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Monday, October 27, 2014

Someone Asked me if I was Chilean!

"Dreams in español started a few weeks ago and a few times I've woken myself up at night teaching a lesson in Spanish :p I love you so so so much mom.  I think about you all the time.


I'm pretty content here in Chile and am so stoked to see you during christmas!!!  (via Skype)   I loved the pictures you sent, letters are always amazing, but as for things like food go......the health bars and Oreos were super good and any manner of treat like caramels and chocolates
. But the things that were the favorite were the pics and letter :) No se preocupe! :)"

 I' m so sorry again about the cartas not getting to you, but glad you HAD THE PICS!! :) Seriously though, my area is a lot like Menifee de verdad!  It's been insanely hot, like Menifee too!  I love the people, the sights, the funny things chileans do, all of it!   A good song that captures it all is Give It All to Him, its an EFY song and it had to have been written by an RM. 


Here's some general info going on in Chile the last few min. I have to write.

We had to drop a few investigators this week which was really sad, but we also found so many good people to teach afterwards!   Opposition in all things !We are teaching about 16 people right now and have 2 baptismal fechas coming up.

Hermana Rodríguez goes home at the end of november :/

We have been working really closely with a family some elders in our ward are teaching right now, and are trying to help them get married in November and then baptised. Their names are Simon and Pamela and are seriously dry mormons.  You would really like them. They serve with all their hearts and have such great faith. We love them.

We found a menos activo through a miracle and are working to reactivate her and her entire extended family!


AND IT FINALLY HAPPENED: Someone asked me if I was chilean!  Usually the question is where are you from since it's obvious I'm not from Chile, but this week after talking to a lady for about 15min. she asked if my companion was from Peru, and then if I was from Chile. To which I responded Nopo! The spanish is coming along!

<3

Dominique can be reached at Dominique.temple@myldsmail.net








Monday, October 20, 2014

Let's Go Fly a Kite…..

"Lets go fly a kite and lets send it up in the atmosphere up where the air is clear! Today I thought of watching that movie with you guys! I love you! 
For P day we hiked to the top of this mountain in our area and decided to fly kites!   " 


For those who want to know Hermana's Schedule, here is a little excerpt from a letter she wrote to her Dad.

"Daily schedule. We wake up at 7 and until 8:30 we can eat breakfast, exercise, and get dressed and ready for the day. At 8:30 we have personal study for an hour, and then at 9:30 companionship study. Companionship study is usually and hour, but because I'm being trained it's two hours and we spend the time practicing lessons, watching district videos on how to be better and talking about things we have studied and how to help investigators. At 11:30 a.m. we have language study for half an hour and then salir al sector.  At 1:30 to 3:30p.m.  we have lunch at a member's house which is usually amazing.  After that, from 3:30 to 9:30 we are out working in the sector with lessons, contacting, and visiting menos activos and conversos recientes. It's a pretty full day!  There isn't a ton to report this week other than we had divisiones which I think is splits in english and I had to direct the sector meaning it was only me and the sister training leader and I had to lead her all around the sector and do all the talking.  It was terrifying....but it's surprising to see the progress in 6 weeks. A funny story, we went to an investigator's house to teach a lesson and her dog just had puppies.  She's gotten super attached to the dogs and told us that because of the puppies she has started to lactate and has breastfed some of them!!!!!   She's kind of crazy, I'm glad you've only shared things like popsicles with our animals haha! That whole day though was full of tender mercies and other blessings and it was very apparent that He's aware of each and every one of us and our specfic needs. 

I love you Dad and thank you so so much for your letter :)  I always print them out and read them throughout the week. Hope you're doing well and can't wait to hear from you next week! "

<3 Sister Temple


Last pic before I have to go, promised Id send a pic of our house! Its super cute and if you want to google it we live on rthe street Miranda and its in a condominio



The horses are some wild ones that happened to be on the other side of the mountain!


Hermana Rodriguez y Yo.

Monday, October 6, 2014

Don't give up on anyone!


So to fill you in on some details of the WORK,
here's what's going on. We found 3 new investigators this week and I want to share how we found them. 

The first are sisters, Alondra and Carla. It was hot outside and Hma Rodriguez had so much see  (thirst) that she decided to make like Alma and ask a random house for water after contacting.  Alondra answered the door and told us that her found, whom we had contacted the week before told her about us, and that she had been waiting for us to show up on our door. For a missionary, when someone says they were waiting for you, that's either SUPER good or an adventure. But in this case it was amazing! We taught her and her sister lesson 1.  They have such a spiritual hunger and craving for knowledge and the entire time it was an uplifting learning experience for all of us and we are so excited to watch them progress in the gospel! 

The other is Ignacia and we also found her through contacting.  After introducing ourselves and talking a little bit, she told us she didn't believe in God, but would take a pass along card.  But, we had just run out of pass along cards and folletos about the restoration and only had folletos about the plan of salvation.  So we gave her one of those and bore testimony of it.  There was a change in her, and she said we could come back later in the week.  Fast forward a few days and we had a lesson with her.  We taught about the plan of salvation, but I had an unmistakeable impression that we were missing something, and there was something specific on her mind that we needed to find out.  When my Hma. looked at me, signaling my turn to speak,  I told Ignacia that I felt there was something on her mind and don't remember specifics, but basically asked what was up. She then broke down and told us how the next day marks the anniversary of her father's death. We started crying with her, and from that point focused on the hope and miracle of being able to see loved ones again through this plan. 


There have been so many lessons this week in between the mission itself and General Conference, but the biggest thing Ive learned is how the Lord provides a way for us to do what He commanded us, and that there are people prepared. Some are easier to find, and others have been prepared in other ways
that take a little more time to find, but they are prepared. Sometimes when we intially share the gospel with someone they reject it.  Other times, people do about everything themselves with the exception of the baptism!  But both parties have been prepared or are still in preparation to receive His message of the restored gospel. Don't give up on anyone. That's a little bit of what's been going on in Machali, I love you so much family and can't

wait to hear from you next week!