LAST WEEK! AUG 13, 2012

¡HOLA! 

 Well I think this is the hardest email of all to write. I know I have to write a letter because it´s the last one I´ll be able to write during my mission but I don´t feel like writing a letter because I´ll be able to see you all soon. 

 Well instead of writing about what lies ahead this week I´m going to write about what´s already happened. 

 First of all today we went to a place in my mission that´s called San Jose de Maipo. It's pure mountains and fields. It actually reminded me A LOT of utah and I felt like I wasn´t even in Chile. Unfortunately when we were walking around I stepped up and hit my head on a big branch. I got a goose egg on my head. I don´t think I´ve had one since I was like 8 years old. haha. 

 Last Monday I was thinking that the week was going to be normal and that I would have plenty of time to work in our area, unfortunately it didn´t work out like that. The assistants called us Monday night and told me that I had to attend a workshop Tuesday and Wednesday. The workshop went until about 2:00pm each day and was focused on teaching us how to find a job and have good interviews when we get back. They basically told us "Your mission is over, now you have to go home get married, get a job, and study" It´s strong enough to make anyone "trunky". The good thing about the workshop was that I was able to go on companion exchanges with Hna. Castellón. It was so much fun to be with her. We talked the whole time, which was a little funny because when we were companions I didn´t really talk that much. We went out to lunch together both days and on Wednesday we had time to work together in her sector, Pocuro, for a little bit. Oh so here in Chile the students protest about the educational system and on Wednesday there had been a big protest in Pocuro. We didn´t see the protest, just the aftermath. There was a whole block with broken glass in the streets and all the streetlights were broken, also we could still feel the teargas in the air. It was pretty cool. ;) 

 On Friday we had a BBQ with the Saldaña family. IT WAS DELICIOUS!! I love that family so much. Hno. Saldaña is the ward mission leader, and him and his family work with us a lot. Their house is like my home here in Chile. We´re going to have a Family Home Evening with them tonight and with some investigators. Actually one of our investigators is going to teach the lesson with the help of a member. It was pretty funny, normally we call him to make sure he´s going to attend the FHE but today he called us to make sure we were going. haha. 

 Saturday we had a day full of activities in the church. Starting at 10am we had a ward service activity of cleaning the church. Hna. Zuñiga and I cleaned the baptismal font, I know a suiting assignment for missionaries. Then from 1:30-3pm we ate lunch in the church and watched 17 miracles. It was the first time Hna. Zuñiga had seen it and she cried so much. Honestly who doesn´t cry during that movie. I love it!! Then in the afternoon from 4-5 we had a sector slam. The idea was that we´d have several members stay and go out with all the missionaries in our stake but unfortunately we only had 2 members stay. I still really enjoyed the sector slam. I went on exchanges with Hna. De Young and I tried practicing my english. Just to let you know it´s REALLY bad and really hard for me to carry out conversations in English. Please be patient with me when I get back and try not to make fun of me too much. haha. 

I LOVE YOU SO MUCH AND I´M SO EXCITED TO SEE YOU!! Have a great week and I´ll see you next week... (WEIRD!!)

-Hna. Howe

August 6, 2012 Pictures

This week I went to the temple here in Chile for the last time. It's going to be closed until the 20th. There's a picture with me and the other missionaries that are leaving the same day as me. And a picture of one of the service projects we've had recently. :D

