Copa América

Well  I won't have much time on the computer today, and there will be no pictures because everything is closing early due to the Chilean game. Chile vs. Uruguay.... Everyone will be watching...... Including US! President gave us special permission to start our P Day late and then watch the Chilean game! Soo our P Day is just starting and we are going to be watching the game! Super stoked about that one!

Last week was really hard, and this week too, but it's getting better. We have been doing a TON of contacts, but it is working out okay. We are finding a few people. And we are getting blessed for it. For example, yesterday we taught 3 lessons in one day, that's the first time that's happened in this sector. One of those were really awesome too! We taught a woman named Adriana. She has never sat down and talked to the Missionaries, so she has a lot of questions and wanted to know a lot of stuff. Actually, she studied in an LDS Church funded school a long time ago when there was one in Santiago, so she remembers some stuff. But she was super excited to learn more!

So we have been having a great time! That helped us out a lot! That and we are getting almost kicked off the computer because the owner wants to start his barbeque for the game! Hahaha

Have a good week everyone!

17/6/15

La Copa América has taken it's toll. That's right, we are in the first rounds, and it isn't the most fun. Everyone is SO focused in on it, because it is happening here in Chile. But it hasn't been that much of a problem, not quite as much as the World Cup last year. The rules are just like the World Cup. We can't watch any games expcept for the ones on P Day (but there aren't any) and we have to be inside during the Chilean games. So it isn't that much of a hastle. But still. Even though we can't see the games, everyone lets us know anyway. So we know the results. It is kind of a distraction, but we are just going through it. Nothing else we can do.

We haven't had the best week this week. But we've been learning a lot. It's been going okay. We've done a lot of contacts. This sector is really small, so most of the people here have listened or talked to the missionaries before. So not everyone is interested. But we are still contacting a bunch. There used to be a lot of people to teach, but no one really progressed. So we haven't been passing by a lot. 

But it's going good and we are still having fun. 

Anyway this week while we were in the house, for the Chile game, Elder Zazueta made tacos, so we ate a bunch of tacos! 

They were so good! 

Tacos with Guacamole!

6/10/15

End of the first week in a new sector, and it was great! It was so awesome to begin a new sector and just have all the energy to work! That and I am getting along great with my new companion. 

Elder Corbo is doing well too, and we are having a lot of fun! He is a riot! We work hard and we have a lot of fun doing it! We are enjoying the sector, even though it is a little harder than my other ones. The people in general aren't quite as receptive right off the bat, 

but it's been going well.

We taught a really good lesson this week! I liked it a lot! I had taught it before but this had a different effect that the last time, and I hope the missionaries where you all live try it one day in the future because that would ruin the surprise. 

The lesson goes with a scenario. Let's say we went to Europe in vacation and in a plane. The plane starts to have a malfunction and just in case, the pilot has everyone write a small note to their families in case the worst comes. So we all had 3 minutes to write a small note to our families, and the notes all get guarded in the safe box. 

Then we explained how important the Book of Mormon is. How the Book of Mormon is just like those notes we had just written. They are very important so that we all could know about God and How much God loves us. We used the scripture Jacob 4:1-3 which explains about it.

Then we continued with the scenario, that the rescuers get to the crashed plane and find the safe box. The examine what there is inside, important documents and other stuff, but when they see the notes, they don't see the value that they have, so they rip them up and throw them away. I bet we would all be pretty mad at that! THe same thing happens when we don't read the Book of Mormon. We don't give it the value it deserves. So that's the qustion... Are we giving the Book of Mormon the value it deserves?

But other than that, we had a great week! I hope everything is good at home!

Well, I got changes this week. I got changed out of Pedro Aguirre Cerda to San Bernardo, in the San Bernardo Stake. It is quite a big change! Super big! I was in the center of the mission, and now I am in the most southern Zone of the mission! It is a huge change. Well distance wise it isn't that far. About half an hour in car, but it's a big change! In the people and where I am at. In Pedro Aguirre Cerda, I was in a part of the city called La Pintana, which is one of the more crazy parts. But now it's worlds apart. Really nothing happens. The mission office is actually in my chapel, so we are in one of the most peaceful parts of the mission. Which might be a little hard ha ha. No one is ever in the streets, so contacts aren't as easy. In my last sector, there were always people in the streets. But last night at 9:30, when we would usually just walk and talk to the people in the street, it was a ghost town. But it will just be a different style of work. I'm really excited to start a new sector and I have a bunch of energy coming into this change!

My new comp is Elder Corbo. He's from Buenos Aires, Argentina. He seems like a great guy! I'm greenie breaking again. He just got out of his training. He had a really good trainer! And he has a lot of energy to work and I think we are going to work really well together!

Well, super excited to start!

Anyway, I have some pictures.... This is my new comp, Elder Corbo. We played soccer today.

That's a map of my last sector.

And that's the bishop and his family. I really liked him. 

He is such a hard worker. 

Obispo Cerda.