Week 66

so he got dunked!!! and man it was a sweet service! plus his wife came and now is super interested!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

but yea this was an interesting week as there was an emergency cambio in our zone and my old ward got two more elders. so they were lost as could be so we had to do a couple of mini cambios to help them find some people to teach! plus i had another mini cambio with another sector. o sea.... i only worked with elder hayne like 3 days this week! weird right!! but it was pretty fun doing that and plus it helped get a lot of excitement in our zone!!

so yea guillermo is all good we are just now woroking on getting him an asignment! and now we are string to work with the wife!

maria had a CRAZY week! last night he fiance overdosed on random drugs and ran away... and i still trhink they havent found him.... but oh man she is so firm in the gospel right now! we explained that as she gopes to GC fasting that she will get her answer as to leave him or stay. cause its always safe to put the money on the prophet :)

other than them we are just teaching like anything that walks! its pretty fun because i think now i have learned every 'excuse' not to listen. but still it really makes me feel like being a witness and bearing testimony in every moment!

oh yea we had a sweeeeet sacramewnt meeting called the sunday that no one missed! pres catala came and gave a sweet talk that got us a TON of refernces! plus guillermo got confirmed! 

oh and we went to the temple grounds with a partial family! the temple here has really progressed!

love you all! have a great week! 

ps the church is true

Week 65

sorry im writting late...yesterday everything was closed... everything so we even had to buy food today! but its like a second pday! but wow this was a pretty interesting week here!

so we first had zone conference. which again ate up the whole day. like i had the last interview and it was at 9:30pm...... i couuld just see that prez was tired but still he is the man! but yea it kinda ate up a day of wokr....

then we had 18!!!!! so on saturday we were basically at the church all day for activities! it was pretty fun and chill, but it felt weird... and then the attendance on sunday ...... yea it kinda hurt, but maria and guillermo both came!

so guillermo is all ready! he get baptized this friday! we still are looking for pants that fit him... yea he's a big guy. but he is so ready! he spends his afternoons watching talks by president monson! so were hoping that we can starting getting the wife ready to be baptized too soon!

and maria.... wow she is doing sosososo well! she had a great spiritual experince this last domingo and she is feeling really good for the 7th! her husband to be is still kinda a punk but we'll see what happens with him. he still has some kinda drug problems.....

but yea all is well here just got over a cold that really jusst zapped all my energy... like all the members this last week kept telling me i looked tired. but im feeeling better now and ready to find some more choosen peeps! love you all so much! have a great week!!

Week 64

look him up.... youll all laugh i promise most members call me the little frog, just look him up youll understand,

so wow this was a long week. but it has been paying off! we were able to finally complete the standard of excelence in our sector. but man it literally meant that we were running around sunday night to finish up everything!

so guillermo is doing so well! we just talk now about what kinda suit his going to buy! but he is all good for the 23rd!

ok so the pareja of maria came back....... so her fecha fell....... BUT they got a fecha to get married! so she'll get baptized the 7th! and were still working on the boyfriend, but hey atleast he came to church!

Really not much to tell here! really we are jsut trying to find more chosen peeps here! love you all so much!

Week 63

Wow these are longer weeks here in bio bio! We still really are just focusing on finding people aka a lot of walking a talking with whoever will listen! But we are starting to see some good fruits from our labors! 

So a family that we found out first week knocking doors has started to progress pretty well! They read the fillets together as a fam! And the best thing is, that they're married!!!!!!! And they our both super receptive! The father has already accepted the idea of getting baptized so this week we're shooting for getting them all with fecha! And the dad came to play soccer with us on Saturday night! Their names are Ana and arnaldo 

So Guillermo is still doing great! He just short swamped with work but he still is good with the 23rd!!

So the other elders in this sector passed us an eternal investigator that was not progressing. And literally after they did that her boyfriend moved out aka she can get baptized!!! We had a sweeeeeet lesson with her and put the goal for her to baptized the 23rd also!!! She feels really good with the fecha! Her name is Maria and she is from Uruguay!

But yea we're just working hard out here! And ps I'm actually writing you all from my bishops phone lol. All the cibers are closed for some reason. 

love you all!!! Have a great week! Enjoy fall! It's warming up down here!

Week 62

ok so the new sector that i am in is litterally right next to my old sector. the chapel is like half an hour away walking from where i live. but yea this ward is DOPE. i would dare to say that its better than villa acero.

so our first day the ward had correlation, and man they were really pumped to be getting zls in the ward. but this was probably the best correlation i have ever seen in my whole life. leaders from each organization were they and actually contributing and thinking about the people! it was sick!

