Wow, its crazy how fast the time is flying. The weeks just come and go. I am almost half way through my mission now and it feels like I just started yesterday.
Well, this week was a really good week, I love to see the hand of the Lord in our work every single day. I don't remember if I've told you all about one of our menos activos that we are teaching, his name is Gaston. His wife is a very active member and his son served in Argentina a couple years back and his daughter is in Colombia right now serving her mission. He got baptized after the big earthquake that happened here in 2010 and then I think about a year after went inactive. But for some reason, Gaston decided to accompany his wife to general conference a couple weeks back and from that day on has been just the most amazing person. When we taught the first lesson after he had went to conference, I'm not going to lie, he kind of scared me. He went off about how his wife is always trying to trick him into the religion and that he was catholic and that he was going to die catholic. But then, we sang a hymn and said a prayer to start the lesson and a complete 180 happened. He was a completely different person and now wants more than anything to be able to go to the temple with his whole family when his daughter gets back from the mission.
Its amazing what the spirit can do. I love that the work of the Lord really has nothing to do with us. We are just the mouthpieces for His work. All that you have to do is be obedient and dilligent and the Holy Ghost does all the rest.
We also had a cool experience this week. We found an old investigator of the missionaries from like 7 months back and she was very receptive to us. She accepted a fecha bautismal in our first visit. When we got home that night, we looked up her record and we saw that she had had problems with the word of wisdom so when we went back for a second visit we decided that we should teach the word of wisdom. And always at the end of the lesson we ask if we can do anything to help the person quit smoking, or stop drinking tea, or coffee. And we offer that we will take the substances out of their house for them. The people almost always tell us, no we'll get rid of it, we don't need your help, that is if they accept to live the word of wisdom, but this time was different. Ana went to her pantry and pulled out all of the tea she had and just handed it over to my companion. It was a miracle. We are hoping to see her progress.
I love you all and hope that you have a great week
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Love Hna Ayre
Here are some photos from the last couple of weeks here in Santa Cruz
the first is in Pichilemu
and the last is the day we had to do a deep clean of the house and get down on our hands and knees and scrub the floor. we also had to scrub the walls and fridge, we basically scrubbed everything imaginable. yet when the couple came whose in charge of the houses, they still found faults with the house. we are really sick of cleaning haha, there cant be a house much cleaner than ours in the mission.
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