So before i start my story i want to tell you all that i am pretty much
almost all the way better kind of haha. But for real i feel fine. But
due to something that happened in church the other day no one believes
me. And that is where my story starts this week.
Actually background info The Ward Mission leader That i work with is
named Brother Gonzalez. And he is awesome. The best ward mission leader
ive ever had (in fact the only ive ever had haha) But he has seen all
my x rays and my medical reports and everything so he knows that i`ve
been a little sick haha. And this last week it literally rained every
single day without stopping, so the mission presidents wife told me that
i wasnt aloud to leave to work this week due to the rain. And so all of
the meetings that i had with Hno Gonzalez this week. have been in my
house.
Ok background established
So this Sunday was awesome. I was
in my class with Hno Gonzalez with all of my investigators that came to
church, when a member of the bishopric walks in with a gringo. And he
comes up to me and says. ``Elder Crockett, this man is from the United
States, and he was preparing to get baptized before he came here to South America, but he doesnt speak very much spanish, so can you
translate everything for him?`And i told him sure. Because i generally
feel like a boss when im translating for people haha.
So in our class Hno Gonzalez would teach something, and then i would
translate everything he said from spanish into English for this man.
Scriptures, examples, questions, testimony, answers, everything i
translated everything. But after a little time Hno G starts being a
little jerk, and starts speaking super fast, using really strange words,
and weird examples just to make it harder for me. (He also speaks some
english and so he knew what words dont have easy translations into
english) hahaha But to his disappointment i showed him up and did a good
job translating everything..
But after the class i talked to the gringo a little bit, and it
really makes me want to know how their conversation went with the
councilor, because he definitely was not a investigator, or a new
convert. He told me that he was baptized at 8, was faithful all his
life, served a mission on the east coast of the states, and was here in south America just because he wanted to explore it, and he wanted to
learn spanish, and figured wheres a better place to learn spanish then
in South America. Which is valid thats how i learned Spanish haha, but
granted i know that i had divine help, because becoming fluent in a matter
of weeks is something that isnt exactly normal haha.
My story with this man keeps going but i want to get to the good
part of my story, about why the ward is so worried about me now.
In
Priesthood meeting all of the men where gathered, and there is actually
a ton of men in this ward. I didnt even know that many men lived in
Chile hahaha, but like any normal Priesthood meeting we were all joking
around, the High Priests really like making fun of me, so they make some
joke about me, and then i make some smart alek back, and then hit them
back with another joke, and so all of us are just messing around, and no
one is focused, but we start the meeting, and so i stop messing around
with the old guys and i am paying attention, but the rest of the men
kept whispering and werent really paying attention, like any other normal
priesthood meeting.
But then the bishop asked Hno G to stand up to
give a update on the obra misional. And so he stands up and starts
telling everyone whats going on, and what we need them to do. But then
he says ``But i have something a little more important that i want to
talk about. Our good Friend Elder Crockett, has been keeping a secret
from all of you. Over the past couple of weeks has had to make constant
trips to the hospital, and in these trips we've learned that he was ``una
Enfermadad Grave`` (In other words he literally told everyone that i
was seriously sick)`` And then the room went totally silent, and
everyone turns and starts looking at me, and there passes almost an
entire min of everyone staring at me in complete silence without saying
anything. Until one of my friends (one of the youth) asks ``What do you
have?`` And so i said ``pneumonia``
And then everyone starts talking
again, and are all saying how thats super dangerous, and even more so
because i am here in Chile where it never stops raining, and that how
that could make my infection worse, and kill me. But then Hno G starts
talking again and everyone stops talking to listen to him, and he says
``Yes, but we all know Elder Crockett very well, and how faithful he is,
and he has been walking around working with the sickness his entire
time here in Puerto Varas, but its come to a point where he hasnt been
able to leave in a couple of days due to how serious his sickness is,
and he needs your help right now.``
Now right about now im thinking ``Oh
my gosh Jaime (his first name) i`m totally fine, i havent felt better
in a long time, i`ve literally used up all of the pills, and im pretty
sure that my infection has died. I am totally fine. But then Hno G keeps
going, and this next part doesnt make much sense of how it worked out.
He said ``And so right now he needs your help. And so i need a list of
what days you are free from work, and what hours so you can go out to
leave with the missionaries. And i want all of you in your quorums to
make me the list and give it to me, and then i will email it to Elder
Crockett so you will be able to go out to work with him``
And i am
amazed at the response of the ward, because one of our biggest problems
here is before i got here the members havent really done anything with missionary work. But the other sunday ( i didnt tell this story) i gave
a talk in church in which i told the members that they need to be
missionaries ( i actually mailed my talk to the Myers family, its in all
spanish, and granted i didnt read my paper at all as i gave it, so its
not exactly the same, but its close) But after i gave that talk,
everyone started bringing friends to church, and then after Hno G made
this little announcement, everyone started shouting out when they can
leave with us, and so he had to calm them all down and tell them that
they needed to make the list in the quorums and that he would send in to
me.
I have no idea what the heck Jaime was thinking, and granted he only
told the truth (from his perspective), but gosh the members are jumping
alive.
Then all the men told their wives, so they are all giving me food now hahahaha.
There is a lot more that has but i`ll have to tell you those stories another day.
Love you all keep me posted on all of your Adventures!!!!
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