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Hope that everyone has had a great week!! Our week was a good one as well! We have really been enjoying each day that we get! This week was a bit of an interesting week with our schedule. We had a zone conference and we weren't allowed to leave one day because it was the combatant day for the kids here in Santiago.
So last Thursday, we had our conference with Elder Bragg was incredible. Elder Bragg is one of the area 70 in the South America South Area I believe if I am not mistaken. He shared some really good messages with us that really helped us grow and learn as a mission. The biggest eye opening thing he talked about was what we as an area do to get a baptism. I am kicking myself for not bringing my notes to the cyber but in order to get one baptism, each day, we need to be talking with 20 new people. That was interesting data and eye opening to me on the importance of talking with everyone. He made that as one of his biggest and most important pieces of counsel to us. He also shared great information on why we need to ask everyone for references. He talked about bringing a photo of our family and every time we would get rejected 2 or 3 times by the person. He told us to pull out our picture of the family, tell the person who each person was and tell them that we left them for two years to share this very special message, we proceeded by then asking them for any neighbors or people they knew that would let us share that message with them!! It was really cool!
After that conference, we had divisions with the Assistants. Elder Ricks came to my sector and we met a really cool Peruvian family that he had taught over a year ago. we had a really good first lesson with them!
On Sunday, the other Elders had a baptism for Alberto and Melody. They are the Peruvians that we meet contacting about 2 months back. Alberto wanted Elder McKane to baptise him which was pretty cool to him. Alberto adores us and really looks up to us as missionaries. He is a really good kid and was really happy to get baptized. This past week, he had to do an assignment for school and he had to write a paper on where he wanted to be in 15 or 20 years. He wrote that he wants to be a returned missionary and have a family!!! Really cool feel good moment.
On Monday, we couldn't go out of the house after lunch. So when we got home, Elder McKane and I wanted to take a little nap and then do some studies afterwards. We forgot to set the alarm and slept till 7:30!!! haha mission tiredness is crazy!!
Yesterday, I did a baptismal interview for a kid in a neighboring ward of ours by the name of Sebastian. This kid is a stud and is 14 and wants to be a missionary in Salt Lake City one day!! Man I am just loving the youth this week looking back on it.
Today we went to the temple which was great as always. Really good spiritual and uplifting time!
Afterwards, we followed it up and went to Carls. JR. I miss American Burgers!!
Have a great week!
