First off, I really loved all of your emails for this week. It made me really happy. I can´t believe that Ethan is home already, I kind of just thought that while I was on my mission the world would just stand still until I got back, but apparently not. So before I forget, here is my address of the apartement where we live, it is called Las Torres Condominiums Travesia 6988 Pudahuel, Chile. Oh, and you can also look up the ward where I am assigned to on LDS.org, you just enter Los Mares Ward and it will come up with the our church and you can see my sector and everything. It won´t show you the boundaries so I will just tell you those. Left of the church there is a road called Tte. Cruz follow that down to the road Los Pajaritos (Gladys Marin Marie), follow that road to highway 68, follow that to the left until you hit a little street called Jorge Pratt, from there downward to Laguna Sur, then back to Tte. Cruz.
Well, that was a long description of how to find my sector, but I thought it was pretty cool. Now you guys can see where I walk every day.
Anyways, so this week was pretty good. President has changed the way that all the Hermanas do intercambios. Now there is only one companionship of Hermanas that does intercambios with all of the Hermanas in the mission. My old companion Hermana Martinez and the Hermana Aguilar are the ones doing them. Also the intercambios last 2 days instead of just one. So this week Hermana Martinez was here with me and Hermana Sampson and Hermana Hadlock left for another sector for a couple days. It was pretty good, mostly I am just really grateful that I had Hermana Martinez as a companion before, because I realized a lot of how I teach is from her and she is pretty awesome. She did tell me that my spanish has gotten a lot worse than since I was with her. Which makes me super super sad, because I have been trying so hard, but my both my companions know less spanish that I do, so my accent and my grammar and everything has gone downhill because I have been listening to their spanish all day. Ugh...I will just try to work even harder.
This week we dropped a few of our investigators. And harder than that we had a few of our investigators drop us. That was really hard for me, but you just have to remember that it wasn´t because of you that they didn´t recieve the gospel. We are here to invite people to come unto Christ, but not everyone is going to accept. It reminds me a lot of Conference, they talked a lot about how God wants to bless us, but we have to do our part first by obeying and asking for his help. If we are not obeying and asking we are in the same boat as our investigators, who are just not willing to accept the blessings that God wants for us.
Dropping investigators is so hard, because you really grow to care about the people you are teaching, but you just have to trust that God is preparing someone else who is actually ready to accept the gospel.
Oh so just a little memo, remember the story about the guy who put the towel over his head to pray? Last night we commited him and his wife to be baptized, and they accepted! It was actually really cool, because when we showed up they were completely different. They read the pamphlet of the restoration like three times and they had read the introduction and the testimonios in the front of the book of mormon. It was so cool. The gospel softens peoples hearts and changes them!!!
This week I am going to start forming a list of things that I would like you to send me. I know its really expensive to send boxes to Chile, so I haven´t wanted to ask for anything, but I´m really starting to need a few things. For example, they don´t sell razor heads here in Chile, so I have been using the same one since I left the MTC and it is starting to rust, gross, huh. Also, the Hermana in our ward that washes our clothes is really really good and getting them clean which is better than my other sectors where they come back dirtier than they left, but she really really likes our garments to be spot-free. So she lets them soak in bleach for like a day and then washes them, so needless to say, my garments are being eaten away by bleach. They have lost all of their elastic and they are pretty much transparent. Which is kind of nice now that it is hotter than hot, but I don´t think they are going to last much longer. We tryed using another Hermana in the ward for a week to wash our clothes, but somehow she found out and kind of got offended. So point of the story, I am going to need garments pretty soon. But this week I will make a list of all the things that I would like you to send so you can do it all in one package.
Family, I love you!! You are so awesome!
Hermana Evans
PS. Mom, good luck with your talk! Sorry I didn´t really put in anything super profound!
Also, my health is doing great right now! No se precupe!
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