When we started working here in Magallanes, we started with the ward list to go and visit those who are not coming, so we were knocking a lot of doors, and cleaning out the list at the same time by writing down if the people didn´t live there, or if they had moved, or passed away etc. Well we knocked one door and the woman there immediately let us in, we asked her if she was the woman who we were looking for and she told us that she wasn´t, but that she always opens the door to missionaries and after talking for awhile, we discovered that she also had been baptized when she was 14 and is a member of the church!
She told us that she LOVED learning from the sister missionaries that taught her when she was 14 and that she participated very actively in the church until she moved away to Argentina to live with her mom, where she stopped going to church. She said that now she really doesn´t remember anything, but that she remembered that the missionaries found her in a very critical part of her life and had helped her incredibly.
Well, we have continued teaching over the course of the transfer, and lately she started saying that she would like to go to church. We had been talking about the family as well because she just went through an incredibly difficult separation with her husband, and they´re deciding now whether they should give it another shot so that they can be a family again. We talked about the importance of the gospel in the family, and she was always very touched.
The another night, we passed by to see if she had read the Introduction of the Book of Mormon that we had left, and she said she hadn´t, that she really didn´t remember ANYTHING about the Book of Mormon, so we told her we would read it together. We took turns reading paragraphs in the Intro, and when we finished, we asked her if something had come to her attention, or something she had liked. She looked up at us and tears were streaming down her face. We were somewhat surprised because we had just read the Intro and we had no idea why she was crying, but then she said "I don´t remember much, but my heart feels like it´s swelling, and I remember this feeling. I´ve already asked my Heavenly Father if this book is true, and just reading this page and a half, I already know. I don´t have to ask again because I know it´s true. I´ve asked before."
I know The Book of Mormon is true as well, because I have read it, I have thought about it, and I have asked. The power it brings, and the importance it has in our lives is irreplaceable. I encourage anyone reading this, to read the Book of Mormon, and then pray to our Father in Heaven and ask Him if it´s true. He always answers.
I love you all!!!!
Pictures of all the hermanas here when we had our huge tsunami warning sleepover AND... Torres del Paine, otra vez
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