Serving in Santiago: First week as a trainer!

I didn't die!!! haha. This has actually been like the best week ever. I think I've learned more in this week alone than like my entire first two changes.

My companion is awesome! Her name is Hermana Gil, from Peru, and is 26 years old. She knows toooons about the scriptures, which is a huge help to me haha--I'm still working on that part. It's been fun learning stuff about Peru and talking Spanish 24/7. Also I'm helping her learn Enlgish which has been super fun! She's great. :)

Had a great lesson with Ana last Thursday! She said she wants to get baptized, and that she will when she is ready. So we're just gonna keep teaching her and praying like crazy!

Jorge says he's still waiting for a sign/message that says it's okay for him to go ahead and get baptized. Usually we leave him with chapters to read that we think will help him with that. But this week, I challenged him to sit down, pray, ask God for a message, and then look for it in the scriptures. He said he would do it. I'm super interested to see how it goes. We'll find out when we visit him tomorrow.

Contacting is fun. :) I saw this dude just chillin on a bench close to the apartment of a menos activo, so I stopped and asked him if I could give him a picture of Christ. He said of course! (sometimes people just run away and say they don't have time haha so he was nice). Then we got talking and I told him how we were here because we wanna talk to people about God and how to be happy and find salvation, and he was super cool and receptive to the whole thing. Turns out he was just about to move though and still didn't have his address so we couldn't get his info. So I said that's okay and asked if we could say a prayer with him. In it I thanked God for the little moment he gave me to get to know my new friend and if God could bless him. After the prayer he smiled, shook my hand, and said super sincerely that the prayer helped him feel a lot better. Ahhhh I just love those moments. And you don't have to have a nametag to make cool connections like that. ;) hint hint.

So yeah week one as a trainer has been a success! Thank you soooo much for your prayers. I needed them LOTS. God is showing me my weaknesses big time haha but it doesn't discourage me. It motivates me. I hope you can feel my prayers too! Love you!

Hermana Cannon II