Walker's Week #52

So this week was kind of lame. Me and my companion walked around all day trying to teach someone. I guess this area has some problems or something but that's okay because me and my comp are going to fix it. I hope so. I am no longer living with my last companion there is now someone training in Tibas my last area yeah so because my week was lame I don´t have anything to write, so adios.

Courtney's Week #45

Well, first off, today I will have a change of companions. Hermana Forbush only has six weeks left in her mission, but they are sending her to a different sector. She is a little bit bummed, she's the kind of person that takes a long time to adjust to new things and new places, so its a little bit lame that she has to go to a different sector with only six weeks left. Especially because her new sector is very different than here in Los Andes.

 

So I don´t really have a whole lot of time right now, we are supposed to be in the office at noon, but the next bus that leaves for Santiago from here in Los Andes doesn´t leave until noon, so needless to say we´re going to be a little late, but we decided to do at least half of our Internet during the wait because I´m a little bit afraid that I won´t get to be able to do Internet later today. My new companion, Hermana Ellsworth is known by the whole mission to be something like a robot, and she´s actually quite proud to have that title. But if we get back late from Santiago I don´t think I will have time to write more.

 

But just in case I don´t get a chance to write more, we had a baptism yesterday, Coni got baptized. It was actually kind of sad because her boyfriend Emmanuel was going to be baptized to, but last minute we found out that we couldn´t baptize him because he doesn´t live in our ward, so he was super bitter.

 

Love you all!

Hermana Evans

 

So, my new companion Hermana Ellsworth should have finished her mission today, but she somehow extended for 4 weeks. Every change is usually 6 weeks, so I have no idea what is going to happen to me during that extra two weeks. So I´m not sure if I told you guys, but my first companion and trainer here in Chile is going home today. She is leaving 6 weeks early so that she can get married in 3 weeks! Crazy! The craziest part about it is that when I was with her 8 months ago she wasn´t even writing this guy and was crazy about another guy. Well, she prayed about it and knows that this is what she needs to do, but it is still crazy.

 

So this week we spent a whole lot of time traveling. Coni, who got baptized last week lives very very far away and we had to go there everyday this last week to make sure that they were prepared for their baptism. Emmanuel was going to get baptized this last week too, but he ended up working everyday until Saturday, so we pretty much taught him all of the lessons in one day and all in just a little over an hour. They already knew everything because Coni´s family are all members, but we had to review everything to make sure that they didn´t have any doubts or anything.

 

Well, I´ve got to go. Love you all!

 

Hermana Evans

Walker's Week #51

Okay so first thing I had changes. I am just moving all over the place. Right now I have had 6 companions and 5 areas. So I have only stayed once. But today I got changed into Garabito. Which is the area right next store. I actually live in the same house and am companions with the person I lived with for 6 weeks. It's kind of wierd because I didn´t even know I had changes today until we were in the changes meeting. But I guess I m goinng to be showing my area to someone so he can train there. So yeah now all those people I had progressing I won´t baptize which is kind of depressing. But yeah I guess my area is dangerous. I don´t think so though. But yeah write you all next week.

Oh my comps name is Elder Reinoza

Courtney's Week #44

Well, I just realized as I was trying to remember the date for the subject line that I have 10 months in my mission. Yikes!

 

So anyways this week was super super Awesome. We only have 3 investigators with a baptismal date this week, but all three were in the church and they all are progressing. We also found a girl Saturday. We were just walking down the street and she was sweeping her patio, but she stopped to look at us and she just had this look on her face just begging for me to talk to her. So I went over and introduced us as missionaries and she immediately invited us into her house. That almost never happens so I asked her if she had shared with missionaries before and she told us her life story which started off with, "My family is Catholic, but I know that Catholicism isn´t true." She ran away from home a few years ago and found her dad, who her mom always said pretty much didn´t exist. Turns out her dad is a member. She started talking a little bit to the missionaries and went to church a couple times. At the time she was drinking, smoking, and doing drugs, but she stopped all of that, put her life in order and returned home to live with her mom. We taught her a quick review of "The Restoration" and really applied it to her. The Spirit was super super strong. She came with us to church the next day. We haven´t had the chance to ask her to be baptized yet, but we will. She is awesome, she fifteen but acts like she´s about 20 and is literally one of those people who have been prepared and is ready. We were a little bit worried about how her family was going to respond to her investigating the church though because they didn´t seem so excited, but she said that they talked about it that night and her family says that they will support her in her decision if this is what she really wants, but they don´t exactly want to hear the missionaries themselves. She is so awesome!!

