Today
was a blast! I got over a few issues with my comp and now I really like the
guy. (There is hope for me). We started the day by doing Crossfit. I kill the stuff that uses body weight, but
when we get to actually have to add weights, I am terrible.
Miracle #322: My companion got a 60 pound care package
of candy today from his family (no exaggeration). They literally filled a
suitcase with candy. This is his Chilean
family here in Santiago.
After Crossfit, we went to visit with Elder B.
family/cousins. It was a really fun
visit and he has some very attractive female cousins who live in Utah. The last
fun thing that I did today was cook empanadas with one of our families to
celebrate my one year baptism anniversary!
August 13, 2015
I just finished a year of my mission. Holy Cow!!! Well today was a great day of
division with Elder Diaz. He is actually
a gringo and he was in my house in pensamientos. He was with me at my 6 month mark and now at
my year mark. I don’t even care about telling
about the day other than the fact that ALL day long I wore an autographed shirt
on under my jacket. It was fun.
Miracle #323: We had 3 contact lessons and they
weren’t even lame.
As a crazy, but fun tradition, I burned a shirt today
marking my anniversary. Now for the
special part of my day, I spent some time thinking of 15 miracles for the first
year of my mission. Miracles #324-339:
· I love the
people here with all my heart.
· I am
gradually becoming a more patient person.
· I haven’t yet
had any assignment here in the mission (not sure if that is a good thing or
not, but it is very unusual.)
· One of my
comps actually became my best friend. (Elder White)
· I have never
had a real “snake” pursue me.
· What others
think about me has stopped bothering me. (Other elders think I am a moron.)
· No one has
robbed me, although I have been offered many joints.
· My motivation
to work is still strong.
· I can now get
up early (by myself) by at least an hour and a half before the other
missionaries are up. It is my favorite
time to study.
· I haven’t
been bitten by a dog.
· I am now
bilingual!
· I have
actually LOST weight on the mission.
· I learned to
love the scriptures
· I haven’t
experienced a major earthquake.
· My Dad went
from being incapacitated due to his cancer…to being able to WATERSKI!
Today was really rough.
I stayed up way too late last night talking to Elder Diaz and I still
got up at 6:00. Because of that, I was
wiped out all day long. One of our
lessons was rather boring, so I fell asleep ( I have got to stop doing that!)
All of our “sure” citas fell through which wasted a fair amount of time. This
morning we did morning contacts and I am almost ashamed to admit that I
contacted super attractive women. Hey,
they need the gospel too! Most of the
missionaries just don’t contact the cuties, and I agreed with their premise,
but today, well I just didn’t have that problem.
Miracle #340: Elder White called me today to just to
see how I was doing at the year mark. I
really love that guy.
August 15, 2015
My comp had a rough day today. He was low on energy and enthusiasm. He also might be irritated with me, but I am
not sure why or what I can do about it.
I am hoping that my personality is leveling out a bit. I have been really working on being steady
and consistent.
Today we didn’t work with the greatest urgency, but we were
able to do service for some members who needed their roof replaced. They have these ancient concrete blocks that
they use for roofing here. They are
about one inch thick and poorly constructed.
No one replaces them until their house gets flooded.
Miracle #341: J. accepted a baptismal date and it is
one week before Elder White leaves. Elder White was the missionary who first
contacted him.
The funny part of the day was following up on a “great”
reference given to us. Turned out that the guy was way drunk and just ripped us
apart. Being Americans didn’t help us
either. He was such a jerk to us, BUT, I
did not lose my temper even a little bit and I kindof even impressed myself.
This guy was a hopeless case, but his buddies actually started defending
us. I love being a missionary, but the
life is so unpredictable and dependent on others, that I also really don’t like
it. Tomorrow is a new day.
August 16, 2015
Today was pretty decent.
The morning was irritating when very few of the people we are teaching
came to church. He good news is that I
finally feel settled into this ward. The
members all know me and I know them so that makes it nice. It is weird having a
comp. who knows no one. I had to set all
of the divisions and stuff, but that doesn’t bother me to much. Elder B. was ticked at me today for silly
stuff and we had to work that out before going out to work. All of our issues
were just stupid little things, but they were important to him and it was
impeding the spirit, so we had to work them out. We ended up having a pretty decent day.
Miracle #342: We taught a lesson where we essentially
just visited for an hour joking around.
Even though it was not serious, we got a text tonight from the person
that we taught saying that it was exactly what she needed today.
The funny part of the day was the lesson with S. The other
funny part was watching a bunch of E. Blaser’s mission videos. He did so many silly/dumb things. I honestly hate reporting numbers. Whether good or bad, the numbers game just
makes me uncomfortable. This week they
just happened to be really good numbers, but I still hate it.
August 17, 2015
Well today was pretty good.
We got a really crazy call this morning telling us that Elder Blaser is
leaving tomorrow. Well, that lasted a
long time. Oh well. My new comp. is
gonna be Elder Corbo. He is supposed to
be an awesome missionary from Argentina.
I met him one time before. There
is one definite advantage to being seen as a “problem/moron” in the mission,
and that is that you get better companions.
We had a fun district meeting today, and the rest of the day
was filled with decent lessons.
Miracle #343: My companion prayed for an adventure as
an answer we saw a dude get hit by a car and break his thumb. The real miracle
was when we had an exceptionally good English lesson.
The funny part of the day was when our drug dealer
investigator tried to make me jealous by giving Elder Blaser a tie. Yeah,
…no. In good news, I finished reading
the New Testament AGAIN! It is a great
book!
August 18. 2015
So I go my new comp today and he is a pretty cool guy. We
had a pretty iffy first day because I was feeling off. The lesson we had wasn’t too great, but then we had a really pretty good
experience during contacting.
Miracle #344: A
Peruvian guy let us come in to teach him and the lesson went really well.
It feels good to have a real comp. again! For the last week it just felt like I was on
extended divisions, but I am feeling like I can get settled in now. Elder Corbo
is going to kill my diet because he eats like crap. He has about 6 months in the mission, and is
a really nice, humble missionary. He was
skeptical about me inviting our investigator to be baptized in the first
lesson, but I felt like I should, so I did.
Oh well, we will get used to each other.
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