The Gift of Tongues is real!

Hola Familia!

holy cow the weeks are going by so fast! i cant believe next week is christmas!!! im so excited! and im so grateful that im here with the people of chile this christmas! im excited to skype you guys! the member family i live with really wants to meet you when we skype! so is the 24th around 5:00 PM chile time ok? i think we are 3 hours difference so thats 2 PM for you guys. i hope thats ok! but let me know!

so last week we had zone conference! it was so awesome! president rappley talked about the holy ghost the whole time. and how much our investigators need the holy ghost...because its the greatest gift we can recieve in this life. here in chile there are SO many less active members. its crazy. seriously a lot of the time we knock on a door and the person who answers was baptized when they were little but haven´t come to church since then. so presdient rappley said that the reason we have less active membors is because these people dont have the holy ghost. so its our job to help them feel the spirit and help them remember what they need to be doing to have the holy ghost with them. he also talked about how we as missionaries need the holy ghost as well. because if we dont have the holy ghost with us then our investigators wont feel it in our lessons. the holy ghost is the real teacher. so yesterday hermana bennett and i fasted to know how to help our investigators feel the spirit and we were fasting for charity. and right after we broke our fast we had a lesson with a active member. her name is celeste. 

after the lesson hermana bennett told me that celeste has never let missionaries in her house. and that she never wants to talk to the missionaries. but yesterday she let us in and talked to us for more then an hour. and our lesson with her was so great. the spirit was so SO strong. and i dont know that i have ever felt so much love for someone here in chile than i did for her. it was amazing. during the lesson i wasnt worried about what i wanted to say next and how to say it in spanish. i was thinking about how i could help her to feel the spirit. and literally words were put into my mouth. i cant even describe it! i know that the gift of tounges is real, and that fasting works. celeste has a super strong testimony of this gospel and of the book of mormon. she´s awesome. and she told us that she would come to church with us this sunday! i was really happy. 

well i love you all so so much. i know this church is true and i know that living this gospel is the only way we can have happiness in this life. i´m so greatful for it and for all of you! thanks for your support and your prayers! give lily and cosy kisses for me!

Con Amor, Hermana Steele

Syd- um yeah ok i have the prettiest sister ever. thanks for the pictures! hope you had fun at formal!