Week 37: Monkey Poop?

I wish I had the picture to send, but remember how I said I made successful Dinosaur Poop Cookies? We had a Noche de Hogar (or family home evening) with several of our investigators and the members here in Rengo and I brought these cookies. They are obsessed with them now. I am proud to say I have made an addition to the Chilean diet. But it was so funny, because one hermana recognized the cookies from her mission (a gringa companion made them once) and she happily exclaimed ¨caca de mono!!¨or ¨monkey poop!¨ So, the no-bake cookies apparently have many names. And I am a well loved hermana here in Rengo!

But seriously, the members here are about as sweet as it gets. 

This week was a little crazy. We had to travel to the main city, Rancagua, 3 days in a row. Tuesday was interviews with President Harris. Wednesday was a district meeting. And Thursday we had intercambios (exchanges) with the hermanas in Cachapoal. I stayed in Cachapoal this time with Hermana Hernandez (from Mexico). And my, oh my, was it so hot. Everyone talks about how cold it is back home, with snow and everything, and I am still roasting here. Bonus: I'll have a wicked cool tan when I get back home next December. But I learned a lot and it was a crazy fast week. 

Thought of the week (jumbled as usual):  

I have been thinking alot about faith this last week. It is so important and so many people lack it, myself included. And I loved what President Eyring said about faith that ¨The miracle of faith is it drives out doubt and fear.¨ There are so many reasons we need to have faith and to continue to grow our faith. Faith is a principle of action. It is to believe and to act according to our beliefs. Faith inspires, faith motivates, faith gives us access to grace, faith is everything. How important it is to have faith. 

I love this verse in the BoM. 

Alma 32:27

¨But behold, if ye will awake and arouse your faculties, even to an experiment upon my words, and exercise a particle of faith, yea, even if you can no more than desire to believe, let this desire work in you...¨

Faith isn't impossible. We all have a great need to work on this. I love that, even if its only a desire to belief, and desire to know, God can work with that. We just have to be willing.

Have a great week everyone, love you all. 

Con amor, 

Hermana Eibert

p.s. still no pics, sorry mom

So Wednesday we had our district meeting and 2 packages arrived for me. Gale and a Hump Day package (I will be opening it on Hump Day). Gale's package has peanut butter, and the good kind!!!! And popcorn! Oh, I've missed popcorn. Only cried a little bit--haha.