Bye Bye Javiera Carrera

So you may have noticed that by my subject line I have finally left my old area. I am also not going to say where I am now.  You´ll just have to guess by the pictures!

I was ready to leave Javiera Carrera at any time, but this last week I felt like it was my last week there and it was the week that I most wanted not to leave. We found some great investigators that were progressing really well and had a great hunger for the gospel, and everything had improved dramatically. I wanted to stay the most, but at least I know that I am leaving my area in good hands and giving the next missionaries plenty of work to do.

And I am also sending a lot of pictures, because pictures speak louder than words and I tool a lot of pictures this past week. 

Chao!

First foto: Here was one of my investigadors, Eduardo, whom I taught and was preparing to get baptized. 

2nd: Moon picture, because it's pretty. 

3rd: Here is the family of my ward mission leader. They are the best. And the dog is the cutest and jumps like a bunny every time she sees the missionaries. 

4th: Carmen, another investigador we were teaching. She's our ward mission leader's niece. 

5th: Last picture with Hermana Hair with the best view in Santiago. 

6th Last zone picture in Javiera Carrera

7th: Generation picture! In the Charla Fogonera I got the rare opportunity to see my hija (the sister missionary I trained) Hermana Hirchack, her hija Hermana Karstulovick, and her hija´s hija Hermana Cordova. So in mission language, I am a bisabuela! I´m so old! It's so awesome. 

This week...

Hola,

Besides having the tremendous blessing of having conference here in the mission (which is the best weekend and time we get to fill our spiritual tanks) this week was a good one. 

This past Wednesday we had to be in our apartments before 6:00 at night because its the anniversary of teenagers that were killed by the government. I don't really know the story, and everybody I talk to aren't really sure what happened, but every year on this day people take advantage of the anniversary and apparently its dangerous to be out. So my companion and I did studies and worked on our carpeta de area during the time we had in our pension. I actually came into the mission field on this day a year ago, so my trainer and I moved into our apartment and had the whole night to unpack and get used to our area. 

One night we had a pretty red moon and enjoyed the view of the city.

This was in intercambios this week. I happened to be taking a picture with my camera, so that's why my arm is in front of Hermana Dariano. (She's from the Philippines!)

This is the room where all the English speaking people got to watch conference. I would say gringo, but Hermana Dariano isn't gringo and is a native English speaker. There is me, Hermana Hair, Hermana King, and our zone leaders Elder Moròn and Elder Dahneke, who made cookies for us. 

We have a charla fogonera that we are preparing for Principe de Paz. My companion and I are singing in two of the songs, so I will let you guys know how that turns out. Its supposed to be a very special themed charla fogonera, and my companion and I are inviting a lot of people to come. 

Pictures por fin!

Hola!

We had cambios again, and I am still in the same area but now I have a new companion named Hermana Hair. She is also from Utah, also from a family of seven, who also did choir, and a lot of other things that we seem to have in common. She seems awesome and I am super excited to see how we work together in the area. And for those who are wondering, yes I am still in the same area that I have been for a while now. Next week I will complete one year in the mission and its gone by really fast. 

This week we had a meeting with the area seventy President Jose Teixeira and it was awesome and inspired the whole mission to work even harder. As leaders, we also had another meeting before where he instructed us how to be good leaders and it was also awesome. He taught us a new way to teach and help find people that I had never done before in the mission. We left from that meeting feeling inspired and put what he said into practice, which was awesome. We were able to have a lot of success from that. 

And now I have a cord for my camera to send pictures! Enjoy!

We had lunch with the young women's president, her mom, and her friend. She is the best!

My companion saying goodbye to our investigators.

Our president wants us to have a new logo, and here is an example from one of our missionaries.