mi familia! espero que sepan que les quiero muchísimo! (family! i hope you all know how much i love you!)

 

this week passed so fast. like it was just monday to me. i still think this whole new area and all is why it´s flying by! can´t believe it. but it´s all good.

 

I´m just really grateful for the Spirit this week and the little promptings we get everyday from the Spirit and if we follow them how we can really receive more and more... this week we felt the little promptings lots, just want to share some experiences with you all...

 

Viviana and Ruben- we were walking on the street, on a way to a cita (appointment) and we passed a mom, dad, and 2 kids, with tons of groceries. we passed and then i just knew i needed to turn and talk to them. We talked to them for a while, got there address and had a cita with them. it was great. they have 3 kids, 7 year old twins (boy and girl) and then a 11 year old, Jordan. We taught them and they had met and heard from missionaries before, but nothing happened. taught them a great lesson and then invited them to be baptized. well, viviana accepts baptism, but can´t because they aren´t REALLY married (EVERYONE HERE- it´s crazy) but then her son, Jordan (11) goes... ¨but me, si!¨ and i asked him why he wanted to be baptized and he just looks at me and goes, ¨to be with Jesus¨ how precious is that. I know that this family is ready. they need it, they want it, Ruben just needs to put a ring on it!

 

John Henry- we were walking through the plaza to head to lunch, we are walking, get the the crosswalk and have to wait. it turns green, but i see this black man walking towards us. hna Paicely says... lets go, and i say, wait, i want to contact this man. So we wait on the other side of the street and we stop him, start talking, end up teaching him a lesson in the plaza, and at the end Hna Paicely asked him why he is here in Chile, because he is from Colombia. He answers saying, i don´t really know, and we testify that we know why and that he needs to hear our message. We invite him to church and he says he´ll try. Well call him sunday and wake him up and he was like.. we´ll see. The opening hymn is being sung and he hasn´t showed up yet. i felt to turn around, so i did and there is Henry, waiting to come in uncomfortably. but he came! stayed for church and is VERY intelligent in the bible, waas a missionary in the evangelical church for a while, and then got far from it. During the sacrament i gave him a folleto (pamphlet)  to read about the sacrament and repentance and baptism, ect... he reads a quote on Repetance and turns to me and says.. ¨i need this, this is how i feel¨ He is awesome. just like REALLY smart. beleives that God, Christ, and the Holy Ghost are one, but hey, we have the restored gospel and that trumps everything else, right? oh henry. he is great!

 

Sergio- this joven (young man) of 25 años (years). found him contacted one day and he doesn´t believe in God much, well he does, but i think he is trying to be more like artsy and not wanting to believe in God. but, we taught him and asked him to say the pray at the end. he accepted and we asked him who he prays to when he prays and he said ¨algo¨(something) ¨las estrellas¨ (the stars) but we taught him how to pray and WHO is was praying to and he says this prayer... no joke 10 minutes. prays for everything from kids in africa, to politics, to chile, to basketball. he really just expressed what he was feeling. afterwards it was funny cause he just said all these chilean words, but he was sincere and thats what really matters. who cares what he prays for, he prayed to God and i know that God was just SO happy that he was able to do it correctly.

 

Urbano. un menos activo (less active) went to his house but he wasn´t home but used the bathroom of his wife and while we were there, got home! taught him and told him that in church i´lm gonna have a post it with your name on it so you can´t miss church. and guess who showed up in this white shirt and tie and sat in the seat with his name on it! Urbano :) He told me that he saved the little paper in his suit coat to remind him everytime he wears it why he came back to church. now he says he will be there next week, and after, and after, and forever! just gotta get him to the temple to be sealed with his wife!

 

This week i guess in Salamanca is like crazy for Semana Santa (Holy week/easter week). it´s like one of the biggest fairias (holidays) in Chile. people come from everywhere to sell there goods and buy things that they probsies don´t even need, but i´m excited. i know there are tons of gatherings in the plaza, right by the catholic church with like celebrations of Chirst and stuff... i think it´ll be interesting. just sad to me that these Catholics celebrate the death of Christ and not his birth. He LIVES! i know it and thats what we should be celebrating. not the death. but i hope you all have a HAPPY EASTER. hope the easter bunny visits and that you can dye some easter eggs.

