Happy Monday family.
I hope this really fast email finds you all healthy, content
and full of life. Because I am.
Today as the sun rose I sat meditating over the peaks of the
Andes, above a vast crystal blue mountain lake, inhaling into my lounges the
clean and untouched air only hearing the crisp, winter wind hum through the
canyons and brush against my face.
So you could say it was a pretty neat experience. We went to
explore the Andes Mountains today.
I do feel very in touch with Mother Nature lately here in the
farmlands of Linares. In the house one
of the missionaries always listens to meditational music and sounds and we have
bought incense to burn! We have started a garden in front of our house and we
are seeing a lot of progress. We have planted sun flowers, beans, lintels,
mint, tomatoes, bell peppers, and normal chili peppers. And even though we
planted very very late in the year and it’s starting to get cold we have faith
that the strongest will survive, and bring forth fruit!
In our Zone we are working with a Missionary couple from
Tucson AZ! They live on the east side of town and I am sure that you guys would
know them (or at least dad would know them)
They are the Minch family…
They are awesome. This week we ate in there house and they
made us cheeseburgers and French fries with blueberry muffins! Haven’t had a
meal like that in a long time.
I actually am restricted from eating a lot of things because
I am with my companion Elder Wiese. He has allergies to just about everything
that Chileans eat.
Here’s the official list.
-peanuts almonds cashews. All types of nuts
-beans, peas, lintels, and all other types of beans.
-pineapple, watermelon, banana, melons, kiwi
-chocolate
He has a huge epipen in his backpack at all times just in
case something happens. I have been official trained to stab him in the thigh
for any emergency.
This week my testimony was strengthened on the principle of
fasting. We fasted this week so find a guy to teach that would be willing to
progress in the gospel and revive the priesthood in the future to edify and
uplift the branch...because that is what we lack here. We worked all week to
find this person, and even though we found a lot of great people and we were
working diligently, no one seemed to fit the category of who we were
specifically praying for. We knew that the Lord would prepare a way.
So there we were Saturday night, we had 20 more minutes until
we had to be in the house. We said a Little prayer and then a name suddenly popped
into our heads. Andres!
He was some guy that we contacted a couple days ago that didn’t
seem too interested but gave us his direction to pass by another day. Luckily
he didn’t live too far away from our house, so we went over to the direction
that he gave us and he let us in and we taught him an amazing lesson, and he is
now more willing and open to listen and learn more about the gospel
Step one has been initiated!
Miracles.
Elder Dallin H. Oaks is coming to Chile Friday and we are
going to listen to him! WHOOHOO!
Love you
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