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Still, Still, Still

We didn´t feel last week's earthquake. We got home and we were trying to make phone calls, but the service was out. We thought it was weird, but we went over the area book instead. When we went out about an hour later, we got a call from the zone leaders asking, ´´are you OK?´´ and we were like, ´´yeah, why?´´. We didn´t feel the Earthquake at all.

This week we were trying to work with members on inviting their friends to church and one actually did. Our prayers were answered! The bishop´s wife invited one of her coworkers to church last Sunday and she came and even stayed after for the baptism that the other elders had. Actually, there were three baptisms on Sunday. One for the daughter of a member and two investigators from Labranza (the other half of our ward that´s about 20 minutes away by micro).

We did a lot of door knocking this week, but it paid off because we found Fernando! Fernando is the friend of one member in the ward who has been looking around at different churches to see which one is the truth. He says he likes the Mormon church the best. It was very strange because we had been knocking doors for about 2 hours on Wednesday when the next door we knocked on opened and the first thing out of the mouth of the person was ´´come in, come in´´ (Pasen, pasen in espanol). He took us out to his patio and served us ice cream and then we proceeded to talk for a couple of hours about Chile, education and the gospel. I know, weird combination of topics. We´re going to meet with him again and hopefully have the opportunity to baptize him.

We had 4 investigators come to church this week: Pamela (The coworker of the Bishop´s wife), Evelyn, Rosa and Paola. Rosa is a special case. She is the one who´s cousin got baptized about 3 months ago and she´s been coming to church ever since but cringes every time baptism is brought up. We´re going to be direct this week and talk to her again about baptism. Felicidad is nowhere to be found. She and her husband never appear to be home. We had an appointment with her yesterday and she didn´t show up. We were very sad, especially because we had brought a member with us who used to be a catholic.

All in all, it was better than last week. We applied for my visa this morning, so we´ll get that in a couple weeks. Love you all and hope all is going well!

Oh yeah, I also spoke in Sacrament yesterday in front of about 150 people who speak spanish and not a word of english. I spoke for 10 min. Aren´t ya proud o´me?

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