July 23, 2012

Well I wish there were a way to just "rip the bandaid" of when it comes to the mission, but unfortunately it´s not like that. This week I received the ward bulletin from the Willow Canyon 3rd ward. Attached to it was a post-it that said it will be the last one I get since I will be home soon. Then on the inside it mentions again how I´ll be coming home soon. I´m not going to lie I was pretty sad reading that. I know that there are so many people that are excited to see me and I´m excited to see you all too. However, it makes me realized that I´m going to have to leave everything here and that I´m not ready for!  We had a pretty great week this week. Today for our preparation day my comp. and I went with two members of our ward, Marcela and Karina to a mall in Providencia. It´s a new mall and it´s inside of the biggest building in all of South America. The rest of the building is still under construction and I imagine that it´s going to take quite a while to finish it. The mall itself is 6 floors!! IT¨S HUGE!! I´m not exactly sure how we´ve managed to keep ourselves so busy this last week but we did so much! Right now we only have one investigator but let me tell you he´s awesome. He´s 19 years old and is a firefighter. By the way just to let you know here in Chile firefighters are volunteers actually instead of being paid they have to pay to be a firefighter. We´ve been teaching him for about a month and he´s progressing really well. He went to church for the first time yesterday. I was so happy to see him there and I think he really enjoyed it. We have a lesson with him tomorrow and we´re going to try to set a baptismal date. We´ve talked about it a few times but he said that he wants to go to church before he makes a decision. He did tell us that it´s something he´d like to do though. I hope that you all know that  I LOVE YOU SO MUCH I´m so excited to see each and everyone of you!  -Hna. Howe

Picture Time July 16, 2012

 Pics of me with some of the hermanas from my mission and one of me with Karina, Goretti, and Nelly. 

July 9, 2012

You´re probably anxious to know what happened for transfers/changes.. well.. Hna. Zuñiga will be killing me here in Los Platanos. In other words, I didn´t get changed. I´m actually really happy about that. I´m glad that I don´t have to worry about getting used to a new companion or sector and I´m even gladder that I´m leaving all the members that I love so much in this ward. This last week has been full of farewells for Elder Orozco, he finished his mission today. It made me want even more to end my mission here. It´s been a little weird seeing Elder Orozco end his mission because it´s been a little constant reminder that all of that is waiting for me. Last night I went to bed thinking about the fact that I am now starting my last change. It makes me really sad to think about that and well it scares me a lot. I do have to say that I´m grateful that I have all my plans set up and ready for me when I get home so that I don´t have to think about that this change but rather I can just focus on the work ahead of me and work my hardest until the very end. 

I have to admit our sector is pretty much dead. We only have one investigator and have spent so much time searching for new ones. That doesn´t mean that I´ve lost the hope that they´re there because I know that they are. I think it just means more than anything that I have a lot of work ahead of me this change.
Saturday we had a big farewell Family Home Evening in the Saldaña´s house with some recent converts and ward members. It was really fun and also a great experience to share our testimonies and to hear how much he has blessed the lives of people in this ward. Earlier this week we had a farewell dinner with another family in the ward. We ate SO MUCH that day. We had had a big lunch earlier during the day then we had this HUGE dinner, huge but delicious! Then after dinner we went to the ward mission leaders house for our weekly meeting and they and "once" ready for us to eat. I really felt like I couldn´t eat anymore. Actually I didn´t even eat breakfast the next day because I was still full. We had another farewell dinner on Thursday and we ate pizza. They even made a gluten-free crust so that I could eat pizza too. HOW NICE!! I´m not going to lie it´s been really fun helping kill Elder Orozco and I´ve loved all the good food. I´m excited to enjoy all of that all over again when it´s my turn. I´m going to miss Elder Orozco a lot he has been a tremendous help in the missionary work in this ward!

I had the opportunity to meet our new mission president this week, Pres. and Sis. Wright. They are such a cute couple. Pres. Wright is really funny and Hna. Wright is so sweet and is so excited to get to work. She is trying so hard to learn and speak spanish. I´m not going to lie it´s really different having them instead of Pres. and Hna. Laycock. Not a bad different just really different. Obviously they´re completely different people with different personalities so it should be different. Pres. Wright knows has really great insights on the scriptures and I´m excited to be able to learn from him at least for a little bit. They came to our district class on Thursday and shared their testimonies with us. I can already tell that they love us so much. Today during our change council Hna. Wright told us that in a handbook they received at an mission presidents seminar they attended there´s instructions on how to create a facebook group. She made a few jokes and then expressed that it´s important so that they can stay in contact with us and that the WANT to stay in contact with us because they already love us so much. 

