Well hello there.
Yeah, so big surprise, hna agurto is in chiloe, an island that didn’t have sisters there before and she is with………………..hna morphis!!!!!!!!!! I was shocked!! I can’t believe it, I want to know how they are doing!
Dad, bob and gail sent me a Christmas package!!!!!!!!! They sent me candies and a bunch of other goodies. I was so surprised and it was so nice of them. I was shocked. Tell them thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu for me. It was so sweet. I was way pumped!! From New Zealand!! Way nice. I got granny and Erica’s Christmas cards as well, thank you.
Mom, I got a letter from mel and she says that she loves that you send my blogs to her, she is doing awesome. She is awesome.
Well so I am going to list the page numbers for the bom, every day you should end on this page, 125, 135, 145, 154, 164, 174 and 185. that is for the week, should end on Mosiah 19 by the next week.
So now, about my week. It was super interesting.
Well, we pretty much walked the entire week and taught a ton in the street. I had the best experience of my mission but I also had the worst experience of my mission. The best always comes with the worst.
Yeah so our family, came to church and are reading and praying and are seeing a hugeeeeeeee difference in their life. Alejandra prayed to see if this was the true church. She felt this overwhelming feeling of warmth and comfort and it made her want to cry. She had never felt something like that and didn’t know what it was but it made her really peaceful. She doesn’t know it was the answer to her prayer saying that this is the true church. We tried explaining it to her but she still doesn’t know. I felt the spirit soooooo strong this lesson and she was telling us. It was amazing it made me want to cry and I am not a crier when it comes to things spiritual. I can’t even explain how happy it made me. To have someone trust you enough to pray and that God responded their prayers in the same way that he responds to me and tells me the same things as them. It was a huge testimony builder just because the spirit was so amazingly strong and it made me sooooooooooooo happy. So happy. It was awesome. The bummer is that they didn’t come to church this week and they aren’t praying and asking if this is the correct baptism. I know she knows but she doesn’t want to ask God because she knows the answer and then she will have to change. But that wasn’t the bad experience that happened this week.
Now, the bad experience…
Well the bad experience. I don’t want to get too much into details because quite frankly I don’t really want to remember it that much. But what happened, we came in counter with a witch, yes a witch. A woman who thinks she does ´good magic´´ because she believes is Jesus and she does her witchcraft in the name of the lord, she has the power to heal and baptize and whatever thing she wants to do. We were lucky enough to be with a brother from the church. It was terrible, the feelings that were there and the room was filled with smoke and her glare, she didn’t like me, she said I didn’t have faith because she sensed that I was uncomfortable there but she is friends with my comp and she said they are the same, I laughed. It was terrible; I have never felt so empty before. The contrast from the spirit of the lord and the spirit of the devil, it is strong and real. I have a real testimony of Satan. We got home and we had to read scriptures and listen to hymns before we could go to bed . Satan knows how to deceive anyone. Wow, that is all I am going to say, it was real, strong, and not something I want to ever feel again.
So yesterday we talked with 73 people in the street!!!!!!!!! It is seriously a hugeeeeee record, I was so tried of talking afterwards. We have a huge park in our sector with a lagoon and horseback riding and so their were a ton of people there. The pictures are of there.
So it is amazing being a missionary, being able to watch all the people and their lives and she those who live the gospel the best they can and those who think they are but are just lazy and find excuses. We visit inactive’s and if I could just convey what I see, if they could see what I can see they would change their lives, they would do everything they can to live the gospel, it is such a hugeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee blessing. Huge blessing we have so much knowledge, we have the key to happiness we just have to do it. I know I am not perfect and don’t claim to be but I know now I see the difference and realize how weak I was before the mission, how I was just another one of the lazy people with excuses. On the mission I have seen so many weaknesses that I have. So many, I never realized how many before. Seriously. The lord does bless us but we have to be worthy for the blessing first. It is so simple.
Romina y Javier have been members for a year and are going to the temple to get sealed, they are so dedicated to the gospel. They try to so hard, they do everything they can possibly do. They are examples to me in the way to live my life. I learn so much from them and they are so young in the gospel, but it doesn’t matter, their hearts are where they should be. It is awesome. It is just so simple and the little simple things that we do, like keeping the Sabbath day holy, if we do, we have faith in the lord and he will bless us the other days, if we don’t we don’t have faith that he will help us. If we keep this day holy we will be more productive the rest of the six days and have more time if we ever would have if we worked every hour for 7 days. It all boils down to faith. I know I lack faith, I know I lack the spirit, I know I need to work on these things so I can share the fullness of the gospel. There are people waiting for us but I don’t feel like we are worthy to find them. I am working on it. I finally talked to my comp about things and I told her we need to be more obedient, I looked for the things she does well and I’m going to let her do those things and me the rest. We hardly ever talk, she says her thoughts are better than the conversations with other people. She thinks I am quite but I don’t talk because I know she isn’t interested in what I have to say. Which is fine. But we need to find the people here, it isn’t about us. I may only have a month left in Punta Arenas, I need to find the people I was meant to find.
Mom and dad, please, help the missionaries in the ward, reach out to the less active, find a family and be their friends. It is the members job with the less active, as missionaries we find them and try but we come and go and the people get lost again. It shouldn’t be that way but it is true, make a difference, the lord will bless you in the end and will provide the work you need if you dedicate more time to him. I know he will.
Well, I have preached a lot this week but I feel so strongly about these things. The gospel is so true and we know it, so why don’t we live our lives and act like we know it. I am speaking to myself as much as I am to you all. I have to live it to. For example, when I don’t, my Spanish plummets and I can’t speak. It is simple I love sharing the gospel, I have learned so much. I hope you are all doing well.
Love ya all,
Hna Jamie Pratt
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