But yea we are starting from a pretty clean slate! we only got one investigator from the other sector, BUT we already have a had a great miracle with him! his name is guillermo and we got to knwo him right away and he seeme pretty decent. then we had another cita later in the week and he had a dream!!!! a missionary came up to him in his dream and told him that he has to fast and then get baptized!!!!! so he has fecha for the 23! and he came to church! talk about miracles already!!!

But yea other than that we have just been knocking doors trying to find receptive peeps. it was a tougher week but we really have been focusing on how we need to be pacient with the sector. and it really was a clean slate we didnt even have a map in the house! so we have been wopkring on making a nice big map, and we made little pocket size ones for ourselves. 

But yea all is well in this ward! it really is soooooo sick! and we got like 20 members comiited to leave with us this week! soooo hay vamos a ver lo que pasarà!!!!! love you all! this work only progresses because it is the true church!!! love you all!

Week 61

well you guys remember elsa right.... yea so she did not get baptized........ soo uhh yea. she was at her sons house for part of the week like she alwas does, so we were not able to have contact with her till friday. there as we passed that day our hearts broke. turns out a catholic priest from her old church heard that she was going to get baptized.... and he filled her head with all those evil catholic lies... now she wants nothing to do with the church.... and now she has a new little saint that she prays to in her house. ugghhh it was pretty killer.

pero bueno..... so cambios came....... me voy! and so does elder hayne! we are both going to open a new sector in our zone! so it is a complete white wash lol. so please pray for us that we can make back home each night lol! but yea i didnt sleep last night thinking about all that we now have to do, lol we were not the most diligent with our area book so today we gotta do a lot of stuff to do lol. and then this sector is going to be only hermanas... and oh man they are so lucky! but the hermanas that have been i the sector already have been working really hard and have no one... so im glad that they'll get a nice pool of people to dunk.

so yea after elsa's baptism fell we took a moment to mope a lil and drink a pepsi express then we decided that we had to find some new chosen peeps. and we did it! we found a ref from a member that is GOLDEN and she really wants to get baptized and another ref from some othe missionaries of a super ghetto chick that was really interested in baptism and already has gone to church once!

But yea it'll be good for the hermanasthat get this sector. and supposedly the ward we are going to is one of the best in the mish but the elders that were there kind of ruined it....... so we'll see what happens! But i love being a issionary and working so hard! thanks pandres for the new kicks! im pretty sure i have the fanciest shoes in chile!

ps i caught i frog the other day! love you all the church is true!

Week 60

wow this sector is dope. we really have been just working as much as we can. but man oh man am i tired, cant wait for that nice sunday afternoon nap that is waiting for me in summer 2k17. but until then...

so this week elsa will get baptized! we did find out that prez is going to have to do the interview.... but we explained the situation and he said that all is well and she should get baptized this saturday! she is so funny she keeps saying (as a joke) that she is going to swim on the 20th! but yea she is doing well and te ward loves her. i still cannot believe that we knocked her door only 2ish weeks ago.

So we also have been working with the LA soledad that has two kids that can get baptized. they techincally can get dunked this saturday but we're going to wait a little more because the parents are seperated and we want to get some support from the dad before the baptism. so they should be getting baptized late august or early september.

we found a recent convert that have a little sister who is 11 and is pretty interested in baptism! we talked to her dad (who isnt member) last night and was pretty receptive. so we are hoping that atleast the girl will be able to get baptized and then with more time the father. 

we still are working with this awesome family that we found recently. they ALMOST got to church. but on saturday night the mom's kidneys liked failed or something and went to the hospital.... so they couldnt make it....... it was kinda a bummer but now she is doing better! and the mom like seriously understands all that we teach SO SO WELL. so we'll hope to see her at church next sunday!

I thinnk i found the equivalent of mom and dad in this ward lol. theyre names are juan and gladdys. they are awesome members that help us out sooooo much. the mom gave us a sick ref of an old lady that is super interested in getting baptized and learning about the church! but seriously theyre just like chilean mom and dad that are just willing to help out the missionaries and love cooking for us! PLUS gladdys made us pokemon ties (because pokemon go is here in chile) so i have a psyduck tie lol.

But yea all is well here in hualpen! we went with a member to go eat papa johns earlier today, and hiked a cool hill. i just love being able to consecrate myself to this work! hope you all have a great week!! love you all!