Sorry, I forgot to say last week that our p-day was changed to today. Yesterday we had a mission wide conference in Rancagua. One of the seventy's, Elder Christensen and his wife, came and spoke to us. It was awesome to be with the whole mission. I got to see my comps and the other missionaries whom I love that I haven't seen for quite a while. I loved this conference because they talked about the work of salvation and that the vista shouldn't just be on baptism rather that they will be able to go to the temple and receive all of the blessings that are theirs to have.
Elder Christensen talked a little bit about how the mission is like a mini life. When we start the mission, we are like little kids who have lots of questions and want to know about everything and then we pass through a phase as if we were teenagers when we think we know everything and then one day we arrive to become adults and we realize that we don't know anything, but if we rely on God, we realize that we can do all that we need to do. That really hit me, because it really is como asi. I have hit that point in my mission where I feel that if it weren't for the Espiritu Santo and his guia, I wouldn't be able to do anything in this obra.
So good news bad news this week. I'll start with the bad. Our cellphone got robbed on Monday. We're not exactly sure how it happened. I normally have the cell phone in my bag, but we were talking over the phone on speaker phone outside and one of the members in our branch came up behind me and pretended to grab my bag and I got all frazzled. My comp was talking on the phone still but I just was really out of it. After that moment we went to go meet up with another member to go to a cita and as we were walking, I realized that I didn't know where the cellphone was. I searched all through my bag and I couldn't find it anywhere. My comp swares she handed it to me but I don't ever remember her passing it to me and we went to go back and find it but it was gone. I had to pay for a new one. The good news is that its just one of those wlamart phones and not like an iphone or anything. I don't really know whose fault it really was that it got lost but I decided its just better to act as if it was my fault even though Im not really sure. The only bummer is that we lost all of our contacts which is like a ton of missionary work over the time that this sector has had that phone.
The good news is that for the first time in like 5 months, one of the recent converts went to church here. It was such a miracle. When I arrived, my comp said that they just read with Camila when they go to their house because supposedly the other missionaries tried lots of things to get her to go to church and she never went. But in this time a lot of things had passed in her life and we finally got her to go! I really hope that she can continue with this same animo para ir a la iglesia.
Also this week we had a menos activo tell us she was super upset with us because she felt like we were attacking her to go to church and that we didn't understand that she isn't going because her toe hurts. I tried to apologize and help her understand, in our eyes by inviting her to come to church, its the way that we are showing her our love for her. But she now feels better that she could tell us all of our feelings. Hopefully she now can feel that we really do love her.
Well I love you all and hope all is well!
Con amor
Hna Ayre
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