Wow I cant tell you how cool this week was. We had some
awesome experiences this week. We had some stuff going on in our zone and
decided to do 2 divisions this week, the first one was in the town by our
sector called san jose. I went with elder nielson and it was one of the coolest
days ever. We talked to EVERY person that came in our way and EVERY person was
super receptive. One of the coolest people was a man named cristian, it was
super super cold that day and as we stopped him he stopped completely and we
talked there for about 30 minutes, we talked about him and his work, as well
our missions, then the question came to him... " are you guys catholic or
evangelical" we smiled and said at the same time "neither" we
explained the restoration and his eyes opened, the spirit was there and he was very
interested, we testified of how we came to know these things and invited him to
get baptized, he accepted the invitation and set up a time the elders could
pass by,
late that night we saw 3 teenagers playing basketball and
elder nielson said one was a less active I said we should go over and we went
and shot a run a bit and then we challenged the 3 to a game 2 against 3, We put
a bet on the line that if we win they have to go to church sunday, and we WON!!
ha they got super tense at the end of the game cause they did not want to wake
up early but was way fun haha all the kids around in the neighborhood began
watching us, Id imagine that would be a good show two white boys with untucked
white shirts and ties going hard against three jovenes.
Earlier in the week for our weekly noche de hogar with the
familia huaquimilla and their friend we made popcorn for them while they
watched the testaments and at the end the spirit was way strong, their friend
started to cry from the spirit and we shared to her that this is why we put so
much emphasis on the book of mormon, and invited her to get baptized, she
accepted but needs to get permission from her parents. are main goal with her
is to meet her parents even though they live in the country.
haha other sweet sweet experience is we were returning from
our intercambio in panguipuilli which is like an hour away and in the middle of
lanco and panguipulli its pure country except a small small town. As we were
passing the small small town I got the strongest impression to get off the bus,
which would make no sense cause we were heading to lanco to eat lunch. But we
past the town and I continued to have this strong strong impression, I asked
god if we should and I got the same feeling, so....... We got off the bus! in
the middle of the country, there was only like 2 farm houses to the right of
house so we went and knocked one of the doors and answered a friendly old lady,
we asked if we could sing her a song and came out her daughter and her grandson
and we sang and taught them 3, they never had met mormons before so that was
way fun. Then we saw a very country lady struggling to fix her barbed wire
fence, so we helped her, she couldnt read ni talk very good but loved that we
were there, she invited us in to eat or for some tea (ha everyone loves tea and
coffee here) but we had to get going, I had the impression that I did what the
spirit wanted me to do, kinda fun!
ha maybe one mroe that I can tell you is remember that old
member we passed by with the relief society!? we pass by him like once a week
to read and sometimes for the sacrament, As we went to pass by him we saw some
other grandpas that we had passed by and I got the great idea to invite them to
come visit the hermano we always visit that has to remain in the bed because he
always says not that much visit him. They got excited and went with us. It was
a hit with the hermano! he loved the company and his neighnors loved learning a
little more about what we believe. ha they all were like 90 years old It was a
super cool.
As well one recent convert here was super nervous to bless
the sacrament so we invited him and his wife to come with us to bless it for
this hermano in the retirement home, he agreed and the spirit was so strong as
he blessed it for his first time, everyone was filled with tears and as they
left they said "oh elder please tell me when you go to visit people that
need help I felt the spirit so strong I would love to go again", the
hermano as well smiled and said "I felt the spirit so strong as I blessed
the sacrament"
Much much more but Ill refrain so I can tell you more later
on... im just super stoked to work, im just so greatful to work here, I feel
like the lord is working miracles here each day.
Love you guys a ton,
Elder Carter
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