August 22,2011

Hola,

Well guess who woke up with pink eye this morning? Yep me! esta bien I just look a little funny without makeup and with glasses.

This week has been fun and exhausting. There was still all the regular stuff that we do each week but this week we had a few more lessons. Finally!

Saturday we had a sector slam in Macul 2. They were having their ward conference yesterday so we went to help them spread the word the the less actives. Hna. Windous and I had time so we decided that we would walk, after all we walked to Los Platanos last week and it´s just about the same distance. It took us about 45 min to walk there and then the names that we were given lived at the very south of there sector which took us probably about another 20 min. After the sector slam we got back to our sector and we had a cita (appointment) all the way north in our sector and that took us about 30 min. I really wouldn´t be surprised it we walked like 10 miles that day. The cita that we had that night went really good and it was like a little miracle. It was with a 16 year old girl. We knocked her house last Monday and when we passed by she welcomed us in and was really receptive. At the end of the lesson we were giving her a Book of Mormon and she asked what does the word Mormon mean. I told her that He was a prophet that wrote it the book but that his name doesn´t really have any meaning. She then asked if we and the Mormons had the same book. We then explained that we are Mormons. She told us that she would always make fun of the Mormon missionaries with her friends. Had she known the second we knocked her door that we´re the ones they call Mormons I don´t think she would have let us in, But now I have such great hopes for her. She just has to read and pray. Saturday night after all the walking I was pretty much dead. I got into my bed and I literally hurt from head to toe. I was thinking though I hope this is how I feel when I get home. It´s hard but so rewarding. The real unfortunate thing about Saturday night was it was daylight savings and since it´s going into spring I lost an hour. Oh well.

I talked with Hna. Laycock last week and she was telling us that out of all the missions here in Chile our mission is the one that needs the help from members the most. It´s the richer part of Santiago and there´s places that we can´t knock (like apartment buildings) and just people that would take the time to listen to us. The stake mission leader told us this week that the stake is going to start something to get the members more involved in the mission work. The stake is going to try and get every family a copy of PMG and they want the families to teach their family home evenings based on PMG. Also they are going to make calenders for each ward and the idea is to have one family sign up for a FHE each Monday and on the Monday that they sign up for the missionaries are going to come and teach the lesson and they have to have a non member present. It is going to be AWESOME! I know that the members can do it and I know it´s the real way missionary work should be done. I know that I am going to be a completely different kind of member when I get home. I continue to learn each day more and more about the importance of the members.

Last night we had a sector slam in our sector in hopes of finding new investigators. I love my Zone, we´re so united and always willing to help each other out. I went on divisions with Hna. Hudson and we had a fun time getting to know each other a bit more. Y eso es la vida de una missionera. Hasta proxima semana.

¡Les Quiero Muchisimo!

-Hna. Howe