wednesday was a good day. we had hermano soto come out with us to a couple of citas that we had. he is a man that really sets an example for a lot of other people in my opinion. him and his family are a part of our home teaching assignment that we have. and everytime we are around him, elder vilar and i end up walking away saying "that man is just pure love". he is kinda sick with something but i dont know what, but it seems like everytime we are with him, he is more worried about us and how we are doing and says that it doesnt matter how he is cuz he´ll be fine. he is always smiling and is just amazing. its showed me a little of how i want to be with others also. so on sunday when we asked who was gonna come out with us this week, he was the first one to offer to come. and then when i asked what time he is available, he just said whenever we want and for as long as we need him. and thats better than just about anyone here. cuz normally people offer an hour or 2 but an entire day on bike when its hot outside, it just shows that he is willing to serve in whatever way he can. but he came with us to our new investigator veronica. she seems to be really good. she asked us a question at the beginning about how do we know that our priesthood holders really have that authority. and so it was perfect cuz it lead us straight into the restoration. and then at the end she accepted an invitation to be baptized, although a little hesitantly.
thursday morning we got a call from elder mcbride and got a surprise. he told us that the next morning elder vilar had to go into santiago the next day to do some stuff for his visa cuz the last time he did it, something went wrong and so they had to fix something. and so that night we had to be in talagante to do divisions with elder mcbride and elder west cuz elder west had to do his stuff too. so thursday night they went to maipu and i stayed with elder mcbride. but the weird part is that the next day, all of the leaders had a meeting in santiago with presdent king. so at 830 in the morning, all the leaders from the zone got together to go and so i had to switch comps again. so for half the day on friday i was with elder merino from peru. and im not gonna lie it was pretty funny walking around with him cuz he is tiny. he is a little shorter than my shoulder level. and then around 4 elder vilar got back and we went back to our sector to work. but it was weird having 3 different companions in the same day and also being in 3 different pensions.
saturday we had a noche de hogar with ursula (my convert from melipilla) and her family. it was really good cuz there were about 15 people there in total and about half arent members. and i had to give the little lesson which of course i didnt plan for. but its ok cuz being missionaries, we always have something that we can talk about and make it decent. so i decided to talk about the family and how important it is. cuz with so many non members, i knew that they might think that i was only gonna talk about the church and try and convince them and all that. cuz thats all anyone thinks that we do. so i wanted it to be interesting for them while still trying to inculde something as missionaries. and i figured families would be best. and it turned out really well. at the end it turned out being like a big family council for them to work some things out and i think that we gained their confidence a lot more. and it was fun for me cuz i got to hang out with all of them again and it reminded me of my first few months in melipilla.
then yesterday we went out with the branch president all day to visit some people. and that was really good cuz its the first time in my mission that the branch president has done that. but we went out to visit some less active members and then he went with us to one of our citas that turned out to be really good cuz he helped us a lot.
so it was a pretty good week. the pictures that i put with this are of our pension just so that you know. its kinda small but it works for just us 2. and its not bad. i hope that everyone is doing well. take care
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