This week in Victoria was another good one! At the start of the week it was actually
warming up pretty well but in the night and mornings it was absolutely
freezing! This weekend it started
raining and I don’t think it has stopped since then! Regardless of the weather we have been able
to teach a lot of people this week and do a lot of service. I have loved it.
I will start off from the start of the week so I don’t
forget anything. This week we started
running as a house. It has been a lot of
fun and we are helping Elder Wallace get in shape because he is ending his
mission this transfer. It’s been pretty
hard to get my companion out of bed early so we can go running but once we are
out there, we have a lot of fun. I never
thought I would be this out of shape haha.
My relationship with my companion has been really good. I don’t think we have ever not had something
to talk about in the streets. Also I
think this house is the most fun one I have been in and I am making life-long
friends with Elder Healey and Elder Wallace.
At the start of this week we had been putting up a lot of signs
everywhere because we are starting an English class here. We even went to a couple of radio stations
for here in Victoria and announced the class over them, pretty fun! In the middle of the week I did an exchange
with a kid named Elder Noyce who is from South Jordan! He only has been on the mission for 3 months
but he is a really good guy and played lacrosse before so we had a good
time. We were in his sector called
Curacautin and it’s very beautiful there.
You can see three volcanoes at about all times and is a very touristic
spot because of the skiing. I realized
that day that I can pretty much find something in common with every person I
work with, it’s pretty funny.
This weekend was probably the coolest thing that happened
this week. So some lady told us, after
rejecting us so hard J,
told us about a guy named Willey who was in need of a lot of help. We weren’t sure what to expect so we went
there to see what we could do. He was a
65 year old man who can’t walk by himself and his house burned down about a
year ago. He is now living in a room
that doesn’t have a door, the walls are like arms width apart and only a bed
fits in it. He has to have people help him with everything because he doesn’t
have anything and can’t do anything. He’s
family pretty much abandoned him, so his neighbors have been helping him. The thing is that they live in a neighborhood
that is the poorest area I have seen yet in Chile, so his neighbors don’t have
a lot to offer either. We did what we
could that day and returned another day with everything we could that we had in
our house that would help him. When we
were there a guy passed by from the government and we talked with him so that
they could move Willey into the hospital or a place where old people go and he
said that by today, Monday, he should be in a place. Hopefully he’s good now.
When we were leaving from his house, we saw an old lady
receive a moving truck full of wood and
we asked if we could help. I have never
moved and cut so much wood in my mission and my hand is still sore from that
day haha. The old lady was very humble
and grateful, I have no idea what she was thinking she was going to do because
it took us four missionaries 6 hours to cut and organize it all and it killed
all of us. It was a really cool
experience.
The last thing that happened this week that was awesome was
that we were walking through the central of Victoria when someone tapped me on
the shoulder. I turned around and saw
that it was Brian from Cornel! I don’t
know if you’ll remember, but Elder Healey and I baptized him when we were
together. He said that he was
vacationing in Victoria and was going to come to church in Victoria! It was pretty cool to be with him and Elder
Healey again talking about the good ol’ times.
It was testimony meeting and Brian got up and bore his testimony, it was
sweet, it was such a good way to end the week.
I also bore my testimony on the need and amazingness of offering service. I know of the joy that comes from it and the
true spirit that we feel after doing it.
I know that there will always be people worse off than we are and it is
our opportunity to help them. You all
know Mosiah 2:17 and I have a firm testimony in that scripture. This week have been an amazing week and I
hope the same for all of you. And if it
wasn’t, make this next one better!
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