Having a dry spurt

8/20/2007

Hi to everyone. I hope all is well with the family i can’t believe that the kids are getting back into school already, the time flies that is for sure. Things are good here, we had a few days of sun and so that was awesome. That is always fun. We are going through a dry spurt a little here in our sector, i think it is because i know everyone already. But still. We also saw miracles. We have been working with a couple that are almost 80 already and they have been catholics their entireeeeeeeeee life and been catolicos. So they are getting baptized on Saturday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. So they never got their answer and never got it. They have prayed and never felt that the church is true. And so finally I asked, what do you say, well they had never really asked specifically. So there was their problems. So i told them that there, the four of us were going to pray together, everyone together and ask then and there finally. My comp prayed and it was such a powerfullllllllllllllllllll prayer. I felt the spirit so strongly i knew they were feeling the same and they couldn’t deny it. It was so awesome and they said they felt the spirit and they knew it. And then that night she prayed by herself and felt the same thing and knew that it was true and got her answer. Their family doesn’t want them to get baptized at alllllllllllllll, for anything. And they are okay with that. So it will be great. They went to the stake conference with us yesterday in pto varas. And they were sooooooooooooo happy, he even came in a suit and never comes in suit. they are so awesome, so funny. I can’t rest though until they get baptized on Saturday and get confirmed Sunday. That will be the best. I am pumped. I have been sharing with them since the first day i got here in frutillar and the elders were sharing with them before that!! A long time, eight months!! That doesn’t happen much that the missionaries stick with them so much but they were ready and they know the catholic church is false. So we are so pumped, and even better for my comp, three weeks in the mission and she will have her first baptism!! The blessing. We found another great family, they don’t let us go by much but I feel something really special with them, i know they will accept.

So i saw alejandra and matthias yesterday at the conference. It was a tease because i barely got to talk to her. Matthias goes to church in a suit now too and he was very very very anti before is what alejandra told me. So that is awesome. It was sooo cute to see them there as a family and their kids behave soooooooooo much better at church. God really does work miracles in our lives. It is amazing, I can just look at alejandra nad i can feel the spirit soooooooooooo strongly, a joy a happiness soooo big and amazing. It is so weird, I have never had this happen to me before. The only thing I want is that she gets baptized so they can go to the temple. But she is doing great, writing her letter to the prophet, I hope she can get it done quickly and get baptized. I was reading a scripture in d y c 138 55 and 56. that talks about the prophets being prepared before this life to preach the gospel and now they are preaching the gospel in the next life but it also says that there were others prepared too. Alejandra wrote me and told me that when we separated in the pre existence I gave her a hug and promised her i would find her and help her come to the gospel and that i knew i would be a tool in bringing her back to the truth. I know that before this life, we as missionaries were prepared to bring the gospel to the world, we knew we would help our brothers and sisters and best friends come back into the fold so they could be with us forever in the eternities. She is so amazing and has taught me so much. I am so blessed to have known her and been able to be her friend and know that we were friends before and will be friends forever it brings me a happiness that I have never had or felt before in my life. Something so big and immense that i don’t have words for it. It is absolutely amazing and I love ittttttttttt. I love the gospel. I love the church. I love the lord and am grateful for all that he has given me and how he has blessed me. I don’t deserve all that he has given me but am thankful.

Take care, have a great week!! Love ya all!! happy birthday to Erich this next week!!!!

mom, I am sorry if my first letter sound rude. I didn’t mean for it to be. I am truly truly grateful for what you guys do for me and whatever you will do. really. honestly. I wanted to go on the mission so I could learn how to love and have charity and be able to want to help people and not be so self centered. I would do anything to be able t o go back and see the people where i have been. i feel like I have really been able to learn to love these people with all my heart and soul. I want their salvation more than I want it for me or anybody else. it is amazing how I have learned to love to much with my hear and actions. so I am grateful that I will be able to see them again for one last time because I don’t know when I will see them again after that. I am leaving some of my allllll time best friends here in chile when I leave. it is amazing, I never had a lot of friends but I am leaving this country with more friends that i have ever had, and close close close friends that I only pray that we will be together in the eternities together. it is amazing how the lord has changed my heart. I would do anything for these people. I love them dearly and never really thought I would be capable of loving people like I have here. I thank the lord often for opening my heart. so, my point is thank you so much.