This week was awesome!

HOLA!

i seriously cannot believe how fast time is going! all the stores in the mall have their christmas decorations up...like what the heck!? christmas?!

this week was awesome. tuesday night we slept in puerto montt with the hermanas there. we got to work in their sector for the night...which was one of the sectors of hermana bennett. i got to meet Luisa and Belen...a family that was baptized while she was there in Puerto Montt! they were very special. so that was super cool! 

so then wed morning we woke up at 4 AM and went to osorno to listen to elder nelson. i loved every minute of that conference. his wife gave a pretty bomb talk about how we use our time. she said we don´t wanna go home with regrets. she said one day we will wish we were missionaries again. she talked about a really rich man named schindler from world war 2 who bought jews from the nazis. when he retured to the states he started looking at all of his possesiones. the worth of his car, his house, ect. and starting counting the number of souls he could have bought with that money. she read this quote from him..."This car. Why did I keep the car? Ten people right there. Ten people. Ten more people.This pen. Two people. This is gold. Two more people. He would have given me two for it, at least one. He would have given me one. One more. One more person. I could have gotten one more person…and I didn’t."  i for sure do not want to feel like that when i get home from my mission. i know this is His time, and it´s so so so short and so precious. i was thinking about how it´s kinda like life in general. life so short...it´s so precious. are we doing all we can to live the gospel joyfully and to help others live it as well? do we spend our time wisely? ‘Wherefore, ye must press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father:  Ye shall have eternal life.’

sister nelsons talk was really awesome....basically we just gotta work hard out here. i´ve set some new goals to be better because i love it so much. i always love going to conferences like that because it helps me remember that i´m not the only imperfect one if an apostle of the Lord has to tell it to the whole mission.

we are also trying to use family history more in our work to find new people and reactive less actives. so this week i went on familysearch.org and was looking at my family tree. it was really REALLY interesting. i started looking at my great grandma orullian, and her husband joseph, who immigrated from turkey. there were all the dates she was batized and sealed in the temple and everything...it was so awesome. there were also some pictures of her and her family on there. i was crying looking at some of them. it was the coolest thing learning a little more about her. i would LOVE to know more about her and all my other ancestors. and i definitely want to work on my family history when i get home from the mission. "Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers"

anways, have an awesome week! i love you all SO SO MUCH!

love always, hermana steele

ps. president obeso said it´s ok for you guys to come!