Buenas!

Things have been great this week! Luckily, Hurricane Erica passed us by. It was pretty windy but it hardly rained. So we were safe! Tomorrow my companion is going to Santo Domingo to renew her visa, so we're in Santiago, and I'll go to Navarette 1 to do intercambios with Hermana Potter until she gets back tomorrow night. We just did intercambios on Monday, but she's a lot of fun so we'll have a great time. 

On Sunday we planned to bring the Aquino family to a member family's house for a Noche de Hogar, but the father was out of town and the mother was at the salon, so only the 15 year old daughter, Mabel, was home. But she was excited to go so we brought her. We talked about the liahona and the importance of reading scriptures. While the family was commenting on the lesson, one of them mentioned seminary. Mabel didn't know what it was, so we explained it to her. After the lesson she asked what time it starts, so as we were walking her home, we asked if should wanted to go. She said she would love to! So we showed up to her house at 5:45 Monday morning and took her to seminary. One of the Young Woman that had met her last week offered to walk her home that day, and offered to pick her up every morning on her way to seminary. So now she's going every day, and last night we gave her a Bible to bring with her. She is such a sweet girl and she loves reading the pamphlets we give her and filling them out. She loves everything we teach her, and we're so excited to be teaching her. We're hoping that she gets her family to go to church this week!

One family that we teach is the Guzman family. They've been attending church for over a year, but they can't find their papers to get married to be able to get baptized. We're working, but progress is slow. We're hoping to get someone to go to Santo Domingo to find the papers. They are an old couple, and they're both very sick. Natividad, the man, has cancer. He usually comes to church, but sometimes he is in so much pain that he can't get out of bed. And they have no money because he can't work, and he has to buy a lot of medication. Things are just hard for that poor family, and they take care of their three crazy disobedient grandchildren. On Sunday, Natividad was really sick, so we brought the stake president and another brother to give him a blessing. When we arrived he could hardly move. He was in a lot of pain. They gave him the blessing and then we talked about their papers for a while, and when we left, he stood up and told us that he felt so much better! It was really neat!

Have a great week! Love,

Hermana Jorden 

Ps.  Picture-We found some gorritos en a colmado, so one of the members taught us how to do it. We're now dedicated tubi girls!