Week 46 - March 28, 2016

LEO GOT BAPTIZED AND CONFIRMED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  WOOOHOOOO!!!!! Hahaha this friday he was baptized and then during the sacrament meeting yesterday, he got confirmed!!!!! It was really spiritual. His sister inlaw  is a member in the ward and she sang a song special for him:) It was really good haha. And Then the rest of the week was good too. We started teaching a girl who, before, didnt want anything to do with the missionaries this week! Her parents are active members and got sealled in the temple a couple of months ago and when her birthday came by I made her covers for her scriptures (scriptures that her parents bought for her) and invited her to start accepting the mission lessons. Soooo that was good haha. We also found a couple of young adults that want to find out more about the church, and a man attended church yesterday who told us that he wants to be baptized!!!!!! WOOHOOO!! Haha so there is a lot to do here. Today we have an appointment with a girl who we are going to set a baptismal date! Pray a lot for us and the people that we are teaching that they can progress and feel the spirit. The bad thing is that its really starting to get foggy. So its going to start raining soon :P BUT what can ya do haha. But thats what happened this week! Thanks for all the support! CHAO!!!!!!!!

 

 

Elder Weber, Caden, Elder Leiva, E.Leiva's Mother, and a member

His Area

His Area

Leo's Baptism

 

Week 43 - March 7, 2016

Im going to answer your questions first: Yes, members still do my laundry! Woot woot haha. Chileans only have one big meal everyday and thats lunch, and we eat that with the members. After that they have something called 11. Which is basically like bread, with ecco (hot chocolate) haha. And we do eat that with the people we teach sometimes. Haha no I got to work for my birthday hahaha but the next day we did a family home evening and the people we didnt it with remembered that it was my birthday soo they bought me a cake and made me blow out candles hahaha. It was really sweet of them:) We got a date for baptism yesterday!!! Woot woot! His name is Leo. He has sometype of cancer and Im not sure if he is going to be OK or not, but his wife is a member and he wants to be sealed in the temple with her. Soooo he is going to be baptized 19 of March. He was attending church before but now he has the date for baptism!!! And we have a lot of investigators who can be baptized this month, BUT we will see what happens. We have one investigator who is really really funny, he is 61 years old and he already has all the lessons and all the church attendence that he needs BUT for some reason he will not be baptized!!! He already knows that the church is true and everything and he comes with us to teach other people sometimes hahaha. We tried telling him that you can feel the holy ghost with the feelings you get in your heart. And he said that you cant get answers from your heart because its a muscle, he wants to recieve an answer from his brain hahahaha. He is seriously porfiado, I cant remember how to say that in English. Hahaha But thats about it!!! We have found a lot of new people to teach soo thats good:) OK well thaanks for everything!! CHAO!!!

Week 42 - February 29, 2016

I left Parte Alta!!! It was really sad to say good bye especially to Gricel and Eduardo, but we have plans to see eachother next January when they would be sealed in the temple sooo we will see what happens! I am now in the south end of my mission right next to Viña del Mar called Miraflores, Achupallas. ITS REALLY PRETTY HERE. Im up on a really big hill right next to the ocean soo I get a really good view from here:) WE have a lot of investigators here too soooo hopefully this coming week we can get some baptism dates! AND I have two companions now! One is Elder Leiva, from Southern Chile, and the other is Elder Weber, from Texas. Elder Leiva is going to be finishing his mission about half through this change soo we will be in a trio until March 20:P But its ok hahaha I actually really like it because now we can enter in what ever house we want!! WOOT WOOT. Weeeell, this week was my birthday and I got 2 packages from home with a really nice watch, tie, sweater, and lots of candy hahaha. But other than that it was just like any other day:) Weeeeell thats about all that happened:) Thanks for all the emails and support:) I dont feel like Im 20 hahaha. OK WEEEELL, CHAO!

Week 38 - February 1st, 2016

Weeeeell, soooo this past week has been a little difficult. We have been contacting A TON lately because we dont really have anyone that is progressing..... BUT: The mom of Anakena who was baptized like 2 weeks ago, accepted a date for baptism!!!! Before when we were teaching Anakena, she was always like, you can teach Anakena, BUT I WILL NOT BE BAPTIZED. Sooo we were like OK...... But we are still going to try hahaha. Soo finally we got her to accept a date!!! The only thing with her is she is really worried what her friends are going to think of her. Like she really likes the gospel and knows its true, but she just couldnt bring herself to accept baptism. Make sure to pray a lot for her that she will pray and read and go to church!!!!!!!!!! But other then that, we have been doing practices with the members for a plan that they have to reactive the ward. Because in Parte Alta there are about 70 mas o menos, members attending church, BUT in total for all the members in Parte Alta, there are 900 members!!!!! Sooo the goal with this plan is to reactive the members!!! One Ex-missionary from our ward is teaching the members the lessons of the missionaries from Preach my Gospel. So now every other Sunday we have doing practices with the members so they can teach us the lessons and then after we tell them what they can do to improve and stuff like that!! Its been fun! Other than that, nothing is really going on:) Thanks for the emails and support:) Have a great week!!! CHAO!!!

