Life is great here!!

Como estan!?

Life is great here!  We are working hard in Violeta Cousiño. This week we tried to follow up on all of the work that we had done in the last weeks. There is not a whole lot more to update. 

First, familia M_. They are doing really great! D_ has officially anounced that he is going to serve the mission and his family is going to get ready for that.  His dad came over last night late, and they called us to let us know.  So we went over and taught another lesson.  It went really well.  He is really open to the message now.  It was really beautiful to see what this last lesson did to him.  The first lesson is really good but it is hard to explain in little time so we did not get much in but he continues to listen and was really excited about the Book of Mormon. Now it is even cooler becuase his own son will be doing the same thing in a couple of months. 

The other family that we work with a lot here is this family from Colombia. They are great! It is a mom, dad, three sons and an uncle. The uncle and one of the sons has already been baptized. They are a great family. Everyone is actually pretty open to the message, except, the mom!  She does not let us talk about religion without fighting with us.  It is frustrating because her family is so cool!  We watched the Father in Heaven movie again with them and they LOVED it!  The dad had a HUGE simle on his face and could not stop! He was holding his youngest son as happy as could be and even accepted the invitation to go to church, but the mother was not so favorable.  So we will see what happens.  We are going to bring over a member to hopefully help us.

I have been studying a lot about our family history lately. That has been fun!  The hermanas came home and said how the entire mission has heard of my awesome book of ancestors, and so they were all looking at it all excited.  (We sent Carlie into the mission field with a little book with history summaries on several of her ancestors, which is what she is referring to.)

This whole week has been one of ups and downs.  satan is unfortunately really good and continues to try to fight.  I don't listen to him as he tries to feed my mind with doubts, but struggle when he tells me I am not enough.  Fortunately, Heavenly Father is really good at what He does, and he patiently helps me sort it out.

This week I had an interview with presidente, and it was really beautiful to see how involved God is! All of the things he had to say to me were exactly what I needed!  I also had a neat experience in discussing trials with my roommates (6 of us cooking in this HUGE kitchen) when one of them told me she had lost a sister too.  I had been really frustrated by the common "everything happens for a reason" and we should be finding the "good" in everything and being grateful ... like there is never anything to be sad about.  I felt physically sick at the idea of being grateful for cancer, because I am not.  But, we began to share more of the things I believe are true about mourning for the loss of those we love.  Then she just gave me this huge hug and told me that she loved me. She would always tell me, I don`t know why but you just fit really well with me! And she would always tell me that she liked talking to me because it was like talking to her sister.  Anyway, it was this really sweet moment of realizing that God really does care.  I don`t know if He planned to put us together at this time and in that way, but I do know that Love is a really cool thing. That loving and losing IS worth it, and that new friends and family makes life so beautiful! It brought me back to my perspective, and it reminded me How good He is! How he puts people in our path to love. I know I say this like every week but It is so fun to love! So here is the invitation this week.  Be like my president and my roommate.  Make people feel good about themselves!  God needs our help! There are so many people to love and so little time!  Find the good and love it!  It is so much fun than letting anger, jealosy or anxiety overcome those kinds of feelings.  I know that this is super corney but I mean it! The world would be so much better if we would all learn the joy that comes from loving and looking for the good and helping others see it. 

Any way I love you I am now off my soap box! I think you are all fantastic! I am so proud to be a member of this family!  I really liked what some of you all had to say about the people who have filled their lives with their own logic and emptied it of God`s love.  You are all right it is an empty life.  This week I am going to study why faith is so important.  If you want to join me I would love that.  Why doesn`t God just show Himself to us and then give us the commandments, and expect us to obey them. I love faith now. I think it is great but this week I am going to look for why it is necessary for our salvation.  Let me know what you all think.  Anyway I love you all so so so much! 

Love,

Hermana Webb

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