It has been so cold this week. I gets a lot colder in Utah than it does here but I think sometimes it feels colder here because there´s no escape from the cold. There isn´t any indoor heaters other than little gas stoves that some people have and in our apartment we just have a little plug in heater. On Friday we basically spent the whole evening out in the cold. The one appointment that we had fell through and while knocking no one let us in. MY hands were freezing through my gloves and well we were just so cold. We decided we would take refuge at a members house. We yelled at her gate and as she let us in I almost cried in gratitude. Really yeah I would have lived and been fine and she not let us in but that little act of kindness and willingness meant so much to me. So during the winter if you ever see a cold missionary walking through the street you can think of me and I hope that you will let them into your house and give them that refuge from the cold.

Well I think that pretty much wraps up this week. Until next week. I love you all so much!

Con Mucho Amor,

-Hna. Howe

July 4, 2012

We have transfers next Monday. I have mixed thoughts on what I want to happen. I´d like to stay in this ward because there are so many people that I know and love. I´d like to finish my mission here and with all of them. At the same time, I´ve only been in 3 wards and I´d really like to have 1 more ward and get to know some more people. Also I feel like I´ve been in this ward for quite a while. Really I think I´ll be happy with whatever happens. I´ll just leave it up to God and see what he wants to happen.

This week we had a farwell Family Home Evening as a mission for Pres. and Hna. Laycock. It was FANTASTIC! Except for the fact that we had to RUN there. The calendar said that it was at 7:00 so that´s what we planned. We were in someones house at 5:40 when our district leader called us and asked us if we were on our way. I told him no and then he told us he forgot to tell us it was at 6 instead of 7 so we ran to our apartment grabbed our things and then ran to the Metro and to the chapel that´s about a half hour away. We made it in time and guess what the first thing they did was?? TAKE A PICTURE! I love things like that, seriously, they make for great memories! At the Family Home Evening I was able to finally eat a completo with bread. A completo is like a hot dog but with avacado and tomatoes. The office elders found a gluten free store and bought some gluten free hot dog buns for me. :D We then watched a little video from our mission and then listened to Pres. and Hna. Laycock for the last time. I really liked Pres. Laycock´s last counsel to us. He talked about the REAL POWER which is love. I wish I had my notes with me to write you about it more. It´s made me really be focused on loving people a lot more. To end his talk he said. "I plead with all that I am that you love with all your heart, might, mind, and strenght."

On Friday Pres. and Hna. Wright got here. I still haven´t met them yet but I´ll be meeting them tomorrow. Even though I miss Pres. and Hna. Laycock I´m so excited to get to know Pres. and Hna. Wright. 

On Saturday we went to the temple and toured the grounds with a recent convert. I had the opportunity to see one of my converts from Lo Cañas at the temple. It was a lot of fun to be with Hna. Castellón, Hna. Mancía, and our convert again. I felt like I was back in Lo Cañas. Haha. 

I love you all so much!! Thank you for everything!! and HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!! enjoy it for me. ;)

con mucho amor, 

Hna. Howe

July 2, 2012

Here are some photos. There are a few from a sealing we were able to attend. The groom served in my mission and I was in the same zone as him for almost 9 months we became pretty good friends so he invited me to his sealing. It was a wonderful experience! The cookie things are called alfajores and we made them GLUTEN FREE. Yea!! They were so delicious! The other one is, clearly, of Pres. and Sis. Laycock. They left but their teachings and examples will always be left behind. :)

Yesterday we had a baptism!!!

The person that got baptized is Nicolas, he´s 15 years old. His mom and siblings are members but up until this point he has never wanted to be baptized. Several missionaries had taught him before but none of them were even able to get him to attend church.    We´ve been working with him for about 3 months now and was gradually progressing and changing. We worked together with the elders in our area, and TOGETHER we were able to help him CHANGE his life and come unto Christ. One of the most spiritual and amazing things was to actually see the change take place in him. He is now a different young man than he was before and is on a better path in his life.  

