Week 58

The best thing about this week is that we had a youth conference with tons of stakes from our mission and with out zone in valdivia. We had about 30 missionaries and 300 youth, and we did a misionary training preperation type of thing. We taught them about the mission, how to do contacts, how to teach, etc. We even split up in groups and went out for an hour and did contacts in the streets and knocked doors with them! I also got to see a lot of youth from my other sectors like los encinos and rahue, so it was a really good activity, especially because we got to help excite the youth to go on missions. 

I found out that matias, a youth from rahue that we were teaching, opended his mission papers! That was one of our goals in rahue was to help him go on a mission, and it sounds like he`s finally going to go! He said he`s going to submit them in october or november at the latest.

Sorry, ive gotta find some stuff to take pictures of because it`s the emails are so much better with pictures`

Elder Pollock

Week 57

We haven`t had the chance to progress this week with Jovito and Raquel because Jovito had surgery, but we did find 2 other families this week! One of the families even went to church this sunday and they said they loved the church and were definitely going to come back, their names are Juan and Jaqualin. We had to give joel to the other elders like i said before, but we found 2 more families to replace him so i`m super happy about that. We passed buy Joels work today to give him a muffin at work and he said he has an appointment with the other elders tonight! 

One thing i`ve been doing on the mission is reading all the liahonas, and they are so good! Not only are they the word of god through his prophet and apostles, but they are also astounding and accomplished people that we can have as examples in our lives. I don`t know why i didn`t read them before.

I`m pretty sure i have changed a lot on the mission, because i even read liahonas on p days, and that doesn`t sound like something i ever would have done at home in my free time haha. 

Elder Pollock

We did service as a district this week! We helped build someones house that recently bruned down.

Week 54,55 and 56

Sorry i haven`t had time to write anything the past 2 pdays, i`ve been responding to birthday emails! 

Anyways, we had cambios last week and my columbian companion left and i have a gringo from West Virginia as my companion now Jacob Grow. 

In these last 2 weeks, a lot of things have happended, but there are 2 things that really stuck out.

1. Joel, 27, one of our best investigators that is defintitely going to get baptized, moved houses and is now in another ward and we had to give him to the other elders :( We`re sad because he was progresing really fast and he was also inviting all his friends and family to activities with him. I know he`ll be baptized though so i hope i`ll be able to go to the baptism!

2. Jovito and Raquel, have recently made a goal to get baptized before the end of the year! They have to get divorced, and married before they can get baptized, but they have both said they know the church is true, the book of mormon is true, and that tey will be baptized as soon as they can.

There`s 2 highlights from the past couple of weeks!

Also, we went bowling last p day with a couple members i knew from the beggining of the mission, Richard, Yenny and Alayna!