Back to normal

Since I haven't posted in a while, let me give some updates: Demonstrations and riotings have been going on in Santiago for the past 3-4 weeks. For almost a week missionaries were confined to their apartments, slowly work has progressed back to normal.  Things were a bit crazy with arson and looting but Macy never felt unsafe just very, very bored. Missionaries were pulled out of Bolivia last week for similar reasons so we are very grateful Santiago and Chile are settling down and continue to pray for peace there.
In the letter, the stuff in blue are my added notes. 
Thanks for loving and praying for HR and all missionaries.

i did not even realize how EARLY IT IS IN WASHINGTON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so i guess i will write you guys an email this week! (5am our time when she got on to chat)

Isidro, we did not get to see him all week because he was super sick, but on saturday we went just to see how he was and invite him to church, he was better so he came to church on sunday!!! tonight we have a lesson with him!!

Lois, ACTUALLY A BOSS!!! (HR and HW street contacted him last week, he is Haitian and speaks French, a little Spanish and a little English). he does have a rough time like understanding things but we are trying to teach as basic as we can. we also invited him to be baptized this week, he is having a rough time understanding the priesthood so we will have to teach that again. he says hes already been baptized and received the Holy Ghost.....soooo we will work on that!!! but we went Saturday to try and invite him to church, not there, tried calling, nothing. so we hoped  for the best and BOOM WALKS IN LOIS !!!! ALL BY HIMSELF!!! we were soooo happy to see him there!! hes super awesome! Then he came to the charla so hes doing great!!! also have a lesson with him tonight!

yolanda, havent been able to contact. we are planning on having a "drop her" lesson this week. 

alvaro and carmen, ALVARO TOLD US HE BELIEVES IN GOD!"!!! (Alvaro and Carmen are siblings, when HR & HW started teaching him a few months ago he was athiest) andddd hes praying for things he needs, he told us that he prayed that people would come to his moms bday party and they did! they almost came to church on sunday.....THIS WEEK!!!! 

we havent been able to find a few of our news this week, but thats okay! we still are INCREDIBLY BUSY!! on friday, like actually every single person let us into their house, it was crazy. we contacted this guy named Alfonso a few days before, and i was like "do you like to read?" no. "do you like to pray?" no. "do you like music?" YES!! okay, so we left him "paz en Cristo" to listen to for when we came back. so we wet back friday and he told us he listened to it and other songs too!! he was like "i listen to a lot of religious music, but no music hits me so hard like the mormon music. QUE BUENO HOMBRE! then he was telling us how important his family is to him so we showed him a picture of the temple and he said "i love mormons, they worry about detail" but hes not down for baptism yet haha. soon. it was just a crazy funny situtaion!!! 

CHARLA (fireside) THIS WEEK!!!! FINALLY!! IT WAS AWESOME!!! OUR CHOIR WAS ACTUALLY SO GOOD!! and it was lots of fun seeing all the missionaries! 

also yesterday h webb got scratched by a cat so we had to go to the clinic hahaha, but all is well!!! 

no, i could not find a camera. the elders told me they thought they saw some in this other store so we are gonna go look today. PRAY FOR ME!!!! I NEED ONE! DYING TO TAKE PICS OF EVERYTHING BUT MY CAMERA IS DEAD!!! 

and yesss, new missionary handbook. its pretty chill, a lot more personal responsibility yes. im sure we will get more into it as time goes on. 

Yesterday the Stricklands (Senior missionary couple) sent me their monthly letter. they sent me this really awesome talk that Dieter F. Uchtdorf gave in a womens conference called "Happiness, your Heritage" and whoaaaa it was awesome!!! like ya for women but obvi applies to everyone!!! he talked about how we need to be creative and compassionate. legit dad came right into my mind when i was reading this because dad always creates these crazy awesome ideas!! but he says " Our birthright, the purpose of our great voyage, is to seek and experience eternal happiness. One of the ways to find this is by CREATING THINGS." he then started talking about how it doesnt need to be something crazy and extravagant, "Creation means bringing into existence something that didnt exist before - colorful gardens, harmonious homes, family memories, glowing laughter." "If you feel incapable of creating, start small. try to see how many smiles you can create, write a letter of appreciation, learn a new skill." but i think one of my fav things he said "As you take the normal opportunities of your daily life and create something of beauty and helpfulness, you improve not only the world around you BUT ALSO the world WITHIN YOU." WHAT GOLD!!! 

but I loved it, if you can, you guys should read the rest because then he says SO MANY MORE AMAZING THINGS about compassion that i would love to share but this email is already so long, i def lost dads attention...hehe. but i like his invitation of simple things to CREATE! A smile, a new friend maybe, CREATE SIMPLE THINGS!!!! 

i love you all soooooo much!!! HAVE THE BEST WEEK EVER!!!!! 

Hermana Robertson ❤❤

At the Charla 

Left of Macy is Hermana Webb, to her right is Hermana Inclan, past companion