HOOOOLA!!! 

Hellos to all :) This week is getting colder. Its starting to be close to autumn.  

We´ve been working really hard.  We have an investigator and he´s awesome. He´s the fiancé to a less active member who is reactivating. But he wants to be baptized. We are working really hard with him. We put a date to be baptized for the 1st of March, but then the next day he told us that he prayed and thought about it and felt like he needed to be prepared a little bit more. so we talked bout it and then taught the law of chastity and the word of wisdom and found out that he smokes. So that´s his big concern right now is that he wants to stop smoking and drinking tea so that he can be clean before and after his baptism. So he´s golden.  We are focusing a lot on him and the lessons are incredible that we have with him. They are always so spiritual and in two of the lessons we had with him this week he started to cry because he told us that we came in a time when he really needed to listen. He talks about how he feels different with us and that we bring a lot of peace when he’s listening to us. So he can recognize the spirit and we´ve helped him to recognize it as well as his answers. He knows the church is true and wants to be a member. So we´re really happy and excited for him. We just gotta put a date to be baptized and help him feel ready to do it. So please keep him in your prayers.

I read something today that was a letter to the Mission Presidents of Chile from the area presidency. They put in a letter of a mission president (that you all know, named elder Lawrence Corbridge who wrote the 4th missionary). He talked about how the missionaries should talk, think and dream of baptism. I realized that I have always thought that was my focus of wanting to baptize. But it really has not been because i haven’t focused on baptism with people in the beginning of the lesson. I have always focused on them coming to church and reading and praying before getting baptized. It’s been hard because the people don’t do their promises but it´s because they don’t understand why they would do them. If they understood baptism, then when they have a desire to be baptized they will have a desire to read and pray and go to church, etc. So I have made it my goal to really focus on that this week and for the rest of my mission and to help the people understand and want to be baptized so that they will then have the desire to read and pray and progress. 

Everything with my companion is good. We get along really well and we´re always laughing. I thought this would be a hard change but it's been great. I have learned a lot from her and I know that there is still a lot that I need to do to be better. I have grown up so much. I honestly think sooo much differently about so many things in the gospel and about life. I know that there is nothing better for a woman than to serve a mission. I now understand why it makes you a good mother as President Hinckley has said, it’s because your children will become your investigators and so you learn so many things of how to teach them and help them through their struggles. I’m so thankful for the time I have to serve a mission and for all of you that are supporting me so much. I feel the support. I know that the mission is hard, but it’s the best thing of my life thus far and the best thing for my life. I love you all so much and am always praying for each of you. 

There is always things we need to do to be better and more like our Savior. But I know that when we make the decision to be like Him, we will do the will of the Father, like the fourth missionary talks about. I love you!!

Con amor,

Hermana Tycksen