Well another crazy week come and gone, although this week was a little different, and for somereason was a lot slower than the rest! haha but thats alright. We still had our good times!
Thanksgiving wasn´t too thankgivingy, cause no one celebrates it here. so we just brought a little thanksgiving in our lessons on that day. it went well, just didnt eat turkey and potatoes sadly. Thats alright, I think we had lasagna! mmmm! haha
We also finished my first change and Elder Vargas left, and in exchange we have Elder Alvarez. Funny uick story, we were visiting the bishops wife and we were telling her about him and I said his name was elder sanchez! Woops! haha go figure! He is a good guy. He is from argentina and is very animated about the work. He is our new district leader and he has a lot of good intentions. If I could change a little about him, I would ask him not to sing during personal study, not to touch my legs, EVER again, and he needs to be a little more real. He has got the fake happy plastered on his face always. But h is trying, its just a test o nmy patienece and love for everyone. Sorry, that clearly shows I was being a little judgemental, but im working on it!
We went on an adventure this week too! Hurray for adventures! haha we went in searh of some inactives, and I dont know if it is because they live like 30 miles from civilization that they are inactive, but we rode the bikes way out in the middle of nowhere and finally found the area. unfortunately we cam e to a sig nthat said "no pasar rondin armado" which means no tresspassing, we have an armed guard! haha so we decided we should turn around. But it was cool cause the house with that sign looked like a little white castle! we took some pictures and then turned around and round back into civilization. it was great fun!
We set a baptismal goal for this cahnge of having 2 baptisms! woo! I SO BADLY want to lograr eso or obtain that! So BADLY! so we are going to really invite everyone to be baptized. Thats also a goal for the zone, inviting EVERYONE!
That was pretty much my week, but first, spiritual story. So we planned a noche de hogar, or family home evening with this menos activo and she said ya, and seemed very for it. So we came by on the planned night and we stood a minute before her husband let us in. we shared the story of John tanner who gave so much for the church and we talked about how we should follow in this example. How if we will devote ourselves to the lord he will ALWAYS provide. and then we shared the importance of attending church and her husband said " at first I wasnt going to let you guys in, I new you were going to say i need to forgive and go to church . but now I am glad" it was awesome! and then when we were leaving, and they were like and we will see you on sunday! yay! haha I love those!
Oh ya one more funny story. Last night we passed by an investigator se llama Gabriela. She is an older lady who we have been trying for sin e I got here and she was finally thre and healthy enough to talk. Then we came in and we were going to talk about prohpets and she gave us some cake and some pop, even though we said we wouldnt mind water. Then we started teaching and she went off on a tangent I have never seen leave the lesson topic SO FAR! I realized when she was done that I didnt even know what we were talking aobut! Somehow prophets led into how she painted her cieling and that her brother has money. hahahahaha Then she was like "my brothr gives cookies to people, oh do you guys want some cookies? oh and I have eggs!" and she tried to give us ice cream too, but we said next time! it was late and we barely made it through pophets! hahaha It was hilarious cause we could not get out of there! She was lonely, so we will definitiely pass by more. It was just hilarious how the little old ladies can talk SO MUCH! haha
That was my week in a quick note! here comes week 2 change 2!
Elder Marvin
Monday, November 28, 2011
Monday, November 21, 2011
11/21/11
Welp, here we go...
I ended my first cambio! WOOOOHOOOO!!! and the big change..... nada. im still here and I still got mi papi! No complaints, its a good life aqui and im loving the ward and trainer. The only change that we have in all of our pension is Elder Vargas, the mexican, is leaving. its sad, I feel like we got some awesome unity in our pension and now we are going to have an argentine in with us. It shall be great still though!
