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Hey Yall,
Well, this week has been a little slow in the work, but we had some wonderful experiences. We've been giving more service and having fun with member families. You see, the membership here in Santa Barbara, as we found out yesterday, is more than 10 times the attendance on Sunday. There are 260 members and we haven´t had over 20 in the church since I've been here. Talk about the need for Permaneced. Permaneced is a program for helping members stay active in the church here in Chile. It was introduced about a year ago and is working pretty well if you do it right. I had the epiphany the other day that members are just like investigators, just with a baptism to their name. We're are all still learning every day things from the gospel.
Anyway, this week we met another crazy person like the guy that doesn't believe in prophets. We were knocking doors one day and a lady came out to talk to us. She started going off about how she was born Catholic, raised Catholic and is going to die Catholic so we would just waste our time talking to her. She then proceeded to go on about the missionaries always asking for ten minutes of her time every time they pass by and how they waste her time when they do that. During all of this talk about wasting time, Elder Bustos didn't say anything and I said maybe two sentences. Ironically, we wasted 20 minutes talking with the lady who didn't want to waste time. And by talking, I mean she was talking. Like I said, we basically said nothing.
Scripture for the Week: 2 Nephi 29:7-10. Let me know what you think of it. :)
We also chopped wood again this week. It was really fun because I knew more of what I was doing this time. We chopped about twice as much wood as we did the last time back in the city of Temuco. This time it was for a member and she was very nice about letting us using her special axe. Yes, an Axe, not a hatchet. I still don't use hatchets. ;)
We also played volleyball as a zone of missionaries last week and had a good time. Especially when Elder Burch smacked the ball over the fence into the yard of a kindergarten. We scaled the walls to see where it was, but we couldn't jump into the yard because there was no way to get back up. So, we sheepishly went over to the kindergarten and asked them to retrieve the ball for us. What an adventure, huh? Elder Burch then proceeded to knock it over another fence, but this time it landed on a roof and we just had to hop up on the wall and reach out over the roof for the ball. Yeah, we know how to play volley ball.
The word for this week: Mujerdocio. Sacerdocio is Priesthood in English and Mujer is woman. In essence, mujerdocio is the power of woman. Cool, huh? Elder Filamita and I thought it was really funny and we proceeded to explain to one of the members that men need priesthood because we need something to make us feel special.
The highlight of the week was the Activity of the Branch. We played various games and soccer at the chapel and we had lots of people come. The best part was the Stake Young Men's presidency coming with their families to enjoy the fun, too. We Played soccer, "Do you like your neighbor?" and other games with the kids. It was a success!
That's about it for this week. Like I said, we were a little slow as the work is concerned, but we're going to have a baptism soon, so we're really excited!

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