Well, as you probably noticed, once again it is Tuesday and not Monday. What happenned is the 18th of September is the independence day of Chile, but the people here celebrate for three days instead of just one, I thought that it was only because the 18th was a Sunday, but I heard that its just like that all the time. And so because nothing was open yesterday, President changed our p-day to today. It was really fun here though. Presidente gave all the missionaries permission to go to the ward and stake activities for the 18, but it was so sad, our ward told us that the Stake activity fell through and that there would only be a dancing activity for the Primary later in the day. We were so so sad, because everyone says that the 18 is awesome, but because we didn´t have an activity we thought we would just be in the street all day trying to talk to people who are too busy celebrating. But guess what! We found a nuevo (new) investigador, un milagro (a miracel). There is a line in Preach my Gospel that says that Holidays are great opportunities to find people, I really wonder about that, because personally if the missionaries tried to teach me on the Christmas or the 4th of July I would be a little bit put out, and thats kind of what I think other people feel when we try to set up appointments for the holidays. But we found a nuevo! After that we decided to go to the activity of the Primary just because this is pretty much the only activity of the year that we have permission to go to, and guess what the stake activity did not fall through. There were tons of people that had been there since the morning and all of the other missionaries in our stake were there too. It was a lot of fun. The Chileans have lots of cultural dances and stuff, and it was really fun to watch.
Oh, other news for the week. People in the city are crazy! They are definitely not as amable as the people out in the campo (country). I had two people yell at me this week, and both were in the same day. One of them was a crazy lady that I thought for sure was going to hit me. It was really discouraging, but it was really cool, afterwards I still had to contact three more people to meet our daily goal, and I just really really didn´t want to, I really don´t like when people yell at me and I was tired of everyone just thinking that we want something from them. But my last contact of the day was a lady who really actually wanted to hear the gospel, we set up an appointment, and we taught her and her husband last night. It was just really cool just to see that the Lord knows our limits, and that this is his work, and if we do what we are supposed to be doing he will bless us.
Funny story though, the husband of this lady is a little bit crazy. Not crazy, he just spent a long time with the Testigos de Jehovah (Jehovah's Witnesses). It was really funny, we sang and said the opening prayer, and then he decided that he wanted to show us the true way to pray so he went to the bathroom and came back with a towel. He put the towel over his head and then directed his wife to say the prayer. His wife just looked at him like he had lost all his marbles. The guy said that this was how Moses prayed and that it was a way to show respect, and he went off on that and then remembered that it was actually the women that had to cover their faces with a towel not the men, but then he realized that he didn´t have three towels and so he gave up. The whole situation was just really funny, but we explained how we can all show reverence during the prayer and how prayer is just communication with our Heavenly Father and so it is not neccesary to go to drastic measures just to talk to God.
Guess what! My companion and I are going to the Zoo today!! I am so excited. We usually can´t go to the zoo because it is never open on Mondays, but today is a Tuesday and the zoo is open!! I am so excited!! I wonder if the zoos here have the same animals, I don´t think so because we are half-way across the world! Woot woot! I am so dang excited, and hopefully I will have pictures to show you next week!
Well, I am actually kind of out of things to say. So I guess that is all for this week. I love you all, thanks for your emails!
I love being a missionary!
Hermana Evans
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