A week of miracles!!!‏

Hi family!!!

What a crazy week it has been! Sorry last week i didn't have time to write you all an email but today will be a good one! This has been the best week of my whole mission I think. We have seen SO many miracles I can't even tell you all the things we have seen!

Lets start with Maira she is the mom of one of our Recent Converts who was baptized last month. Her daughter is 12 and LOVES the church. She told her mom that if she couldn't stop her from following Christ and she wanted to be baptized. The mom never let us in before but she gave her daughter permission to be baptized and the next Sunday she showed up at church on her own. She said she can see the change that has happened in her daughter and she LOVES the church also! She has a fecha for this thursday and she is really excited to be baptized! Yesterday we were talking to her and she said she was talking to a friend who told her Hey i haven't seen you for 2 weeks but now you look different. You just look happy and you have this light in your face... She was like I think it is because of the gospel... It was the neatest experience. I love seeing that people really can change and the gospel brings light to their lives!

Another family we are teaching. They are a refrence of the Relief Society President. They have 4 kids and they have all come to church for about a month. The parents aren't married so we are still working on that but the kids all accepted a fecha to be baptized on the 5th of June. They are the sweetest family. The mom was catholic but she never went to another church because she never felt anything there but  she said the first week she went to our church she felt like she was coming home. She felt like that was where she was supposed to be. I know that they have a lot of problems and still a long way to go but they really have the most sincere desire to learn Not just her but her kids also. Her husband didn't want to listen to us but he started you can see the change that has happened in him from just a few weeks. He has come to church once and he loved it too! We were teaching about the plan of salvation and he started crying and said I love my kids. I want to live with them forever. What do I need to do? So we gave them folletos or the law of chastity and word of wisdom. Then yesterday we talked about the word of wisdom and all of them committed to live it! It has seriously been a miracle to see them change!!! They have strengthened my testimony in that the Lord is preparing his children to hear the gospel and that the members of the church are the best way to find them not the missionaries knocking doors.

Also another investigator who we have been teaching for a while told us that he has never felt the spirit or recieved an answer but he is totally ready for baptism. He is keeping all of his commitments and stopped drinking coffee. Is reading the book of Mormon and comes to church everyweek. So we called our district leader to come and give him an interview because we know he is ready. Then after they talked for a while he came out and said well I felt peace and I know that that is an answer. So he hopefully will be baptized this week also! With him i have learned that the Lord works in his own time. We can't force people to recieve answers but we can help them to recognize the answers God is sending.

Well 2 weeks ago we had our last Lidership council with President Wilkinson. It was really sad but really awesome! He taught us a lot about how to be good leaders and how we really just need to love the missionaries and the investigators that really that is the most important thing. To help them feel the love of the lord! I have learned so much from President Wilkinson! Honestly he and his family are amazing! They all bore their testimonies and it was extremly spiritual! Ah i wish you could hear President Wilkinsons testimony. Just listening to his testimony strenghthens everyones testimony. He is amazing! He also said that he had an interview with Elder Christoferson and that President Wilkinson told him that when he got to Costa Rica he prayed that the Lord would send him the best missionaries he had. He said the Lord has answered his prayer. And Elder Christoferson told him that the First Presidency and the12 are really happy for all the work he and his missionaries have done. Tomorrow we have our mission confrence with him. It will be like the last thing... Then on Monday the new mission presidents will be here.... How weird!!!

Oh also my new companion!! She is from Costa Rica!

She is 26 Her name is Hermana Osorio! She is really awesome! She is always wanting to learn and to be better. She helps me a lot and we are having crazy success!!! I love her!! 

Well family I just want you to know that I love you all so much! I am so grateful for all of you! The more i get to know people and see their lives it makes me so grateful for my family and for all the blessings we have. We are SO blessed. I am so grateful that Heavenly father sent me to your family. Thank you for all you do for me and for all yours prayers!!! I hope everything is going well with all of you! Lots of changes but I know that the Lord always has a plan for us! He knows what he is doing we just have to trust in his plan!!!

Love you all Hermana Chatwin

This is a picture from the birthday of our investigator. This is that amazing family!! She said she hadn't had a cake since she was 14 so we made her a cake!!! They are the best!!!