Hellooo again!
Love you all so much.
I love reading your letters. That's so fun that Tyler started
kindergarten!!! And HAPPY ANNIVERSARY MOM AND DAD!! Love you so much!!
buenoooooooo que paso
esta semana?.....
Oh! We had
intercambios with the Hermanas de Aysen! I went with la Hermana
Lubomirsky from Argentina! She´s in here training and it was so fun to be
with her! It reminded me of how much I loved being new to the mission
even though it was hard. I had flashbacks to Punta Arenas and Chiloè the
whole time and it just made me really sentimental for the mission. I love
being here, I love being a missionary, I never want to leave Chile!!!
There was also a multi
stake conference for all of Chile! Elder Christofferson and President
Oaks both spoke. It was super special. This week as I was inviting
Vanessa (someone we are teaching) to the conference I said, "...and two of
Christ´s apostles are going to speak to us". In that moment it just
hit me again how blessed we are to have Christ´s church on the earth
again. Its not His ancient apostles that were coming to speak, they are
HIS ACTUAL APOSTLES. Special witnesses of the Savior TODAY. Do we realize
how big of a blessing that is???
Buttttt I love being a
missionary can I just say that again??? I have been learning a lot about
repentance and baptism for the remission of sins. Its such a blessing to
be members of Christs church. We can be baptized by someone who has Gods
authority to do so, and when we do that we are completely forgiven of our
sins. Clean and new! What a blessing to have that every week as we
take the sacrament!! The definition of remission is " the cancellation of a debt, charge, or
penalty." So literally when we repent and then are baptized and
confirmed by someone who has the authority of God, and/or when we take the
sacrament every week, we are washed completely clean. Without that
authority, we can repent, but not have our "charge or penalty"
cancelled or forgiven. Once again, what a BLESSING it is to have been
baptized in Christ´s church, and what a beautiful message we have that we need
to share with EVERYONE!! Everyone needs to know that Jesus is the Christ,
the Son of God, and that we can be completely clean! I love being able to
teach people that!
Here
is something that happened last week that i forgot to share with you guys...I
copied it from Hna Weber´s email because she already wrote about it, but I say
"amen" to everything she wrote hahahah.
"We are still teaching
Jasmele (Carlos's sister-in-law) and she is still progressing so well.
She told us the cutest story yesterday! Right before reading the chapter
in the Book of Mormon that we had assigned to her, she was holding it in her
hands and then bowed her head to pray. Isabela (Carlos' 3 year-old
daughter) was sitting right next to her watching cartoons on Jasmele's phone
when she looked at Jasmele and asked, "Are you praying?" She
responded, "yes" and kept praying. Then the most precious thing
happened. Isabela took the BoM out of her hands putting it in her own lap
and then covered her eyes with her little baby hands and started praying
too. I love the gospel of Jesus Christ and everything it does to bless
the family. That moment for me was so powerful. It made me realize
just how aware little kids are and that they really do follow the example of
their parents. It made me remember and thank my Heavenly Father for the
example of my own parents who taught me how to pray and study the scriptures.
"
I love you all!!
Have a great week and keep being examples to everyone around you!! Lift where
you stand(:
--Hermana West
