Not even a hundredth part can be written - CHILE!!!

A couple weeks ago, our branch president asked my companion and I if we coudl bring a less-active teenager to seminary.  She lives in the elder´s sector (we share our branch with a companionship of elders), but they can´t walk with her alone, so he asked if we could bring her the next week.  (Seminary is for two hours after school every Friday here.)  So Friday my companion and I went to go try and find her house, which, we were told, was at the end of some road.  So we began walking down this dirt road, but after we had walked rather far out into the country side amidst the cows and horses and fields we realized we were a bit lost.  So we turned back and a llittle ways down the road, we found a wizened old man pushing the things he had bought at the market in a wheel barrow down the road to his farmhouse in the distance.  We asked directions and finally found the house.  When we arrived, we discovered the reason that we needed to bring her was not because she didn´t want to go, but because she is paralyzed and in a wheel chair and her mom doesn´t really want to walk her all the way down for seminary.  So we got her fixed up, and with her mom´s permission, we began pushing her wheelchair down the long dirt road through the countryside to the church house.  It was a very simple thing, but at that moment, as I pushed her wheelchair down the dirt road past the fields, I felt an incredibly strong feeling that I was pushing the Savior along in this wheelchair.  I knew that this was His daughter, and that I was in the exact place that I should be.  In that moment, I gained an incredibly strong testimony that when we are in the service of our fellow men, we are only in the service of our God.

This week also, Emma (the woman who lost her son), was baptized!!! It was absolutely incredible.  This has been a long road to get her here, and we´ve had serious trials along the way, but it was worth it.  So very worth it.  She was baptized in between the sessions of conference in the churchouse in centro because everyone comes for conference there and lots of people stayed to watch!! I gave the talk on the Holy Ghost, and just like my mom did for me, I gave her (and another nine year old who was also being baptized) diaries to write spiritual impressions.  Her nephew (who was the one who started this all by bearing such a powerful testimony to her in the first place) was the one who baptized her and she gave her testimony after the baptism, and it was so incredible!   We´ve had so many incredible spiritual experiences with her, and of course difficult ones too, But as she says, she feels completely transformed and like a new person.  And she is.  The depression and other infirmities that she arrived with, she says, are almost all healed.  Her and her sister and her nephew feel like my family here, with the amount of hours I´ve spent in their house.  One day, when we came for an appointment, we found that she had locked herself out of her house, so I climbed the fence in front (all houses have tall fences with spikes on the top), climbed in the open window and found the keys.  I´m not totally sure if this against the rules, but we needed to teach! Her nephew won´t let me forget it now.

Today was our P-day, and since it´s the end of this transfer, we went to Lago Ranco, and hiked up this mountain.  It was absolutely breathtaking and on the way down, (we went with my zone) we all sang hymns in Spanish. 

I´m trying to send pictures but my camera is not cooperating right now.  If I can´t, I will send lots next week.

But I want to leave you all with a commitment.  I hoped you all watched Saturday Conference, but if you didn´t, go watch it.  Your commitment is this.  If you are a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints, pray every day for an opportunity to share the gospel.  If you are not, I invite you to find out what we believe.  Ask a member or the missionaries, not the Internet.  That has an incredible amount of wrong information.  I promise you that this gospel can answer the questions of the soul.  

It appears that my camera is not cooperating, but I have a lot of AWESOME pictures, so hold your breath until next week and I´ll send a lot!!! 

I love you all, and I´d love to hear if you complete the invitation I´ve extended Ciao!