HEY FAMBAM!
So this week has been a good one! It
kind of flew by, as did the cambio! I can´t believe we are going to
know the cambios already on Saturday! But something we did find out
already is that Hna Garcia (love her SO much) finally got her visa,
so she will be heading out either Friday or Tuesday for VENEZUELA.
She was originally called there but since visas there take 500 years
she got called to this mission in the mean time, and the cool thing
is that I saw her "be born" in the mission and now I will
see her leave the nest of Chile Rancagua hahaha we are all very sad
she is leaving US but very happy for her and happy for the people
there in Venezuela because Hna Garcia will do amazing things with
them there, SHE is amazing. I'm gonna miss her LOTS!
AND with that pending we are wondering
what they are going to do with our 2 sectors. It wouldn’t be
surprising if they took advantage of the fact that hna Garcia is
leaving, transferred either me or my companion to another area and
put the 2 sisters that stayed here together, thereby closing a
sector. IF that happens I'm hoping I'll get to stay here with Hermana
GIles, she´s great! But really we don't know so this is all just
speculation hahaha.
This week in our zone meeting we talked
a lot about finding new investigators, because apparently our WHOLE
zone has had problems lately with finding new investigators, and they
challenged each companionship to find a certain number of new ones
this week and committed us to do so, AND it was a higher number than
we had had in a while, so we committed but were nervous about it. BUT
the cool thing is that, that very day we did a lot of passing by
contacts that we has made previously and seeing how they were doing
and we ended up finding that number of new investigators IN THAT VERY
DAY. It was really cool for us, and SUCH a big blessing and tender
mercy of the Lord because we had been working hard and doing
everything we could think of to find new people but hadn't been
seeing great results, when all the sudden... BAM! All in one day
hahaha then more throughout the rest of the week! Like I said, SUCH a
big blessing!
OH! and that reminds me, when we
passed by one of our new investigators, Cynthia, she let us in and we
start talking a little bit asking her how she´s been with work and
everything when all of a sudden her kid comes bursting through the
front door saying there's a house on fire. Meanwhile we are thinking,
Yeah right! we just passed by like 5 to 10 minutes ago, BUT sure
enough we go outside and about half a block away there is a
house just going up in FLAMES. Talk about a pit in your stomach! And
the WORST and scariest part was that in that part of town all the
houses are built together, like they share walls, almost like condos
or apartments, so the house next door is starting up too AND there
are huge trees all around the house and with ONE gust of wind one of
the big tree also goes up entirely in flames. It was crazy! (now I
understand the whole mountain fire/santa ana winds situation...
yikes!) Standing there awestruck, feeling helpless and not knowing
what to do or how to help. Luckily someone had already called the
Firefighters and they were on their way. When they arrived we watched
as they set up all their gear and one man climbed up on the
roof of the neighboring house and started chopping at the roof with a
pick ax trying to break through and create a gap between the two
houses so that the fire wouldn’t keep spreading. I remember
thinking how hot he must have been because he was standing there in
shorts, with out a shirt on, and even from a block away we could see
the sweat pouring down his back. It was all very intense. SO... after
a little while there really wasn’t much more that we could watch
and nothing we could do so we went inside to say a prayer (because
our investigator was very shaken up) and try to teach a lesson.
It actually went really well, considering the circumstances, because
we just did our best to tie her concerns and everything in with the
principles we
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