December 1-10, 2018

So to start off we decided to have a fast as a district and as such (it seems that every time during a fast, things get harder and worse) we had a really bad day on Thursday. All the interviews that I was going to do in our district fell through except for one that I was doing to someone in the hermanas sector who didn't want to live the ley de castidad. Well, I can tell you that it didn't turn out. So many things went wrong. When we finished, we went to the sand dune behind and me and Elder Burton yelled at the top of our lungs, but not in a despairing way, but just a way to give us animo because everything was out of our control and there are just days like that. After we yelled we said a prayer and headed back to the sector. We got back to our sector just in time to the interview in our sector and the miracle happened and we got a baptism! Roberto is a cool guy and is proud that he is ex-military, so we tried on his uniform.

My hijito is also pure fuego. He went up to contact this family and we won over their confidence. We passed by and joked that we were there to clean the bathroom and the uncle who was the least receptive invited us in. We read 3 nefi 11 together and it opened up his heart a little, and then they went back again on intercambio and they taught Plan de salvacion and he was really receptive. Gospel softens hearts. Also, his 2 nieces were able to make it to church. TA. Also saw some miracles through the crazys in our sector giving us information so that we could find a friend. We found her and were a ble to do an entrevista. So a really good week with a hard spot no mas.

We also did service this week. We went to go paint the church but ended up teaching English Class instead because they canceled the class late and student s showed up expecting a class but we still took a picture with a brand new paint roller to show our intent haha.

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Oct. 3 -Oct. 10 Week 8

Hello Everyone I have had a great week and I hope it was the same for ya'll. I completed 3 months in the mission last week and to celebrate I ate a delicious churasco. Hoy día we went up to the Morro that is here in Arica and that was just fantastic. It had some great views but I also realized how brown it is here. There really is a limited amount of green. I learned a lot about patience this week with myself. I have noticed that I am still in the beginning of the mission and there is time. I received a really personal impression from the Spirit during this week and that has given me a lot of comfort and peace. My testimony of the fact that God knows us and helps us as we strive to develop and learn more has grown so much since coming out. It isn´t always easy, but when it is easy I get complacent, and that is not why we are here. We are here to grow and progress! We ha...

December 24 - 31, 2018

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January 8 - January 14, 2019

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