Happy New Year!

Hey Everyone!

Happy New Year!  I hope everyone made good goals for the year and had a fun New Year’s!  

I was thinking about what I was doing last New Year’s and how different this New Years Eve was haha!  I made all my goals for 2018 and it’s cool how I get to just focus on the mission.  I’m going to work super hard, focus 100% and give everything I have to the Lord.  

We have 7 people wanting to get baptized in the next few weeks.  We’ve been working with Ana Maria and experienced the craziest miracle this week.  We were singing Christmas hymns to her 94 year old mother and Ana Maria’s kids called on the phone.  They could hear us in the background and she said she thought they were going to be mad that we were at her house, but instead they responded saying how nice they thought it was and we have their support.  So Ana Maria has a baptismal date for the 6th of January!  I’m super excited for her. 

Penco ran out of fresh water for the week. 

The city put out these massive plastic water tanks for people to fill their buckets but they’re super dangerous because people are fighting over the water.  Sometimes I think Chile isn’t such a bad country but then stuff like this happens and reminds me why it’s a third world country.  The water in the tank is so bad but we have to drink it and “shower” with it. 

Please pray for all the people we are working with… Ana Maria, Miguel, Lici, Estefan, Sandra, Diego, Domingine, and especially Marcelo.  

Thank you all for your letters and support.  It means so much to me.

Love,

Elder Vincent