Trinidad

Hey family!
Well the biggest news of the week is that there were changes and I am now in a new area! It's called Trinidad and is in the stake of Javiera Carrera. I haven't been able to see it yet, because I only transferred today, and we live outside of our area. But from what I have seen from the map, it looks a LOT smaller than my first area. I'll let you know how it is.
My new companion is Hermana Sousa, and she's from Brazil. I got a good welcome to my area too, because we came, dropped off my stuff, and went to buy some groceries for the week. But when we came back with all of our groceries, it turned out that the elevator didn't work anymore. So we had to climb the stairs to the floor we live on, which is the 18th floor. All I can say about our climb is that the view was beautiful. I am going to miss my first area because of all the members I got to meet and to help and the investigators that I got to teach. But I am really excited for this new area and to learn all that I can!
Ciao ciao!

Hermana Reed

I was on TV!

Hello!!!!
This past P-day we had a meeting with all the people from the MTC. We ate completos and fruit kabobs with chocolate and it was awesome. 
One of our investigators, Jessica, is doing great! She came to church last Sunday and we had a fantastic lesson with her this past week! She has been connecting so many things herself. In our lesson, she connected with the member and noted that because the Holy Ghost makes us feel peace and tranquility, that makes us happy because we are not worried about anything. She came to church and this Sunday was the Primary Program, and she loved it. I feel so great about her and I always feel the Spirit so strongly in our lessons! I might get a little too excited sometimes because she is going so AWESOME. She's the best!!!!!!
We also received another miracle investigator this past week! Someone texted us during the week, saying her name was Lesly and she wanted to learn more about Christ. So Hna. King and I were like, "Por su PUESTO vamos a enseñarla! Cuando?!" And we met up with her and that's when I realized that I was the one who contacted her in intercambios this past week. And she wants to learn a lot and has promised to come to church next Sunday. We can also only teach her on Sundays because she is a nana who lives in her work. But she seems super ready and really open to learn anything!
Also last tidbit...we were on TV! We were crossing Subcentro (like a mini strip mall underneath the road. It's what we usually take to get across the road to one area) when I noticed that they had huge blackboards with the question: "What book do you suggest to read?" As I was going to write the Book of Mormon on the blackboard, a guy who worked for Subcentro came up to us and asked if he could film us suggesting the book to read. So we did, and told the camera to read the Book of Mormon! I didn't think anything about it after that, until on Sunday one of the members came up to me and mentioned she saw me on TV in Subcentro. A little weird, but you gotta share the gospel everywhere!
Éxito!

Hermana Reed

Intercambios, Papa Johns, and Miracles

Hola family!
This week was crazy! I felt like we only had one normal day to work in our area. we had P-day, but the following day we went on intercambios in La Dehesa, where the Hermana Entrandadores are. I was with Hermana Gonzalez that day, and we got to teach lessons, talk to people, and work hard. Nothing is better than a day of work and lessons! And Hermana Gonzalez is awesome. She used to live with me in the same apartment we had when she worked in the area next to mine.
We had a normal day to work the next day, so we taught a lesson and tried to find new people. But then the next day we had Concillo de Liderazgo, where we got o listen to our president and try to help out our zone. It was great. One thing I like is that I get to learn more from him (our president). He is a very inspired man. We also got to go with a member to teach a menos activo, and it was a very awesome lesson. Her grandma gave us juice, which is blended up fruit and was pretty good. And she was very adamant about her healthy juice and how it helps people stay healthy, so she gave us a bottle to take home. When we left, the member found out that we hadn't eaten yet, so she took us to Papa Johns and treated us to some good pizza.

The following day we had intercambios in our area with some of the Hermanas from Pocuro, which is the sector with the Santiago Temple. My companion for the day was Hermana Dariano, and she is from the Philippines. This is her first cambio in the mission, and she is learning Spanish. She has good Spanish too! She was awesome. We got to see a lot of miracles that day, like meeting a referral that we have been trying to meet for a long time! We had been trying to call him and pass by his house, but because his phone belongs to the house, it has been hard to talk to him. But we finally got to see him, give him a Book of Mormon, teach him a bit, and set up another appointment. I don't know how much I can teach him, because his wife came outside and started to ask us where we were from and about our religion, and he started responding. She asked if we had rules, and he answered saying, "Yes, they can't drink coffee or tea or alcohol. But I like that." Any other questions she asked, he answered, but he sounds like he likes us a lot. He has also been reading the Book of Mormon on his phone. We left them with a prayer, and they were very grateful.
We also had a fireside in our ward, and a lot of people and non-members got to come. We had a lunch with a great family in our ward earlier that day (who are going to move and I am so sad about it!) and told them about the charla. The mom told the daughter to invite her friend and he came! Along with the whole family. We also asked them for references, asking if they knew anybody who needed help. They mentioned their neighbors lost their abuela recently, and said they were very strong in their religion and were mentioning that they might not accept us. But then the dad remembered us and said, "They need to go visit them! I had a dream where the dad was doing family history for the abuela." So we all agreed that passing by would not hurt and we could help them with their recent loss.
It was a good week, despite not having a ton of time. Miracles still happen!
Disfruten su semana!!

Hermana Reed

General Conference

Hola familia y amigos!
This week was General Conference! So pretty much the best weekend on the mission because we get to listen to the prophet and get spiritually fed. Though I do prefer to listen to Conference in English instead of Spanish. My ward has a room for the English speakers to listen to Conference, so we get to go in there except when we have an investigator come. So the last session I watched in Spanish with one of our investigators, Jessica. There were some things that I missed (like I had no idea what the word for firecracker is in Spanish) but it was great anyway. Jessica enjoyed it and thought a lot. She's been reading the Book of Mormon and says she has felt a change in her life. Hopefully for all who listened you got to learn something new. And for those who didn't, you are always welcome to see them!
We got to have intercambios with Apoquindo B this week, and I got to spend time with Hermana Thompson from Mississippi. She's awesome. We got to teach a lesson together and save a pigeon that was stuck under a fence. So that pigeon must be pretty grateful and telling all his pigeon friends about the missionaries. 
I am really grateful for the chance that everybody has to listen to the prophet. It's amazing that we get to receive revelation as often as we do and help that we can use for our lives and our families. I know God is still a God of miracles because I see them every day on my mission. I have talked to so many people who think God has abandoned them or done awful things. I wish people could see what I see, and witness all the miracles all the miracles that happen. Miracles have not stopped in Santiago. And they haven't stopped anywhere else.
Ciao!

Hermana Reed