Snap ya fingas

Hola cabros chicos!! Como estais?? 

I want to give you guys a taste of the life in departamental. We have the lovely blessing of living right next to a sausage factory so every time we leave the house we bring the scent of sausages with us all day. That is probably why we also attract so many stray dogs on the street. For morning workouts we run to the park to do circuits and the dogs just plop themselves down right in front of our face and chew their ticks off (which hna. Knight doesn’t mind, she likes to stop every 5 seconds to pet one) haha.

We have also been meeting with my man Walter. He is a an 80 year old from Peru and is really hard to understand. He has been seeing the missionaries for A YEAR but he finally has made the decision to get baptized! Anywho, we always meet with him on the corner outside his house to teach him. The other day we were teaching him and hna. Warner just stops talks and stares at Walter’s shoulder. He says, Ä bird just pooped on me didn’t it.”Us, “Yep.”He then casually takes a wad of toilet paper out to have me wipe it off. I actually didn’t mind because I love that guy with all my heart. 

Then yesterday, we were watching the restoration with him (on a portable dvd player) and all of the sudden a Chilean fight broke out on the street! Walter was not even phased! He kept his eyes glued to the screen and didn’t even pay attention to the shirtless guys snapping their hands off. In the U.S. ya know when girls fight and clap at eachother? Yeah, well Chileans snap at eachother and point at eachother with their lips.

Our friend Marie got baptized this week! She is the cutest haitian mama. She gives me the biggest hugs and makes me feel right at home. She was SO EXCITED to get baptized. She spent the whole day before buying all of the essentials and was GLOWING all day!

I love changes in the mission because it gives me more opportunities to fully rely on the Lord. I learned that if we truly live our baptismal covenents and aways remember Him the blessings of heaven really do start to pour out over us. He has so much in store for us, I love Him and my Savior so much!

Light the world this week!

Hermana Pulsipher

Eliminate the World

 Its December and so we are passing out “light the world”cards! But the word “light”in Spanish is ïluminar”and there is a similar sounding word called ëliminar”meaning “eliminate.”So we are contacting and my comp starts to explain the light the world card saying, “The church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints is doing something called, Eliminate the world.” The people we were talking to sat there silent for a hot second and then we quickly realized the error and corrected her saying, “LIGHT LIGHT THE WORLD.”I love Spanish guys and I also love that I get to spend one more Christmas here in Chile!

MILY GOT BAPTIZED! I could not stop crying during the whole program. All of their family is officially baptized and are now working on getting sealed in the temple! I love this family and the arepas they would make us with all my heart. God is a God of miracles and we should never doubt what he is capable of. It was only through Him that Mily could be baptized ! This family has strengthened my confidence in the Lord so much!

                12/4/2018 Do not underestimate how much you are capable of eating on the mission. You will offend people if you do not lick your plate clean. I Walked home with my hand under my belly as if I were 6 months pregnant. It is not recommended to eat two huge Chilean lunches and a Peruvian dinner within the same 5 hours. Pic down below.

              We met a less active lady this week who told us the reason she stopped going to church was because the hymns hit too high of a note for her to reach. Hay de todo en la viña del senor. 

This week I was able to think a lot about the doctrine of Christ and how hard it is for some people to hear the truth. Sometimes when teaching people that were living together, I was really embaressed and scared to lay it all out there. But in the scriptures we see many times when the prophets taught “hard things”to the people not to flatter them but to flatter God. Ive learned that Ive been set apart to teach these “hard things”because people are making real changes in their lives, we aren’t here to give them the good word and live it at that. Through teaching the true doctrine of Christ, the spirit will testify the truth and these people can not deny the holy ghost. Im thankful for the opportunity to know the truth, and to have the confidence in my Savior to be able to share these things with these people.  

Also went on divisions with my best bud Hna Bever and was able to visit my first convert Lucie! I was filled with so much joy seeing how firm she is in the gospel!

I love you all so much, this month is filled with so much JOY! What does joy mean to you?? Joy to me is seeing the changes that people make when theycome unto Christ and partake of His goodness! He is so GOOD! We are so lucky to havethe gospel in our lives, share it with someone this week! LIGHT THE WORLD!

LOVES Hna. Pulsipher!!