A pile of evidence that the church really is true.

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

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This week was great!! We worked hard and were pretty much dead on Sunday night. We were both pretty pathetic at like 6:00 on Sunday.  We had walked almost all of the week and we got a little punch drunk, but we made it and after a nice p-day of sleeeeeeeeeeeping, we are ready for another week!

This week there is not much to report again.  We are working really hard trying to find new people to teach.  We did a special fast to find people that are really interested in our message.  I feel like we are sooooo close, but we are just not finding anyone who is really interested. We have a lot of great investigators that are really wonderful, kind people who tell us that we can come in but then they don`t progress, and then they usually don`t let us in a second time;). 

The highlights of the week was a grandma, and her grandaughter. The grandma has five kids and one of her daughters is a recent convert, and so that is how we got into the house.  The daughter that got baptized is adorable!  She is in a different ward, but she is so great!  The grandma and the grandaughter both sat down to listen to us.  We had a great lesson, and we happened to be with a great youth in our ward that had a perfect story for the grandaughter.  The grandaughter was the best!  She is only 12 but she listened intently throughout the entire lesson and started reading her "home work" before we even had time to leave the house. The grandma is C_, and the grandaughter is A_. 

The other fun moment of this week was a MA that we found. He is this 29 year old kid that lives alone and is super rich. He lives in the richest part of my area, alone. He is an electrical engineer, and has been a member all of his life.  He came here and just did not go because he did not have friends. So we went to visit him and we started talking about his story. He told us about his testimony, and how much he loves to study the scriptures. He told us about his testimony and about his other ward. When he finished talking I just looked at them and said. and so.... I just have one question, Why have I never seen you at church!?  And he just laughed and said laziness!  That made me bummed!  I think there is obviously more than that, but it was at least something easy to fix, GET UP!  I hope to never let my sheets become a problem big enough to keep me from enjoying the sacrement.  This guy is awesome and I don`t think that it was just one week he was active and the next he was not.  It was one Sunday when he did not go here, and then another there.  satan is so tricky!  How could he ever make our warm bed look more comfortable and appealing than renewing our eternal covenants with God?  I have no idea!  But he does it to a lot of people.  he is good at lying!  Our MA sadly did not come to church yesterday, but we are going to get him next week!  He knows his covenants are more important. 

This week I learned a lot about myself. We spend a lot of time in the street, and because there are not very many people to talk to we get lots of talking time in-between with my companion. She is a really cool person.  I am learning more and more how fun it is to love people!  I used to think that it was easier to be angry and try to punish a person for doing something that you did not like but I am learning how much better it is to get over it!  I love just not worriying about it and moving on to loving them! 

The second step to the gospel of Jesus Christ is repentance. I love this step! It is really beautiful how God teaches us. Repentance almost becomes natural. In the bible dictionary it says that repentance is changing your view on God, the world, and yourself.  Or, in other words, learning! Taylor and I have been talking about faith and how we build it over time with experiences and things God teaches us.  In the last letter he talked about how we decide weather or not the church is true, and then we work within it to find what we believe.  Then he talked about how God takes us to the Savior.  I love letting God take me to the Savior through that exact process of learning, changing, and seeing the world more like He sees it.  It gets frustrating sometimes, because we talk to so many people everyday and in the 20 seconds we have their ears we try to explain to them that we want to show them that God wants to take them to Christ and how He plans to do that.  But they don`t get it!  This process of having God guide my beliefs and what I learn is not easy but it is totally worth it.  It actually gets frustrating sometimes when I don`t understand one piece of the puzzle and I think I had gotten it all wrong.  I really like John 6 because Christ says that God takes us to him, and this week I could see how he was taking my wonderful family and me to His beloved son. I read how Taylor helped Alden sleep in the big kid bed, how Sara, is preparing to get married, how mom expresses what she learns in the scriptures, and how dad learns from being a bishop, and I saw how God is taking you all to Christ!  That feels good!  What more could I want than God taking my family to Christ so you are never lost (which is what it says in John 6).  Then I watched Him do it in my life.  I go to bed amazed every night at the comments from people I love, the scriptures I read, the experiences, and the feelings during prayers that all fit together so well, that, as Taylor says, my pile of the "for" evidence that this church really is true ... just starts piling and piling up.  Sorry you all may need to read Taylor's and my letter from the last couple of weeks (yes Taylor, you totally have permission to share whatever you want of mine.) But I just love being carried to my Savior through my Heavenly Parents (as mom would say;)).  It works!  Look for it!  The things people say, the scriptures you read!  The precious experinces that you will have this week.  They will all fit together to see how God is helping you see the world differently!  I love you all so much!  Thanks for everything!  Have a great week and please remember that I am praying for and loving each of you!

Hermana Webb