Week 93

so yea this pic pretty much describes our week!! AURORA GOT DUNKED! and caros baptized her! man it was a pretty stressful baptism! we had to try like 4 times! and it was kinda cute cause she would just keep saying things like 'ohhh bendito señor' but she was oh so happy!

other than that not muched happened in the sector, we did realize that a lot of the people we are wokring with are kinda slowing down and dont really want to progress,so we are going to be finding a lot this week!!

and i realized this year chileans really dont do anything special for easter... its just another long weekend lol

so in the small pueblito that we work i every wweek, we taught a girl at the door and you know just a normal door lesson. and then the next week we passed by and she wasnt there, BUT her mom was there with the folleto. and i was thinking dang it she's going to reutrn it and get mad... but she had done the questiones on the back of the pamphlet..... i think that is the first time anyone has done that in my mish! and her answers were really good, BUT she couldnt make it to church bc it was easter weekend....

but yea all is well here in linares city! and pres nelson is coming this week!!! ahh! 

but love you all!!

Week 92

well this was another interesting week on the mission! so due to interviews and helping other sectors i was outside of my own sector for 2 straight days lol. and one of the m was my bday. so we just pushed back the celebration for a couple of days. and we made milkshakes! but then elder cowley got kinda sick after oops. 

so ignacio was supposed to be baptized this weekend but there was a crazy story and basically his brother was in the hospital in another city and he wanted to be with him and then ignacio enters the army on tuesday...... and guys it was going to be a river baptism! but he said he'll be able to come back in may to visit and he'll get baptized then... bu

But the good new is that AURORA is all good to get dunked! and never have i seen someone so pumped to get baptized! the only problem is that she has not leg strength at all.... so we are still thinking how can we get her into the font... but she is super pumped!

but yea other than that we are just trying to get someone ready for the 22nd, it'll probably be abraham, but we'll see! but it is getting scary how fast the time is flying by! like in 9 weeks it'll be over!! 

but i hope you all have a great semana santa! and you guys share the great video that the church made!!! love you all!!!

Week 91

wow we had a wonderful week down here in linares!!

SO aurora.... sisnt get baptized this weekend because she went to go visit her family out on the farm. so she is now getting baptized on the 15th. and she is sosososo pumped. i just talked to her like 30 min ago outside lol. we are going to make her brownies tonight!

but ignacio, a 19 yo that we got as a reference from a member is going to be baptized this weekend! and he is super sper good! he so was prepped to be baptized we just had to teach him the commandments! 

we also startd working with a super ghetto MA fam. and the son, abraham, hasnt been baptized yet. and we got him to church and he also is going to be baptized the 15th! he's super funny, but super flaite lol.

and this weekend we aprovechared a lot with GC and we got a really cool guy named jorge to church for the first  time! and he loved it! and it was the talk about the bronze plates that got him, because he's right at that part of the BoM!!! so we are planning on committing him to get dunked this thursday for the 22nd! plus turns out he's part of the linares choir and nows some memberes that are in that same choir.

and so we made a list of friends to pray with with a little grandma in our branch named teresa. and we gave her some cards to invite those friends thatwe had been praying for, and her neighbor came! her name is rosa, super nice lady that is just super lonely. we're really pumped to start teaching her!

so for GC elder cowley and i had put a goal to get someone in every single session and we were so close!  we were just missing someone for the last session! and that one in my opinion had the best talk for inv! but atleast the other talks were very well fit for the specific people that came!

ALSO this week we got the mandate from presidente to start working in a pueblito near linares, its called  yerbas buenas (good herb?) and it was so cool bc there we found a member that said i have been waiting for you!!! plus people are really nice there! everyone will listen lol. 

but yea all is well here! thanks for all the love and support! hope you all have a great week!!!!!!!!

Week 90

well it was another full week here!

we lost two days of work with the counsil of leaders... but it still was a pretty good week!

so aurora the grandma that just wants to get dunked came to church!!!! we had to literally pick her up and put her in the cab lol. but she loved church! and we found out that she had already gone to church.... o sea we most likely are going to baptize her this weekend! but it was kinda funny cause she just slept the entire meeting and then was like OHH IT WAS AMAZING! lol

carlos, elizabeth, and camilo didnt make it because carlos is super busy with his taxi.... so they didnt make it.. and we havent really been able to teach them..... SO we are starting to give PMG classes to the Gma so she can teach them when they come over for breakfast lol. she's super pumped to do it

so we found out that marcelo's tio just got out of the hospital. and man the guy wants to get dunked too! and now the whole family is on board to help him get baptized! so yea we're pretty pumped!

and then we still have emmanuel, he went to santiago for the weekend so he'll have to get baptized a little later!

but yea all is well here! i really love my sector and my comp, but the time is passing by too fast!!

plus this weekend we had such a cool conference! the two ditrcits in my zone were joined together into one big ditrict!!!!! it was awesome! and now it will become a stake in spetember!!!!!!!!

but love all you guys so much! hope you all have a great week!!

