Hey how’s it going everybody! Here we are again! How about that!
Well this week was an eventful week full of adventure. It started out a little slow. The first 4 days we taught a total of 5 lessons and did a bunch of contacts. It was a little tough but we kept at it and we were blessed for that at the end of the week. Tuesday we had District Class like usual. Learned some great stuff. Left there uplifted and ready for the week. But Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday we struggled to teach. People are gone a lot more often during the summer or work till late. So we had a bunch of appointments fall. But we kept contacting. We did a lot of contacts but weren’t able to find anybody.
So finally Friday came and we did our weekly planning like usual. And during that we talked about some things that we could fix so that we could see better results. It was a real good planning session. But after lunch we had a mini combio. I stayed here in Cancha Rayada and Elder Bustamante went to San Javier with Elder Mortenson. I worked with Elder Aldana from Peru. So we got out to work finally, and we taught a couple of less active members that we found from the ward list. There are a lot of less actives in our ward. There are about 600 members, but only about 65 assist regularly. So that was good, and those less active members have kids or grandkids that aren’t baptized so we are gonna start working with that so that was great!. After that we went to contact a reference that we received. And we knocked on the door and a guy with his shirt off and a bunch of tattoos came out. And we said we are missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. and we talked for a second and then we asked if Carolina was there. And he said Carolina!? Where did you talk to Carolina at? And we explained that it was a reference and that we didn’t talk to her, and he said come in so we walked into his house. And he told us that Carolina had recently ran away from the house and left 2 little kids. And he was worried about her and he wanted to know where she was. And he said he wouldn’t let us leave until we gave him the number of her phone or her address. So I was like o great here it goes, haha. So I called the Zone Leaders to ask them for the number because they gave us the reference but they didn’t answer. And then I called Elder Bustamante in San Javier because he wrote the reference down. But the didn’t answer either! So we sat there for a minute while he the guy smoked like 2 cigarettes in 2 minutes. And finally we got ahold of the Zone Leaders but they said hold onto the number because maybe she ran away for a reason. So I told the guy, hey would it be alright if we wrote down your number and when we get the number of Carolina we will call you? And he said that’s cool.
Then later on at night we were walking to Bernardas house to teach her and we decided to stop by a less actives house on the way. And outside of their house was their dog who looks like one of Michael Vicks dogs because it was gnarly looking and its ears were bitten off, and we got closer and all of a sudden it went off and jumped in the air at me and was barking and scratching and trying to bite me! I said oh no I’m not gonna receive Rabies shots in the behind for 3 weeks, so I kicked it when it jumped and shoved its head out of the way and I was trying to take my bag off so I could swing at it, and Elder Aldana was throwing rocks at it! But I lucked out I left there with a couple scratches on my arm. But it was crazy! haha so that was quite the day.
On the other hand, that day we found 3 new investigators and taught some lessons so it was very good.
Then on Saturday Elder Bustamante and I we found 8 new investigators! We don’t know what happened but I’m pretty sure it’s because we contacted a place we hadn’t contacted before. And we taught a lot of lesson that day. So it was great!
And then Sunday we had Bernarda go to church! We are planning to have her baptism this Sunday! She is really excited and is always really animated when we talk to her about it. We have a Family Night with her tonight so she can meet some other members. So that has been a real blessing. So pray for her that she can have a good week. She is doing great!
Today for P DAY we went down to Maule in the South of Talca to play some soccer and have a bbq at a member house. They have a little grass soccer field in the back of their house it was fun we played a lot of soccer. And then we had some Churri Panes. It’s a little sausage in a piece of bread they are really good!
Oh and this week is The Chilean Independence Day when they signed the papers. So there is a big festival here in Talca because they signed the papers in Talca and one of the big Generals of the military or something lived close to our house, so there was a bunch of fireworks going off last night it was cool. And it has been super hot this week! It was great!
Well that’s all for this week. We are keeping it going, nothing is gonna stop us from having a great week! I’m loving it here. I know that this is the work of the Lord, no doubt in my mind!
Have a great week everybody and muchas garcias para todo!
les quiero,
Elder Johnson
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