Hermana Kristen Hilburn: God is really a God of miracles

BUENAS DIAS AMIGAS

This week has gone by seriously so fast and I honestly can't tell you what happened. haha the weeks are all just falling together and I am just loving life here in TALCA CHILE.

But really this week did go by so fast and it was just a tonnnnn of work. We basically contacted the whole week and were in search for new investigators. We've had to kill off about half of our interior becuase they weren't progressing so this week was a search and let me tell you it was a good one.

My companion and I put some goals for the week in order to have the spirit with us in every moment of everyday to really find the people that have been prepared to hear the gospel, and God put 4 new people in our track!!! We got to teach and help all these people and it was just so incredibly good.

This week has also been a little roller coaster con Loreto. I've been just so dang nervous because everything is like walking on eggshells with her. All week I was just praying for help. Praying for so much love to help her and praying to feel this love and to get the fear out of me. Literally prayed in every prayer to be able to help her quit smoking and prepare herself for baptism. So Hermana Revolo had an amazing idea of doing a calendar to help her stop smoking completely 2 weeks before her baptism. We prayed to know the goals that were achievable and to really help her fight the temptation to smoke. Every day we put the number of signs with scriptures, hymns and all that jazz to get the temptation off her mind.

She went to church this Sunday and I still was just feeling so nervous to talk to her. I just kept praying to have this love for her and to know what to do and how to help her, so after church we had a lesson with her. We explained the calendar to her and she wasn't too excited about it. She was nervous about not being able to complete the goals and failing. Both my comp and I were a little puzzled because we didn't know what to say. Then it hit me like a ton of stinking bricks.....the strongest feeling of love and compassion I have ever felt for anyone.

I just started crying and told her how much we love her. How much we pray for her and how much her Savior loves her. God answered my prayers and gave me the charity and love I had been praying for all week. The spirit was so strong and she agreed to do everything in her power to meet the calendar and to be baptized.

I am so extremely grateful for this experience. Ahh there is nothing better than feeling the true love of our Father in Heaven. I am so extremely grateful for this time I've had on my mission to really learn about this love Heavenly Father has for me. I've learned to love every single stubborn, difficult, bossy Chilean with every piece of my heart.

God is really a God of miracles. When we live his commandments and do everything in our power to do his will he will always make up the rest.

Ahhhhhh what a good day to be alive friends. I just want you to all know that there is always light in darkness. We really can do and be anything with the help of our loving Savior.

I am a witness of His love and I am SO EXTREMELY PUMPED TO SEE THE MIRACLES IN THIS LOVELY PLACE.

ALSO I AM SO PUMPED TO LISTEN TO PROPHETS AND APOSTLES AHHHHHHHHHHHH... 'BOUT TO BE A GOOD ONE FOLKS!

I LOVE YOU ALLLLLLL!

HERMANN HILBURN