Hola Hola!! Hey just so you know I am doing great and am not currently in any danger of fires or tsunamis. I probably don´t even know as much as you guys do about the fires. I just know that about 2000 homes have burned down and that there is going to be a good portion of missionaries who will be doing a lot of service in the near future. But I am like way far away. Its like a 5ish hour bus ride from where I am in La Serena. And I´m in an elevated area so if a tsunami comes, there is no way it will reach me. But please pray for all the people in Valparaiso. They are going through some rough times right now.
This week we actually saw some success! It was cool to see some miracles happen after a few weeks of feeling like we were not really doing much. On Tuesday I had an interchange with one of our zone leaders, Elder Sherwood. He came with me to the ward I am in and we had a great day! We set some goals before the day to teach a lesson accompanied by a member, another lesson, and 2 lessons with less active families. We prayed specifically to be able to reach those goals. And we did exactly that! We taught a girl named Martina who is 9 and she accepted a baptismal date! Currently we are waiting to see if we need to change that date, because it doesn´t look like the dad wants her to get baptized. Please pray for her! Her mom, Francisca, just got baptized in February and they are great!! We also taught another lady, Jessica at the door of her house. We taught her about the Book of Mormon and invited her to read and pray about it. We read the introduction together and she got excited because she said if this book was true it would change everything. And she is so right!! Unfortunately we have not been able to get a return lesson with her but we keep going by like every day, so we will see!! It was really cool to see the Lord answer our prayers exactly. He really does listen!!
Wednesday was not too eventful other than English class. We had a whole 2 students come. So we decided to learn how to pray in english and sing the ABC´s haha. It was really fun.
We had a lesson with a kid named Ivan on Friday. He is 17 and so awesome!! He is looking for the truth and it just so happens that one day my companion and his old companion knocked on his door with the answer! We haven´t been able to get a lesson with him for like a month because he is way busy, but we finally did on Friday! We taught him about the plan of salvation and he is so humble and willing to to what the Lord tells him to do. We don´t have a baptismal date with him yet, but I think there will be one coming! It was just another miracle to get that lesson with him! I think we will be having another on Wednesday!
Yesterday we had a lot of nothing happen except for some less active members came to church which was great! We were going to have a family home evening with the bishop, but he forgot and scheduled another one with the other missionaries in our ward, Elder Valencia and Elder Pederson. That was a bummer. But it was getting late and we weren´t having luck getting in anywhere, and then we felt like we should go to a less active member´s house and we did. She was home and let us in. We started talking to her grandson who is not a member. At first we were just trying to help him with his calculus homework with no success because I didn´t remember a thing. Plus its harder in spanish haha. But we talked about religion with him and he is way interesting in learning from us. He was so awesome! His name is Andrés and he is my age. I am so inspired by people who have desires like he does to find the truth. We should be teaching him this week too so I will let you know how it goes!!
All in all, this was a wonderful week! We saw tons of miracles and we are starting to see the work pick up a little!! I love everything about the mission and am happier than ever! Have a great week!! I love you tons!!!
Love Elder Marchant
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