Rough week for numbers, again. Gosh, that seems to be a good struggle right now. Some people want to talk with us, but then they dont want to have anything else with us after that.... tisk tisk. Not a lot we can do about it but pray and keep working. we are here for the elect, those who are ready adn wanting to receive of the blessings, we just gotta find them. On the plus side Felipe attended church again and this time stayed the whole time! WOOT! and his son came too who at first said "i dont know why my dad brought me here" and was listening to his cellphone in the primary, but then had a great time and he is not baptized so I tihnk we will be teaching him lots more! The sad news, Gabriel told us that he had to go to the beach in stead of church.... really? ugh.... haha
It was a pretty regular week, only have a few exciting things to write about. and the first the crazy lady that lves on the top of the hill. so we were going to talk to ranet, the african english contact lady, and her neighbor and her were outside holding a little puppy that was beaten up from some street dogs. They were very sad and they came and told us the whole story, so we tried to help with what we could, cause we were suppossed to have a lesson with ranet, which ended up getting rescheduled. In stead, we heard how much she LOVES her dogs, and not just once or twice but like ten times. We found out from ranet that she has memory loss. Then she explained to us how good people are reincarnated into dogs after this life, and the bad people become rats. and she taught us that probably 3 or 4 times. haha Finally we rescheduled when we could come and teach her and ranet on another day. it was quite interesting.
For this next part, I give a warning to those who dislike spiders. Well I saw my first "pollito" or in other words GIANT TURANTULA! (sp?) !!!! It was SO COOL! haha I found out that they are not dangerous, dont bite, arent poisoness, but they are about the size of my palm, and then the legs. seriously just HUGE! haha I loved it! we got some good pictures, so once I find a chord for my camera, ill let everyone know of our cool find! it was great!
Thats pretty much all the excitement that I had this week. Starting up another cambio, and it should be great! I cant believe the last day of this cambio is january 1st, 2012! whoa! and elder Yost goes home on december 27th, so idk what I am going to do for those last few days! haha but here goes to another week!
Elder Marvin =D
I ended my first cambio! WOOOOHOOOO!!! and the big change..... nada. im still here and I still got mi papi! No complaints, its a good life aqui and im loving the ward and trainer. The only change that we have in all of our pension is Elder Vargas, the mexican, is leaving. its sad, I feel like we got some awesome unity in our pension and now we are going to have an argentine in with us. It shall be great still though!
Rough week for numbers, again. Gosh, that seems to be a good struggle right now. Some people want to talk with us, but then they dont want to have anything else with us after that.... tisk tisk. Not a lot we can do about it but pray and keep working. we are here for the elect, those who are ready adn wanting to receive of the blessings, we just gotta find them. On the plus side Felipe attended church again and this time stayed the whole time! WOOT! and his son came too who at first said "i dont know why my dad brought me here" and was listening to his cellphone in the primary, but then had a great time and he is not baptized so I tihnk we will be teaching him lots more! The sad news, Gabriel told us that he had to go to the beach in stead of church.... really? ugh.... haha
It was a pretty regular week, only have a few exciting things to write about. and the first the crazy lady that lves on the top of the hill. so we were going to talk to ranet, the african english contact lady, and her neighbor and her were outside holding a little puppy that was beaten up from some street dogs. They were very sad and they came and told us the whole story, so we tried to help with what we could, cause we were suppossed to have a lesson with ranet, which ended up getting rescheduled. In stead, we heard how much she LOVES her dogs, and not just once or twice but like ten times. We found out from ranet that she has memory loss. Then she explained to us how good people are reincarnated into dogs after this life, and the bad people become rats. and she taught us that probably 3 or 4 times. haha Finally we rescheduled when we could come and teach her and ranet on another day. it was quite interesting.
For this next part, I give a warning to those who dislike spiders. Well I saw my first "pollito" or in other words GIANT TURANTULA! (sp?) !!!! It was SO COOL! haha I found out that they are not dangerous, dont bite, arent poisoness, but they are about the size of my palm, and then the legs. seriously just HUGE! haha I loved it! we got some good pictures, so once I find a chord for my camera, ill let everyone know of our cool find! it was great!
Thats pretty much all the excitement that I had this week. Starting up another cambio, and it should be great! I cant believe the last day of this cambio is january 1st, 2012! whoa! and elder Yost goes home on december 27th, so idk what I am going to do for those last few days! haha but here goes to another week!
