More Miracles!

7/9/2007

Erica, first of all, i think you sent me the blog like two months ago and yes i enjoy hearing from you.

What misión is nana in, what is it called.

Why do you need a tractor again, help me understand that.

Yeah so this week i saw a lot of miracles it was awesome. We put some old folks with a baptismal date. We have been working with them since before i got here. They are sooooooooooooo awesome. They are the cutest little couple and have like 76 77 years. They are so cute. We are soooooooooo pumped, everybody loves them. It is interesting teaching oldies because they understand like little kids but they are so ready. He has read the bom already and she is suffering from depression, just like every other person in chile. But it was awesomeeeeeeeeeee.

Then i heard from alejandra, matthias has really surely decided to get baptized. It was a hugeeeeeeee miracle. He is ready and wants to do it and accepts everything. It was so amazing to be able to talk to her. She truly is someone special. She thanked me for all that i have done for her, she said that she is eternally debited to me, for what i have done she will be able to have her eternal family. She said she can’t do enough to repay me, she can only give me her eternal friendship. It has been soooooooooo amazing to be apart of all of the miracles that have happened in her life and that she still includes me in it all. I love it. I thought a lot about what she told me. And really it is amazing because i didn’t do anything. I just did what the spirit told me, i acted every singleeeeeeee time the spirit told me to do something. It is the most amazing feeling to be able to know that i really am an instrument the god’s hands, that he really is using me to bring happiness into the peoples lives, to help them to return to live with him someday. It is amazing to see the outcome because it is for sure it was god and the spirit that were leading me to do and say the things i did and said. Sometimes we have a hard time understanding what if it is the spirit or if we were just making it up. But the scriptures teach us that we have to do things sometimes and then look at the outcome and by the outcome we will know if it was the spirit or not, i think that came form an ensign actually. But it doesn’t´ matter. It is so true. We have to be able to have faith and trust in god and just do the things. I have done them and now looking at what is happening it is so awesome. It is amazing how much joy the gospel has brought into my life and it is joy because i have seen the true happiness that other people can have thanks to the true gospel. I have totally happy but not for what happens in my life but what happens in their lives. It is so amazing, i have never served, thought, or done so much for other people, but it is the most amazing thing in the world . i am so grateful to be on the mission. I thank god everyday for being here and being able to learn from them and help them and more than anything having them help me. I love it. I know we think a lot about the end of the mission, but i am starting to realize that it really is going to be difficult for me. I love chile, it feels like my home. I love the people, maybe not every single one but i am trying. I even love the drunks guys that are in the street all the time, how can i not, they always propose to me. I have never had so many drunk friends before. They are so funny sometimes. I love getting to know the people here and learn about what they have gone through and how different their lives are then ours in the states.

Oh, mom, alejandra asked about you and wanted to know how you were doing and says hello.

Yeah, so i am having a difficult time with my companion, it is really a trial of my patience but i am learning igual. I had a little chat with her and told her a few things, of course i did it with love, i am not a jerk like i was at home. But she is not happy here and not happy with me. Well she says i am not the problem but who knows. I have tried to help her in every way possible, i have tried to do everything. But such is life.

Yeah, so hna agurto has a boyfriend and i am pretty sure that soon with be her fiancee, she is soooooooooooa awesome.

And yes i miss hna monsalve a tonnnnn.

We had our conference with the pres and assistants this week, we went to pto montt. It was awesome as usual. The pres and hna faulkner gave me some words of advise to help my companion. Pres said that a lot of times the lord puts the strong with the weak to help the weak get strong, so that was a little encouraging, he said that i am not the problem, she just has problems. Such is life. It will all work out. I am not worried, i am happy, the days are just long sometimes is all. But it´s all good so don’t worry.

Yeah, mom and dad, you guys will be coming here and so you needdddddddddd to study some spanish, the basics at least, you have to at least be able to try to speak spanish while you are here, so study up. Please!!! Hna monsalve says that we have to go adn visit her wherever she is so we can see each other before i go home, and yes i want to go to punta areans.

Thanks for everything. I appreciate everything you guys do for me, truly. Dad, i loved the talk you sent from pres hinckley, thank you.


Love you all thanks for everything!
Hna pratt