AJ's email from 8/27/12

Elders Mackie, Clare and Van Duren

Elder Wheelright (MTC comp), AJ
& Elder Clare

The Fab Five...
Munoz, Wheelright, AJ, Clare & Tukuafu

      this week was just another one of those normal weeks again although there were a few things that happened a little different. so i guess it really wasnt just the normal week if you think about it.
      first off on tuesday and wednesday we got a lot of rain again in the afternoon which sucks cuz its already been tough enough for us to find new investigators these last couple weeks and when it rains, you can basically forget about it in our sector. cuz the people at home tell us to go away cuz its raining and the people that are in the street go inside and stay out of the rain. so we just kinda did what we could for those couple days. the funny thing about wednesday though was the district meeting. the first hour of the meeting is always a class and then the second hour is doing practices for something. and this week we practiced (although it was something real) going outside and contacting everyone that we see and just doing more contacts and talking to everyone. and so they told us we couldnt go back to the church unless we had 8 contacts or a new investigator (which means getting into a house and doing a house blessing). so we went out to contact and did some contacts which were pretty good. but it was really cold outside from the rain and wind so i said lets just go knock a door and get a new so that we can go back. and the first door that we knocked, it was a old guy named hernan whos wife fell and broke her back a couple months ago and thats been hard on them. so we did the house blessing and helped them with whatever we could. im glad that we could do that and help them out with feeling a little comforted but i couldnt help thinking about how ironic it is that we worked 20 minutes in another sector and find 2 news, and work in our sector for weeks and cant find anything. but its just a difficult time for us right now and we just have to work through it.
       thursday we had the capacitacion especial in republica and i thought that it was really good. president talked a lot about applying the book of mormon to the specific needs of every person that we talk to. and that if we do that during contacts, more people will want us to come by and will progress cuz they will be more interested in the book of mormon. and so im excited to use that more with investigators. now all i need is some new investigators to apply it with. the other good thing about that day is that i completed a year and a half in the mission which is crazy to think about. although i didnt do anything special to celebrate the day like i did when i hit a year. all i did was take some pictures with the other guys at the meeting that are going home with me. after the meeting i had a scary moment though. we were heading back to our sector and since i know that area pretty well, i wanted to take a different way home. so we were walking in the street and came to a corner where we had to wait to cross. and as we were waiting, a couple of buses turned right on that corner where we were standing. the first bus was fine, but the second one had problems. i saw the mirror go right across my face, almost hitting me and i just thought wow that was close. and as soon as i thought that, elder alcaraz pulled me backed and said watch out. and as soon as we stepped back, i watched the bus go over the curb right where we were standing. ill just say that my heart was pounding after that. and im thankful that im ok.
       friday i went to renew my visa and get the papers done to finish the mission and that was weird thinking about. i had a fun time being with that group of 5 during that trip cuz we were all gringos and just laughed at everything. but i found out that ill be flying home with elder nielson to arizona cuz his parents are in the tucson mission right now. and thats kinda cool cuz i sat with him on the plane coming here and then ill be with him on the plane going home.
       then finally sunday we had a little miracle....maybe. our ward mission leader has a nephew not baptized that lives on the border of our sector but really belongs to av matta. and he got upset this week cuz the missionaries there were supposed to go by but didnt do it. so he called the zone leaders there upset telling them to chew out those missionaries for being irresponsible and not going. and so i said, just joking around, what if we bring him over here and teach him here and baptize him here. and he liked that idea so he asked me today to ask permission from president king to do that. so if everything works out, we should have a baptism in another month or so which should be really easy. cuz all we will have to do is teach him. and then our ward mission leader will baptize him. so hopefully that will happen.
        other than that everything is going well. im doing well although ive been kinda tired lately but what are you gonna do? thats just the mission for you. i hope 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

Ward Mission Leader playing guitar
see video...he's great!

BONUS post...more pictures

I opened my email at lunch today and discovered a bonus email from AJ. It has pictures from this week...his delicious lunch...yum, the stake activity, and P-day soccer. No time for captions today, but I trust you can tell which is which! AJ must be taking a self-portrait because he is bored from having to sit out and chill.

