3/19/2007
Well, every week is an adventure on the mission. An exhausting week but in the end full of miracles and tears at the same time. The wonders of the mission really.
That is awesome about alli´s baseball team, how exciting.
I am sending a picture of alejandra and her son, the excommunicated member, she is sooooo awesome. And yes I know that I am fat but the funny thing is everybody here things I am soo skinny. It is funny but I swear I look fatter in the pictures than in real life. Oh well.
Erica, great job sharing the gospel, don’t be afraid, fear comes from the devil because he doesn’t want us to do it, if we have fear we don’t have faith, just do it, you can do it, show her how important this book is to you.
Yes, I love my new area, it is just way different, one is not better than the other, just really different. There are lots of Germans and this is the most expensive city in the mission because there are so many tourists. Mom, alejandra works in tourism they own their companies of tourisms, she says get into the business and send people her way!! She speaks English, so does her husband! J
The fruit is normal, no any better than what we have, they have other types we don’t and we have others they don’t, like cranberries, blueberries, and others they don’t have. I ruined one of my skirts but I am going to go and try to buy another, I but bleach on my kaki and it didn’t like it J the nylons you send me from the boxes are no good, they last one day.
Now, what we have all been waiting for, my big story for the week. Okay so at the beginning of the week we went to visit alejandra, it was awesome, she started telling us how she feels like we are her family, her sisters, and her friends and that we are helping her a ton. That she didn’t have anyyyyyy desire to go back to church at all and we have given her this desire back. She said she feels the spirit differently with us than with the other hnas that would pass by. The spirit is so much stronger or we just have exactly what she needs. I really feel like we were all really good friends before and hna Ramirez and I said, alejandra, we are going to come and find you and bring you back to the fold so in the next life we can maintain our eternal friendship and be there all with our families. I know I knew her before. She is so awesome. So we have been calling her everyday to make sure she reads her scriptures and to see how things are going. Her work is really bad and she is having marital problems. They were on the point of separation. She has so much faith. She called us Saturday night to tell us that she couldn’t go to church. I talked to her on the phone for like a half hour telling her that she can’t afford not to go and we would do anything and everything to have her there. It was stake conference and a broadcast from salt lake. She didn’t want to go because her son is like Ethan but worse. He screams hysterically about everythingggggggggg. He is a pain in the butt at home and even worse at church. She doesn’t feel like she can handle them and with all the people there and she is someone returning to church she didn’t want to make a scene. I kept pushing and pushing, no tiene que ir a la iglesia, no hay opciones. Finally, yeah, we are going to get the elders to come to her house, give him a blessing and it Hill be great. I have never had so much faith in something, I have never wanted something to work out so great, luckily I had been fasting for her tambien. We prayed and prayed that she would go. We got to her house with the elders. Cristobal, the son, never has wanted anything to do with me, screams when I look at him. But I tried to be his friend and slowly he was okay with me, it was a miracle that he let the elder give him a blessing. Alejandra was shockeddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd how he changed so quickly and dramatically. We went to church and he was perfect for like 20 min. but then a kid pushed him and started screaming. We went and played with them for the whole time so alejandra could listen and enjoy the conference. She loved it, It was exactly what she needed. He played with us for an hour and a half and was perfecttttt. We are best friends now. It was theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee biggest miracle and a trial of faith. Alejandra has so much faith. It was so awesome. It seems small but it was hugeeeeeee. So we passed by her house later and she totally changed with us. She has really gained confidence in us. She opened up hugeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee and told us everything that happened when she got excommunicated!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She tried to go back to church for 2 years and nooooooooooooot one of the leaders helped her. Her step dad excommunicated her for something that I don’t agree with, yes the law of chastity is a big deal but I have heard of worse things happening and never was an excommunication, and the on top of that, her step dad ran off with another woman while he was still bishop and never confessed or got excommunicated!! The whole thing was a mess and she spilled it all out. I have never seen so much pain. She cried and cried because she said she had such a special relationship with her heavenly father, she was so close to him and she wanted to gain it back, she knows she sinned, but nobody ever helped her get re-baptized, they just kept shoving her off and off. Can you imagine being a returned missionary with an amazinggggggggggggggg testimony and then messing up and trying to gain it back, doing everything possible to get it back and nobody is there to help you. The pain in her tears. She is so awesome. The faith she has. She now wants to regain her testimony, start over to know if the bom is true and the church is true. She has changed, she was not all that happy before and when we went by yesterday she was so happy, she was doing awesome. She couldn’t wait to tell her husband how awesome the kids were at church and how she is changing and how the true gospel really helps. It is so awesome to see how the gospel changes lives, how Christ works in our lives. I know I don’t need to be here when she gets baptized but I hope I will be, I hope I can see her and her husband get baptized. They are awesome people. The church really is true. God answers prayers. The priesthood is powerful and blessings are powerful and work if we have the faith in them. It is amazing. The change in alejandra is amazing, it is like a part of her burden has been lifted from her face. She seems more relaxed and is feeling the joy that comes from the gospel. I have never been so blunt and direct with someone before. I tell her everything I think, there are no excuses, you have to go, you have to read, do it now, can’t wait. It is because I know it will change her life, I know what I am saying is correct. I know the church, I know she needs it. I know she will get re-baptized but she needs to start with the small things. I know she will feel the spirit if she reads her bom. I know we will help her with everythingggggggggggg to make sure. We have done everything, left notes, called her, went to her house to go to church whit her, made homework assignments, the works. She will do it. She is awesome!!
oh yeah, transfers are next week, they are the 28th of march. so I won’t be writing next Monday but i will next Wednesday. hna agurto finishes her mission this next week. she is going to be coming to puerto varas and i am going to be able to seeeeeee herrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. I am sooooooooooooooooooooo pumped. i miss her a ton. yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. so don´t expect anything from me till Tuesday. Today we are going on a trip to petrohue, by the volcanoes. i hope to have some awesome pictures after. take care, thanks for the package, i got it from erica and mom, loved it. thanks! love ya all, peace out
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