So, guess what, about two weeks ago a man contacted us in the street, he had just been in a car accident a few days earlier and was in pretty bad shape and wanted to change his life. We set up an appointment to pass by but he wasn´t there. So a few days ago we were on our way to lunch when I saw him in the street, he was totally drunk. We could see the pile of bottles that he had drunken and everything. The moment he saw us he tossed the bottle that was in his hand and asked us to "preach to him." I think at one point he was Evagelico, because he has a lot of bible knowledge, so he started talking about some bible stories and compared himself to David that fell into temptation or something. He told us that he was going to kill himself that day because he didn´t have any reason to live anymore. So we decided to walk him home so that he was sitting on the side of one of the busiest streets right in front of the liquor store. As we were walking with him to his house we were trying to help especially to get him to understand that íf he wanted to change things he had to stop drinking. He kept reverting to that it didn´t matter because he was going to kill himself because he didn´t have anyone to live for. Then all of the sudden, there was a kitten in the street, we were like "Hey, look that kitten needs you, the kitten loves you." He took the kitten, named it "Leon de Judah" and then he had a reason to live, to take care of his kitten. We saw him yesterday and now he wants to donate his house and all of his land to build a temple so that "many souls can be saved." We told him the first step in the process to donate his land would be to stop drinking and to go to church, but we will see what happens.
Let´s see, what else happened this week. Yesterday I gave a talk in church. I was a little bit worried because I didn´t feel very well prepared, but it went pretty well. The topic they gave me was "Jesus Crist as our Savior," pretty specific topic, right, but it went pretty well, it took a little bit of study though. The high councilman who talked right after me was given the same topic, but he just started talking about Christ-like attributes and stuff, but that´s okay. So its kind of a trend here in Chile, but all of the high councilman are recently returned missionaries. I think its their plan to keep all of the return missionaries active or something, but its a little weird.
So occasionally we take the microbus to travel to a different part of our sector. It´s usually 300 pesos each which is like $0.50. I paid for the way there and my companion paid for the way home, well the bus driver totally charged her 500 pesos each. She was a little bit put-out when he wouldn´t give her back her change. Anyways so the driver´s son of like 5 or 6 years old comes back and started asking us questions, Hermana Ellsworth was a little put out and so she told the kid "Go away, your dad totally ripped us off!" in English. It was pretty funny, he didn´t understand at all and kept bothering Hermana Ellsworth. She is is still really bitter about the 400 pesos she lost, which I think is funny because its only like a dollar. But there are just people who like to take advantage of foreigners.
So I guess that´s about all that happened this week. Today we are in Santiago! Yeah! I´m pretty excited just to be out of Los Andes. Los Andes is kind of like Roosevelt, there is nothing really to do.
Well, have a great week. Love you all!
Hermana Evans
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