Wednesday, May 9, 2012

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

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