Feliz dia del padre! y feliz cumpleaños Katie!
First
off, womens soccer? are they playing womens soccer there? Here it is
the Copa America! or the American Cup! Thats why you saw something on
Facebook. Its huge, almost like the world cup. And its in Chile! When
Chile plays, we have to enter the house early..it stinks haha but nobody
listens to us if there is a game so President Videla just told us to go
inside and study. Its crazy cause you can here the screams of the
people and you know when they score goals! And it smells like barbaques
when they play haha. My companion is going crazy because he wants to
watch when Peru plays but i dont let him haha, he gets distracted with
every TV.
its funny huh
that Spencer and Brent are home now, i have a year in the mission and a
lot of others are leaving now! Hey, tell Weston Birtcher that im here
in Bastian (Elder) Pino´s ward. He´ll know who it is haha an elder from
his mission in Peru. And my companion is from Tacna and he says that he
remembers that Weston played the violin or something in conference or
something idk! Small world!
This
week i have a cool experience that i want to share. We went to a lesson
that was really important and we basically ran to get there cause we
were a little late. We are knocking the door and calling and everything
and they dont come out. We find out that they arent there and I dont
know about my companion but i got really discourage. I was super tired
and i just wanted to have that lesson. I starting to think stupid things
like Why do i work so hard and never have results or what am i doing
wrong. I just felt stupid i dont know. But we decide to visit a less
active sister so lived close and we are walking there when we pass a man
unloading groceries from his car. We almost pass him, discouraged, but i
offered our help. He declined and my companion saying that we are
always there close if he needed help. The man said something like but
where are you normally? Or something i dont remember but then i knew
that we needed to talk more with him and i offered a pass along card
with our number and kind of joking said that we could wash his car or
help with something else. I showed him the card with Christ and said
that we teach people about Christ and how to have more faith and he said
that he didnt need help but he was really interested in our message
because hes looking for a church for his family. Hes super awesome and
wanted to go to church without even teaching him but he didnt go. We are
hopefully going to teach him wednesday, but like i said...Chile has a
game...so we will see. But the Lord prepares people to receive the
Gospel! It was just what i needed when i was discouraged.
A
haitian family that we are teaching (with less actives and non members)
is progressing a lot and we hope to have a baptism this week! Last
night we finishing teaching all of the commandments and she said that
she was ready for baptism. The less active brother got excited because
his wife is coming back to Chile (she was in Haiti for 2 months) with
the kids that arent members and they arrive just in time to see the
baptism! Hopefully with them we should have like 10 haitian members
going to church!!
Im
loving the mission. loving the scriptures and the people here. Its crazy
the cultures i see here in chile. Even the Chileans from other parts of
chile are different. I know peruvians, colombians, haitians, arabians
(by the way their desserts are so good haha), argentines, braslians, and
probably more and that doesnt even count all the missionaries i know. I
love this gospel and i love the unity that we can have with people from
all over the world.
Love you guys,
Elder Farnsworth
A
picture of Spanish class with my favorite haitians haha Duma (member),
Rose, Fredo and Wilbert (investigators). Rose is the one that is going
to get baptised now.
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