How are things going? This week went by really fast for me. On Wednesday we had interviews with President Gillespie and his wife. So president Gillespie commented on how he liked my tie haha. Elder Nelson, the assistant was like what!...he has never given me a tie complement nor heard one to anyone else haha. 2 points for elder nelson (me). They took us all day because we had to grade area books and be there until all the missionaries were done. Afterwards the assistants showed up and we did intercambios with them for the evening. On Friday we had our mission conference in La Serena. We talked a lot about extending baptismal invitations. It was really nice in Serena. It was easily 15 degrees cooler with a pleasant breeze. Ovalle was really hot when we got back.On Wednesday in the morning I finished the Book of Mormon. I was able to finish it in one month, one week, and one day. It was a really neat experience for me. We started reading it again but this time we are marking anything that has to do with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, (faith, repentance, baptism, the Holy Ghost, enduring to the end, and the atonement).
Yesterday, I had cow stomach soup…it wasn’t that bad but not the greatest thing in the world. Its really chewy and tastes like fat.
So the family that we found a couple weeks ago, Alex and Maribel and their 7 year old son, Joaquin, came to church yesterday!!!! They really liked it and when we asked Maribel, the mom, if Joaquin liked it or not, she said that he didn’t want to go home. It has been a great experience seeing this family grow. It was a neat way that we found them too. My comp and I decided to do contacts in this one neighborhood and we just started kind of wandering around and not stopping at any of the houses that we knew had people in…we got to this one house and yelled and out came a guy who immediately let us in to his house. We shared with him the message of the restoration. He said that he liked it and everything but he wasn’t about to go to church or change religions or anything like that. Well yesterday him and his family came to church and are going to come to the English class that we teach on Thursday nights in the church. They are absolutely awesome and it is truly a blessing to be able to see a family learn about the gospel. Its always a highlight of the day when we are able to go by and teach them. They are always so excited to see us. One of our investigators, Ignacio, passed his baptismal interview on Saturday and is going to be getting baptized this Saturday afternoon. He is pretty excited about it and so are we.
Well I hope all of you have a great Thanksgiving! Eat some turkey and rolls for me and try to keep Oscar from eating too much pumpkin pie haha. Love you guys. Take care.
Chao
Elder nelson
Here's a long lost video from the MTC that I happened to run across:
