This Wednesday,
we got to go to Melipilla for our multi zone conference. That was pretty fun.
It’s always fun being on and off buses all day with a whole bunch of
missionaries. Melipilla is the sector right before the coast, so it’s all
country (like Idaho!) It’s really pretty! The conference was really good. As a
mission we are learning about teaching with the poder y autoridad (power and
authority) that we have! It’s really interesting. It’s kind of hard too because
it’s sort of hard to measure! But Hna Vilches and I have seen the difference as
we have applied it, because this week, we were able to have five investigators
at church with us! As we’ve tried to invite people to make commitments,
remembering that we have the authority to call these people to repentance,
people have really been keeping the commitments they make! We have two investigators
especially who are really progressing. One’s name is Kernizan, he is Hattian! He’s
really cool because he has a lot A LOT of faith. The struggle with the Haitians
is always that they can’t understand why they need to be baptized again.
Kernizan came to church last week, so we really wanted to have a fecha
(baptismal date) with him. As we invited, we realized that we were going to
have that same struggle! But through the help of the spirit, we were able to
help him understand, and now he is preparing to be baptized on the 13 of Oct!!
Our other awesome investigator is Kattia, also Hattian! She’s pregnant, and she’s
been really hard to understand. She’s never felt ready to go to church, and all
of a sudden, this week she decided she was ready! So on Sunday, we went and got
her. She was sooo pretty! And she said she loved the church and she can’t wait
to come back! on Sunday night, we went to visit her, and she gave us Hattian
food. It was so good!! It’s good because it was just chicken and rice, but it
actually had flavor! ha-ha It’s a miracle! Then we sat there and watched soccer
and listened to music and creole with them. They were having a really
intense conversation in creole about something. I didn’t catch much, but I did
enjoy trying! We met a Haitian this week who didn’t speak much Spanish, or English,
but he did speak Portuguese. So I took a step of faith, prayed for the gift of
tongues, and started teaching in Portuguese!! The gift of tongues is real you
guys!!
In our
sector, there’s an old microbus that some people hollowed out and turned into a
restaurant, the kind of food that here in Chile is called "comida
chatarra" or rather, garbage food, or fast food. Hna Vilches and I
went once this week. We love eating there, but we can’t afford it and we don’t
want to weigh 1000 pounds, so we never go. This week, we were a little bit
crazy with hambre (hunger) so we went for it, ha-ha it was fun!
On
Saturday night, our neighbors decided to have a party.... all. night. long. The
problem is that parties in Latino America involve having your music as loud as
it will go, and drinking a lot of alcohol. The other problem is that in Chile,
the houses are really close to together, so much so that our neighbor’s house
and ours share a wall. So we can hear everything. They were outside in their backyard,
and their music was so strong that my wall, right by my head goes when I sleep,
was shaking..... until 4:30. I didn’t sleep at all. At 4:30, I was over it, so
I decided to turn on the lights, and open the curtains where you can see
directly into their backyard. I stood there in the window where I knew they
could see me for 20 minutes, until they saw me. then I motioned "hola...
la hora.... puedo escuchar.... bajen el volumen..." I did that about ten
times, but they were all so drunk, they couldn’t figure it out. Finally, the
fourteen year old girl who wasn’t drunk figured it out and turned it down just
a tiny bit...Hna Vilches and I just made ourselves a nice little fruit salad and
sat down on her bad and talked about life... that would be the exact moment
this week when I figured out that I have no idea what I’m gonna do with my
life, and I’m going home in like six months... so I’m really looking forward to
general conference so that the prophets can tell me what to do with my
life! But anyway, on Saturday night I slept a grand total of two hours..
and in Chile, calling the cops isn’t thing you can do.... so that’s fun,
but hey it’s over.
Today
in the morning we invited all of the Hnas from the zone to come over and eat breakfast
with us! It was pretty fun!!
This Saturday,
we have an investigator who’s getting married Pics to come!!
Love Hna Stanley
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