Cuando yo me bautice

MY FIRST BAPTISM! It happened! People really can stick to their commitments and overcome trials and come to Christ. It’s incredible. We really didn’t do much to help Daniel. We just provided the resources and he practically baptized himself. Funny story with that: we’re at the baptism and they kept the doors closed until they were all ready. We heard a splash and Hermanas Hernandez said, “se cayó” and I said no he didn’t fall, he just walked into the water fast or something. But then they opened to doors and there’s Daniel soaking wet shaking. Turns out that without his glasses he really can’t see anything and he fell in the baptismal font. And, naturally, the water heater didn’t do a thing. So it was freezing water. So he really did try to baptize himself haha. I can’t stop laughing every time I think about when they opened the doors and he was just standing there already wet and shaking. Oh gosh, kills me every time.

But, another miracle was that his mom came to his baptism! We had talked to her a lot about the baptism but she didn’t really want to come and he said she was busy or something  that day, but she showed up after all! And the end of the baptism he bore his testimony and it was so simple and so beautiful and I was so happy.

Also, don’t know if you’ve all heard, but we’ve have a whole lot of earthquake action going on around here I love it, but the members who sit in their houses watching the TV freak out a little. The scary thing is when there’s a possibility of tsunami. The earthquake on Monday was 7.1 and the tsunami warnings started on everyone’s phones and from what I heard and saw it was pure hysteria in Viña.

And, this week we have cambios! I’m sticking around here in Reñaca Alto, but Hermana Hernandez is heading to Viña Centro. I have no idea who my companion will be still.

I love you all chao!

 Hermana Miller

Shakey, shakey, shakey, terremoto

I HAD MY FIRST TEMBLOR! Okay, to be fair there have been others but I am always so exhausted I don’t feel a thing. But on Saturday night we were laying in our beds moments from sleeping and it started to moan and then it started to shake. It was so fun! I loved it. I wanted more. It was 30 seconds max. A little disappointing. Turns out it was 6.0. In any other place that would bring down buildings, but not in Chile! All my wildest dreams finally came true. Fun fact: in Spanish there are two different words for earthquake. Temblor is just a little shakey, but terremoto is when all heck breaks loose. This was just a temblor.

So, Daniel didn’t get baptized this week. We had touched the topic of all the commandments, but we still hadn’t committed him specifically. Super rookie mistake, I know, but he drank tea on Thursday, so we had to push his baptism to this Sunday. But it all works out because we have Stake Conference this week, so he would have had to wait 2 weeks to be confirmed, so it’s all good. And he’s so well read. And so awesome. He knows as many members as I do, because we have every lesson in the house of a different member. He was sad we had to move his baptism date, but more than anything he’s so concerned that he will die between now and next week, because he won’t go to Spirit Paradise haha.

Daniel and Familia Munoz (I promise he doesn’t hate us)

This is the lovely couch in our apartment where I fall asleep writing in my journal every night.

Zone conference pics! http://vamosvina.blogspot.cl/2017/04/conferencia-de-zona-quilpueachupallas.html

Judge me.

Sorry I’m the worst. But that’s all I have time for right now.

Love you all!

Hermana Miller

P.S. (Note from Author / Sister)

Hermana got her wish! More earthquakes

You can track any earthquakes happening, or happened.

Here is a map of the area affected, Laine is on the North end of the yellow mark, close to the shore. Luckily there was no tsunami risk.

No damage has been reported, that I can find yet. Our wonderful God is watching over us through the moments of shakes AND stability.