June 25, 2012

Well I don´t have a lot of time and I´ll have to send some pictures next week. This week has been a pretty fun and special week. 

We had the privilege on Saturday of attending a temple sealing. It was one of the elders that served in my mission. We were in the same zone for almost 9 months. He invited a few of his old comps. and me to attend his sealing. It was a very special experience. I am grateful for the opportunity I had to be in the temple with President Laycock. 

President Laycock is leaving this week. Wow just writing that about brings me to tears. He has been such a strength and a pillar to me this past year and some odd months. I am very excited to go to his house after I get home and I am happy knowing that he lives pretty close and that I´ll be home pretty soon. So it´s not really like saying goodbye. On the other hand our new mission president, President Wright, gets here Friday. I am very excited to meet him and get to know him. I get the feeling that there might be a lot of changes in the mission. I know that each mission president is different and that President Wright will have focuses on different things than President Laycock. I want to give a huge public thank you to President and Hermana Laycock 

THANK YOU!! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!

-Hna. Howe

June 11, 2012

Here´s some cute quick pics from the week. 

My comp and I have been travelling to an area in our mission called La Dehesa a lot recently. It´s a pretty rich area and actually inhabited by a lot of North Americans. There´s a Johnny Rocket´s there, just below the dentists office, how convenient! We took advantage of the opportunity to go in and enjoy some fries and shakes. YUMM!!

This Sunday we had a baptism in the ward. Two of the elders investigators were baptized!! They´re such cute little boys and have really fun attitudes. The elders have been teaching them for quite a while and it was a great miracle to see them finally be baptized. :D

Today we went as a zone to Santa Lucia. It´s a little hill/tourist area just outside of our mission. Here´s a pic of all of us sisters from the zone. 

June 4, 2012

Wo, wo, wo, IT¨S JUNE!! but it´s like 50 degrees outside and dark at about 6:00 in the evening. Not to mention I thought it was February just yesterday. Is someone playing a time trick on me??

Seriously it´s starting to get a lot colder outside. Luckily we haven´t had any rain this week unlike last week when it rained for like 3 days straight. So here´s a few updates from the week..

We did a few service projects this week. One of them was helping someone out with their yard. I had the great opportunity of harvesting the grapes, something that I had never done before. You may be thinking wow I´ve got my glasses. I woke up that morning with a red swollen eye but now it´s all better. Another service project that we did was make cinnamon rolls with the bishops wife. I don´t know how much time she actually gets to do things she wants to do. We asked her if there was some sort of service we could do for her and her response was to be taught how to make cinnamon rolls. :D  We also had a BBQ with the ward mission leader, Hno. Saldaña, his family, and the elders. It was pretty crazy towards the end of lunch a soccer game started between Chile and Bolivia. Since soccer is such a huge thing here in Latin America the Saldaña family turned on the game and we just had to ignore it as we finished lunch. It was actually pretty fun. It reminded me so much of football and the excitedment for football games. 

The last photo is actually from the previous week. We had a Family Home Evening with the elders and a family that we´re all teaching. The mom and the cousin made us sushi. yummy!! Just and FYI that´s not Elder Orozco´s jacket he´s just trying it on. haha. It´s a lot of fun to share an area with elders and work together.

¡¡LES AMO MUCHISIMO!! ¡Disfrute su semana, y que estén muy bien!

Hna. Howe

May 14, 2012

his week I thought I'd write my email in way of PHOTOS to explain what I've been up to. :D

The first one is a pic of Hna. Zuñiga and I enjoying some good old chilean food during our break time.

The second is a picture of the Bishop's daughter, Cristina. She's got stomach cancer but is such a cute little girl and is ALWAYS smiling.

Third.. This week I got an awesome package from Petra. THANK YOU!!

Fourth.. On Friday we did a family home evening with the young women. We taught a little class and then afterwards did a little crafts project. We made flowers to give out on mothers day.

