Week 28: I PUT MY TRUST IN HIM

Hello! 

This week was great!

Last Monday, our zone had an activity, and it was my first activity EVER in the mission. We played futbol or in our part of the world, soccer, and it was SO FUN. Our team won, obviously. Mostly because we had actual soccer players on our team. Such a blast.

Also this week I learned how to make bread! I am telling you right now, the bread here is amazing, and I may or may not eat way too much of it. It is one thing that America definitely doest have! GREATEST thing ever. 

My poor companion was sick this week, so we didnt have many things happen, but one thing I have learned is that even though it seems like it would be awesome to stay in for a few days as a missionary, it really isnt. I missed working and finding! And now, we are back at it, ready to find people and bring souls to Christ! 

The mission is the greatest gift, and experience. I have grown SO much. I love my Savior, and my Heavenly Father. I know that this life is really to be lived in service to them. When we live and are obedient in this life, Oh how great our reward will be in the next! (:

LOVE YOU ALL!

PIC: My district! (:

27 And I have been supported under trials and troubles of every kind, yea, and in all manner of afflictions; yea, God has delivered me from prison, and from bonds, and from death; yea, and I do put my trust in him, and he will still deliver me.

THIS WEEKS PICTURES

Kamryn's District

An investigator that Kam and her comp in the mtc approached while out getting ice cream.  He ended up getting baptized 

A note from a member to Kamryn and Sister Evans

Hermana Watt & Hermana Evans – Do you remember this photo?  On Wednesday I was leaving the temple and saw this guy and remembered how you invited him to come to church and he came.  Guess what?  He got baptized about two weeks ago and was at the temple to do baptisms.  The two of you started it all.  I´ve been telling other CCM missionaries about this and telling them that miracles can happen, even when your Spanish is so-so.  Thanks for being great examples.

Hope you´re both doing great.

Kam and a family in her ward 

The ladies of the zone

P-day with the district.  Footbal (soccer)  Kam's district won.  

Some dog in a chair outside.   

 

Making bread

Turtle lady investigator

Week 27: THAT BY HIS GRACE YE MAY BE PERFECT IN CHRIST

I am overwhelmed this week by the blessings I have been able to witness this week; and the BEST part is, they were blessings I had to realize and look for, but they were really miracles from the Lord.

First off, we found a new investigator this week, and his name is Alan. He is 21, and he has a 3 year old son. We contacted him on the street, and he started telling us how much he respected our religion, and told us he was excited to hear more. EXCITED. No one ever uses that word. EVER. So that was miracle number 1. We found someone who was excited. We went to His house, and he had a million questions. He told us that he knows there is a God, but that he isnt sure that He is a loving God. A father figure. Someone who cares about us, and really wants the best for us. We explained to him the nature of God, and how he IS our loving Heavenly Father, and he loves him, just as much as he loves his own son. He is really starting to grow, and in our lesson the other day he said: "What if I became Mormon?" And we said jokingly: "We would love that!" To which he said: "I want to. But I am scared." Arent we all? But he is AMAZING, and progressing. He is miracle number 2 also. He is submissive, and willing.

For those of you who didnt know, I have been having some pretty serious back problems since I have been here. I cant take a bag or a backpack or anything. It really is hard to have this pain and work effectively and have my mind 100% on the work. But thanks to miracle number 3, priesthood blessings, and miracle number 4, fasting, I am doing SO much better. The Lord has more plans for me here in Chile, and I have been SO blessed to have these things so avaliable to help me progress, and help others progress as welll.

Miracle number 5, WE FOUND A FAMILY. These are SO hard to find. They are super excited to meet with us, and we have an appointment to share more with them this week. The best part is the dad speaks english too! So we get to tell some jokes. He is a funny guy. I pray for them always, and really hope we can help them recieve the miracle number 6, an eternal family.

I love this work, and it is SO much more rewarding when I see the simple yet AMAZING miracles in every day.

Thank you all for your support and prayers.

Estoy tan agradecida a mi Padre Celestial por cada uno de ustedes. Gracias por todo! Cuidense mucho! (loose translation:  I am so grateful to my Heavenly Father for each of you. Thanks for everything! Take care a lot!)

Love, Hermana Watt

GRACE:
The enabling power from God that allows men and women to obtain blessings in this life and to gain eternal life and exaltation after they have exercised faith, repented, and given their best effort to keep the commandments. Such divine help or strength is given through the mercy and love of God. Every mortal person needs divine grace because of Adam’s fall and also because of man’s weaknesses.

