HAPPY FATHER´S DAY DAD!!!! I hope it was great and I will see you the next father´s day!
Hey!!!! Thanks for writing me! How are you all doing? Are yall melting with all of the heat there? I hope that yall are doing fantastic!
Chile is wonderful! It is kind of cold here (it is winter) but I love it! I definitely have fallen in love with chile! We are definitely learning a lot here. We had a few adventures here in Sótero del Río this week. There are a ton of inactives in Chile in wherever you look. We had contacted a man the week before and we went to see if he was home and his mom came out to talk to us. She was baptized 5 years ago, but inactived about a year later. She did not want to return, but she listened to us and then gave us walnuts (a lot of time people we do not know let us into their house and give us food. it is awesome!). We went home after that, but we did not have keys so we were locked out. So, we sat in front of our house, planned a little and ate walnuts. It was great! We were outside for about 15 minutes until the other hermanas returned. We then went inside and continued to eat walnuts until my companion found a maggot inside of one of hers haha. Lesson learned, be careful when strangers give you food haha.
Wednesday we had a meeting with Elder Robbyns of the 70. That was really cool. He talked to us and Santiago Norte, and he talked about how the mission was just like taking an advanced course in Christ like attributes. Therefore i am enrolled in Diligence 505, Faith 505, and also Marriage prep 505. It made us all laugh, but it is true that the mission is kind of like a prep for the rest of our lives. I do not know if I have changed too many lives or done too much here, but i know that i am a different person now than i was before.
Thanks to Elder Robbyns, we are a lot more grateful for the challenges that we have here in the mission. I even prayed saying, "Heavenly Father, thanks for the challenges. I am willing to learn more if I need to. " or something like that. The rest of the week was a little bit harder than normal haha. No one was home, we walked in circles in our little sector, and even the people did not want to listen to us, but we did not get discouraged. We just kept on going knowing that we were just enrolled in an advanced course of diligence. Sunday, the very last hour of the day, we found a cool kid in the street named Tomas. We almost did not talk to him, but we did and he said that he was really interested in religion because he does not have one. When we said that the message we share blesses the families, he said that that was what he wanted because there was no peace in his house. we will pass by again this week to visit with him and hopefully with his family too. It is always the very end that we see the results, we just have toendure to the end.
I realized Sunday too, that being far away from my family I got to celebrate Father´s day with my Heavenly Father. It was kind of the best because many times i forget to tell Him how much I love Him and appreciate Him. I love that He trusts me enough to send me here to Chile to be a missionary and represent His son, Jesus Christ. I am also very grateful for the challenges because it just means that we are taking a more advanced course to graduate in the celestial kingdom. Challenges are great!
I love yall un montón y espero que tengan una semana de crecimiento y felicidad!!! Les quiero mucho!
con amor,
Hermana Taylor
Some pictures:
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| A weird goat picture thing we found in the apartment (elders lived there before) |
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| Hermana Escobar and her new companion, Hermana Valladares |
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| It snowed and it hardly ever snows in Santiago (we were a little excited) |
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| It rained A LOT! |
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| A weird fruit called Noni (it's like jello with seeds) |
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| Hermana Bohman and I with our hippie pants! |
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