Hey family! This letter was going to
be super d duper longity long long in my brief attempt of telling you literally
every juicy detail of probably every single moment and thought that can pass
through my brain in every day of this great week here in Chile Chile lindo. And
well on the bus I was trying to rewind to the beginning of the week and HOLY
COW, I can't believe that this was but a week! Because, here's news to you: a
lot has happened.
So getting off the bus my velcro
shoe strap got stuck in the metal fold of the bus stair and I face planted off
the bus. And well, after a good laugh I realized that whatever was passing
through my brain to write kind of just splatted on that corner and stayed
there.
So I am literally just drawing a big
flat splatted blank for this letter.
Wow.
uuuuuuhhhhhhhh....
Okay well I'll just get down to
it.
That family that I told you about
last week is soaring in their progress. I honestly cannot believe that it has
hardly passed one week since we met them.... We've seen them every day and they
are the epitome of a family that was prepared by the Lord. They accepted to be
baptized on the 31st of this month! And they are basically eating the Book of
Mormon. Every time we go over, they show us some verses of their daily
scripture study that they have marked. A few days into visiting them, the wife
said, "Would you be able to give me a separate Book of Mormon because
every time I go to pick it up to read it, HE'S reading it! And he reads way
faster and so I don't want him to spoil it!" hahahaha So we gave her one
and then their daughter that is 11 asked us for her own as well because she
wants to get ready to serve her own mission.
This family is unbelievable. But I
believe it because I get front row seats of it every day. When we first started
teaching them, the dad, Ademir, was a little taken off because he just hadn't
heard of any of this before. Then he prayed and meditated and he is more
excited than ever because he knows it's true and feels like he's made the
greatest discovery of his entire life. Carola and their daughter, Belèn are
right there with him. They love this gospel.
You'd think that they just never had
the chance to receive the missionaries before, but this week, Carola told us
something super interesting. She said that out of all the churches the one she
rejected the absolute most was us!
She told us in a lot of frustration
because she wish she had found it before, but it was her own decision to avoid
it all.
Well, then after a sudden
realization she said, ''It was because Satan didn't want me to know the truth!
But here I am!''
They asked about the temples and
what sealing means one day when we showed up, and so we took advantage of the
situation and taught them about eternal marriage to find out they aren't
married, not a surprise. So we very simply taught the law of Chastity and challenged
them to get married. They said, the only thing that holds us back from deciding
to do it is having our own house. We want to be more stable and I want to be
able to give her more for the married life. They said they had been waiting for
12 years for a house.
We shared 3 Nefi 13:31 a 35 with
them and promised them that if they search the kingdom of God first, Heavenly
Father would bless them with a house. They said, ''Yes, we need to keep this
commandment of God. We will do it.'' An hour later, they called us and said
after 12 years of waiting the house was granted to them. WHAT?!
Anyway, this family has faith,
enthusiasm, and love for the Lord and this gospel. I could go on forever now.
But I won't. :)
This week was super successful. We
now have 7 investigators getting ready to be baptized and Juan Carlos had a
miracle happen this week too! And he's getting baptized on Friday along with
Claudio! We are working with the members a ton and the work is progressing so
rapidly! We decided to meet with the bishop this week and he gave us 16
references. It's great.
I am still drawing blanks because I
don't know how to explain everything that is happening here! I love my
comp.
Love,
Hermana Olson
okay woopdeedoo. Looks like my
camera card went splat too.
I don't think I'll be sending pics
home for the rest of my mission, family. Sorry! I just don't like the
viruses.
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