Happy late valentines day!
I completely forgot
until everyone sent me email in regards to it last week. it turns out people
celebrate it down here as well.
we were traveling a
lot this week. we had a zone conference, interchanges with the hermanas
from illapel, district conference (as we arent a stake), and we got to travel
to the coast! to los vilos. its like 3 hours north of viña. heck
YES. forgot the coast existed...almost.
anyways, it was an
epic week. first of all-we got to meet our zone. we have another
gringa in our zone now! her name is hermana macey who entered the mtc the
same day as me. it was hilarious because i tried speaking english with
her and we were laughing because my english is so incredibly awkward!! lol. it
was so fun to talk to her. we have a great zone! im excited. we
felt super excited after the conference.
we then experienced
some more miracles this week. because our area is so dang huge with a ton of
less active members, its hard to hit every area and every house every day.
my companion and i had fasted that we would be able to have a little bit
of the burden lifted from that-as our branch is so small and stuff. well
it turns out efy works miracles! in efy, they did an activity with the yw
and ym that was about missionary work, and all came back bearing their
testimonies of how important members must be in missionary work. it was
so cool! they all grew so much from efy and we brought different yw to
lessons with investigators this week. it was an answer to a prayer for
sure.
HA. ok so as i was
saying, we have like an hour in bus rides worth of territory to cover-at least
60 miles is our area. its all field. one of the outlying areas is
called, "el tambo." we have investigators that live there. we
went after the zone conference. the buses dont pass after 830 in the
night. so what happened? we were in a cita, saying the closing prayer. i hear
the bus pass by and chao! we had to walk back to salamanca. it took us almost
an hour and a half. but turned out to be fun! pretty scenery, sang some hymns,
watched some cows...
strangely enough we
had some cold days this week. yeah what???
in the district
conference, elder corbridge talked and elder quentin l. cook. it was so bomb!
(satellite.) elder corbridge spoke about the law of chastity and
families. this is something tat is a HUGE problem in chile. yay elder corbrige.
int he conference before it started the broadcast, us and the elders and
hermanas from illapel sang josephs smiths first prayer in different vocal
parts.
the bus ride to los
vilos, aka the coast, is literlaly the ride of death. but luckliy i didnt get
too seasick this time.
pabla continues to be
super happy! there is a different glow about her and she is so happy she
got baptized. we are too! i think her baptism helped cheer up some
members.
plus, some menos
activoes are reactivating. one even has a calling! YESSS.
life is good. i
dont know how much time i have left in salamanca, but i know it will be super
hard to leave. weve seen lots of good changes around here, and we are
working hard to baptize more.
im so happy! i love
being a missionary. its hard, humbling, requires a ton of faith, but really its
so important. im not going to stop being a missionary. i was thinking so
much how the lord really is accelerating his work--and its true. almost every
talk now has to do with missionary work-because we really are in the last days
and we need to save as many souls as possible.
well chaito!
-hermana emily hanks
FETCH. i cant believe
i have a year in the mission. how fast it goes!
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