More photos...

Talking to my wonderful family on Mother's Day.

Saturday we did a service project and helped an investigator out in her yard. I cut down all the grape vines, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. :)  

Sunday the primary came into relief society and sung to all the mom's. Here's a pic of all the kids. 

FOTOS!!!

Here are some pictures of the recent baptisms in Los Platanos. The first one is Goretti, she was baptized on the 15th of April. She´s one of the elders investigators. It was awesome that Pres. Laycock was able to attend her baptism. The second one is Abigail, 11 years old. We´ve been teaching her for about 5 weeks and she was just baptized yesterday. Then there´s a photo of my "daughter" Hna. Zuñiga and I.

April 30, 2012

Hi!!

 Alrighty tighty.. this week has been pretty darn great. Well any week with a baptism is a great week! :) Abigail got baptised yesterday. It was so cute, I just love seeing baptisms and thinking about what it really represents. We spent most of this week teaching Abigail and preparing her for her baptism. 

 IT RAINED!!! Friday well it didn´t just rain it poured and the streets, like they do in chile when it rains, flooded. I actually thought it was pretty cool. We got pretty lucky and were able to be in houses teaching during the worst parts of the storm. Unfortunately we haven´t been so lucky as to have hot water. Yeah.. our water heater kind of broke this week, the elders came and took it on Friday and since it was a weekend we´ll just barely be getting back tonight. 5 days without warm water. I have a new appreciation for the pioneers and anybody who lived back in the times when they had to heat their water up on the fire, which is basically what we´ve been doing with our stove. 

  Oh another funny story.. We were passed a guy on the street and I heard him say "no saben por quien trabajan" (you don´t know who you work for) I then stopped and asked him what he meant. He then said that back in 1975 the CIA started sending spies down to Chile in the form of mormon missionaries. He then said but you don´t know you´re just young girls. I told him he was invited to the church anytime to learn the truth, but it was really quite funny. I had heard stories of people thinking that missionaries are spies but that was my first experience.

 This week I have set the goal to read the Book of Mormon, Doctrine & Covenants, The New Testament, and The Pearl of Great Price before the end of my mission. Good thing I´m like 2/3 of the way done with The Book of Mormon and Doctrine and Covenants already. I have gained such a profound love for the scriptures, each day I´m learning something new and it really is like a big feast for my brain. Oh in case you didn´t know one of my favorite things to do now is EAT, luckily I still haven´t gained a pound. Seriously the scriptures are amazing. I tesitfy that they ARE TRUE and that they have the power to help us at anytime and are able to help us with any of the difficulties in life.

I love you all SO very much and I hope you have a fantastic week!!

-Hna. Howe

April 16, 2012

Hola!

 

 Today I have completed 13 months in the mission! ... but who´s counting. Also today were changes. Well I´m staying in Los Platanos but I´m changing companions. Actually I´M TRAINING!!! CRAZY! I´ll be training Hermana Zuñiga, she´s from Argentina. I really don´t know anything else about her but I´m way excited to get to know her and help her learn everything about the mission. Honestly I´m not too nervous but maybe I will be once I´m all on my own with her. I hope that I can be a great example to her.

