I wouldn't call those "baby" dolls!
We had in our plans to visit a
referral, so we showed up and said, “Alo” and waited for someone to come. As we waited, a man passed by on his
bike. We said, ‘Hi’ and he greeted us
and continued on his way. When he turned
the corner, Hermana Christensen smiled and said, “He looks like Santa,” and
then we both laughed because it was SO true. We waited for a couple more
minutes, and right as we were about to leave, a woman popped her head around
the corner and looked at us. She started
walking down the street toward us. She
asked us who we were looking for and we said the lady who lives here. She told us they weren’t home, but then she
said, we could come over to her house for a second to drink some juice to rest
from the heat. So we followed her to her
house wondering how she knew we were here and why she was so willing to invite
us to her house. And then as we walked
up to her house we saw SANTA’S bike! It
was a Christmas Miracle. J We walked into their house and “Santa” came
out with watermelon for us. We talked
for a little while and then shared a Christmas message with them. Mary and Elisao are so wonderful and told us
to cover over whenever we want.
This week was the best week so far! For the 24th we ate dinner with
Hermana Cira and her sister Kassandra.
They were so nice to invite us to their home. They are so sweet.
Christmas morning we woke up,
decorated the room of Hermana Garcia and Hermana Ellingson, then we opened
packages and letters that people sent. We
went to church, ate lunch and then SKYPED the family! It was so wonderful! Everyone was so BEAUTIFUL and it made my heart
so happy to talk to them. It was so
weird because I forgot that there is life outside of the mission. But it made me realize how much I LOVE being
a missionary. Then after, we had an FHE
with Olga and Edgar and it ended up being the best Christmas so far!
Gifts from Hermana Christensen's Mom
A package from Aunt Tracy
We had leadership council in
Rancagua with all the zone leaders and sister leaders. President Harris talked about Repentance and
how crucial it is for everyone (investigators, members, us as missionaries) to
experience the atonement of Jesus Christ.
To go through the repentance process completely and feel God’s
forgiveness. It was so incredible, the
Spirit is so strong every time President Harris talks. A few things are changing in the missionary
department for all of the missionaries in the world. But all he said is that we are going to have
interviews with him every 6 weeks! The
rest of the news is going to come on January 25th when we hold a worldwide
mission conference.
Real sugar cookies from Hermana Harris (Mission President's Wife)
The greatest thing
happened! We were in the street and some
guy a block away yelled to us and motioned for us to come. So we rode over and it turned out to be an
Elder who served here 6 years ago! He is
from Salt Lake and was visiting Chile with his wife. The crazy part is that his wife (Becca Beau…in? I don’t remember her last name) said she
served her mission in Ohio and so I asked if she knew any Bennett’s. She was like, “Um, I know a Rick and Rita
Bennett”. And I died. I said, “THEY ARE MY GRANDPARENTS!” So naturally, right then and there, we
stopped to take a picture. Apparently
she grew up in Pepperwood (Sandy) and was in their ward her whole life. She talked about how inspiring Grandma is with
her hand and how she always taught “to love yourself the way God made you”. And she talked about how faithful Grandpa was
in his calling to do the ward newsletter.
She said, that even when she was on her mission he sent the newsletter
to keep her in touch. Ah, it was such a
wonderful tender mercy to run into them.
And they invited us to meet an old investigator and now we are going out
to visit them this week!
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