¿Como están? ¡Estoy super feliz aquí en Chile!
I don´t have a ton to report this week. It was a great week and I enjoyed it but we did not have anything ground breaking. Feburary is the month where EVERYONE travels! We have few families that are still at home. And the ones that are still home are working really hard to fill in the slots of other people who are on vacation. It makes missionary work a little harder. But the work must go on!!
To start off, the familia B____ is still doing well and still worrying me. We keep running into them and they keep telling us that this is what they really want but then they keep flaking off. I think it is because the dad is really into it and the mom still is not. She will get there, they just need more time. I am learning patience; which is good right?
M____ continues to be.... M_____! I love that nice old man. Sometimes it is hard to know how to help him. He has got his beliefs pretty set so it is hard to explain to him the truth. satan has been so tricky with him. He likes to think things out and find his beliefs but he has now got this little mess of truths and lies so tangled up that it is hard to help him untangle it. That is why words of prophets and the scriptures are so important! We need something that we know is the truth and then we can feel our way around the rest. But if we just feel our way around everything we are going to get all tangled up in truths/lies. The biggest one for M_____ is that 'I know God loves me and that He is going to help me get to heaven.' 'It does not matter how long it takes me or how many lives it takes me.' 'So after this life I am obviously going to get reincarnated.' Do you see his train of thought? It is nice to have the Book of Mormon and Bible that explains that nicely for us. We don´t have to be confused.
We have finally been able to talk to M_____ and her family more this week. L_____ is a convert that was converted just a year ago. M______ got baptized about six months ago and her other sister and dad are not really interested. But now suddenly the sister is!! We have been teaching her and she has been reading and learning. She is a sweetheart. I am really excited to see what happens with her. We have another appointment with her on Tuesday so it should be really good. The dad is still pretty grumpy. He is a good man but when we tried to share a scripture with him and his family after almuerzo, he started into this monolog about how they have a house that is where people can choose their religion. The spirit left pretty quick. It was cool though because I just started praying saying 'God, if we don´t have the spirit, this man won´t ever understand.' I just felt like I should respond. I did not really answer any of his questions, I just testified and it worked! I told him that I know that families are forever and that God sacrificed for that! I told him that I knew that the temple is the house of God and that Jesus is our Savior and Redeemer. The spirit was suddenly really strong and finally L_____ said 'and if you don´t listen we can´t go to the temple together!' It was really cool. The spirit was really strong! And .... he did not accept lessons, but I know he felt the spirit! So at least we gave him the chance. (Which is what God is all about!)
I think that is about it. I am really loving my companion and I am really loving this whole mission thing! We had this awesome stake conference where the stake president gave another slap in the face to the members who are not doing missionary work. It was pretty intense. ALL of the talks were about missionary work. After, my zone stood and sang "I'll Go Where You Want Me to Go." We sang terrible, but the spirit was so strong it was so beautiful! I just stood and cried and cried! It was so cool. After, the stake president told us to sit on the stand and told everyone to look at our faces and then he said things like "look at them!! look at what they are doing! Why are we not opening our doors!? Why are we not working harder with them in the work of the Lord!?" It was AWESOME! And me as my corney self, I just cried and cried. I sat between Hermana Ramirez (the girl that lives in my house now for my entire mission that I LOVE!!) and my companion. It was so beautiful because I realized what army I am a part of. I thought of how many missionaries there are in the world and how much God trusts us! I love being a part of His army on the front lines! I love representing his church and telling everyone in the streets "hola, somos misionas de la iglesia de Jesucristo de los santos de los últimos días y tenemos una mensaje para compartir con usted sobre Jesucristo." I love being counted as one of them working to bring about the salvation of men. I love who I testify of! I love telling everyone that God loves them so much that he has a plan for you that even required His son but it is worth it because He loves you! What a blessing!
I love you all! I hope you have a great week!
Hermana Webb
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