Well, this week I will complete 1 year in Chile! How crazy is that? So this week was pretty fantástico! 

So to start off I have a funny story for you guys, so we had an investigator called Marta. She is 73 or 74 years old. She doesn´t really know which because her identification says 74 but she almost positive she is only 73. So anyways, we had been teaching her for a little bit and she had a baptismal date for the end of this month. I was almost positive that she was going to be baptized because she kind of had a spark in her that you could really see changing when we talked about the gospel. Anyways, so we passed by for our appointment and she told us "hey, I can´t listen right now because I am getting ready to leave." So of course I thought to myself "Okay that's fine we can come back tomorrow", but no, she left for the south of Chile and she is going to be there for at least a month. It was just kind of funny because it was so sudden. Like well, I guess you´re not going to be baptized this month. But we told her to bring her Book of Mormon and to read it when she is in the south. 

So I have a sad story now, so I was so excited to wear my new tights that you guys just sent me, and so I was walking along super content, we visited a member and guess what. Their dog bit my leg! And he put two teeth marks in my brand new tights and the teeth marks started to run before I even got home. I was so upset! But looking on the bright side. I have been in Chile for almost a year and this is the first time that I have been bitten by a dog. It didn´t break the skin or anything just my brand-new tights. 

So Gusavo was confirmed yesterday, and the elders in our ward had a baptism, her name is Mery Mesa. It was super cool. She is 19 and doesn´t have the support of her parents at all. So after she was baptized my companion and I were in the bathroom talking to her a little bit as she was changing into dry clothes. She said she couldn´t stop smiling. She asked us how old we were when we got baptized. She was a little bit sad that it seems like everyone else was raised in the church but her parents don´t even want to support her. I told her about you mom, how you got baptized at 19 as well and how your story was super similar and she was a lot happier. I told her that because of he decision of my mom all of our family could be raised in the gospel and how now she, Mery Mesa has the same opportunity and responsibility. She was really excited. 

So there is a guy in our sector called Hermano Luis Naranjo, his wife got baptized 2 years ago and his daughter just a little bit more than 1 year ago, he has gone to church every week since his wife started investigating the Church, but is still not baptized. Most of the members think that he is already a member because he goes to all of the activities and everything. Including the other day we were at the church for our Correlation meeting with the ward mission leader and when we left Hno Naranjo was sitting in the bishop´s office just chatting with all of the members. He is super bueno. But what we have been able to discover about the reason is that before he and his wife even met the missionaries he had a really good friend who was a member and was always talking with Hermano Naranjo about the church and eternal families and everything, The missionaries started passing by to teach the Hermana Naranjo, but Hermano Naranjo wasn´t sure, so Hermana Naranjo told him to go talk to his friend. The idea behind this is that his friend would be super happy and help him to find the surety. Well, so Hermano Naranjo went to visit his friend who was a member and found that his friend had gotten divorced, started drinking, and was jobless. Well, that didn´t exactly help Hermano Naranjo feel sure about a decision to get baptized. Instead now he has an immense fear that he will fall after getting baptized. It also doesn´t help that in this ward there are 2 families that were super strong in the gospel as well that are now in the process of separating. Just shows how important our example is as saints. So anyways, the point of this story, my companion and I have a plan that we have developed called "Satan vs. Hno. Naranjo". We really feel as though he needs to be baptized in 2 weeks, I will let you guys know how it goes. 

I have also been using a lot of my skills that I learned as a nursery leader lately. We are teaching a family that has 11 people. It is three sisters and all of their kids, all but two of whom are older that 8. It is super loco a veces. And the worst part is that the parents are sometimes the worst. But with a few tricks about reverence that I learned in nursery things are getting much better and I think we may be able to have a baptism of a super grande family. It is kind of cool though to see the light of Christ work in them though. When they read the scriptures and say their prayers you can tell immediately a difference just by the light in their eyes and also how well they behave, it is incredible the difference and how evident it is. Just shows how important it is to do the little things. 

Well, i have got to go! I hope everything goes well at camp this week mom and Bridger. I´ll be praying for you guys. 
Love you all!
Hermana Evans

PS. My headaches have started to come back super strong. I´m still not sure what I´m going to do about that, for right now I am just taking a lot of ibuprofen. Just so you are aware. Love you.