Hey Yall!
This week has been an exciting week of firsts. Por Fin, Rosa is getting baptized on Saturday. She finally decided it´s the right thing to do, so we´re getting ready for Saturday. Her cousin Rosa and others will speak at the Baptism, and Roberto is going to direct. Sorry, you have no idea who Roberto is. He´s the ward mission leader. Anyway, we´re really excited. :)
We also had an interesting experience knocking doors this week. We started off the day by knocking on the first door of a street in our sector. Who should answer but a guy who has met with the missionaries before. His name is Alonzo Molina and he's super cool. He invited us in and basically taught us the plan of salvation. However, we knew we weren't going to get anywhere with him any time soon. He kept mentioning over and over again how we don't need churches, just our faith. He also mentioned that he loved to read books of the faith, so we ended up just leaving him a Book of Mormon and told him that everything he had "taught" us was found in the book. Some day he's going to find himself in an LDS chapel and end up getting baptized, but he wasn't our investigator. However, he gave us something in return. We each got a softbound version of the New Testament. So now we have even more books in our house. Cool, right?
This week we also had Stake Conference. But Stake Conference here is a little different. All of southern Chile participated in a live broadcast from the Conference center in Salt Lake with President Boyd K. Packer, D. Todd Christofferson and Elaine S. Dalton. It was really cool to have all the stakes of southern Chile watching the same thing. The best part was the language, though. There was a seventy there who spoke first, all in Spanish (he had a really gringo accent, though. It was kind of funny). Then Sister Dalton spoke with a translator. Next, Elder Christofferson spoke in practically perfect Spanish. I didn't know he could speak Spanish. To make it even better, President Packer gave a small portion of his message in Spanish and closed, "en el nombre de Jesu cristo, Amen." It was rather impressive.
Something thrilling happened before the conference, though. Well, before the broadcast. We had 10 min before the broadcast to do normal stake conference stuff like announce ordinations and whatnot. There was also a confirmation of new member and guess who did it? Elder Garcia! I helped, but he did it. It was surprising because the Stake President merely looked down at me from the stand and told me that we were going to preform the confirmation. Elder Garcia was caught off guard, too. It was a neat experience.
Other than that, there apparently have been hundreds of small tremors, but we have yet to feel anything. We're working hard with the members and we're looking forward to our new mission president in July. He's Chilean. That's about it for this week! Que les vayan bien!
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