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August 5, 2015
Today wasn’t horrible.
I don’t know if there is such a thing as a bad p-day. Shoot, even when we don’t do anything
special, I really enjoy myself. Today we just went shopping, exercised, and
went out to eat with an investigator. We
went to a Peruvian restaurant where we ordered this fried seafood dish that was
essentially like a good plate from Red Lobster. I was expecting something way
different or exotic, but I guess Peruvian food is really pretty normal. After lunch, we went to a civer where the
miracles happened.
Miracle #315L Her in Chile, they take very very
inconvenient lunch breaks and close businesses for around 2 hours in the middle
of the day. All of the civers let us in
anyways to write our families while they eat lunch.
The funny/crazy part of the day was also kindof a
miracle. Okay, it was a miracle. On our way to the civer, a guy stopped us and
said that he wanted the missionaries to pass by last week, but they
didn’t. He really really wanted a Book
of Mormon. Typically on my p-day, I
don’t have anything on me, but for some reason today I had one copy of The Book
of Mormon. I literally had nothing else
except for that book. He was so excited
and he is super interested. We were
blown away.
August 6, 2015
Today kindof sucked, like a lot. First of all it RAINED all
day long which meant that every Chilean stayed indoors and didn’t want to do
anything. All of the streets were
flooded because the drainage system here is horrible. The worst part was that the bishop cancelled
the ward activity because of the rain.
We invited a ton of our investigators and less active members to that
activity, so we had to cancel everything and come up with a new plan.
Miracle #316: I was feeling down today, but when we
made a visit to one of our families, I remembered how much I love these people.
This realization helped to turn my day around.
The funny part of the day was how everyone reacte to
us. EVERY single person said, “What are
you doing outside in this rain?”
August 7, 2015
Today was a rough day.
I had motivational issues today.
I got outside and did everything, but I was in an off mood. It didn’t help that I was exhausted thanks to
our District Leader who begged us to stay up and play a game with him for an
extra half hour. For someone who gets up
at the normal time it would not be a big deal, but I get up early so that loss
of 30 minutes really hurt me. PLUS,
staying up late is disobedient, what the heck is our leader doing by
encouraging us to be disobedient?
Miracle #317: When we
went to visit the G. family tonight, they were getting ready to go to the ward
talent show (the one that got cancelled and no one called them). Thankfully, we arrived in time to tell them
and we had a nice visit with them.
The funny part of the day was that it stopped raining which
was the reason the activity was cancelled.
We ended up contacting for a while at the end of the day and it turned
out rather well.
August 8, 2015
Ugh! Elder Furner is getting transferred early. We got a special call to let us know that my
comp is leaving for the office. He is
going to be one of those “special” elders.
Basically, he will be living in a really demanding work environment with
tons of work, a horrible diet, no personal time, no sleep, and a ridiculous
amount of stress. I will miss the
guy. Other than that , the day was
mediocre at best. It is cold here in the
mornings, then it warms up just a bit in the afternoon, and then it gets
freezing cold again in the late afternoon.
Miracle #318: For once we made a call to a future
investigator and actually had a lesson result from the call.
The funny part of the day was going to say goodbye to Elder
Furner’s recent convert A. It was funny because when we told her that Furner
was leaving, she didn’t believe us. She said that we have played so many jokes
on her that she doesn’t believe us anymore. She remained incredulous for over
an hour. We also made delicious no bake
cookies for our last normal night together.
It is going to be hard for these next few weeks because I get a
temporary companion for a week or so and then my official new companion. This means that I will be the only one with
any clue what’s going on in my area.
August 9, 2015
I am really hating one of the missionaries in our apartment
right now. He is really hard on me, especially in the mornings. He acts just like a teenaged girl and just
tears you down emotionally. Any
ammunition that he can think of he throws at me and especially pitches hard at
my insecurities. He is the first person
in a more than a month that has made me want to punch him in the face. It’s all
“up to me” as to how I will react, but I can honestly say that I haven’t gotten
much more patient since Castro. But this
does lead into my miracle for the day;
Miracle #319: Elder _____ does NOT have a broken nose
right now.
The fun part of the day was that Elder Furner and I had a
good acapella musical number. We also
had fun visiting all of the people that Elder F. wanted to say goodbye to. I try to make my goodbyes a final opportunity
to bear testimony and leave a spiritual message, but not everyone tries to do
that. Elder F. just likes to hang out
with people. I am okay with that, just
not for LONG periods of time. I have
gotta get more serious, motivated, and obedient. This sector has a lot more potential.
August 10, 2015
Wow, my temporary comp. is going to be quite fun…NOT. He
thinks that he is hot stuff and corrects everything that I do in an offensive
way…and has atrocious Spanish.
Miracle #320: We had a great lesson from contacting
where we even invited them to be baptized.
The only bad part is that my new comp didn’t want to share the first
vision with them…so we didn’t.
The funny part of the day was how we got into this lesson in
the first place. I bumped into the grandson
for scaring a cat and started talking to him and making friends with him. When the Grandma said she was too busy with
her grandson, I asked the kid if he wanted to hear our message. He shouted, “Yes!” and with that we got into out
appointment. Who knew that being good
with little kids would come in handy in the mission field.
August 11, 2015
Today was a good work day. We had a ton of lessons set up
and only 2 fell through. Even though we taught 5 lessons we still had time to
contact and sadly didn’t find anyone who was interested. I think that I will do just fine with my
temporary companion…not sure how I would do if it were permanent. He has good
insights as a missionary and that is all that matters right here and now.
Miracle #321: Today we had a division with a youth in
our ward but when we got to his house he wasn’t there. Just about 1 minute later, his dad drove up
and agreed to go out with us.
The funny part of the day was listening to two American
missionaries in our house talk about their high school days. They were HORRIBLE. They were mean and cruel and played jokes
(mean ones) on the less fortunate people.
I told them that I was glad to never have set foot in a high
school. This was a mistake because then
they turned on me and started mocking me for being homeschooled. It was just
ridiculous. Somehow the subject turned to how I can’t throw a ball worth a
crap, which they related to the fact that I never attended public school. One of them said, “What if you are at the
fair and your girlfriend wanted you to win her a stuffed animal by winning a
throwing game?” I told them that I would never have to worry about that because
I plan on having a good enough job to be able to buy my girlfriend what she
wants.
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