Well this week went by real fast! Tuesday we were in conference all day long. Pretty tiring! But it was a really good conference! Elder Christensen and Elder Bragg from the seventy were here and talked to us about a couple things. Honestly they talked about a whole lot of things and what we were doing as a mission and that we just need to keep it up. We talked about how we need to work as a team and that every sector has to baptize every month! That is the goal of the mission right now is that every sector can baptize and if we do that then we should be having a lot of baptisms in the mission as a whole. Let´s go break some records! But yeah other than that they talked about a ton of stuff also they talked a little bit about after the mission and things that we should always do and stuff like that. It was a pretty good conference! But it was definitely a long day! Then on Wednesday I had comp exchange and I went to Pozo Almonte with Elder Schmid to do a couple interviews for a few people. Then on Thursday I went on another exchange to La Pampa with Elder Wheelwright(long distant family member lol). But yeah it was pretty cool the comp exchanges! As zone leaders we always try to do exchanges to help missionaries out and to also do interviews for their investigators so pretty much the first day that I was able to actually work in my sector this week was Friday.
Also our baptism fell through this week. I really don´t know what´s up with Ana and Gian but they show a lot of interest but they never like do anything. Juan Ibacache couldn´t go to church this Sunday so when he doesn´t go then the whole family doesn´t go to church which is kinda lame. We are pretty much just waiting until Gian goes to church then they will get baptized because they both want do but Gian hasn´t gone to church yet... So hopefully that could be a baptism for next week! But this week coming up we might have a baptism. It isn´t 100% but it´s a possability. We need to talk a little bit more with the family. It´s actually a family of less active members, well the mom and dad. Then their daughters aren´t members but the mom and the daughters came to church this Sunday so they might get baptized this weekend if everything goes well! But we have actually found a lot of really good people this week that want to get baptized but still haven´t gone to church yet but they´re really good!
Still haven´t been able to get running shoes. I didn´t go down to Iquique today because we had a zone activity today. We played some soccer and we actually got permission to watch Moana!! We got permission because we had 22 baptisms in the zone last month so President let us watch Moana!! It was actually a really good movie, I liked it a lot! Then from there, there wasn´t a ton of time, went and got lunch and bought some things for the week and that´s about it! So I wasn´t able to go down to Iquique to look for shoes. I actually think it might be better if you guys just send me some for my b-day!
That´s cool that you were able to get grandpa´s stuff to do in the temple for him. If you want to wait for me you can!
Sounds like you have a couple leads for a job! Hope that everything works out for you! The Lord will put ya where he wants ya! Hope you´ll land a job ASAP! Will be praying for ya don´t worry!
Really sad about the news with Blair... Also will be praying for the family.. But God has a plan and he is definitely in a better place!
Other than that just a pretty chill week of just conferences and in comp exchanges! Not of ton of time to work in my sector this week but this week just gonna go out there and slay my sector! Get out there and baptized all Alto Hospicio! A tsunami is going to pass by! Hope you guys have a great week as well! Love you a ton!
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Elder Newkirk
Pic with Elder Bragg and a pic of the whole conference with all the missionaries that were able to go. Only the zone leaders and the missionareis in Antofagasta were able to be present in person, the rest of the mission watched it from Skype.
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