Glad Tidings of Great Joy

This past week things returned almost to normal in our work in the sector. We really were able to take advantage of the extra hour in the evenings. It's a valuable time. We also had our Book of Mormon activity and it went well. Luciano came and shared his testimony of the Book of Mormon. It was special and awesome.  We taught the papa of a member here who is 17 and it was really great. His name is Jorge and we hope to see him progress well.  This week I leave Chile and return home to Texas. I will miss all of what the mission has been. But it has prepared me for what comes next: endure to the end! I am excited for the adventures ahead. The experiences I have had here, and the people I have met have changed who I am and I am very grateful for everything I have accomplished here. It has been two years of constant progress and testimony building.  The secret to it all is simply doing the small and simple things. Daily prayer and scripture study, church each Sunday, and reg

This was a pretty awesome week. We started teaching a lot of new people. This past Monday, we only had 30 minutes to work after P-Day ended before we had to be inside of the house. It was absolutely pouring rain. As I thought about it as we were getting ready to go, I thought, is this 30 minutes really worth it? But- it was a good test of faith for me to see where my desires really were. We went out and found a new person to teach, and when we came out of the lesson, the sun was brightly shining. Glorious is the work of the Lord! I had various intercambios this week. It was great to work with Elder Arnett once again. We had an incredible lesson with Luciano, who is 17. He doesn't believe in God as we see him. But in the middle of the lesson we asked him to kneel down with us and pray and he did. He finished with a huge smile on his face and we asked how it went. He said that he felt something weird and had desires to cry. It was an incredible experience. There's a lot of prog

I forgot to hit "publish" last week, Sorry!! --Rebecca So this week was a little different than normal. Chile is going through a lot of protests and things so we spent a lot of time indoors this week. Some days we could only leave if we had specific appointments set and in the homes of members. And yesterday was the first day they let us wear our nametags publicly. We didn't wear proselyting clothes for a long time this week. It was rather different. Meant lots of time to study and meditate. Even with all of that, we were able to start teaching a new family this week. Suzi and two of her 4 children. We hope they can make good progress! They came to Natalia's baptism last week. On Saturday we attended the baptism of another sector in our zone and I did the baptismal interview earlier in the week. I love seeing the testimonies of these people as they choose to make this covenant with God. It is inspiring. I heard good news about Wilson and Alex in my old secto