Week 36 - January 18th, 2016

Anakena was baptized this week!!!!! WOOT WOOT!!! Hahaha Im not sure how much I have talked about her, but she is 12yrs old and her sister is a member of the church in Concepcion which is WAAAAY in the south haha. But her sister is really good, and has been helping us a lot with her. Sooo that happened!! She got baptized yesterday right after church. She will be comfirmed next week! Gricel got a calling in the church as the secretary for the President of the relief society! She is really excited! AND Eduardo gets the preisthood next Sunday!!! Woot woot!! And then he will get Melquisedec this coming Stake conference in Feburary!!! There has been a lot of progress this week. We also started teaching a friend of Anakena, so when her sister leaves, at least she will have a friend in the church haha. We havent taught Francheska in a while!!! But we plan on visiting her tonight. She wanted be baptized this week, but the next, because she still has to stop smoking >:P But thats about all that happened this week! I stayed with Elder Soto in Parte Alta! They are really starting to cut back on missionaries! There are going to be only 200 missionaries in every mission now, so that they can start opening up new missions. They closed an area in our district so our district is now us, the sisters, and the other companionship of elders. But other than that, thats about it!!! Thank you for all the support!!! CHAO!!!!!

Week 35 - January 11th, 2016

Soo this week was pretty good I guess. GRICEL AND EDUARDO GOT MARRIED!!!!!! AND GRICEL GOT BAPTIZED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOHOOOOO!!!!!!! Hahaha their wedding was this saturday and it was really cool. Gricel was baptized by my companion and I baptized the daughter of Gricel who has 8 years. The ward worked really hard to make her wedding and baptism very special:) It turned out really good. I got a ton of pictures hahaha. We also set a date for baptism with the sister of Gricel, Francheska and a girl named Anakena. The older sister of Anakena got baptized and married to the missionary who converted her and she has been here for about two or three weeks. And she has helped us a lot!!! Her testimony is very strong and she is a great influence for her sister. Sooo we got quite a bit of work to do this week, Becuase they both have dates on the same day, January 23. Francheska has to stop smoking which shouldn´t be too hard because she is only smoking 2 or 3 a day. But make sure to pray for her so that everything will go smoothly. The thing that kind of sucks now, is that Companion exchanges are this Wednesday! And I have been in my sector for about 4 months and a half sooo I might be leaving:( We will find out this Tuesday if I leave or not and then Wednesday is when I would be going to Viña del Mar. Im really grateful for all those who prayed for Gricel and Eduardo!!!! Everything went really really well. Usually the things we plan never go according to the plan haha, but this one did!! Hahaha so thank you for all your support!!!! Make sure to pray for our investigators who have dates for baptism too!!!! OK, CHAO!!!!!!

Week 34 - January 4, 2016

WOW. So this week has been busy! We have been working a ton with Gricel, because her baptism and marriage is this week! She had her interview with the Zone leaders for her baptism and we learned a couple things, but the main thing is that she has to live the Law of Chastity for one week BEFORE her baptism..... Soooo Eduardo cant sleep in his house for a week. Hahaha so we are going to talk with the members near by to see if he can stay in their house, but until we can find somebody he is sleeping in his car!! Hahaha I feel bad, but its for a good purpose!! So everything is going well with them for now. They have gotten in a couple of fights since they got their date for marriage sooo still keep them in your prayers!!!!! We have also been teaching Angelica and Anakena. Angelica just got married so she isnt breaking the law of Chastity, but the thing is with her she doesnt have any desire:/ Her daughter Anakena does want to get baptized. AND the best part is, is that Angelica´s oldest daughter came up from the South for the wedding and she is super super active in the church!!!!! The cool thing about her is that she got married to the missionary that baptized her and then after they split up, but she remained faithful in the church and he gave it up. Sooo she has a really really strong testimony and I know that its going to be a great help for her:) I have been feeling really good! We have taught a lot of good lessons lately. We also got to spend New years up until 11 with Gricel and Eduardo and then after we could stay up and watch the fireworks. So we went out on our balcony and watched the fireworks go off in the ocean!!!!! That was really cool. I have lots of video of it haha. But thats probably the main thing! We have also been teaching Gricel´s sister and she is going to be baptized the 16th or 17th of January!! She just needs to go to church 2 more times. Soooo thats about all!!!! Remember to keep Gricel and Eduardo in your prayers and stuff!!! Thank you for all the support and ¡FELIZ AÑO NUEVO! Chao!!!!