May 13, 2015
This p-day was pretty relaxed. We woke up and just studied and chilled. We
went to the church so Elder Skabelund, an elder with a full ride scholarship in
volleyball at BYU, could practice some moves during his last 12 weeks of his
mission. He is insanely good at
volleyball! He is 6’11” and destructive
on the front line. We had a great time
just playing 2 on 2 for an hour (and I don’t even like volleyball.)
Miracle #232: Somehow I miraculously learned (without
practicing) how to throw a perfect spiral with the football. I have never been
able to do it until today!
Once again there wasn’t any funny part of the day today, but
we did have a good meeting to finish our planning for the youth of the
ward. I haven’t felt well today – flu
sore and tired. It was probably a bad
idea to exercise today. Actually, I guess it was pretty funny when Elder
Skabelund kept spiking the ball and hitting the ceiling or nailing my companion
in the head.
May 14, 2015
Today we went to a super lame service project where we
worked FOR a member of our ward. He
didn’t even help us to the work that he wanted us to do. He just did his job in the corner of his
house while we worked. Then he
complained about the quality of our work.
He acted super entitled and it really irritated me. While our work was not the best on the plane,
it was a lot better than the shoddy Chilean cheap labor that he would have paid
for.
Miracle #233: We found 2 people who we had met before
and befriended but never knew where they lived. It was a cool experience
because we were each able to connect with one person and feel prompted to share
a message which they accepted.
The funny part of the day was just talking with Elder
White. He makes fun of me in a way that
I know he is my friend and I can do the same back at him.
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| I have worn through four pairs of pants this way! |
Today was a boringish but fairly productive day. We planned, had a lesson, then went to a
combined missionary tracting. The wussy missionaries form the sector gave us
the most ghetto blocks and we had a blast.
I felt like I was back in my old sectors and I missed the kind of
teaching and contacts that you get to do in the ghetto.
Miracle #234: We got a less active’s teenaged daughter
to participate in a great lesson about charity with the Familia Ruiz Aceval.
The fun part of the day was making sopapillas in the evening. They turned out soooo good, but they are
soooo bad for you. Still very delicious!
May 16, 2015
Ugh. Today was…interesting.
We went to visit M.M.’s family and were excited about the visit going
in, but then as the visit progressed we learned that one of the family members
is a Jehovah’s Witness who was very confrontational and argumentative. He basically said, “You’re and idiot and
you’re wrong.” Somehow I managed to maintain my composure throughout the whole
lesson despite the fact that he constantly tore us down. In the end, Elder White and I bore our
testimonies of the prophets and left.
Miracle #235: Elder White and I maintained our cool in
an impossibly confrontational lesson.
We had a sweet part of the day where we talked to a man who
came to our English class to practice his English. He is very fluent and is studying at the
university. I think that he helped me
more with my Spanish than I did with his English.
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| Our English Class |
Today was a good end to our week. We started off with ward
council meeting (the second one in three months) and kept it going with a good
church attendance. We had a decent lunch
and then we went out to work. We visited
a few people, but the miracle wasn’t food or a lesson, it was our recent
convert, B.
Miracle #236: We were FINALLY able to get together
with B. and leave to visit some people with him. It has been about a month since we met with
him which is bad because he needs the support.
May 18, 2015
Today was pretty entertaining. We started the day with working on
preparations for a ward activity that is coming up this Thursday. It was my idea to do a dessert competition
and the ward loved the idea. So, about a
month ago, we started planning for the activity, which is called “Master
Pastries”. We even managed to get our
mission president to agree to come and be one of our judges. We decided that if the president was partial
to anyone it would be against his missionaries.
Miracle #237: All the plans are set and the activity
is ready to go.
The fun part of the day was going on divisions with Elder
Hanni and Elder Chavez. I went with
Elder Hanni today and I have to say that he really grew on me. We had a good time just talking and
walking. We walked a LOT today, like ALL
day. The only exceptions were some contacts we did. It was a good day overall.
On the downside, I am really ticked that the ZL’s haven’t
looked for the camera that I left in their house 2 weeks ago. I know that it is my fault, but I will hate
having to buy another camera. (Editor’s note:
WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH MY BOYS AND LOOSING THEIR CAMERA’S????)
May 19. 2015
Today started out really well with interviews with President
Cook. They sure went a lot better than
the last interview I had. He was more
encouraging this time around. I felt a
lot better about who I am becoming after my interview. Then we had our district meeting and I
gradually started feeling physically sick until by the end of the meeting, I
had a high fever and I had to go home and go to bed. I had massive chills for a couple of hours
and I wasn’t able to get up and function until about 6 P.M.
Miracle #238:
We randomly found a relative of one of he strongest members of our ward
who is interested in taking the lessons. Also, I didn’t even get a tiny bit
irritated in missionary correlation meeting.
There were a few funny things that happened today. One was this guy just hanging out on the
street smoking crack from his homemade bong.
Another was a lady telling us that it is better to help a stray dog than
it is to help a person. What? I have always been a dog lover except now that I
live here in Chile, the stray overpopulation is so annoying that I am starting
to hate them and their poop. What really sickens me is that people will feed
the stray dogs, but let the poor and needy people go hungry.
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