Hey there Everybody!
Wow... another week gone... This past week has gone by so quickly! And we actually had a day with a bit of cloud cover here, so that was really nice! It is so hot.... I´m so ready for Fall time! :)
Anyways, this last week was a little strange. We had a lot of meetings, a lot of intercambios, and a lot of challenges in our sector, but we made it through in the end!
Summertime in Chile makes missionary work a little more difficult in some aspects... for example:
1. Everyone leaves out of town
2. The people that are still in there houses don´t want to leave their houses to answer the door
3. The number of members that go to church diminishes significantly
4. IT IS SO HOT!!!!! :P
Those are a few challenges that we face during the summer here in Chile... for that reason, I´m so ready for Fall time so that everyone can get back into the normal groove here (not that anything really is TOO normal in Chile anyways.... but I love it!). The only thing that I have really thought of to stop people going out of town is that we can go to the farm lands and burn everything... but we probably shouldn´t do that... right? Haha
Well, this past week we were able to make a few big accomplishments, even if we weren´t able to teach a lot of our investigators because almost all of them left out of town. What we were able to do was help the ward were we are at grow a little bit in a few great ways. We went to the bishop to ask him what we could do to help him in the ward, and he gave us a few names of members to go visit. So we dedicated some time to go visit the people he gave us and we tried to see what was going on. So what we were able to accomplish in the end was reactivate (or at least we hope that they are active now) a family of 5 who were baptized last year. We felt the spirit so strongly sharing with them and we were able to help them have a goal as a family to be able to go to the temple soon! Hooray! We were also able to reactivate the Elder´s Quorum President and his family.... they have been inactive for a few months now. It is sad how people go inactive for silly little disagreements in the church. Don´t we go to church because we love our Heavenly Father? Well, he came back to church with his family, so that was fantastic. And the other big thing that we accomplished is that we could help a brother in the ward understand the importance of the Priesthood, and now he is going to go to the bishop to have an interview with him so that he can have the Priesthood and that will be a big step for him and his family to have an eternal family.
I always love the opportunity to testify to the people, member or not, about the gospel and the blessings that we recieve from living the gospel. This really is a great and marvelous work that has come forth among the children of men. And for this reason we need to thrust in our sickles with all of our might to accomplish our Heavenly Fathers desires that everyone can gain the eternal life and live forever with him again.
Well, we have one investigator that we might be baptizing this weekend depending on what our bishop and his parents decide. The idea was that the father could baptize his son, but that won´t be able to happen for another 9 months... due to some laws in Chile over marraige. So depending on what the bishop and the parents say, we might just baptize him now... but if not, they are going to wait 9 months so that the parents can get married and so that the Hermano can be completing with the Law of Chastity to be able to use the priesthood. But we´ll see how that all works out.
So, that´s the update on how things are going here in Los Angeles, Chile. Maybe one day the heat will go away and that I can feel the nice cool air again! But until then, we are here fighting in the heat against the opposition. I love you all so much! I hope that you are all doing well! Today we ate huge completos as a district... 2 of them each one of us! They were so big and I´m still soooooo full.... haha! Until next week!
Con mucho amor,
Elder Garrett
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