THIS WEEK WAS SO GREAT! one of our investigators came to church with is less active fiancee and stayed ALL 3 HOURS and he loved it he really loved the time in priesthood and felt the spirit. we are so excited and know that he will be baptized. We also had a time to visit a less family we are visiting. The dad Rodrigo smoked and drank i a few weeks back shared my testimony of how i changed my life to become who i am now and he really felt the spirit because he has gone 1 week without smoking and he doesnt even have th desire to smoke! he has started a diet and exercise routine and said i feel so much better i feel like i have life in me and purpose i love not smoking! as a couple they have started to pray together in the night and can really feel a spiritual difference. i could literally feel a HUGE change in there house spiritually. they looked so much happier and i could feel there spirit. These moments are tender mercies from the lord. I dont have many baptisms as a missionary and i at times feel that i a doing nothing but when i experience these moments i know i am helping push the work forward because all souls have worth in the eyes of the lord.
Once upon a time a missionary was told throughout her whole mission that she was going to be a trainer but she never believed anyone then one week in her mission before transfers everyone said she was going to train but she continued to deny it. dun dun dun duuunnn its9:05 sunday night and she gets a call directly from her missino president. Hermana kogianes I HAVE AN ASSIGNMENT FOR YOU! YOU ARE GOING TO TRAIN!
Wednesday in the morning i will be going to Osorno to find my first Daughter 
Hermana Luna She is from Argentina.
In the mission we have a joke here that when you train you recieve a daughter and you are the mother. I was so shocked after the call i didnt know what to do but i however felt that that i was going to train. Sunday morning when i woke up i asked heavenly father if i was going to train and if so let me feel that it ws really going to happen. When i ended the prayer i felt it in my stomach and my heart that the lord wanted me to train but i didnt want to believe it. During sacrament meeting my companion was giving her talk and shared a experience in her mission and when she talked of her companion that she trained i felt once again that i was going to train. Remember last week when i talked that the spirit will always help us when we sincerely ask him? I once aganin recieved 2 times revelation that i was going to train which leads me into my spiritual part of the week.
My companion a few days back asked me what it ment to have a contrite spirit and a broken heart. As i sat at my study desk pondering the question i thought back to the previous days and all that has passed here in our sector, i thought back to my other sectors and i also thought back to my life before the mission. I began to search the definition of Contrite spirit and Broken heart in the dictonary in the book of mormon...
Broken Heart or Contrite Heart....
To have a broken heart is to be humble, contrite, repentant, and meek—that is, receptive to the will of God.
When Heavenly Father and our savior ask us to come unto them with a broken heart and contrite spirit they want us to be broken or in other words ready to learn and to change into who they know we can be. This week was a week that i felt was preaparing me to be more submissive and receptive to the will of my heavenly father. I always try to do things on my own and i always feel that i can feel better on my own but it is not true. I was trying to hard to find my own answers to things and waited to the last minute to ask my heavenly father but when finally did a wonderful week passed by like what i told you earlier. I know now more then ever that it is necessary for us to be receptive to the will of god and go to him with a broken heart. most of us the moments when we most go to our heavenly father is when we are broken down with grief, pain and anguish but it is not necesarry so why do we do it?
It is because satan is so good at his lies. he puts a huge bander in our head with huge lights reminding us of all our past errors big or small telling us we can not go to our father that he will not accept us. i have felt this too many times to count but it just is not true. As members in these times we need to stay stronger to the truths me know and not alone lucifers lies to tear our faith from us. doubt the doubts before the faith or use the phrase my mom has taught me NOT TODAY SATAN NOT TODAY. A sister leader said hermana kogianes you are a missionary that satan hates and when you wake up in the morning satans says NOOO not again shes awake. Try to be like this (: when you wake up make it so scary for satan. I know my savior lives and loves us. He searches for all his lost sheep but we are the sheep that keep running ahead or hiding but he knows where we are at all times and will not let us be lost but he also accepts our agency. i love you all so much 
i pray for you always and i know you can all do hard things with faith in our Heavenly Father, SAVIOR AND REDEEMER everything is possible. until next week (:
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