In the mission I´ve found the key to happiness. I´ve found out what true happiness is and also how to achieve and maintain it. Happiness is a clear conscience before God and the way to achieve and maintain it is faith in Christ and continual and immediate repentance. There are a ton of other things I´ve learned, but I think that´s probably the most broad and all consuming.
Well as far as this week is concerned, not a lot happened. We pretty much don´t have anyone progressing. It´s really frustrating. We have a lot of investigators, but none of them are really progressing or excited about the Gospel. I think part of the problem is that we have so many that we´re spreading ourselves really thin and aren´t giving anyone the time and attention that they need to progress. I´m trying to do better at narrowing things down, but the changes aren´t happening the way I´d like them to. I´ve got to admitt I lost a bit of faith and had kindof a bad attitude this week, but I´m doing my best to be better and more positive. We went on divisions twice this week to try to get more done. It´s freezing here. It´s been snowing, which is really fun, but has also given me a bit of a cold. That reminds me, I have become hooked on herbal tea since I´ve gotten to Chile. Yeah, mom, don´t judge me. When I went on my first intercambio in Ovejeria, there was herbal tea and I thought to myself, well if the mission allows it, I´m pretty sure it can´t be against the word of wisdom. Anyway, I´m hooked now. It´s good though because with so much cold it´s hard to drink a lot of water unless it´s hot water. The herbal tea helps me stay hydrated.
Oh yeah! I almost forgot, Tuesday I went on intercambios with Hermana Moss! It was really fun to teach with her again and see how much we´ve each grown as missionaries since the MTC! The zone leaders said we´ll probably be doing it again this Tuesday, I´m excited!
OH! I just remembered. I don´t know if I ever mentioned Juan Carlos in Osorno. I think I was in my first cambio, maybe my second, but I remember walking down the street and saying... let´s knock this door. It ended up being Juan Carlos. We only got a chance to teach him a couple of times before I left, but I remember him telling us that he felt like he had faith that he never had before and we had opened a new window for him in his relatioship with God (He had told us when we knocked on his door, that he didn´t really have much of a concept of who or what God was). Anyway, through a series of phone calls, I recieved a call on Saturday letting me know that he was getting baptized that very day! That was a cool feeling.
One of the guys in our ward is headed to the MTC in Provo this week to head to Mosambique. We had a goodbye party for him on Friday. If any of you would like to follow his adventure, he has a blog. Oscargoestoafrica.blogspot.com
The other Hermanas, Oscar, Hermana Contreras and I are learning how to make a new kind of bread with our mamita today. I´m going to come home with a ton of bread recipes. That´s a big thing here.
I forgot my camera today, but I´ll be sending pictures of ice skating and us playing in the snow soon. I love reading Scott and Bekah´s e-mails and hearing about all of their awesome adventures. If you guys are reading this, I´m really proud of you and brag about you to everyone here all the time! Keep up the good work!
Love you all,
Hermana Gebara