 

Plans for today... gonna go eat at this chinese food place that looks bomb. haven´t had chinese food in over a year, but it´s chinese people who work there. why they are in chile, beats me, but hey, everyone needs a taste of there culture! 

 

Know that i love you all mucho and am working hard to get these milagros (miracles) here in Salamanca. People are progressing, people are acercando a Cristo!(coming closer to Christ) that´s my purpose. So glad that we have the Espíritu (spirit) to help us and lead us to know what we need to do in our lives. live worthy everyday to be able to have a little bit more of the Spirit in your lives. Study it, pray for it, and recibirán! (receive)

 

Love you all.

 

Keep Smiling,

 

Hna Sargent

 

still a giant

this is a live parrot on my head!! 

 

Hola Familia-

 

Another week that just flew by! Seriously, so fast. And sometimes I just don´tt know how I can keep doing this schedule, at times I feel beyond exhausted, but with a little pray and water I seem to find my way!

 

This week was great. We had to travel 2 hours in bus to go to a conference with a couple other zones. It was awesome. Just love to meet as a whole group of missionaries, president and hna Kahnlein! It´s just fun. We talked a lot about helping the members, how our prayers need to be better and how to act on the Spirit and have Faith. It was very good. Some of the things or quotes that I liked and want to share with you :

Pres told a story of a 90 year old lady who just recently got baptized and just received her patriarchal blessing and in the blessing it said that she should have had the chance to accept the gospel when she was younger but the missionaries who were gonna teach her decided not to serve or couldn´t. then Pres thanked us all for being there and being able to find those people NOW who need the gospel and not have them wait years. Just crazy how the plan all works out but how every detail counts.

 

Also this quote: experience is what you get when you don´t get what you want

I also really enjoyed talking to Hna Kahnlein this time. We were the only other hnas there so it was just fun to talk to her and to get to know her better. She´s awesome. Can´t imagine how she does it with her kiddos.

 

These week we´ve found some great people and seen progress with others. They seriously ALL just need to get married. I don´t know why it´s so hard for people here in Chile. Like, they´re basically married just with out the paperwork. Just go sign at the registro civil and listo!

But Evelyn- we found here and she wants the gospel for her family! We taught her the restoration because she had questions about the sacerdocio and everything after the new pope was named, but we taught her and we get to the BOM and are explaining it and she goes, ¨no normal man could write all of this, so it has to be from God!¨  WHO SAYS A QUOTE THAT ELDER HOLLAND SAID ONCE? Seriously, it´s like she was listening to Elder Holland right  before we came. But it´s so true. The LDM is powerful, anyone who reads it will change there life to follow what it teaches us. And if they don´t, they aren´t really reading it!

 

Oracio- he wanted us to speak to him in Ingles because he lived in the USA for years. Lets just say, I can´t speak English very well. Especially the gospel terms. So sad, but it was funny. Just all laughed about it. But he is great too. Soaked up the lesson like a spounge and said, you guys have a church here in Salamanca? We answered, yes! And he said. ¨I will go¨. He also talked about how the world is just confused with the religions and everyone should try to find the write one. Think he´ll be getting his answer here quickly.

 

Karina. Is still great, but doesn´t want to get married, so we are helping her with that, also she is moving soon too, hopefully she´ll stay in our area, if not, sad.

 

Oh my gosh, time is going way to fast today! But I want to send pics so i´m gonna send this off. I have so much more I want to say, but oh well. Life goes on.

Just know that i´m happy and that I love the mission. Like always. 

hna paicely is doing well. gets very very stressed about the language, just pray for her! even though she´´s doing great! just lack of confidence! 

Love you all,

keep smiling,

Hna Sargent

 

yes, i am a giant in chile. hope you get a laugh at these ones! 

one of Hna Paicely and i at the conference. right in a beach town if you can see it atras! so beautiful :) 

 

well, this week sure just seemed to fly by, not sure about you guys, but really, it´s monday again. 

ok, Q looks so cute and seems happy! glad you´re treating her well. Be her family until hers gets home! 

