Mi amada hermana Ibarra, que historias mas lindas, me imagino que este blog va a ser conservado para tu posteridad.... hace 5 meses vinieron aca, un grupo de misioneros(as) que habian servido mision aca hace 20 anos, se reunieron aca todos con sus esposos y esposas, fue algo tan lindo, el reencuentro con su miembros que bautizaron y que ahora son grandes liderees, asi te va a suceder a ti tambien...
Te cuento que en Chile cuando llueve todo se paraliza.Consejo, hazte amiga de las personas a cargo delcentro de Recursos de Empleos, pues de alli se sacan cantidad de referencias, yo saco referencias para los misioneros de toda mi mision 4 y 5 por dia de las personas que van en busca de empleo y eso ha sido de gran ayuda... prueba o consulta con tu presidente de Mision o tus lideres, pues aca trabaja..
Animo mi nina que lo estas haciendo muy bien, me siento muy orgullosa de ti, pero mi Padre, mucho mas que yo.
Te quiero y cuidate
Hna Rodriguez
On May 28, 2013 3:24 PM, "Gladys Ibarra" <gladys.ibarra@myldsmail.net> wrote:
You´re all probably wondering what in the world is up with the title for my e-mail this week, don´t worry I´ll explain later on in this e-mail...cliff hanger...dun dun dun...This monday we had interviews with the mission president Pdt. Essig and what a blessing that was. He is such an inspired man and knew exactly what was troubling me and exactly what to say to give me the comfort that I so desperately was seeking. He cares so much about all the missionaries and their well-being and not only takes the time to listen, but to write down the most important details of our interviews and truly loves us. I am so grateful for his guidance and wisdom and for the daily sacrafices him and his wife make to serve us in any way possible. That being said, this week was cray! (But what week on the mission isn´t ?!) We had Capacitacion de Zona where we get together with all the missionaries in the stake of Los Andes to learn new things and pracitce techniques to get our converts in the water! It was fun to see all the new sisters in our zone, most of which came to Chile with me! One sister´s name was Hna. Dutson who started out her mission in Til-Til after I was transfered and she was able to update me on the branch and our investigators Kathy and Fransisco who finally got married and baptized last sunday!!! Also our recent convert Manuel who received the priesthood and is preparing to do baptisms in the temple, wow! I am so proud of them all and the progress they are making in the gospel! This week me and Hna. Dodds continued to work hard to find people to teach, we got into a lot of doors which was great, but the majority of the people either don´t understand our message of the restoration or don´t care enough to act upon it which is soooo frustrating! But after weeks of prayer and searching we got a reference from the Elders in another ward, her name is Ingrid she´s 14 and super interested in learning more. This was the miracle me and Hna. Dodds had been praying for!!! We called her the next day to set an appt. but when we arrived only her mom was home. I asked if we could share something with her and she kindly let us in. We came to find out she (Doris) was baptized when she was 16 but hasn´t gone to church in years and remembers close to nothing. We began our lesson (as usual) with a hymn and a prayer and then expressed the love that heavenly father has for her and the special plan he has for her and her daughters life. Tears streamed down her face and there was such a powerful spirit in the room. I don´t think I´ve ever felt the spirit so strong in a lesson before. We shared with her the miracle of the restoration and gave her a book of mormon to remind her of the beautiful feelings she felt the day she decided to be baptized. Just as we were about to walk out the door Ingrid was coming in and we were able to meet her! She had her Book of Mormon and pamphlets of the discussion in her backpack and was eager to know when would be our next visit, we have an appointment with her today and will be inviting her to be baptized the end of June :) Another miracle we saw this week was when we went to go contact a reference someone gave us. No one was home and I felt we should knock on the door in front. A 15 year old boy came to the door and said no one was home but his 16 year old sister. I asked if we could meet her and when she came I asked if we could share a message with her. Hna. Dodds gave me a puzzled look but went with the flow as I began to ask Anabel about her life. She´s a 16 year old teen mom who is originally from Argentina. She has a lot of faith in God but doesn´t practice any religion in specific. We taught her about the restoration and asked if she had ever asked herself which of all the churches is true. At this point of the lesson most people say no and it totally kills our transition into Joseph Smith, but she said YES! She said she´s always had that doubt, that she´s gone to many churches and studied with Jehova´s Witnesses and never felt satisfied with anything. We tried not to jump uot of our seats as we talked about Joseph Smith´s search for the truth and testified to her the miracle of the restoration. We invited her to be baptized and she said yes! We´ll be seeing her today also and will need to work a bit with her because she lives with her baby-daddy. This sunday was one of the most uplifting I´ve had in the mission. It all started at church when Javier our recent convert passed the sacrament for the 1st time. The 2nd counselor Hno. Victor Vargas gave him a suit and I was just so proud of him that I couldn´t help but smile all during the Santa Cena. Later that sunday his little sister Camila was baptized after threats from her father that he´d never see her again if she did risking the possibility of it happening. But she did it all on her own, no one forced her or made her, she simply told us it didn´t matter, that she knew she has to be baptized and it was amazing to see such a little girl with such a powerful testimony of Jesus Christ. And now for the explination of this weeks title!!! We had an FHE prepared for the branch to present the Branch Mission plan and to help the members help us in the work so they can get their chapel built. As we arrived from the interviews from president it was raining like crazy!!! The streets were literally rivers of brown water and by the time we got to the chapel we were cold and wet and sopping. It was 30 minutes until the activity was about to start, we had already passed out the invitations on sunday and all that was left was to set up a scavanger hunt we had around the chapel to make it fun. Eventually 7:00 came and no one was there and the rain didn´t stop, 7:15 still pouring, 7:30, and someone walks in, it was Hno. Victor our biggest ally and advocate in the branch. We sat around the gas heaters drying our feet and clothes as we told him we were just going to leave an find someone to teach with defeat written all over our faces. He said "wait, what did you come here for?!" and we said "FHE" and he said "Lets have FHE then!" he made us prepare a spiritual thought while he ran for treats in the rain. When he came back, we started with a song and a prayer and Hna. Cottle and I shared scriptures and spiritual experiences about how the Lord builds us up through trials. Hno. Victor shared a personal experience as well and by the end of it all we were all in tears. We knelt in humble prayer thanking the lord for the spirit we felt that night and the spirit testified to our hearts the truth of our words and the purpose of our sacrifices and moments of dissapointment on that rainy day, in an old leaky chapel, soaking wet, with 5 missionaries and 1 member in an empty chapel. A sweet spirit was felt, and although we don´t always have the members support I know our efforts don´t go unnoticed because the lord is always looking down on us.Keep writing me and sending me dear elders as you travel and have fun this summer! I truly need your words of advice and encouragment if I´m to get along in this great work. Your prayers are always appreciated and I pray for you all in return. Until next week!!!Hna. Ibarra
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