Cambios

I absolutely love all the pictures everyone´s sending.  Addie is adorable!!! i can´t wait to meet her.  and hey, that reminds me dad, just to keep in mind that it sure would be lovely to see/visit the whole family when i get back whether that means i get to travel around to US to see them or they come to see me...? i am gonna have 3 months before school starts... Cassi said something about going disney world, i was already planning on asking if i could fly out to see them in wisconsin but meeting up with them in florida would be nice too :)  just a thought.....

So we have transfers this week. still its not 100% sure but most likely Hna santillan is off to Chiloe and i get to stay here. but i have no idea who´s going to be my new companion.

So i thought i was finished with needles and shots and all but no, the grand finale, we donated blood this week for the mom of one member.  I´m overcoming all my fears in the mission.  Needles? yah no biggy.   after donating blood they told us not to do anything strenuous with that arm.  so what do we do? we go and build a house after.  we helped our new investigator whose house burned down 6 months ago and has been building his house on his own.  It was quite the challenge hammering down the floor with nails right after donating blood, my arm was patheticaly weak.

We saw many miracles this week. We had a special fast for Stefi, (the girl who got her mission call for chiclayo peru), her date to leave was being postponed due to some medical complications.  so the elders and us fasted for her that she´d be able to have her operation and leave on her mission.  She had a date set in June to have the examine to see if she needed the operation, 3 days after the fast the doctor randomly called her and told her she could have her examine the next day. so she went the next day and he told her that she didn´t need to have the operation after all.  so she´s set to leave on her mission!  God truly answered our prayers and fast!

the other miracle was on saturday, we had been walking in the pouring rain, soaking wet for hours without any luck. We were knocking on doors but our sector is so small we´ve seriously knocked on every door at least once.  So at one point my companion turned to me and asked me what we were going to do and i answered, ¨pray¨.  so in the pouring rain we prayed asking to know where to go and what to do.  when we finished Hna santillan said that we were going to visit one contact that lived in the opposite direction that we were headed. so we turning around and headed back. on the way back, we passed by this sector of houses that is always blocked by a locked gate. we´ve never been able to enter this sector, but when we passed by the gate was wide open.  so timidly (for its a private sector) we entered and began knocking on doors.  everyone recieved us. every single one of the houses.  I know that that was not chance that we just happened to pass by that sector of houses and the gate was open.  That gate is always locked and it was late with no one around, i know that it was God´s answer to our prayers.  He hears us and is aware of us.  He will never leave His children helpless.  

I love you all! thanks for everything you do :)