As a missionary, I have the opportunity to see a variety of different people and one thing that I have really noticed is the power that the gospel can have in our lives and the joy that it can bring. The gospel can change the lives of people, and as a missionary I have the opportunity to help other people to change. When people feel the Holy Ghost they feel the presence of God, they feel that God loves them and that they really are children of God. When they understand they have a purpose in this life and in the next life, they begin to enjoy life and the presence of the Holy Ghost, not only just to survive.
I love being a missionary, I consider it to be a very special opportunity to be able to share the gospel with other people. I have a nametag with my name right next to the name of our Saviour Jesus Christ! I am a full-time representative of Jesus Christ and I have the power and responsibility to bring other people the same happiness that I have felt!
Okay, so my week. Well, nothing super spectacular happened this week. I really realized how grateful I am to be here though. I love to be a missionary, but this week I discovered that not everyone has that same excitement... It is my personal goal this week to try to share that with other people (my companion...cough cough), because really, we have a message about our Lord and Redeemer Jesucristo and how people can feel his presence in their lives and have eternal life in the next life. Who wouldn´t want to share a message like this that can bless and change the lives of others? My companion really is great, she just lacks a little bit of animó. So I am working on that, its just a little discouraging, because I really can´t do anything without a companion to support me. There is a reason why we are teaching the gospel two by two, because if we are not unified as a companionship, really I am teaching the gospel of Courtney Grace Evans, not the Gospel of Jesus Christ. So I am working on that. We don´t really have problems, we just don´t have the success that I know we could have.
So my new area is like the suburbs of the city. We have the subway in the edge of our sector that makes it super fast to get to the actual centro (center) of Santiago and so that is pretty much what everyone does is they go to the centro to work and then come back in the evening. It´s absolutely crazy to me, but all of the neighborhoods here are the same. In my other sectors the neighborhoods divided the people into their classes, and it showed from the appearance of the neighborhood, but here everywhere is the same, but I haven´t actually figured out where they actually fit into the scale as far as income, I just know that they are all pretty much the same.
Oh! So this has to be a culture thing from chile, but it is the same in all three of my sectors so far. The people here are super pasado, or I guess a good translation would be that a little bit extremist when it comes to the gospel. For example, in gospel principles class yesterday the teacher pretty much said that her own daughter was lost because she didn´t marry in the temple. While it is super sad that she didn´t marry in the temple, in my opinion you should not preach this with exceeding force to a class full of recent converts and investigators who are not married in the temple. I feel like sometimes as missionaries we go around repairing all the damage. But not nearly as many people get offended as you would expect, so apparently this type of exceeding force is normal in Chile. I don´t know, I just know that it is definitely not the Spirit teaching the lesson the majority of Sundays or at least I have a hard time feeling the presence of the Spirit.
Hey, my luggage is really really broken. My wheels are pretty much nonexistent and the handle on my carry-on is about to fall off. If you are feeling ambitious could you please ask K-mart what they mean by a 5 year warranty and see if that includes dragging your luggage along the streets of Chile, because if so, I need new wheels, por lo menos. (at least)
I miss you Family!! I am glad to hear that everything is going well.
Love you!
Courtney
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