July 1, 2013

Hey there everybody!!

Can you believe that I´ve made it to my last cambio? 6 weeks left... I don´t want to think in that much! Haha

So, right now I don´t feel very well, I woke up not feeling that good at all. My throat hurts, but I was able to gargle some salt water and I´m feeling a bit better! I´m sure that soon I´ll feel fine, but I´m so happy to be a missionary and nothing will stop me from finishing my mission up the best I can.

This past week flew by, and we were able to see some progress with some of our investigators. There is one person we have been teaching named Nancy. She still is waiting to move out of her house to get baptized, so while she has been waiting to move out, we´ve been focusing in on the importance of reading the Book of Mormon. For the past two weeks we have been sharing about the importance of reading the scriptures and she has just never been reading, until finally we found out yesterday that she is addicted to reading the book of mormon. In the past few days she´s read a lot and she loves it! She told us that she didn´t know it would be such an emotional book! Haha, so we were so happy to hear about that!

Apart from that, we have been making some good plans to help out one of our investigators, Sylvia. She wants to get baptized but she refuses to get baptized because of things that her Mom says to her and her son hasn´t been a very good example for her as a new member of the church. So we are finding the way to help her out. We´ve been gaining her confidence by having her teach us how to knit a little and we are planning on getting her another support system in the Relief Society so that she can feel more support taking the decision of getting baptized.

Apart from that, we´ve been trying to get the Ward excited about missionary work, but it´s a little difficult without the support of our bishop, but we are doing our best to serve him and to help him out so that he can understand the importance of sharing the gospel. It rained a lot in this past week, but we had a great time in the rain, I don´t mind it one bit!

So, today officially I´m a part of the Chile Concepción Mission... my last 6 weeks I´ll be in another mission... weird. One of our Zone Leaders is from the other mission and is like a robot... he only cares about baptizing people, it is definitely a different vision than what Presidente Martinez has. But, we´ll just have to see how things go in these last 6 weeks. Elder Miranda and I are really excited to work and to help our investigators progress! We´re doing our part, so we will be blessed with the things we need! 

I hope that you are all doing well!  I love you so much! Happy 4th of July in a few days!!!! I made some sushi the other day, yum!!! :)

Con mucho amor,

Elder Garrétt