Happy Birthday to Makenna and Byron this week! whoo-who! can´t beleive that you´re all growing up and getting so big. hope you all eat some yummy cake for me :) know that i love you and will be thinking of you that day!  

REally this week was just WAY fast. really can´t beleive it. We´ve found some great people, some interesting, and some from all over the world. 

First off because there are NO hermana missionaries in this whole zone it´s about 4 hours north and 4 hours south until you´ll see another everyone is just so happy to see us. many people let us in and teach them, but then they don´t want to really progress. not all, just some. but at least we have the chance to teach and tesify and thats whats most important. Especially with Hna Paicely in training. she´s doing SO good. she gets frustrated with the language lots, but she´ll get it. and her work ethic and diligence is awesome, so this gives her oportunidades to teach and testificar. but we have some great ones! 

Karina. ok, this girl, we just randomly knocked her door our second day here and we went back but she wasn´t there... so we passed by again and she let us in. she is looking for this gospel. She has a notebook and is writing the answers down to the questions of the folletos and is awesome. i think the best lesson 1- the restauración from my whole mission has been with her. she just understood everything. Asked us.. ¨so all the churches in the world now are wrong?¨ when we were talking about the Apostasía and loved hearing about Jose Smith. just loved it. The unica cosa is that shes convivo. living with her BF. blah, but we are working with her. Fam proclamation to the Workd, ect. She loves it. I just hope that she´ll get married, or leave that house so she can be baptized because she wants it. 

Perla and Glenny- these people, i with i was teaching with Melissa Marshall. i just know she´d love them and there accents. they are from the Domincan Republic (i know you all just thought of In The Heights) and they are HILARIOUS. like seriously. During one of the prayers this week Hna Paicely was saying it and right in the middle Glenny yells out. ¨Oiga, no te escucho, habla mas fuertepo¨ (wait, i don´t hear you, talk louder) Talk about the spirit leaving for a second. But they are good. they both have hard lives, are working here but have kids in the DR and are just spunky and full of life. have lots of faith in God and just need the gospel NOW in there lives. They are doing good, praying that they´ll progress. 

We found this lady yesterday who just opened her door, i felt super strongly when she answered that i had to testify of families and how our message helps us progress and ser mas unida. she let us right in, and it came down to that she wants her 3 hijos to know more about God and learn about Him and she likes how our church has classes for them. also liked hearing about Soc soc and how she can learn how to be a better mother. She said it was hard to be living with her BF, another one not married, but i told her that i´d bring her a copy of the Fam Proc to read and she was SO happy about it. i want to meet her bf too and see how he is! maybe this is my family! :)

The other day we had lunch with the presidenta de Soc soc and she gave us this yummy pasta with pesto. side note... EVERYONE gives us food, drinks, ect ect ect. it´s ridiculous. if we say no, they still give it to us. i´ve never been in an area like this. good think i exercise in the mornings. but anywho, this pasta was bomb but way too much. Hna Paicely was like dying, every 3 seconds i´d hear a small sigh and i knew she was about to give in. but she diligintely ate all of her food and then the hna brings out 8 peaches, 4 for each for dessert and hna paicely just belts out ¨CUATRO¨ i lost it, i was so full, i understood exactly how she felt and i was like... no way 4 peaches are fitting in my stomach right now, but after laughter i explained to the hna that we´d be happy to take them for later on when we´re hngry again. we left the house and just were SO full. ridiculosly full. but funny.  

There are lots of menos activvas here. we are working with them. We went and visited one and he said that he´d never let the elders in, but the hermanas always because he was baptized by hnas and just loves them. Reminds me lots of Hna Apablaza so i know that he´ll come back with time. Another hna Irma, she came back to church sunday for the first time in years. it´s just crazy what one small visit can do for others and how they just need a little reminder maybe. but sad story, when we were with Hna she fell in her house, shes like 80ish and is unstable, but she fell, i felt so bad but i was like 2 seconds too late to catch her, but i just dropped my stuff and sprinted over to help her. luckily she didn´t get too badly injured, just a bruise i think. but so sad. don´t want to get old. KEEP EXERCISING G&G, it´ll help you! everyone for that matter :) 

