I am going to tell a funny story first today. So we had an appointment with a contact of a girl who was like 13 who we met on the street, we went to her house and just like sang a hymn and her uncle whose name is Luiciano came out to see what was going on. So the girl ended up disappearing to go play with her friends, but the uncle seemed pretty interested especially after we sang happy birthday in English for him for his 26 birthday. There is a rule that we can´t enter a house unless there is another woman present, and at first Luiciano´s sister was there just kind of cleaning around the house, but then she left like half way through our lesson, so we were just trying to finish up really fast and get out.
So as we were teaching this lesson, my companion asked, "What do you lack in your life?" It was so funny he looked at us and said, "Amor (love)." I was doing my very best not to laugh, but I was very impressed at the skill of my companion, because even though she knew exactly that he was hitting on us, she totally turned the situation around and was like "Oh, do you feel like you need more love in your family? That´s great, the gospel is for the family." So funny. It actually turned out to be a really great lesson because he had a lot of doubts and stuff that we were able to resolve. But it was kind of crazy, he totally thought that we didn´t believe that Jesus died on the cross, and that we believed that he died on a stick and that is why our chapels have steeples and not crosses. We explained that Jesus really did die on a cross and not a stick. But that was something new.
So next funny story, we were walking through one of our posteros, which is just like an empty field full of garbage that everyone uses to get from neighborhood to neighborhood and we realize that about 30 feet in front of us standing directly in the exit was a huge huge pig. I think it might be a warthog, except for the fact that it didn´t have horns. This big was probably the size of a small cow. It was huge and muscular. Anyways, we just kind of had to wait until he decided to move, because neither of us felt like being eaten by a pig that day. I wish I had had my camera, but my area is too dangerous to carry our cameras with us all the time. But it was crazy.
So this week we had intercambios or divisions with the other sisters in our zone. Hermana Taggart, my companion from the MTC came and spent the day with my companion and I went to spend the day with her companion. I learned a few things that day, I am a good missionary, and I have the potential to be a great and spectacular missionary. I know that sounds like I am bragging, but it was just really cool to see how much potential I have and that I need to step up to that. The Hermana I was with, we will call her Hermana X, just lacks a lot of people skills and ultimately missionary skills, even though she is over half-way through her mission.
So we contacted this person in her area and he was really interested and wanted to learn more, but there wasn´t another woman around so he invited us to just sit on his porch. This man was curious and so he started asking questions. Hermana X was like talking about all the rules of a mission and stuff, and I was just thinking to myself, "what are you doing, this man´s salvation is on the line." So I totally directed and gave the first lesson, and every time she talked I felt like I had to bring things back to the lesson. Anyways, it was really cool to see that I could actually do that. It also made me really grateful for my own companion and how great she is.
Anyways, so at the end of the lesson I got a return appointment and Hermana X was marking a chapter for him to read in the Book of Mormon. As she was doing this I started bearing my testimony of how important it was for him to read and find out for himself and how important the gospel was to me in my life. The guy was so enthralled in my testimony and the spirit was really strong, but then in the middle of my testimony Hermana X interrupts and says, "Excuse me, which color would you like?" She totally interrupted to find out what color of bookmark he wanted. I just thought to myself, "Are you kidding me, I am in the middle of saving this man´s soul, he doesn´t care what color." Anyways, so that is my story. I´m interested to see how her normal lessons go, I no longer wondered why their sector is really struggling though.
Today I would just like to end with an appreciation of all that people do for the church and how great it is that they really make things go smoothly in the church. The branch here is really struggling, no one really understands how the church should really run. For example, every week in relief society it is like a total argument for the majority of the meeting, and then there is a five minute lesson at the end. Sacrament meeting always starts at least 25 minutes late, oh and the primary is absolutely the crazy. Yesterday we were in Relief Society and the door slowly opened, and then you see these toy guns come through and one of the primary kids totally shot all of the sisters in relief society with sound effects and all coming from his plastic guns.
So as we were teaching this lesson, my companion asked, "What do you lack in your life?" It was so funny he looked at us and said, "Amor (love)." I was doing my very best not to laugh, but I was very impressed at the skill of my companion, because even though she knew exactly that he was hitting on us, she totally turned the situation around and was like "Oh, do you feel like you need more love in your family? That´s great, the gospel is for the family." So funny. It actually turned out to be a really great lesson because he had a lot of doubts and stuff that we were able to resolve. But it was kind of crazy, he totally thought that we didn´t believe that Jesus died on the cross, and that we believed that he died on a stick and that is why our chapels have steeples and not crosses. We explained that Jesus really did die on a cross and not a stick. But that was something new.
So next funny story, we were walking through one of our posteros, which is just like an empty field full of garbage that everyone uses to get from neighborhood to neighborhood and we realize that about 30 feet in front of us standing directly in the exit was a huge huge pig. I think it might be a warthog, except for the fact that it didn´t have horns. This big was probably the size of a small cow. It was huge and muscular. Anyways, we just kind of had to wait until he decided to move, because neither of us felt like being eaten by a pig that day. I wish I had had my camera, but my area is too dangerous to carry our cameras with us all the time. But it was crazy.
So this week we had intercambios or divisions with the other sisters in our zone. Hermana Taggart, my companion from the MTC came and spent the day with my companion and I went to spend the day with her companion. I learned a few things that day, I am a good missionary, and I have the potential to be a great and spectacular missionary. I know that sounds like I am bragging, but it was just really cool to see how much potential I have and that I need to step up to that. The Hermana I was with, we will call her Hermana X, just lacks a lot of people skills and ultimately missionary skills, even though she is over half-way through her mission.
So we contacted this person in her area and he was really interested and wanted to learn more, but there wasn´t another woman around so he invited us to just sit on his porch. This man was curious and so he started asking questions. Hermana X was like talking about all the rules of a mission and stuff, and I was just thinking to myself, "what are you doing, this man´s salvation is on the line." So I totally directed and gave the first lesson, and every time she talked I felt like I had to bring things back to the lesson. Anyways, it was really cool to see that I could actually do that. It also made me really grateful for my own companion and how great she is.
Anyways, so at the end of the lesson I got a return appointment and Hermana X was marking a chapter for him to read in the Book of Mormon. As she was doing this I started bearing my testimony of how important it was for him to read and find out for himself and how important the gospel was to me in my life. The guy was so enthralled in my testimony and the spirit was really strong, but then in the middle of my testimony Hermana X interrupts and says, "Excuse me, which color would you like?" She totally interrupted to find out what color of bookmark he wanted. I just thought to myself, "Are you kidding me, I am in the middle of saving this man´s soul, he doesn´t care what color." Anyways, so that is my story. I´m interested to see how her normal lessons go, I no longer wondered why their sector is really struggling though.
Today I would just like to end with an appreciation of all that people do for the church and how great it is that they really make things go smoothly in the church. The branch here is really struggling, no one really understands how the church should really run. For example, every week in relief society it is like a total argument for the majority of the meeting, and then there is a five minute lesson at the end. Sacrament meeting always starts at least 25 minutes late, oh and the primary is absolutely the crazy. Yesterday we were in Relief Society and the door slowly opened, and then you see these toy guns come through and one of the primary kids totally shot all of the sisters in relief society with sound effects and all coming from his plastic guns.
Anyways, I am going to try once again to send some pictures this week. The cyber that we´ve been going to the last few weeks is just really stupid when it comes to their usb drives and stuff and it´s really hard, but hopefully this week it will work. The first picture is my first day of rain in Chile.
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