March 10, 2014
Hola!
Hey guys how are you doing? I just got back from a sick paseo to
Saltas de Petrohue with all of the elders in the zone. It was amazing and
I'm still trying to find a way to send photos so this might not happen but I
can tell you right now that it was beautiful! We hiked around a lot, got
soaked, the Zone leaders had to hold me back when I saw a pair of 60 pound
Chinooks in the rapids. We had a lot of fun.
Even the 2 hour ride in a cramped van with soaked elders
wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I would say it's been a normal week but
it hasn't….it's been amazing! I started the week off with an amazing
intercambio with the zoneleaders and we finished pretty strong with 8 lessons
with members! Sure it's not the 20 we hear about in other missions. But going
from a lucky 1 every two weeks to 8 in 1 was killer for me!
Monday after we left emailing we got straight to work and
started tracting, We didn't have too much luck at that so we went to an
antiguos house, Hector Pincha, he still really doesn't want to do much with us
so he just started talking about how the Book of Mormon and the Bible were the
same books with a few different names and randomly citing Luke chapter 1, the
only chapter of the Bible I think he's read. After that we went out a little
more and visited Ingrid and came home.
Tuesday was sick. The previous night we got a call right before
11 that we were going to have an intercambio with the ZL's. We tried to get some citas fixed in the
morning and tried to get my carnet out to Puerto Varas, which was a lot easier
than we thought, so we went out to do some service, aka chop wood, that’s all
anybody wants these days. After lunch we met up with the zone leaders and they
dropped off Elder Jones, one of the previous companions of Elder Renshaw, Wise,
Woods, and the majority of the older missionaries. I know he's a great guy! Well after we
planned a bit we went out to pick up Hermano Cortes to take him to a lesson
with one of our antiguos, Freddy. Well
for the most part it went as usual, he's living the word of wisdom but doesn't
understand why because he hasn't gotten his answer.
After that we made friends with a really cool biker dude and had
a really good lesson with Ingrid. It was about 9 o’clock though and we had
nothing to do and nowhere we hadn't been.
I knew we should stop by Joel’s but I had no idea where it was. So Elder Jones asked me if I had faith. I said yes, he then asked me if I was a
little crazy, my reply "I'm a Washburn!" We knelt down and prayed in
the middle of the street. I stood up and walked straight to Joel's house and
was ridiculously disappointed because he wasn’t there! But I knew we had to be
there for a reason, so I kept walking till I found a house that caught my
attention and I went and gave my loudest Chileno halo and sat there waiting for
a response. Well nada. Until when we were about to turn around Mateo comes out
and we start talking to him before he leaves and well he gives us the life
story of him and his entire family! Apparently his uncle was one of the pioneer
members and one of the first stake presidents in Puerto Montt. His mom is a
member and so are his brother and sister and his father was before he died and
he isn't. I'm almost sure he's going to progress! We came home to fajitas to end a perfect
night!
Sorry guys that I only got two days in I promise I'll try to
make it up next week. I love you so much
and I hope you have as good a week as I will!
Elder
Washburn
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