No Espacio Urbano is not the name of some club in Chile like I thought it was lol. It´s what they call the malls here! Last monday we went and made the beautiful discovery of a store called Lider who has a partnership with walmart and sells great value products! Hallelujah, a brand I can trust! This week was pretty sweet. Anabela said yes to preparing to be baptized the 28th of this month! She´s progressing wonderfully, we taught her plan of salvation yesterday and she had so many deep questions and is super "capa" as they say here, or smart! She understands it all so well and I know she´s fersure going to get baptized, we just need to teach law of chastity and clear up the situation with her pololo. We also contacted someone on the street who´s nam was Lemuel, at first we thought he was pulling our leg, but nope, his name was indeed Lemuel and we´re gonna try to find him and teach his family cause it was just too crazy of a coincidence! haha. Yesterday we had Patricia and Freddy come to church with their 2 daughters and it was so awesome! They are reading and praying as well and am so happy for the spiritual hunger that they have for the gospel. We also had a family home evening yesterday with Anabela and an unexpected guest, Gina! So here´s her story. Gina sells avocados on the side of the road, we contacted her one day and she said she doesn´t actually live in Santa Maria, but in San Felipe (the town next door) and just comes to sell stuff. But we´d always see her around town and I knew she was lying and didn´t actually want to tell us where she lived, but I respected that and me and Hna. Dodds would always say hi to her and talk to her, and one day her and her mom had heavy bags and we helped them out. With time Gina began to gain more trust in us, and invited us to her house for lunch and she confessed she did live in Santa Maria! Hna. Dodds left, but the other day with Hna. Villota she asked us when we could come over so we set up an appointment. Last wednesday we taught Gina and her dad Jose the restoration, and they couldn´t of understood our message more clearly! (a big problem here is we teach the restoration and people don´t get it) They were doubtful of course but that´s good because it means they understand what we´re teaching, the progress of an investigator starts when they say "no!" hahaha. Gina´s reading the Book of Mormon and we´re going to teach them again this week and help them resolve those doubts they have. Some people may not seem receptive or interested, but as you serve and show them your love they realize you´re not just there to preach and annoy people, but to teach something you know is true. "They don´t care how much you know, until they know how much you care." Love ya peeps! And write me Dear Elders!
Hna. Ibarra
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