Hey Y'all,
This week was a thriller. I don't know why it took me so long to notice, but of the 12 missionaries in our zone, there is only one Latino. His name is Elder Sandoval and he is from Peru. He's learning a lot of english because he's with all of us gringos (Even though we should be speaking spanish whenever possible). We've had a lot of great experiences this week and a couple of bad ones. Let's see what you all think.
First off, we found a wonderful inactive member named Soledad. She and her kids live with her parents and she left the church because of a divorce and bad things her ex-husband did. She teaches all the principles to her kids, but she doesn't participate with any church now. We're going to visit her this week again and talk with her kids about Seminary. We're very excited.
The best story of the week comes from the Hermanas that work in a little town called Nacimiento. They talked to a homeless guy a few weeks back and he came to church before disappearing again. They didn't see him for a couple of weeks, but then they found him again and there was a member in their ward that offered him a little shack behind his house for shelter. He had blankets and everything ready for him. It's not the most habitable thing in the world, but he likes it. He said, "I'm going to sleep like a king tonight." The zone leaders are going to lend him some dress clothes so he can find work and he's working on kicking alcohol so he can be baptized. It's so amazing.
The best thing of the week: I ate Conejo. Conejo is rabbit. I had rabbit meat. That's amazing. It was good. We went to a members house and had it. I loved it. :)
The other thing that's amazing of this week is a man in Santa Barbara named Jorge. We see Jorge all the time, but he's usually drunk. We've known he's a member for a long time but he's drunk every time we see him, so we can't really do anything. We ran into him the other day and he was sober, so we made a visit with him in his house and met his mom and everything. We went over and he remembers everything he learned with the missionaries and told us he stopped going to church because he moved to Santiago for a while and didn't know anyone in the ward, so he left. He then came back to Santa Barbara and didn't come back to church. So, hopefully we'll be able to get him to come visit with us on Sunday. The best part: He's beginning to leave alcohol because of a new job he's starting and he says alcohol is stupid. Awesome!
The weirdest thing I saw this week were a few parades of Evangelist churches. They go out and shout about how much love God has for everyone and then walk around the streets singing. It was weird and a little awkward because they stopped right in front of the chapel when we were getting together for an Elder's quorum activity. We simply walked through their mass and took whatever pamphlets they gave to avoid problems.
The pictures attached (1 photo on Facebook) are of a trip we made as a zone to a volcano on Monday. Elder Elder and three others almost made it to the top, but the rest of us only went halfway. It was a good time and the views were incredible.
That's about it for this week. Have a great week y'all!
This week was a thriller. I don't know why it took me so long to notice, but of the 12 missionaries in our zone, there is only one Latino. His name is Elder Sandoval and he is from Peru. He's learning a lot of english because he's with all of us gringos (Even though we should be speaking spanish whenever possible). We've had a lot of great experiences this week and a couple of bad ones. Let's see what you all think.
First off, we found a wonderful inactive member named Soledad. She and her kids live with her parents and she left the church because of a divorce and bad things her ex-husband did. She teaches all the principles to her kids, but she doesn't participate with any church now. We're going to visit her this week again and talk with her kids about Seminary. We're very excited.
The best story of the week comes from the Hermanas that work in a little town called Nacimiento. They talked to a homeless guy a few weeks back and he came to church before disappearing again. They didn't see him for a couple of weeks, but then they found him again and there was a member in their ward that offered him a little shack behind his house for shelter. He had blankets and everything ready for him. It's not the most habitable thing in the world, but he likes it. He said, "I'm going to sleep like a king tonight." The zone leaders are going to lend him some dress clothes so he can find work and he's working on kicking alcohol so he can be baptized. It's so amazing.
The best thing of the week: I ate Conejo. Conejo is rabbit. I had rabbit meat. That's amazing. It was good. We went to a members house and had it. I loved it. :)
The other thing that's amazing of this week is a man in Santa Barbara named Jorge. We see Jorge all the time, but he's usually drunk. We've known he's a member for a long time but he's drunk every time we see him, so we can't really do anything. We ran into him the other day and he was sober, so we made a visit with him in his house and met his mom and everything. We went over and he remembers everything he learned with the missionaries and told us he stopped going to church because he moved to Santiago for a while and didn't know anyone in the ward, so he left. He then came back to Santa Barbara and didn't come back to church. So, hopefully we'll be able to get him to come visit with us on Sunday. The best part: He's beginning to leave alcohol because of a new job he's starting and he says alcohol is stupid. Awesome!
The weirdest thing I saw this week were a few parades of Evangelist churches. They go out and shout about how much love God has for everyone and then walk around the streets singing. It was weird and a little awkward because they stopped right in front of the chapel when we were getting together for an Elder's quorum activity. We simply walked through their mass and took whatever pamphlets they gave to avoid problems.
The pictures attached (1 photo on Facebook) are of a trip we made as a zone to a volcano on Monday. Elder Elder and three others almost made it to the top, but the rest of us only went halfway. It was a good time and the views were incredible.
That's about it for this week. Have a great week y'all!
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