How´s it going? So yeah if you guys have stuff that you would like from Chile just let me know. Thanks mom for trying with all of my requests, you´re awesome.
So this week was really really good. We are finding a lot of really good investigators, the only problem is that they are only home on the weekends, so its really hard to teach them as often as we would like. So this week all the missionaries from my mission and the mission Santiago East had a conference with...Elder Cook! The apostle! It was really cool and we all got to shake his hand. And then yesterday we had a special stake conference and guess who showed up, Elder Cook again! And, we had four investigators at the conference, which is really good because it is a lot harder to get people to travel to the Stake Center. But one of our investigators that we have been working really hard with totally went up and met Elder Cook. Yeah! It was pretty cool, but then that night she went to the doctor because her knee was hurting a lot, probably because we dragged her to the conference in the subway and then in a make-shift mini-bus, but she met an apostle!
Another really cool thing that happened this week. So we had a couple that we taught only one time. The son of the lady was baptized when he was 8, but then never went and now he is 21 and drinks, and smokes, and pretty much breaks any of the commandments that you can think of. But his parents really wanted him to get back into church because they are sick of everything and kind of what him to have purpose to his life. So they contacted us on the street about two months ago and we taught them a little tiny lesson, but then we could never really find them again. So we called the dad, his name is Jorge, a few days ago and set up an appointment, but when we showed up no one was home, but we called his phone and he said that he was coming around the corner. So when he showed up he was in pretty bad shape. He started telling us a little about all that had been going on with his life and how everything is going wrong, he didn´t give a lot of details, but he was weeping the whole time. He had written notes to his family and he was thinking about commiting suicide. We sang and prayed and talked about the atonement and in the end of the lesson he said that he felt peaceful. We talked a lot about the love that God has for him and how he knows what he is going through. I didn´t really fully understand that he was thinking about suicide until after the lesson when the member (one of the young men) that we had with us was totally in awe.
I think what really stood out to me about the whole situation is that God knows his children and guides us as missionaries. As we have been dropping all of our investigators the last few weeks, for some reason we didn´t with this family. We kept calling and trying to pass by. And more than that, our schedule was jam-packed for that day, but because we got out of our conference with Elder Cook early, we were able to help this man. And more than that, usually the sister missionaries cannot enter with just a man unless there is another woman present, but because we are in a trio we were able to enter and to really help this man. It was just really cool to see the way the God prepares the way for us to help his children. I know that we are here as missionaries to help God with his work, it is His work, not ours; we are just instruments in his hands. God knows every one of his children and what they need and when.
Well, I am out of time. I just ordered new garments online, so you don´t have to worry about that. Oh, and before I forget, HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM! And just so you know, Bridger and Dad, I did not forget your birthdays, I just never remembered when I was doing internet, but I love you guys and was thinking about you all day on your birthdays! I am working on sending you guys a letter from Chile it should get there soon. Love you all!
Hermana Evans
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