Serving in Santiago: WHOA chills conference

Helllooooooo!!! :)

This was such an awesome week. Me and Hermana Andersen decided that we needed to make a miracle poster and at the end of the day right down the biggest miracle that happened.

I can't remember them all haha but one big one was that a less active family came back to church for the first time in years yesterday! In our mission we're supposed to work 1/3 investigators, 1/3 new converts, and 1/3 less active members. Not sure how other missions are but I'm just guessing that we work with less active members a lot more than other missions. And it might be my favorite part. Okay I don't think I have a favorite haha but I just love helping people discover what is holding them back from discovering Christ and then working with them and helping them overcome that, and then seeing them change and become happier.

So basically conference was AMAZING and answered the prayers I hadn't even said outloud yet. How does that work??? I'd like to know but I never will haha. That's okay. I like mysteries.

But anyways I've been focusing a lot lately on how I can make my mission become part of my life and make my life become my mission. Or in other words, how to be more sincere and honest in my service. We had a lesson with Isabel last week, a less active member, and we were talking about Christ's disciples in the Bible and she expressed frustration and disgust towards pretty much all of Christ's disciples because they didn't ban together and save Christ from being crucified. That made me think. Idk how the situation was back then so I'm totally not judging Christ's disciples, but her comments made me wonder what I would've done in that situation. So I dug deep and decided that during conference, I needed to find out how I can become a TRUE disciple of Jesus Christ. I don't wanna be a lame one or a flaky one.... I want to love Him enough so that nothing can stop me from standing up for Him. And for these modern times, it looks like we're only gonna need to do that in social situations, which sometimes prove to be the hardest. So that's my goal! I want to get really good at that during my mission so that when I get home it will just be part of me. I wanna let myself become His defender. And the Sunday sessions gave me a lot of ideas on how I can do that.

I love you guys so so much. :) You're in my prayers and today when I was walking home from the grocery store, the hot sun and the weight of the groceries was kind of irritating me but then I looked at the sky, pictured the earth, and realized that I was close to my family because we are both on the western hemisphere. And that made me smile. :)

All my heart,

Hermana Cannon II

Saying goodbye to Elder McGary who was an AP and my friend from BYU before the mission