Hey family!
Sounds like you had a sweet week. It was an awesome week
especially because of conference, ahhh sooo sweet its the best thing ever.
Better then Jamba Juice and a California Burrito at the beach haha whoa
right... yep that much , we had the chance to watch all sessions in english in
the secretaries room of the capilla, so that was pretty nice, ha its fun to
hear english.
Kristy and Dalan I was trying to get inspired for names for
the baby...and thought I got some good ones after long meditation....hope you like
the latin flavor of the names
Bernadita
Ulga
Rosalina
Natalina (a women
born in natales)
Ahh yeah if those names dont float your boat Ill try again
this week,
favorite talks had to be the prophet with obedience, and
holland, and l tom parry he got pretty intense ha
but yeah has been a pretty sweet week, its started to get
cold! more then anything the wind is what kills, ha and its not even winter
yet, they are saying it starts out freezing rain then changes to snow in about
a month or 2? not sure, but I think I will know why they have a brand named
after this region. One thing I really want to do after this mission is travel
to all these islands down here that extend past this port, I heard they are
super beautiful.
But for the work it was an awesome week of growing
spiritually, We have had some pretty rough days full of pure contacting and not
much lessons, but we had anaylzed what we could do to share the gospel in as
many ways as possible and are doing other things. One of which I felt prompted
to fast at the beginning of this week and the day I was fasting its was tough
every person was super mean we contacted, actually one man tried to attack me
haha he was old and a little cranky and he wanted nothing, so I tried to say
oh...well have a good day, and I shouldve just said nothing cause he took it
sarcastically and came rushing at us, luckily he stopped at his gate, but it
was just so interesting how there was a lot of stuff to bring down animo but we
just stayed positive. Its fun to say in words "the trial of your faith
brings miracles" but to be part of that "trial" is a lot less
fun and discouraging then it sounds. What I learned so much on the mission is
we will all have trials and think we are prepared for them but we will be hit
blindsided at times with so much emotion and heartache. The fact that we arent
prepared for them doesnt mean we dont have the way out, I can testify that our
savior jesus christ is the way out and if we put our faith in him and his
atonement every trial that we experience in our lives we can get out of, the
talk of Elder Holland hit me deeply when you talked about the power of faith in
times of trial, saying that What we know will always trump what we do not know,
and what we know Always is that our lord jesus christ is the way to peace,
growth, and eternal happiness.
The day after that fast we remembered one of the more
responsive investigatores we had, we knocked on his door several times and
couldnt reach him, finally he told us to enter, and he was very interested to
ask questions and at first tried to catch us off guard and get us stuttoring,
he had a lot of thoughts and strong feelings for his family and you could tell
he was just skeptical of all the religions and the confusion in the world,
awesome guy that had a great humor as well, after getting to know him he asked
a question about why bad things happen and why people suffer, I had an awesome
oppurtunity to realistically relate the great plan of salvation to his question
and testify to him that if we can understand this plan all questions of the
soul will be answered. He realized we werent there to be burdensome nor tell
him what he was doing wrong, nor there to just tell our message so he would get
baptized, He realized this plan had actually touched our lives and he agreed to
learn more. But with the experiences we have on the mission are tough sometimes
but siempre the experiences like that outweigh the hard times, usually not in
number but in the quality.
But I gained a lot from this conference and loved it a ton,
ha so much stuff to gain from, excited to print them out and study more.
haha loved that story of Brad and tell Fred that is super
sweet, that is crazy I didnt know about that! he willll have to send me some
pictures! haha now that brads part of the cougar vip dog tag club he can
probally get us eternal passes to the games;) bummer they lost
ha mom to answer your question my clothes are holding up ive
had to sew a couple pants with some nice rips, and one of my shirts ripped from
barbed wire but other then that all is good,
thanks for the recetas kristy ill have to try them,
idk if any of you have heard of mate? Its superr popular
here everyone drinks it for every meal
But yeah sweet week, take care this week, tell grandma and
grandpa I said hi,
see ya later,
Elder Carter
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