I figured it's about time that I sit down and write out a decent email 😅 it feels like each day from this past week included enough events to fill a week, it was like a week of weeks! Let's get into it:
Monday: the aforementioned Curiñanco visit!
Tuesday: Hermana Jeppson's B-day. You already know that we gotta go all out,
so we bought an Oreo cake and a big ol T-Rex candle to celebrate during
District counsel. We went to the Doctor, and then had a great lesson with
Alberto, in the which we changed his baptismal date to this week
Wednesday: Great family home evening with the Solis family, they're this
sweet family of the recently baptized Agustín. We made cookies and studied
the Book Of Mormon. We visited so many members that day, including Monica,
who gleefully accepted our cookies and presented two lil hand nit scarves to
us 🥹 pics below
Thursday: Lots of finding, we found Lyda and Esteban knocking doors. They
are so awesome! She is a single mom, and he is 20 and hilarious. They live
right in front of the church, and came to some activities without
hesitation! We also had our fathers day 11 (like chilean dinner) as a ward.
Friday: Cool lesson with the Rio Cruces Elderes, Alberto date changed again,
this time from Saturday to Sunday. We had ward Family home Evening, 8
friends showed up! It was sweet.
Saturday: cool call with a reference, Carla, in the morning. Carla really
needed to pray with someone, and now she's interested in learning
more!
Cool miracle: We started our weekly planning, when I felt like we had to
visit a friend, at that very moment. We drop everything and start heading
towards her house, and we caught her as she was leaving her house with her
daughters and her member friend, who was randomly visiring from Niebla. We
ended up accompanying them, and had a fantastic conversation about how to
recognize the spirit. She said that us coming by at that moment was an
answer from God to her prayers. We gave her a blessing of health, and went
on our way.
That day, we had many very amazing lessons and saw many tender mercies from
the Lord. Which was good, because things quickly got pretty crazy...
Sunday: ok, backstory: amidst the craziness of our lessons the day before,
we were filling up and draining our baptismal font, trying to clean kht the
dirty pipes. Well, the last time we did it, we had planned on meeting with
the bishop at the church to look at it together. Our lessons ran a little
late, and we asked our bishop of he could go look at the font without us, so
that we weren't disobedient to the curfew. Well, he got there a little bit
later than planned, and we had the water up a little higher than intended...
and so we woke up to a video from him of the church filled with about a
centimeter of water, from the sacrament room to the kitchen.
Meetings were canceled for the day, the sacrament and the baptism, and so we
scrambled to find a different building to do the baptism at. By some
miracle, the baptism did in fact happen, in the Estanque building! It
involved a lot of quick cleaning and coordinating, but Alberto got dunked.
He's had a long path to prepare himself, so it was special to have been here
for the experience.
This is my penultimate email! Love y'all!
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| President Vergara had the honor of baptizing Alberto |
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| This water was green no matter what we tried... leading to the draining attempt that led to the church flooding |
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| Us giving a thought at the ward activity |