Elder Marvin =D
Monday, November 14, 2011
November 14th,2011
*Its time for another*
CHAT FROM CHILE
*Audience Cheers*
well did I have QUITE the week. Quite being the word of the week as well, because when my companion was asked how to say thisweçord he was SURE it said quiet, until I explainedto him, it was hilarious!" haha
I would also like to start by saying how everyone should be proud of me, I ate my first "just a banana" since I was 4 this week. It was delicious! haha Oh the things you will eat when you are hungry, but the tomatoe still doesnt work with me! haha
Also learned another fun fact, the bishop in the ward here proposed over the pohone (just likeyou dad!) because he was here in chile and his wife was living in las vegas! Small world we live in! haha I just thought it was funny cause not many people do that, and those that do dont normally get a yes! haha I love my family! haha
So we had our first english contact this week and BOY was that an experience. While looking for any antiguo, we came to a green house at the top of the hill. We gave our "Alo"and stand there for a minute, then a lady walks out and we say how we are missionaries and she looks at us and says "sorry, no entender" and my companion looks confused and asks "do youspeak english" and she says a little. So in DIRECT translations he asks "we are missionaries. we are looking for a person who is called (no recuerdo). does she live here in this house." and she said no she moved. then my companion ask "what do you call yourself?" and she was confused. so I ask whats your name? haha It was like that the whole time! Wow! He can not speak english! hahaalthough, I was in the same boat, I couldnt think either! haha It was just hilarious, on the plus side, we scheduled a cita so that should be fun, teaching in english! haha goodtimes!
The only hard thing that happened this week was we got a flat on the bike tire and really learned how long it takes to walk from one side of our sector all the way to the other side. Allthough, heavenly father always has a plan! We actually got contacted when we were walking past a house by a guy who was very nice and he said he knew god justloved hium so we shared a book of mormon with him and he said he didnt have money and we said we didnt want money and he wasjust so happy! We will definetely pass by again later!
Then I had changes with elder Dipaz (from peru)this week andI was incharge. When I am in charge, we walk a lot! I mean we cover ground andwe do work! haha we had a cita with Felipe (the miracle man) and it wasjust awesome! He said how he had some missionaries from chile come in to get examiniations before their missions and he said how he didnt have much time to go to church and to read, but he wanted to feel god more. So I shared a scripture on blessings through obedience and said if he would give god 3-5 minutes to read everyday heavenly father would give him more time with his family! cause he is very busyt but he loves time with his family and his wife is prego with like 12 weeks to go. then elder Dipaz was like " you know you can get the scriptures onyour phone?" and we downloaded the app right there and then! and the mormon channel app! haha It was awesome! He was excited and he said how he would be able to read when we was traveling to work! YES!"!! Then best yet, we went to leave and he asks us "what time does church start in the morning?" so we told him and he said he would tryto come and bring his 11 year old son! YES! and he did come to church! I was very excited! He didnty stay after sacrament meeting, but that was the first time in 5 years that he came to church! I was very happy!
It was a very harsh week for numbers, but we worked hard, i will tell you what!
Alright, challenge time. They have a thing down here called "la lista" its for families to write names of people and to pray for them and invite them and do litle easy things. Missionaries can giveyou cards and pamphlets if you need them to but the idea is to get everyone praying for the people in the area. And its for the families not for the missionaries! So, make a list! Get to work! share the love and pray for those in need!
Thats all Igot time for this week! I love you all!
