December 2, 2013

¡Hola Familia y Amigos!

Another week has been swept out of the house into the land of yesterday, and I think I accidently swept out some of my marbles with it(see Hook). But thats ok, I have actually found some marbles on the street, and decided that since I can't find mine that I will just borrow other peoples.

Any how, first off the cool story of the past week. We had a baptism!!

The crowd goes wild! Toot Toot! (see Disney's Hercules) The first pic

ture is of the hermana dressed in her beautiful white, with a smile on her face, ready to be baptised. Her name is Patricia, and her family says that she was baptised when she was 8 but there is no record, no pictures, nothing anywhere to support that. Her husband and her 3 children have all been baptised but are not active. But she wanted to start coming back to church, and she wanted to make sure that she had a baptismal record. So we started teaching her and this past saturday she was baptised and just yesterday confirmed. She was so happy and we are so happy for her. We are going to work now on keeping her active and reactivating her family. If you could pray for them it would be great. Patricia is the new convert, her husband is Danilo and their kids are Camila, Matias, y Paula.

Second cool story of the week. Yesterday we had our christmas devotional. It was a big deal for everyone in this area, and it was wonderful. The second picture is a very poorly taken, and poorly timed picture of Elder Archuleta. I was to preoccupied listening to his amazing voice and the incredible piano player accompaining him (Elder Hoff is his name) that I didn't care much about taking pictures. The other picture is of my compañera singing, she has an amazing voice. And after the concert muchas muchas personas came to congratulate her, almost as many as congratulated Elder Archuleta. I had an opportunity to thank Elder Archuleta for his amazing talent and for his desire to share this with other people. He is a performer, a singer, but most importantly he is a missionary here in Chile, serving the Lord.

Funny story!! So right before the devotional began Elder Hoff came and talked to my companion, and he started talking to her en ingles. After a few sentences he turned to me, switched to español and told me he was sorry that he wasn't thinking en español. He then proceed to repeat all he had told Hermana Welch en ingles a mi en español. Super chistoso. Pero, el es super simpatico y puede tocar el piano super bonita, mejor de mi.

As far as the rest of the week, I don't remember a whole lot of it to be honest. I haven't had frosting in almost over a month and I think it is starting to take its effect on me. 

Oh we got 2 new missionaries in our area, they are an older couple from Lindon, Utah. Se llama Elder y Hermana Wall. Ellos son muy amable y quiere ayudar toda  la gente aqui en Chile. Y Elder Wall puede hablar mas o menos en español, pero Hermana Wall...not so much. But hey, its a process. 

Spanish lessons! The chilean word for "hey" is "oja" (oh-jah), use it, it sounds funny and cool all at the same time.

Thanks for all your support and letters. Keep sending them they are great!

Sorry this letter is all over the place, but I'm  sure you have come to know that that is just simply how my mind functions. 

T.T.F.N.

¡Les Amo!

Hermana Monsivais