Week 53 - May 16th, 2016

Ayline was confirmed yesterday!! WOOHOOO! hahaha She was really happy. I was so content to see her and her family. They have had a lot of problems but everything worked out great! AND this next week we will have the baptism of Manuel!!!!!!!!! 

This one is kind of a miracle because everyone thought that he would be a forever investigator Hahaha. He has been attending church for the past 6 MONTHS. He also goes to the activities and comes with us to lessons hahaha. He is going to be a great member. Anyways, make sure to pray for him A LOT because he is going to have his interview this Thursday!!! Im feeling pretty good about it now but still keep him in your prayers. 

This last Saturday it started raining really really hard and it destroied the umbrella of my companion haha so I gave him mine because he didnt have a hood on his jacket and I used my waterproof jacket haha I love that thing! Hahaha but then after like 5 minutes it stopped! and then there was sun! Its like Utah here haha. BUT ANYWAYS, thats about all thats been going on this week! 

Oh, we also got to go and play soccer with the Elders from my zone last Monday! Its really fun because almost all of the Elders are green-goes (north americans) Hahaha and green-goes are known for being terrible at soccer hahaha. Soo Im like one of the best players now hahaha. Oooh Its really funny to watch. We are terrible hahaha. BUT thats all! Have a great week! ¡Hasta Luego!

Week 52 - May 9th, 2016 (ONE YEAR!!!!)

WOOOOOO so these past couple of weeks have been pretty good!! First of all (Im not sure if I have already written it or no) But María got confirmed and now is super buena in the church!! Hahaha she went and had an interview with the bishop this past Tuesday and helped with an activity for the Relief Society. Sooo she is really good now:) AND AYLINE GOT BAPTIZED YESTERDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOHOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! Hahaha yesterday was really good, we also got to talk with our families which was nice I guess haha JK mom hahaha. BUT ANYWAYS, we also set another date for baptism with a forever investigator!! Hahaha he has been attending church for like 8 months now without fault, he also goes to all of the activities, he comes with us to lessons with investigators, and everything. The thing is is he is really really funny and doesnt take things very seriously. But he also has cancer and had to have his throat removed. We had a lesson where we bore our testiomonies and the Elder who I was with told some experiences that were really good too. Soooo we set the date for May 22nd!!!!!! Pray A LOT for him please haha. Because I really want him to come through with this date for baptism! But thats all that has been happening lately. Today we are going to go play soccer with our Zone! Hahaha so Im pretty excited for that because almost all of the missionaries who are in our zone are green-goes (North Americans) And green-goes are TERRIBLE at playing soccer sooo Im like one of the best players now hahahahaha. Thats why its fun:) Hahaha but thats all for this week! CHAO!!!

Week 49 - April 18, 2016

María got baptized!!!!!!!!! WOOOHOOOO!!!!! But dang that was stressful!! Hahaha soooo she got her interview this last Thursday which was 3 HOURS LONG. It turns out that Maria has been taking Marijuana oil stuff for pain relief sooo the district leader didnt know if that was against the word of wisdom so he called the zone leaders and then the zone leaders called the Assistents to the Pres. and then they talked to the President of the Mission. Sooo while all that was going on, my companion, the companion to the district leader and the granddaughter to Maria watched Meet the Mormons all the way through and almost finished Ephraim´s rescue. IT WAS SOOOO LONG. BUT in the end it turned out that it wasnt against the word of wisdom, but she should find something else to use. Its not like she is an addict. The last time she used it was in December and you can buy the stuff in a store. BUT ANYWAYS, she got baptized this Sunday and will be confirmed next week. It was such a struggle with the water too!!! In the end it turned out to be kind of warm:P Haha BUT everything turned out good in the end:) We also have another date for baptism!!!! May 7th! Her name is Ayline. Her parents are sealed in the temple and she never got baptized because she is afraid of the water. So we decided to do a practice in the baptismal font full of water and everything. Hahaha it was basically a baptism but it turned out really good!!! She accepted the date right after! WOOHOOO!!!! So that was the good part. Haha its really funny here, there are A LOT of members in Chile, but almost all the them are inactive. Soo it just about everyone of our contacts in the street are members of the church! Im not even kidding. We have been contacting apartment buildings and in every sigle one there is atleast one member! Hahaha that is what has been going on lately!! Its also starting to get cold here! We just got a TON of rain yesterday. But today is sunny haha. Im not sure how it is going to be this week!! Make sure to keep my investigators in your prayers!!! THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SUPPORT!!! CHAO!!!!

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!!!