Elder Marvin =D
CHAT FROM CHILE
*Audience Cheers*
well did I have QUITE the week. Quite being the word of the week as well, because when my companion was asked how to say thisweçord he was SURE it said quiet, until I explainedto him, it was hilarious!" haha
I would also like to start by saying how everyone should be proud of me, I ate my first "just a banana" since I was 4 this week. It was delicious! haha Oh the things you will eat when you are hungry, but the tomatoe still doesnt work with me! haha
Also learned another fun fact, the bishop in the ward here proposed over the pohone (just likeyou dad!) because he was here in chile and his wife was living in las vegas! Small world we live in! haha I just thought it was funny cause not many people do that, and those that do dont normally get a yes! haha I love my family! haha
So we had our first english contact this week and BOY was that an experience. While looking for any antiguo, we came to a green house at the top of the hill. We gave our "Alo"and stand there for a minute, then a lady walks out and we say how we are missionaries and she looks at us and says "sorry, no entender" and my companion looks confused and asks "do youspeak english" and she says a little. So in DIRECT translations he asks "we are missionaries. we are looking for a person who is called (no recuerdo). does she live here in this house." and she said no she moved. then my companion ask "what do you call yourself?" and she was confused. so I ask whats your name? haha It was like that the whole time! Wow! He can not speak english! hahaalthough, I was in the same boat, I couldnt think either! haha It was just hilarious, on the plus side, we scheduled a cita so that should be fun, teaching in english! haha goodtimes!
The only hard thing that happened this week was we got a flat on the bike tire and really learned how long it takes to walk from one side of our sector all the way to the other side. Allthough, heavenly father always has a plan! We actually got contacted when we were walking past a house by a guy who was very nice and he said he knew god justloved hium so we shared a book of mormon with him and he said he didnt have money and we said we didnt want money and he wasjust so happy! We will definetely pass by again later!
Then I had changes with elder Dipaz (from peru)this week andI was incharge. When I am in charge, we walk a lot! I mean we cover ground andwe do work! haha we had a cita with Felipe (the miracle man) and it wasjust awesome! He said how he had some missionaries from chile come in to get examiniations before their missions and he said how he didnt have much time to go to church and to read, but he wanted to feel god more. So I shared a scripture on blessings through obedience and said if he would give god 3-5 minutes to read everyday heavenly father would give him more time with his family! cause he is very busyt but he loves time with his family and his wife is prego with like 12 weeks to go. then elder Dipaz was like " you know you can get the scriptures onyour phone?" and we downloaded the app right there and then! and the mormon channel app! haha It was awesome! He was excited and he said how he would be able to read when we was traveling to work! YES!"!! Then best yet, we went to leave and he asks us "what time does church start in the morning?" so we told him and he said he would tryto come and bring his 11 year old son! YES! and he did come to church! I was very excited! He didnty stay after sacrament meeting, but that was the first time in 5 years that he came to church! I was very happy!
It was a very harsh week for numbers, but we worked hard, i will tell you what!
Alright, challenge time. They have a thing down here called "la lista" its for families to write names of people and to pray for them and invite them and do litle easy things. Missionaries can giveyou cards and pamphlets if you need them to but the idea is to get everyone praying for the people in the area. And its for the families not for the missionaries! So, make a list! Get to work! share the love and pray for those in need!
Thats all Igot time for this week! I love you all!
Elder Marvin =D
Monday, November 7, 2011
Mission blog
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Alright so this week was kinda a rough one, but not too bad! Lots of good ole walking and triyng to find a plan f cause plan a-e didnt work.
We started the week out pretty good! went around and most of our citas worked out, only one sad thing, one of our new investigators we found out smokes, not like it was a bi gsurprise, but we only has 18 years and idk if he will want to have time for us if we tell him to stop that, but we d what we gotta and tell him thats its not just c ause we dont like it but cause god said so! haha he also has a palola, or girlfriend , and idk if she like sthe church very much. again, we shall wait and see.
Oh one reoccuring trend this week was finding our lunches with members were canceled without us knowing, or at least the people were ot home. So we walked all the way there and then walked all the way back to the pension. I think we had lunch on our own probably 50% of the time this week, thats kinda not the idea, but oh weel. I shoulodnt complain! We are blessed with lun ch on so many days and they normally feed us good food, nothing thats too strange... yet! haha
Also, once again, none of our investigators showed up... talk about sadness! Its so sim ple and the fast and testimony meeting this week would have been really nice for our investigators to now they are not alone, but lukily we have had some good lessons with members and I hope that they feel really welcome, they just have things come up and sick family members right now, so hopefully that stuff gets taken care of cause i really would like to see some investigators there!
