End of Transfer 3 In Santiago

This transfer flew by and I am anxious anxious anxious to find out whats going to happen in this coming transfer.  This last transfer has been easily the hardest on the mish so far but in the last couple weeks I have seen a change in the branch here and it seems like we are finding more and more people who are so obviously prepared for the gospel.  Our district is working hard and gaining the trust of the members and we have a pretty good time together.  We will find out transfers tomorrow morning and I have been praying all week that I will get to stay one more transfer here in Santiago.  Obviously I will go wherever I´m needed but I have come to love the members and our investigators and I am going to be a little sad when I have to leave.
 

Speaking of investigators- so the kid that we contacted 3 weeks ago who showed up to church with his cousins?  we went and taught them on tuesday and they are the cutest family ever. About 10 years ago the mom and her oldest daughter had listened to missionaries and loved it but with school and work somehow they got busy and lost touch with the elders.  K is 15 and doesnt remember the missionaries but she shares the same love for the gospel.  When we showed up her first question was ¨what do I have to do to get baptized?¨ and when we started teaching she knew all of the answers because she had already read and highlighted a whole bunch of chapters from the gospel principles book.  She came to church again yesterday and because she wants to be able to go to the temple with the branch on saturday her baptism is scheduled for this Wednesday!  Her mom and sister need a little more time before they get baptized but her mom is already talking about what amazing missionaries her daughters are going to be.  K is AMAZING and I am so stoked about the idea that I get to go to the temple with her this week and that maybe in a few years I will get to write her while she is on her own mission.  My testimony about missionary work grows every single day and I have come to realize that it is all Him.  I work as hard as I can so that when the Lord places the people he has prepared in my path I will be ready and worthy to help them come unto Him.  Pretty awesome job amiright?

I cant remember if I told you about the references yet...anyway a few weeks ago we contacted a very very catholic house and they were not interested at all but they gave us two references.  One was the less active from Honduras that we are working with.  This week we finally were able contact the other reference and it is the cutest couple ever.  They are evangelicos and they moved to Panama from Venezuela about 2 months ago and they are just the nicest.  We had a pretty intense lesson about the restoration because he knows the bible really well and wanted bible proof about everything, but he had really honest, good questions.  I have been studying the bible a lot so that I can be ready to answer his questions the next time we go.  We came out of the lesson and both of us just said how much we need to prepare ourselves more to help him because if we can help him find his answer he will be an amazing bishop someday.  I might just reach my goal of baptizing a future stake president!

My tender mercy this week came in the form of Diablo the rotweiler.  We taught this amazing family and they have a giant rotweiler named Diablo.  I was a little nervous at first but it turns out he's like Wilbur just bigger!  He just wanted some love and he had his head on my lap the whole lesson haha but my comp is mortified of dogs and he tried to put his paw on her lap and she fell backwards off of her chair she was so scared haha!  She kept telling me he was gonna bite me but it was seriously the highlight of my week and made me super homesick for my boy Wilbur!

There are some really hard moments on the mission (sometimes hours) but the days are good, the weeks are good, the mission is good!  

Keep looking for miracles and read your scriptures!!

Love love love,

Hermana Smith