The keyboard is crappy and I don`t have a lot of time, so buckle up.
Monday: we had an awesome last zoneactivity where the missionarys from each oftheir respective countrys had to make a classic dish and present it to everybody. We from usa west made chicken noodle soup with homemade egg noodles and everybody loved it. The east made fried oreos and funnel cake, the latinos were in shock. it confirmed all their wildest dreams. we in the us are fat slobs that eat pure garbage, but delicious garbage. we went and visited a member less active who lives with her grandchild. isidora is 10 and lives with her grandma because her mom works A TON and her dad is a drug addict =( trying to help the family have some hope.
tuesday: A really cool day over all. My companion and i are really trying to use our time well, and when some of the appointments we had planned fell through, we were kind of left out in the dark without much idea of what to do. we both felt inspired to pray and ask for dirrection and start walking. Before every blessing comes a moment to try our faith, and that is certainly true in the mission. we contacted a few people who were very curt with us, and with one man in particular. we handed him a card for the new easter video, which has an image of Christ on the front. When he saw the card he snatched it from my handand asked "have you seen Jesus Christ? does anybody know what he looks like?? you`re worshipping false images!!" and me with my companion were just like "Uhh... we don`t want to talk to you anymore..." but the next person we talked to was so kind! She let us in, gave us some bread and we found out that her daughters had recieved missionarys before! They we`re a huge blessing.
Wednesday: Not much to say about this day. we found out that one of our investigators was only listening to us because he thought we were pretty. so that wasn`t to fun, but we also found an INCREDIBLY prepaired lady with her two sons. her name is Sonia and she is an absolute doll. very humble and teachable which is all i really ask for in an investigator, that they`re humble enough to ask God if these things are really true. everyday is a good day when you`re working for the lord. we also had an awesome zone meeting where the zone leaders made us remember how it was when we first got our callings and the energy and excitement we had for the mission. I remember walking around the house with Dad the weeks after I got my call talking about videos and websites we had been looking at about chile and what itwould be like. it really is cool to be in such a wonderful place.
ThURSDAy WAS CRAZY: It rained SO HARD. I don`t have an umbrella, it got stolen while i was in San Pedro and we got SOAKED! But it doesn`t matter because we found another awesome lady who let us in and let me borrow some of her clothes (I was wet all the way down to my skin, I`ve never seen it rain so hard) and also gave us some food. she was also SO humble. She asked us why sometimes the things God does appear so unjust when she and her family have always tried to be good. As we explained she was so attent to our words, and said afterwards she would love to be able to come to church and find out more. Really cool lady.
We had a ton of miracles this week, too many to tell in the time I have left. All in all we found 15 new people to teach, more than I`ve ever found before in my mission. it was a really great time. til nextweek!!!
Sister Ashlee Bowling
♥ from Chile!
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