you know why i love the mission? (well i love it for a lot of reasons) but i love that i get to see peoples lives change through living this gospel. and that i get to see my life change as well. my testimony has grown so much! i never ever ever get tired of sharing my testimony. its sooo awesome.
so we have this investigator right now named Doris. i love her SO much! we contacted her daughter in the street and she told us her mom would probably like for us to pass by because she´s in her house alone a lot. so a few days later we went to visit doris. and seriously when we walked up to the gate of the house she walked out of her house and was like "hermanas! come in!!!!" it was like she was waiting for us. so we walked in her house and we were asking about her family. she has 7 kids and her husband commited suicide a year ago. it was super emotional and i cant even believe what she has gone through. we had to leave because we had another visit, but we left her a pamphlet on the plan of salvation. she told us to come back the next day...so we did and she had read the pamphlet and understood the whole thing. crazy right!? so we invited her to be baptized and she was like "well yeah, of course!" on saturday she came to a baptism with us and really liked it. and on sunday at church it was seriously like she was a member already. she already knew some of the members and she was answering questions in the sunday school class and in reflief socitey. in preach my gospel it says something about how the Lord has prepared people for us...we just have to find them. doris is more than prepared and im super exicted to keep teaching her about what i know is true and to help her gain her own testimony.
so all the church records here in chile are really messed up because people dont tell the church when they move. the fact that we find people who are members all the time that no one knows about is proof of that. so there´s this new system that all the members and missionaries are working with to help fix the records. its awesome because we get to find the "lost sheep" and also find new people to teach. for example...we have this HUGE list of members (that we know of) and what we have to do is go and make sure that all the information we have from MLS is correct and if it´s not we have to fix it through this new system. and so when we knock on doors and it´s not the person on the list we can be like "oh we were looking for Juan. we wanted to share a message with him about families...but could we share this message with you?" SUPER AWESOME RIGHT!?!?! hermana bennett and i are super excited!
well i love you all so so much!! i hope everything is going well! how is Whimsy doing? and Ali? tell her i said hi! & everyone else too! i pray for you all every day!
con mucho mucho mucho amor, hermana steele
SYD YOU ARE SO PRETTY! SERIOUSLY. i hope you had a blast at formal!
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