Week 89

so we had another pretty full week down here! we had zone conference on wednesday. and then we had to run all over doing interviews. so we didnt get to work too much in our sector this week.... but still it was a great week!

zone conference was super fun and we ordered mexican food froma real live mezican that lives in chile! i about cried when i ate that little donkey (jaja) and then we made brownies in our microwave for the zone lol. and then i had a great interview with pres! i actually asked him if i could stay in linares this cambio that is coming up. and he said yes!! but he did say that i'll probably be moved out for my last cambio....

so marcelo got confirmed this sunday so he was really excited and he has an interview for the aaronic priesthood on tuesday! so now we are working more on his mom and her pareja..... but they both want to get baptized its just sole (the mom) gets money because she's a widow and looses that money if she gets married.... but nothing the spirit cant change!

and CARLOS! so he got set apart as a branch missionary! nd he is sosososososo excited we even did divisiones with him! he litterally just wants to baptize everyone!

and then we are working with a grandma that lives near us that is member and we are working with her son and grand kids. a whole complete family (understand why i asked to stay lol) but they all love church so much! and we have a cita with them this tuesday and they are going to have fecha for the 1st of april (no joke) 

OH and we found an old lady named aurora and literally all she wants to to is get dunked! its so funny whenever we pass by she just talks about how awesome her baptism will be! and she's all good with th commandments! 

but yea life is so good here in linares! we  have our area president coming down this week to do a big conference! so we like wont be able work in oursector becuase we have to travel a LOT. 

i love you all so much! hope you are all having misionary experiences!! love yall

Week 88

so this week was suuuuweeet!! we have been working a lot with member and references and teaching them how to be missionaries and this weekend at church was sososososo good!

so we have been working with this one grandma (amelia) for a while and we got her to bring her son and his whole family to church!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHH! and they loved it! and they are super receptive and theywere going to move away but now they want to move closer lol. haaalaa!

and then we worked with another lady that has a ton of sons and we were able to fins ignacio, he really wants to get baptized now and he is going to get dunked either the 18th or the 25th, but we'll see this week! but he was really excited about getting dunked!

OH and marcelo got baptized!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wohooooooo BUT oh my goodness. themission is not for the weak of heart. we were waiting in the chapel for him to arrive for the interview and he was like half an hour late..... so i called his dad and his dad was like 'oh yea he got hit by a car he's in the hospital.....' so we run   to the hospital and we get there and we cant see him because the doctor was looking at him, in the end he was fine and walked out of the emergency room and asked 'uhhh are we still going to play uno?' lol

and carlos got the priesthood! so he's real excited to pass the sacrament this sunday!!!

but yea all is well here in linares! but cambios are coming up sooonnn...... so we'll see what happens! love you all!!

Week 87

well it was another super hot week here! let me explain just how hot it is...

we sleep on bunk beds. elder cowley and i sleep on the top bunks.... we no longer sleep there. our mattresses are on the ground now because it is just too hot at night in our house lol. 

so this week we were still super focesed on the zone and helping one sector out. so we worked there with the elders for a while to help animate them and help find new people to teach! and man it was soooo hot over there! but they had a great week in the end!!!! they got like 49 lwm in the end!! lol we had to bring some members from other branches to help out but it was a sweet ecperience!

so this weekend was kinda lame for elder cowley and me. marcelo and all his family (o sea our teaching pool) all went to the beach for the weekend...... soooo yea but we are still trying to baptize marcelo this weekend! we'll just have to do it after church! and then we'll be working on his aunt that is super excited about baptism too but just went ot the beach with them...

carlos got confirmed!!! and he has his interview for the priesthood on tuesday! PLUS he bought a suit!!!!!!!!! so he's doing super well! now we have the goal with him that he can baptize his brother!!

but also we got some big news! so our zone is two districts and they are going to fuse the districts together!!!!! elder bednar gave the ok. and now the goal is that we becom a stake in september!!! so that was exciting to hear AND we also found out that President Nelson is coming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in april........ so yea i'll be begging pres in my next interview to stay!! lol

but love all ou guys and hope you all have a great week!