But first i have some
news updates, i got another call from the mission presidente this week,
telling me that he got a call from Salt Lake this last week, about our
plane tickets home, and they said that they did not want us to travel
home that day (im just assuming that they had some vision of a plane
crash) but they told the mission Presidente that he wasnt allowed to send
any of the missionaries home before the 15th. And so he called me to
tell me that i wont be coming home on the 7th, but on the 15th.
Im happy
about it that just gives me another week to work with, that gives me
even more time to work in la viña del Señor. but i imagine that there
may be problems with colleges. I would still like to study the first semester when i get home, so i would appreciate it if you can find out if
i will be able to miss that much time right at the start of the
semester. If you cant the presidente told me that alot of the school in
the united states have another ´´block´´ of school that starts in
febuarary. If i cant miss the first week of school, could you look into
that for me?
ok so check this. this last week i
had a skype conference with Elder Nelson from the quorum of the 12 apostles. And there is really just one part that i want to share about
that. But after the conference he extended me an apostolic blessing, and
it was incredible, because in the blessing he used multiple phrases that
were exact thoughts that i had, and that i was worried about. But there is
one part of the blessing that i wanted to send home, he said ´´You
will be a disciple of Jesus Christ...you will return home from your
mission, and will continue to be a missionary among your own people, and
your service will bring them to Christ...´´ I almost cried when he said
that because i knew for a fact that the words that came out of his
mouth, came directly from God because throughout the blessing he used
exact phrases that had been running though my head recently. It was
awesome
But after the conference i got home, to
a very very very happy discovery. i got home, and my phone started
ringing. And i see that it was my investigator L (i know that ive
talked about her before) and as soon as i answer the phone she yells
´´ELDER MY DAD GAVE ME PERMISSION TO GET BAPTIZED!!!!!!!!´´And yo
respondi ´´WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!! THATS AWESOME!!!!!!!!¨´´And then she told me
just the miraculous story about how her mom, who as i mentioned once
was a hard core anti mormon, and how her dad, and i think i mentioned,
without going into sensitive information, was kind of a jerk, gave her
permission to get baptized. And how they supported her 100 percent now,
and even said that they were going to come to the baptism and then
possible start coming to church with her!!!!!
And
so on the 29th of this month she is going to get baptized, also with
F, both of them are getting baptized together!!!!!! im pretty
sure i told you about F. When the missionaries started teaching
him he was literally one of those drunks that pretty much lived on the
street. And the missionaries started teaching him back in Feb. And when i
got here, he was still a drunk. i dont know why the missionaries never
dropped him before But since i got here, he started getting professional help, and
has gone about 2 months now without drinking. Its been the longest time
in pretty much all of his life that he has gone without alcohol. But he
is going to get baptized too. And they are both super excited. this last
sunday the two of them started talking about that they wanted to do at
their baptism for hymns and stuff. And its awesome.
Miya
thanks for the idea for H!!!!!! that never occurred to me. Im not
sure how ill do it, because, hot glue guns dont exist in South America,
and i havent ever seen any stores that would sell just elastic for me
to use. But im sure that i will be able to find something out. Even if i
have to sew the whole tie together, but hey whatever works right?
This
week it was also super crazy, there was a bunch of hard core wind
storms too ( like those ones i told you about last time, but last time it
was just really snowy and so it just threw ice hard at us) But this
week there was no snow on anything ( in fact all the snow melted away and
hasnt been any for a couple of weeks now) But anyway there was no snow
on the ground, and so the wind was literally strong enough that it
would lift small rocks off of the ground and send them flying, i dont
know how many times i got slammed hard in the face or in the head by a
stupid rock. And granted they arent big enough to hurt alot, they just really sting, but still.. not fun.
But there
was something super funny. We were walking down the street the other day
and there was a ton of wind, and i look and i see i giant piece of styrofoam flying though the air, and i pretty easily dodged it, but my
comp didnt see it coming and it hit him Straight in the face and it
broke in half on his face. It was so funny!!!!!
But
anyways i got to go. Thats crazy that people are starting to come home. You have to get them all to write me i really want to talk to all of
those people that are coming home in the next 2 weeks
Welps i gots to go!
Love you all!
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