Hola familia y amigos,
This week was eventful,
On Tuesday we had a ton of appointments and almost all of them fell through. We did get to meet with a less active man named Miguel Angel. He is really nice
and is trying to get involved in the church again. He was baptized about 4 years
ago and joined the military, and now he is back in Santiago and wants to get
involved with the church again. He also gifted us popcorn.
We spent the rest of the day contacting and visiting houses of people who
weren't there.
On Wednesday we had an awesome lesson with a family. We taught Hugo and
Lorena last week and they were really interested in our message. We tuaght them
the Plan of Salvation. they loved it and we did it with photos and drawings to help
the kids learn. We finished with another kneeling prayer. Lorena gave it and she
started crying during it because the Spirit was so strong. As we left Hugo asked
"are you going to keep visiting us". Usually when people say that they dont want
us to keep on stopping by, but then he said "cause you've got to do it because we
really like it when you visit us and we keep on learning" WHO SAYS
THAT!!!!!?????
We also taught Pilar that night. she got her answer. She called us last
sunday to ask us about how to help in the church and when she hung up she felt
something come over her. She started crying and felt really happy and she knew
that god was trying to speak with her. She´s doing really great and now she
wants to get baptized.
on Thursday we had another training meeting. after that, we visited a less
active member named Jonathon. he still hasnt come to church in a while. after
that we taught wendy. she is a dominican woman and we taught her in the elders
quorum president´s house. the lesson went awesome and she accepted a baptismal
date.
On Friday we taught Pilar again and we taught a lot of former investigators
to see how they were doing. They still dont want to progress...but Pilar is
doing great
On Saturday we helped clean the chapel in a service project. Pilar came to
that as well. After that we helped an elderly woman do some yard work with the
elders quorom president. We taught Miguel Angel again and we visited the Montero
family. The Montero family is a less active family that we are working with. We
were teaching the mom when all of a sudden she says, calling to her son "Bryan,
can you go and get your dad I don't feel too good". Bryan was laying down in his
room. She repeated what she said, and Elder Barillas and I went down the hall to
find her husband who had just stepped out of the room. As we called for him we
heard a big BOOM! We looked around and there the mom was knocked out cold on the
floor. She fainted and face planted. We were freaking out, but her husband came
and she regained conciousness and we all ended laughing about it. Turns out that
used to happen to her all of the time, so it wasn't too big of a deal. That was
the most interesting lesson I had had in a while.
This week we had heard from Hugo, Lorena and their family, Wendy, Rafael, Pilar, and Julio and Juan Carlos that they all were going to come to church. That was like 10 people. Only pilar came....lame. Hugo and Lorena were in Maipu
on Saturday night and their car broke down. Wendy had an interview. The others had
other excuses but they weren't as good. Classic sunday here in Chile.
We visited with Hugo one more time. He works in the north of Chile and he
works 15 days there and 15 days here he has free, so we have to wait 2 weeks to
teach him...lame. But he wants us to visit him and he was reading the Book of Mormon to his daughter everynight before she goes to sleep so I cannot complain
too much!
That's pretty much it for this week. This week I started feeling mature as a
missionary. Before I struggled with getting frustrated when people don't come to
church, but it has happened so much that 'Ive gotten used to it. The other thing
is that I know that the Lord´s plans and will never get frustrated. If they dont
come this week, they will come next week. The Lord always wins. I know this
because Pilar got her answer. She had to wait for it, but she got it. I know
this because I have knocked 1000´s of doors and now we found Hugo and his
family. The Lord always wins. period.
Love,
Elder Williams
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