  

  

  

   

   

AJ's email from 8/20/12

      of course the week after i write you all and finish the letter saying that we havent had a lot of rain for a while, just naturally it  just had to rain all week and give us more problems than we needed. i dont know why i didnt expect it. but at least it was good to see some clean air for a little, even if it did only last for about a day.
      wednesday i did divisions with elder hallstrom and was with him in departamental all day. it was really a weird day, especially at the start. after having the district meeting, we went back to the pension to drop off my stuff and then we left to get lunch. but that day here was a holiday and the place we were going to eat was closed. so we had to go buy something to take back to the pension and make. so we bought noodles and sauce with some meat patties and before that, we started with soup. and to finish  it, we had peaches with condensed milk. and as i was helping him cook it (yes i just said that i was cooking) i just thought about how i hated to make food before the mission but how much that has changed now. its amazing. but then after lunch we went out to work and things started off slow so after the first hour, we went back to the pension to get something for the rain and "started over" for the day. although it didnt get much better but at least i had fun with him all day.
       then friday we did divisons with the zone leaders so i was with elder mackie in our sector that day. in the morning, we contacted this guy in a little park and sat down with him to talk a little. he said that he is more buddist than any other religion so that was something different cuz there arent a lot of people here that believe in that. the other thing about him is that he spoke to us in english the whole time and we asked where he learned it and he said just from what they taught him in school while growing up. (i dont know why we dont do that in the states cuz it would be cool to leave high school knowing spanish or something like that. although the other thing here is that they dont study spanish and we do with english so thats different) but it was just a long day full of contacts. we werent able to find any new investigators this week which is bad since the mission goal is 8 a week. so its been tough for us cuz we cant find anyone. it doesnt help though that we have so many apartment buildings in our sector so those are doors we cant knock and people we cant talk to. so the only good lesson that we had that day was with daniela and we just taught something easy, fasting.
        saturday there was a stake activity so we went to that and it was really good. the youth from each ward did a little skit and based it off a principle from "for the strength of youth" that they were assigned. and so they had to act and teach a lesson about that principle but also make it original and funny. there were some pretty good ones especially the winners who did it on using technology well and not spending so much time listening to music or on the computer. our ward was assigned one about dating (which is kinda ironic if you ask me since more than half the youth in our ward are young women between 15 and 17, maybe the stake was trying to say something without saying it) and they did alright but it wasnt great. elder alcaraz and i got to help a little though cuz we had to help hold up the stage stuff for a few parts.
       then yesterday we had a cosechon in departamental where the whole zone gets together in one sector and goes out to contact and knock doors so that that sector can have a little more success and can find a few more people to teach. i havent been a part of a cosechon that was really successful in my whole mission so im never extremely thrilled when we have to do it. but its a good way to support the other missionaries in our zone.
        thats about it for this week though. im really tired today cuz we went to bed a little late last night and still got  up early to go play soccer. speaking of that too though, even being in the mission, i have definitely not  lost any competitiveness cuz today i had to stop playing so that i wouldn't be angry with anyone in our zone. we dont have the most athletic people in our zone so they are alright with just playing and forgetting some of the rules and that was making me mad cuz i figure if we are gonna play, we might as well play right. but some others didnt agree with that. so i decided it was better for me to sit out. that all makes me miss a lot playing basketball full court against people who know how to play. that will  be one of the things i do first after getting home, which also reminds me that i finish a year and a half this week in the mission. crazy. anyway i hope that everyone is doing well. take care

Pictures

Companions for a few days

Bird from Central America

Another Bird from Central America

Crocodile

Kangaroos

Weird looking bird...cool

AJ and E. Balcon on the bus
with Hna Lopez peeking behind

Hna Lopez and Hna Fuentes
...stole camera and played with it :)

