Querida Familia, ¿Comó estamos? ¿Qué cuentan de lo bueno? ya po, bien hoy es el principio de un cambio nuevo y por eso tengo noticias...............E Pierce y Yo nos quedamos iguales.....jaja él tiene que sufrir conmigo 6 semanas más y E Stephenson se queda pero su comp E Sarmiento se va a Cúrico y el comp nuevo de E Stephenson viene de Cúrico......noticias noticias....bien asi es todo no tengo más que contar entonces, chau que estén bien jajaja. (What count of the good thing? well today is the principle of a new change and for that reason I have the news ............... Elder Pierce and I remained equal ..... jaja he must undergo another 6 weeks more with me and Elder Stephenson remains but his companion and Elder Vine shoot go away to Cúrico, and Elder Stephenson gets a new companion from Cúrico ...... the news the news….that is everything and I have nothing else to say) No just kidding of course I have more to tell;
How is the old familia doing and how is your great American holiday? I hope you are all enjoying you day and are resting up for the long haul this week. Well just so you know it is not a holiday here and work is the usual, but anyway well I was awakened at 7:30 with a phone call of about cambios, and well there we some interesting cambios but that is how it goes. We all got dressed and decided to get to centro a lil ealier to get some house cleaning done in the afternoon for the new guy. This week went well but it was also a hard week too. I think like half of our investigators are avoiding us and the other half have a billion problems but that is how it is; Satanas is just trying to throw the work off. What he doesn’t know is he cannot because we keep working no matter what. But it is all good it is a new week and a new cambio and so it is shoulder to the wheel and push with all your strength. We have gotten a huge help from the stake and now they are doing training for all the ward mission leaders to try and help them help us more and get them pumped up. They do the trainings twice a month and my mission leader has just gotten pumped up and he is working so hard now I can hardly keep up with him. We put the meta to get 50 baptisms in the ward by the end of the year and to reach that we need to have 6 a month. It is surely possible and it will be achieved if we all work and do our part. It is nice to see the leaders putting concern in the obra misional. It is good we went out and did divisones with two members on Friday. It was my first time doing it in the mission and it went well. We had citas fall through but we both were able to meet with people and got 2 new investigators as well. We set up time to go out again this week. I can see the excitement building and there will be a lot of blessings if we continue like this. We got a great referral from a member and when we contacted her she seemed super interested in the church. I was jazzed about that. It is hard to do contacts but sometimes they pay off. Working with the members is the most effective work. I don’t like doing contacts and I have to push myself to do them but, I know God will bless us if we do it. I think being in Cauquenes and doing contacts everyday for 5 months burnt me out but I just need to do it. I have to do every part of the work. even the parts I don’t like. It was a good week for me to learn and grow and know what I have to do. Now I just need to do it.
Saturday morning we had a barbeque at the familia Cristy´s house. It was a bunch of fun and I ate a lot. I am preparing myself for 4 days of eating next week for the bit holiday. It will be so much fun and I cannot wait. I have a very strict diet and exercise plan this week and next week after the holiday so that I don’t gain too much weight. I think I have put on a little here but we are going to go out and run in the morning because has warmed up a bit.
We did some visits with Hermana Alicia because she is the Young Women President and so we visited some of the new Young Women converts and she talked to the parents and explained the program and activities and stuff. It was awesome and it helped Margaritas mom a lot. We are going by again this week so that she can explain Personal Progress and help us with the mom. She washes our laundry and she is so cool. She cracks me up because she was so scared to cross the highway, we had to almost drag her. It is fun to cross highways and especially in other countries!! Margarita and Ivonne didn’t go to church yesterday but it was due to some family problems. Daniela missed also because she had to work a wedding and got home at 5 am.
We have a lot of desafios with our investigators but we just got to work harder. One good thing is that we found a bunch of new houses and this week. We are going to work there and I think we will have some good success out there.
I made an Apple Crisp last night and it was very good. My experiment worked....hee,hee,hee and they loved it. It would have been better with real brown sugar but that is how it is. Every week I am looking for new stuff to do, so if you have any ideas send them too me. I love to cook it is relaxing and in the end you get to eat what you made. The best thing about last night was that we were in the familia Cristy´s house and the neighbors from across the street were there too so got to share with them we know them really well and always talk in the street but never get to share with them, so it was fun. The people love the brownie I make the only thing is we usually have to eat it hot and it is better cool. We made a brownie and served it with ice cream hot and oh it was so good haha,.I love sweets.
That is about it for the big news for the week and I am so far behind in my journal about 2 wks now because I am just so tired to write at night but today I plan to get caught up.
I love you all so much and hope you are all doing well. Miss you a bunch and the time is escaping me here on the mission, the cambios pass like days and I feel like I am missing so much because time is moving so fast. I love being here, I love being part of the Lord’s work and to be able to share the message with all people. I know that God lives and that He loves us and that He sent His son, JesuCristo, to save us and prepare the way. I know if we are obedient and we follow His example and live according to His commandments we will live with God again. I never realized how much of a blessing the gospel is but I can see it in the lives of others and it really is the healer of all healers. We can find all our answers in the holy scriptures and in the words of the church leaders. I have been putting 15 min of my study everyday to read conference talks and I have learned so much. The Lord’s representatives are on the earth to help us but we have to hear and follow. I know this church is true and the true happiness is found in it. I love you all so much and hope you have a great week. Take care, te amo mucho.
Love Eric
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