Colds in the Summer?

Well this week was good BUT I got a cold! What?! Yeah, a cold in the Summertime! How terrible....

But the elders gave me a blessing and I am better.

This week we had 8 new investigators and they are all so AWESOME! We have a family of 4 and they are super interested. And another family of 4 who are super great too haha,.

Taking the train to Rancagua.

Hermana Soares

We took the Train to Rancagua because This week we had our zone conference with President and Hermana Harris and it was really good we talked about the Plan of Salvation.  We did drawings of the Plan and studied it for about 3 weeks which helped a lot to be able to teach it to others.

Hermana Soares, Me Hermana Silvia and Hermano Cristian, Cristian is the mission leader. 

Me and Hermana Silvia

Katie sent me Peeps!  Yum!  Soares did not like them!

Zone Conference in Rancagua

This week we also ran into Hermana Irma and...she is not doing very good. She is still having some problems with Smoking and her daughter Paola has problems in her stomach so Irma has not been able to go to Church.

Nothing much really happened this week because we were in the house a lot because  I was sick but,
next monday we will know Cambios! Hip Hip Hooray. Also, I have 5 Months in the mission but whos counting ;)

Love Hermana Jepsen

I got the package my family sent!

Stolen Grapes

Family Night!

This week was kind of long and we did not have a lot of success haha. Most of our lessons fell through and we walked and walked contacting people for a really long time every day.

Cleaning our Backyard!  We have an orange tree!

Me, H. Soares,E Jensen, Castillo, Smith and Barre.

 On Tuesday we walked for about and hour looking for a reference and we got lost and I got sunburnt! So we called Hermano Mario to see if he could come pick us up and we were waiting and all of the sudden there was a noise in the bushes, there is like a Wall of bushes separating the road from a vineyard and we looked and there were 3 men climbing out of the bushes with buckets of grapes!! They were stealing grapes! Well they came and offered grapes to us so we wouldn't tell anyone that they had been stealing. So then Hermana Soares asked how they knew we were hungry and they started talking to us like we couldn't speak spanish, They were like holding the grapes up saying "comida" "familia" "Hambre" we were like oh, okay thank you, but we can speak spanish haha. Then they walked away down the road. Then we got in the car with Hermano Mario and turned around and the same 3 men were showing the grapes and were "hitch Hiking" or in spanish "Haciendo Dedo" and Hermano Mario said, "dont buy or give them rides because those grapes are stolen" We said " We know! We watched them climb out of the bushes and we have some of the stolen grapes!"

Being Goofy!

Service Project, H. Soares, me E. Smith and Barre.

We were cutting wood for Nenita for the winter, she is awesome, she organizes our lunches!  

The Elders of Hospital had a baptism on Saturday but they don't have a Font so they had it in Paine and it was really awesome. A family of 3 were baptized and Ivan our investigator came.

Nothing much happened this week. But I hope you all have a good week!

Love Hermana Jepsen

District Conference

This week was kind of a long week. We had a lot of things to do and not a lot of time haha. We had our interviews with our President which is always a good time. Then we had intercambios with our Hermana Leaders .I went and stayed the day in Buin with Hermana Llanquinao. It was a good day, it's fun to be with a different companion for a day meet new people. Then we had our District Conference which is just Stake Conference but with a District haha. It was really good. They talked about the sabbath day a lot.  It was the theme of the conference and it was really helpful to hear some ideas and ways we can teach in our lessons.

Hna Weaver, Bracho, Me, Soares, Llanquinoa, and Ramirez

 

Me and Hermana Llanquinoa.  My companion for the day in Buin.

Then on Sunday night we had a lesson in a part of Paine that is really far away, like 30 minutes by Bus,  so we went and got there fine,  but then to go home there were NO buses No taxis and the person we were teaching doesn't have a car so we were STRANDED! I prayed and prayed and we prayed as a companionship and...I also cried because if you know me you know that time is really important to me, and also maybe it's just me,  but we were stranded in Chile, 30 minutes by auto, from our house. It was terrible to say the least. But finally a Colectivo (taxi) passed but we had to pay a crazy amount of money for him to drop us of in Paine. Welcome to the life of a missionary haha.

But we have a really awesome investigator named Ivan, he is from Ecuador and he is super ready to receive the gospel in his life! He always tells us to have faith and be confident that he will do the things we ask and that he will read and come to church haha. He is teaching us to have more faith. I thought it was the other way around but he is awesome haha. 

Have a good week! Love you all, thanks for your prayers and love.

Love Hermana Jepsen

200 Contactos

We got a challenge from our mission president to contact 200 people every week. That's 30 people everyday! A contact that counts is when we invite them to do something and so we have to talk to them more than just "hola" haha its difficult sometimes. But, this week we contacted 130 people which is a good start. I'm excited to keep contacting. 

Family Night with some of the Members of the Branch.

We have classes of Spanish with Naika and Windy our investigators that are haitian. They help us with Creyol and we help them with Spanish haha. It is always really fun.

We had a Capilla Abierta and it was more successfull than the one in Linderos last week but still we didnt have a really good turn out. 

We honestly dont have a lot of investigators that are progressing right now and its kind of sad...we have been contacting a lot and getting a lot of future investigators but none of them are really interested a lot and so they arent progressing very much. 

We have a 2 people that are from Boliva and they are really great but we found them drinking in the street the other day so we will have to explain the Word of Wisdom haha. 

This is Ivan's Dad Jorge.

We also have a new investigator named Ivan and he is from Ecuador. He is super awesome! We found him and his dad in the street the other day and his dad was just visiting but they are both super interested. Ivan came to church on Sunday too!

H.Soares, Me, Mario and Ivan.  Ivan

I don't really have anything exciting for this week but,

I hope you all have a great week! Love and miss you all. (especially the cold weather) 

Love Hermana Jepsen