first of all, this comp won´t let me send photos...one of these days i´ll have a chance to show you what i´m up to...
second of all, FAMILY: IT WAS SO GREAT TO TALK TO YOU!!!! (seth, sorry that we didn´t get to talk, but i got your email and i´ll be responding soon!) it really was a great christmas, my second in the mission, and i was truly able to feel and appreciate the "spirit of christmas" even though it´s summer here! as we shared with everyone the message of christ´s birth, i couldn't help but think of how much i personally have been blessed for this event. i love the savior, and am so grateful that the lord loved me enough to send his son to pay for my sins, pains, afflictions, etc. so that i can have a chance to be with him again.
on christmas eve we visited an investigator named silvia, who we´d been visiting sporadically for the past couple months, and we sang christmas hymns and decorated her tree. we brought her lights because she´d mentioned that she didn´t have a chance to buy them, and when we put them on the tree she couldn´t hold back the tears because she was so grateful. it was such a warm, fulfilling feeling to know that such a small gesture could help someone feel our love, and therefore the love of her heavenly father. also, we saw another miracle that night. we MENTIONED baptism (with the intention to set a baptismal date, but at first we only mentioned it to introduce the theme, bcause it´d been a while since we´d seen her), and she said, "i want to get baptized this saturday." WHAT?? well, she´d been to church several times, and had a sincere desire and understood everything we´d taught to that point, so we set the date! we visited her every day to finish teaching the lessons, and she was baptized on saturday and confirmed on sunday :) such a tender mercy of the lord, because sivia is a little ball of LOVE, and with the gift of the holy ghost, she´ll be such a blessing to all those in her path.
as i look back on 2012, all of which was spent on the mission here in CHILE, i can´t help but feel a great sense of gratitude and happiness for what i have experienced up to this point. i have been tried, i have grown, and i have learned to love and put my trust in the lord. of course, new weaknesses have been revealed, but i am filled with hope and faith that with the lord, i can reach the potential he sees in me. as i look forward to 2013, my feelings are mixed. i am excited to continue as a missionary, and feel somewhat anxious at the thought of returning home. i don´t know what will await me. i don´t know how i will adapt. i don´t know where i will be for the summer. but i DO know that the lord will help me carry over all that i´ve learned, and help me continue growing at home.
well, time´s up. love you all lots and wish you the best in the year to come! be sure to set goals, but not as simple "resolutions", as commitments to the lord of what you´re willing to do, knowing that he will ALWAYS fulfill his part. (d&c 82:10)
LOVES,
hermana wright
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