Well this week actually went really well! A lot of crazy stuff happened in my week and quite the miracle as well! Hope that you guys had a great week as well!
So to start off this week that happened, we had a new investigator attend church this Sunday. She is a friend of a recent convert. She´s 14 and her name is Geraldin, but we call her "Cielo"(which means heaven in Spanish). Because I´m pretty sure she was sent down from heaven this week because she got baptized Saturday! So let me explain the story!
So the first time that we´ve ever met Cielo was Sunday when she came to church. She is a neighbor of a convert and they are practically sisters. She just got back from a 1-2 trip to Perú for vacations to visit family, because she´s from Lima, Perú. So her friend invited her to come to church so she came. Then like Tuesday and Wednesday we went to go a visit her, (She lives out in La Chimba so we have to do quite the trip to go and visit her), but she wasn´t home Tuesday or Wednesday. So on Thursday we decided to try out our luck and head out there with our zone leaders to teach her and also to do her baptism interview. So we went there Thursday morning and we finally found her. We taught her, got to know her better, then we just sent her to a baptism interview with Elder Lozano. After like a hour in the interview she came out and told us that she was going to baptize this Saturday! It was awesome because as well when she lived in Perú she was attending church there and was close to getting baptized but then moved to Chile and didn´t get baptized. Then on Friday after mutual in the church we finished teaching her everything and she got baptized on Saturday! My comp baptized her by water Saturday and I got to baptize by fire on Sunday! On top of the baptism this Saturday we had what they call "Noche Blanca" or "White Night" where all the missionaries bring their investigators to baptize in the stake building. So Cielo was able to participate in the "Noche Blanca" and it was a great experience because there were a lot of people there and all the missionaries were there!
The Lord blessed us a ton for the work that we have been doing. I have felt like this whole month of January we have just been getting rejected and just things haven´t been going too great. But when we do our part the Lord will always do his part! It was a pretty big miracle that happened this week but we were able to baptize in the month of January. The goal of the mission is that every companionship can baptize every month! So we were able to baptize in January!
Other than that this week we were just full on trying to prepare Cielo to get baptized and do everything for her. But she has already progressed a ton! She is already really close with the young women and has already started doing her personal progress! She is awesome!
Also on Tuesday we had interviews with President which was cool. Now with the mission President we will have interviews every 6 weeks which is kinda cool. It´s always good to talk with President!
Then on Sunday we had a "Capilla Abierta" which is "Open Church" in the ward "Caliche" where they open up the church building and do tours and teach people what we do in the church. We were there pretty much the whole afternoon on Sunday. So what happens is that there are a few members that are in a couple rooms around the church that are prepared to share a couple things with the people that come into the church and what the missionaries do is just go out in the street the whole time and just bring people from the street or from their house to go to the open church activity. It was actually pretty fun. We just all went out their and started talking and walking with everyone in the street to bring them into the church. It actually worked quite well and we got quite a few people to go into the church. It was funny the first person we brought to the activity was a old drunk guy in a wheelchair. At first we went up to him to invite him to the activity and told us no that he didn´t want to. Then we told him that there would be soda, he looked up at us and told us "yeah, let´s go!" I was with Elder Prada(Zone Leader) during the activity so he took the wheelchair a we walked him to the church. So that we pretty funny but we actually got quite a few people to enter and all the missionaries in the zone were helping so we actually got quite a few in there to learn more about the church and everything. It was actually a ton of fun and I enjoyed it a lot! I took a few pics there in the open church that I´ll send as well!
Well on to this week we are pretty much on square one again to find new people to start teaching and everything. So this week will just be a lot of hard work and also some more baptism interviews for the sisters! There are 4 sisters in my district, and it seems like the sisters baptize a ton! But the investigator usually gets to choose who they want to baptize them and idk why but usually the DL gets to baptize them haha. That´s fine with me!
Already the superbowl next week! Crazy! Well I honestly don´t care about any team that´s playing in the superbowl. Sounds like it will be a little lame...
Vacation time has been quite hard for working as a missionary because like I said before. But just gotta keep working and the Lord will always put people in the path that are ready to accept the gospel! But no we can´t go to the beach. We can only go to the beach if there is absolutely no one in the beach which is literally impossible. so maybe when it´s winter time again we´ll be able to go to the beach lol.
TGI Friday´s was a little expensive like 15 bucks.... but it was definitely worth it! and I´ll probably be going again!
Well I´m out of time once again! Hope that you guys have a great week! Love you!!
Love
Elder Newkirk
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