Week 9 - El Bolsón

Okay, the Internet is moving slower than snails up in here... and by that I mean I waited half an hour for this to load ... but we’lll see what I can do. Probably no pictures this week.

Okay, today we hiked part of Piltri! It was fun! We spent about 3 hours hiking up and some amount of time going down. Luckily, the sister of one of the members with us picked us up and drove us down the mountain. 

Okay, so, yesterday, we walked to Hermana Paula’s house so that we could make sure that she went to church in the morning and she has a car, so we were not worried about the time to get back to the church. We left the apartment at 8:30 and got there at about 9:20. She wasn’t home! So we called a family whose son-in-law we haven’t been able to teach for the past couple weeks (they had to move into the elder’s area for a little while because their house isn’t warm enough for their 1 month old baby). We asked when the bus came around and where it picked them up for church. They said they'd meet us and go with us. Pablo and Silvina (our investigators) were with them! So we all went to church together. It was such a miracle and it was great to have that experience out of the bit of discouragement about not being able to see Paula. Pablo and Silvina have such strong testimonies! I love that family. 

Also, my spiritual thought for the week: 1 Ne 15:8-9 

"8 And I said unto them: Have ye inquired of the Lord?

9 And they said unto me: We have not; for the Lord maketh no such thing known unto us."

Part of faith is believing in ourselves. We cannot have miracles happen in our lives if we say, God doesn’t do that for me. We have to believe that god loves us enough to bless us. The reason why Laman and Lemuel never received their testimonies or the answers about the tree of life was because they did not believe in themselves enough to ask God. 

Love, Hermana Sant

From Tif:  Since Sari Hermana Sant couldn't send pictures, or even a decent email (I suffer!)  I thought that I would look up this Piltri and see what it's all about.  Here is what I learned, thanks to Google.

Guarding the Valley of El Bolson is the "Piltri," as locals call it. It hides the sun until after 10am and receives the last rays of the day.  (Swoon.)

In El Bolsón, the Piltriquitrón is always the reference point. It's name is hard to pronounce. In Mapuche it means “hanging from the clouds” and you can see why in this stolen picture:

Which led me down a rabbit hole of who are the Mapuche?  You can wiki it here (interesting stuff!), but basically they are the indigenous people of Patagonia and Chile who were conquer by stronger invaders.