Monday, April 21, 2014

April 21, 2014 (day 139)


Hey there everybody!

Sorry if this email has a lot of mistakes because my keyboard is horrible. ( I tried to make it less painful for everyone to read so all of the mistakes that I caught have been corrected. It is amazing what the mind will add or ignore when reading though. )
This was  really good week! We saw a fair amount of success and we learned a ton every day.

Monday was good. We bought tons of food. Enough for two weeks. We really don´t need that much because we only eat breakfast and a snack at night. So really we just buy cereal and Chilean milk which is the most sorry excuse for milk I have ever before witnessed. But I´m used to it. And we buy fruit and this stuff called Ecco, and lots of ingredients for brownies haha. But we´ll just say we loaded up on food. We had a family home evening that night which was good, because it was with a family of recent converts and the daughters invited a friend who isn´t a member. It was a good day!

Tuesday we visited a bunch of less active members, and that was good, because they came to church yesterday!

Wednesday we had a zone meeting. It was awesome. We learned a lot about how we should be teaching. We did lots of practices. The zone leaders said that President Kahnlein wants our whole mission to change how we teach, because I might be alright, but we are not teaching the way the Lord wants us to, or else we would b having more success. We learned a lot about the Spirit. In teaching we need to talk less and give the Sprit time to testify. We also can´t use the same words when we teach or when we contact in the street. We should just follow the spirit and literally not think about what we will say and just listen. To the investigator and the Spirit. We just need to focus on saying what the Lord would have us say and we will teach in a much more effective way. I think that goes for anyone who is tryng to share the gospel.

I also got 2 packages and some letters which was nice :) Thanks mommy and daddy and Janice and Donald!!

Thursday I felt rushed the whole day, but we got a few lessons with some inactive or less active members which was great!

Friday I had an interchange with my district leader. We had lunch at a house way far away, so we tried to catch a taxi at about 1 and didn´t get one until 2ish. We finished lunch and got to work around 5 in the afternoon haha. But we had a couple really good lessons. One was with Andrés. He is so awesome! He really just wants to follow Christ. We asked if he would get baptized and he said he definitely wants to he just isn´t really sure yet. I felt so good in the lesson. I love the happiness that comes from sharing what I know to be true! Oh, we also drank some homemade beet juice whch was fun haha. Not really.

Saturday we didn´t have much success until the night when we had another lesson with Andrés. We answered some questions he had and he said he wanted to come to church with us in the morning. 

Sunday He came! We walked by his house and picked him up and I think he really liked church! We are going to invite him to get baptized when we visit wth him tonight. He is so awesome. Basically that was our week. We taught some english lessons on a few different occasions which was fun. We still haven´t started teaching piano lessons, but we are working on that because it could be pretty fun :)

Have an amazing week everybody! I love you tons!!

Love Elder Marchant


To answer your questions, yes I got the package! Thanks a ton!! the candy is almost gone after like 5 days. No, we don´t do the laundry, we have a mamita named Hermna Viviana who is the relief society president. She says to say hi to you guys for her. She is awesome. I love their family so much! We get lunch from members every day except for Monday. And sometimes we get food from them in the evening as well. But that is just by coincidence. We walk tons except for when we go downtown to do interchanges or go to district or zone meetings. But during the week we walk tons. It is about a 25 minute walk from home to the church and we do that frequently. Occasionally we walk to a little town about an hour away but that is rare. So when we go downtown we go by taxi. They are called collectivos actually. They run a specific route. Taxis take you wherever you ask and they are way expensive. And we take buses sometimes. They are called micros. So ya! 

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