Well, before I forget, we just got more information about calls for Christmas. For all of the gringos, you guys are supposed to call us. So if anyone needs the calling card its you guys. I´m supposed to send you the number to call, which I do not have yet because I we are not sure which one of the members we are going to be with for Christmas. We can use skype, which is free, or I will try to get the number of whoever we are going to be with for the navidad. We only have 40 minutes to talk, and our calls have to be finished by 5 o´clock Chile time, which I think is 1 o´clock in the afternoon there. Questions? Oh, I really think that skype might be a lot cheaper (free) and easier, so if you guys could make a skype account that would be great, add me as a friend on there, my username is just courtneygraceevans.
So I have been pretty down on myself lately because I haven´t felt as though I am the missionary that I should be and I couldn´t figure out why. I´ve been working hard and being obedient and everything, but I just didn´t really feel like a real missionary. We had intercambios this week with the Hermana Martinez, my old companion, and she was with us for one day and pin-pointed it out for me. She sent me a little note on the back of the chocolate wrapper that I had given her that said, in spanish of course, "Hermana Evans, Thanks for the delicious chocolate, continue working hard and remember, without love we won´t see any miracles." I started getting a little bit teary-eyed, right in the middle of planning. I realized right then and there that that was what I was missing. As I walked through the street that day, I thought to my self, "Do I love these people that are walking all around me?" Nope, not really. Somewhere in my mission I lost the love and charity for the people around me...for the chileans, for my companions, and for myself.
So that is my story of how I realized that I´m not a very good missionary, but this story is going to be a cliff-hanger because I haven´t quite figured out the solution yet. All I know is that I am studying and praying so hard to have that amor again, because it´s true, we´re not going to see any miracles without love.
Hey, I got my package last Tuesday. I was probably the happiest missionary in the world! Thank you so much for everything! You guys are the greatest.
So right now we have a lot of really great investigators, but only one of them has a baptisimal date, Maria Soledad. She is the one who falls asleep in church a little. Funny Story about that really quick, this week we bought her a bar of chocolate and gave it to her to try to help her stay awake, but the funniest part is Hermana Sampson was sitting next to her and fell asleep more than Maria Soledad! It was so funny.
Oh, so we had an appointment to pass by for Maria Soledad at 7:30 last night. As we were walking to her house, we found her in the street with one of her friends who I´ve seen before and I knew has negative feelings towards the church. Maria Soledad was just telling her friend about Joseph Smith and the whole story of the restoration, and all of the things that we had taught her. It was so cool to see her so excited to share what little she knew with her friend. She would tell her friend something and then she would turn to us to make sure that she was right. It was so cool, but her friend didn´t want to hear anything and they went off to the house of her friend to eat once, which is like a small dinner that they have here. We changed our appointment to 8:30, but then when we got there she wasn´t there, we taught her husband a quick little lesson than we left. We were so worried, because if we didn´t find her that night we were going to see her for like 4 days and her baptism is this week. We said a little prayer in the street and then we decided to walk in the direction of the house of her friend. As we were on our way, Hermana Sampson had a strange impression to knock the door of an old lady. It was kind of out of nowhere, but we did, and as we were there Maria Soledad passed by. We walked with her to her house. She had all sorts of crazy anti-mormon ideas, but we were able to help and teach her, and she is all excited for her baptism this week. It was really intense, but so cool.
Well, I´m out of time. Love you guys.
Hermana Evans
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