Week 23: Waterfalls, grandintercambio, transfers?

gooooooood afternoon my family and friends and other people reading this email.

this week was a blastttt! anddd I just cant believe its the last week of the transfer. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't nervous out of my mind. I am pretty sure I am going to be leaving Los Angeles. Which is super sad. Buttttttt. I'm excited to go wherever the Lord needs me.

First of all. Today we went to the Saltos del Laja! They are these hugeeee waterfalls that seriously look like Niagra Falls. We left early to go see them and it was so cool because we were the only ones there for like two hours. Chileans like to sleep in. The waterfalls were so pretty and they're were so many cute little tourist shops all around it. It was so fun.

This week we also had two intercambios or exchanges! We did a grandintercambio were like every single hermana in the Zone Los Angles Sur and Los Angeles Norte switched companions for the day, so like 16 girls. I got to be with hermana Johnson, who arrived in the mission the same time as me. She was so cute and we seriously saw so many miracles that day! We taught a lesson to our new family we found last week,and the spirit was seriously so strong, probably the strongest I have felt it in a lesson so far. This family is so great and they are so interested and they're going to get baptized, I just know it.

buttttt yeah. thats basically my week. It was a good one. full of lots of miracles. missions are just like the best thing in the world. 

have a great week! Love you allllll.

love hermana kate

WEEK 22: Service project, Yumbel, Carlos

heyyyyyyyyy!!! 

hows it going.

this week was Stellar with a capital S.

I dont even know where to start...

 me and hermana stoneeee

okay so on tuesday we had an intercambio! I got to go to Yumbel, which is this cute tiny little town about an hour out of the city. It was soo fun. I am so used to the city, I have only lived here for the past four months, so it was definitely a change to head out to the country side. But it was just so beautiful and it was fun to see a different part of the mission. The church up there is in a little tiny casa (house) about the size of just our chapel here in Los Angeles. So different but still so cool.

Also so we got to do a service activity this week! It was with our zone and with another zone, we drove out to the country and I kid you not, raked leaves for four our straight. We were at this HUGE high school with just tons and tons and tons of trees. Anddddd we all left feeling like hunch backs because raking is HARD. but it was so fun.

service projectttt

this week was also a little different becauseeeeeee my poor little companion has a problem with her hip and just has had the hardest time walking these past couple of weeks, but it was especially bad this week. SO we had to stay in the casa for a couple of days. On friday, the day we were planning to leave and go out and work, I woke up with the flu. LAME RIGHT.

but we do have a super cool story. Saturday, after our service project and our lunch, we were back in the casa, both of us in a lot of pain and just wanting to sleep. Buttttt. We both felt super prompted that we needed to leave and work this day. so we did! We had people to go visit. But as we were walking, one after the other called to cancel these appointments. Literally nothing was working out and we were so frustrated and just wanted to go home... like seriously door after door was shut in our faces. So we found this cute little bench and sat down and maybe shed a few tears... ;) But we decided we needed to pray! We prayed and we said, "Heavenly Father, please help us to see a miracle in this last hour of our day!" Then we got up and kept working. And, I kid you not, the first door we knocked on, this man answered and let us in to his house! His name was Carlos, and he has like four daughters and they were all super interested! It was a miracle and we walked home with smiles bigger than our faces.

no doubt this was one of the greatest experiences of my mission so far and such a testimony builder to me that God really is so mindful of us and always answers our prayers. hashtag happy kate

This week looks like a good one too! 

but yeah life is good and things are good and I am so stinking happy here in cute little los angeles.

have a good week! love you all!

love hermana poyfair

WEEK 21: Five months down, WHAT??!?

hi everyone!

today is a happy today because I hit my five month mark! Its so crazy! I seriously feel like I just got here. mission time is so weird, its just seriously flying by. whaaaaat.

We kinda had a crazy week this week. definitely was a good one. lets see. 

first of all, last week we had an appointment with a less active family who lives pretty far out of the city. The parents are less active, and they have two daughters who aren't members. We were super excited! We had to take a bus out to there house and I was a little terrified. We got on the bus and we called the lady to ask how to get to her house and SHE DIDNT ANSWER! We called her like six times and she wouldnt answer her freaking phone, and we had no idea where to get off. SO we said a little prayer and got off. Andddd it was pretty lame because we just started walking. I had been to her house before so I was pretty sure I would recognize her house... but I was so wrong. We walked and walked and walked and tried to call her over and over and she just wouldnt answer. Well, we decided we should probably just catch a bus and head back to the city because I had no idea where to go but heres the best part: the buses were done for the day! So we got to walk six miles back to our sector in skirts and sunday shoes. It was super beautiful and so it was fine. But yeah, definitely was an adventure. We didnt get ahold of the lady until that night, where she informed us she wasnt even in her house all day. hahaha. definitely not doing that again...

this week we had stake conference. Hermana Norton and I were able to go to both sessions because we went with a recent convert. It was such a nice suprise because our mission president and his wife were there speaking! We didnt know they were going to be there, and it was so nice to see them. After the conference we went up to say hi, and hermana norton decided to ask them if they wanted to come to our apartment and eat lunch with us. We didnt expect them to come butttttt they did! We made them a very fancy lunch of grilled cheese sandwiches, tomato soup, and frozen vegetables. It was kinda embarassing but it was such a good experience for us to sit and talk to them for awhile. They are so fun!

Butttt yeah thats basically my week! We have a lot of good plans for this week and its going to be just so so fun,

have the greatest week! love you love you!

love kate