Week 22/76 Baptisms, Birthdays, And Completos For Days

The birthdays just keep coming! We celebrated with an amiga on Monday, she turned 8 and is going to be baptized next sunday with her sister! 

Then my companion hermana Balmaceda turned 21 on Tuesday, so we had to celebrate that as well! We ate so much 
cake! The members were so excited to celebrate with us, and it was a good start to the week. 

The food this week was so good! I finally tried humitas, which are basically just tamales. We ate completos like 3 times. We bought chocolate milk and berlin pastries. And we had probably 4 types of cake! Oh and I had the opportunity to try mate. Which is like tea, but it's just herbs and stuff that they pour water into and drink with a special straw, and you can add sugar if you like. It isn't great, but maybe if I just try it a few more times, or with more sugar, I might like it. 

We did service this week, and are hoping to get the chance to help more with the recovery from the fires. But we actually just cleaned up a fence and found a bunch of garbage. We did see a scorpion and they found either a dead rat or cat I'm not sure which one. 

We saw so many miracles this week. We found some new people who are super interested in learning more, we've been working ro reactivate some members and they are coming to church! We are planning the baptisms of Connie and Maitee and we are having super powerful lessons everyday. 

I love to see people progressing and growing in the gospel. I love to share with families that they can be together forever. I love that even a 9 year old can read the book of Mormon and gain a testimony of Joseph Smith. I love being a missionary, and doing this great and marvelous work. 

I know that this church is true and that this gospel blesses familes and changes lives. I know that my Heavenly Father loves me and is guiding His work everyday. I'm just glad to be a part of it, to be the instrument in His hands. I am so grateful for all of you, who read and send me emails, for all of your support, love, and prayers. I hope you have an amazing week! 

-Hermana Pratt 








Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Week 75/76 White And Ready To Harvest

Image
I had the opportunity to teach about the Restoration and the Book of Mormon in english for the first time this week!  I asked them if they assist another church, when I was trying to ask if they attend another church and a few other spanish words slipped in, but it went well and they agreed to read 3rd Nephi!   We had 2 intercambios this week. With hermana Toro and hermana Guevara. I always learn so much and enjoy getting to know the hermanas!  We also laugh a bunch and become good friends!  We picked golden berries and had fresh golden berry juice for lunch. We also ate some pastries like the ones from Brave and Hermana Ortiz told me that in spanish they don't have a scottish accent. We had probably the worst lunch of my mission this week. Cold tuna with cheese and onions on top. I didn't mind seafood before, but that was asqueroso!  On Thursday we were waiting for people to show up to english class (no one did) I decided to check my email, and was surprised to...
Read more

Week 12/76 Milagros Y Un Nuevo Mes

Image
This week was so crazy, but first off thank you everyone who sends me emails. I love reading about your lives and hearing from you!  Other than that it's been adventurous.  We know this member and we visit him all the time. He's 95 years old and he's so cute. His daughter is at his house to help him and we just go talk to them and she always gives us so much food. She's so nice and we just love visiting with them. We visit these other members, Dora and Marisol, all the time. Marisol is blind but they're always super sweet and they always help me with my Spanish. I'm so grateful for all the members here.  On Wednesday we had a crazy thing happen. There was a drunk guy in his car and he was trying to talk to us and then we were like 'okay here's our pamphlet' and he was like 'get in my car come with me'. So we are trying to get away and we get in  another car with this couple and we thought they were going to drive us away but then they got out...
Read more