Chile - Punta Arenas - Week 52- Thanksgiving dinner..

My Thanksgiving dinner. It looks like a hot mess, but it was actually delicious.
#eatingabowlofchiliinchile #amihipsteryet

Chile - Punta Arenas - Week 51- Fast and Prayers...

Wow, this week was awesome!

This past transfer, our Zone set the goal to fast every Saturday for one transfer and ask the Lord to help us find people to invite to be baptized. This week we were able to find three new people and invited two others to be baptized! They both accepted and are preparing for baptism in January! The others that we found are awesome and I know they are going to progress! Hopefully this week we will be able to set them with a date! 

I've never really had a personal testimony of fasting. I believe that it worked, but I've never had personal experiences.  This week I formed my testimony of fasting and prayer. I know that together, miracles can happen.

I am so grateful for the opportunity I've had to strengthen my testimony about so many things here on the mission. Things that are going to help me so much throughout my life. I'm convinced that this mission has been more to help me than for me to help others. I will never be able to thank the Lord enough for this blessing he has given me to serve. 

Hermana Segura

This is "La Esmeralda" (The Emerald) an old war ship that travels around
the world, we were lucky to see it since it is always gone..

We visited one of the Cemeteries here in Punta Arenas 

If I die young..build me one of these...

This is an Indian that grants wishes...  I wanted to ask him for
more baptisms, but the lady took way too long..

Last Package... 

Hna Mota is very happy with what you guys sent her.. 

El Ovejero.. (The shepherd)..

Feeling a little sheepish...

Preaching repentance to everyone.. it's fine..

We were asked to share our experience with the school system in the USA
with these class at one of the local Universities.. I had to do it in English and
it was hard.  Afterwards we were allowed to speak about the Church and what
we do as missionaries.  It was a great experience.

Making popcorn for our ward activity.  We showed "Meet the Mormons"
We had 11 investigators attend the activity.

What your face looks like when the wind is blowing at
150 Kilometers per hour.

Chile - Punta Arenas - Week 50- No blog letter

Just Hello..

Chile - Punta Arenas - Week 49 - No blog letter just pics..

"Look Simba, everything the light touches is our kingdom"...
just kidding this is my sector! Yes I have knocked just about
every one of those doors.....

This is Paulina.. a member in the ward
(not my comp..she is wearing my name tag)

Need someone to weed wack your lawn? call me! ;)
(service project)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!!

Chile - Punta Arenas - Week 48 - Exito (Success) in Ovejero

Okay this last week was awesome! I will start from the beginning:

When I got to this sector, we had 2 families progressing. The mission standard of excellence is 10. 

Our 2 families were progressing really well, but they were all that we had and we didn't have a very long list of other people we could visit. It was a bit of a hard transfer, walking around in circles and knocking the same doors over and over again that never opened, and by the end we only had 3 families progressing. Better, but we were still short.

The next transfer I got a new comp and we decided to break the bad habits of the previous sisters and start knocking doors in other neighborhoods. We knocked quite a bit for the first few weeks, but without a lot of success. We felt that no one was ever going to let us in the door, so slowly we went back to knocking the same doors as before that still never opened.

I knew there were people in our sector that were prepared, there always are, but we weren't finding them. I decided that we weren't finding them, because they weren't in the places where we were looking. We needed to look a little harder, walk a little farther, be brave and talk to more people, and knock the giant houses that everyone has always been afraid to knock. We needed to do something different. So we did! I took my little trainee and told her we were going to find the people that the Lord has prepared, but that it was going to be hard. Our feet were gonna hurt, and our boots were going to get dirty. We fasted, we prayed, we walked, we knocked, we contacted, and I am happy to say that we ended this transfer with  6 new families and we met the standard of excellence of 10 families progressing. 

This week was especially awesome. We found a neighborhood that I have never knocked before and we knocked every single door. It took about 2 hours, but we found 10 other families that were receptive and said that we could come back another day! A few days after that we went to another neighborhood that I haven't knocked much and found 4 other receptive families. I seriously have no idea where these people came from, or where they have been the last 4 months, but I am so happy that we found them! 

I knew they were out there, we were just in the wrong places, or we weren't willing to go the extra mile, (literally because all of these people live super far away). But it was worth it! And it is going to be worth it because I know that at least one of these families will be baptized soon. 

Many have said to me that this is one of those miracles that happens when someone is in the process of training and then after that the big miracles go away, and maybe that is part of it, but I don't think that its true. Any missionary who is willing to work hard and go the extra mile, to knock the doors that no one wants to knock, or contact people in the street even though they don't like to (like me...) is worthy of the same miracles as any other missionary whether they be in training, are leaders, or missionaries that have been out in the mission field for more than a year. Success is not limited, success is not conditional.

I am so excited for the work that we have ahead of us! It is going to be tough, but I know the Lord is right here along with us! This next transfer is going to be awesome and we are going to have a baptism! 

Heres to the last 4 transfers of the mission! Lets go!

Hermana Segura