this week was a lot of fun, but it was a little rough because Elder Muñoz
was a little sick. Elder Muñoz had a fever and was caughing a lot.
we spent a lot of this week trying to find people. because Lucas and Felipe
got baptized we no longer have investigators that are progressing, so we are
hitting the streets.
we came across an hermana this week whose husband is a member of the
church, but he hasn´t gone to church in a very long time. they are named
Francisca and Ariel. we have passed by many times for their house because they
were a referral that we received from a member in our ward. they didn´t really
want us to come into the house before but this week we found francisca walking
in the street and she said that she needed a service this next week. we passed
by her house the next day to coordinate the service project and share a quick
message. they were both taken aback when we said we didn´t require recompense
for the service. we told them that we are here to serve them and help them with
their relationship with Christ. they were really surprised that we were so
dedicated to serve them.
that same day we were following up on a contact in the street. I had one
address written and my companion had another. we stopped by the address of my
companion. we contacted the joven that answered the door, and we asked him if we
could share a message with him about Jesus Christ. he said yes, and we came in!
Manuel was his name, and he was super awesome. it turned out that the contact
who gave us his address lied, because the address number that I had didn´t exist
and he didn´t live with Manuel. it was a bummer that the contact lied to us, but
we found Manuel and he was awesome.
on Saturday we were searching for menos activos in our sector and we found
a man named Washington Jimenez. he is a lawer here in Santiago, and he is super
nice. we knocked on his door, and he immediatly said, "come on in". that is a
sign of menos activos. he shared with us that he saw some things in the church
that he didn´t like, so he stopped coming. it is something that we here a lot in
the church. our job as missionaries is to remind these people the reason why
they went to church in the first place. the reason is: without the proper
ordinances performed by the priesthood authority of god, which is only found in
the LDS church, a person cannot receive eternal life. Washington was really
friendly and we are excited to work with him more.
this Saturday Lucila Palma went to the temple to do baptisms! we were so
pumped. she went with a young single adult from the ward. we couldn't find a
third adult man to go with us, so we couldn't go to the temple with her, but she
told us she really enjoyed it, and now she is working with a sister in the ward
to prepare the names of her mother and other family for the temple.
I hope you all have an amazing thanksgiving this week. I am so thankful for
all of your prayers, letters, and packages that really do help me. I want to
give a special shout out to my Mom and Dad who have been such a great help to
me. Thanks Mom, thanks Dad.
Love,
Elder Williams
P.S. another quick shout out. word on the street is that Bothell High
School football is cleaning up. keep it up cougs.
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