I also had exchanges with the district president, and that ewnt really well! We had a lot of luck and he helped me with my street contac ts and contacting at the doors cause that seems to be my weekness! but we contacted everyone we needed t ocantact! We even got a cita with a lady in a poblation we decided to go and knock . This was my first time being in charge and boy was it an adventure! I finally had to really think about what we were going to go do !haha but it worked out really well! We also got in with one of the futures that we were hoping for and he is agnostic but really wants to learn and shows some great desire to learn so I hope that we can help him nd get him going to church and on the road for baptism! haha He is really funny though, and he smokes so that will also be someone we have to talk about that with. Then we went and finished the nigt off with Noche de Hogar (FHE) with the barrio, or ward and it went really well! We had Vania, our 9 year old investigtor come with her brother and I think it was good for her! The young women did a skit and it was HILARIOUS! One of the girls came in like mumbling and no one could understand her and so one of the others explained that she was speaking english! It was hilarious! That was the end of that day! Super good and inspiring, and then I went and talked about it with Elder Yost, and now we are trying some new things and just trying to find a lot of sucess!
Speaing of, my companion was having a hard time these last two week.s He is doing a lot better now, but he is getting to the end of his road and he is having some depression things. Its sad, and I am trying my best t help him, cause he just needs to finish strong, but lucily he is a farm boy and work s through the hard times!
S oI have a few comlaints or enjoyments, however you view it, about the cars here. I thin kthey stick lawnmower engines in the cars here! Its ridiculous! haha Its kinda funny though caue you can just hear it when they drive by, make sme glad america does it right! haha Also, thre are a lot of wanna be mini coopers, almost cool, but not. hha Also, random thought, I am the tallest in my pension, ya, I am cool! ;) oh and one last random thing, tell brody he needs to work on his no handed bike riding, cause I am PROFESSIONAL! Its fun, I can corner a nd just go along who needs handle bars! ?! hehe Oh and one more thing, yesterday Ifound out one of the ward pianists is this 10 year old little girl, and she can play pretty well! I just thought it was impressive and that we cant complain about having hard callings! haha
Now time for my funny story of the week! So while knocking doors yesterday we go to a member referral and we walk up and holler our "Halo" and this lady comes out and we say we are looking for so and so and she says how do you know my name, so we said through a member of our church, and she is like i dont know anyone in your church and j ust looks all creeped out. So we explain a little more and why we are there to calm her down and she just says I have doubts, and I dont want a nything to do with that. and so we said thanks and left. kinda a weird awkward moment. I didnt really know how exactly we got the name, but oh well. Then we knok a door and there are dogs barking so I c ant understand, but they people in the house were talking about us thrugh the courtain. then my comp says " they are speaking english" so we listen for a minute , they get quit but we stay there. Then the door opens, and out comes this 18-20 year old guy in a dress, and then ANOTHER and ONE MORE! hahahaha They walk up all seriously so we stay serious and they say they dont know who we are ever talking about so we say thanks and in their girly accents and in english say goodbye and skip back into the house! !! wow! that was SO weird! haha but very funny for us! haha
Thats been my week! ot too bad, and this week we have a HUGE conference with all the misioar ies of this mission in vina on friday I believe, something like a general authority is coming.... ya, thats right! 4th one of my mission! IM hoping its the prophet, but we will see! haha chow!
Elder Marvin
We started the week out pretty good! went around and most of our citas worked out, only one sad thing, one of our new investigators we found out smokes, not like it was a bi gsurprise, but we only has 18 years and idk if he will want to have time for us if we tell him to stop that, but we d what we gotta and tell him thats its not just c ause we dont like it but cause god said so! haha he also has a palola, or girlfriend , and idk if she like sthe church very much. again, we shall wait and see.