This rama is chico. but it´s good. lots of love, not a ton of support in the obra misional but we´re helping them. We are now teaching YW and also Seminary to the youth. it´s good to do, and i´m happy to do it. it´s just prep time that we could be using for investigators but i know that God will bless us for helping the ward. i just know that there are lots of people who are capable of doing it. sometimes i feel like the brach pres saw missionaries and says.. oh ya, they´ll do it, but there isn´t really revelation for these callings. It´s a small branch but i honestly think to give people callings, they´d be better members and more supportive, but it´s ok! I am happy to help. just gonna look for the liders still. 

well, I am happy here in Salamanca. the sun is still shining and i just hope winter doesn´t come too soon. need to mentally prepare myself for that. but i love this work. I just cant seem to do everything i want to do in one day. they just seem to go quickly. but know that i love you all. know that i have a testimonio of this gospel. i love it. I am so grateful for it. we are blessed. don´t know how many times i´ve said that this past year in emails, but i hope you all understand how blessed we are. 

hasta lunes. Keep Smiling, 

hna Sargent

 

 

 

fam apablaza before i left Limahce!

Hna PAz and Hna Contreras! 

this dog was hilarious... not really sure why. 

EVERYONE serves us sandía and it´s a forth of the whole thing... can´t complain though, i love it. 

Hna Paicely and I :) shes half somoan and half black!

nahhhhh.

activad today... completos. lets just say if hnas weren´t there it wouldn´t have looked this good.

last one and NOT for the BLOG!! 

sometimes this is just how i feel at the end of the day and my hair has to just be put up!! 

Well, thanks for reminding me everyone, that my year mark hits this week... seriously, SO WEIRD. I don´t like it. I feel like I have like 6 months in the mish. just want to be a missionary forever! Lets just stick with Robbies countdown, not mine :) 

Well, this week was just SOOOO fast. Did anyone feel that? Seriously, maybe it was the transfers, leaving Limahce, or a new area, but it´s just SO fast. Anywho, it was still great.

 

Let’s just say it was sad to say bye to Limahce... after 6 months, lots of Love for the people there. I really didn´t feel like I was leaving, but when it was time to leave, I was sad. I remember someone told me once ¨when you leave an area it should feel like your heart is breaking, and when it breaks, it means that you´ve given your all.¨ But the last day there we moved houses and I had to help get that one ready for the next hnas that come, then Silvanas family took us to Viña! Silvana just cried when I had to say bye to her. So sad, it´s crazy the relaciones (relations) that are formed on the mish, but I know I´ll see her again and we´ll skype mucho despues la mision! (Skype much after the mission) I really loved Limache, but now it´s time for a new adventure and new milagros (miracles)!

 

This new swarm of missionaries came in this week. 33 in total. 17 hnas! It was a very spiritual change meeting. It was just powerful to think of this work moving on, growing more. Hna Riggs and her mom were there mom! I saw her and she gave me a huge hug from you, and she was crying! They gave me the package from you guys, and also they had brought me one too, with a shirt and earrings, so nice! Thank you for the package! Loved it. It was fun to see her and talk to her and hna Riggs before she leaves. Can´t believe that she´s gone. Strange.

 

But I got my new comp and this meeting. Hna Paicely from St. George! She’s great. She just wants to be perfect in the language now and it´s hard. I honestly feel SO blessed though with the language that I had and was able to communicate when I got here. It wasn´t perfect by any means, but I never had a melt down about it, and she’s had a few, but she honestly speaks good and just needs to have more confidence, so we´re working hard on that. She just wants to be a great missionary, has a strong testimony and a huge desire to work which is great. Reminds me of Brooke Foster sometimes, not all the time, but sometimes I just start laughing cause it´s something Brooke would do!

 

My new area: its called Salamanca. It´s about 6 hours in bus from Viña going north, close to Illapel. It´s a small community, with farms and desert, just google it! ha!  We didn´t get here until about 1;30 in the morning Thursday and it´s a new area. There hasn´t been hnas here in this Branch for about 15 years! Everyone is SO shocked that there are hermanas here. The branch is small... like 30 people, I think it´s struggling a little bit, but it´s all good. They really just need help, lideres (leaders), and more Fe (faith).

