Wow this week flew by! It was very eventful, slow on a couple days and other than that just a blast!! The language is still hard! I feel like I’m trying to understand ancient Arabic but other than that it’s great 😅! Anyways the week was awesome! Here’s a few points from the week!

Tuesday:

I had a good day! We spent the day contacting some people that the members gave us which turned out to be pretty successful! We then had a few upsets in the day which were pretty unfortunate! 1 of our friends we’ve been trying to get to the temple found out he wasn’t going to be able to recite the priesthood! It was trash but we were able to make up for our sadness with an Alfajor the size of my face hahaha! After him we tried to put 2 other friends on date for baptism and they both didn’t want to commit so that was also trash!We ended the day in this member’s home and they gave us tons of pie and milkshakes haha it was the best! After we went home!

Wednesday:

We had a Zone Conference which was super fun! It was my first here in Chile and I was really anxious to see how it would differ from the Zone Conference in Spokane! It was mega different haha but it was still spiritual and a great time! After we went to work and found this 12 ish year old boy named Lucas and he is the grandson of a recent convert! He is extremely interested in the gospel which is amazing and he’s just really excited to learn more so we will get Him baptized! Later in the day a random dude walked up to me and said I am a Jew and I was very confused and he said yes you are a jew and he said “GEW” you’re a “Geeewww” and I was so confused my comp said he’s like he’s trying to spell JEW and he said that I’m a jew because I was wearing a purple tie hahaha idk where it came from but yeah that was a funny experience haha! Anyways, it was a great day!

Thursday:

This day was great it went very very fast but also slow hahah! We Had some crazy things happen this day haha to start out we had some crazy experiences with dogs trying to eat us and we were trying to get away but this 1 dog would not back down! My comp and I had a rock in our hand just in case we needed to use it and he started coming at us and I chucked it super hard next to it to try and scare him and it made him way more angry! He then started sprinting at us and then my comp just stopped and starting acting all big and scared him away which was clutch!

After we were walking back and in the park there were these 2 people full on making out! These people here are crazy and don’t care about privacy! My comp has seen some crazy things!!! This day ended with just more contacting and sharing the gospel!

Friday:

This day was great! We met this new guy who’s very excited for the gospel! We taught him the Plan of Salvation and he was like “wow this really makes sense” we were like let’s good he’s interested!!! So that was amazing! After we just continued doing the regular missionary work and the day went pretty fast! After the day was over we stopped by this members house and he made us this super good hamburger which made me very happy because I was starved! These people only eat lunch which is crazy for a starving giant hahaha! Anyways it was a great day!

Saturday:

Idk why but I guess in my journal Saturday isn’t here but anyways it was a great day just contacted and met new people! We invited a ton of people to come to church and was trying to get people to come because our branch is very small and we’re trying to grow it!! The day went very fast and I remember just feeling very excited for Sunday to take the sacrament!!

Sunday:

Sunday was a wonderful day!! Started out With the sacrament! We had a bunch of our friends in teaching come to church which made my day!!! After I found out about Kaden Hernandez back at home was going to be baptized and I freaked out! I was in the middle of this member lesson and my phone was blowing up so I checked and I read it and I was like yesssss!!! So that was awesome! Afterwards, we went to a member’s home for a family home evening thingy and we were able to get some referrals from them which were amazing and they taught me and my comp how to make this super good Chilean bread! We cooked it in a wood burning oven which was super cool as well!! The day flew by but was super fun!!!

So that’s a little recap from my week! It went fast but I’m very excited for next week! Pray we can get Niferson, Sofia, and Lucas on date for baptism this week! I love yall have an amazing week!