Merry Christmas!

This week was good! It is SOOOO HOT here in Chile I am dying! Haha Its 34°C 

We had Zone Conference! It was really good and we talked a lot about the atonement and how we can better use it in our lives.

We contacted a Jehovah Witness this week and she basically just wanted to fight with us, hahahahah, but we were really nice and just told her that God loves her.

We had intercambios and they are always days of miracles! We found the cutest family of 5 and they are really excited about learning and they loved the book of Mormon and so we are excited to keep teaching them! 

A lady who was excommunicated from the church about 4 years ago was baptized again this week and it was really special to see her progress! 

We had a really fun activity in the ward and we sang a lot of Christmas songs! 

I hope you all have a great Christmas! 

Love, Hermana Jepsen

Cambios

Hermana Bracho my new Companion, she is great!

This week was really really really long. But it is over and we are going to start a new week that will be even better! 

This week we had cambios and we waited in the bus terminal for 7 and a half hours waiting for our companions to get to Talca. It was a long day. I studied the Book of Mormon for like 4 hours at least. But Hermana Bracho got here and we are doing great!

We had misson counsel this week for all of the leaders and because I am an hermana Leader a lone and so is hermana Aquino our companions stayed together and I got to be with Hermana Aquino for a day! It was great! I love her!

We woke up early one day to help one of the new Hermanas, Hermana Anderson, learn how to ride a bike haha! It was funny and good but I was tired all day haha. But now she can ride a bike and that's what is important!

Okay, Wilson or Elder Seguel is in the mission! Wilson is a kid from Chepica that was really less active when I was there and we taught him and helped him come back to church and stuff and now he is serving a mini mission here and is in my zone! It was such a great day when I got to see him and see how much he has progressed! These are the reasons I am on the mission! 

Hermana Maria is doing soo good! She gave away 2 Books of Mormon this week to her friends! She is a missionary already! Woohoo! 

This week was the Primary Program in the ward and it was so cute! It made me remember the Lovely Primary Program at home that sometimes caused more laughter and also tears than any other thing!  haha!

Have a great week and a Merry Christmas if I can't write next Monday! 

Love Hermana Jepsen

Baptisms

Marias Baptism! 

This week was good! We saw a lot of miracles! We had more lessons than last week and we found even more people to teach! It was awesome! A good way to end the Cambio.

So to start we got cambios and.........I am staying and Hermana Howells is leaving to go train and open an area! I will be an Hermana Leader alone and my companion will just be my co companion. It'll be really different to be an Hermana leader alone but it'll be good. I am happy to be staying in Panamericana. The members are BAKAN.

We had intercambios this week with the hermanas from Piduco. Hermana Valdivia was my companion and we had a great day! We contacted some super awesome people and then Hermana Valdivia with her companion went to visit them the next day and they are progressing a lot! Its awesome!

We are teaching a less active family and their daughter Montseratt is really cute. She is 16 and wants to start going back to church and she has a goal to go to the temple to do baptisms for the dead in 4 months and it just so happens that that is when my lovely family will be here in Chile sooooo, surprise we are going to go to the temple with her!! 

Maria se bautizó!!! Woohoo! She is so cute! I love her a lot! She was so ready to be baptized and she just fits right in with the ward like a member! 

The elders also had 3 baptisms! It was really awesome! They baptized 3 young women! It was really special. I love the mission!

I hope you all have a great week! 

Love Hermana Jepsen

Franco and Fernanda and the Elders.

Other members that are awesome!!!

Paulita and Hermana lavin 

Ximena, she is awesome!!

The cutest little twins ever! Josefa and Pia 

Marias dress was hand sewn by a member named luz and she stayed up until 4 in the morning making it!
 Shes an angel!

Sacrifice and Faith

This week was amazing! We had 19 lessons with the people we are teaching! (that's a lot for those of you who don't know) haha! We worked HARD

Well, Teresa and Maria passed their interviews for baptism BUT Teresa is now hiding from us so that's sad. We went to her house to go to the church with her and no one came out and then we just went to church and in the night we called her and she answered because it was her voice but said it was her sister and that she was out of town... But we are hoping she was just scared and will be able to get baptized another day.

But on the bright side, Maria is finally going to get baptized! She has had like 4 fechas and finally is going to get baptized! 

This week we also visiting Ximena and she is getting a lot better! She is so cute, she told us we are like daughters for her! 

Okay funny story, we were riding in bikes really fast to the house one night and there are speed bumps and Hermana Howells didn't see it and I thought in my mind that one was coming up and next thing I see is heremana Howells flying, literally flying, with her arms up in the air and then on the ground! She crashed a good one! Then I was trying really hard not to run into her so I was dragging my feet on the ground haha! It was crazy but we had a good laugh after I knew she was okay.

One morning a guy called us and told us he wanted us to go visit him so of course we just dropped all of our plans and went to visit him! He is really awesome and has desires to learn more! 

We found a really cute family from Venezuela. The mom has been here 1 year in chile and the kids and the grandma like 4 months. They said they want to become closer to God. They are amazing.

We also had a service project for the day of national service.

ah and Donald from San Vicente was baptized! I wasn't there but I taught him all the way up until his baptism! 

Have a great week! 

Love Hermana Jepsen