Milagros!

Soooo!!! Hello everybody! I have just been reprimanded by my sister to write more detailed letters, so here we go haha.

This week was my first with my new trainer! Hermana Flores! She is super awesome, in a lot more ways than one. First off, she doesn´t know English!! haha my Spanish is going to have to improve now! It´s cool becuase only hearing Spanish all day has really switched my brain over. In just a few days I started being able to understand so much more. It helps a lot becuase even if I can´t speak perfectly, I can at least understand what they´re problem is and offer the words that I can. I have absolutly no fear to speak or make mistakes in my speech, and so I´m learning at the speed of lightning now. It´s good becuase we´re all thinking that, if not the next cambio, then the one after that, I will be training a new missionary. We´re getting over 30 in 5 weeks and there´s barely enough sisters to train them all. So pray for me! Hermana Flores is also really cool becuase she doesn´t have any fear to speak her mind either. She knows exactly what this person needs to do to progress more and if they´re not doing it shes not afraid to tell them they could do better! She´s like the sister missionary version of Elder Holland. I´m learning a ton about how to teach better, how to work better with the members, how to manage time, and it´s exactly what I need. Hermana Kleinmen and I were super awesome friends. She´s the most giving, happy, christlike person I have ever met, and she helped me get aclamated to Chile and helped me learn to love it. Now it´s time for me to really get down to business haha. Also, sorry for all the spelling errors. I don´t have a spell check and spanish has ruined the tiny amount of ability I had to speak properly. My mother will be so dissapointed.

We found Pablo!! Almost 3 weeks ago we extended the invitation to him to obey the word of wisdom, which he accepted. But since that lesson we hadn´t been able to find him again. We knocked and called and knocked and searched, but there´s a fine line of worrying about a person you care about and accepting their agency/not wanting to over do it and be an annoyance. Pablos brother is always super rude to us when we stop by and I was thinking that maybe he was telling Pablo to stop meeting with us. BUT! I called Pablo last night in one final attempt to contact him and he answered the phone!! We have an appointment with him on Wednesday and I´m praying with all my heart that we can see him again and talk. We called right before it was time to pray for bed and I couldn´t talk, I was crying so hard with joy that we had finally reached him. He really is an amazing person and I know Heavenly Father wants him to be a part of this church, a church he knows is true and has a testimony of. WOO!!! Milagros!!!!

Also, conference was flipping awesome. Elder Hollands talk was exactly what I needed. What a great opportunity we all have to be able to listen to a prophets voice, to hear the words of God and to know exactly what it is that our heavenly family want us to do. I love you all so much and I hope you have a great week! Chao!!


Sister Ashlee Bowling
♥ from Chile