Hey Everybody! So, This week I got a cold. It kinda stinks, but oh well. The Elders gave me a blessing and some vitamin C yesterday so that I can get better. Last Tuesday at about 9:40 they called and told us the transfers, and Hermana Horton headed for Cabrero on Saturday. I’m still here in Arauco, but I’m with a new comp who’s name is Hermana Judkins. She’s from Oregon and she’s the 8th of 9 children. The younger brother is actually her twin, but she came out first. 🙂 She’s really energetic and a great missionary even though she’s only got 7 months in the mission. This transfer should be a lot of fun. Today we cleaned a little deeper and we don’t have as much time to write, but I’ll add some photos to the drive folder for you guys to see.
New Investigator
We finally found a new investigator! I’ve gotta admit that really makes me excited. I’m making a new minor goal of trying to be super excited everytime something like that happens even if it becomes a normal thing. (Ojala que si) I’m not sure if he will progress much, but we’ll work hard to see that he gets every chance he can to do just that. His name is Ruben and he’s about 60 he loves the bible and he’s a recovered Alcohol addict.
Feeling Philosophical
Every once in a while all of the missionaries in our zone get together for a couple of hours 1 day to work in 1 sector to help out the missionaries there. We call it a Zone Taco(Mission slang is weird:) This week we did that and I had an interesting experience. I was contacting some people with Hermana Anderson and inviting them to come answer some deep questions using the book of Mormon and this lady we started to say Hi, how are you? and she without thinking as she was practically running away said, “No thank you, I’m Catholic, I don’t believe in God!” It was kind of hilarious because I’m pretty sure she didn’t process what she was saying before it left her mouth. We all have those moments, but then it got me thinking and honestly I think that we all do the same thing sometimes. That is, we say stuff claiming that we believe it but we don’t actually process what we’re saying and it’s not the best to say it because often we don’t mean it or it doesn’t make any sense. I’ve been catching myself saying some things that I’ve heard other people say a billion times and I just repeat it to have something to say. Like, I know the church is true. For some people that might make sense, but for me that kind of sounds like filler words because I don’t see how the church can be true, in my eyes The Church of Jesus Christ is the kingdom of God on the Earth today. So to me it’s something real that teaches the truth. The truth would be the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. I also know that the Church of Jesus Christ is the only place that has worthy men who hold the priesthood necessary to do saving ordinances like baptism. But the church is the church. The catholic church is also a church and the baptist church as well not to mention the billions of other churches, but the difference between them is that Christ leads his church not the other churches and in his church we can learn the truth. Just thought I would share my philosophical thoughts from this week. Love you all! 🙂
No More Sugar!
So, Martin changed his baptismal date to the 18th so he could have more time to prepare and it should workout nicely so we don’t have to cram so much with the lessons. He really does have a very strong testimony! It’s pretty cool to get to see how fast he learns and understands the lessons. We were teaching the plan of salvation to him the other day and he told us he had a couple of questions. I don’t remember the first one but the second question was basically why was there polygamy in the church and what’s the story behind that. So we explained that it was a commandment of god in that time and that as a church we no longer practice polygamy because God doesn’t want us to do that at this time. He was totally cool about it and was kind of like “oh.. ok. That makes sense. :)”