She was looking for more in her life and we have it!!

Dear family!

August 19, 2013

It has been another amazing week in Chile! The first day of my mission my mission president´s wife scared me out of my pants when she said 'don´t worry it does get easier.'  Chuta!! I thought what does that mean!? Turns out she was right.  Not going to lie t-- he first part of my mission was pretty hard but I am finding more and more to just enjoy every day!

This week was a week of finding new investigators! All of our amazing investigators have either been baptized or were on vacation this week which meant to me and my comp it was time to find new ones.  God obviously thought so too because we had 12!!!!! referencias this week (for those of you who don´t know or don´t remember that is A LOT) We usually get... 0.  It was a week full of miracles! We found this awesome lady who just asked us questions and seems really interested!  She is looking for more in her life and we have it!  She has a picture on her wall that she drew that is practically the tree of life vision -- she was pretty happy about that.  Also there are two families that live in our apartment that are super interested and we are going back tomorrow.  En serio, that is a good week!  It is pretty amazing because every time I start to feel a little frustrated because everyone is telling us to go away or come back on the 32nd of August, God always sends a little miracle that makes the day really cool. We ¨randomly¨run into a lot of people we need to run into. 

So my favorite references this week were from the elders and some kid in our barrio.  The elders found this guy who forgot his address ... and so he told the elders his street and that he had a black gate.  So we get this reference, look for the Peruviana who has a black gate... So we go to the street and all of the houses have a black gate ... What do you do?  Because we are missionaries and are super awkward, we knocked on doors and asked if peruvians lived there.  It was a very funny fail. The next was some kids friend in our barrio.  He told us to look for a house with a post in front of it.... Like a light post. It was pretty funny.  We are excited for the next reference that tells us to look for the Chilean who has a nose.

Now that I am good friends with my roommates they are starting to laugh at my Spanish. It is really cute to watch them hold it in after I say something pretty off.  I really love my roommates! They are pretty funny!  This morning I taught them what gringos do to flirt.  Turns out gringos are weird ... go figure.  It is pretty fun to live with four girls all from different countries.  The new Hermana se llama Hermana Del Barrio.  She is super sweet.  She is from this mission though so she is pretty excited to go to her actual mission in Mexico. 

 

To give you an idea of my fun with my roommates: We were walking out of our building all together today and a cute man was standing at the gate. Because we are missionaries we all have to say hello so he sat at the gate and said buenas dias over and over again but then when he saw me, the last out of the gate he said in his very cute Latin Accent "and good morning!"  It was very cute!  I like my roommates!

 

My Spanish this week was a ton better!  I kind of got it into my head that if God wanted to bless me with el don de lenguas He would .... I don't know where I got that idea.  Anyway, this week I finally decided to ask for the gift.  And, WOW!  It worked.  It is actually a little creepy.  I can conjugate better, words come easier, and my mind feels clearer during lessons.  It is cool.  It definitely depends on the day, but I am feeling a ton better about all of it.

I love you all 

Hermana Webb