HOLA TODOS!
Hello from my new area in a place called Gran Avenida!
Cambios were yesterday so I am now in a new place with my new companion Hermana
Fuentes. She is from Mexico and has a lot of energy and loves talking to
people! She has been in the mission for only 6 weeks longer than I have so I am
her first gringa companion! I have a feeling these next 6 weeks are going to be
a lot different than the past 6 weeks, but i`m so excited!
Yesterday after cambios we ate lunch then got to work. Here
in Gran Avenida and in Chile in general, there are a lot of Haitians from
Haiti. They speak Creol and France mostly and sometimes Spanish or English. We
taught a Haitian girl named Rose who is 16 and is an investigator, and it was
so fun because she is learning Spanish just like I am so we had to talk slow
and simple... in other words, i was able to understand everything! it was
great! We taught two other lessons with another Haitian investigator and a
mother an son, both fairly old. Well the mother is 91 and she is so sweet we
call her abuelita. It was so funny because they have no patience for one
another and are always annoyed with each other and interrupting each other. We
also went and visited two different recent converts which was awesome. I can
tell the ward here is great, and I am super excited to get out of the house!
TAMBIEN they hold Spanish classes here every Wednesday night
and English classes every Saturday night (apparently no one comes to the
English classes but I hope to change that). AND every Friday night they get
together at the chapel and play soccer! I will finally get to work on my soccer
skills!
This week I learned a lot about talents or spiritual gifts
that we have. Everyone has been blessed with different talents, abilities, and
gifts. There is a scripture that I don`t remember exactly where probably in
Ether or Moroni, but it says something along the lines of "don`t deny the
spiritual gifts of God." It says don`t DENY because all spiritual gifts
are available to us if we work hard and strive to develop them. If I may not
have the spiritual gift of tongues right now, I can work hard and pray hard and
develop it. Everyone has been given spiritual gifts, but it is up to everyone
indivually whether they accept them and not deny them.
Sending my love from Chile!
Hermana Bever
Half of my old zone
Last photo with Hermana Vargas
first photo with Hermana Fuentes
the gorgeous view from my new apartment window!!
the elders who served in our same ward in Poeta and two of their investigadors,