Courtney's Week #74

Hola!

Just a question before I get started, Hunter, who is Evangeline? 

And Yes Dad, I would be happy to talk on the 21st. Are we going to have a huge party the night before with lots of Chilean food or something? That would be really cool...hint hint. Hermana Wilcock will be there!

So just an update on my armpit, it is not that bad. It doesn´t really pus that much or anything. But it is getting bigger. The doctor for the mission couldn´t figure out what it is so he wants to send me to another dermatoligist to get a shave biopsy and a culture done. They can´t figure out if it is bacteria or fungus. But, the problem is the mission can´t find a dermatologist available until the 26th of September. That is a very long time away, but oh well. I did have a thought though. So last night I was sorting through the bag of medicines and stuff that I brought with me from Utah and I found Athlete´s foot cream. I have never used it and so it was still sealed and everything, but I thought to myself, if I have a fungus this is bound to help. So, now I am putting Athlete´s foot cream on my armpit--we will see what happens with that. 

So, this week has been pretty good, Guillermo did not get baptized yesterday. He had to work, but he is still struggling a little bit to have the faith to drop his girlfriend. But we have set a new goal for this week. 

So we have an investigator called Karen, she is really receptive. She is living with a return missionary, Nestor, who went inactive for a little bit, they have a six month old daughter and now Nestor is trying to put his life in back in order. The first time that we passed by Karen told us that she likes what she has seen of the church because she had noted that when they say their prayers together as a family that there is a big differnce. Well, that was a couple weeks ago, and this week we invited her to pray and we found out that she has never ever prayed before. She told us that when they pray as a family that Nestor always offers the prayer. We were so shocked and surprised and we also felt a little bit silly that we didn´t even realize that she had never ever prayed before. But we are excited so that she can open this communication with her Heavenly Father. 

This next week we are going to have cambios. I am a little sad, but a little bit relieved also. I love Hermana Ruiz and I have learned a lot from this experience of training her, but I am excited to have a companion that is not so emotionally and physically exhuasting for me. But it has been a fantastic experience and a great opportunity to learn and grow, and also to help Hermana Ruiz in the best way that I can. This last week she ate pepperoni pizza for the first time in her life. She has had a ton of "first times" here in Chile and it has been great to help her with that. 

Love you all!

Hermana Evans