Presidente came up to me after the change meeting and told me that he felt very strongly that I needed to be in this area and open it. Said it´ll be hard, but I want you to look for people who could be liders (leaders) in the church and teach them.  Pray for that specifically.  Then Hna Kahnlein came up to me after and said to Hna Paicely that she was lucky to have me as a trainer and that President trusts in me alot with this new place. So right now we are trying our best to know the area. We have seen lots of people open their doors and are just trying to find new investigators and work with the menos activas (less actives) cause there is like 300.

 

We have had at least 5 people tell us that we´ll convince everyone to come to church and be baptized because we´re way prettier than the Elders. ha! So funny. Skye always taught me flirt to convert, but that does NOT work on the mission nor do I want it to work here on the mission! Truly converted is my goal :)

 

Since we only have about 4 days here we are still finding lots of people. But yesterday there was this man named Oscar.  He has 92 years old and he understands EVERYTHING. I thought he was like 75, but we were talking to him and he told us that he is sick and it´s because of his pecados ( sins). He honestly feels bad for his sins and we talked to him about Baptism and repentance and he said I´d pay to live these last parts of my life with a path to God. It was just awesome. The only thing that will impide (is that a word?) is his health and getting to church.  But it´s Marzo de Milagros (March of Miracles) so it´s possible. It´d be so cute to see this little old man get baptized and know God before he moves on from this life! We´ll see what happens with him.

 

Lots of people here live together, like LOTS. But just gotta get them married and listo (ready).

 

Dad asked me some questions I´m gonna answer:

 Tell about your church time.  Do you ever have to teach? Which classes do you go to? How is leadership?

Well, this ward is way different than the others I´ve been in... we are in charge here to teach YW and every other week the Gospel Principios class so ya, we teach lots. My other wards, just once in a while. There were teachers for those. But the leadership is goodish, it´s just different than the states. This branch doesn´t have too many that are leaders, but the other wards there were good leaders. It’s just new still here I think to Chile! But they´re good. Just haven´t learned what the leadership entails. Does that help?

Do you ever get to the beach areas for Zone or other meetings?

When I was in Viña, yes. And we only go to Viña if there is a whole mission conference or changes. We went to the acutal beach once for an actividad (activity). But now I´m about 2-3 hours away from a beach, that’s what people say. So don´t think I´ll be seeing the ocean for a while :)

Well, I don´t even know if this email makes sense... just feel like it´s all over the place. But I am happy and that’s what matters. I´ve decided it doesn´t matter where I go to serve because it´s the same gospel in every place and everyone needs it! Love the mission. Glad I´m training again. It makes me a better missionary!

Also, one of the nuevos (new missionaries) came up to me and goes. Hna, I´ve been blog stalking you for about 4 months! Thanks for everything! ha. Glad my blog is helping someone :)

Glad to hear you´re all doing well. This week we want to find 3 people that can be baptized in March! Pray for us please :)

Love you all muchísimo!!

Keep Smiling,

Hna Sargent

p.s. Our house is HM. It´s seriously huge. and we step out and we´re in the main plaza here. I love it!

Hola Familia!

 

Well, we thought that the changes were gonna be today, but they changed the meeting to Wednesday. But we know our changes and I´m leaving and I´ll be training again. They called Saturday to tell us and I was just glad that I had the chance to say bye to the ward and the conversos (converts) here. They´re awesome! I really just LOVE this ward and am SO grateful for it and the many miracles and things that I´ve learned while here in Limache. Many were sad to see me go, but they know that’s just how the mission is. But on to new things starting Wednesday! New comp, new area, new everything. I feel so comfortable here in Limache... now it´ll be good to be able to start new and figure things out again.

 

This week was GREAT! We found lots of new people and people that are just good. But just in time for me to leave, right? ha! But really, it´s amazing to see that after 6 months here in Limache I´m still meeting and finding new people. They´re always here and ready to listen to the gospel. Just gotta have the faith to do it.

 

In the whole mission this week the numbers were raised and they want us to find 15 nuevos, weekly. Before it was 7.. so doubled basically. It´s alot to just switch in a huge jump like that but we decided that we were just gonna give it our all and go for it and we found lots! And these people are good too.

