District Leader

Exciting Week

Well this has been quite the exciting week. We've been doing really well, I absolutely love this sector. It's a bummer I didn't come here sooner, but that's all right. God knows why I'm here now. But anyway, good week. We've been teaching a lot and we have a lot of people who are progressing. 

Especially a woman named Claudia. Her son was baptized 6 months ago and is super active, and we've been working with her. She has gone to church almost every week for about 2 months, so we are hoping that she will keep progressing really well!

Something that I didn't expect this week. I got called as a District Leader for my last change, so that was the last thing I was expecting. I really have no idea what I'm doing, but here we go. I have 2 sets of elders and the Zone Leaders in the District, so wish me luck. 

We've been contacting and working hard, trying to keep going. That's all there really is for this week, and I'm sure there will be more for next week!

19/8/2015

Crazy special change this past week. Well yesterday really. Yesterday I left San Bernardo and I am now in the Sector Los Carolinos, in the Stake El Bosque. We knew for a little bit that it was going to happen. But we were a little sad. It is a little stinky because this is my last change in the mission. And I am going to finish in a ward for one change. But I am really excited! It is going to be cool! I am really excited for this sector! From what I have seen it is really good!

I am with Elder Noriega from Utah. His parents are from Mexico, and he speaks spanish really well. He's a really good guy, and I am excited to work with him. It's going to be a good change! He just finished his training, so he is fresh with energy and super ready to work! I am super excited! Here's a picture of him.

So we'll see how this new sector and last change goes. I am excited. It was a little hard to leave Elder Corbo. He is a really good guy and I'll miss him a lot. The thing that kind of stunk was that I was only in that sector for less than 3 months, so I didn't have enough time to really get to know everyone. But San Bernardo is a really good ward. I'll miss it a lot.

But anyway, some other pictures. Just to show, this is all of the Area Books that we have in this sector. So much work has been done and missionaries have been here for so long, that all of these are just full. It's kind of crazy.

And this is Hermano Sergio. He was our Ward Mission Leader. He is a great guy. I am going to miss him!

12/8/15

This has been a very interesting week. First of all starting with Thursday. Thursday it started to rain really hard. So, to make a long story short. We got home for a few seconds after lunch on Thursday to pick up something, and then we saw a lot of water on the floor. Those were just a few drops, but then we went into our bedroom, where the 4 of us had our bunk beds. And we see that the roof above us had accumulated so much water, that it could burst in any minute.... So we spent almost all Thursday trying to move the bunk beds into our living room so they didn't get soaking wet. It was fun.... Not really. But that's the only problem we had from the rain.

But other than that it was an interesting week. We've been trying to work really hard. We know we don't have too much time left in the sector, so we have been trying to work hard to get the last little bit out of it that we can. We've been contacting a lot and it's been kind of rough. It is definitely the hardest sector I've ever been in. But I have learned a lot because of being here.

One of the biggest things I have learned here is that even though progress or work might be slow, if we keep working, something will happen. It might be really hard and we might go crazy, or better said drive ourselves crazy. But If we keep pushing, something will happen. We can never see what might happen just a little bit further down the road. If we give up right now, we might never be able to see what might have happened had we just kept going a little bit further. Let's keep working! Let's keep going!

Anyway,the first picture is the room we had our beds in, we had to move them.

The second is the disorder we had the living room in while we tried to fix it all.

And today we went Bowling. It was really fun!

5/8/2015

This has been a good week. We had quite a few great, interesting things happen this week! 

Well to start off we were able to give on of the first Spanish lessons taught in Chile (hahaha) to Jimmy and Dalen, the Haitian investigators. They are progressing well and are commited to come to church this week. And they asked us for help in Spanish! Hahaha it was really funny!

The first really cool thing was what we taught to a part member family. Pablo and Estefany. They are from Uruguay, and they are great! They have 2 little girls and they are awesome too! So we decided we were going to try to teach the Restoration in a way that they could really understand.

So we took 3 candles and put them on a plate, and we taught a little bit about prophets and dispensations and stuff, until we got to the Earthly Ministry of Jesus Christ. And when we taught about the establishment of Christ's church, we lit the 3 candles. One for the 12 Apostles, one for the Priesthood, and then one for the Revelation necessary for Christ to guide his church after his death. 

Then we talked about the Apostasy. When Christ died, he still lead his church through the Revelation to his apostles. But when the Apostles died, so did the church, and we blew our the candles. The room we were in went dark.

But as we explained the Restoration, and the First Vision of Joseph Smith, we were able to light the 3 candles again! Because through Joseph Smith 12 Apostles were called, the Priesthood was restored, as was the Revelation. And as we lit the candles again, the room lit up. It was really clear! They understood it really well! It was all around a great experience!

Then on Saturday, we were able to take a lot of investigators on a tour of the Temple in Santiago. It went really well! Of the 5 people that went, 2 are sure to get married in order to get baptized, one had recieved his answer and wants to get baptized and our investigator Julio is keeping his commitments and has shown interest in being baptized! It was incredible! We were able to go into the front doors of the temple into the reception area and be a few minutes in silence! And the Spirit was incredible! It was so cool! The first picture I put there is a foto of all of us who went on the tour!

So overall a great week!

And then the other picture is of me giving my Zone Leader a hair cut! Haha, it actually turned out all right. Another thing I've learned here on the mission.