Hello family. This has been an incredible week in villa sur. I am glad to hear that all is well at home and that lyndsies baby is doing fine. She looks so precious and I cant wait to see her in real life, but not for a while. First off and foremost, I want to tell you all how much I love you. In elder scott´s talk he told us how we need to always give thanx for the things we have. Many times in life we just don’t realize how much we have until its gone and it is the same with you guys. I love every single one of you so so much and pray for you daily. Dad, mom, shae, lyndz, tori, jansen, landon and jenna. I love you more than words can describe and I hope you never forget it. That goes the same for aaliyah, mekhii, zaraaha (still don’t know how to spell it), chandon, and even chad and jake… haha as well as my grandmas and grandpas and aunts and uncles. You have all made such a huge difference in my life and maybe you haven’t realized it but you have. Thanx to all of you for everything!!!
Haha ok onto this weeks events. As I said it was awesome. I got to watch all the sessions of conference and I loved every single minute of them. It was incredible how fast the flew by. I wish it could have kept on going. There were some really powerful talks that I loved. But overall I think the talk that I loved the most was by elder Jeffrey r Holland. Elder Holland has come to be my favourite apostol speaker. He always talks with such power and authority and about subjects that no one else will talk about. (if you remember last conference when he basically smacked down the saying that we aren’t Christians and about revelation.) but the things he said were incredible. I have felt so many times in my mission that there was someone right next to me and I have no doubt that missionaries are protected constantly by the angels of the Lord. Also there are angels that we see every day. They are regular human beings but they do incredible things. I couldn’t help but think about bishop Hadley and his family. They are a regular family but always have been angelic to our whole ward and everyone they meet. I am so grateful for the angelic people around the world that help all they see. I hope that each one of us will be able to be “angelic” to our fellow brothers and sisters.
This past week I had my first dream in Spanish. It was incredible because I understood every single word in my dream haha. My Spanish has really progressed and I am very confortable talking to anyone in Spanish and I can understand almost everything that is said to me.
Mariella, our miracle reference, is so so awesome. She was able to come to conference on Sunday morning with her daughter and loved it. She said she has a lot of questions and we have a meeting with her tomorrow. We taught her 2 times this week and she expressed her desires to be baptized to follow the example of Christ in the true church. She will be baptized in the next couple weeks. She gave up smoking a month ago, when she was smoking 25 cigarettes a day, when she found out that it was against the word of wisdom. She has already read 4 chapters from 1st nephi and 5 from 3rd nephi. She loves learning and is progressing faster than anyone I have seen on my mission. I love teaching her because of her excitement to learn. It is truly a miracle that I am so blessed to be seeing.
Also this week we had divisions with our district leader. I left my sector and for the 2nd time in the mission field was comps with elder carpenter… haha he is such a good kid. We ended walking around all day and getting rejected door after door. His sector is really hard. The history behind this sector is simple and can be explained by the last 7 bishops. 6 of the last 7 bishops have gone inactive and the 7th, the bishop right now, is only active because the ward is working with him… It is so sad to see this, but it happens too many times here in chile. We are trying to build up these ward so they can keep on growing and become stronger and stronger. But anyways, finally at the end of the day we got into a less actives house. It was a girl who was about 15 years old. She had surgery on her back so she was laying down in her bed in her tiny bedroom. So me and my comp enter and start talking to her. During this she was texting and a couple minutes later her friend walks into the room. So its me, elder carpenter, and these two girls. So elder carpenter says that we are goin to watch a movie. So I think we are probably going to watch the restoration, finding faith in Christ or something like that… He pulls out Together Forever, which is a movie about dating, marrage, and awkward stuff like that. I couldn’t believe it!! So us 4 sat there for about 20 minutes watching this movie before I couldn’t take it anymore and said we had to go. Haha it was very interesting and I realized that I had my first Chilean date that night. But I promise it will never happen again haha.
Well that was my week and it was very exciting. This next Sunday we have changes and will see if I stay or go. I believe that I am going to be transferred but you never know. I am glad that you got my package and I hope that you liked it. You asked for hats a month or so back so I sent some. if you could make sure the cds that I send work and keep them safe, then let me know that would be great. Thanx for everything family. I love ya tons. Have a awesome week. Make sure you use the things that we learned in conference in your daily lives and we will be blessed. Keep on praying for me and my investigators. And as always, Go Cougars!!!!
Love
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