Saying good-bye to Hermana Maciel
Cristobal Colon 6824
Las Condes
Santiago, Region Metropolitana
Chile
51
I love you all so much!! Did you know that you all make me cry!? There are so many beautiful things going on and it makes me so happy! Evan is HUGE! He is growing so much and it is going to be so fun to meet him I may even 'pull an Ammon'. (Faint at the sight of people {she} loves.) I love how happy Sara is! It feels good to see her be such a hypocrit about being in love! :-) And mom and dad, you two just have this way of making me a cry-baby! But, everyone is used to it now!
This week was good. It was a little slower but I am really happy. First, we have found an amazing family that I am really excited about!! The dad is R_ and the mom is E_. We have been trying to visit them for a while. To be perfectly honest I did not write much about them because I did not have tons of hope in them. They were on the ANTIGUOS list which means that they were dropped for some reason. They had been investagators for over two years. So we have been passing by and my hope in them grows everytime. The dad has a serious illness, but they are super pegada. They are really close as a family. The parents` lives revolves around their children. Do you know how many families there are like that? Now many. So we are really excited because we have a set-set appointment with them tomorrow and we need lots of prayers. They believe that there is a God but they don`t really know what to call Him. They don`t know Him and I can`t wait to introduce the real God to them! It is one of the most beautiful things of our doctrine. There are so many people that have a warped view of God. They call him an energy, or something more, or a power. And out of fear of getting it wrong, they don`t usually go deeper. We have pretty deep doctrine. We believe in a God that not only loves us but He is our father. His work and glory is so much so, that He sent His only begotten Son that we can live through Him and be saved by him. I don`t know about you guys but to me that is a lot better than "an energy" to me!
I went to the temple this week! I like the temple -- I walk in and feel totally calm. I enjoyed the session, but had a battle with satan in the middle where he wanted me to listen to my fear instead of my faith. Thanks to all of you people and your advice, I chose my faith, and asked God to help me. In choosing faith, I enjoyed a real spirit and learned a lot about what God wants from me. Afterward, I had a really sweet experience with a temple worker and some things she said to me that must have been inspired -- she just knew exactly what I needed. God can answer prayers through temple workers too. We just hugged and cried together.
The other fun news of this week, is P_. She is the friend of F_. You guys have to remember that these two do not look like mormons. They are teenagers with gages, and with lip rings. But P_ prayed to God and asked if the things we were teaching were true!!! And she recived and answer!! And she got so excited that she called F_! She knows it is true! I am so happy for her! Now we just have to pass her on to the elders..... We have passed on all of the good ones to the Elders!!! I am serious there is one pareja that has recieved three possible baptisms from us!! That is what we get for working in the rich area and contacting a lot. ;)
Other than that the week was really calm. We continue finding lots of new people. It is a little bit of a fight to find new people who will actually be in their houses when they say they will. But we are happy! I have a great companion and I want to be here forever. This week Hermana Maciel goes home!!!! AH!!!!!! Time goes by way too fast!! It was hard to say goodbye but she is going to have to deal with being stuck to me forever! he he he!!! I am so grateful for Skype!!! I learn more and more that God is real! I learned this week more about giving up your life and finding it. There is a beautful talk about our will being swollowed up in the will of the Father. You should all read it. I was always afraid of the idea of giving my whole life to God. But changing my mind set to thinking of others before myself works!! I become myself. It is so weird and I love it! God`s Will is so much better than ours. The trick is giving up our pride, and really letting Him take over. The few small moments that I succeded in that this week were glorious. That is the invitation this week. Worry about someone else more than yourself this week. It feels good! I am going to TRY to do it too. It is not easy but like all of Gods commandments, it works!!! I love you all so much and hope you have a great week!!!
Hermana Webb
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