October 10, 2011

Hey Everyone!!

I LOVE ENGLISH. Don´t get me wrong I love Spanish too but sometimes there is such a relief that comes from speaking your own language and expressing yourself the way you want to. This week has been pretty great. There have been so ups and downs but the ups in the mission ALWAYS outweigh the downs.

On Saturday there was an area devotional where Elders Kent Richard, Jorge Zeballos, and Lawrence Corbridge spoke. The devotional was to celebrate the 50 years of the Chilean mission and there will be another huge celebration for that this Saturday. The talks were great and talked about the growth of the church here in Chile in just 50 years. It´s amazing there are now over 500,000 members here in Chile and it just continues to grow. Elder Richard announced some pretty amazing news. He announced that the youth here in Chile can now serve missions when the get to the age of 18! that includes the young women too. I think it´s awesome. I think part of the reason they did it is so that the youth won´t get distracted by things of the world and also so that they can go gain the knowledge that the need and come back and be a great strength to the church. The mission is an amazing time to learn SO much.

Lo Cañas is much different than Ñuñoa it is so much easier to have lessons and there definitely isn´t as much rejection. I feel a little at home here with the mountains so close. We´ve been working with quite a few people but no one is really progressing right now. Hopefully that will change. The goal for our mission is to have a "White Christmas" that may not seem like anything different for you who are on the other side of the hemisphere but here that doesn´t really happen. Anyways we are going to have a white Christmas by bringing FAMILIES in their white robes to the waters of baptism. :) Pres. Laycock Loves Christmas and is always talking about it. You can ask him any day during the year how many days are left until Christmas and he can tell you.

I LOVE MY MISSION, But I want you to know that I LOVE YOU TOO!!!! and I MISS YOU A TON!!!

-Hna. Howe