January 14, 2013 - Ñiquen or Bust!

Well this was a great one! It was hot all week. So we were sweating bullets all day. We worked hard. We saw some fruits from our work we had done the previous week so that was nice. Sunday we were walking down a little street and we saw some people outside and they said something and I remembered that we had talked to them before. So we stopped and started talking and the mom had listened to the missionaries while her daughter received the lessons to get baptized. And the mom didn’t want to go to church before but now she does so that was way cool, and she accepted a baptismal date so that was way cool. We were able to teach a lot of lessons with members too. We are teaching a guy named Javier. He’s like 65ish. And before he had gone to the church a long time ago and knows how it is. And he loves reading in the Book of Mormon. He came to church and he was taking notes so that was way cool! And Carmen came to church so that was cool too! Carmen is so excited to get baptized on Sunday! She was telling everyone that she is getting baptized so she is way excited! She is so great. She loves the church and sharing with us. She almost didn’t get baptized because she went to the Catholic Church to a meeting for her father and her whole family was there and they all told her she was wrong and she got confused. But we just worked hard with her and she found out what was the right decision by herself. So her testimony is so strong! She is gonna be a great member! 

On Wednesday a member named Jorge came and picked us up and took us out to his house in the farmland like 30 minutes away. And we helped him and his wife scrape a bunch of grass. In Chile they don’t really use lawn mowers for their weeds and stuff you use a shovel and scrape it. So I did that for like 2 hours, it was a good time. My other comps are a little soft so they raked or washed the car...haha Jorge and his wife thought that I would be the softy since I’m white but they were surprised at my skills with the shovel. And then we ate lunch with them there and we took some pictures. So that was fun to go a little out of the normal schedule.

But that’s about it, we are seeing some good results. We hope that the people we have found are good and that they will progress. So pray for us! 

  Today for P Day we had a Zone Activity! We all bought some water balloons and water guns and we had a huge fight! The funny thing is that it wasn’t blazing hot like the whole week! haha but it warmed up a little bit after. So that was cool and then we had some completos and chips so that was good!

  I love you guys! HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAYLA!

  Elder Johnson