Week 69: Weakly email

sometimes I'm clever in my titles...

this week was EXHAUSTING. 

so much happened and it just flew by. On tuesday, we had interviews with President May. On Wednesday, we had our Leadership Council in Concepcion. Friday we had District meetings and saturday we did splits with the hermanas in Arauco. I'm attaching a photo of us sitting in a bus stop because that's basically all we did this week.

andddd I'm only partially kidding haha.

but a couple of really cool things did happen this week! First of all, since I got here in March, we've been t
eaching this man named Miguel. He has come to church three times, he always keeps his commitments, and he always accepts baptism. buttt he's still waiting for his answer. He has recieved a lot of answers to his prayers, but he's waiting for something BIG I think.

so a couple of weeks ago we decided that he wasn't progressing and we just weren't going to focus on him as much. We actually lost contact for about two weeks. It was really sad, but we moved on. 

this week we were close to his house and decided that we had better pass by, just to make sure. 

Andddd he was there. Anddddd he told us how he had had a dream about getting baptized, and decided that he needed to do it. our jaws were on the floor haha! The next day we had an appointment with him, and we talked about the Word of Wisdom, which is one of the challenges he has. We were there with the Wife of the District President, and she was explaining her conversion. She said, "I didn't have to give up any addictions or anything, but I did have to give up an ingredient that ALL of us have, and all of us struggle with."

she paused, and Miguel, with fear in his eyes, said, "I'm gonna have to give up sugar too?"

we all died laughing. 

The hermana quickly said, "no, I was going to say pride."

it was sooo funny. But miguel is great and is going to get baptized in May, si o si.

Also, on Saturday we had a crazy experience. We were in Arauco, and at 8 o'clock we were planning on taking a bus to Curanilahue. We sat and waited in the rain, and there were serioiusly zero buses. we started to get a little nervous as it started to get late, and this man came up and said, "you're not going to be able to catch a bus to Curanilahue at this hour, you''re going to have to go to Laraquete (a city about half an hour of Arauco) and then wait for a bus there. and you need to go now because this bus is going to leave and you're not gonna be able to get another one." Without thinking, we ran and hopped on the bus. As we were sitting there, we started to get a little nervous... so we said a prayer. We asked Heavenly Father to protect us and that a bus would pass by quickly once we got to Laraquete.

Well we got there, and waited and waited and I kept thinking, "If only my parents knew what I was doing right now" we stood in the rain, in a dark city, alone, at 9.30 at night. ADVENTURES. 

But a bus quickly pássed by and we wer able to take it and arrive safely in Curanilahue which was awesome.

Basically the theme of this letter this week is that Prayer WORKS. haha. God always answers our prayers, according to our faith of course.

Butttt yeah. 

Its starting to get REALLY cold here, my fingers are basically numb haha.

have a great week! love you all!

love hermana poyfair