picture from AJ's apartment

another picture from AJ's apartment

and another from AJ's apartment

ward party in July

ward party in July

ward party in July

ward party in July

ward party in July

AJ's email from 8/13/12

this was another one of those weird weeks that we have every now and then where we have several meetings during the week or anything thats just not normal. and i always just feel like we do a ton but really we dont do much.
        wednesday we had interviews with president king and it felt good to be able to sit down with him and talk about a few things, with elder alcaraz being really the most important. it was definitely the longest interview that ive had since getting to the mission, but the time seemed to go by quickly. at night we had a lesson with camila, the girl that just wont decide to get baptized and stick with it. we talked a lot about not needing to know everything before and things like that. cuz she said that she noticed during this last time she had off from school that the days that she didnt read the book of mormon, she felt like something was lacking.so that was good. we just need her to make the decision and follow through til the end. cuz i know that she would be a great member, seeing as how she basically already is almost.
        friday we had the leader meeting in maipu and that has definitely become one of my favorite meetings now cuz its always a lot of fun while also learning how to be a better leader. this time it was funny cuz several of the zone leaders did a little skit thing to go along with their class. so it was fun.
        saturday we went to the baptism that hna lopez and hna fuentes had. i wanted to go with daniela so that she could see another baptism but at the last moment she couldnt go. but we decided to go anyway to support the hermanas. i feel like both the hermanas have become my good friends now and i have a lot of confidence with them, which normally doesnt happen a lot between the elders and the hermanas. their baptism went well though and i was happy for them. the other cool thing about going though was that i got to talk to a guy that i knew from republica that speaks english. apparently he had gotten married recently and is going to that ward now. so it was cool to be able to talk to him.
         sunday we had a big meeting with all the leaders in the mission again. but this one was more important because it was with elder zeballos, the first counselor in the new south america south area presidency. and it was also with the leaders from the santiago north mission. but he talked a lot about how we arent baptizing enough basically and that we need to baptize as many people as possible. cuz right now we have gotten into a stage of only baptizing the people that are really good that we are sure have a chance of staying active. but he said we need to find those people and the others that are waiting for us in our sectors. and that we need to give a bigger effort because there is another level above where we are now. basically i just walked out of that meeting wanting to just baptize and be a better missionary and do everything that i can. it was a good feeling.
         thats all the important stuff from my week though this week. the weather got kinda colder again lately but it still hasnt rained much which is sad cuz we are starting to get out of the rainy season here without having hardly any rain. but everything is going well. hope that everyone is doing well and has a good week.

P.S. Watch for pictures later this week...I actually put it on my calendar so I won't forget...head back about Thursday. :)

AJ's Email from 8/6/12

       Its kinda weird thinking about how much time i have in the mission now. i was talking to elder tukuafu today during our activity about that cuz he is from my group too. and just talking about how long we have been here and all the changes that we have seen and all the experiences we`ve had. and then thinking about what we have left, its crazy. i just hope that i can make the most of what i have left, which is a little more than 6 months.
       monday night we had a noche de hogar with daniela. we took her to our ward mission leaders house and had fun with him and his wife. it was funny though cuz about 10 min before getting there, he asked if i had prepared the message and i told him no cuz i thought that he would do it and he told me that i had to share. so i had to come up with something really quickly that would both be kinda interesting and that would help daniela progress a little. so i decided to talk about prophets cuz thats been her biggest challenge so far, accepting that we have a prophet. and then after i shared the message, paul (our ward mission leader) started talking to her about it more. and the little 15 min lesson that he gave her after i finished talking was amazing and even i felt more convinced about the need for a prophet in our time. it was great and i hope that she felt the same way.
         tuesday was the change meeting in the morning (another one come and gone) and although we didnt go, its always interesting calling someone from the zone to hear where everyone went and who the new people are in the zone and the new zone leaders and all that stuff. then thursday in the district meeting is the first time that we got to know them. the new district leader with me is from my district in the mtc, elder clare. he replaced elder balcon. and then elder hallstrom, who was one of the district leaders in talagante, came for elder morgan. so it was kinda funny seeing that, how he was the district leader in talagante and now the roles are switched as im his district leader. and then the other thing about the zone is that elder tukuafu is training so its gonna be fun listening to a new gringo missionary trying to learn spanish. (he also was the reason elder alcaraz was teased during that meeting cuz he said that he doesnt understand elder alcaraz`s spanish and the other missionary from argentina said that he doesnt either so dont worry and we all laughed hard)
        Saturday we had a lesson with a new guy, julio. they were a reference from the hermanas in san miguel. he went with his wife to the hermanas ward and they passed us the address. his wife is an inactive member and they are planning on getting married in about a month. so that will be good. he seems pretty humble and has a bit of a speech problem but also seems kinda smart so hopefully he can read well and understand what we teach. the only thing that i didnt like is that the wife told us at one point that she hasnt gone to church consistently for about 4 years but doesnt feel like she is doing anything wrong cuz she still does everything else. and i just wanted to tell her that she was flat out wrong and that she is doing a lot wrong by living with him before getting married and for not going to church, but i just let it go cuz that will be a topic for another day when i have more confidence with them.
          sunday carlos got confirmed and so i was glad to finally be done with that and to  be able to send the baptismal record in now and just be good. its been a long 6 weeks getting him to this point and all the struggles that have come up along the way. but one thing that made me happy is that he really appreciated the fact that i gave him my shirt after the baptism and he said that no one had ever done that before for him. so that made me feel better. 
         everything is going alright here and i hope that everything is well for everyone over there. take care and have a good week

