Mis chiquillos, I have to ask forgiveness again for not
writing a group letter last week, not gonna lie I was just really lazy and procrastinated
until the last minute and then didn’t end up doing it, but don’t worry I’ll
inform you on all the big things that have happened these past 2 week. Haha and
that’s the thing, not a lot of big things have happened these past weeks.
Elder Shapiro and I have almost literally contacted all day
every day for these weeks. It’s been
pretty rough here, I’m to the point where I’ve contacted every house in my
sector at least 2 times so they already know me and recognize my hair! Millahue has always been known for being a
pretty tough sector but we are keeping out attitudes up and trying to stay positive
and have a good time through it all. I
know that after my time here I will be able to appreciate the hard work I have
done here and will be able to look back with a smile.
My time with Eder Shapiro has been a good time, we get along
very well and he’s a homie. When he
arrived two weeks ago, making it back to our house with his suitcases was
probably the easiest experience I’ve had traveling back to sectors with suitcases,
so that was a tender mercy. I now live
with Elder Shapiro, (my comp), Elder Celesino, a Chicano who lived in Utah his
entire life and speaks like 5 languages; and Elder Barco, a Mexican who just came
from starting his mission in Coronel where I was previous to here. It is cool to be able to talk to him about
all the goings on in Coronel. Our house
is a pretty good time we all get along really well so that’s good. FINALLY, after about waiting two months for
it, we got a wood stove in our house so we’re not freezing 24/7 anymore. It’s pretty fun to chop the wood and practice
making fires as much as we do now.
Lately with the members at lunch we have been asking about
their conversion stories and how they came to know the Gospel. It’s been really cool to hear the stories and
all the experiences that people have had. It is a testimony builder for me and
helps my faith to hear about everything that has happened in their conversion
process. It’s just the best when we ask
the big strong hard dads and watch them getting all choked up when they tell
us, so cool. Also Elder Shapiro and I
have been listening to a lot of Brad Wilcox talks, he is one of my favorite
people who gives talks to the youth.
Everything he seems to say either makes me laugh or reflect about
something so it helps me a lot. Lately
with the few people that we have been able to find to teach a lot of them have
seemed to be Mapuche, the natives of Chile.
They have their own traditions and background in religion so it’s been
really cool to learn about what they believe and how they practice
religion. Most of them don’t believe in
a set figure of Jesus Christ or God, so it’s just like we are teaching as Ammon
was teaching to King Lamoni in Alma 18 haha!
Oh a really funny , well I thought it was funny, experience
that we had is we contacted a house and this big, old guy came strutting out of
his house. The thing is he had one of
those while Catholic collars on and had a GIANT gold cross hanging from his
neck and was puffing a cigarette. Haha it was quite the sight. He actually turned out to be very respectful
and we had a good conversation, Chile is the best.
Last P-day we went up to a sector in our zone with about 10 missionaries
and played soccer with a bunch of
teenage Chileans because they are on winter vacations. We played full field and I hadn’t run in a
long time and it killed me! But it was a
lot of fun to play soccer with a bunch of my friends on the mission. I missed the physical contact of
lacrosse! Another thing that happened
last week was I did an exchange with Elder Cumlef from Argentina! The funny thing was that about a year ago we
did an exchange together in my first sector.
We’ve always gotten along really well so we had a good time. His English is good and is improving but
Latinos accents when they speak English are so funny. I can say that because they all say that
about gringo’s accents when they talk in Spanish. We had some crazy experiences together,
ranging from thinking that he had gotten stolen in the house of these people to
setting a baptismal date with a woman that we found that was a miracle.
Nothing happened here for the 24th of July unfortunately. I didn’t even realize it was that day until
around 10:30pm that night. Actually that
day I stayed in the house with one of the other Elders who was really
sick. I watched all the Bible videos
that our church has put out, they are so sweet.
Jesus was just the best ever. Oh
that reminds me of this little old lady that we taught. Well mainly she was just teaching us about
what she believes. She told us all about
aliens and how the USA knows all about them.
She was going off but she was a cute little old grandma type so I couldn’t
help but smile and nod. The people that
we meet on the mission are incredible and the experiences are unlike any
others. Well I think that’s about all
that has happened. Hope that everything
is going well back home for everyone!
Know that you all are in my prayers! Have a good week!
Elder Clay
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