Hola Familia!
Oh mother please of
course they celebrate Valentine's Day here...it´s a universal holiday because
everyone needs love, just like the Gospel, because the Gospel is love.
Well sounds like your vacation
went great! Enjoying beautiful California...and dad your experiences---amazing!
You are a great example to all of how we can share the gospel! This morning
when we were running I felt like we were on the sea shore because it´s a sand
track and it was cloudy today and smelled like the ocean....so yea I felt like I
was in San Francisco. But I guess I should
feel like I am in Chile Belloto, because yea that's where I am :)....and yes it
is close to Viña, actually it´s like 5 min away from Villa Alemana oeste...my
first area...and one of our ward missionaries is dating the mission leader in
villa Alemana. So that was fun to have a
connection with her, although when I was in my first area I didn´t talk very
much because I didn't know very much Spanish.
This week has been a
week of trying our patience and diligence, we have been contacting doors, visiting
members and trying to see the forms in how our Heavenly Father wants us to work
here and find those who are ready to hear our message. But I told Hermana
C the other day that it was kind of funny because a couple weeks
before I got transferred I was praying to receive more charity....and Heavenly Father
put me here where people are not receiving us like we would want, but I know
for this I will be able to learn true love and charity...although it´s a lot
easier said than done, my comp has water blisters on her feet....poor girl I
gave her some mole skin. She read a
story in Our Heritage the other day and said we are going to keep walking because
the pioneers had worse experiences than us. So we keep walking and contacting.
But for this I know the Lord puts everything in our lives for a reason like
where I am in reading the book of Mormon with Alma and his preaching, I have
learned so much about the love and the importance to search the spirit in place
of everything.
So I am not quite sure
the exact translation in English but look up Alma 7:7...it´s one of my
favorites right now because it´s true there is no other thing important than
Jesus Christ and his coming...this has helped me also see the importance to do
contacts with love not with the attitude; ah please just accept us; but more
for them.
Oh the other day we
contacted a women in the street who had taken the lessons 3 years ago got
baptized but never received the holy ghost because something with wearing a
skirt to church...but when we talked with a member about how we found her...she
was super excited because she said she was a super excited investigator...so we
hope to find her.
I hope you all have a
very special Valentine's Day and remember you have someone in Chile Viña del Mar
mission who loves you all so dearly! I am so grateful for your love and desire
to uplift others and be examples! I know Jesus Christ is our Savior and WE have
to be the ones to receive him in our lives...we are in an internet place right
now (obviously) but anyway there was someone outside ringing the door bell to
enter, but the worker wasn´t here and I asked my comp if we could answer
and let them in...She said no we can´t but I said this person wants in. Of
course my missionary brain likes to do analogy and this is how it is with
Christ and missionaries sometimes we want to open the door so Christ can help
our investigators but we can´t be the ones opening it...the investigators
themselves have to do it. Well I hope you understand my analogy ha-ha.
I love you all so very
much!!!! Most importantly remember you have a Heavenly Father who knows your
needs and is watching over you!!!
les quiero
Hermana Morgan Anderson
p.s. The talks sounded great! ha-ha and tell my sister it´s
for a reason they are always talking about it...everyone asks me if my sisters
are going to serve missions I tell them idk..But sisters are you going to serve
missions? you guys are super blessed to have the teaching that you have now in
church, when Hermana R and I saw the manuals when we were in the Corvi
we were super jealous and wished we had them before our missions ha-ha...but if
you are going to serve missions...just keep doing what you can to strengthen
your testimony in the Savior and the Restoration.
