Wow!!!! So much happened this week!!!! I don't even know
where to start!
First off, Happy New Year! New years here was pretty great.
Here in Tocopilla lots of people build "monos" and at midnight they
burn them. On New Years Eve a member drove us around Tocopilla to look at some
of the monos. Some of them are huge! A member brought us a traditional new
years dinner to the pension and Hna. Challco and I ate our midnight dinner
together. At midnight Tocopilla was covered in fire. There were fires
everywhere, and also fireworks, and wish lanterns. I don't know how Tocopilla
didn't burn down to be honest. But it was a fun experience. The not so fun
experience was not sleeping because there were music and fireworks all
night.
On January 1st Tocopilla was empty, all day! I counted and
we walked past 22 people in the street, in total....There was nobody. Somehow
we managed to have a few lessons though which was good.
On Wednesday I officially became a "mamita" and I
am so excited to be training! It will be a great experience and I will learn so
much. On Wednesday I went to Antofagasta and we had a few meetings with President Dalton. It
was fun to be there because 2 hnas from my group are also training, and also
Hna. Clawson and Roldan!!! We were only missing Hna. Espinoza and we would have
had all the Costanera Hermanas there! When all the greenies walked in...one of
them had on the same dress. I just pretended not to be embarrassed...we had a
little "MCA who wore it better". (just kidding, and anyways, Hna. Pebble wore it
better. But maybe they should start doing that in the mission news letter. Just
like the magazines)
I will be training Hna. Challco. She is from Cuzco, Peru and
is a convert of 2 years. She is super soft spoken, really humble, and the
sweetest. I will learn a lot. We get along really well which is great.
As far as the work goes:
-On Monday and Tuesday I worked with Fernanda, a member here
in Tocopilla. She served her mission in Utah! It was fun she talked in English
the whole time, and I spoke in Spanish! We had 2 days full of miracles and
found 8 new investigators!!!
-Darinkat and Jacqueline aren't progressing which is a
bummer. All our appts with Darinkat have fallen through but we will keep trying
-But....as of right now we will be having a baptism on the
16th!!!! His name is Manuel and he found us! Miracles!!! We had 4 lessons with
him this week, he has been to an FHE with the YSA, and came to church
yesterday. He has faced a lot of challenges in his life but is so willing to
change! In just 7 days I have seen him change so much! I am so excited for him.
The other day we also went to teach a lesson and his grandma sat in and
listened. She told us that she found Manuels BOM the other day, so she started
reading it. She told us that its better than the Bible and that she wants to
keep reading. I have so much faith that we can help both of them
progress!!!
-We also are going to start teaching a woman named Diana
this week and her son. Her mother in law is a member and Diana is an old
investigator. She recently got married so now she can be baptized! We found her
on new years when we decided to pass by as a plan z. Long story short, we ended
up eating BBQ with them, sharing a scripture, and committing her and her son to
be baptized! I left pretty happy. Hopefully we will see progress with her!
I hope you all have a great new year and keep up the good
work with your resolutions!!!
Love,
Hermana Freedman
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