Elder  AJ Mlazgar

BE GOOD OR BE GOOD AT IT

Alma 32:21     2 Nephi 26:8

AJ's email from 7/31/2012

        well it was just another normal week here, although maybe not really but it just seemed to go by without anything wrong. and it wasnt until the weekend that anything really interesting happened. i dont have much time today to write it all so im just gonna tell what happened this weekend.
       saturday we went to a ward activity in another ward, juan griego. it was a talent show and we were told that we could go if we took an investigator. and so we took daniela so that she could see what a church activity is like. it also helped though that the  young women from our ward were going too cuz one of them was participating in the show (her name is valentina and she sings very very well. she was also a main part of the 50 year celebration that we had last october) the show was really good though. most of the people just sang but there were also a couple little things in between that were good. and it ended up being 3 hours long. but i had fun hanging out with elder tukuafu and elder balcon the whole time.        speaking of daniela also, she is doing really well. we are getting so much support from the whole ward with her which has been really good. i think this is the best i have seen the ward take in one of our investigators in my whole mission. and thats helped her be able to want to go to church more and feel comfortable around everyone and being there.        then sunday we had the baptism for carlos. i was so stressed out the whole morning with trying to make sure that he got there on time and filling up the baptismal font (which went bad cuz i forgot until it was late so the water wasnt exactly warm), and also making sure that daniela got to church and finding baptismal clothes for carlos and going to ward council before and just everything else that had to get done. but the baptism turned out alright and its done with now so that was relaxing for me afterward. but then we had a stake meeting with all the missionaries from the zone and the ward council from every ward in the afternoon and pres king was also there. so basically after Sunday i was just ready to sleep for a whole day. but unfortunately we cant and so im just tired still. i did also talk to pres king after the meeting about how stressed i was and talked to him about some of my struggles and he shared DyC 84:106 and that was kinda comforting for me. (106... And if any man among you be strong in the Spirit, let him take with him him that is weak, that he may be edified in all meekness, that he may become strong also.).         but thats pretty much it for this week. changes came this week and went without anything happening to us so ill be here another 6 weeks with elder alcaraz (assuming that something weird doesnt happen before then which you never know with how my mission has been so far) but i hope that everyone has a good week. chao

AJ's email from 7/24/12

    this week was definitely weird for me. it felt like it went by extremely slow. i dont know if its cuz we have pday today and not yesterday, or if its cuz we didnt have a very good week, or what it is, but im just tired. every week more though that im in this sector, i realize more and more just how small it really is. i was looking at the map, and thinking about it as we walked around a couple days, and i figured out that our sector is a little bit bigger than a square mile, cuz we can walk a full circle (walking normally) around our whole sector in less than an hour and a half. and thats absolutely tiny for a sector. normally in a sector you MIGHT knock every door over 6 months if you cover the whole sector well, knock doors very often, and get lucky. but here i feel like ive already covered almost the whole sector and its only been one change, not even. so im pretty sure that if im here for a long time, im gonna knock the same doors at least 3 or 4 times. but i guess thats what we get for having such a small mission.

