Well I hope you all had a great chirstmas and thought alot about your savior and the significance of his birth (:
Monday was a slow day and we knocked doors trying to find people and ended up visiting a recent convert family that is really struggling right now to come to church and struggling finacially. I shared a story with them of a rich man and a poor man that lived in the street. One day the Rich man was walking in the street and saw the poor man. He had 7 pieces of Gold. So he had mercy on the poor man and thought i have to much gold so the rich man gave the poor man 6 pieces of the most highly pricest gold in the world and then continued his path down the road well this poor man was not satisfied so he followed the rich man and stole the last piece of gold the 7th piece. was it right? how would you feel as the rich man? The same happens with us. When we use all 6 days during the week to work or do the things we want and do not keep the sabbath day holy we are robbing our heavenly father who gave us 6 days. He only asks us for 1 days to not buy things, share time with family and go to church. is it too much to ask for?
Tuesday was a really special day for us. We had been trying to visit investigadors all day and nothing was working out. As we were walking down the street my companion said we need to do contacts we havent done any. so i said YEAH lets do it. so she picked a street and asked what house i said a house here with the dinosaur looking plant that is soo good to eat her and she said i too want to knock the door because of the car so we knock and a lady answers and says COME IN. We both looked at each other and then said okkaaayy. because that IS NOT NORMAL here for people to just tell us to come in. Chileans always answer the door not even half open and ask us what we want. Well after 15 of talking we found out she is a less active member of about 10 years and wants to come back to church but she is orignally from Rancagua so she didnt know who the missionaries were, what time the church started or where it was but that she had been praying that maybe just maybe we would come by and knock here door. After my compy and i were stunned. We had not realized that the spirit was leading us to her house.. we had only had the feeling to do some more contacts.
Wednesday we stopped by a less active members house and they had huge bags of gifts for me and my companion. We just had our mouths open like wow we cant believe this. The best part was they came to church yesterday and we spent the day with their daughter Camilia that is 17 and really rebelious. She reminds me a lot of who i used to be and so my comp is convinced i can help her and get her to serve a mission so we will see how it goes and if she will listen to us she wants to spend more time with us.
Thursday and Friday we spent time visiting people. Here in chile the navidad is celebrated at 12 midnight because they believe thats realy when christ was born and should be celebrated they have a feast of whatever food you can think of thats mostly meat at like 10 or 11 then eat treats sweets and then at 12 open gifts visit and then sleep alllllll day the 25. When me and my companion woke up we usually hear cars outside of our house but this time we heard absolutely nothing. NO ONE was out side the hosue before 12 or 1 that day and everyone was not about to open the door to visit with us.
Saturday was a great day we had lunch with a member that is a return missionary and we spend an hour talking about the book of mormon and the things we can learn from it. he also gave us some really good scriptures to use with investigators. at 10:30 at night during our verifications with our district leader he says oh hermana kogianes you have a talk tomorrow aobut the atonement good night click. i was dying because we need to be in bed at 11 soooo
Sunday I gave my talk and winged it the best i could and thankfully my words touched the hearts of some members struggling right now and they were really grateful.
A spiritual message from this week is about prayers. I honestly think on of the biggest things my mission has taught me is how to pray. Before the mission i said my prayers but it was out of routine with the same things and the fastest way possible. I can not lie and say my prayers are perfect and that i am always 100 percent focused in my prayers sometimes at night i am so exhausted that i fall asleep on my knees praying or in the morning but recently this week i have tried to really focus on having deeper prayers. Real conversations with my heavenly father. This week we have had THE WORST TIME WITH FLEAS i literally have bites on my face, neck, arms, feet and legs. i am dying and i am constantly iching i try not to but it doesnt work at times i cant sleep because i am itching. So i decided during one of my prayers to ask heavenly father to please just help me help me with my fleas so i prayed and nothing happened the fact of the matter is they got even worst and i found some new bites. the few nights after i decided to just solamently pray for everyone else but me so i prayed and prayed i also have struggled to feel the spirit to help and investigadors in this moment something marvelous happened. My legs began to tingle almost. My desire to scratch my legs went away and i have since decreased the scratching. I can truly testify that heavenly father answers prayers. Shirley the less active got an answer to here prayers when we knocked her door. I got my prayer answered when i focused less on myslef. I also had a problem skyíng my family on the 25th the internet would not work and the computer kept having problems so my comp and i decided to pray after i had a feeling to check the router but didnt do it. later when the internet still wouldnt work a brother of the church called and said to check the router so i did and we fixed it! the internet began to work. i was kicking myself in the butt because i should have followed the spirit and answer to my prayer. i know we recieve answers but we need to be willing to answer even if htey seem dumb or someting we dont want. heavenly father wants to help us and knows the bst path i know it is true i love you so much!
P.S no photos again! im sorry the computers have been dumb
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