Solo Viejitos

This week was full of a lot of stuff! First off, we had intercambios with our Hermana Leaders and Hermana Besaw came here to Paine and she has 3 weeks left in the mission! She's Awesome!

Then on Thursday we had our interviews with President Harris and they were awesome and this time I didn't cry so things are getting better! 

Members of the Branch

On Thursday night we had a Noche De Hogar with our rama and it was a super awesome activity we had a great turn out. We played games, had a spiritual thought and ate completos haha.  

We have an investigator of GOLD! He is ready to be baptized today haha! We asked him to be baptized and he said yes and we asked when and he said " Sunday" haha we had to explain that baptisms are on Saturday and that he still needed more lessons haha. He is amazing and 72 years old. He is getting baptized the same day as Hermana Irma who is 77. We basically only have investigators that are over 70 haha. Solo Viejitos 

This week we had 4 investigators in Sacrament and the Elders didnt have any so we said we would be nice and share hahah. 

Branch in Paine

Families are the most important thing to God! There is a reason that, as missionaries, we teach in the homes of people and invited all of the family to listen. There is also a reason that the first and second points of the first lesson are 1 God is our loving Heavenly Father who loves us and 2 that the Gospel Blesses families.

 I am so grateful to have grown up in a home where the spirit was always dwelling! I LOVE MY FAMILY and I want others to have in their family what I have in mine! That is why I am on a mission. Through the good and the horrible I am here for 18 months :) 

I love being a missionary

Love Hermana Jepsen

The Things We Do For Our Investigators

This week flew by! And was much better than last week!

We had the opportunity to watch the broadcast of the New Prophet which was super cool.

We have 2 new Fechas! whoohoo they are super awesome and have so much potential! 

We have our investigator Irma who has the daughter with Down Syndrome and so she hasn't been able to go to church but we had a plan to find a haitiana who can stay with the daughter during the 3 hours of church. So we found one and she was really willing to help. We passed by her house and took her to Irma´s so they could meet on thursday and everything was great! And then on sunday we went to Irmas house to go to church with her. Irma is 77 and can't walk very far so we had to take a bus but we waited 15 minutes for the bus and were late to church (and if you know anything about me you know how I feel about being late). But it was awesome that she could go to church!

Also on Sunday we had another investigator come to church and he bore his testimony in Priesthood! He is amazing and is ready for the gospel!!

This week in my personal study I have read a lot about the Book of Mormon and how important it is that we don't just read it but actually study it every day! It makes for a better day :) 

Have a Good week :) 

Love Hermana Jepsen

Cambios; Hard is Good

Hermana Isabel and Hermana Martinas Baptism

Okay, I'm not going to lie this week was really hard. Changing companions was a lot harder than I had imagined. It's like leaving your family all over again. 

But, this week was alright, lots of changes but change is good, right? I met my new companion Hermana Soares, she is from Brasil. She is a really great missionary and she has been out for 9 months.

This week we basically were just getting Hermana Soares settled in. We had the opportunity to watch some of the Funeral of President Monson. It was in Spanish and here it's weird because they play the Spanish over the english so I can hear the English and Spanish and I get really lost and confused a lot haha. But I'm sure the service was amazing. 

We had the baptism of 2 of our investigators Hermana Isabel and her daughter Hermana Martina. It was super awesome and the spirit was really strong. We had 2 investigators come and I know they felt that this is the true church and that they want to be apart of it.
Hard is Good. Hard makes us stronger, humbles us, and gives us a chance to prove ourselves. This change in Companions has been really hard for me but hard is good. Hard is a part of the gospel plan. Hard is constant and we choose how we can react to it. I knew there would be hard times in the mission but I am choosing to be happy. Like my Dad always says "Choose to be Happy" I'm so grateful for the knowledge that our Heavenly Father wants the best for us and he wants us to grow through hard times. 

"May we ever choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong." -President Monson

Love Hermana Jepsen

Me and Hermana Lyons, I miss her!

Cool Mural!

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This week was a little crazy because it was the end of the Cambio! 😱 I know time has flown! We had our last district meeting and it was really sad because our district leader Elder Monja is going home so we had to say goodbye to him.  It was really sad saying goodbye because its like we develop a little family and then it just gets broken up and we might not ever see these people again...sad. But its the mission! 

We had a Noche De Hogar with our investigators with baptismal dates. We have a 77 year old lady who is so cute and amazing. She has a lot of health problems and other difficulties but we are working with her to get through them! 

Me and Hermana Collins!  She is Amazing!

On Thursday we had a reunion of the new Missionaries in training in Rancagua and it was good. I got to see Hermana Collins again and she is amazing and soooo strong! During the meeting President Harris talked a little about being able to recognize if it is the spirit or our own thoughts and basically he just said ¨If you are keeping your covenants and it is a good thought, IT IS FROM GOD¨

Okay, I bet your are all dying to know now about cambios and....Drum Roll, I'm staying in Paine!! Woohooo! BUT Hermana Lyons is leaving....so I'm getting a new companion. Her name is like Scaves or something ( not really sure how to spell it or say it actually haha but tomorrow  I will learn). But I'm really excited for her to come. She is from Brazil and so my spanish will have to improve because I'll only be able to communicate with spanish.  It´ll be a good change!

 

I would like to now share a spiritual thought:

I read the talk by Elder Jose Alonso "Love One Another as He has Loved You" and I love where it says "Love without service is like faith without works; its dead indeed"

This really hit me hard especially as a missionary because it's so true. I have so much love for everyone I meet. We talk to someone in the street and I'm like "Wow, I love that person, What was their name again?" It is the weirdest feeling in my whole life. Also our investigators are just so amazing and my love for them is so great. I want them all to follow the example of Jesus Christ and be baptized and be saved! The mission is great! Serve others with your whole heart might mind and strength.

" I love you because I feel it inside my heart!"

Love Hermana Jepsen

Look at this adorable cat!

This is a member Hermana Camila and her son Jose Miguel, he is adorable!! I love her and him!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

This week was good, 

We met a man named Javier, he is amazing and is so ready to recieve the gospel. We had a Cita with him and it was so awesome he just had so many questions we could not answer them all! Then all of the sudden he stopped answering his phone and we went to his house and one of the people he lived with said that he had moved away to live in Santiago...Not going to lie my heart broke a little bit. He even had a Baptismal Fecha. But welcome to the mission. Its Awesome! 

Other than that we just had some lessons and it was just a pretty normal week. Yesterday we went to lunch with our district leader at one of their investigators house and then watched them play soccer haha. It was a good day. 

I hope you all had a great New Year and have started making some goals :) 

Love You All and I pray for you every day! 

Love Hermana Jepsen