Howdy, Howdy!
Estoy super feliz! [I am super
happy!] Today has been super
fun!
A fun little story from this morning. The District Leaders called us this morning
at like 8 A.M. to tell us we were going to have a Zone activity - play soccer
and have a barbeque…and he also INFORMED us that we would be having it here in
Lontué, and that the Zone Leaders needed us to find a barbeque to use...AND
that we had 5 minutes to do so!
"Lo harán? Estan comprometidas
para hacer lo?" [“Will you do it?
Are you committed to doing so?”]
"5 Minutos?? No sabemos, Elder. Pero vamos a hacer nuestro mejor
esfuerzo!" [“5 minutes? We don’t know, Elder. But we will give it our best effort!”
"Pero no se preocupen Hermanas,
tenemos harto fe en ustedes. Yo se que ustedes son capaz para hacer
esto!" [“But don’t worry yourselves, Sisters; we have crazy faith in you
two. I know that you are skillful/capable
enough to do it.”]
SO, we started calling people in the
branch like mad …AND...we did it! lol Then
later, the zone leaders called, (in Spanish): "Hey Hermanas, do you have a
hair drier by any chance?"
"Yes.....Why???"
"Dont worry about it... have
faith!"
"OOOOO.K..... "
Five minutes later the phone rings
again and once again, it’s the zone leaders. I answer: "What do you need? my straightening iron now,
too?"
"Haha, no...but, do you have
stuff to paint finger nails?? Just
kidding, we need an extension cord!"
Fun stuff. We’ve got the best zone in the world! I wish we could all stay for our whole mission.
lol!
Fun adventure this week: We locked
our keys inside our house. None of our
windows open, BUT, there is a window in our bathroom that opens into our shower
that doesn’t close. We’ve got it covered
up by cereal boxes taped to the wall. We
ended up having to kick in the boxes and I climbed in the window. To be honest, I don’t know how I did it! The window is tiny! Let’s just say it didn’t feel very good. I’ve got some pictures in my comps camera that
I’ll send.
Otra
Aventura [Another
adventure]: one of my boots broke this week.
The zipper broke off one side, so I
had to walk around for the day with some rubber bands holding it shut (pictures
coming!) until Shania, our recent convert, gave me some of her boots that didn’t
fit her.
It’s been a fun week! We had companionship study with our District
and Zone leaders and we did some practices for Sarita and her family,
practicing being bold. It really paid
off, because even though Ramon (papa) is super closed and stubborn about
meeting with missionaries and talking about religion, one night we talked with
him about religion for almost an hour, AND he let us come over and hold a family
home evening with them. We showed them
17 miracles. BUT the coolest thing, the climax of our week, was yesterday, our
District Leader called and told us that the Zone Leaders wanted us to go and
get Ramon to sign the baptismal form (to give his permission) for Hano, and
they wanted us to find out if he was willing to marry Sarita so that she could
progress…or if not, we needed to drop her as an investigator. I’m not going to lie, on the way over there, I
was shaking in my boots! We arrived at
the house and they had a bunch of friends over visiting, but we called them
over anyway and asked if they could talk for just a few minutes. At first, we asked permission for Hano. (Just a little background, they have asked
permission to baptize Hano before, and Hano and Sarita said that when they
asked, Ramon got angry and said, “no”, he wouldn’t ever give permission because
Ramon is Evangelico [even though he doesn’t go to church] and that Hano was
baptized Evangelico). - After we asked Ramon, he said, face of stone, "You
want my permission to baptize my son?"
"Yes."
"Hano, you want to get
baptized?"
"Yes."
"You know what that
means?"
"What?"
"That means no complaining on
Sunday morning if you are tired or don’t want to get out of bed. That means you
are committing to go to church every Sunday morning and I never want to hear
any whining about “I’m tired” or “I dont want to”... You really want to be
baptized?"
"Yes."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes."
Ramon goes quiet...
"Ok... then, you have my
permission."
I almost jumped for joy right then
and there! It was super awesome!
However, we then talked to him about
getting married and he said, “no”, that he is not willing. So we have to drop
Sarita as an investigator, BUT I’m really hoping that with time Ramon will
soften up even more (especially if he is able to come see Hano get baptized)
and eventually they will all get baptized and become an eternal family! AHH! I
would love that so much, I really love their family!
SO anyway! Hano is getting baptized this weekend! WOOOOHOOOOOOOO! (We bumped it up a weekend in fear of cambios,
[companionship
changes] which we will know next Monday). I’m scared to death. I have really fallen in love with this sector
and especially the people here. I have
been begging Heavenly Father to give me one more transfer, but also to let His
will be done. He always knows what best
for us. We will see what happens!
Something else, I got sick again
this week. I randomly woke up one
morning with a mild case of bronchitis, but I’m getting better now :).
Tomorrow we have our conference with
the new mission president here in Rancagua, por fin voy a saber algo acerca de la
mision Rancagua! [Finally, I will know something about the
Rancagua mission!] lol
I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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