This week was hard. It started out good and then got harder about Friday through Sunday.  Patience is what I need to learn from this I think :) Ok so we did have interviews with President. That is what I want to focus on most today so I´ll leave it for last. 

This week we went to find Mauricio that is a new investigator that is so awesome... but he was no where to be found. We couldn’t find him at all this week. So that was a huge bummer. But we´ll just keep working this week to find him. Olga (I think of Ashley too) is doing good. She´s been really sick because she´s old but she is reading and has so many questions. She does not believe she has faith and so we are really trying to teach her and help her to recognize the spirit and that she has faith. She´s so amazing I really love her so much. She´s so special and it breaks my heart when she says she can’t come to church because of her health. I know she has bad health but I know that she can be baptized as well and it’s what I want most for her is to be able to do this special ordinance in this life. We went to her house twice this week and while we were there we actually started teaching 2 of her friends. They had a lot of questions as well but it was a really amazing lesson. I love going over to her house because literally I know she´s 80 years old, but she is hilarious!!!! We die of laughter every time we go over there and she loves it when we come because she says that we give her peace and she feels happier. She really is so special. I know that she is a very special daughter of God.

Ok Ignacio is doing great. He got sick and couldn’t come to church yesterday but Claudia is coming regularly which is awesome. She´s now friends with one of the less actives we reactivated named Paula. They are so awesome. Paula is the sister of Ignacio so we have connections everywhere now and it’s great. 

Alright. So interviews!! This was the best interview yet. I always am afraid to talk to President. Not because I have things to confess but because it’s President and he makes me nervous haha.  I know he loves us so much but still it’s intimidating.  He came and my companion went first into interviews and I helped the assistants with the things about the house.   Then I went in and we prayed and then started to talk about my mission and how I’m doing. I told him that I’m happy and that I feel like this is the best I’ve been in my whole mission and that I’ve grown more in these last 3 months than I have my whole mission and he asked me why and I said that my companion has helped me do a lot of changing. He then said that Hermana Huaman and I are a companionship of power. He said that we are both very special spirits. That really made me feel so good because even though I work hard I still have moments when something happens and I feel like I’m not doing all I can, so it was really nice to hear that he is really happy with the work Hermana Huaman and I are doing. He even talked to our district leader about us. But then he said something that really hit me. He told me that if I give it my all in the last 6 months of my mission and am diligent in all things that the Lord will bless me with all the things in my patriarchal blessing. I know that was revelation from God. If I work my hardest and am diligent the Lord will bless me to where all my patriarchal blessing will come to pass. Amazing.

i started talking about how I don’t want to lose a second of my time here in my last 6 months. And then he said hermana your glowing. I really feel like I’ve changed so much in these last few months and I’m so thankful to my Heavenly Father that I´m able to make these changes in my life. I know that I´m a better person. I still make mistakes, I still have moments where I want to be lazy but I know that through the Atonement of Christ I can be made perfect and I can always have the chance to do better. 

So basically interviews were amazing. I cannot believe that I´m at 1 year in the mission already. Its unbelievable. I feel like my body is finally getting to where I can’t give any more but somehow God gives me the strength to keep going. I´ve never been so tired, so exhausted, so happy in my whole life. It´s the weirdest feeling to be so tired and want to give up but then to be so happy that you can keep going. God blesses His missionaries so much. 

I love you all so much my dear family. I miss you but I´m so happy to be here in Chile in this time of my life. I have too many amazing experiences and so many amazing friends that will be friends into the eternities. Work hard and be happy. I love you! until next week!  

Hermana Tycksen