Hey how´s everyone doing? This week for me went well as always! I seem to respond more and more that my weeks are going well even though maybe what really happened would say otherwise. But I dont know, I just have learned to always have a good week no matter what happens! Im so grateful that I have learned to be happy no matter what, as this week was filled with a few challenges but also some good small miracles!
This week Elder Huber and I worked hard to complete our goals. We were determined and dedicated in reaching our weekly goals. And we had quite a few challenges to do it too. To start, the zone leaders called us with little advance notice that we were both going to work in their area for the day on Tuesday! So we weren´t able to work in our area at all on Tuesday, but the exchanges turned out very well with the zone leaders and I learned a lot! So by the end of the week, we were getting close and had a few great days of work. But apparently I had eaten something bad on Saturday that did not go well with me. So I spent all Saturday night and Sunday in the pench, super sick! So we weren´t able to finish the week like we had hoped.
So this week, I learned a lot about opposition, but gratefully I was able to keep my spirits up through the whole thing!
Scripture of the Week: I like the scripture in 1 Nephi 6 where it talks about how Nefis purpose is to persuade men to come unto God and how he only writes things that are pleasing unto God and not the world. Its so true for missionaries as well. That is our purpose, we preach confidently of Christ in his way.
Miracle of the Week: So what we have been doing lately in our mission, is passing by all the members that are on the member list in the ward. With the goal to find long lost inactive members, and also possibilities of finding part member families to complete! It has been working pretty well! A few weeks ago we found Lucas Mansilla, who is a member for about 5 years. But went inactive about a year after being baptized. So most members dont know him either. We have been going by teaching him and he has seen so much growth! He is now reading and praying again! Coming back to church was a little harder for him, but after three weeks of inviting him, he finally made it! So even though we are having a harder time getting investigators to church, we are seeing small miracles with members like Lucas who as well are in need of the Gospel in their lives-always.
Investigators Update: So this week with our investigators it has been slow progress. As I have told you all, we are working with Irene. She, right now, is working on quiting smoking still to be able to get baptized! She is struggling with it but we know she can do it! Sadly, this week she didnt come to church either, so we are going to pass by today to see whats up. Hopefully, all is well and she´ll get baptized on the 18th! We are still working on Mario, a nine year old from a inactive family, to try and get them all to church so Mario can get baptized. As well as Iara from another part member family.
Other than that, we have taught a quite a few other people, bu only once, so I will let you all know more about them later when we do as well!
....Experience of the Week: So this last Wedsnday was the 25 of May which is a holiday here. I think the day they signed their independence. So we had a tradicional soup called Locro at the ward activity for it. But the crazy part was after. We worked walking going a house to visit when a guy smoking outside of his house calls us over. He talks to us for a while about who we are and stuff. He was overly expressive and had quite the loud personality. All of a sudden, he tells us to come in and have empanadas with him. We said sure, hopefully being able to teach him as well. We walk in to find his family there as well, but nothing of empanadas in sight. He starts going off and off talking about a ton of different things. We asked if we can share a message with him and he says yes, but just keeps talking and talking very animated. Finally we realize he is drunk, so we tell him we have to go. But he doesnt let us and says he is going to make the empanadas now. We keep trying to leave but he wouldnt let us, saying we were guests. He finally finishes the empanadas after about an hour but still doesnt let us leave. Miracously we get out of there haha! IT was quite the experience!
Well thats about it, love you all! Til next week!
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Elder Trent
So I dont have much time left but I wanted to share a few things that happened this week to me!
I shared in my mass email that I got sick! I dont know what I ate, but on saturday my stomach started to feel weird and I woke up in the night and threw up! And all night long about every hour i threw up. It was same on sunday! I felt terrible! I wanted to go to church so bad but I felt terrible, but I managed to change and walk over to the church for the sacrament meeting. The rest of the day I was sleeping or on the toilet. Today I feel a lot better, but still not a 100 percent.
On Friday I did divisions with an Elder in my District (As a district leader, I do divisions with the all the Elders in my District) That day, we were walking and all of the sudden I got shot! it was from like an air compressed gun or something, it hurt pretty bad. But it was fine, we went back and contacted the street kids that did it. But nothing came out of it.
A lot of discrimination this week, but Im all good! Gratefully things like that dont affect me anymore.
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