for as many new investigators
that we found last week, we lost the same amount this week. it was
seriously a tough week. we just had appointment after appointment fall
through every day. we still worked hard, contacted a lot of people and
helped others progress a little bit, but in terms of new peeps it was a
bit of a struggle. thats really probably one the hardest things about
missionary work.. when all plans fail jsut starting over and filtering
out the ones taht arent going to progress to find the diamonds again.
the diamonds exist, theyre just super tough to find! yesterday as the
day was finishing up we did a contact that pretty much summed up our
week. we were walking and we go up to contact this guy that had a
skateboard in his hand probably like 30 years old and right when we
start talking he just lifts up his shirt and shows us this tat of satan
and walks away while staring at us. haha that pretty much sums it up.
one
of our diamonds is christian this 15 year old that went to church with
his mom last week and this week he went to mutual with some of the young
mens which was awesome, but he had to travel to see his dad in santiago
so he couldnt go to church! but he gets home tonight
and were gonna help him accept a baptism date! his mom has been really
enthused to come back to the church even though she never really had a
testimony. however she does remember primary and how she felt back when
she was just a little kid in the church. funny how that is huh? even as
little kids one can see the difference that the gospel can make. like it
says in alma, lots of times kids feel and do things that even confound
the learned and wise!
on tuesday
we did service with this one ward member and we just took out dirt from
his lot with shovels and wheelbarrows for like 3 hours. it was
serisouly so exhausting im like still kind of sore from it. but this
last weekend we had stake conference here and it was one of , if not the
best stake conference ive ever been to! president diaz and his wife
came to gave a talk and they were both amazing and then to top it off a
seventy from the north of chile came down and gave one of the most
powerful talks ever. in his talk he made all of the young men stand up
in the congregation and told them it was a commandment that they serve a
mission and not to put it off for anything. haha it was awesome!
other than that not much happened... on saturday
we had auditions for the christmas concert that were going to be doing
as a mission. haha so i decided to try out and it was tons of fun but
super hard! they tested so many things and then i had to do a solo and i
pretty much nailed it if i say so myself but i dont know what they
thought. haha nah they are only choosing 10 elder from the whole
mission, but hey it was fun to try out adn just chill for a little while
talking with other elders. very very very rarely do you ever just get
to chat with people in the mission... i really miss it ill be honest. i
feel like when alex told me that i would miss all of the small things
like a car ride with di, or watching tv with steve i didnt understand
it. but now i get it. just stuff like family dinners or things like that
are taken for granted way too often. dont take anything for granted!"
love you guys hope you have a great week. the church is true. go to it. and get there on time.
-elder allred- chilean street raptor
the one year mark
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