How are you all?! We are doing great here in Chile!
This week has been crazy!! Training and the whole process in complicated but really fun! On monday I was in a trio waiting for my new comp to come and Tuesday I went to pick her up. We were the only girls so I found the only hermana in the big group of Elders and came running to give her a big hug. She is a sweetheart! Her name is Paolantonio and she came fresh from Argentina. She is freshly turned 19 and has never lived away from home before. Her whole family are members and she comes from a family of 4 girls. She is as fun as she could be! We have already had lots of fun laughs together. I think the whole transition is hard for her but she is doing a great job with it! She keeps apologizing for crying and I just laugh and tell her that I cried EVERY DAY at the beginning of my mission. So.... I am totally used to it. In fact, I think she should cry more! It is a great practice!;)
So the funnest update of this week is J__. She was the miracle for this week. I have not written about her for a while so I will remind you guys who she is. J__ is the menos activo who is living with a man who would not allow her to go to church. Well, he fell and broke his hip. He went through this terrible process in the hospital. The hospitals here are horrible! They do not have enough people to operate, and the building is older than my great grandma! So this poor man was in this hospital for a month waiting for a day when they could operate. To make matters worse, they don´t clean you or feed you in this hospital, it is free ... so the nurses don´t do any of that. So J__, every day, all day, spent her time cleaning, and feeding L__. She did all of the dirty work with patience and love. He finally noticed how wonderful she is! That woke him up! Before, he refused to pray, or even look at us but after he broke his hip and the whole process of healing he has become humble and even wants to pray with us. All of this happened a little while ago. And this week, we invited J__ to church. We told her this is her chance to really show an example and go to church. So in the morning we went to pick her up and she came out with a smile from ear to ear! She looked radiant. She told us she had a suprise for us and opened the door only to see L__ ready to go, eating breakfast so we could all go to church together!!!!!!! I cannot explain what a miracle it was to see this man softened and kind ... waiting to go to church with the Mormon missionaries! What a blessing! There is something powerful in realizing that we are not superman! The mission president´s wife read me this really cool thing that she wrote after she had tried to be a "mom" of 275 missionaries. She said that we find our greatest strength in our weakness, because it is our weakness that brings us to Him (Ether 12). It really does not work when we try to do it our way or on our own. He knows better and is stronger, and we can live our whole lives trying to avoid it but there is going to come a day when we 'break a hip' and we are going to come to find that we need Him!
B__ continue to progess. A__ finally listened to a lesson this last week. They are a great family. Everyone is really excited about them. C__ is hopefully going to get the priesthood this next week and we are going to invite M__ to get baptized (again). My comp left an appointment with them and could not stop talkiing about them. I forget how blessed I am until someone from the outside comes in and sees how fun this family is.
P__ is adorable! She continues to be. We had a really awesome FHE last night. V__ planned it and she had like 7 different scriptures, a Liahona issue, and two videos. I was so proud! She is learning alot. We were talking about when they are going to get married and I might be here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That made me super excited!!! I might actually be here for their baptisms. That would be too good to be true and totally worth this much time in Apoquindo!! I am always a bully to E__ and tell him that he has to ask P__ on his knee if she will marry him, and this time when I said it he looked at her and then looked at me and gave me a quick wink. I translate that as 'I will!!!' I hope that is what it means! He has been so much better. He has not been as depressed and he has been so much better to his sweet almost wife! On the way home from the church the twins sat on thier laps and sang, I am a child of God. It was the cutest thing I have evers seen! They are good parents! They get better everyday! I love them so much!
M__ C__ continues to progess. She is this menos activo that is so good but she just refuses to do something on her own. It is so frustrating because she knows it is true and wants it for her family but I guess not enough to investigate it herself. We talked to her daughter on Saturday. She has become one of those people who are so politically correct that it has gone too far. She told me that she does not find it bad at all to teach her son to drink beer because she knows when to stop and it is never bad to drink a couple of beers. I am so grateful that i was never ever taught to just try a couple! I told her 'and what if your son does not know when to stop and he destroys his family because he becomes an alcoholic!?' She stopped to think. It was a cool moment because I realized how much this gospel works! I am so grateful that I have never even tried that stuff! I am so grateful that neither has the rest of my family and there are NO barriers that stop us from just enjoying each other! God's plan is so good!
Thank you mom (she added the "bold", not me) for sending me what she learned from PMG!!! I am waiting for the rest of you people. This week I did a web. I made a web between all of the connections of all of the attributes of Christ. It is hard to explain my conclusion but it was really interesting to dissect all of the atributes and what are the requirements, and blessing of each attribute. This week I am going to do a study of the three words, Desire, works and fruits if you want to join me. ;)
I love you all so much! I hope you have a great week!!! I am excited to see what you learned from PMG this week! Come prepared so that we don't waste time!! I love you all so much! I cannot even express how much I love talking to all of you! You all just fill me up! Have a great week!
Love
Hermana Webb
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