This week in Temuco was a really good one, but a really wet
one! The Winter rain keeps on going hard
here but in about one month it should start to clear up and Spring should begin. My companion now only has two more weeks in
his mission and I have yet another good example as a companion of a missionary
who keeps on working hard until the end.
This week we were able to find and teach some really cool
people and have some fun. We started off
this week with an exchange within the zone and I was here in Millahue with
Elder Hoffman. He is one of our zone
leaders and is a really chill guy. He
has 3 more transfers than me in the mission and is from Wisconsin. He played
lacrosse before the mission, one of the very few, and has a pretty cool story
how he got to the mission. We contacted
the entire day but it was a good time because we were able to enter into some
houses and we were actually able to find an old investigator named
Joaquin! I and Elder Katschke were teaching
him about two months ago but for a while we lost contact with him. However, we passed by and he remembered everything we
had taught him and is just as receptive as before! Pretty cool to see how the
Lord is always preparing people to hear our message.
The day after that was also a day to remember. We got a break from all the contacting and we
spent the entire day helping some sister missionaries in our zone change
houses. I didn’t think it was going to
take that long but I don’t think I realized how much stuff that girls have, SO
MUCH STUFF. The entire day was spent
loading truck and car loads of their things and taking them to their new
apartments, which are SO nice. Probably
the nicest in the mission, up on the fourth floor. So I bet you can imagine how my legs and arms
felt carrying all the stuff up and down all those flights of stairs haha. But it was a fun time doing all of it and organizing
and setting up their new houses. It was
cool to see that the member who had trucks and bigger cars offered to come and
help, there were about 7 of us in all who performed the moving of all the
stuff. Setting up the bunk beds was
probably the most complicated part because we had to set it all up and we didn’t
really look how we took it apart! Haha All in all it was really a good day of
service.
That night, back at our own house, we decided to do a type
of sleepover thing and we moved all of our mattresses down stairs on to the
floor in front of the wood stove and then we got the fire going so hot, and
that’s how we spent the night. We talked
about everything ranging from the mission to back home. Pretty fun experience.
The next day I did another exchange but this time just with
the other Elders in our house because Elder Celestino is our district
leader. I was with Elder Barco, he’s
from just a little bit out of Mexico City and is a homie. I get along very well with him, I think he is
one of the chillest missionaries I’ve met.
We were in their sector and I swear every time that I go to a different
sector to do an exchange we find the most amazing receptive people ever and it
makes me want to stay in that sector!
But we had a good time together.
On Saturday, I probably got more wet outside than I ever
have before in my mission. It was
raining very hard the entire day and we were outside the entire day contacting
and we didn’t enter in one house, it was pretty rough. But we did pass by this garden cemetery where
there were statues of Jesus and other figures in the Bible, so that was
cool.
Yesterday Joaquin and one of our other investigators Jeny came to church, it was awesome. All in all this week was a really fast and
fun one! My faith and knowledge keep
growing on this mission and I’m having amazing experiences! Let me know how everyone is doing back home!
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