Week #13

Week 7 in Paipote!!!!!!!!!!!

Hola!!

Its been quite a week! It started of very slow. But around Thursday, we had so many milagros. So when I first got here to Paipote, my comp had 3 weeks here on a special transfer because they combined two sectors into one. Entonces, our sector is huge and pretty much Elder Fuller and I had to open up this sector when I arrived. So around Thursday with average success this week we decided to go to the other half of our sector. We wrote down alot of antiguo investigadores and left to go look for these people. Well we found alot of those people and have citas to go back and teach these people, but what I am really excited for is this family we found... So we were walking down this street and my comp heard a Katy Perry song playing. So we decided to stop and knock on the door and talk with these people. A long story short is the the lady invited us in. And she has 6 kids!!!!!!! Which is alot for here. So we shared a mormon mensaje with them, one which we never really shared before. She started crying and the spirit was so strong because she felt like that was specificaly for her and yeah it was awesome!! Also her daughter which is 18 I belive had so many questions about which church is true. So we gave her the restoration folleto and 3 chapters in el L de M. The next day we were walking in a street market thing and we saw the daughter again. She told us that she stayed most of the night reading the stuff we gave her!!! It was so awesome! Oh and I had to give a talk in church yesterday. It was quite interesting......

 

There was alot of great stuff that has happened this past week that I could talk about. But there is not enough tiempo. But I do want to share something. Yesterday I gave a talk about faith. I gained some insight as I prepared it. Faith is the first step in this gospel. Its a basic principle in every religion. But with faith you have to have action. If you pray to Heavenly Father in faith asking to recieve an answer, and you recieve an answer. You have to act. Otherwise its useless. As missionaries we pray so many times a day and ask for things such as "help us so that we can achieve our goals" or "help us to find a new person that we can teach". This means when these opportunities arise when Heavenly Father answers us. We have to act. I think there is a scripture in Ether about this but I dont remember specificaly it.

 

Thanks for the Happy Valentines and Birthday wishes. Hope the best for everyone!!!

 

 

Con Amor,

EE

 

 

 

 

Week#12

Week 6 In Paipote!!!!!!

Buenas!!!! It´s been quite a normal week here in Chile. Its been real hot here in Paipote the past few days. Expecially around 4 which is when we head out to work!! Entonces if we don´t have a cita at 4 that day, its gonna be long. But things havent been to bad and it cools down and gets pretty chilly around 9. Not really much else this week. I cant belive how comfortable im starting to get with Spanish. Its quite a milagro of how the Lord helps those that are in his service.

 

 We´ve really been trying to help our investigators progress this past week. Things such as making and keeping compromisos (dont know how to spell it in english) with investigators is so critical with them. If people dont do that, they´re not making those small changes in their lives that help them repent and progress towards baptism. Thats what the Atonement is. Repenting and making changes in your life so that you can qualify and be digno of the blessings of the Lord. Dont have much time this week but I wish the best to all!

 

Con amor

 

EE

Week #11

Week 4 in Paipote

Buenos!!! It´s been a good week here in Chile. It´s been a little hotter but not to bad. Spanish is going pretty well. Mi compañero and I have committed to talk more in Spanish during the day. A lot of people are still on vacation which makes things a little tough. We also only had 23 people in church yesterday. Things are a lot different from in the States but its all good. Sadly our Hermano William won´t be getting baptized this sabado. He drove all night from working in the mines to try to make it to church but had to pit-stop and sleep. Esta bien, he still has a strong desire for baptism so we´ll just need to wait til Marco. 

Being a missionary, one simple thing I´ve learned is to just be happy. It´s not really hard not to be. You might have to walk all day, your appointments might fall through, but guess what? I have a knowledge of the restored gospel of Jesucristo. También, I get to share this knowledge with others. This is quite applicable for anyone. You will have challenges and problems in life, but you also have a loving Padre Celestial. Who you can pray to, Who can help lift your spirit. As a missionary, we make commitment with personas. One we do all the time is oracion (prayer). It is such a simple action but can have such an impact. Think of José Smith. He had one simple prayer and it´s changed the world. I invite all to alway remember to pray, no matter how small or big. Also just be happy, life´s to short not to be. Love you all and I am so grateful for any email you send.

Con Amor,

EE

Week #10

Week 4 in Paipote

Buenas!!! It´s been a good week here in Chile. It´s been a little hotter but not to bad. Spanish is going pretty well. Mi compañero and I have committed to talk more in spanish during the day. Alot of people are still on vacation which makes things a little tough. We also only had 23 people in church yesterday. Things are a lot different from in the States but its all good. Sadly our Hermano William won´t be getting baptized this sabado. He drove all night from working in the mines to try to make it to church but had to pitstop and sleep. Esta bien, he still has a strong desire for baptism so we´ll just need to wait til Marco. 

