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| One of my favorite meals of fish and eggs on a bed of spinach. |
June 17, 2015
Today was a
fun p-day. We played Risk and Monopoly,
both of which I won without cheating (the only way I every won a game against
my siblings.) I don’t usually like those
kinds of games, but they are more fun when you don’t lose every time you play
them. After the games we emailed our families and then bought food and made our
lunch. The best part of the day was when we were working and we met some guys
who were doing calisthenics in the park.
It was fun to learn some workouts with them.
Miracle #267 (weak
one) I was able to match this very fit guy in repetitions on the
calisthenics.
The worst
part of the day was confronting my companions about some really serious issues
that he is having. The whole house
talked to him and he denied that he had a problem. It left all of us with feeling emotionally
drained. I don’t know what to do about
this situation.
June 18, 2015
Today was a
decent day. The problem from yesterday
left some tension in our relationship all day.
Also I was as tired as my companion always is, so we just did not bring
energy and the spirit to our lessons today.
Miracle #268: One of
the less active members in our ward, is taking lessons from us and he lent me a
great book about the history of the church.
The best
part of the day was going home early to grab our jackets because it is freezing
here. We were leaving to go to more
appointments but because the spirit was not with us, I decided to stay at home
and talk with my companion. We talked
for a long time and by the end of the evening, I had a lot more love for my
companion and I hope to work better with him tomorrow.
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| A kid decided that we should put a broken shovel on the other side of a rake... we´re like the Darth Maul of Chilean gardening! |
June 19, 2015
Well today
was a decent day. We had a service
activity this morning, which was good except that the lady seemed like she was
just taking advantage of free missionary labor. We had a nice long chat about
just stupid things that we have seen on the mission. We also spent a large part of the day in the
house during the killer game of Chile vs. Bolivia.
Miracle #269: Chile beat
Bolivia 5-0. It is really only cool because I am living here and I have to root
for Chile.
Here is a list of some of the different
things that happen here:
1. Chileans
water their dirt. Yep, just dirt. ONLY
dirt, no plants.
2. Chileans
can do anything with a broom: wash a car, dust the walls, and scrub the floors.
3. Chileans
complain about being poor, and they really are, except even the tiniest shack
has a huge HD flat screen TV in it.
4. Every
house has a huge, imposing fence around it – which is left unlocked most of the
time.
5. La
Boca Chueca = the belief that your mouth will freeze if you drink a hot drink
and then go out into the cold weather.
6. They
plant water bottles in the dirt, caps closed, not sure why.
7. Nearly
every house has an alter to the Virgin Mary that looks like a little doghouse.
8. All
of the women wear an apron, every day.
9. They
drink only juice and soda….never water even though it is potable here.
10. They
put soda in their baby’s bottles.
11. Instead
of school buses they have school vans.
12. There
are speed bumps on every street and they drive really fast up to the speed bump
then screeched to a near stop to go over them.
13. They
fry EVERYTHING in a ton of oil because they genuinely believe that oil is good
for you.
14. They
believe that their little Nissans go faster with a tailfin.
15. They
don’t fill their car’s tires full.
16. They
build their own houses and paint everything with really cheap water based
paint.
17. They
think that concrete is 1 part rock, 2 parts sand, and 0.05 parts cement. #dirtisharder
18. If
you eat unripe fruit, it will kill you.
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| I was practicing card throwing and hit the mark with a card of "The Restoration of the Truth" card...... its at the feet of the Virgin Maria.... hehe |
June 20, 2015
Today was a
horrible day. I had the laziest day of
my mission yet. I just followed my comp
and we did nothing. I studied a ton, and I worked out, but that was it. It was just a terrible day until we did a
little contacting in the evening, but even that was very unproductive.
Miracle #270: (there
wasn’t one, It was just one of those days.)
June 21, 2015
Well today
was not the best Sunday ever. I was
doing a special fast for our companionship and it is not really working. I did
come up with the idea to just give my companion the leadership of the
sector. It may not be good for the
sector, but I have high hopes that it will help the companionship. It was weird not celebrating Father’s Day today. It is the first time in my life where I
haven’t celebrated in any way. On the
bright side, I have decided that this ward is really a great ward!
Miracle #271: I got
not 1, but 2 treats to break my fast. One was for Father’s Day, the other was
just a random youth who gave me food.
The funny
part of the day was the fact that we had an enormous lunch and afterwards
everyone in the house fell asleep. We
had a fun talk about cars today.
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| Scary batman-dog keeping vigil over the city of Santiago from the rooftops. |
June 22, 2015
Well today
I got chewed out by my zone leaders for confronting my companion about his
problem. Basically they told me that I
screwed up and that my companion now wants to go home and that it is my
fault. To that fun bit of information, I
had 2 reactions: 1) Let him go home, he doesn’t want to be here anyway. 2) Why would my comp tell everyone except for
me how he is feeling. Of all the things
that are necessary for a missionary to have (including worthiness), I truly
believe that desire to serve is the most important. My comp. has no desire to serve and he is an
anchor to the work, but he is apparently more important that the people we are
supposed to be teaching. I was also told
that his salvation relies on me now….what? Good luck Elder, cause if your
salvation relies on me in the slightest,
you are screwed. I can barely manage to keep my own head above the water.
Miracle #272: I handed
over the leadership to my companion and it gave me a ton more time to think
about other things. I memorized three scriptures in Spanish today. When you just follow your comp around, things
are a lot easier.
Today was
hard and funny because I spent the whole day getting after my comp for
seriously checking out the girls. I see
the girls too, but I don’t turn around to stare at them.
June 23, 2015
Today was a
good day. It was probably one of the
best days we have had in this sector.
The coolest part of the day was going to a lesson with some newish
investigators who are really eager to learn.
It was moderately stressful for me because every time my comp. would
talk, he would say false doctrine. They
I would have to figure out a way to correct what he said later on in a way that
would not offend him. I was pretty
tense, but in the end, the lesson turned out great because the spirit was
present and testified of the truth.
Miracle #273: For the
first time in this sector, our lessons turned out and we taught 5 lessons. That made my companion super happy.
There was
no funny parts of today. Honestly, I am really ready for p-day.
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