MORONI 10:32
32 Yea, come unto Christ, and be perfected in him, and deny yourselves of all ungodliness; and if ye shall deny yourselves of all ungodliness, and love God with all your might, mind and strength, then is his GRACE sufficient for you, that by his GRACE ye may be perfect in Christ; and if by the GRACE of God ye are perfect in Christ, ye can in nowise deny the power of God.

Pictures

Is she blowing kisses to the cow?  I am confused!

Hace Frio...It is cold!

Week 26: BRINGING THE WORLD HIS TRUTH

This week was a really good week! We found 7 new investigators, and even though 4 of them changed their minds, we have 3 super good people, and we are really praying for their progress. In the meantime, we are really working hard with the less active families, and this Sunday, we had 3 less active families come back to church who havent been in YEARS. The bishop of the ward came up to us after and told us that it is okay that we havent had a baptism yet, because we have changed the life of 3 families, and to keep working hard. We are seeing miracles here in the Sweet Village! 

The longer I am here in Chile, the more I just want to stay forever. I love the people here. Their kindness is beyond words, and there are some people we find and talk to who are just so humble. I love the mission, and the experiences that come with helping people come unto Christ. 

This week we had another general authority come who is from Chile. Him and his wife spoke about the importance of serving, and serving with all you have, especially your heart. (Thats what I got out of it at least (: ) I realized that we can ALL do that, in everything that we do. We are ALL disciples of Christ and have this great responsibility. What an honor! We are more than just people, we are choice sons and daughters of God we have been saved for these times to "bring the world His truth". That is the responsibility of EACH one of us. Invite your friends, family, and EVERYONE you know to come follow Christ. He WILL bless you for serving with ALL your heart. 

Cuidense! 

Hermana Watt

PICTURES

Is Kam going to the dogs?

Hermana Burwasser & Hermana Watt

Kam's apartment is next to the church

WEEK 25: HELLO from the Sweet Village!

 My area is called Villa Dulce which means Sweet Village! So here we are (:

This week we went to a stake activity where they had the youth prepare to be real missionaries. They were at the "MTC" in the morning, and then in the afternoon, they split up and went with us to do contacting! It was super fun. Thank goodness I can finally get my way around in Spanish because the companionship I took only spoke Spanish, obviously! It was a BLAST and I learned so much from those young missionaries.

We contacted this one lady who talked a TON about how much she loves her dog, then she went on to tell us about her son and then her husband who had passed away. I finally got the chance to bring up a gospel point by telling her that families can be together forever... then she proceeded to tell me that she doesnt want to be with him for eternity. Lets just say that plan backfired! Shoot.

I am loving this area here with Hermana Burwasser. SHE IS HILARIOUS and it makes the mission that much better. We are working hard to FIND FIND FIND. These souls are in pretty good hiding! Ill tell you that much. But we are really starting to see some of the blessings of talking to everyone.

The ward here is amazing and SUPER supportive. I am really glad that they are so sweet to us. It helps me feel like I have family here too. It is such a neat experience to be here in the mission!

Also, the most embarrassing thing that has happened to me on my mission happened this week. We were getting on the micro (one of the public buses) and while I was trying to pay, the driver stepped on the gas, and I totally fell down. We already draw attention as Americans, but now we were just clumsy americans!

Thats all this week!

Love, Hermana Watt

PICTURES

Hermana Watt & Hermana Burwasser

4th of July goodies from her Mama

At a Ward Young Women Missionary activity

Kam and her investigator

Sister Watt and Sister Burwasser having a good laugh!

The Hermana's in the zone.  Kam and Hermana Burwasser. Kam's a giant in Chile.   (except when she is with Herman Burwasser)

Kam making muddie buddies.  Look how short the counters are!!!  No wonder Kam feels like a giant in Chile!

WEEK 24: HELLO! FROM KAMRYN aka Britany Spears!!!!

HELLO!

I wish that I could say that it was a graceful experience getting to this computer place, but it was everything but that! But I am here, and I am so grateful that one computer place opens even when it is raining!

This week was a good week! We are spending most of our time searching for new people, and I have definitely seen the Lords hand in all things here in this area. I realized that what we want and what the Lord has planned are usually two totally different things. We are finding people, but it is slower than I had hoped! Opening an area is hard, but I know that the Lord has people here who are ready, we just need to find them!

Hermana Burwasser and I were walking and this group of punks came up behind us and started saying "Hey Britney come talk to us Britney!" We turned to look at them and contacted them and they kept telling me they thought I was Briteny Spears. The best part is that the only thing we have in common is that I have blonde hair. Then when we started walking away, they all were like "CHAO BRITNEY!!!!"

So from now on Im going by Britneyour

LOVE YOU ALL!

