This week in Coronel went pretty
well! We were able to find some new people to teach and they look like they
have some potential to progress! A lot of hard work and patience paid off but
now we have to keep with it and continue teaching and searching for more. I
started off this week having an intercambio with one of our zone leaders, Elder
Marble. He has the same time in the mission as my companion, 20 months, and is
one of the best missionaries that I have worked with. We did 50 contacts in one
day and were able to find two new investigators! We were outside all day but we
kept the spirits up and we were able to find success. In one of the lessons it
was pretty cool because at the end the woman told us that she really had the
wrong idea of Mormons and she had heard many nasty and bad things and had
believed them but that we were able to prove them all wrong and answer her
questions and doubts. It was a really cool experience and this kind of
situations happens a lot.
Earlier this week we had to paint pretty
much the whole inside of our house because the President of the mission was
going to every house in the mission so we spent days scrubbing mold off walls
and cleaning everywhere so that we could paint. But now our house actually
looks a little bit better. Still pretty cold and infested with termites, but we
are doing what we can to keep it in shape.
Oh a pretty funny story, so me and Elder
Knecht visited an investigator that Elder Marble and I found and their little
daughter let us in. We were sitting on a couch talking to the wife when the
husband, who is a ginormous huge guy who is covered in tattoos and is just the
funniest guy ever, comes practically running and turns the corner into the room
we were in and makes eye contact with me and screams at the top of his lungs
"MY LOVE! YOU HAVE RETURNED!" Hahahaha funniest thing that has
happened to me. We were able to teach them and they were very receptive. They
have a lot of things they need to change in their lives but I really hope that
they will be able to progress. Their 8 year old daughter has the biggest crush
on me and her dad was teasing her so bad that she was embarrassed, but it was
cute.
Also this week we found the same
group of kids twice while we were contacting and talked to them for a while. It’s
really fun talking to them because they have so many questions about the United
States and some of their questions are so simple and obvious haha. It was pretty cool because we found this
little neighborhood and pretty much everyone would pass by us, talk to us for a
little, ask some questions, and move on. I felt like an information stand.
Also this week I had an intercambio with
Elder Chumbe the Peruvian in our house. That went pretty well and I was able to
meet some of their investigators and work with him. The last big thing that
happened this week is yesterday we went and passed by an investigator that the
Elders here were teaching a long time ago. When we knocked on her door, she let
us right in. She seemed very happy to see us again. In the records it said she
has had problems with depression and I could see it. However, she seemed very happy to see us and I’m
excited to be able to work with her and give her some hope in her life.
The mission work is an amazing thing.
Love you all, and hope that you have a good week.
Elder Clay
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