The One Where We Held an Open Chapel

                I promise, I have never seen a busier transfer.  These past few days have been INSANE, but oh my goodness, I am falling in love with missionary work more and more, and I don’t think it is possible to love being a missionary more than I do right now.  Seriously, I LOVE everything about missionary work!

                Hermana Christensen is AMAZING!  She has the spirit so strong and she hasn’t stopped smiling.  It is truly a JOY to be around her.

                I got here in Curico and we started working hard right away – I still haven’t unpacked.  But, I LOVE Curico!  We don’t have a ton of investigators, but we have great plans to work so hard and I haven’t been this motivated in my life.  Seriously, I’m so excited!!

                Today my companion and I woke up early and ran 4 miles and I think that is why I am so pumped!  We have SO MANY new missionaries in our zone!  It’s fun seeing their excitement because it helps us recharge.

                Time just got put on fast forward and it is scaring me to death. But it doesn’t matter because this is going to be the GREATEST TRANSFER! Oh, also, Hermana Christensen is EXACTLY like Kaitlyn Wright (mom note: Kaitlyn Wright is a returned missionary that Aimee grew up with. To compare someone to her is the highest compliment possible).  So she is literally perfect!  It’s the greatest thing ever!

                We had a training in Rancagua for the Hermana leaders and District Leaders.  It was incredible.  I love my companion so much because on the bus ride home we decided to say a prayer and make goals and plans for how we are going to apply what we learned and how we are going to help the other Hermanas in Curico.  And something that I learned is that to gain someone’s love and trust, I have to love them first.  And love is just the byproduct of the verb to love. You have to show love and create it.

                We had a group of missionaries meet up in Lontue to help out the elders and contact in their area.  Elder Galdeha had us all close our eyes and remember opening our calls.  He had us think about coming to our first area and the excitement we had.  It was so amazing to think back to all those days dreaming about walking the streets of Chile, talking to everyone, always smiling.  I decided to make that dream come true.  We got to work and contacted for a couple hours.  One lady held the Book of Mormon and, without even opening it, said “Wow!  I can feel that this book is powerful.”

                Also, we had an “open chapel” in Alameda.  All the missionaries met up and made the church into a visitor’s center and ward members came to explain parts of the tour.  Some of the Hermanas were the tour guides, but my companion and I were assigned to be outside gathering people and inviting them inside!  It was amazing!  We met 2 girls who were out shopping and then agreed to come see the tour.  We walked them in and handed them off to the other sisters and we headed back outside to keep inviting more people.  After a while these 2 girls came out of the church and ran across the park to find us.  They were waving their copies of the Book of Mormon and told us how happy they are and how much they loved it!  Tomorrow they are going to church in Alameda!  Ah, today was FULL of miracles (and tracting J ).