Week 28: Don't Go Chasing Waterfalls

2 January 2018

Friends and fam!

This week was incredible! We definitely rang in the New Year....by sleeping. We were absolutely exhausted, but January 1st we had a blast. It included a perilous journey, deadly obstacles, good friends, and in the end, a beautiful destination, all the necessary parts for a epic adventure. 

Hermana Sainsbury--1 January 2018
 

We hiked up to one of 3 hidden waterfalls that are nearly impossible to get to. I wasn't kidding about the spiders either in my last letter guys, the tarantulas literally walk around on the forest floor. The Hermana we were hiking with freaked out because she thought something was actually was wrong when I took off running and screaming. Let's just say, not the highlight of the trip. But we had to shimmy up this log to climb up slippery rocks and make it to a higher ledge. The waterfall was great, pics really don't do it justice. It was beautiful. How I wish missionaries could swim. Hidden paradise, with some of the best people. So much fun. 

Big ol' Tarantula

 

 

 


With the Gatica Family hiking to the Hidden Waterfalls

Elders Pistorius and Cedillo with Hermanas Sainsbury and Eibert

 

 

 

 

 


 

And we definitely got lost on the way back, went through an olive grove and ended up on private property with really sketchy run down and abandon houses and buildings. I'm currently chatting with my mom and she is worried because she is hoping I was kidding when I said we were a little worried about getting out of the property...had to climb a stone wall to escape, tore my pants and scraped up my knees and arms (and got bit by a horse fly like 5 times) but in the end, it was absoultely amazing! Best p-day yet. Totally worth it too.

 

Thought for this week:

I have been thinking a lot about goals this week and having a plan. Totally appropriate with the New Year. New Year, New You, right?  

We have been teaching a lot of investigators this last week that are progressing rapidly. It is such a blessing to see people changing their lives. They are so determined and they put their mind to it and their faith in God and miracles are possible. And I have been trying to remember that. They really are changing their lives and I need to give it my all to help and guide them. I have so much love for them. I feel so incredibly blessed to have the opportunity to know these people. They are some of the sweetest, they are changing their lives, but they are also changing mine.  

Also: Came to mind a General Conference talk (and if anyone knows which one, feel free to send it to me because I can't find it now--haha) where they are talking about the old classic story of Alice in Wonderland. When Alice has two roads to take she asks the cat which one. The cat replies something along the line of if you don't know where you are going, then it doesn't matter which path you take. How true is this. The difference with us right now, is that we know where we are going. We know what we have to do. We know that our end goal is to be happy, to have joy, to make it through this perlious journey we call life to live with God and our families again. How important it is for us to have a destination, our priorities, our goals and desires so very clear. 

I want to be a better person, I want to learn, I want to grow, I want to be happy. I want to be with my family. Decide to be happy and make it happen. We all have an infinite capacity. Eternal potential. Set your mind to it and get to work. 

I love you all so very much! 

Have a great week! 

Con amor, 

Hermana Eibert

Additional Photos:

Coni's baptism in Alameda, Curico, Chile-December 2017

Favorite Graffiti!!