Creo en Cristo

hola hola hola!!

Another week has come and gone and I am still loving it here! There is lots and lots of walking, but it has been a very successful week with lots of contacting and lessons! We had a very successful zone activity and another baptism so I am just really feeling the Lord's hand in the work.

On Friday we had our zone activity and we went to a super busy street next to a farmer's market so we could contact more people. We had a banner with CREO en CRISTO written on it and anybody that walked passed could get their hand painted to paint their handprint on the banner if they believe in Jesus Christ. We had like over 200 people come and it was super awesome and fun!!

Olga is definitely a chosen one! She has a 16 year old daughter who has been a convert for 4 years and just started bringing her mom to church. We actually got the reference from another member in the ward and we immediately went to go visit her and she wanted to be baptized. Her baptism was so beauthiful, but everything that could possibly go wrong, went wrong, but she was baptized! We had to track down someone with keys to the chapel early in the morning to fill the font. We couldn't get the baptismal font door open because those keys were with another set of keys. The font was already full when we opened it, but with cold water and it would have taken longer to empty it completely then fill it with warm water. Then we just emptied it half way and started filling it up with warm water, but the hot water wasn`t working so we started boiling water in big pots to dump into the font. Finally right after the opening of the baptism, we went to go to the font and someone had closed the door to the font and the Bishop had left with keys so we had to wait to get the keys back. In the end it all worked out and she was baptized!

It has been a fantastic week all in all and I can't imagine being anywhere else in the world! I love you all and I'm so grateful for all the love and support you have for me!

Love,

Hermana Pettijohn

1. Olga`s Baptism on Saturday!

2. actividad de zona!

3. The best ice cream I have ever had!

4. We get sunsets like this almost every night so it feels like a ittle piece of home!!

Another week in the desert!

HOLA EVERYBODY!!

The weeks have started to turn into months and I just absolutely love being here in Chile!! I can see the Lord´s hand in everything that happens here on the mission and how the blessings and miracles just keep coming! 

I am so incredibley grateful for all the blessings I have recieved from serving a mission and I just love love love being here and serving and loving the people.

Not much new has happened this week, but we just talk to so many people and I just love learning the language and learning about the people.

We have another baptism this weekend and I´m so excited for another crazy week here in Antofagasta!!

LOVE,

Hermana Pettijohn

1. Bautismo del otro semana 

2. A heckin good completo

3. WE WORE PANTS

4. Our "wonderful" companions that follow us everywhere and we really have no idea why!

A Week of Miracles

Hola Everybody!

This week has just flown by so incredibley fast and time on the mission is so weird but it´s great. This week I just hit my two months in the mission but it feels like I havn´t even been out for that long.

The first miracle this week was that I had my first baptism being out on the mission!! His name is Fransisco and him and his family were the very first house I went to on my first day getting to the mission field. His wife and daughter have been members for a few months and he finally made the decision to be baptized and they just have to wait to go to the temple! It is so amazing to see how the Gospel can change people´s lives! 

My spanish is getting a lot better so that is another miracle. I have had to learn to have a lot of patience for myself and pray that other people will have patience with me and how slow I speak but I know it will come. I have already learned so much and I know I can learn more. I have been also trying really hard to read The Book of Mormon in Spanish and I know that doing it has helped me a lot. 

I have such a wonderful ward (Cerro Moreno) and the members are so good about feeding us. I don´t do a whole lot of talking at our lunches so I eat pretty fast therefore they just keep offering me more food. So I guess I need to get better at Spanish so I don´t get fat. 

The Lord is really blessing Hermana Logan and I with so many wonderful people to be able to teach. He has prepared them recieve this message of happiness and it is such an honor and privilege to help others come into the fold of Christ, be baptized, and recieve all the promised blessings of the gospel. 

If you have any questions or just want to talk, please just shoot me an email and I would love to hear from you!     

Love,

Hermana Pettijohn

PS. Sorry no pictures this week. The computer wouldn´t let me upload them :(