If you're thinking about serving a mission, do it!

This is one of the hardest things I have ever done, but I have never learned so much, so fast.  About myself, about my potential, about my Heavenly Father and about my Savior.  Every day I come back, and barely have the energy to change and drag myself to bed, but it is worth it because I know who I am serving. 

This week was transfers!! I am still in the same sector, but I finished my training (the first three months) and I got a new companion.  Her name is Hermana Bennet, and yes, she´s una gringa (which is actually what they call us here - for some reason I was under the impression only Latino cowboys in old Western movies used this word).  She´s from Utah, and very nice. She´s been in Chile for six months as opposed to my three, so she speaks and understands Spanish very well.  We don´t speak English to each other, which would be weird anyway, I haven´t spoken English in three months.

This week was also my first week leaving in the morning (during training we only proselyte in the afternoon and night) and my very first day leaving in the morning, we found a miracle.  We were trying to find a member to accompany us to one of our appointments, but she wasn´t home, so we decided to knock on the door of her neighbor. A young woman, looking very tired, answered the door, and immediately told us to come in. We were quite surprised because this rarely happens.  We began to teach her the very first point, that God is her loving Heavenly Father, and she began to cry. She told us that she was going through a very rough time, and had been contemplating ending the suffering.  She said the last time she felt this low was several years ago, but she remembered that right after she thought this, two elders knocked on her door.  She let them in, but had to leave her abusive husband before the could finish teaching the lessons.  She says she´s going to take this as a sign that God is still there.  We have an appointment with her this Wednesday :)

We also saw another miracle in one of our other investigators.  She has been wanting to baptized for ten years, and has been through quite a few missionaries, but the father of her three girls (a member), who she is living with, needs a divorce from his first wife so they can get married and she can be baptized, however, his ex-wife has refused to give him a divorce.  We began a program in our branch and in all the branches in our district to read the Book of Mormon together and we will all finish at the end of December, and me and my companion encouraged this family to start this program too, and we promised them blessings.  They have tried to read the Book of Mormon before, but never could start.  This time however, they´ve been reading and the last time we visited them, we learned that his ex-wife contacted him and wants a divorce. After ten years of not relenting, right as they finally are progressing in the Book of Mormon as a family, she wants a divorce.  Blessings people.  Listen to the missionaries!  And read your scriptures. 

The photos attached are of Emma´s baptism (the shawl I¨m wearing her sister crocheted for me) and the other is of Lago Ranco which we went to with my zone.

I love you all!!! The gospel is true!! Do missionary work, read your scriptures, attend church and pray!! WHOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOO