Anyways!
Last
week was Chile´s Independence day! 18th of September. Yep. Everyone
went wildddd!!! Our ward even had a Fonda (huge fiesta thing) that
started at 11 am and went until 11 pm. There was tons of food and a
bounce house and music and dancing! It was awesome! We got to go for a
couple of hours. There was actually a whole table of non members there
so we got all their info! Hopefully we´ll get some good lessons out of
that!
But yeah it was a good day. We also
taught tons of lessons that day which I was especially happy about
because I was worried everyone would be out partying. But some weren´t!
Miracles. :)
Ohhhh my gosh we had an awesome
REN meeting this week. (Reunion de Nuevos--meeting for newbies). Our
mission president invited an investigator to come. She stood up at the
pulpit and told us all about her journey finding her faith, meeting the
missionaries, and setting a baptismal date. Then we got the chance to
ask her questions. We asked questions about what were the good things
the missionaries did that helped her make the decision to come unto
Christ. The idea was that we could learn from her experience and apply
those things to ourselves. She was AWESOME. Someone asked, "one of our
investigators is having a hard time making the social change into our
church. Their family doesn´t approve or support them and their friends
laugh at them." Then she went on to say that her family isn´t very
supportive either and some of her friends make fun of the Mormon church.
But she just realizes that they haven´t felt what she has felt, so she
forgives them. She said that she just remembers what she learned from
Jesus through the Book of Mormon, and that keeps her going.
Wow.
Talk about a testimony rooted in the scriptures. She´s inspiring. Made
me want to work on that myself. It´s true--everything we need is in the
sciptures. Because Christ is in the scriptures. We can apply His
principles to any situation in our lives and follow His example.
Also--holy
cow I have never studied the scriptures like I am doing now as a
missionary. All the stories are coming to life and I´m realizing that
these things really did happen. That´s what the spirit tells me and it´s
awesome. Plus they´re a lot easier to understand in Spanish--as weird
as that sounds haha. They just say everything more straight forward.
So
yeah overall it´s been a great week. :) Oh except Jorge from last
week--the one that said he was gonna come to church--didn´t come. :( We
even speed walked all the way to his house to pick him up but he said he
had to work. :( We´re praying so hard for him. He´s such a great guy.
Love
you guys so much! Thanks for all the love and support. It helps more
than you know. I always have a prayer in my heart for each of you. :)
xoxo,
Hna Cannon II
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| Sorry these captions are non existent. Sarah didn't tell what she wanted them to say. |
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| This one she did write: They are my family while I´m here. :) love them so much |
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| This one needs no caption! A Pablo Picasso Mural!! Wow!!! |
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