 This week has been pretty fun. On Monday Hermana Barmore and I got permission to go the mall and meet up with Isabel, a convert from Lo Cañas. It was WAY fun. We just had luch together and told a bunch of stories. I am so grateful for that opportunity. Isabel is so AWESOME and I´ve missed her a lot. This week we had a ward activity. We really didn´t have a lot of people show up which sucks because it was a great activity. We did it on temples and Family history. I was so excited to talk about the topic since it´s like one of my favorite topics. It ended up being a great activity I just wish more people would have gone. On Saturday we had a stake activity for the youth, "Missionary for a day." I´ve already done this activity with 2 other stakes. Basically we meet up with the youth in the stake center in the morning, study with them, eat lunch and then go and work in our areas. Well there weren´t any young women that showed up so after lunch Hna. Barmore and I went back and worked in our sector. On Sunday the elders had a baptism!! President came and spoke at the baptism, which was awesome. Then after the baptism he told Hna. Barmore and I what our changes were going to be. I´m not going to lie I was pretty surprised. I thought I might be training but not in Los Platanos. I really thought that since Hna. Barmore only has one change left that she would stay and I would leave. I am really excited to stay in the ward and I really didn´t want to leave. I am SO EXCITED to stay in Los Platanos. We´ve got quite a few investigators now we´ve just got to get them to come to church!! I hope that Hna. Zuñiga and I can get a lot done this change and help everyone to feel the spirit when we enter their homes. I love my mission so much! I just want to serve with all my heart, might, mind, and strength!!

 

-Hna. Howe

 

April 2, 2012

Thank you sisters of the Willow Canyon 3rd ward Relief Society for your beautiful letter. It was so cute! Thank your for all your love and support! I love you all so much!!

March 26, 2012

Hola de Santiago Chile!!

  This week has been quite a good week and things have finally started to turn around in my area. My first two weeks here things seemed pretty dead and the work was moving pretty slow. This week we have found 6 new investigators that are all pretty interested in the message of the gospel. The awesome thing is the ALL 6 of them were references from members!! It´s so much easier to find investigators when the members help out with the work and introduce us to their family and friends. One of the references is a family of 4 (3 above the age of 8) and the dad is a singer in a tribute band for guns and roses. Their house is decorated all cool and they actually have a stage in their house. Their way nice and really open to hearing about the gospel. We are working on inviting all the others to be baptized and we´re actually hoping between us and the elders to have quite a few baptisms during April.

   My comp and I had some pretty interesting experiences this week. Saturday morning at like 4:30 we woke up due to a "temblor" or tremor. We sat up in our beds and looked at each other and were like "está temblando" (It´s shaking) we sat there until it stopped and then just went right back to bed. That one I think was rated a 5.3 on the rictor scale. THEN yesterday we were at the ward mission leaders house with the elders have our weekly correlation when it started trembling again. It started off small and the got a bit bigger I got up and out side I could see all the telephone wires swinging and everything moving. It was pretty awesome. That one I think was a 5.8. In case you didn´t know it has to be a 7.0 to be considered an earthquake. Those were the strongest I´ve felt while being here and I´m not going to lie I thought it was cool. Good thing in our mission we have a thing of "if ye are prepared ye shall not fear" so we´re all well prepared in case anything were to happen. 

  Saturday Morning we went and helped someone clean up her yard a bit and harvest her almond tree. Since we were going to do the service my comp decided not to take a shower until we got back. I decided ah what the heck I´ll just take one in the morning thinking I wouldn´t get too sweaty or dirty. It turns out I was right. Well when we returned to get ready for lunch the water in our apartment building had been turned off for some sort of maintenance so my comp couldn´t take her shower. After lunch we returned again and still didn´t have any water so she decided to take a shower using the emergency water we have. Just a little bit after her shower the water turned back on. haha. Great story and it was quite hilarious. 

   I almost forgot about one of the best things that happened this week. We went to the temple as a zone!! Oh I love having the temple so close. Afterwards Hna. Barmore and I went to lunch with Hna. Ewing and Hna. Gallardo (two other sisters from my zone). 

  Well this week something really big is coming up and I hope all of you are getting ready for it. ... General Conference. I am way excited I always love to hear the words of the prophet and the apostles. As we apply their counsels into our lives we can really gain a testimony that they are truly called of God. "by their fruits ye shall know them". The tremors that I have felt this last week are just another sign that we are getting closer to the end. It is important that we prepare ourselves in all ways possible. I know that they will give us the guidance we need to prepare ourselves as well as comforting words to lift and inspire us. I invite EACH and EVERY ONE of you to listen to at least one session of General Conference. I know that it will bless your life and give you the answers to the questions that are on your mind.

