Overall, this week has been pretty
good, the mission gets a lot better after time and adjustment. Sometimes I have
difficult times but these times are starting to happen less and less, but let
me assure you that they definitely do pass. But that is how life is supposed to
be. We’ve been taught since we were young that God give us difficulties and
challenges so that we might be able to grow and learn, something that has helped
me a lot when I am having a hard time is I try to look at what I can gain or
learn from this moment, I encourage you all to do the same. We are bound to
make mistakes, mess up, and sin, but that is what is so incredible about this
Gospel, we have the Atonement. I know that through this marvelous work of Jesus
Christ we all can receive a remission of our sins if we come unto him with a
broken heart and a contrite spirit. It has been something amazing in my life.
I wasn´t the greatest kid before the
mission, I wasn´t doing anything incredibly wrong but I wasn´t living life the
way I should have. When I started to prepare for my mission, the Atonement and
my testimony in it started to shine. Through this, I truly started to see a
change in my heart. I can testify of Mosiah 5:7. We are sons and daughters of
God, and He wants us to come unto Him. Sometimes in life it´s difficult and we
fail, but always remember Mosiah 26:30 and the promise that the Lord makes unto
us. I don´t know exactly why I am saying this all right now, but for some
reason I feel like I should because I have started to realize how big of a role
the Atonement is in all of our lives and especially how amazing it has been in
mine.
Alright now onto how my week has
been and what I´ve been doing. It started off with some guy approaching us on
the street and telling us that he felt like there are evil spirits in his house
and he just has a bad vibe about it. He had moved into it recently and he
proceeded to tell us of a story that the person who lived in it before him told
him about how his ex-girlfriend haunts it. haha Pretty crazy stuff, but he asked if we could do anything for him.
So we did a house blessing. Unfortunately, it wasn´t like all the scary movies
I´ve watched and no devil came running out of a closet or anything.
Another thing that me and Elder
Casperson got to do after a lesson with Lilian and Vick, we asked the usual
"Is there anything that we can do for you?" Of course the normal
"no" answer came but my companion offered to "clean the
canyon". I wasn’t sure exactly what that was, but by the time that I was
standing on the roof, standing on a edge that was tiny, I had an idea. It
involves throwing this machine thing down the chute of the chimney. It was
pretty sketchy climbing up these shack things to make it to the roof, then
trying to balance as we undid the whole chimney top and throwing the thing down
in it. And we had to do it twice because it didn´t work the first time. We
encountered every kind of problem during the time but we did it! I came out with
black marks all over my shirt and pants hah not the smartest but it was fun!
And a good experience. 
This week has been really, really cold. One of the days we woke up and it was 11
degrees C (50 F) but of course it was so hot by the afternoon. It’s kind of
like Utah here in the sense of weather, one moment it will be sunny and hot and
the next moment it’s raining and cold. But other than that Chile is completely
different than Utah.
This week and for the past couple
weeks we have been focusing on finding new people to teach, so we have been
contacting a lot. It’s kind of hard and discouraging because we haven´t been
the most successful but we keep on trying day after day. Well, that´s all I
really have for this week, sorry it´s kind of lame haha I´ll try and do
something crazy this next week :)
Oh I just remember something that
was cool. This week because it was fast Sunday
we had a fast and testimony meeting. Earlier in the week our ward was able to travel,
those who could afford it, to Santiago to go to the Santiago temple. It was so
cool to see them all bear their testimonies on how amazing the temple is and
how everyone needs to go. It is humbling to see how much people have to give up
and sacrifice to go to the temple. Many, if not all of you back home have a
temple very close. Take advantage of it and realize how blessed we are to have
temple. If you don´t have a temple recommend or haven´t gone in a while, I
invite you to do whatever you need to do to make it happen, because really the
temple is heaven on earth. That´s all for this week, I´ll continue to eat crazy
food and live the life of a Chilean and tell you some more stories next week.
Elder Clay
Mom’s side note – We asked Connor
about his meals in Chile and told him we were having the missionaries over for
dinner on Thursday this was his reply to us:
Breakfast I either have cereal or yogurt and
granola, lunch every day is with a member at about 1:00, and dinner is when we
get home at 10 at night and it has been peanut butter and jam sandwiches for a
while lol. TREAT THE MISSIONARIES WELL, AND GIVE THEM DESSERT. . I’m like a
grown man, living on my own haha so weird to think. I was thinking about it
today and realized it when I was grocery shopping haha I GROCERY SHOP, in Chile
to add to that :)
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