this
week was bom. we had a lot of good things happen and like all of the
other weeks of the mission we also had some disappointments! but were
happy, were rolling, and were looking to have an awesome month of july! tomorrow
president kahnlein goes home and president diaz arrives. theyll have
two hours together where he will show him where everything is and then
he peaces out. its gonna be weird, but im excited at the same time!
on friday ill get to meet president diaz because we will have mission council. so at 1 o clock in the morning friday
elder swindler and i will take the bus ride to viña where the water
freezes before it gets to your mouth and spend the day there! its always
really fun going down to viña.. its hard to explain the joy that you
feel when you see friends and comps for the first time in a while and
can just talk and see how everything is going. its one of my favorite
things about the mission!
yesterday we had a
baptism! we have been working with a while with a part family, the
cortes family. the mom is a member, and her two kids that live with her
and her husband are not. she has a son that left on the mission to
argentina that was living in santiago. the dad, mauricio, has become one
of my favorite people that ive met here in coquimbo. he has a solid
testimony of the church, goes every week, and reads the book of mormon,
but he cant get baptized because theyre not married. the mom receives a
certain amount of money from the government for not being married and
ahving kids (sounds kind of backwards right?) and she doesnt have the
faith to lose that money and get married. but yeah anyway the non
frustrating part is that their son matias wanted to get baptized so we
did it yesterday and now were working with his older brother nicolas!
lots
of things have happened with the espejo family that we had found last
sunday night, but they didnt go to church :(. were afraid that the dad
is looking for more physical evidences of the book of mormon than
spiritual. we had a lesson with the stake president in their house and
the spirit was really strong for about 45 min, and then it slowly went
away as the lesson dragged on.. the guy asks like yactillion questions
every single time its hard to keep in on subject. were going to keep
helping them though i have faith they could get there!
i
received the news this week that jacob and romina, the son and his
girlfriend of the castillo family in viña got married and baptized this
weekend! im so happy for them and the chance i had to know their family.
i always think back about that day when the spirit told me to keep
contacting down that street and at the very end we found maria elena and
juan. so many miracles occurred it was just the coolest experience!
this
week i went on interchanges with elder bojorquez, ex assistant to
president and now he is our district leader here in coquimbo to finish
his mission. i learned a lot of cool stuff from him and hes probably the
best missionary i have seen in my life. when he was 17 he played
basketball with his friend in the church and met the elders there in LA.
a year and a half later when he told his parents he was getting
baptized they immediately went to the house of his friend that had
presented him to the missionaries and threatened him and his family. but
he got baptized anyway. 6 months later he got his mission call and when
he told his parents they told him they didnt want anything to do with
him ever again. hes an amazing person and missionary
it
was a great week and it was capped off last night. i came into the room
and walked past elder swindler sayhing his prayers. as i walked to my
bed and pulled the covers back he had crept behind me and then whispered
¨helllllooooo¨i shrieked and fell paralyzed onto my bed. i thought i
was going ot die haha.
love you guys hope you have an awesome week!
happy birthday to my role model, best friend, and older brother alex. love you big slice!
-elder allred - chilean street raptor
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