My week in some pictures

Hello all!

This week was a great week because of all the things we got to learn! 

First we had a zone conference, and it was a pretty awesome one. It was focused on the scripture in Alma 37:6-7, on teaching simply, which is what we have been doing this past cambio. It works by the way. I have a lot of proof of it in my sector. 

We also had concilio de liderazgo (Leadership Council) in our mission presidents house. They taught again how to teach simply and everybody bore testimony of how its been helping our areas. This is about my 10th concillio, and maybe my 4th or 5th in his house. Our President likes to have us in his house and I realized this past council that it may be our last one in his house. We always have it outside in his backyard, and in the summer its nice, but recently its been really cold. This past Friday was the coldest day of the week, and we happened to have concilio that day. My companion forgot to bring a jacket and by the end of it we were running home to put a coat on. It was so cold!

Also this past Saturday we went to the temple with a menos activo and her family to go to the devotional of Principe de Paz (the Prince of Peace). There were special prepared musical numbers and they showed us a preview of the video that the church has prepared for Easter. At the end was the best, because they passed a balloon to everyone in the audience, and we tied a card of Principe de Paz at the end of it with a note of a principle of the gospel. Everybody let go of their balloons at the same time and we all watched them fly up and away into the Santiago sky.

 Everybody loved it. Right after we came back to our area and went straight to the general women's conference.

Have a great week!

Singing

Hola,

So this week was awesome. Hermana Hair and I have been working a lot in teaching, helping our investigadors with what they need and so on. We are teaching a very special family and this weekend in particular they have been waiting for one of their daughters (who is going to get married soon) to have a baby. She's overdue, so every time we meet with them, they tell us about the stress of waiting for their daughter to have the baby. We are also praying that the baby will come soon so everybody can be healthy and well. 

We had concillio de liderazgo this past week, which was great as usual. Our mission president is really funny and very caring of us. During one part of the meeting, we were talking about teaching simply when I shared that we could sing with our investigadors, no matter what our talent is. Our president smiled and told the meeting that when he was deciding on transfers, he said as he put Hermana Hair and my picture together and he "felt peace, and I could almost feel the music." Hermana Hair also sings well, by the way. We both felt very complimented about what he said, but when he continued saying that he could see us singing in every house, Hermana Hair and I talked later and said, "Well we need to start doing that!"

So we started doing it, and have seen a lot of miracles sharing our talents with everybody. 

I would like to write more, but I ran out of time and my computer is slow. Exito!

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