trunky papers are what every missionary gets with about 5 months left in the mission. it asks things like your parents names, your ward and bishop, and where you will be flying into. its called trunky cuz it makes you think about your "trunks" or luggage, which makes you think about home and your family and all that. i got those papers this week. i just felt wierd too cuz it was what made me finally realize how little time i have left really. these next 5 months will fly by.
tuesday was the chilean independence day so our ward had a big party. there was lots of food, lots of people, lots of dancing, and a lot of fun. presidnt gave us, the missionaries, 4 hours to be there and enjoy everything. i realized though that i had to have one 18th to fully enjoy this one. cuz this time i understood better everything that was going on. we started with eating and the meat was great. i ended up eating so much meat and salad that i couldnt walk for an hour or so. then after they played some games like sack race and tug o war. elder nilsen and i did the sack race. then after that they did the dances and some others sang. i loved being there and its sad it'll probably be my last time ever doing that.
wednesday we did divisions so i went to the sector of amengual with elder enamorado. i had fun cuz it was like being back in republica again with him. we get along pretty well. friday was a long day cuz we had to wake-up an hour early to go to a zone conference in maipu that started at 8. we got taught by elder esteban resek, an area seventy from argentina. he talked to us a lot aout working through the members and knowing the members situations better to help our investigators. but he also talked about how we have to help them share the gospel more with their friends so that they give us references. thats how it works in the states now and they have tons of success. they dont do contacts, they just ask members for references. whereas here for us the standard of excelence is 140 contacts a week cuz we dont get any references. but we have to build up the members so that one day missionaries in chile wont have to do contacts.
friday night we went to see miriam, juan, and their daughter tiare, the ones we found last sunday. they are absolutely amazing! they had read what we left and had tons of questions for us to understand everything better. and miriam said the prayer again this time at the beginning and it was amazing. she says better prayers than lots of members that i have met. its crazy but i like it. so we answered all their questions and then taught about the plan of salvation and everything went better than we had hoped and then at the very end we invited them to church and they committed very firmly to going. which they did do and stayed the whole time yesterday. and it was great how our ward just took them in and made them all feel welcome.
saturday we found a good family also, mostly the son who is 23 but the mom was there too. in his doorway we talked about how god has a plan for him and he told us about how he has been having a hard time lately cuz lot of things have happened to him. and that he will be going to washington soon to work cuz he has a cousin or something there. but we got into his house and talked to him more and he told us that he didnt know why he let us in cuz last time he let religious people in, they robbed him. but that he felt different with us. and it was good talking to him and he was really interested in what we have to share with him and how it can help his life. so we will go back there on thursday.
yesterday was a crazy day too cuz we had so much to do. we had 27 contacts left to make our goal for the week. and to put that into perspective, 20 contacts is having a good day working a full 7 hours. and we got to around 730 with only 3 contacts on the day. so i just thought there was no way we would make it. but we just started talking to EVERYONE in the street. then at 9 we had a cita that was a good lesson but we still needed 5 more contacts. we got out of that house at 1015 and had to be in the house at 1030. so i told elder nilsen it was a good run and we were close but we just didnt make it. but he refused to go inside unless we made our goal. so we found 5 more people to contact and somehow made our goal for the week. it was crazy but i felt good about doing it.
the only sad thing from yesterday is that someone in our retention (the people who have been baptized in the last 2 years) had been sick. about 9 months ago he had a stroke before being baptized and he is about 70 years old. and last night we found out that he had had another stroke and was in critical condition last night in the hospital. so we are gonna see if we can go by there tonight and give him a blessing or something. but i hope that he gets better.
i hope everything is going well for everyone and that everyone is doing well. have a good week
Elder AJ Mlazgar
BE GOOD OR BE GOOD AT IT
Alma 32:21 2 Nephi 26:8
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