This week was super sweet, Denny got confirmed a member of
the church
sunday and was super super happy. I was so stoked, it was
fast sunday
and I bore my testimony of how god truly perpares people it
was a very
emotional/spiritual moment.
Well we have cambios once again and I am heading to the city
of Lanco!
they just split the
Zone Lanco in two and I will be in the Zone Los
Lagos. My companion is going to be a brazilian named Elder
Da Silva I
already know him from earlier on in the mission he was
awesome. Ha he
helped me before learn portuguese so this cambio will be fun
learning
more. The mission is growing immensely its crazy. There are
soooo many
more missionaries in the mission in comparison to when I
started. Its
crazy how much has changed ever since what happened my first
sunday
here in chile when president monson dropped the age
requirements. Did
you know that Weston Joyce
a friend of mine from our stake that was a
freshman when I was a junior is here in the mission I talked
to him
the other day haha how cool.
We did something fun this week, one of the recent converts
was telling
us of his fear of talking and giving prayers in church. So
the thought
came to our mind to practice. We assigned each other a topic
and one
during this week we met up at the church and he had the
chance to give
his talk in front of us. I thought it was so cool, he came
all
prepared with his scriptures and talk in hand and loved the
idea. He
truly wants to get better. He is a more serious military guy
but with
us and everyone he is actually a man with a big heart. As he
gave his
talk he was super super nervous at first but as he talked
the spirit
began to calm his nerves and he gave an amazing talk on the
faith.
After we talked about how it went. This experience gave me a
strong
impression that it would be so cool if the church had a form
of
toastmasters to help people give talks in church. I got all
excited
with the thought cause I loved my public speaking classes
and giving
talks. I feel like that would be something cool we could try
to start
dad. Think of what that could do for the church, improve the
quality
of sacrament meetings and give an opportunity for members to
progress.
We also had the opportunity to bring a investigator and her
kids,
cousin, and her cousins daughter to the baptismal service in
the
building of the other missionaries of the city. We had a
member pick
us up and we were super super excited. But it didnt go so
well as we
expected because it wasnt organized very well and the
service started
45 minutes late waiting for a representative from the
presidency of
the branch. The investigator got a little impacient. Luckily
the
meeting went well and the spirit was way strong during the
baptism and
when the lady that got baptized testified, at the end the
investigator
said "It was super long, but beautiful" We just
need to help her
continue to feel the spirit and teach her in short lessons.
Today we are going to make a american breakfast with one of
the
members we are soooo excited, with the fruit salad grandma
carter
always made(mayo and honey haha) , pancakes, BACON, Eggs
with bell
peppers, etc. These type of breakfasts dont exist in chile
so we are
going to have a nice feast ha.
But yeah bummed to leave coyhaique I loved the branch here,
the
members are incredible, and I had the chance to see many
numerous
members reactivate and investigators come unto christ. As
well gain a
testiomony that there are people incredibly prepared by God.
Take care
this week:)
Elder Carter
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