Hola familia!

The california trip sounds sweet! Id love to get out of the city for a while hahaha but oh well for now here i am. Until i get transfered to one of the few zones that is outside of the city. I hope so at least lol...but for now im loving it in Quilicura. It is such a sweet sector. There are so many people to teach and help. And there are a lot of haitians so thats sick too :). We taught english in an investigators house (haitian) and they teach me creole, i teach english, and my companion teaches them spanish. Its legit haha i can understand creole now a little more. 

Wow Brent already goes home...i remember when dad and i went to LA right after his talk. and now hes coming home. And mom, im not lying, nothing has happened to me in Chile haha i already told you the gangsters are my homies. No haha but really nothing has happened. And i was in a dangerous part for 7 months..i think they are scared of gringos that talk weird. 

This week was crazy...again. I love this sector, we can teach so much if we are dilligent. We had a new record (in my mission at least) of 42 lessons this week (that includes lesson with members, other lessons, lessons with converts and less actives) and we were able to meet almost all of our goals for the week. I really don´t know what we did, the Lord just helped us find people in the right time. Now there is so much work to do that we have to focus better and plan the most important things so that we help the people that are really going to progress and less actives that are going to come back. 

Well i have a funny/awesome story. We ate lunch Saturday and we should have started our fast after but we were running to a lesson and we forgot. Later in the day, we taught a lesson and a lady offered us cookies and juice. We ate a little bit and then left the house. We remembered the fast and didnt know what to do so we went to the house and started our fast late at night (well like 730..). Luckily, the lunch Sunday was with a sister who had to give us the lunch in Tuperware, so we choice to eat it late Sunday to be able to fast 24 hours. It was pretty hard because we basically didnt eat anything for like 30 hours (with exception to a few cookies right before the fast) haha but we did it. Want to know what we eat to finish the fast? Fish, my favorite hahaha but it tasted so good after so much time. We really saw the blessings of the fast and the help that the Lord gave us. It helped us to be humble and keep working because we would have been too hungry if we werent working. I know the Lord blesses those who keep His commandments and try to do their best in all aspects of their life. I love you guys and hope that you can have experiences like this in your lives at home! 

Love Elder Farnsworth

Guinea Pig!

We had transfers...but we both stayed! Elder Arce in the ward from El Salvador left...but Elder Garcia from Mexico came! My birthday was super fun! We had a few lessons in the morning and then in the afternoon, we went to the temple! Converts went and did baptisms for the first time and their family that arent members did a tour with us and Hermanas in the temple! It was awesome and we had a good time. A sister in the ward made cupcakes that day and was selling from her house (super common that people make food or something and sell it from their house) and she gave us some cupcakes for my birthday. Sunday, the lunch got canceled because the Sister was sick and Carito is in charge of finding us lunches and she invited us to here house to eat. AND WE ATE GUINEA PIG! Heck ya it was awesome. I was there last week when they killed it in their house and they saved it! Its a delicacy in Peru. It was so good. And they gave me a pie cake thing with pinnaple! It was awesome.

This week, on my birthday actually, i finished the Book of Mormon for the 3rd time in my mission. I understood it a lot more and marked a ton! It was so cool and we are going to do it again as a mission starting in July. Ive been asking every day for more testimony that the Book of Mormon is true to be able to know more and more without a doubt. I have seen so many thing and felt and heard so many things that testify that its true and i will never doubt it. We are trying to share as many Books as possible with everyone. We are asking for a ton of Le Livre de Mormon (french) for the haitians! We want a branch here in Quilicura haha they are so sick, they have so much faith. But we are just chilling here in Lo campino working like crazy with another transfer together.

Love you all see you in like a year! WHATTT!

Elder Farnsworth

 

 

 

Feliz Cumpleanos!!!

Hola familia!

So you saw pictures because it was Cesars birthday last saturday and we ate duck and rice and something called Yucca i think but it was like a potatoe. It was awesome, and they killed a guinea pig thing when we were there and they are gonna make it next week! Thanks to everyone who wrote Happy birthday! Sorry if i cant respond to everyone! Wow feels weird, 19 and almost half my mission, 11 months. Im gonna finish so young! 

This week we had to go 2 days to do the visa for my comp. normally there are a lot of people going at the same time so all the senior comps pair up and go back to a sector for the day because the visa takes forever, BUT my comp was the only one...So i got the pleasure to be there too!! haha its so long but its all good PACIENCE! And the Lord blessed us soo much still because that took away basically 2 days but we still taught 31 lessons! And there were 3 investigators in the church and 3 new investigators that showed up later for the 2nd and 3rd hour so basically 6! It was a fun week and this next week is gonna be fun too! We had zone activity right now and we played volleyball and ate Churripanes that are chorizo with a bread! The Zone Leaders bought some cakes for my comps birthday today! and We surprised him it was sick! we didnt even know! This week im reading a ton of Book of Mormon to catch up cause we have to finish it for the goal of the mission (5 months ending may 31). It is amazing what i learn. Its amazing what ive already learned in less than 11 months in the mission. Ive learned so much doctrine, but at the same time ive learned how to be a better person. I still fail and lack a lot more but its crazy the progress that the mission does. I hope every youth can go on a mission, but i hope that you can all prepare yourself. Its physically hard, at least here, we walk a lot. Its emotional hard, people are going to be racist or rude or hate you for wanting to help and give them the knowledge of the eternal life. Its spiritually tough, you have to see people take wrong choices and fail time after time. But its physically a blessing, you will grow and be strengthned physically and you will be able to do harder things. Its emotionally rewarding, you will be able to withstand reject and rude comments in the future. And its a spiritual miracle. You will change yourself. I promise all of you from the bottom of my heart that there is nothing better than the mission and a worthy mission with all your heart. Love you all, thanks for everything.

Elder Farnsworth

Photo. My comp cutting cake and me being weird..idk

 

 

Hola familia,

Wow, two funerals in one week! But thats good that you were able to see a few family members and remember about Grandma Hanna. My last greatgrandparent! But a lot of people never even met one grandparent. 

This week was crazy for us too! We were teaching a ton! We needed another companionship to work our one sector this week haha but it was awesome. The norm for the mission is normally no less than 20 lessons (total) in the week and the goal is 30. We taught 34 lessons this week after a low week the last week! And we really saw the blessings of our diligence. 5 out of the 5 recent converts went to the church, 4 investigators and a lot of less actives that we visited in the week. The ward is really working too. In Elders Quorom we talked about the Book of mormon and how can we fill the world with this book. The Quorom is selecting one person every week to give away a Book of Mormon. We are really seeing a spirit of missionary work in the ward and thats going to make it grow. 

Sorry the letter is going to be a little short because im tired and dont remember a lot of details of the week haha it was crazy. I just want to invite you all to try and share a Book of Mormon with a friend or a co worker. A lot of people with see that it means something to you and your family if you share it with love. But you cant share it if you dont know that it is true. I invite all of you to continue gaining a testimony of the Book of Mormon, asking God in your prayers at least once a week, even if you already know it is true. This will help you remember why you go to church and keep the commandments. And you will be able to share with other people easier. I know this church is true and that the Book of Mormon was translated by Joseph Smith and that Thomas S Monson is a prophet in these days. I love you all, and miss you, but time is flying here so its all good!

Love Elder Farnsworth