Sept. 17, 2013

Kyle's sent some fun pictures this week.  We hope you enjoy seeing what life is like as a missionary in Chile.  Enjoy!

A little house painting party!

Each missionary with their personal favorite dog!

Trying his hand at flying a kite:)

All dressed up for Independence Day

Sept. 2, 2013

I thought you might enjoy a clip from Kyle's email this week and a few more pictures.

Wednesday was the only day that we got to work in our area. But this day we worked SOO hard and saw miracle after miracle! I don't know how we did it but we taught a ton of lesson and just did a lot of stuff! It was the best! We had so much fun but came back to the house and basically died because we were so tired! It was a lot of fun though! 

So we had 3 baptisms in the ward and we started to fill up the baptisimal font and everything was going fine. At one point the batteries died in the calefont (Chilean water heater) so we couldn't get any hot watter. Luckily that day, the counselor from the stake presidency was there and he's in charge of fixing all the buildings in this area and he replaced them for us. Things were going well again but all of sudden we decided to go check on it and we found out that the flame went out and it was filling the font with freezing water! We didn't know what to do so we called the counselor agian and he came to check on it but couldn't figure things out. We went outside to check the gas and it was all good so it was another problem. I said to my companion, "we need to go and say a prayer, these baptisms need to happen today!" so we went back into a back room in the church and said a prayer asking for everything to be ok and for the counselor to figure out how to fix the calefont. AS SOON as we left the room we went and looked and the calefont started working. Right away we went back and said another prayer giving thanks for the miracle. We didn't want anything else bad to happen :) I knew miracles happen, but in the mission miracles can happen instantly. We realized that God is always listening to us and when it's for a good reason, such as helping 3 of his children enter the waters of baptism, he's going to do everything he can to help us out. It truly was a remarkable moment and testimony builder for me. 

Let's just say Sunday was a great day with the baptisms that we had!! I was SOOO happy! It was the greatest ever! Marcela told us that she just felt so good and felt a warmth inside of her that she couldn't explain! FINALLY!!  I realized that this is exactly what I'm here for and I love it!! 

P-Day at the Zoo

Special Baptism Day