¡Hola todo de ustedes!
Ok este semana, oh yeah English... So this week has been great. Still a lot of work but there have been some great experiences. Hna. Windous and I have still been out knocking almost everyday with very little success and with A LOT of rejection. But we still continue to have hope and faith and work hard everyday! My Spanish has been improving a lot. I am understanding and speaking a lot in Spanish. This Wednesday in correlation, which is our meeting with the ward mission leader where we discuss what we´ve done during the week and our investigators. Hermano Moreno, the ward mission leader, ask me to say the prayer. We always start off with hymn, prayer, and a spiritual experience. After I said the prayer Hno. Moreno was going to share the spiritual experience and his experience was my Spanish. He said that he was so impressed with how well I could speak and with how fast I was learning. He just mentioned how it´s really a testimony that the gift of tongues is real. And oh can I testify of that. I am so amazed with how much I can understand. Of course there is still SOOO much I don´t know but I love it when I can communicate.
Friday night Hna. Windous and I were out knocking one person came out and we got talking with him for a little bit, probably close to 15 minutes. While we were talking to him out district leader called us 4 times. Afterwards we called him back and he asked us if we had felt the earthquake? Since we were outside we didn´t but he had I´m pretty sure and Pres. Laycock did. The earthquake was actually in Valparaiso which is much further north than our mission. I pretty sure all they felt was a tremor from it and definitely nothing big. Anyways he was just calling to check up on us. He then called again about 20 minutes later saying that Pres. Laycock wanted us all to go through our emergency bags that night and see if we were had everything in them. Later in the night as we were going through them Hna. Wojciechowski called her district leader and asked when we should buy the things that we are missing. He said that we could wait til Monday. Saturday morning we got a call from our district leader and he said that Pres. Laycock said that if we were missing ANYTHING that we needed to go to the store and buy it that day. He wanted all the missionaries to go to the stores and get whatever they needed. Me and the other Hermanas ever since have been joking about how there is going to be an earthquake. Just to let you know I don´t write this to scare you and I write this to give you comfort. I really don´t think there is going to be an earthquake but you can take care in knowing that if there is me and all the other missionaries in my mission will be ok and definitely prepared. It was just a really fun part of the week. :)
Right now as a mission we are doing a fast for 40 days and 40 nights. Each companionship has a day to fast and the fast will end with Pres. and Hna. Laycock. It´s such an incredible and uniting experience. Our purpose is to find new investigators, to find those who are looking for the gospel. The assistants started the fast I think two weeks ago. Anyways a while back missionaries had been teaching a teenage girl but her father wouldn´t give her permission to be baptized. Well after the assistants had started their fast. during that day they received a call from her father saying that he wanted her to be baptized that Sunday. Elder Zeballos of the quorum of the seventy did the baptism. Oh being on a mission is such an incredible experience and I can feel the lord so close to me in all that I do.
I love you ALL
-Hna. Howe
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