I can see clearly now the rain is gone!

As the rain finished cleaning the streets of Santa Maria me and Hna. Dodds were able to have a much better week! The sun has been shinning, we´re in fall so it´s cool but not too bad, and more people are home at night cause they want to stay out of the cold. We have 3 solid investiugators, Ingrid, who accepted to be baptized! And Anabela, who is learning of the importance of baptism and loves meeting with us and wants to learn more. We also found a woman named Connie and her 2 kids who instantly fell in love with us and wanted to show us all their toys and play with us and wanted to go to church but their mom was going out of town with them this weekend and couldn´t come. Getting investigators to church is the hardest committment we extend, it blows my mind how come people will easily accept to be baptized, but will put whatever excuse for why they can´t or didn´t come to church. It´s also frustrating cause it´s the most important committment. It doesn´t matter if they read the entire book of mormon cover to cover, know it´s true, if they have a testimony of Joseph Smith, etc. If they don´t come to church they CANNOT get baptized, and it really slows down their progress. But we just gotta have patience, teach them the importance and promise them the blessings they need to motivate them to go. This sunday Camila got confirmed which was so awesome! We also had exchanges this week with our sister training leader and it was fun to be in a trio again for a day and we found some great contacts and she helped us a lot in our lessons. It´s 5 of us sisters in a house so we had to put our 2 twin beds together and the 3 of us sleep sideways, it reminded me of the good old days in Helaman Halls (summer of dreams!). Plus it´s always a blast when we get to go to Santiago, the cars, the people, the hustle and bustle, it feels good to be somewhere other than the middle of nowhere, but Santa Maria has it´s charm and I do love it, in fact the Andes Mountains got snow and they look so beautiful! Welp, that´s pretty much all that happened this week, now we´re gonna go to the Stake Presidents house to make choripan and hang out with his wife, she´s awesome! Don´t forget me this summer and send me Dear Elders please, they help me out a lot :)

Peace & Blessings,

Hna Ibarra

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