this week was pretty cool. There was lots of sun again. The weather here is very bipolar, but differs from colorado in that it is cold in the morning and night-with fog and clouds, and then its like 1000 degrees during the day. Im beginning a little negrita in here! sweeeet. i have a great missionary tan going on. i pretty much look super egyptian.
TOMORROW. we have interviews with president. we are either going back to civilization in illapel-the main city of our zone, or los vilos, which is on the coast. im excited!
This week was pretty flipping awesome! We had intercambios. I went to illapel-a nice 30 minute desert view ride away. I was with Hermana Valencia. She is from Peru and shes super fun. We had talked to lots of people and found a family. We set 3 baptismal dates! The funny thing was, we were only teaching the guy and his sister. Then their other brother randomly walked in right after we had invited them to be baptized. We invited him too and he said yes. SWWEEEEETTTT. we then went to an antiguo investigador. she told us she believes in the book of mormon and is just not sure about being baptized. It was cool because i felt the spirit really strongly during that lesson. we set a baptismal date with her too so that was cool.
one thing ive been trying and thinking a lot about is literally being an instrument in the hands of the Lord. Ive been praying more to have the spirit testify through me the words that the people need to hear. Really, the spirit is key, especially when you dont speak the native language. Im working to know what comes to my mind that is the spirit and what isnt. Its so cool!
the day after that, we had zone conference. Basically, there are 3 gringos in our zone. Im the only gringa girl. Its fun! Lots of spanish. THeres two older couples too and theyre cute to watch speak spanish. I decided that when Im older i totally want to go on a mission with my spouse. mom and dad take note. you guys should totally serve one. anyways, we talked a lot about finding families to teach and not just people, but asking when their family will be home and teaching them all together. afterwards, i kinda did a facepalm. duh! why havent we put this logic together before? anyways, it proves to be sucessful. We found lots of families last week and new investigadors in the last half of the week.
including a family. we were knocking doors and one had a sign indicating that they sell ice cream. well, it was hot and i wanted ice cream and the boy ran over with his mom from across the street. he asked me what we needed and i said i wanted to buy ice cream. done. go thte ice cream. i thanked them then asked if we could come in and share our message. they said yeah. it was cool! We walked out with two more baptismal dates.
unfortuantely, my companion and i both forgot the mothers day. shooot. her sons name was matias, but we couldnt remember her name at all.
solution to our problems. we returned again before our set cita because we were in the area, and she told us that we arrived just in time. She is having family problems and was upset about that. We read her a few scriptures and during this, alma 36:3 came to my mind. I opened it up and told her to put her name in the scirpture, substituting it for the name "helaman." soooo yeah! now we found out her name was macarena. Problem solved.
I like applying to members the importance of missionary work. we had people from the mission ir our ward yesterday and they talked a lot about the importance of members. this work really is moving forward! it is awesome. it was funny to see that tall american at the pulpit (from the older couples). we had lunch with hermana calderon and the older couples form the mission yesterday. so fun!
well thats pretty much what i have for you this week. love you all.
chaooo
hermana emily hanks
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