Being a missionary, one simple thing I´ve learned is to just be happy. It´s not really hard not to be. You might have to walk all day, your appointments might fall through, but guess what? I have a knowledge of the restored gospel of Jesucristo. También, I get to share this knowledge with others. This is quite applicable for anyone. You will have challenges and problems in life, but you also have a loving Padre Celestial. Who you can pray to, Who can help lift your spirit. As a missionary, we make commitment with personas. One we do all the time is oracion (prayer). It is such a simple action but can have such an impact. Think of José Smith. He had one simple prayer and it´s changed the world. I invite all to alway remember to pray, no matter how small or big. Also just be happy, life's to short not to be. Love you all and I am so grateful for any email you send.

Con Amor,

EE

Week #9

Week 3 in Paipote!!!

Hola!!!

It has been quite a week here in Chile!!! A lot of people are on vacation since is summer here there was like 30 people in church yesterday but is okay since we had five investigators show up. My trainer is so awesome and very patient with me trying to learn Spanish. It´s starting to get a little hot here since its summer but its nothing compared to Arizona. I haven't really talked about some of our investigators so I will this time.

William is a super awesome, humble man. Here in Northern Chile, people work in the mines for 4 days, then 4 days off, or however many days really, but it rotates like that. Well two weeks ago he said he wanted to get baptized as soon as possible. So we looked at his work schedule and with how many asistencias he needed for church, he´s decided to get baptized on the 31st this month!!!!!! We are all very excited for him.

We have also found this man named Manuel. He really has been prepared to be a member of this church for quite some time. But how we found him is interesting. We were coming home to the pension and it was about 10:20, ((Chile is awesome because we get to get up at 7:30 and go to bed at 11:30) plus it doesn't get dark here till about 9:30) and we walking back to our pension. And some guy said in English, "hey, come here, I want to talk to you". In a short story this is Manuel. A man who knows English pretty well, has lived in Utah, seen Gordon B. Hinckley, has a piece of the Salt Lake Temple, and has also held the clothes and diary of Joseph Smith when he was killed. Not to mention he had been reading Howard W. Hunter¨s book before we met him. He knows so much about the gospel already and hopefully he will get baptized soon.

The last investigator I want to mention is Karla. It was divine intervention from Heavenly Father that we met her. We were on the wrong street looking for a contact and we decided let¨s knock on this door to see if they know the people we were looking for. And boom, we found Karla. She is such a capa, (Spanish for stud) she speaks perfect English, is totally receptive to what we say and has a fecha for the beginning of Marco when she gets back for vacation. We are super excited for her.

The people here in Chile are pretty cool and makes the work just a little easier. I love hearing for everyone and hope you all are doing good.

Con armor,

EE

Week # 8

Buenas! Thing´s are going great! Elder Fuller is the bomb and is such a great trainer for me. Our sector we have is huge but we try to get to it all. We pretty much walk everywhere unless we have a cita with a member. We suprisingly have found 2 ingles speakers and it helps with my spanish. Everyday it gets mejor. I could talk about alot of things but I´ll keep it short.

I just want say that Padre Celestial does answer prayers. Each day we pray for a milagro ( miricle, not sure how to spell it in english..) and guess what, I cannot think of a day that we havent. whether is was huge or small we have had one each day.

I´m so excited to see the Lords hand in his work as I continue the next 22 months.

Con Amor, 

EE

Week #7

It´s been quite a blast this almost first week! I can´t belive its almost been a week here....I feel the misión might go by fast.....just means I got to work as hard as I can. Elder Fuller is awesome. He´s from Utah but I don´t hold that against him. He knows so much spanish and has been coaching me well. Teaching me all the Chilean slang....since the seasons are backwards right now is basically summer break. So lots of people go south to Santiago or whatever. So in Martes(Tuesday), we have a few baptisms planned. We´ve have alot of Fechas(baptism dates) set we just need these people to attend church! It´s just like Arizona here. Copiapó is one of the greener places. Yo estoy moy animo y feliz estar aquí en Chile(I am very encouraged and happy to be here in Chile )!!!!!Can´t wait for primero bautismal( First bapism)!!!! Kinda short on time since there was a lot of things we had to do this first P-day, but next week I should have more time. Off to a Cita (an appointment).

Con amor,

Elder Eagar