 

Jose Luis and Valedia- we left a cita (appt.) and we were walking in the other direction to go back to where we came from. I just looked back at this street like something was calling but kept walking, then hna Contreras did the same, so I said, lets go knock some doors here because we both felt it. We found this family who honestly just opened the door and let us right in, we hardly explained what we were there for. We both kinda felt scared because we usually have to talk to the people and then the let us in, so we were like... is it safe? But it was AWESOME.  It’s this couple, aren´t married yet, just moved here a week before, but we shared with them a couple times this week and we talked about the Proclamation to the World and read it with them. After Valedia asked if living with her boyfriend was a sin and we told her yes and explained casitdad (chastity) to her and they are just eating the gospel up like it’s milk and cookies.  Serioulsy, sad to leave them, but I know they´ll progress!

 

Eduardo- this man we´ve been trying to find forever! Serioulsy. like forever. But we FINALLY found him. It was great. Has tons of questions and believes in the priesthood, so it’s just a matter of dropping smoking before he enters the waters. I´m sure of it. But he has a cousin who recently just got home from the mission and served with Landon Winters in Provo UT. Small world. He asked if I knew him and I was like, ya! But this Eduardo has tons of familiy who are members in other parts of Chile so I know he´ll accept it.

 

Daniela- I´ve mentioned her before. She´s progressing well. We met her boyfriend this past week and he is great too. He says he doesn’t want anything, but he wants to listen and learn and he supports Daniela 100% in what she is doing and if she wants to learn more. We invited him to be there at their house whenever we teach her so he can understand what she’s doing and he agreed so just gotta get them married and throw them in the water.

 

There were lots more but who knows how they´ll be next week so I´ll just leave you to them.

 

We went for a menos activa, (less active) oh my.. he is living in a apostasía. He knows the church is true. But he is going to start preaching at another church and asked us not to come back. We told him we wouldn’t come back, but told him that it´s apostasy what he is doing and that in about 6 weeks other missionaries will pass by because they´re ALWAYS changing. Just sad to see this type of people.

 

Silvana and Juaquin and Alma are just ALL GREAT. Monsi and Ignasio are passing through hard times, but they´ll be good. But serioulsy, just love them all and will miss seeing them all the time, but know that they will be happy and stay fiel (faithful). Heard the testimony of Siilvana and Juaquin yesterday for why they were baptized and the changes they´ve seen so it´s just great to see it. Silvana has the goal to serve and get married in the temple so we´re on the hunt to find her a BF. ha!

 

This week we contacted this man on the street and he took to us and his family is members but he isn´t and when we turned to walk about he just said.. ¨hoy me encontré con dos virgines¨ (today i found myself with 2 virgens) it was just REALLY random and hilarious.

 

Today I was studying about Agency and I found these two quotes I want to share... ¨your Savior wants you to become something not just do some things...¨

¨the final judgement is not just an evaluation of good and evil of what we´ve done but its what we have become!¨

It´s all about the choices that we make family! We gotta make the good ones to BECOME something!

 

Still love the mission. who knows where I´ll be next week.. maybe if you get on the mission blog  www.misionvinadelmar.blogspot.com you´ll see pics of my comp and I before next monday!

 

Love you all, Pray for you always.

 

Keep Smiling,

 

Hna Sargent

 

typical guatemalean clothes from Hna Conhtreras! 

these adorable children from a nuevo that we found! 

 

Fam Valezquez from the ward

 

This week was great! I just want to share with all of you the miracles that we saw everyday this week. There are always miracles in the mission, just have to look for them!

 

Lunes (Monday): We finished internet and went to pay, we were talking to the lady working there. She asked us what we were doing here... and we explained that we´re missionaries... ect. ect... and we end up talking to her for a little bit, turns out that she basically invited us to her house to share with her. She has a few problems and wants God more in her life! She´s awesome. Just goes to show that really there are people ready for the Gospel EVERYWHERE! in every place and we ALL need to look for opportunities to share the Gospel with those that need it.

