"Dear all of you very people, in your really houses,
That one was for you Cody, but Santa Vaca people ! How´s it going? Anywho I don´t know if you all know but I can´t respond individually so I will just respond here, but thank you all so much for the individual emails it was crazy ! Anywho So I will give ya´ll a little glimpse of the mission down here this past week a lot of cool stuff happened.
So last week I don´t know if I told you all but we were talking to this really mean guy who didn´t want to hear any of what we were saying so we left and on the way I saw a guy with a walker and said hi but kept going. 5 minutes later I felt really strongly like we needed to go back and so we did and my comp was like you sure? Ok you got this so we go to the door and knock. Turns out it was the wrong door and it was actually the injured gentleman. Turns out he is a member who had been in the hospital and everyone had forgotten him. We set up a lesson and came back this week, and turns out he was pretty bummed that the church ditched him but he still is strong. I think if we hadn´t gone though, he may have solidified those feelings and not wanted to go to church again. Luckily we listened to the spirit . So people listen up, if you feel the spirit tell you to do something - you do it RIGHT away. I know I know you have heard it all before but put it into perspective, the spirit may in fact be telling you something that will literally SAVE someone´s life or change it for the better. So listen .
Oh and about the baptisms ! Last week everyone said no, every single challenge. This week we taught them all some more and Marcela and Maritza said yes !!!!! They are gonna be baptized ! I am so excited for them. Our other 3 investigators are almost there. Marcello won´t get married without his polola Paola but he is there and she almost is and Juan is almost there he just needs to be taught some more. Hahaha I wish you guys could meet these people. They are exceptional. Every single one of them. They are all so loving down here in Chile, even the ¨mean´´ ones are nice hahaha . So another thing we have been working on is menos activos, sorry less actives. There´s a good amount here. 1 in particular I feel especially close to. His name is Antolin, and his wife´s name is Olga. They are so AWESOME. They are just super kind and friendly and spiritual and just studs ! So we visited this week and we just went to introduce me because elder Bosse already knows em. Just to be their friends and such and get to know em. So we did shared a few scriptures and I said I´ll see you in church Sunday right? He was like no I don´t think so haha-Olga is super active and awesome- and I was like well I will be waiting for you. So he didn´t show up and I was like we need to visit him tonight. So we did, last lesson of the day and I felt very strongly to share D&C 9 :10 and 11 . My comp was like I don´t know thats kind of like a palo which means like too strong in a sense. And I was like I really feel it elder so he was like ok , if you feel it you got this. So we went and we sat down and olga was talking to their friend in the other room. And I started talking to Antolin and I said:
'I am gonna be frank with you Antolin because I love you and because this is serious to me. Why aren´t you coming to church?'
'because of my pride elder.'
Then we kept talking about how though people in the church may not
be perfect or true or offend us , the church is true and we can´t let an
offense however great (and this one was) get in our way. I couldn´t
find the word I wanted to say, so I said it´s .. and grabbed my heart
and he said personal. Then I told him about the things Ive seen in my
life, with my friends and family that are less active, and told him how
much of a difference it makes, and how truly difficult, ever
increasingly difficult, it is to come back. I then shared D&C 9 and
said it is expedient that you come to church now Antolin. You are
missing out on an abundance of happiness and blessings, and so many
other people are too because of you. You have the capability of blessing
so many people because of your spirit and friendliness and
spirituality. You are not just hurting yourself. I think what I said really touched him.
CRAP no time I have to go! But yeah progress and awesomeness , Hunter I love you keep it up you
will be a catalyst for good if you strive to be. The church is true
people so share it. Catmulll love you man keep it up ! Willis love you
too rock it down in Panama and thanks for your entry too it meant a lot
to me bud, Sister martin thank you for what you said UP WARD I love you
guys strive to make a difference.
Tengo fe en ustedes. Family church,
scriptures and prayer BYE
-Elder Hawkins"
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