Serving in Santiago: :D

Hey everyone!!

It's been another great week here in Cristobal Colon! We're already in week five out of six of this transfer which just blows my mind. Hna. Vega and I have already been through so much and I feel like I've been with her forever even though I'm technically still new in this sector haha. Time is flying. I had like a kind of sureal time warp experience today haha. We went to some other hermanas apartment so they could cut my hair (yay my second trim during my whole mission haha hooray) and saw some missionaries walking down the street so we stopped to say hi. Turns out this was like their last day in Chile because they were all finishing up their missions and as we got ready to say goodbye they were like, "ahhh the last six months fly by sooooo fast!! Enjoy every second of it!!!" And I was like, "YEAH IT DOES." So that gives me anxiety haha. But not really though because Hna. Vega is teaching me a lot how to really live in the moment and absorb every bit of happiness the moment has to offer. Also I've been studying repentance a lot this week and that has really opened my eyes to a lot of things I was missing out on before. I feel like my eyes have opened up like on the Claritin Clear commercial when they peel away the fuzzy film and everything brightens up a little. IT'S SO COOL. That's what a change of heart will do for you. Aka repentance. Pride is so funny because you truly do believe you're right, but then when you open yourself to the possibility you could be wrong, and then you actually learn you were wrong, and then you change, life gets soooooo much better. But when we are still blinded by pride, we honestly think there could be nothing better than our own ideas, and we end up missing out on a whole bunch of awesome happiness. I feel like I accepted Alma's invitation in Alma 5:26. It talks about how when we experience a change of heart, we get filled with this awesome desire to just sing the song of love at the top of our lungs because we feel redeemed. Then we asks at the end, if we haven't felt that way yet, can we feel that way now?? If we have a heart and it's still beating, the answer is a yesssssss! :) As long as our clocks are still ticking, we can just go ahead and be redeemed as much as we want.

So yeah. I love the gospel. :) And I love teaching it. We had a really cool lesson this week with a girl named Jimena. She's 17 and we were explaining the plan of salvation. She had a lot of really great questions and by the end she said that she had received a lot of answers that she had been wondering about for a long time. She accepted to be baptized on Sept. 27. :)

We were also teaching Hernan this week, who was a reference from the mission office, who also accepted to be baptized. We also went on a temple tour with him this week which was really beautiful. They let visitors stand in the reception area so we just stood there for a while to look around and feel the spirit. I swear it's tangible in the temple. It was a really cool experience being there with him and getting to see it through new eyes. I think sometimes we take the temple for granted, especially if we live in Utah and there's five temple in every city haha. But by seeing the temple through the eyes of our investigators, it's really opened mine up too and I've really come to appreciate and marvel at the temples. Not only are they magnificently beautiful but they're the house of God.

Hope you guys all have an awesome week! Also go to the temple if you can because it's the best ever. Or even just to the grounds if you don't have a recommend just to sit there and feel the spirit. It's almost just as tangible in the gardens haha.

Love you guys. :)

Hermana Cannon II

1. Hna Vega hit 9 months in the mission and the baby's showing ha ha