 

Martes(Tuesday): this is great. We were walking to a cita (appointment)  and run into Almas mom. We start to talk to her and she’s had this HUGE change of heart. When we first started teaching Alma she wasn´t really accepting of us, she wanted us to teach Alma, but she didn´t want anything. We have this conversation with her and she basically tells us that she wants to come back to church. She bears her testimony and it´s SO strong and she just loves the gospel. She knows it´ll be hard to come back, but she’s already come to church 3 times these past 3 weeks and whenever we talk to her she tells us to come to her house when we want! She´s awesome. Will be so good for Alma to see this change in her mom and have her there to really support her.

 

Miercoles(Wednesday): Somebody actually let us do servicio! (service) I know that sounds crazy, but sometimes it’s so hard to find a planned service project. Finally, members are letting us do it! It´s a miracle because really servicio  helps us so much and makes us feel great about how we are and the things that we´re doing. Find something you need done and ask the missionaries! They´ll do it. Even if it’s small. Then give them a treat to take on the run :)

 

Jueves(Thursday) got my valentines day kiss.... yes, it was from a 8 month old baby, but hey, I´ll take what I can get here on the mish :) no really wasn´t the miracle. Trinidad, one of our investigators...it’s been SO hard for him to understand prayer. Something so easy for us is so hard for people to get. But she FINALLY understood and wants to pray correctly now and understands why it´s SO important and that she´ll never get an answer if she doesn´t pray!

 

Viernes (Friday): well, had the flu, not too fun, but the miracle was I had strength to leave and work for a little bit.  The nurse told me to rest and try to sleep it off, and I did that for a while, but I mustered up the strength to work for a few hours. Just couldn´t not leave! There is work to be done! Said a prayer and ya, I was ready. Then the next day I was fine. Not 100% but good enough!

 

Sabado(Saturday) ALMAS BAPTISM! It was just so great. I have been working with this family forever now, almost 6 months now and it was just SO rewarding to see Alma be baptized and know that her family is active and will help her lots. I was just sitting there playing the piano and looked at her family and just got an overwhelming feeling they are part of why I´m in Limache.  Maybe I’ll stay maybe I´ll go next change, but this family is saved. They have found their Master again.

 

Domingo(Sunday): well besides church, we just had some incredible lessons in the tarde (late afternoon)! People who can really progress. We are still teaching Daniela and Mingo too :) they are good. Just working with them so they keep there compromisos. (committments)

 

Obviously, lots more happened but when we focus little por (by) little of the milagros (miracles) that are in our paths throughout our days, really it´s incredible how many there are. Even sometimes the smallest things, missing a bus, investigator wasn´t there, studying one verse and it’s perfect for someone that we talk to through the day, there are ALWAYS MILAGROS (miracles).

 

Oh my... quickly this story... we walk into this house of a MA and one its SOO hot. 2. we sit on the couch and the decoration is this doll... SO scary, think of this dirty, raggedy, one-eyed doll that would come to life in a horror movie, that’s the doll, we both just about died when we saw it. But we were talking to them and the hermana was choosing what himno(hymn) she wanted to sing and I am looking at her and this huge thing of drool just drops from her mouth and she just continues like nothing happened...I look right at Hna Contreras to see if she saw and she’s doing the same thing to me... we just about lost it. It was just SO funny, oh these menos activas (less actives). Sometimes they just kill me. I love em, but they kill me.

 

I really just love the mission. I feel so blessed to be able to serve and help these people in Chile. I love them and I love this Gospel.

 

Pday will be next Tuesday! para que sepan!(just so you know) Not sure what will happen, I think I´ll be leaving Limache. It´ll be hard to leave, but it’s always fun to go to a new place too. We´ll see! 

 

Love you all SO much!

 

Keep smiling,

 

Hna Sargent

 

 

Alma bautismo! 

Fma Apablaza that are now activos!

 

LOVE these boys. will miss them dearly!

more of Alma

 

Hna Contreras and I :)

 

This month is flying by, always does when you get along SO well with your comp. honestly, we just have fun together but also work hard. thats how the mission should be too! its the best. 

 

this morning we had a acticity, played dogdeball and had a BBQ. dogdeball was hilarious. so fun, i think the tourneys we had in seminary payed off.. and of couse there was some basketball being played as well. i just love activities its so relaxed and is a good way to get to know everyone better in the district and zone.