     wednesday i did divisions with departamental again but this time i went with elder martinez to their sector. it was a lot of fun being with him. its funny cuz its seems to me like the missionaries from argentina are all either prideful or just hilarious. and he is one of the funny ones. so we had a good time. the coolest part of our day is that we found this family that has 2 daughters that are world champions in speed roller blading. they had been to japan, venezuela, colombia, the states, and are going to italy next month for the world championships. and they showed us all the pictures and medals that they had. the cool part about all that though is that we first talked to the mom out in the street in front of a little store. and the first thing that she says to us is that she is REALLY catholic and doesnt want to talk to us. so we asked why and she said that she didnt want to talk about religion cuz she is happy with hers. so we just talked to her about her family and those sports stuff and some things that are happening in the world. and at the end we asked if we could go by her house sometime to talk to her more and meet her family. and she said sure so we got her address and walked away. when we got to the corner of the street, we stopped cuz we didnt know what to do from there so we stood there thinking for a few minutes when all of a sudden we see that lady running after us and calling us so we went to talk to her. when she caught up, she asked if we wanted to go by their house now and talk a little more and so we said sure and followed her to the house. so that was pretty cool.
       saturday morning we went by to teach daniela. something new that we are doing right now in the mission is leave a pamphlet or little part of the book of mormon with the people we teach and tell them that they have to teach us about it the next time we go. and it seems to work out well cuz then the people remember better the things they need to know and its easier on us cuz we dont have to teach so much. so we had left a word of wisdom folleto with her and she taught us that morning. it made it so much easier cuz sometimes those commandments can get a little tricky to teach but by doing that, it was easier and she committed to follow it from now on. then after lunch carlos had his interview so that he can get baptized this sunday and he passed so we are all good to go for this week. we just need to plan it all now.
       sunday was really stressful for me although im not really sure why. maybe cuz it was just the end of a really long week and i felt like there was so much to do and so it was a little rough. it started in the morning with ward council and we had a long discussion with them about whether daniela should go to the young womens or relief society. thankfully almost everyone was on my side and thought that it would be better for her to go to young womens for now. so that was an answered prayer. and then daniela ended up showing up an hour late to church which drove me crazy after all the arrangements that i was having to make for her. but at least she came so thats good. then after church we went to lunch with the bishop. im not sure if ive never tried shrimp before or if i just didnt like it but i loved it now. we had that with ravioli and so it was a really good lunch. its weird to think back on the times before the mission when i was so picky and wonder why i didnt like so much.
      then today we had our zone activity. we went to buin zoo which is just south of our mission boundaries. its definitely not as big as others ive gone to in the states but it was still fun. the only thing that i didnt like about the activity is that it was supposed to be as a zone and there was a companionship that didnt go and there wasnt a single moment when everyone was all together. but i guess thats just how it goes sometimes. although it left me basically without money til next week when we get more for next month.
       i hope everyone is doing well. take care

AJ's email from 7/16/2012

alright first off, no pictures again this week cuz the computers here are so all over the place. some of them work, some dont. so i wasnt able to upload my pictures here. so ill just have to send them next week. our week this week was alright. we finally got back to having a normal week again but that didnt necessarily help us a lot. it turned out that more people ended up failing on us this week than in the past so it was a little hard a couple days where we walked around all day just doing contacts. i felt a little how i did during my time in avenida matta where we would just walk the streets trying to get into a house and having my feet and legs killing me at the end of the night from so much walking, but at least we made it kinda fun.
      monday we went and taught a girl named camila. she does everything basically that a member should, without being baptized. she goes to church every week, and has for the last 2 years. she keeps all the commandments that she needs to in order to get baptized, she even pays her tithing. all that while only being 21 years old. and with that, she is dating a member. so the truth is that i dont know why she isnt already baptized. but when we talked to her, she said that she has never really read the book of mormon and that would be something important to know if the church is true or not. so we set goals with her to read everyday for the next 3 weeks and pray everytime. and then we`ll talk after that about whether she wants to get baptized or not. i think that if she does what we asked, she`ll gain a testimony and will get baptized in august or september. so im hoping for that.
       tuesday president king came out with us to visit carlos, our investigator that is skizophrenic. he came to really make sure that everything was ok there and to make our bishop a little happier. cuz he had asked if president would talk to carlos. and everything went well there. president said that he didnt feel like there is anything that would prohibit carlos from being a normal member after getting baptized. so he should get baptized in 2 weeks if everything goes well.
       wednesday we went to teach daniela again and she is progressing really well. she still reads the chapter in the book of mormon that we leave her everytime and is praying and doing the things that we ask. i think it also helps that she has so much time and is able to do those things. cuz a lot of the time, people just dont have time or get busy and forget to read or whatever. and also she came to church again this week but this time on her own so that was good cuz it shows that she wants to be there. so i really think that she could get baptized on the day that we put in august. and that would be really cool cuz it would be the first time that ive had that happen. where someone gets baptized on the day we first put with them.
        thursday and friday were our toughest days this week. when we didnt do anything and just contacted all day. but sometimes that can be good too to try and find more people. so hopefully with all those contacts, it means that this week some of those people will be home to go by and teach them. thats always my biggest hope and what makes me feel a little better those days that are just tougher.
       saturday we had a ward activity and it was pretty fun. it was also something different that i had never seen before. what they did is each family made like a big poster with pictures and other stuff about their family so that everyone could get to know each other a little better. so it was nice seeing the different things about each family and getting to know them better which is important seeing as how ive only been here for a month now. it was funny though cuz i put my little picture album on a table with the family that i like the most here so that i could be part of it a little.
      then sunday was another slow and tough day for us although we did have ward conference. i got to meet the stake president and for a country of mostly shorter people, he is huge. he is about 6`8 although he does have a background from the states since his last name is spencer. but i thought that that was funny.
       other than that though everything is going well. im hoping for a little better week this week and im sure that we will have it. we just have to keep working hard. i hope everyone is doing well. take care

