what a week. i have no idea how the time goes by so fast. i`m about to hit my 1 YEAR mark! unbelievable. en serio. here`s a quick summary of the past few days at least:
i FINALLY cut my hair! i`m a little stingy with who i trust my hair with, so i have managed to avoid it for the last...11 months. yep, my entire time here in chile. but there`s a member who always cuts the hermana`s hair, and for a reason! it turned out great! the internet here is really slow here, but i`ll send fotos next week.
presidente martinez came down to our sector for a visit! he was present in our district meeting, and afterwords did a few interviews, and hna del castillo and i each got to talk to him one-on-one! i`ve had a few specific questions for him lately, and his advice really was an answer to prayer. i love that the lord puts leaders in our path to help us hear, literally, his voice - what he would say if he were here. i trust 100% in presidente martinez, and i appreciate so much that the lord loves me enough to have sent him right when i was in need of counsel and comfort. i left the interview with a renewed feeling of peace, and goals set in ways that i could improve. it was a much-needed and inspired visit.
we are going to have a miracle baptism this weekend! his name is ricardo, and he`s a 19-yr old younger brother of a recently-reactivating member (did you get all that? haha). we met him a few weeks ago and got his address, but hadn`t made it a goal to visit him because he didn`t show all that much interest. which made us all the more surprised when he showed up with his brother at general conference! we had a short lessing with him between sessions, and set an appointment to visit him the next day. he came to the afternoon session as well, and said that he really enjoyed it! his older brother is a convert as of 6 or 7 years, and was inactive until just a few months ago. ricardo said that he`d been to church before, and has always felt something special, and as we taught him about baptism and the atonement, he decided right away that it was something he wanted to do! the test was when we told him that he could prepare for the following weekend, because he`d already attended church for the required amount of time, and we could teach and prepare him in the following week. he struggled a bit with the idea, but after hearing our testimony and that of a member/friend that was accompanying us, he asked, "so, what time is my baptism on saturday?" ahh! a question every missionary loves to hear. we have seriously been so blessed with ricardo. i`ve never met anyone so prepared to receive and accept the gospel in their lives. he said the other day, "the next time i go to church, i won`t be a guest, but a member!" his excitement is contagious. i love that god is willing to bless us with miracles, even though i feel like we`ve truly done so little in comparison to receive them.
lately i`ve found a special comfort and strength in the songs of the children`s songbook, especially "i feel my savior`s love," and "i`m trying to be like jesus," it has a lot to do with what i shared last week about when we feel the love of the savior, we are more motivated to show love for others, and try to be more and more like christ every day. listen to the song and read the lyrics by clicking the link (if it doesn`t work, luckily you have the benefit of being in the real world where you can look them up on youtube!)
http://www.lds.org/churchmusic/detailmusicPlayer/index.html?searchlanguage=1&searchcollection=2&searchseqstart=74&searchsubseqstart= &searchseqend=74&searchsubseqend=ZZZ
sending all of my love and prayers from chile.
hermanita wright
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