It is a beautiful journey!!

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Mision Chile Santiago Este
Cristobal Colon 6824
Las Condes
Santiago, Region Metropolitana
Chile

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How are you all!?  This week was absolutely amazing! We are seeing miracles every day.

We are going to the temple with the G_ family tomorrow.  I am super excited.  They are this cute little family that got baptized a little less than two years ago ... but they are inactive.  They tend to avoid us, but we just sat on their porch until they came!! 

A_ and friends/family; she and her two daughters were baptized like four years ago.  Her daughter is kind of menos activa, but a great missionary!!  She invited her friend to have the charlas, and she is great! The friends name is P_.  While we were teaching her, a different man (T_) moved in to the house for a couple weeks.  He makes little kids cry because he has tattoos, and a mohalk and everything.  But then you find out that inside he is this soft awesome Mormon with a testimony and everything.  Both P_ and T_ don`t look like the believing type.  They have gauges in their ears, and it looks like life has treated them hard, but they both come when we have citas and listen attentively.  This week when we were teaching, I looked at T_ and asked him if he believed in the church, and he told me that he did but he knew that he had messed up so much that God could not forgive him because he knew that the things he was doing was wrong.  So I said "who was Alma?" And he told me the entire story of Alma!  Can I tell you how fun it was to listen to this man tell the entire story!?  Family night works, my friends!!!!  His mom seems like one who was good at family night!  He knows his Book of Mormon, and he still thinks about it!  P_ is as cute as she can be!  She really needs God in her life and she knows it. And F_ is just fun! She is helping both of her friends go back or enter the church. 

R_ and E_ are a cute couple with two boys. They are SUPER BUENOS!!!!!  Seriously!  The elders found them forever ago and I can`t believe that they did not get baptized.  The dad is sick with something but we are not sure what. We know something weird happened but we don`t know what because the missionaries did not write in the area book!  So we are finding out the mystery, but in the mean time we really like visiting them when we can.  (Which is not very often because they are both extremely busy.) They both work and have two kids.  The nana today gave us lunch. It was really fun and I am really excited about them. 

Y_ is a menos active.  She was really funny when we contacted her because she told us ... You guys will not be able to convert me because I already got baptized in your church!  She is awesome!  She told us that next week she is going to go to church and everything.  She always lets us in to her house and she listens to what we have to say.  She has two beautiful kids, and a husband that is really nice and really uninterested in our message.  But, we will keep trying there. 

The dad of the M_ family, J_M_. He is a good man, but it is really hard.  But he wants to listen and accepted to get baptized if he finds out that this church is true.  The spirit is always really strong in lessons with him because his sons are AWESOME!!!

P_ is this sweet man who we found looking for menos activos. The wife is a menos activa and we did not know who lived there. The man who opened the door was really sweet and good to us. His story is a hard one, but we'll work with him. 

Anyone know how to get rid of stray dogs?  Kevin is not actually a person, but a new pet who follows us around everywhere!  He makes me feel bad. So if you have any good getting rid of dogs ideas let us know! 

I love the Book of Mormon and the Bible!!!!  I loved studying them this week ... it was awesome!!  I learned so much about why faith is required of us ... 1) to be able to live without seeing, and prepare to one day see for ourselves; 2) to know without obvious proof; 3) to be sent here to be tested; 4) to learn how much we need Christ; 5) And, no wonder we have to wait until we can take the yolk of Christ upon us and learn of him so that when he comes we will see him in all his glory and we won`t have to be fooled like all of the people in the New Testament ... when He came and so many people missed enjoying His healing power!  That type of process takes faith. Actually the first step of that process IS faith ....  Faith that gives us the motivation to CHANGE or repent, which then gives us the motivation to make covenants with him that will bind us to him and help us enjoy his spirit so we can learn of him.  

So that is the invitation this week. Take his yoke upon you! Learn of him! We don`t have big enough brains for his knowledge, we don`t have hearts pure enough to feel love like he feels, we don`t have the ability to have the patience, humility and peace that he has.  But, if we take his yoke upon us we can enjoy those attributes, and just like mom says enjoy it as he replaces all of our weaknesses for his strengths!  And, when we enjoy his strengths, our burden really does become light, and our yoke easy!  It is through him that we become one and it is through him that we can have the power to see him as he is!  I pray for that as Moroni did! (Moroni 7:49 Moroni exorts us to pray with all energy of heart so that when Christ comes we will see him as he is. Because we will be like him!!) It is a beautiful journey! I love you all -- thank you for everything!!!!  Tell me your thoughts next week! I want to know what you all think! 

I love you all so freaking much!!!!!!!!!! 

Hermana Webb