Yo fam what is up? Haha everything here is awesome. We had a really good week. It is impressive how fast time is going by. I really cant judge it anymore. I try and try to slow time down but it wont. Every second that I have seems so precious. Before I say anything, tell g-ma hall and lam thanx for the letter and package. They are so awesome to write me. It helped me a lot to get some mail, thanx tons!!! Mom just to let ya know I wasn’t sad last week I just didn’t have anything to write. There are always those weeks were everything is the same as every other week of my mission and so there wasn’t much to say. Also last week mom you asked me if there was anyone who needed help with paying their mission. My convert, maricela, wants to go on a mission so bad. She is preparing and is so awesome. She leaves with us almost every day to go visit people and is always talking with all her friends and even people that she doesn’t know about the gospel. But she is really poor. She is going to be leaving around this time next year and she will need financial help. I don’t know if that answers your question but ya.
Ok so this week I was able to go back to the place where I was born for the first time since I left. We had a zone conference in melipilla!!!!! Oh it was so fun to see my first sector, it is just how I left it haha. It was way fun to walk down the same roads that I walked over a year ago and to think about how much I have changed since then. It was just a walk down memory lane. Also in the conference I was able to talk to all the missionaries that are in my old sectors and they say that all my converts are doing really good!!!! Oh I love hearing that. There is this really awesome family that are having lots of problems cause they are getting divorced and it really shocked me cause they stopped going to church so if you guys could keep them in your prayers that would be awesome. There name is the family habach. Also I heard that one lady that I was teaching there, rosa (it was a miracle how we found her) got baptized 2 weeks ago and is doing awesome!!!!! Man the mission is so cool.
Haha now about a sister missionary that is in my district. Her name is hermana knight. She is from Oklahoma and is so funny. But the funniest thing about here is that she reminds me of tori so so so much. She is just blonde and says things that have nothing to do with anything haha it just makes me laugh so much and I remember tori and how she is just like that. It is fun to have people who remind me of all my family and friends.
Now about something that happened yesterday. So we are walking along and I see this thing on the ground and I get a little closer and it turns out to be a tarantula spider. So my first thought is that it is just a toy that some kid left outside but then it puts up its front legs and gets aggressive. So at this point I am freaking out cause I have never seen a live tarantula that wasn’t in a zoo or a pet or something. It was just out and about… So I was freaking out and all the sudden my son, elder Maldonado (he is so crazy…) goes chasing after this spider with a stick. He is hitting all over the place but couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn if his life depended on it, which it kinda did. (that is because down here no one has ever played baseball and so no one can use a bat or anything like it.) but ya long story short the spider ends up getting smashed into like 10 pieces and that’s it, the end… haha it was awesome
Ok so this week was so awesome. Maricela, my little convert got two callings. Oh man she is so awesome. The first calling is she is a ward missionary. Now she is going to work with the other recent converts to help them stay strong and also is going to leave with us to visit our investigators and find investigators for us. She is going to be such a awesome ward missionary. Also she was called to be the secretary in the primary presidency. Second, the mom of Carla and Gabriela (who got baptized like 2 weeks ago) got called to be 1st councilor in the primary presidency and is also going to work with the students in seminary. Everything here is going really well. Everyone is just excited to work and to keep on growing.
Lastly I went on divisions this week. We went to visit one of their investigators and his name is onofre. He is progressing really well but there is something very special about him, he is blind… Wow so we went to his house and I entered and it was like a shack. I could make his house alone in a couple hours… It was so sad, the walls are paper thin and he basically has nothing. There is a tiny room for a bathroom, a main room and a bedroom. But as I taught him and listened to his testimony of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, I felt the spirit so strong. It was incredible to be able to get to know this man. Even though he is blind and lives in poverty, he has a faith that the richest of people may never have. He really knows who is Jesus and what he did for him and for every one of us. Never forget how blessed we are. Never forget how much we really have. You guys are so spoiled and I don’t want to make you feel bad but I want to make sure that you don’t take what you have for granted. Never forget who you are. When you want that new Nintendo weii game or you want a better car or whatever it is, first think, am I reading my scriptures every night??? Am I praying or am I talking with god??? Do I have time to worry about the newest pair of jeans or is there someone that needs my help. I love you guys so much. Never forget what we have been blessed with.
Have a awesome week.
Elder hall
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