AJ's email from 6/9/12

       well i was hoping for a normal week last week but i didnt really get it. i was packed with doing divisions, zone conference, and then some other things that were just tiring. and on top of that, this week got really cold again all of a sudden. it was the coldest thats its been so far this year.

       tuesday we had a pretty good day. it started with a lesson with a new lady. her name is dafnie, not exactly the most common name in chile. but we started teaching her cuz we were walking in the street a couple weeks ago and this girl came up to us (obviously a member from how she greeted us) and told us that she lives in la reina (outside of the mission) but that she works in our sector in a sushi store and that she had given her boss a book of mormon just before that and her boss was interested in learning more. and so she wanted us to go by her work to meet them cuz her boss is almost always there. so we went by and the lady was pretty cool and seems alright. the only problems are that she doesnt have much time cuz she is pretty busy at work and the other is that she doesnt live in our sector. so we would have to teach her and then she would go to church in the other sector. the funny thing about that though is that elder vilar is in the sector right next to me and she belongs to that ward. so it would be easier to work with them than other missionaries. then after her we went to the new girl that we found a couple weeks ago, daniela. she is pretty good for only being 16 cuz she has read what we left both times now and is doing the things that we ask of her. that doesnt happen very often here.

         wednesday i did divisions with departamental so i stayed in my sector with elder morgan. it was fun being with him and we did alright even though the only cita that i had planned all day failed on us. then at night in the pension we made this peanut butter bread thing that is really good and that was really all that happened that day. then thursday we had the zone conference. it was good. i think zone conferences are my favorite meetings cuz its usually more exciting than the others and we get lunch there which is almost always good. i had a really good time at lunch talking with elder vilar and elder fearnley, who was there with vilar before i got there so we talked about things from el monte and then lots of other stuff from the mission. cuz he is going home this change. then after lunch i had to give a small class with our zone leaders about the vision of the mission. i had to talk about our part of that vision which has to do with the kind of missionaries that we are and should become. it went better than i thought it would and several people came up to me after and complimented me on it. so that was good.

      then thursday night the office called us and told us that we had to be in maipu at 730 the next morning to do the visa stuff for elder alcaraz. so that wasnt something i was looking forward to. we had to get up at 6 and leave at 630 and then spend half the day in lines waiting for everything. and i have to do mine again in a couple months so im not looking forward to that. but the cool thing was that while we were in the last building, there are people there from lots of different countries. and this lady came up to me and asked me in english where she needed to go exactly. so i told her and then started talking to her a little. i found out that she is from romania and is in chile for work. i tried to get her adress for the missionaries to go by too but it didnt work out very well seeing as how she doesnt believe in god and wasnt really interested. but it was still cool talking to her.

       saturday we had the cosechon in las avenidas. we all met in front of their church and then split up with someone else and went out to look for some names from the list and also do some contacts to help the hermanas find some people to teach. so i went out with elder incze and it was fun being with him for an hour or so. then after that we went to teach daniela again and it went so well cuz we have lot of confidence with her already. and she seems to understand everything pretty well. so at the end we put a baptismal date with her for the 11 of august and i really think that she could get baptized that day. i really hope she does too.

        sunday was another crazy day. we went in the morning to get daniela so that she got there on time and alright. so we ended up eating breakfast with her too before we left. then during sacrament meeting, we had to give a talk, both me and my comp. i talked about examples and how big a difference it makes in helping others want to learn more about the church. cuz when they see a good example, they see something different and want to know why. and elder alcaraz talked about missionary work. then after church, we went to see the baptism of the hermanas in the other district, hna equitè and hna herrera. we went to support them so that hopefully when we have a baptism, they will come too.

       right now im doing alright although im not feeling really great. i think its cuz we got a flu shot at the zone conference so that is affecting me a little. but hopefully it will pass soon. i just need to get some rest. but i hope that all of you are doing well. have a good week