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Hay estamos de nuevo, y ¡que bacan la semana!

Last sunday we ate with the stake presidente and his family and he is just great! He is new as the stake president, as of a month or two, and he is just greatly excited about the work! Then we left and I rode back from Reñaca on a bus right next to a member from Concon and we talked the whole way and it was great to here how everything is doing there! They now have a bishoprick (sp?) and things are progressing pretty good over there! That was great! Then we had to get some medical stuff taken care of and we went after a less active family. They werent home, but we talked with their neighbor and ended up sharing with them! They were really great! The father is a member but the only one in the family and he remembered all the great "noches de hogar" (Family home evenings) they had. So we planned one and they were excited and it was great! They are trying to move to the north for work, but in the meantime, we will try and help them! But they could be changing anyday now. It was great! 

So this week has definitely been a  crazy one with way too much to do and not enough time to do it all! On monday and tuesday we had a couple of citas (appointments) that we had planned and well, emergencies kinda destroyed those ideas! haha We were running around just trying to get everything done! Nothing too serious, but a lot that had to be done at that moment! Elder Young had to accompany some elderes, and the member that was suppossed to be my companion never came. So I went with Elder Alarcón to visit a lady we contacted, but she wasnt home, and then when we got back all the other elderes had to make another emergency run. So Elder Alarcón and I got the office locked up and went home because it was late. But it still went well.

Tuesday morning we also helped the Kähnlein family get legal here and that took ALL the morning! haha ALso yesterday we went with Hermana Kähnlein to get food for
all the changes and that took a little while too, but it was fun! She runs all around the supermarket and it was kinda funny but lots of fun!

Just a sports thought for all of you who like college football, the starting quarterback (at least I have been told) for Stanford, his name is Dallas LLoyd. He also served in my mission, in fact his last pday we went sand boarding together. Somebody has to tell me when you see his name on the ESPN screen! Send me a picture or something, cause thats cool! haha 

Then the COOLEST part of the week, we were going to visit some future investigators and I said " Why dont we change that and go by Alex y Silvia?" and so we did and they werent home. but their cousin who is staying with them is. And he was 19 with 3 piercings in each ear and hair that was of its own type. So we got to know him and then just explained the book of mormon a little, and asked him how he felt. He was studying when we got there and he told us " Well actually I have been a little stressed this week, I was fighting with my mom, and I have a test tomorrow and its just been wild. And usually I NEVER let people like you in, but I thought maybe this time. Its like you came right what I needed it most." IT WAS SO AWESOME!!!!!!! He is going on vacations today but we got his phone number and left him with a book and we will be contacting him once he gets back. He is so awesome and afterwards when we were leaving he said "I am going to have to tell my friends that this works!" Like listening to the word of God works. It was impresionante, errr impacting. I LOVE THIS WORK!!! We really DO NOT know who is ready to receive this gospel! So dont you dare think you can see if they will or wont!

I lied, there was one more SUPER awesome part! After sharing with a joven who is getting ready to leave on a mission, and we had a great lesson with him! He is awesome! We were walking out and we past a mom and her daughter, Elder Young Took off and he had a phone call, but as we passed the mom and daughter, I felt SO STRONGLY that we should talk with her. The strongest I have felt about talking with someone! It was so cool! and so I gave them a card and bore my testimony. It was cold outside, but they stopped and listened. We asked if we could come another day, and she said yes and it was great! I loved it so much!

Well thats all that I got for this week! The family that I was working with last change is getting baptized today as well as a little boy that we found this change, but the other elderes are going to baptize him! WOO!!!!

Well its going great here! I love you all! Ope, for this week a good challenge would be to talk with someone you never have before when you are waiting in a line. Just be friendly and talk with them with a lot of patience! Les Amo!

Elder Marvin