Hellos for the last time on the mission!!! 

I have been so focused in what I have to do and there are so many people and families that we are teaching that I don’t want to leave until they get baptized!!!! It’s so sad to think that I won't be here to see it. 

Well this week was very

very short. It all went by way too fast and I can’t believe this is the last week I have working as a missionary.  This week we had a lot that happened. We got the stand (I believe I sent you home a photo.  The stand has a question and we put it out for people to read).  Anyway, we have to use that in the morning and in the night (about 4-6) everyday, so it took up a lot of our time to go and teach investigatores. We started out this week with a FHE with the family that got baptized on Sunday and it went really well, they prepared everything. We also taught a family that is soooo perfect. We taught them the restoration and it went really well. The son had a few questions that we were able to answer and the mom said that maybe in one moment he´ll choose to be a member to the church and he said it could be that later on he´ll decide that. So we have another FHE with them today and we are going to go with two members that are awesome. I’m really excited for tonight. :) We´re going to focus on the Restoration again and watch a video.

We also had an intercambio (interchange) on Tuesday and I went to a little town called Olmué. It’s sooo cute. I went with Hermana Martinez that is from España and she´s actually from the mission that Brooke´s serving in.  We had a great time and we had a few FHE´s to do and also taught some great lessons. She´s really awesome and we laughed a lot together. Then on the fourth of july we went to see a referral of a member in Olmue named Pamela. SHE´S GOLDEN!!!!  Honestly the biggest miracle ever and she´s the reason I’m so sad to have to come home. We taught her the restoration and when we invited her to pray about Joseph Smith she said that she´s already done that.  She read the book of mormon that we gave her and decided to pray about it and to know if it’s true.  She´s going to come to church this Sunday with us and I’m really excited. She also has a daughter that we haven’t taught yet and lives with her dad. So there are 2 other people in the house that can be baptized!!!  We also have an appointment with her today and we´re excited to teach her and see how her prayers have gone. I feel so blessed here in Limache. I’ve seen some pretty amazing miracles and I love Limache!!!

On sunday we had church and I bore my testimony along with Hermana Agle. it was a great meeting and the spirit was very strong. We went to lunch and had to do the stand but then we went to go and see Yaritza and her mom Luz. They were there so that was good and we taught them as well the restoration. We taught the restoration a lot of times this week and it has been so amazing. I always feel the spirit but I really felt the spirit so strongly every time that we told the first vision. I love how strongly the spirit is whenever the first vision is said. OH I also forgot to say that this investigator of the other hermanas got baptized but we taught him a few times as well so it was really awesome to be there and see him get baptized.  His name is Gustavo and he´s 16 but honestly the best kid ever. It was a very exciting day and the spirit was soooo strong. I love baptisms!!! 

I can’t believe how fast the time has flown by but I’m so excited to keep going on in life and learning and progressing and I’m excited to be able to apply all the things I’ve learned in the mission to my daily life. I know that it will be different and there will be a lot of challenges but I know that the Lord will bless me to fulfill everything I need to do. I want you all to know how much I´ve changed and grown over this year and a half of my mission. I feel closer to my Savior, I know that He loves me and that He died for me so that I can be better and progress to become more like Him, and so that I can return to live with my Heavenly Father. I know that my Father in Heaven is there and that He hears and answers my prayers. I’ve seen it so many times up to the point that members have told me to not pray for specific trials or experiences to grow because my prayers are always answered haha. I also have grown to know even more profoundly that Joseph Smith was called to be a prophet.  I testify that he saw God the Father and Jesus Christ. I know that they live. I know that they appeared to Joseph and that he was a prophet of God. I know that Thomas Monson is the prophet today and that Jesus Christ directs His church through our prophet. The book of mormon is the word of God. It is my favorite book in the whole world and I testify that if someone reads the book of mormon they will grow closer to God. The book of mormon is the best way to grow closer to our Father in Heaven as well as our Savior. Read it and study it everyday. Don't miss, PLEASE. I have come to know the importance of our callings in the church and I have become even more grateful for wonderful parents who have been my example my whole life of how to act in their callings. There were so many times that I never wanted to go with dad to do his home teaching but I understand now the importance in doing it and completing with the task. So thank you mom and dad for your great examples in always being faithful to your callings and doing your visiting teaching and home teaching even when it wasn’t easy and when you didn’t feel like doing it. I know that there were many people blessed by your faithfulness as well as me because I was able to learn from your examples.

I love you family!!! I cant wait to see you all in a little more than a week!!!  Since I´ll be getting home early in the day if it’s possible I would love to go to the Salt Lake Temple and take a family picture with my missionary tag still on. But if we can’t do that then that’s ok :) I love you all!!!  Thanks for all your support during my mission, I couldn’t have done it without you all. 

con amor,

Hermana Tycksen