11 Noviembre 2013
Hollla familia.
I almost started
writing this is spanish today! shoot. ive been doing some journal writing
in spanish lately and its taking over.
I love the pictures of
the race! That is so awesome! Dang I love my family. Its awesome
that there are so many awesome people to help support. Ill be praying
lots tonight for justin...
So this week in Chile.
It was good! We have been having these odd spurs of clouds.
its nuts. one day it looked like it was going to storm and rain.
so deceiving..so decieving...its been a nice change. But today we
are back to the sun sun sun.
Last week on pday, we
went hiking. it was so fun. they have these crazy vine trees, and i may
or may not have climbed one of them. yay life. the mountains here
are quite magnificent. There is a huge mountain named Mt. colorado here.
what are the odds of that? totally divine that is.
We taught lots of
investigators this week. we also contacted in the street lots. i
actually really like street contacting-not door to door so much, but just
talking to folks on the street. its so much fun.
We taught an inactive
named Isabel. Shes pretty much forgotten a lot about the church and a lot
of her testimony. its sad because she has two little girls and her husband
and her have been inactive. We asked her if we could watch a movie with her,
and she said yes. Jose Smith, profeta de la restauracion works like gold!
i love that movie. We saw that Isabel was crying and afterwards,
some stuff came back to her and she remembered about the saints and their
sacrifice and all. it was cool. we emphasized perserverence with
her as well.
we also taught
carolina! carolina brings me so much joy. shes like a favorite cousin.
we talked about the word of wisdom. she told us she has a problem
with tea, but the next time we visited her, she showed us her new box of herbal
tea.
As probably every
missionary thinks, i want to go to the temple so stinking bad. ITS SO
COOl. someone gave a talk about the temple at church, or somewhere, and
said that we need to go more because the temple is close by. aight folks, the
temple in chile is like 6 hours away. (foco to slc). they said
before that the closest temple was in brasil! can you believe that?
and i thought, dang. i will have a temple 5 minutes from my house when i
get back. i wanna make a goal to go as often as possible when i get home!
theres so much to learn and so much work to be done for our ancestors.
salmamanca. i tel ya, ive learned lots about the importance of family
history. cool stuff.
ive been reading a lot
in the new testament, a little bit of mathew and juan, ok and a little bit of
revelacion. i love reading the new testament about the life of the
Savior. Plus, i have decided that John is possibly one of my favorite
writers ever-his writing style is flipping amazing. I read about the Savior and
Nicodemus, and the Savior and the samaritan woman at the well. It amazes me how
in little events such as these that the Savior really did teach, and despite
those who persecuted him, people followed.
I also read doctrine
and covenants 138. MOST EPIC CHAPTER EVER! well, one of them for sure. it
talks about the spirit world and every awesome spirit that ever lived and its
just amazing in general. i would defin9itely invite everyone to read that
chapter.
hermana calderon gave
me a huge book to help when i study the new testament. it was as if
Christmas had come early!
Ok ok...so im super
crazy for studying right now. i love studying. i love it!
I taught relief society
last sunday. that was fun. i taught about the attributes of Christ, focusing on
love and charity. i want to be a gospel principles teacher when i get back.
ohhhh that would be so fun.
Other investigators???
we taught alexis and catalina again! sometimes theyre hard to get ahold
of. but it went well. Alexis is the cousin of ramon who got baptized a
few months ago. They both realize they need to get baptized. Alexis
has changed a lot over the time and he is really starting to understand the
scriptures. We left them with a law of chastity pamphlet, as we didnt
have time to teach it. were going back to teacht them tonight and we will
see if they read it.
cambios-our zone
leader iddnt call until 10.30 that night. you can imagine how ansy we were to hear
what was going to happen. but hermana bravo and i are in salamanca another
transfer!
well i think thats it
for this week. i love yall.
-hermana emily hanks
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