February
25, 2015
Today was a fun p-day. We went to parque la Bandera and we played
baseball, which I don’t play, and soccer, which I can’t play due to my deformed
dislocating knees. I basically got bored
and ended up climbing trees. We did get
to play with some cute puppies and a crazy water fountain. We have a rule as missionaries to never shop
in street clothes even if it is the practical and logical thing to do and best
use of our time.
Miracle #156: The zone leaders
gave us permission to shop in our street clothes at the supermarket that was
right next to the park.
The funny part of the day was when we
had an appointment with V. and his family.
For some reason they looked me up on youtube and found a video that my
mom posted 2 months ago. It was titled
Elder L. Colvin, and it was just me throwing a trompo in my old house. I thought it was hilarious because it has
only 12 views and most of those are this family that I am teaching.
February
26, 2015
Today was a decent day. We ended up walking a TON today because no
one is home. Everyone is on their
vacation so they are either sleeping and ignoring us, or they are out of
town. I cannot wait for school to get
back in session because things will finally settle back to normal.
Miracle #157: Three people came
to our class in the very first week of advertising.
I am actually kind of dreading this
next change now because we will get a new District Leader and I am concerned
about which one of the other elders it will be.
I know for certain that I never, EVER want to be a district leader
myself, but I would really like to be the companion to a DL. When you have a DL for a comp, you get to go
on lots of divisions and it is really good for your relationship as companions
to have a break, and you learn a lot of really good things from how other
elders work.
February
27, 2015
Today was a rough day. We did have a fun miracle, but the best part
of the day was at the baptism of Viviana and Karla. They are the other elder’s investigators, but
we get to attend baptisms and the spirit there was great. It made me excited for S. baptism that is
scheduled for this Saturday. Actually,
the baptism could have turned out a lot better.
The ward leadership cut the service short because they had to be
somewhere else to go, and they showed up in their street clothes…what the heck?
We ended up trying and failing to talk
to people and get contacts almost all day long. But I kept on trucking and
didn’t get too discouraged. The miracle
of the day was during one of those rough moments.
Miracle #158: While standing in
the sun feeling rejected, a lady left her house to come to talk to us and asked
us to teach her! Wow, that was a tender
mercy.
February
28, 2015
Today was rough….again. We did have one lesson and one great
contact/service opportunity. Actually we also started the day with a service
project where we had to cut down this ridiculously hard tree with a stupidly
dull saw. ALL of our citas fell through
and our plan B’s almost all fell. At he
end of a couple of hours of work, we went to go help out a member who called us
asking us to come. When we got there,
the members were gone! Then as we walked
back home, my miracle happened.
Miracle #159: I saw tow men
working on their house and I offered to help.
They accepted and after 45 minutes of work and chatting, they invited us
over for dinner next week.
We had a great talent show in our ward
tonight. A ton of people showed up and
we had a great time getting to know each other.
There were a TON of funny talents and I ended up throwing a Trompo for
my talent. It went way better than I
thought and the Chileans were so surprised that a gringo could learn those
tricks. They wanted to know how I did it
and I told them that some people have the gift of tongues, but I have the gift
of trompos.
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| Little kids think that I am velcro, it is the hardest rule to enforce to keep the kids from running up to you and hugging you. |
March
1, 2015
Today was pretty good. Church was not
that great though because one of the brethren decided to reprimand the men in
very fast and very harsh Spanish. It was
rough and I couldn’t even distract myself with reading scriptures in English
like I used to be able to do a few months ago.
I was bummed out because S. didn’t come to church and he is getting
baptized this Friday. As it turns out,
he just didn’t wake up and we are still good to go for the baptism. In our
lesson with him today, he chose me to baptize him and I was so humbled and
excited at the same time. It will be my
very first opportunity to baptize someone.
Miracle #160: S. will be baptized age the same age and on
the same date that my companion was five years ago.
The most fun part of the day was
visiting J. and C. We were fasting so
we couldn’t eat their delicious food. I
was a little bummed about that part, but the visit was good.
March
2, 2015
Today started out with Elder W. trying
to reprimand me for exercising too much.
SERIOUSLY?!!! I just got so frustrated. He called the president about it because he
is “worried”. I wake up early so that I
can do three things: study and extra 30 minutes, exercise an extra 30 minutes,
and clean (every day). I am still ready
on time for companionship study. Elder
W., my leader, has never worked out in the 12 weeks I have been here, he rarely
cleans the house, and he hardly every does comp. study. I get more done in the
morning while following all of the rules and he is still ratting me out to the
president. The only thing that I can do
is hang in there for one more week when president promised me that things would
change.
Other than that, today was
awesome. We had good lessons and fun
divisions.
Miracle #161: We ran into Hermano
H. mother in the street while contacting.
We had never met her and we didn’t even know anything about her, but
after talking to her for a bit we learned that her son was Hmo. H. She says that she is interested in learning
more about the church.
The fun part of the day was either when
I found 2 bucks on the sidewalk, or when some random contact gave us milk. It wasn’t just any milk, it was flavored and
really delicious! Also Elder Diaz and
Elder Whitmore decided to pull a prank on us.
They lit 20 incense sticks in our room and shut the door and windows.
The room was full of smoke ...it was pretty entertaining!
March
3, 2015
Today was really good. It was one of the better days that I have had
with Elder Leon. We taught some of our
really good investigators and found and taught some interesting future
investigators. We also went on divisions
tonight where we each went with a man from the ward. It was only the second time we have ever
managed to leave with 2 different men.
The last week fo this change has been great so far. I am really starting to love Elder Leon. I
think that my mom’s advice to lower my expectations had really helped me. That and the fact that I have been doing more
stuff for him and it has brought us a lot closer. I think that I needed to learn how to just
give of myself without expecting/wanting/needed reciprocity.
Miracle #162: Chile sells whole
wheat bread somewhere, and I am going to find it. A contact gave us a sandwich made with whole
wheat and it was amazing. Sometimes I
feel that I get more from making contacts than I give. That makes me wonder how God provides a way
for us to have our needs met even if it is from random strangers on the street. Today’s
miracle showed me that when I serve and love others unselfishly without thought
of recompense, God will provide a way to fill me up.
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