I
have bad news... We aren't allowed to call home in the airport. I'm
not sure why but I barely even get to email before I go. I'm sorry
about that...
I
have a flight with LAN airlines at 8:27 to Santiago and then I'm not
sure the second airline but we're flying in a "Air Bus/ Jet" from
Santiago to Osorno at around noon. The first flight is about 8.5 hours
long then we have quite a layover... about 6 hours... then the second
flight is about 1.5 hours. So it should be an exciting night :)
I'm
all packed now which is exciting! I want you to know that I am
completely at peace with going to Chile right now. I'm feeling about
the same as I was on the way to the airport (remember how it was strange
how little emotion I had.. haha). I never really have broke down about
leaving and I a still comfortable with the idea of leaving. I am
nervous about not knowing quite enough of the language and getting to
know a completely new, fast, slurred dialect of Spanish but even that
I'm not all that worried because I know that I will have the Lord's help
and everything that happens happens for a reason and is for my good.
I
just want to tell you a quick story then I have to get off! So we do
this thing at the CCM called TRC where we can have volunteers come in
so that we can teach them lessons and we had this man come in who has
only been a member for 2 years and we were talking to him for quite a
while and we were in a group of 6 missionaries teaching him. One thing
that was really cool was at the very beginning of the lesson I could not
understand what he was saying, but then I think I started getting used
to his spanish (I've noticed that it is always harder for me to
understand people's Spanish in the first few moments that I am talking
to them but then you kinda get used to the way that they say certain
things and I can understand them.) So after a little while I was able
to understand just about everything he said. Which was awesome because
he was definitely speaking at a normal speed :) Then he told us after a
while of talking that he needed help understanding how to receive
personal revelation. He said that he only ever received answers in his
mind and that he wasn't even completely sure if it was his answer and
Hermana Snyder shared with him the scripture about how we receive
answers in our mind and in our heart and I shared with him that we all
receive answers differently and as we go to church and read our
scriptures and pray, we can recognize how the spirit speaks to us
individually. I also shared with him that there is not just one way
that the spirit speaks to each of us but that I have felt the spirit in
many different ways and am still learning to recognize all of the ways
he speaks to me. He closed the lesson with a beautiful prayer and then
after I was thanking him for his time and for sharing his experiences
and he told me that as I was speaking he had goosebumps! I was soo
excited to tell him that this was the sprirt testifying to him of the
truthfulness of my words. He said he knew and gave me a huge smile and
firm, double-handed handshake and thanked me. It was one of the most
amazing experiences I have ever had! I was able to be the Lord's tool
in helping this man to know another means by which he receives
revelation! So cool!
No time for pictures this week... But know that I love you soooo and I have lots of pictures to get to you later!! :)
--Hermana Harvey
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