Pictures from the Mission

36 Pieces of Sushi

Well this week was very good!!! We had a great time and have been at it with the Missionary work! Last week was a good one, too! We have been teaching a man by the name of Luis. He is a member referral and lives behind a member named Carlos who is his uncle! We have been teaching him and seeing his progression as we have been teaching him along with his kids these past few weeks. He’s been learning a lot and has had lots of good desires. This past Tuesday, we watched the video of the life of Joseph Smith with him and he liked it. He likened the video to his life and situation as he is looking for the truth! I think that message really resinated with him! 

We have been contacting lots lately really just looking for new people to teach. We have found some success. We taught an older lady, and have also found a receptive family that we will be going by this next week!

We had a funny experience actually. So last night, Elder Grow ordered sushi and ate 36 pieces!!!!!! haha anyway, we really didn't realize how much he ate! haha so today rolls around and he wakes up just feeling like crap! haha He felt so sick to his stomach! 

It's Getting Hot Here in Santiago!

Well, My apologies for the past few weeks without emailing or keeping you guys up to date with my missionary life! It was been really good here in Las Americas!! We have been working hard in the Santiago heat and having a great time!!!

Anyway, we met a guy named Bob and he is our homie!!! So we were teaching two Haitians by the name of Adelin and Wolly in English cause they are fluent English speakers and have been really progressing with them! 

So we had a second lesson with them but they weren't there when we arrived to our appointment, so we ended up talking with this guy named Bob at the house, and we taught him lesson 2 about the ´plan of salvation in Spanish cause he spoke really good Spanish. Two days later we came back and had a lesson with all 3 of them. We were concerned about the language barrier cause Wolly and Adelin spoke Spanish less than English but when we got there, we asked them what language they would like us to speak (thinking that we would speak in English and then have them translate for Bob) but Bob started speaking fluent English!!!! We were a bit stunned!! haha it was a pretty funny moment! We taught them lesson 1 and set baptismal dates for the 14 of December!!!

Bob came to church as well the following Sunday!

We have been focusing lots on finding and getting new Investigators which we have done! We were contacting last week and contacted a house to the south of our sector and went right in to teach and get to know this family which was from Peru! They were really nice and listened to us!! We had a follow up appointment which fell through but we ended up teaching their 17 year old son the first lesson!

We also had the opportunity to leave our mission to go to a missionary conference in another suburb of Santiago

As for the rest of our week, it’s been filled  with fun, hard missionary work!

I have been studying a lot about the life of Jesus Christ as I have been reading a book called Jesus the Christ which is an in depth book about his life and his teachings. As I’ve studied it, I have come to learn more about Jesus and who he truly is! I have come to realize how Jesus is the perfect teacher who could use parables and allegories to explain his sound doctrine and connect that through those examples!

Have a great week.