Oh one reoccuring trend this week was finding our lunches with members were canceled without us knowing, or at least the people were ot home. So we walked all the way there and then walked all the way back to the pension. I think we had lunch on our own probably 50% of the time this week, thats kinda not the idea, but oh weel. I shoulodnt complain! We are blessed with lun ch on so many days and they normally feed us good food, nothing thats too strange... yet! haha
Also, once again, none of our investigators showed up... talk about sadness! Its so sim ple and the fast and testimony meeting this week would have been really nice for our investigators to now they are not alone, but lukily we have had some good lessons with members and I hope that they feel really welcome, they just have things come up and sick family members right now, so hopefully that stuff gets taken care of cause i really would like to see some investigators there!
I also had exchanges with the district president, and that ewnt really well! We had a lot of luck and he helped me with my street contac ts and contacting at the doors cause that seems to be my weekness! but we contacted everyone we needed t ocantact! We even got a cita with a lady in a poblation we decided to go and knock . This was my first time being in charge and boy was it an adventure! I finally had to really think about what we were going to go do !haha but it worked out really well! We also got in with one of the futures that we were hoping for and he is agnostic but really wants to learn and shows some great desire to learn so I hope that we can help him nd get him going to church and on the road for baptism! haha He is really funny though, and he smokes so that will also be someone we have to talk about that with. Then we went and finished the nigt off with Noche de Hogar (FHE) with the barrio, or ward and it went really well! We had Vania, our 9 year old investigtor come with her brother and I think it was good for her! The young women did a skit and it was HILARIOUS! One of the girls came in like mumbling and no one could understand her and so one of the others explained that she was speaking english! It was hilarious! That was the end of that day! Super good and inspiring, and then I went and talked about it with Elder Yost, and now we are trying some new things and just trying to find a lot of sucess!
Speaing of, my companion was having a hard time these last two week.s He is doing a lot better now, but he is getting to the end of his road and he is having some depression things. Its sad, and I am trying my best t help him, cause he just needs to finish strong, but lucily he is a farm boy and work s through the hard times!
S oI have a few comlaints or enjoyments, however you view it, about the cars here. I thin kthey stick lawnmower engines in the cars here! Its ridiculous! haha Its kinda funny though caue you can just hear it when they drive by, make sme glad america does it right! haha Also, thre are a lot of wanna be mini coopers, almost cool, but not. hha Also, random thought, I am the tallest in my pension, ya, I am cool! ;) oh and one last random thing, tell brody he needs to work on his no handed bike riding, cause I am PROFESSIONAL! Its fun, I can corner a nd just go along who needs handle bars! ?! hehe Oh and one more thing, yesterday Ifound out one of the ward pianists is this 10 year old little girl, and she can play pretty well! I just thought it was impressive and that we cant complain about having hard callings! haha
Now time for my funny story of the week! So while knocking doors yesterday we go to a member referral and we walk up and holler our "Halo" and this lady comes out and we say we are looking for so and so and she says how do you know my name, so we said through a member of our church, and she is like i dont know anyone in your church and j ust looks all creeped out. So we explain a little more and why we are there to calm her down and she just says I have doubts, and I dont want a nything to do with that. and so we said thanks and left. kinda a weird awkward moment. I didnt really know how exactly we got the name, but oh well. Then we knok a door and there are dogs barking so I c ant understand, but they people in the house were talking about us thrugh the courtain. then my comp says " they are speaking english" so we listen for a minute , they get quit but we stay there. Then the door opens, and out comes this 18-20 year old guy in a dress, and then ANOTHER and ONE MORE! hahahaha They walk up all seriously so we stay serious and they say they dont know who we are ever talking about so we say thanks and in their girly accents and in english say goodbye and skip back into the house! !! wow! that was SO weird! haha but very funny for us! haha
Thats been my week! ot too bad, and this week we have a HUGE conference with all the misioar ies of this mission in vina on friday I believe, something like a general authority is coming.... ya, thats right! 4th one of my mission! IM hoping its the prophet, but we will see! haha chow!
Elder Marvin
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