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Well this week was really interesting. I went up to santiago. It was a really good experience because I was able to go to the temple which I was never actually going to get to know or see. But some things happened this last week and I had to go on a 3 and a half hour bus ride with another missionary to santiago. Here are some good miracles. :) So, I get a call on tuesday afternoon by the president and his wife indicating that I need to accompany a missionary up to santiago. Well I was a little surprised that they were sending me first of all because it would have been so much easier to have sent him with his comp, but they called me 1st miracle. Then she(president wife) told me to go and buy my tickets so we didnt have to do it that next day(is what I understood). So we go to the terminal and get the tickets and the bus will be leaving at 9:35. We needed to be up there by 1:00 because we had to be to a doctors appointment by 3:00 and this lady is very hard to get. She has months booked. So it was a miracle that we got an hour with her. Then the next day after too! At 11:00 in the morning. That is why it was so important that we be there on time and not be late because she doesnt have much time and if she cant she just cant. I call the elder and let him know and tell him to get his stuff packed for a few days that night. So the next day we get to the terminal and leave, but the whole time I felt a weird uncomfortable impression to call hna. Humphrey, but I didnt really pay attention much. We are going good and about 35-45 minutes into the trip I feel a good feeling to call her. So I do. I call her and say HEY, we are on the bus and we are going to be getting to santiago in a few hours. There is a short gasp a little pause and then she says ¨elder brown the appointment is not til tomorrow!¨ I was like what!??! You told me today! I know that that is what I heard. I know it with all of the fibers of my being. I said why did you tell me to get the tickets yesterday then and tell me not to be late and call you when we left... I was really confused and she then says, you are going to need to get off that bus right now and go back. See if they can let you off somewhere. Mind you that each of the tickets I bought cost me 10 dollars. I was so upset so I say ok I will go and talk to the driver rigth away. I hang up and go and tell the driver that we had gotten on the wrong bus and if there was any way to get onto another bus without paying more. Just so we could return to talca. He said he would see what he could do. I go back and sit down and as I sit down I get a call from the office telling me he has our rooms ready for that night. I was like what!??!?! I am even more confused now because hermana humphrey told me it wasnt until tomorrow and he said well I just called your comp and he told me you were going up already and I was like yeah, but what did you originally hear and he was like well I thought you were going up today but then hna. humphrey told me tomorrow so I had to change the day on your rooming. That is why I am calling to see when you are going up. I was like I dont know haha I am so confused. I told him I would call him right back. I hang up and instantly get a call from hermana humphrey and she is like ELDER BROWN!! I just got off the phone with the doctor and she had an appointment fall today so you can just keep going up! That was miracle 2. I was like that is great and then she said and she is also able to see him tomorrow in the morning because another one of her appointments fell. She was really surprised how that had happened because it never does.!! So I was pretty amazed by that as well. miracle 3. Well I thank her and hang up and call the office and talk to the senior couple there elder clawson who is doing the rooming and he told me that he talked to the guy and when normally he is super mean and grumpy and doesnt do or change anything the guy seemed super nice that morning and said we could stay there no problem that night. WOW miracle 4. We get off the phone and I call the taxi guy who is going to pick us up and he says hey yeah I can come get you today instead of tomorrow because I just happen to have time. 5. So the trip is great we get up there we get in the taxi and he takes us to temple square where the mtc is(we stayed there).We get there around 1:45 ish and we go and get the room without problems and he is super nice to us and we go up and start taking pictures of the room and on temple ground at 3 we go to the appointment and as we are finishing they tell us that there is a session in the temple in english! ¡¡6!!(will explain later) so we are super excited go say hi to the elders and the hermanas that will be coming to our zone that are still in the mtc then head over there to the temple to do a session. NOW, I just want to let you know something, my temple recommend expired at the end of may.... I hadnt had time to go and get a new one because the president lives so far away but had been asking for one. I am 100% worthy to go in of course, but I didnt have the recommend as proof so I get in there and go and tell the temple president and his assistants. They say hmm.. Well lets call your president. I was like ok!!! So they get on the phone with my president and he says like to sentences and the temple workers look at me and say well that is good enough for us that you president have a good day, hang up the phone and say ¨No problem¨haha they say go ahead and go in the session is about to start. Miracle 7!!!! We get in and right as we enter the room they ask us to get up and go so we can start the session. 8. haha We get done with the session that was amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The first time in 2 years. I missed it so freaking much I will definitely be making temple assistance a weekly thing when I get home. I could feel the spirit so dang strong. When I first walked onto the grounds of the temple the spirit was just notable. It was completely different!!!!!!!!!!!! SO much stronger I was actually surprised. The whole session I was basically just balling because I felt so good, well I just had water coming out of my eyes and it was just so weird to me haha the first time in a long time that I have cried. It was an amazing thing. It pumped me up for when I got home to get people, MY CONVERTS there!!! So that night the 4th of july we are sitting in our room watching the best fireworks anyone could ever see. They are called the temple lights. I feel asleep, after eating a nice American burger, looking at the temple lights and more specifically captain moroni blowing his trumpet. It was a very beautiful moment. The next morning we get up and go to another session in spanish that was just as beautiful and spiritual(didnt cry this time around). Then we go to the last appointment and the elder leaves super happy and ready to go face the world. We call the taxi driver and get on our way home telling him about the experience we had. He is a member by the way. He hears we had an english session and was like really!?!??! I has been going to the temple for the past 16 years or so and I have never heard of them doing an english session. You two are very lucky!!! It was a true miracle that we were able to be there right when they were having that session because that elder I was with doesnt understand spanish 100% and he really needed a spiritual uplifting. It was a tender mercy from our father in heaven. He blessed us so very much! It is amazing to see how he truly is in control of everything. I know he loves us each and everyone of us individually! He is protecting us and watching out for us all of the time. He knows our needs he knows our desires and he knows how to help and succor us. He will we just need to be wise and follow his spirit. I dont know how we ended up there how we did, but I know that, that is exactly what the lord had planned for us. He made me hear something that wasnt right so that his son could be blessed and receive help. He guided our steps. It is a good testimony because sometimes we feel that we mess up alot, but truly in the end god is in control of everything and is there all of the way with us. If we are doing what is right, even the wrong turns can turn into a journey of blessings. I love my god!
