Being a Missionary is Cool!

I am being an awesome missionary.  Well I am trying to be anyway...

We went by one of our investigators this week for our appointment and she wasn’t home, but we talked to her husband.  He said his wife was at the hospital with their niece and her baby because the baby (3 months old) was super sick and they weren’t sure how serious the problem was.  He asked us to pray for them and we said a prayer right there, told him we would keep praying for them, and we felt prompted to say we would fast for them too.  He was really grateful and it was AWESOME because we haven’t had a chance to teach him yet.  So we fasted and one hour after we finished our fast the investigator’s husband drove by us in his car, stopped, backed up so he would talk to us and told us the baby would be leaving the hospital that day.  Then he thanked us again for the prayers.  It was a testimony to me that God really does know us.  He knows what we need, He knows when we need it, He listens to our prayers, and He answers them.  He loves us.  He wants to bless us, and He wants His children to know it.  And so He sends missionaries to spread the beautiful message of the restored gospel to people who need it whether they think they need it or not.

Being a missionary is so cool!  It is crazy...I am a 19 year old gringa and I sit down with a bunch of Chileans and listen to their problems and then somehow the Holy Ghost touches their hearts and lets them feel that God loves them...it is sweet!  I don’t even do anything...

Anyway, that is the most exciting thing that happened this week.  We are working really hard with all the less actives.  President Hinckley said it doesn’t do any good to baptize the whole world if nobody stays in the church...so that is our focus right now.  The majority of less actives have testimonies and they know the church is true and all the ones we’ve been able to visit have plans to return to church someday...now we have to convince them that some day is TODAY!  Wooo!  It is fun.  We have a program where we give them an assignment and tell them we need them, then they are supposed to accept and come to church and keep coming back to church and then all their nonmember family members get baptized.  Want to know something cool?  It works:o  You just have to get over the first couple of road blocks...The thing is we tell them that we need them, and it is true, and they feel it, and then they have a desire to come and serve the Lord.  Take care of your less actives!  

Well, that is all I’ve got this week I think...I love you TONS...I think my letters sound scatter brained...do they sound scatter brained?  I don´t know.  I like it when you email me and write me letters:)  It makes me happy:)  

LOVE YOU!

LOVE

Lexie