temple with
a couple of other Hermanas, but it ended up taking a lot longer to get
to the temple than planned. The horario de la Navidad with all of the
micros set us back, and we ended up getting there a lot later than
planned, and so it was just Hermana Salazar and I who did a
session...... In general, it was just wonderful to go back to the
temple. I will get to go once more next year, and then at the end of my
mission.
That
day I had called up a less-active family (familia A_____) to see if we
could have a surprise "Once" for Hermana Salazar. They decorated their
backyard with balloons and we had a Pan de Pascua cake with other snacks
which was kind of cool under their tree decorated with Christmas
lights. Hermana Ekins, Perez, and I made a piñata for Hermana Salazar
and I made a pretty sweet ice cream cake.
R____, our investigator is progressing. We had a lesson on the Plan of Salvation
with her, and we could feel the Spirit so strongly. You could see her
eyes light up when we were explaining that we were created before this
life and that this earthly existence is not the end. Unfortunately, she
has had, and is having a lot of family problems, but it was a blessing
to be able to teach her about the Plan of Salvation. She gets so excited
when we come to visit. She is progressing slowly, but I am grateful for
that because I feel like with the questions she has and her
understanding, we learn together. She has been able to go to a few of
the ward activities and is getting to know a lot of the members. Stay
postponed with baptismal date-
There
have also been other miracles that we have seen this week with visiting
families, getting into homes that we couldn`t get in before,
contacting, etc. It`s hard work, especially with the heat, but fun none-the-less.
I
don`t know if I have ever told you about our Bishop, Bishop
Llancoñanco. He is like Michael Scott.. anyways, we had our third hour,
fifth Sunday yesterday.
He had everyone gather into the cultural hall and we watched a Mormon
Messages. I was thinking a lot about my papi yesterday with one of them.
The one about our Earthly Father and our Heavenly Father. I also was
studying in DyC. A lot about the Priesthood. I was pondering on just how special it is that Alex and my Dad have the Priesthood Power.
In vs 26 it explains that this power is ordained of God. And not to be
looked upon as a power to Rise above, but to fall below and to buoy up
and serve others. I know that we are human, and we all have sins, but it
is pretty cool to know that worthy Priesthood holders have the ability
to do ALL things in the name of Christ according to their faith and
worthiness. I would always hope that the Priesthood holders I know have a
life reflected on Christ even for those small moments where God will
provide Earthly miracles on account of the worthiness of the Priesthood
holder. I hope that Karen will find the video and that you guys can
watch it.
Editor's Note - see below for this quick Mormon Message or you can click here:
I
don`t know if it is possible to burn a disc of mensajes mormones
(mormon messages, spanish?) thought of that after i called you. I don`t
know if there are really any new years traditions here, but we did see
some fireworks the other night. USA has a pretty big influence in Chile,
I am guessing we will have fireworks for new years. Cool for Tyler Mander and way awesome for Kennedy! She is going to be an incredible missionary.
Grateful
for you guys and your goals, no not finished w LDM yet, but I am going
verse for verse with my Journal of it so it will hopefullly be finished
by next year. And thank you K! I am excited to see the glue-ins.
Hermana Salazr is going to love them too..
Keep workin hard Elder B! I put together a very small package for you. I will let you know when I send It.
Have a good week and Happy 2014!
Con amor,
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