I love you all SO very much and I hope that you have a fantastic week.

-Hna. Howe

Here´s a few pics of me at Santa Lucia.

March 19, 2012

Hola!!

  This week has been a pretty great week. Basically my comp and I are starting from scratch in our sector. We share the sector with Elders but we´re the first Hermanas in this sector. There is a lot to be done in the sector and I´m excited to get working on it. I feel like there are a lot of in-actives that we need to help return to church, as well as several recent converts that need continued support and understanding of the gospel, and of course we need to find some new investigators to teach. There´s a lot to do! Which is GREAT!!

  Yesterday we had a pretty crazy experience. We had just left someones house and were on our way to visit someone else. We saw a big truck like a semi pass on the street. It accidentally got some electrical wires caught on top of the truck and without noticing just continued to drive. It pulled a telephone pole out of the ground. At that point the driver realized what happen but disregarded it and just drove off. It was pretty crazy. But also the power lines here in Chile are crazy and there´s always wires all over the place. 

  Right after that we had another cool experience happen. During church we had a visitor in our ward and she said she was visiting with a cousin that wasn´t a member and that she had the reference for us so we could pass by. We went to find her after church and she had already left. She told us what street they lived on and later that night we went to visit someone else that lived on that street. As we were getting close we were talking about how we should just knock the whole street this week to try and find them. Right after that the visitor came out of the house and introduced us to her cousin. It´s actually a little family and they seem pretty receptive and open to hear. I´m really excited to get to know them and bring the gospel into their lives. God knows each of his children and is preparing them to hear the gospel and he will just put them in our paths.

Well until next week. I love you so much!!

Con mucho amor,

Hna. Howe

March 12, 2012 Los Platanos

Alright I have now been in Los Platanos for a whole week and I love it. Last transfer was the first time there were Sisters in this sector so I´m basically one of the first Hermanas to be in this sector which is well awesome. My companion and I have been getting along really well. This week we offered a lot of service. We helped a sister remodel her house so they could move in by sanding a wall, and painting. Then later in the week we helped someone else clean up her yard. I love all the opportunities that I´ve had to offer service and get to know the people more through the service. My sector is divided into to parts and there are Elders that work in the other part. The other part is more ghetto and dangerous and we´re only allowed to go there if we´ve got appointements but we´re not allowed to knock there. We still end up seeing the Elders a lot and it´s awesome to work together with them. I´m hoping I´ll be able to stay in this sector for a while and that together with my comp find a lot of people and see a lot of success in this area. It´s honestly a really great area and it´s great to be back in the stake of Ñuñoa. I´m getting really excited for General Conference and I hope all of you at home are too. This time around I´ll be making myself some cinnamon rolls from a bread mix my mom sent me to keep up with the family tradition.

I love you all so much thanks for everything.

-Hna. Howe

March 5, 2012

Hola,

 CHANGES or as they call it in english speaking missions transfers. Last night I got the call that I´d be leaving Lo Cañas which I actually knew was coming. I am sad to leave Lo Cañas because there are so many people there that I love so much, but on the other hand I am really excited for my new area and my new comp. My new area/ward is called "Los Platanos" It´s actually in the Stake of Ñuñoa. Yeah I´m sort of back in Ñuñoa!!! This area is a little bit more.. well... ghetto. It´s going to be awesome! My comp is Hna. Barmore she´s from Utah and she´s awesome and we´re going to have so much fun together. I attached a picture of me with several of the Hermanas from my mission. My companion, Hna. Barmore, is the black one in the background. :D

 Today we lost three great hermanas from our mission one of which is my old comp Hna. Windous. They are now going to go back to the normal life. I am excited for each of them to start this next phase but I am also going to miss them SOOOO much. 

 I LOVE you ALL so much and I hope to be able to write a bigger and better email next week.

-Hna. Howe the chilean :D

 Geraldine and Lissette's Baptism

 Katies' Zone and San Christobal

 Katie looking out of Santiago