Happy Thanksgiving!

hola amigos! happy thanksgiving this week! i hope we all remember how truly blessed we are! they don´t celebrate thanksgiving here but i´m grateful for the opportunity i have to remember all my many many blessings. this week hermana meacham and i started playing "i´m grateful for..." while we were in the street. it was a great eye opener. i will never be able to express how grateful i am for my mission and all that i´ve learned being a representative of Christ. i´m also very very very grateful for all of you. i love you lots.

this week was pretty crazy. it started out inviting a less active member to be baptized haha. we had no idea she was a member. no joke, every week we add to our list of less actives. i´m grateful for the opportunity i have to work with them and help them to remember and live the covenants they´ve made.

luis and anna are doing well! they are progressing slowly but very surely! last week we watched the joseph smith movie with them and during the movie anna turned to us and was like "hey he´s just like me! i wanna know which chruch is true!" so after the movie we talked about prayer and how she´ll find her answer...and it was exactly like a practice we had done the day before. then a couple days later we taught the plan of salvation. we taught it straight out of the Book of Mormon. man i love that book with all my heart. i´m grateful for it, for luis and anna, and especially the spirit.

last sunday the bishop asked us to go and visit all the leaders of the ward because he feels they don´t know how to be leaders and he wanted us to talk to them about how to hold a ward counsel. so we started visitng all the members of the ward counsel and it was pretty rough. as soon as we started asking about the ward counsel they all started bashing the bishop. we ended up having ward counsel (first time in 3 months) and it went pretty well. i know it´s goona be a process helping all the members be exciting to do the work of salvation. but i´m grateful that the Lord has given me the opportunity to work here in Puerto Varas....this ward has SO much potential and i´m grateful for the opportunity to help them see that. i´m also grateful for the organization of the church in the US. everyone pray and give thanks for the bishops and leaders you have. i thought of this scipture all week...

"Now I would that ye should remember that God has said that the inward vessel shall be cleansed first, and then shall the outer vessel be cleansed also."

anyways, i love you all SO MUCH. i know that God takes care of His church. i know that things can´t be perfect in this life, because if they were, there would be no progression nor learning. have a great week! 

con amor, hermana steele

PS. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY LIL SIS ISABELLE! i love you so much izzy! have a great bday!