How about it! Well it was quite the week here! And good to
hear that the weather is keeping you guys warm up there!
Well on Tuesday we
went down to Chillan and played basketball with the Zone for about 2 hours. So
that was pretty fun! Then we came back home and watched a movie and then we got
ready to go to the ward party. The ward party was fun. They had like traditional
Chilean games. Like Musical Chairs and stilt walking and the 3 legged race. So
it was way fun. And then a bunch of people danced the Cueca. The Chilean Dance
so that was cool to watch. We showed up in our Huaso outfits so everyone liked
that. Then it got late so we had to take dinner home. Then we planned and went
to bed.
Wednesday was good
ol District class. So we took the bus down to Chillan again, and the class went
good. I talked about the difference between a planting seed missionary and a
harvesting missionary because we need some more urgency to baptize here. So it
went real well everyone left stoked so that was good. Then we went back home
after stopping by at the corner bakery to eat our Berlin! Then we had lunch and
came home and we went to work. It went pretty slow Wednesday because everybody
was shaking off the effects of the 4 days of vacation so there was a lot of
impatient short tempered people about. But we found a couple of people none the
less and taught some lessons. So it went well.
Thursday we had some
good studies then we went and did some contacts before lunch. It was alright we
talked to a couple of people so that was good. Then we ate lunch and after
Brother Miguel showed us his property. He has his own saw mill. So he showed us
some equipment like his tractors and stuff so that was cool. Then we went home
and started working. We taught 1 lesson so that was pretty tough and we did a
bunch of contacts. It was weird because when we left the house it was sunny and
then at the end of the night it poured rain! haha and we had left without rain
jackets again and we learned a good lesson. SO that was quite the adventure. We
were outside for like 3 hours in the rain! haha it was classic.
Then Friday we did
some planning for church after we studied, and then we went to lunch but she didn’t
have it so we went to the other one with the other elders. And then we came
back home and got ready to go out and work. I did a mini exchange with Elder
Turner. We found a couple people, and they had a reference from our mission
leader and we went to teach the guy. His name is Camilo. He is a Black belt in
Karate, a good guy. And he pretty much said he has been looking for this church
for a while now. So I was like Brother Camilo this is the church you are
looking for and we are gonna share with you why. And we shared the Restoration.
It was a way powerful lesson. He had some good questions and he accepted a
baptismal date. And we showed him the picture of the 1st presidency and he just
held it in his hands and stared at it for a couple of minutes. It was way
powerful. He came to church on Sunday so we are way stoked for him! And we
taught a couple other lessons. At night we went over to a family they are
teaching and we talked about getting married before they get baptized. We had a
convert with us who had to get married to get baptized so her testimony helped
out a lot. But at the end they didn’t want to do it. They didn’t want to give
up the money that their son receives for her being a widow because if she gets
married she looses that money for her kids school. But one day they will do it
their kids are real great too. And then we walked home and ended the night
planning.
Saturday was sport
day! We played some soccer with those 2 kids and some members so it was way
fun. Then we went to lunch. It was good then we went home and showered up to go
out to work. We stopped by a couple of old investigators but they weren’t home
and we got into a house but they weren’t really interested. Then we taught Marcela
and Sebastian. they had been in Santiago for 2 weeks so we came back expecting
them to still have desires to share with us, but they had done a 360. They didn’t
want to share really or get baptized or married. They had lost all desires so
that was lame. But we just testified to them of the experiences that they had
been having while they were sharing with us and the blessings they could receive
to be married and baptized. But we left them with something to read and to
pray. Then we stopped by a couple more investigators to invite them to church
for Sunday. But it was a good day. I had felt that we had done our part of
inviting people to come unto Christ. So we ended the day satisfied.
Then Sunday we woke
up early to take a shower and study a little bit before we went to pick up Juan
to walk to the church to take the bus with the ward to Chillan for Stake
Conference. It was way sweet! President Humphrey and Sister Humphrey spoke and
the Stake President. And Elder Alliaud of the 70 from Argentina came and spoke
it was real great. He’s a great guy. The Argentinean people are super funny so
he had some good stories to tell that related to the gospel but he had a good
message I took some great notes. Then we
got back on the bus after and we headed back to San Carlos. We ate lunch and
then we went home and got ready to go teach the restored gospel! We taught Maria
and Carmelo. They need some help as a family so we taught them about the need
to pray as a family to fix their problems. The dad is a little hard headed. But
we hope and pray that things will get better. The mom and the daughter want to
get baptize. On Friday Elder Benitez and I had gone running and when we left
this park we were at we saw Maria walking to work so we ran up and started walking
and talking to her and she had just had a bad night at the house. She wasn’t
able to sleep because of some problems so she was a little disanimated so we
did our best to help her. But it was a miracle because the one day we went
running we just happened to go by her in the morning after that bad night she
had. So that strengthened my testimony of the love our Heavenly father has for every
one of his children. So we had taught a couple of lessons before that we taught
Juan with a member because he is going out to work this whole week and he won’t
be home all week. he’s a great guy Pray for him that he gets baptized this
Saturday! And then we walked home and we planned for the week and I took numbers
like usual and then I watched some Mormon Messages with Elder Turner before we
went to bed.
And then today after
we studied we went and looked for a gym and we found one. The owner is a less
active guy Frans. He let us workout for free! So that was cool to get a good
sweat on. And then we went to eat some completos and french fries and now we
are writing so it has been a sweet week! This is the last week of the exchange!
It sure goes by fast. I’m pretty sure Eder Benitez and I will stay together we
are having a lot of success together. So we’ll see!
I love you guys!
Stay cool and have a great week!
les wuiero
muchisimo!
Elder Johnson
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