August 29

¡Hola Todos!

 

Well this week has definitely been interesting. We had some pretty big ups and downs, the roller coaster they call the mission. Tuesday Hna. Windous and I went knocking and we got the hardest rejection I´ve seen so far and people were really making fun of us. Then we went to visit some people that we had taught lesson 1 to. The first person that we stopped by is a woman that´s in her 80´s we had given her a Book of Mormon but she returned it to us and said she didn´t have time for it but rather needed to focus on preparing her self to die. ha ha. I know if she really understood she would know that this would be the way to prepare but she just wouldn´t listen to us. We then passed by a little family the mom wasn´t there but the daughter let us in and we began talking to her and her brother. About 10 minutes in the mom got home and pretty much kicked us out. I realized that night just how much I love the people and how much it hurts me to see them reject eternal life. The rejection doesn´t hurt me, what hurts me is just seeing all the people stuck in their pride. 

 

So last week Hna. Windous and I were going to visit a recent convert and as we were walking we passed this lady we were just going to walk right passed but Hna. Windous rolled her ankle (which she always does) but we decided we would contact this woman. Yeah she´s pretty much golden. We passed by for her this week and she was totally ready for us. She told us she doesn´t have a job right now and she´s really grateful for that so that she can spend her time reading the Book of Mormon and investigating the church. She´s amazing and already loves what we´ve taught her. It´s funny she´ll go off for a while bashing the catholic church and the Jehova´s witnesses. 

 

We have also found a family their pretty strong catholics and right now we´re actually only teaching the mom but I have pretty high hopes of teaching the rest. We´ve taught the mom twice now and last time we talked to her about the Book of Mormon. In the end I invited her to pray the way we do (instead of the written prayers) and she told us that since the first lesson she had been praying like that with her daughter. Oh my gosh little things like that just make me so happy. 

 

Yesterday we had a sector slam in Ñuñoa 2 and I went on divisions with one of the Hermanas from that sector who has less time on the mission than I do and actually I was FANTASTIC I learned so much about myself and I really just loved the experience. But I do still hope I´m not senior companion anytime soon. 

 

This morning we had a zone activity where we all got together and played soccer, ultimate frisbee, and ate churipan (it´s like hot dogs but with chorizo). Of course I only had the chorizo but it was so good and so much fun. My zone is awesome and I love the opportunities that we have to come together!!!

 

This week we have Zone Conference on Thursday and I´m SUPER excited!!!

Well until next week. I LOVE YOU ALL!!!

-Hna. Howe (or as they say it here Hna. House) :)