 

I got tons of pics of the baptism of Kaleb and the family... everyone looks so cute! (i miss normal clothes) and Kaleb, felicidades! bautismo :) YAY!! the best decision you can make in your life. never forget how you felt, you should write it down. Dax also is precious!

 

This week as for investiigators and such.. it was a good week, lots of people, tons and tons of contacts, we´re trying to find those chosen ones:

Mingo- dont think I´ve mentioned him. But we contacted him en la calle (on the street) about 2 weeks ago, he was in a hurry, like EVERYONE else here.... really its just an excuse, but we gave him a folleto (pamphlet) (don´t remember the english word) and wrote our number on the back. Well, the other week he called us and wanted to meet with us because he really liked the folleto (pamphlet) he said, we had NO clue quien era and set a cita (who it was but we set up an appointment )with him.  When he opened the door we remembered. It was just a miracle contact and a reminder that we have to do them because that’s when you find the people who are ready. Well, basically Mingo has had a ton of experiences in his life, some hard, some good but he is totally accepting everything. The only bad thing is his work and Sundays, but we can fix that! He feels bad for what he isn´t doing and wants to change. This week one of the funny things he said was ¨can angels have girlfriends?¨ that just makes him sound crazy, but he isn´t.. he is awesome! He always calls us to tell us, ohhh.. can you come tomorrow? He is just eating this goodness up.

 

Silvana shocked us all and is thinking of a mission. Not sure if she will but I think so! She wants to.. just needs to feel that it’s right! She’s awesome. Really converted. Also Juaquin is preparing to go to the temple. Yay.

 

Alma- bautismo este Sabado!! (baptism this Saturday) she passed her interview. We talked to her mom for a long time because her mom has to support her. We had a lesson with the elders on obediencia(odedience) and I think it was better for her mom than for Alma! Then we went to pass for Alma for church Sunday and Alma said... espere, mi mama esta cambiando ropa a ir! (wait, my mom es changing her clothes to go ) WHAT?  Her mom hasn´t been to church forever. Years and it was SO great to see them there together. This was the whole purpose for Alma to be baptized to help her family and now it´s happening. So great.

 

Pedro. Dad... not the Pedro you´re thinking, but he is good. We just felt like we needed to knock this one street so we did and found Pedro. He isn´t progressing too much, but we´ve only taught him twice. He told us last time that he was baptized to God but in no church because he just hasn´t found the right church yet. So we´ll see with him. Lives with his wife and 24 year old daughter so it´d be good for all of them. Bien amable (really kind/good). we are hoping that he progresses!

 

Yesterday and church we had a milagro. (miracle)  We were just praying that someone would come that we didn´t have planned and in walks this family that are obviously members but with someone who obviously isn´t! We end up talking to them after and she lives in our area and wants to meet with us. We have a cita Martes con ella. (appointment Tuesday with her)  It’s just crazy how the Lord really answers prayers! 

 

This week the elders came to acompañarnos (accompany) in some citas (appointments) and then after our district leader said, ya, I´m gonna buy you all a treat, so we went to this bakery and chose something and then left and we said bye to them and I just turn to Hna Contreras and said... ¨I feel like we were just on a double date¨ she was like... ME TOO! We just laughed. It wasn´t really, just how he bought our treats for us. ha!

 

Today I read Jacob 5. I remember reading that in sunday school with Bro Wheelwright and hated that chapter, seriouisly, hated it. I remember just talking to KG, paige and Q during the whole class...  I was just so lame and didn’t realize the goodness that it has, but it´s just filled with doctrine. I loved reading it. I didnt want it to end. So applicable to missionary work.

 

My aim of throwing rocks at dogs is accuarte. Get them in the legs everytime! Hna Contreras just finds the rocks and I just throw them. These two that follow us cause so many problems. It´s SO bad!

 

Well, time is almost up. I just want you all to know that I love you and pray for you always. Really, love to be here on the mission and teaching these Chileans that I love so much!

 

Keep Smiling,

Hna Sargemt

 

p.s. Please pray for my pendrive. The pictures aren´t there but some guy in the ward is a computer junky and is trying to fix it! just lots of prayers please! It´s my whole mission :)

 

it was pointed in the direction of the herd...

this is mingo... so funny!

this is mingo... so funny!

this is from today. and yes, i won. :)