 

We also have Coni and Emanuel, who we are going to baptize next week! Coni´s whole family are really active members, but she was kind of against the church because she was currently living in the same house as Emanuel. Coni and Emanuel have a little boy, Vicente who is three years old. A few weeks ago Coni and Emanuel showed up at church with the rest of their family. It was pretty much a miracle. We didn´t have anyone else in the Gospel Principles class so we really had the opportunity to talk with them, we found out their concerns and desires and what they really wanted. It was a little bit of a struggle to work to their needs, but they are getting baptized next week.

 

Well, this week was super super awesome. We received a lot of blessings, had a lot of super super powerful lessons, and we are really excited for the next few weeks. It is so cool to be a missionary, we have the power to change the lives of others!!

 

Love you all!

Hermana Evans

Walker's Week #50

So yeah, so this week was okay. I was on divisions 4 out of the 7 days but as you can see today is Wednesday, yep I got to go to the Temple again it was nice. But this last week we had 6 investigators in the church it was so awesome. So we have this family that I call the banana man he is a banana farmer or something like that but he always has a ton of bananas. But yeah him and his family are super awesome and want to get baptized but he is waiting to get divorced and stuff. So yeah it will probably be a while. But we have the aunt and sister of a recent convert that we are teaching and they are progressing right a long. They like the church and everything.

But yeah I don´t have much time because I wrote Pres a lot, so adios.

Courtney's Week #43

Hey, so this week was an adventure. One of the members in our ward repairs washing machines and then resells them. My companion has a lot of money saved up because she´s pretty much only eaten cereal and yogurt for all of her mission, so we asked about how much a washing machine would cost, he told us nothing and that he would just bring us one. So the next day he brought us a washing machine in the night. He tested it really fast to make sure that everything was working and then left. Well, we were so excited to use our new washing machine that we put a load in right away, and then we went to bed. Well, when we woke up the next morning there was about an inch of water on the floor in our bedroom, our study room, the kitchen, my closet, and throughout the hallway. The washing machine broke halfway through its laundry cycle and pushed all the water out the bottom and so we had water everywhere! The worst part is that we had things on the floor that got wet, the most tragic was my companion´s journal of all of her mission--it was completely soaked. Also, my backpack was on the floor with all of my proselyting stuff in it: my scriptures, an extra Book of Mormon, 3 hymnbooks, pamphlets, a notebook, and other random stuff. Well, a few weeks ago I made a homemade cover for my scriptures out of a cereal box and then I put scotch tape all around it. And so, even though the water soaked up through all of the other books that I had in my book bag, my scriptures were completely dry!! A miracle! Anyways, so we spent the whole morning cleaning up all the water and then my companion has used most of our time in the night time to blow dry and iron the pages of her journal.

 

Another thing that happened this week, my companion and I went for an appointment with a couple of our investigators who live really far. So we decided to take the bus out there instead of riding our bikes. So after we left, we had to walk on the side of the freeway until we could catch the bus. So we were walking along when a semi passed us going super fast, right after he passed us he slammed on the brakes and started fish tailing all over the road and the shoulder too. Right in front of us!! One minute later and we would have gotten hit by this semi! Crazy, right?

 

Well, other than this not really a whole lot happened this week. We´ve decided to change our focus, because we´ve decided that were using too much time traveling back and forth between the different parts of our sector. So we´ve decided to focus mainly on the area here close to the church because it is much easier to help people progress when they can get to the church easily. But for right now, we are kind of without really cool investigators.

 

Oh, so I take that back. We have this really cool couple Rosa y Esau. They have like 55 years or something like that, but they have been living together for like 10 years. The Elders that were here in this sector before found them last March, and they progressed really fast, Esau read the whole Book of Mormon and right now is reading in for the second time and is in the end of Alma. Rosa also is in the end of Alma in her reading. But because they lived together they couldn´t be baptized, and the big complication is that Esau is married to another lady and when he tried to contact her so that they could get divorced and then get married to Rosa the lady never responded. So here is the super cool part, right now they are on their way to Peru to find his old wife and plead for the signature of divorce. They will return next month because while they are up there they are going to visit family and stuff. But it was super cool, yesterday in the church Esau asked for a blessing of comfort from one of the members in the ward. They are super anxious about everything, but they really want to get baptized. I am so excited for them!! A baptismal wedding! How great!!

 

Well, I can´t really think of much else that happened this week, but I love you all! Have a great week!

Walker's Week #49

Hello people.

So this week was super awesome.

Well sort of, so me and my companion are not the best of friends. So last week the Zone Leaders came but we still had a lot of problems so this week President came. It was awesome. But this week we had started painting our house so every thing was super dirty. So President walked in and looked at everything and asked, "so you guys are painting the house huh." President is awesome. But I´m really hoping that things will get better with my companion. Right now we don´t have any investigators because, well I´m pretty sure its because we don´t have the spirit with us. But so far this week I have only been with him for four days because he is District Leader he just throws divisions all over the place and always put where there is nothing but yeah I hope it will get better.

Adios