First Week Out

Jan 19 at 11:37 AM

 IT MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE BEEN THE LONGET WEEK OF MY LIFE...FUNNY THING ABOUT SPANISH KEYOARD...TEHY ARE DIFFERENT SO sometime i hit the wrong button and then there is no hope for how to fix it. i have never felt so nontech savy in my whole life haha but you never know what another language can do to you! my first week was so incredible though!   i thought my companion  would be american because  her name is Day haha, but nope she is from argentina! she is pretty dang cool too! i hope we will get along really well. we have so far but also i dont speak spanish and she doesnt speal a lick of english so as you can guess its mostly just a lot of sign language! but its so awesome. way better than the mtc for sure! im in a section called maipu! its about an hour out of santiago where i was...but also still the same big city!  i was hoping to get out of the city but its okay! this city is still beautiful! THERE ARE A TON OF TREES EVERYWHERE AND ITS PRETTY green. ?good news i found the caps lock key but i have no idea how to do a parenthesis¿ everyone sounds like they are doing awesome! i miss wrestling for sure but its ok, missions are better. We mostly just taught a lot of lessons  this week. its crazy, my comp already makes me teach most of the lesson even though i really dont make any sense. its really embarassing because every  sentence i have to ask...do you understand? and then they just laugh and nod their head! heaven help anyone who needs to learn the gospel from me! im really sorry i dont know how to send pictures! i have been taking a few and maybe ill try to get some next week...even though i said that last week! I had a few awesome experiences. we were having lunch with a less active member and i though things were going good. i was smiling and nodding a lot, my new favorite thing to do, and my comp out of nowhere asked me to share a scripute. they only one that came to my mind was 1 nefi 3.7 that says i will go and do the things which the lord has comanded. I was just silently praying this would apply to the situaiton and the lady just started crying! and gave me a hug for honestly 10 minutes and cried onto my shoulder! it was so amazing! i guess the lord knows what people need and not even my lack of spanish could stop it! also there was a lady who came up to us at church and told me she wants me to come teach here. i assumed she was an active member because she was at church but after she left my comp explained that she hasn´t been to church in like 3 months and has never accpeted the missionaries to teach her, but she wanted me to come and talk in english to her daughter who has been trying to learn! it was such a testimony builder! we have 4 investigators with baptismal dates this month so hopefully i will have my first baptism soon! i invested 2 people so far and trust me it was so scary! one said no but anopther said yes! it was a miacle...she wouldn accept a date yet but thats ok! sorry this emiaol i so long. thank you so much for you prayers family. you truly are my strength! hopefully this picture loads and i will talk to you next week! sis. phelps

This pic. is just before leaving the MTC