Hey Family! so this week went super well it was pretty crazy
at the beginning...quick question thanksgiving hasnt passed right? I think mom
you said that its this next week?
We had cambios this week, It was so nuts with cambios, I had
to stay at the bus terminal all day constantly calling other missionaries
making sure they got to the right place, ha at some times there was sooooooo
much bags in the terminal, my companion is super cool guy he is in my group!
His name is Elder Salazar he is a stud, he is from Mendoza, Argentina. Ha by
the end of my mission im going to have all sorts of different slangs and
sayings from all the different countries. Osorno is in the center of all the
mission por location so the transfers were very fun ha. We were there from 8 in
the morning til 10:30 at night. The night ended with having the bags ready for
the missionaries that ended there missions as they boarded the bus for
santiago, my last comp Elder Gomez was in the group. It was super weird to see
missionaries "die", more then anything my comp. But yep so the next
day had a couple more people that we had to send to the terminal but after 1pm
we finally got to go work!!! :) I am so stoked for this cambio, me and my comp
have a ton of animo, we are creating some awesome ideas and really getting this
sector going, ha I only had 2 weeks to learn the sector which was tough but
learned enough and now we are learning the rest together. We are working hard
and really trying to get things going, we talked to the stake president and we
have the book of mormon program coming along, as well we are planning an
activity for our ward named "chimbombas" ha thats slang for globo
(ballooon) in niceragua. we are creating a game show activity where the members
will have teams and have to break balloons that have certain tasks spiritual,
trivial, and physical that they will compete against each other, now its just
the time to coordinate it well and invite a ton of people, We were super super
super stoked our first day we taught someone at the door the other day that has
a child, she is 20 years old and was way receptive, yesterday we passed by
again to teach her and she accepted a date for baptism, we were super stoked
because we have no investigators at this moment and are really trying to get
this sector going. She said she was excited to learn more so ill let you know
how it goes.
Other news the last couple days has been super awesome, we
have been teaching a lot of people and helping alot of people with small tasks.
I noticed this week we have a lot of older people in our sector so we have been
having tons of oppurtunities to help stack fire wood, and yesterday Idk what it
is with me helping people that are carrying branches, but yesterday helped an
older man carry HUGE branches to his house, he was from the country and I have
no idea what he was going to do with these branches but we were glad to bring
them to his house.
Also we have been trying to sing more hymns with people, ha
but something super funny happened, Usually we always always try to sing the
song in the house or at least on the porch, We were teaching this one lady as
she sat on her porch but from her gate which was pretty far, I asked her if she
would like to hear a hymn and she said yes, I thought that would get her to
open the gate but no after I asked if she could open the gate she said no no
right there is fine, so I looked at my comp and we just laughed then sang some
verses of I am a child of God, haha oh man we felt pretty funny doing that in
the street it totally appeared like we were the evangelicals that sing at the
corners of the streets on weekends. and there wer soooo many trucks that passed
by as well so it made it difficult to hear, ha but went well the lesson despite
all the great things that happened.
But yep crazy week, ha lots and lots of things that we had
to do, loving it though, its beautiful here in osorno every house always house
a tons of flowers, usually roses, I think its because the humidity, its getting
to be super hot now, but the rain never ceases here in south of chile ha at
least 2 times a week it has to rain:) gotta love the rain here or youd be a
unhappy camper.
This upcoming Tuesday we are planning on having a meeting
with the district leaders, we have an awesome zone and we want to get them
excited for the work and set some goals as a zone and talk about what we have
planned to get our zone starting this transfer well. To answer your question we
usually have to talk with people every day, we are always talking about things,
usually just approving something they need to do, giving them information about
Visas or other things, animating them, and numbers. But its super important to
just animate them and give them ideas and tools to spark a idea of how they can
help their sectors and districts. So far havent had to many problems, just a
couple districts getting along with other comps, but Im sure theyll be some
interesting things.
Have no doubt that this is the lords work, thanks for all
your support, its super cool to see your efforts to tell people of the
happiness that we have. Hope Thanksgiving goes great, excited to open my gifts
ha I love how every one of them has a scripture. Love you guys a ton, take
care:)
Elder Carter
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