December 31, 2014
Today was hours and hours of contacting people. We had a ton of great contacts but only 1
miracle. To preface this miracle I need to tell you about what I am reading in
my personal studies. I am working on
getting through the Old Testament and it’s killing me! Today, I was reading from the Psalms 90,
which I happen to love. When we were
contacting I saw a sign that said, “Let God bless this business.” Out of curiosity, I looked inside and saw a
Bible and out of further curiosity I looked and saw that the Bible was open to
the same Psalm that I was studying. Then
I contacted the owner of the store:
Miracle #100: The owner of the store said that he has
faith but is on a bad path. I remembered
a Psalm that I read about that situation, Psalm #37 “The steps of a good man
are ordered by the Lord; and he delighteth in his way. Though he fall, he shall
not be utterly cast down, for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand. I have been
young, and now I am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his
seed begging bread. He is ever merciful,
and lendeth; and his seed is blessed.
Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.” Then the man gave us soda and cookies for
free!
Tonight a member of the church gave us some meat to cook for
ourselves. Unfortunately, we do not have
a grill, but fear not, we are missionaries!
We fabricated a grill out of an oven rack, sticks of wood, the cover to
a fan, and some tin foil. It worked
great.
January 1, 2015
Today was our P-day so we has a zone activity. It was so dumb to just mess around playing
sports (probably because I hate organized sports.) Other than that it was
tranquilo. Then in the afternoon we just
contacted all day. Our miracle happened when
we were in a building complex coming down the stairs and I recognized someone.
Miracle #101: We saw one of our random street
contacts. He is an 18 year old kid who
wants to change his life and accepted our offer to help him.
Tonight I decided to cook some of the cookies that mom sent me. The only problem is that I didn’t know that
our oven apparently has a direct line to the fires of hell. Most ovens burn at 350 degrees here, but this
devil oven burns at like 700. It’s
ridiculous.
January 2, 2015
Today was a terrible day. It started in the morning when it
came time to do weekly planning and I wanted to sew my ripped shirt. Elder L. flipped out about that. Then I decided that I was done living in a
disgusting pigsty (yeah, that’s right mom – I am truly sorry for being so
slovenly as a kid, cause now it is coming back to haunt me.) All the other elders kept saying that we have
to wait until p-day and I just said….screw that! I am done treating this house that we have
been given to live in like crap. I organized, swept, scrubbed, and washed
literally a mountain of dishes. It was
so bad that just doing that took me over 2 ½ hours. Throughout that entire time, the other elders
didn’t lift a finger to help me. That
got me irritated for the rest of the day, which made working really hard. The only good part of the day was when my
miracle happened.
Miracle #102: I was able to still teach a lesson by
myself when my comp fell asleep.
The funny part of the day stems off of another Elder’s funny
experience. Elder Whitmore is a blond haired
blue eyed gringo and apparently that makes him pretty hot stuff down here. A couple of days ago there were 2 girls who
literally chased him down the street trying to get his name and talk to
him. Elder W. somehow avoided them but
today Elder Leon and I ran into the girls.
They begged us to know Elder W. name and finally Elder Leon told them,
and we invited them to come to English class taught by Elder W. They were so
excited and we sorta felt bad, but it was totally worth calling Elder W. to
tell him about his two new students. He
was so ticked…haha.
January 3, 2015
A very meh day today.
We started with service doing construction for our second counselor in
the bishopric and that was a little strange.
One of the highlights of the day was when I surpassed myself on the
insanity fitness test! I also did better
than the fitness professional on the training video. Month 2 is going to kill me though. Besides the awesome workout, there were two
good things today. First was my miracle.
Miracle #103: A man called us and asked us to come
over that day to teach him. This may
seem like a weak miracle, but compared to the rest of my day it was the
highlight.
January 4, 2015
We had a good day for a fast Sunday. I woke up with a dehydration induced headache
which rampaged me throughout the 3 hours of church. I finally was able to break my fast and get a
drink of water and within a few minutes I felt better. We did some good work
today.
Miracle #104: We were let into two different houses
today of random contacts which is miraculous enough. The real miracle is that both families want
us to come back and teach them again.
After those lessons, it was about 8:00 and I wasn’t feeling
well. We were close to home so I asked if we could stop by and get a drink and
some motrin. Elder Ware was home resting
with a sick Elder Whitmore. So then
Elder Ware and Elder Leon decided that they would go out and finish the day
while I stayed home with sick Elder Whitmore.
It was a little odd, and guilt inducing but what are you going to
do? I have also decided that Chileans
don’t understand the word agua (water).
Literally, every time we ask for water, they give us disgustingly sugary
juice or soda (also disgustingly sugary).
January 5, 2015
Today was a fun division with my zone leader. After the zone meeting (where the leaders
reprimanded us for having dirty houses,) we went back to the house that I had
just cleaned. I was sooooo glad that it
was clean because if it had been as dirty as it was before, we would have been
in big trouble. Yeah, my point was made.
( Not to say that I won or anything, but I won.)
Today we had a solid 4 lessons and 1 division. That’s really good considering that I have
not been feeling well. Our miracle was a
really weird bus stop contact:
Miracle #105: We contacted a slightly drunk man who
ended up telling us that the elders came by his place once, but never came
back. He described Elder Ware so we told
the man that we would send the elder back if he wanted to talk to them and he did.
Funny experience, actually the whole day was fun for me with
Elder Gomez (our zone leader.) I had
some really funny moments in great lessons
January 6, 2015
Today was good because, it just was! My miracle happened in the beginning of the
work day. I walked out the door and was headed down the street when a sweet
thing happened. I felt a strong prompting to talk to this woman on the side of
the road. Being really stubborn, I ignored the prompting and kept walking. Then
for the second time in my mission, I was spiritually slapped for not following
a prompting. Then, I followed it:
Miracle #106: The woman who I contacted ended up being
an investigator who moved recently and never got in tough with the new
missionaries. We had a good conversation
and I invited her to accept the missionaries again.
Funny experience of the day was when we were confronted by a
WASTED man who really loved us. He loved
us so much that when we shook his hand, he kissed our hands. By kiss, I mean he rather sloppily drooled on
the back of my hand.
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