We´ve had quite a number of mini miracles happen to us. One being that we have found una familia de ORO!! They´re from Peru and they have been reading the pamphlets we´ve left with them and understanding to the point where the husband, looking straight at us without the pamphlet for a reference told us the steps of prayer. We, after sharing the restorationwhich is the first lesson we generally share with people we´re beinging to teach, invited him to pray and know if what we had taught is true. AND HE DID IT!! I love the Chilenos, don´t get me wrong, but every single time we invite them to pray they put up a fight and say "nooo, mejor que no. Ustedes lo hacen mejor." -_- But this guy was so humble and he just kneeled down and opened up his heart to the lord and asked for the well being of his family who aren´t so well off right now (trying to get on your feet in a new country seems like an arduous process), and it was just an awesome prayer. At the end he looked at us and said, "That was my first kneeling prayer. And my first without reciting (that one prayer that catolics always say)." We asked how he felt and he said the spirit was so strong and so special and different. We´ve got it tentativly planned for them to be baptzied in January. They really are so amazing, and so we´ve started putting all our effort into studying and helping them understand why what we share is important.
Last week while knocking on doors we ran into a little old lady who was sitting outside. We started chatting and asked if we could sing a christmas carol with her, so she let us in and had us sit down on her couch. After a few songs we starting getting to know her, and it turns out this woman is loca. She starts telling us about all of the crazy experiences she´s had with seeing devils and weird lights and just all kinds of crap. So we get out of that house looking at each other like "What the heck." We went again and tried to teach her a little big of the restoration, and the same thing happened where she talked so much about random horrible experiences she´s had. Finally at the end, we were both like, theres got to be something we can do here. We´re not going to give up so easily. So we asked her, Ema, do you want to feel peace in your life and in your home? Do you want these things to stop happening to you? She answered yes, and we promised her that if she prayed correctly, and came to chruch on sunday that these experiences would stop. And guess what. SHE CAME TO CHRUCH! She was sick but she still came because she knew what we taught was true. And she had an awesome experience. Afterwords she told my companion that the things she learned in chruch were better than in any other, that they were things you can actually apply toyour life and live and not just think "oh. that´s nice." We´re going to go visit her this week and see how she feels and if she can tell a difference in her life. We´re also planning on her being baptized in January.
So we´re going good in the work of the lord. I love you all so much!! I´ve never had such a trial of faith in my life as I have had in the mission, and now through all the trials, and even more, because of them, I am able to say that I KNOW God exists. I KNOW he loves me. He loves you. He had restored his gospel to lead and guide us, and that there is a promise that those who abide by the precepts and laws of the gospel will know for themselves is true and that I speak not for myself. I love the opportunity to teach this wonderful truth to the world.
Also I´ve learned a couple of spanish saying. For example Tengo Ángel (I have angel) {I´m charming}. Peinar la muñeca (brush the doll) {they´re going crazy}.
Que tengan una buena semana llena de milagros y tiernas misericordias. Les amooo!!!
Sister Ashlee Bowling
♥ from Chile!
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