September 16, 2015
Today was yet another super lame p-day. It was my turn to choose the activity, but my
companion woke up this morning pissed at me and determined to go to the zone
activity. At first I said no because I
have already gone to the MIM which is a super lame childish museum. But then I decided that it might help my comp
to be in a better mood, so we went. I
knew that I was going to loose my entire p-day again, so I was not in a super
good mood. In the end it turned out all
right. I didn’t especially enjoy it, and I spent way too much money, but I
lived. The frustrating part was that my
comp was still pissed at me and wasn’t even slightly grateful.
Miracle #373: I wasn’t even angry about how crappy my
comp treats me. Also, we didn’t die in the big earthquake that hit Chile today.
Right after emailing today, an earthquake hit Chile. It was pretty strong and we were on the third
floor of super ghetto area teaching a little girl who sees and talks to dead
people (no joke.) When the quake hit,
everyone freaked out and ran into the streets.
I said a little prayer and instantly felt calm and knew that nothing was
going to happen. The Spirit is just the
best! That was definitely the fun part of the day and way better than the
earthquake simulator at the MIM.
September 17, 2015
Today
was a good day, finally! I did divisions
with Elder Diaz (the gringo one) and it was a much needed break. The work wasn’t the best because all of the
citas fell through so we ended up contacting quite a bit. The most relaxing part of the day was not
fighting with my comp. I really hope
that when Elder C. and I get back together, we can work on everything and
become more unified. It really helps
with one’s emotional health to get along with the person your are with. Elder
Diaz and I had a really good talk tonight and together we came up with a game
plan.
Miracle #374: For the first time in my mission, a
leader doesn’t blame everything on me.
There wasn’t any particularly fun part of the day, but
everyone was talking about the earthquake. I honestly didn’t think it was that
bad, but everyone was still freaking out about it. The quake felt as if the earth was shivering.
The best par of the day was going to the birthday party for a lesson active
member. We stuffe dourselves silly with
meat, cookies, brownies, salad, and cake.
It was a good thing we had a birthday because Elder Diaz missed out on a
great ward activity in his sector by coming on the division. He ended up with better food here!
September 18, 2015
Today was a very lazy day.
We finished the divisions with Elver Diaz at noon, but when we got back
to the house, my comp. took an hour and a half to get ready to get out the
door. So I just waited patiently. We went out and I ended up contacting a few
people. He didn’t have much energy for
contacting. After a couple of hours of work, we went to the ward activity where
we were supposed to only stay for 2 hours.
The other set of elders were there too, and Elder Ahlstrom and I were
ready to go at the 2 hour mark, but neither of our companions would leave. Neither one of us wanted to irritate our
companions so:
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| tug of war at the ward activity |
Miracle #375: Elder A. and I did mini divisions while
our companions stayed at the activity.
We worked for 4 hours. This is a
miracle because Elder A. is going home in 2 ½ weeks and he is still seriously
working hard! Sadly, his comp is dead.
The funny part of the day was learning how to fly kites, but
not just any kite, a Chilean kite! For
some reason, I picked it up really fast and on my 5th attempt I flew
a kite at around 400 meters. We kept
having to tie additional 150 meter spindles on to make it longer. Then Carlos came and cut my line…it was fun.
September 19, 2015
Today was a better day.
We got out the door to contact fairly early, but found next to no one.
Our day was quite filled with contacting which ostensibly is what my comp.
wanted to do. But, then he complained
anyways. Even though I was oddly
ridiculously tired, I had a good time contacting. I think my exhaustion is a direct result of
staying up too late. Our lunch was unusually large today because it was the
leftovers from the party last night. Big lunches do NOT energize you.
Miracle #376: We found the guys who we helped to move
the other day and now we can teach them.
The entertaining part of the day was trying not to get
irritated with my comp. I am growing a
thicker skin so the stupid stuff doesn’t bother me too much anymore. The other funny part of the day was trying to
teach with 2 exhausted missionaries….not the best lessons I will tell you
that. Elder A. is really trying not to
die before his mission is through, but his comp is already dead. They were in the house all morning and a lot
of the afternoon. I don’t ever say
anything anymore about this kind of stuff.
Another entertaining part of my day was doing trompo
contacts. They are fun because no one
things that a gringo can throw a trompo and then they are surprised when I
throw it. I am getting really good at
it!
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| trying on the mew chamanto, they are hand woven and worth like 3000 dollars. The family that we live with designs and makes these for a living. |
September 20, 2015
I really don’t know how to get along better with my
comp. Nothing that I try to do for him
makes him happy. Whenever I express a
desire to work, he gets pissed. Whenever I express a desire to waste time, he
gets pissed. At this point, I am a
little bit scared to mention anything to him or to tell him any directions
because I am pretty sure that he will get mad at me. We ended up talking today and I told him that
I felt that it is really important to have companionship unity and in order to
do that we need to start with friendship.
He told me that he has no interest in being friends. I then told him that we needed to try harder
to do more than just get along. We need
to actually have good feeling between us so that we can teach effectively with
the spirit.
Miracle #377: Despite our companionship struggles, our
lessons still turned out fairly well today.
The funny part of the day was probably in church when we
were talking about pride and one of the members went off on how humble he
was…haha. Then it got even better when
one of the investigators made the comment that someone stops being humble the
minutes that they say that they are humble.
None of the members wanted to come out and say this for fear of
offending , but it is like investigators have the gold star in Mario bros, they
can say whatever they want without fear.
It is great!
September 21, 2015
Our companionship is still struggling. It isn’t like some of the others that I have
had that were just awful, we just don’t get along very well. Sometimes I feel kindof bad for how much I
have to get after my comp. When he whine
or complains incessantly, I get after him.
When he rejects my opinion in a whiney way, I get after him. This
morning we had a training about lots of stuff like setting goals and what to
use when we teach. Elder C. lets a lot
of the good stuff go in one ear and out the other. When I asked him how he thought that we could
apply what we learned to our companionship, he said, “ I don’t know, I think
our goals are just fine.” Well, they
aren’t fine and we aren’t doing fine. We
need to make changes and he doesn’t want to.
Miracle #378: I got a ton out of the training that we
had today despite sleepiness.
The funny part of the day was the beginning of the training
because we had 2 training things about stuff that I knew a lot about (self
defense and first aid). So I was so
bored to begin with, but I decided that others needed this info and I gutted it
out. Then I was rewarded with the second
part of the training that really helped me.
September
22, 2015
Today was a way better day. The morning wasn’t the
bomb, but we had an extended conversation about our relationship and in the end
I ended up just telling my comp about one of my worries about him that I have
noticed since we got together. It’s that I never see him having personal
prayers. He got defensive at first, but
I just suggested that he read something in “True to the Faith” and then he got
really quiet. In the end, we both were
left thinking about the power of prayer and we decided to put it to the test
with our companionship. We said a
heartfelt comp prayer so that we could have a good day together.
Miracle #379: After prayer, we
had a day with no problems. We organized
a baptism and set another baptismal date!
Today was great in the end because my
comp, who doesn’t like making the baptismal invitation, was able to see that on
as early as the second visit, it can be the right thing to do. We’ll see how it will all work out, but I
told him that I wouldn’t make any more invitations if we didn’t have
unity. Today we had unity so I made the
invitation and she accepted. I pray that
tomorrow will be as good of a day as today was.
This sector is so incredible and it deserves a unified hardworking companionship.
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