Hey Yall,
This week we finally got Angelica to Church. She was baptized back in April and this week finally was confirmed by yours truly yesterday in church. The Spirit was very strong and I'm sure that all who were there were very excited to have a new member of the church. Her kids both are planning on getting baptized at the end of this month, but we'll see how it goes. Her oldest daughter is very active in an Evangelical church right now...
I've had many a dream this past week, most of them having more and more to do with missionary work. I've had dreams with my companions beating me up and all sorts of stuff. Fun dreams, huh?
We had another exchange with Zone leaders again this week, this time Elder Smith worked with me in Los Angeles. It's quite exciting, actually. I have seen big changes in the people we've met in Los Angeles. One girl named Ingrid has made all kinds of progress in the past couple of weeks since she got baptized. I almost know the sector of San Martin better than Elder Smith. During the intercambio, we went to a school and taught little kids English and a little bit of religion. More than anything I think it was for an investigator who works there named Jessica. Her husband is an inactive member and we went to teach her class. The kids were having a hard time paying attention between yelling, screaming and fighting, but there were two times during the whole hour when we had complete silence. First was when we were teaching about being children of God. Elder Smith and I sang "Soy un Hijo de Dios" and the class just fell silent as we sang. After they asked us to sing it again. Then we left the class with a prayer and the kids all stood up and were very reverent as I spoke. It was amazing the spirit that it brought.
The rest of the exchange was a good time of going around knocking doors in the rain before we went to a Family night activity with a couple of members and an investigator who just got baptized this last Saturday. Her name is Ginette and she was a Jehovah's witness. Then the Zone Leaders explained that Jehovah is Jesus and she totally had a change of heart. So the family night was just basically to reenforce her knowledge of the Gospel. We went over to Tanner's house, a gringo who lives here with his wife. He served his mission in Honduras, so he's OK. The wife, poor thing, doesn't know a lick of Spanish and stays in the house all day. She probably didn't catch anything of what we talked about that night. It was OK though. The three gringos there translated. We're awesome like that.
The best part of this week was on Saturday when we met some Youth in the street. Elder Cottrell and I left in the morning and the first thing we see are 5 high school kids walking out of the bus terminal. They were talking about where the hospital was, so we told them where it was. They then asked if we lived there and could help them find some other things like the government buildings, the carabineros and the school and whatnot. So, we spent the morning giving them a tour of Santa Barbara basically. We talked with them about religion and about history because they were doing a school project. It was a fun time getting to know them and asking them why they smoked. They said it was just part of life. We tried to pass their names on to the missionaries in Los Angeles, so we'll see what happens.
That was about it for this week. Hope you've all had an adventure or two this week. Just get out and do it. You can plan it, but make sure you just get out there and do it. That's the key to life.
This week we finally got Angelica to Church. She was baptized back in April and this week finally was confirmed by yours truly yesterday in church. The Spirit was very strong and I'm sure that all who were there were very excited to have a new member of the church. Her kids both are planning on getting baptized at the end of this month, but we'll see how it goes. Her oldest daughter is very active in an Evangelical church right now...
I've had many a dream this past week, most of them having more and more to do with missionary work. I've had dreams with my companions beating me up and all sorts of stuff. Fun dreams, huh?
We had another exchange with Zone leaders again this week, this time Elder Smith worked with me in Los Angeles. It's quite exciting, actually. I have seen big changes in the people we've met in Los Angeles. One girl named Ingrid has made all kinds of progress in the past couple of weeks since she got baptized. I almost know the sector of San Martin better than Elder Smith. During the intercambio, we went to a school and taught little kids English and a little bit of religion. More than anything I think it was for an investigator who works there named Jessica. Her husband is an inactive member and we went to teach her class. The kids were having a hard time paying attention between yelling, screaming and fighting, but there were two times during the whole hour when we had complete silence. First was when we were teaching about being children of God. Elder Smith and I sang "Soy un Hijo de Dios" and the class just fell silent as we sang. After they asked us to sing it again. Then we left the class with a prayer and the kids all stood up and were very reverent as I spoke. It was amazing the spirit that it brought.
The rest of the exchange was a good time of going around knocking doors in the rain before we went to a Family night activity with a couple of members and an investigator who just got baptized this last Saturday. Her name is Ginette and she was a Jehovah's witness. Then the Zone Leaders explained that Jehovah is Jesus and she totally had a change of heart. So the family night was just basically to reenforce her knowledge of the Gospel. We went over to Tanner's house, a gringo who lives here with his wife. He served his mission in Honduras, so he's OK. The wife, poor thing, doesn't know a lick of Spanish and stays in the house all day. She probably didn't catch anything of what we talked about that night. It was OK though. The three gringos there translated. We're awesome like that.
The best part of this week was on Saturday when we met some Youth in the street. Elder Cottrell and I left in the morning and the first thing we see are 5 high school kids walking out of the bus terminal. They were talking about where the hospital was, so we told them where it was. They then asked if we lived there and could help them find some other things like the government buildings, the carabineros and the school and whatnot. So, we spent the morning giving them a tour of Santa Barbara basically. We talked with them about religion and about history because they were doing a school project. It was a fun time getting to know them and asking them why they smoked. They said it was just part of life. We tried to pass their names on to the missionaries in Los Angeles, so we'll see what happens.
That was about it for this week. Hope you've all had an adventure or two this week. Just get out and do it. You can plan it, but make sure you just get out there and do it. That's the key to life.
Elder Lundstrom
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