Weeks #62-#68 . . . I am grateful for the good and bad!

From the deepest depths of my heart, sorry for being awful at keeping you guys updated on my life in the mission. I still love y'all and pray for you guys individually. But don't you guys worry because i have done good writing in my journal and have lots of fun stories to tell you guys in 8 months!
I am currently with a new companion named Elder Sanchez from Pachuca, Mexico. Thanks to the protests in South America, he missed his flight and I spent a week without a companion and working with members and sleeping on couch cushions and pillows for a week on the floor of other houses of missionaries. It was a good learning experience but I am excited that he finally got here and we can start to work. I looked it up and to the house of the member furthest south to the member furthest north in our zone, you would have to drive more than 12 hours! IT'S SUCH A BIG ZONE AND WE HAVE SO MUCH WORK TO DO! I really do feel so blessed to be here though, i don't know if i have ever seen a prettier place than this in my whole life and the members are amazing!
We are not to talk about politics or what's happening in Chile in our emails but it has been calming down a lot and we can work almost normally again. We still see people rioting and burning stuff sometimes in the streets but it has been super duper calm. I'm sure you guys know more than I do if you have been reading up on what's been happening in South America.
A couple funny/cool stories

1. When the protests started, we had to stay locked in the house for a week in normal clothes and without our name tags on. During this week we got creative and tried to make it fun. One day, we read the pearl of great price for our companionship study haha. Meanwhile, the Jehovah witnesses knocked on our door while we were studying and we left with normal clothes without our name tags and they tracted us so hard!! We talked about the love and the peace that we can find in moments of chaos through Jehovah and received a cute lil invitation to their church! It was funny, we never told them we were missionaries and we just acted super interested asking a bunch of questions.

2. Speaking of other churches, knocking doors I got talking to a 7th day Adventist Pastor and he invited me and my comp to their church to have a discussion on the sabbath day. We went and explained to him what we believe in like 5 minutes, using a couple scriptures from the bible. He then went on to give us a lecture about 3 hours without letting us speak and using A TON OF SCRIPTURES FROM THE BIBLE. He had some awesome points but it really built my testimony of a couple things.... the Book Of Mormon is so necessary because without it we would be lost, the bible is true as far as it is translated correctly, by the spirit we may know the truth of all things. At the very end my comp and I testified of the BOM, the great apostasy, and the fact that we could find a middle ground on the idea that Christ is more important than the law and we finished with a prayer. The spirit filled that little adventist chapel as we testified. As we left he gave us little books that so happened to have the same painting which is on our pamphlets of the Restoration (the painting is legal property of our church) my comp and i just looked at each other and laughed and gave the guy a hug and walked out.

3. A couple weeks ago we had transfers and i had to drop all the missionaries being transferred off at the airport. After they left I spent many hours BY MYSELF in the airport waiting for the new missionaries. I made the most of it by contacting people and I went on a little walk outside Walking right next to the Argentina and Chile border!! I ended up talking to a couple Asian tourists that are currently living in Canada and we made good conversation out of a mix of broken Spanish and english talking about cool places they should visit while they are here in southern Chile. We then got talking about the church and a temple that is close to them in Canada. I invited them to go on a walk of the temple grounds there when they get back and to talk to the missionaries there! Planting seeds as a missionary without a companion haha.
Sometimes i feel like my Spanish gets worse when I study because I start to confuse myself in my own brain. The mission has been awesome and I am so grateful for the good and the bad. I still have a lot to work to do and a lot to learn in these last 8 months. I love the Lord and the beautiful simplicity of this Gospel. LOVE YOU ALL. Be diligent! GO become someone you're not!!!! Read the scriptures and Pray!!

Bobo


























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