Hermana Watt

PICTURES

Herman Burwasser and Hermana Watt

WEEK 23 - NEW AREA

Now I wont lie, the downfall of going to a different country on your mission is that they don't celebrate the same holidays as you. So when fourth of July comes around, there arent any hotdogs or fireworks, just your district leader trying really hard to sing the star spangled banner to make you feel more at home. (; (The photo attached is how I spent MY 4th of July)

My new area is HUGE. We are SO blessed to have SO much to work with. There are a lot of hills though! But it is a blessing because my calves are going to be friggin SWEET. I would have rocked it as a pioneer. We are working really hard on just finding, finding, finding. We are opening this area, so we dont have a ton to work with, but I am so excited to work with my new companion, Hermana Burwasser. She is super funny! We are both super new in the mission, and we both barely speak spanish, but we have been super blessed to get around and learn! The ward here is SO great, and they help us a ton! We are definately in good hands!

This week we met a lady that is in her 90s or so, and she was running around her yard trying to find her pet turtle. We asked her if she needed any help, and right then she found it and started telling us this huge story about her and her turtle. She is adorable, and we have an appointment with her this week! We are stoked. 

That is about all this week! You are all in my prayers ALWAYS!

Cuidese mucho!!!

con todo el amor en mi corazon, 

Hermana Watt

PICTURES

How Kamryn celebrated July 4th

The turtle lady

This is Kam's mtc group when they were right out of the mtc.  Her new comp, Hermana Burwasser is the third from the right next to the hermana in the yellow sweater 

Goodbye Valapariso!, Watt's to drink, Goodbye Hermana Lopez! 

Week 22 - A WEEK OF CHANGES

A WEEK OF CHANGES

For starters, I only have 30 minutes to write this week, so I want to apologize for not writing any of you personally, but you will understand why in a minute!

Last Monday after our Pday, our President called and told my companion, Hermana Lopez, that he needed her to change areas. Now usually we have changes every month and a half, and when it is just a change in the middle of that, we call them "emergency changes". So that is what this was. He told her he needed her to pack and leave first thing in the morning to a new area.

So we said our goodbyes, and on Tuesday, I got my new companion. Her name is Hermana Nichols, and she is from Utah too! She lives close to Orem. So this week has been so fun getting to know her, and also when we come home for the night, we talk in English. (Dont worry, we talk in spanish the WHOLE day). The good part was that she already knew the memebers and the area, because this was her first area in the mission, then she came back! Which usually never happens, but it was so cool to see how many members she had such an impact on. She is SO great.

Then on Thursday, we had an interview with Fresia for her baptism, and she PASSED! Wahoo. It was SUCH a blessing for us. So we scheduled her baptism for the 29th of June. We were SO excited to help her make this promise with her Heavenly Father, and not only that, it was so hard to help her to this point because of her memory, but with MANY prayers and fasting she was finally making this step in her life. Also, this day we visited Alejandra, one of our young investigators with the baby. She said that she felt like God really wanted her to move out of her boyfriends house, and asked us if we could help her move on Saturday. We were SO happy for her and said YES of course! She is a golden investigator, seriously. And because she wouldnt be living with her boyfriend anymore, that meant that she could be baptized. So we set a date with her for the 6th of July. We were feeling SO blessed!

On Friday morning, Our president called and told us that there was going to be an "emergency change" AGAIN. He said that he needed me to move to a different area. But, because he is the best president ever, he said he was going to wait until after our baptism with Fresia to change us. My heart was a little broken, because I have been in this area for ALL of my mission. My family is here with these people! How could I leave? And not only that, Alejandra was going to be baptized the next week, and she is an investigator SO special to me.

So we talked with our zone leaders to see if there was any way we could baptize Alejandra this Saturday because we were already going to be having a service. They said that it wasn't really possible, because she needs to be living away from her boyfriend for a least a week, but they said they would ask for us anyway.

Later that day they called with the BEST news EVER! Alejandra was going to be baptized before I left!!!!

On Saturday we helped Alejandra move, and ALL of the ward piched in. It was such a great example of service.

On Sunday we had BOTH baptisms and they were BEAUTIFUL. I was crying the whole time. Especially because of the faith of Alejandra.

And now, I am off to my new area!

I love you all, thank you for your support!

Hermana Watt

NOTE FROM AMBER:  Kam let me know today that she was part of what is called an emergency transfer.  Her new companion is Hermana Burrwasser. They are part of opening a brand new area.  She is so excited to be part of it. 

Her new area is Recreo.  See pictures below.

Herman Watt and Hermana Burrwasser when they were in the MTC

BAPTISM PICTURES

Alajandra, Hermana Watt and Hermana Nichols

Sister Watt, Fresia and Sister Nichols

RECREO, CHILE