Awesome Week

Quote of the week

``¡¡¡Que Lindos Son!!!´´ (little girls screaming)

``Elder Silva, yo creo que quezas tenemos aun mas Snakes´´

``Sí  parece que tenemos dos nuevas snakecitas´´

"They are so cute!"!!(little girls screaming)
"Elder Silva, I think that they have even more Snakes´´
"Yes we seem to have two new little snakes´´

Next Monday i have a conference with the mission president and so i am not going to have a P Day this next Monday, but i believe that i am going to have it This Saturday (Two P Days A Week! Score!) And so if you all could write me before Friday that would be ideal so i can still get to hear from you. I´d say that i´ll keep you posted but lets get real, if you hear from me on Saturday it means my Pday is On Saturday. If not it means its not haha.

So this week was awesome, we did a ton of divisions this week, and A bunch of the members have commented to me, saying ´´Elder Crockett I don´t know how you've done it but the missionary work has completely changed´´ And then i would explain the them ´´Any changes here is not because of me, The reason why the work so going so well right now, is because the members here are finally doing their part in missionary work. Because if the members are working everything in the ward Changes´´

Now i am going to tell you WHY the members are working. This last week I was in a Branch Meeting. (I could tell you the name in Spanish but i have no idea what its called in English haha) But it is the meeting when there is all of the leaders of the organizations. And so we start out the meeting with the Branch Meeting with the ``Missionary Minute´´ Where the missionaries can take about 5 mins to explain what activities they are planning. Now frankly with the meeting going they way they were in the past, it was just a waste of time to have me there. But they give the time to me, and i stand up and say.

``Thank you for this time to talk with you all. I have something really important to talk to you about today.´´ I then handed everyone of them a copy of my progress records of my investigators. And then i explain to them the Goals of the mission (baptism wise) and then i show them the goals of the branch, that they set. And then i continued talking and told them about an experience i had in La Union (Lago Ranco) And then explain ``I know that God will help us achieve this goal, and has in fact promised us that if we work that we will be able to do it. But from my experience in the mission i have learned something. 

If in a branch there is not a baptism every month (the goal) there is two reason. 1. Because the missionaries arent working. And 2. Because the members arent working. If either one of the two are not doing their part God will not bless us with more baptisms.´´ And then they all looked really ashamed. But then i made the wound even deeper, and i asked them to look at the progress record. And then talked about my investigators. And i hear the branch president say ``Well it looks like the missionaries are doing their part´´ And i took that opportunity and replied. ``And now we need the help of every single one of you, and your organizations so that these people who are trying to come closer to Christ can receive the help that they need to enter into the path and be baptized. I then talked to every single organization about exactly what i need them to do, and made plans and Goals with them.

My 5 min ``Missionary Minute`` Turned into an Hour and A Half meeting, and the focus of every single one of the organizations.

And we have had members leaving with us to work just about every day now. And we have had more investigators in church these Sunday then Aysen has ever had ever haha. And then also on Sunday i didnt have to worry about my investigators because all of the people in the Presidencies of the church did what they should do and started fellowshiping the members. 

Hopefully the members stay as awesome as they are now, because its true if the members arent doing the part its almost impossible that the missionaries can have success, thats pretty much the story of my whole mission, i get the members to start working a ton, i then get transferred, and then shortly after the area starts baptizing like crazy. 

I actually got news about my investigators. And even though i`ve only personally baptized one of my investigators i have had SO Many get baptized. I was so happy to hear that. Hopefully some day i`ll get to stay in a sector long enough to see the fruits of my work haha

Welp Love you all-. Do missionary work. 

P.s.

So new experience this week, Chile just had a presidential election, and sunday the results came in. And so Sunday night i was walking over to visit one of my investigators when i hear a bunch of car horns honking, so i turn around to see a big parade of people. And there was pictures of the new president all over their cars. And on every car, and all the people walking had flags, half of them where waving the Chilean flag, and the other half were waving a flag that had a Hammer and A Sickle on it. And so i turn to my companion and ask ``Hey is Michelle (the new President) a Socialist)´´ And he says ``No, she is just from a kind of extremely left political party.´´ That kind of sounds alot like socialism to me haha. But im a missionary so it doesnt really effect me very much