Well wouldnt you know it another week has come and gone. I really cant believe how fast the weeks have been going! The craziest of them all is that I have almost been here in La Ligua for 3 months now! haha and Thanksgiving has already come and gone! How can that even be? But thats alright! I am loving the life here!
Just s that everyone knows, as of this last sunday we have started singing Christmas songs in the sacrament meeting, so that means it is totally Christmas season! and with all the fun Christmas trees and lights, well lets just say that we even got our own little Christmas tree in our pension! Its awesome!
So the only down side of this week was when my companion was sick and well... lets just say Elder Powner was a little out with the flu. and Slept all day long on friday after a night of too many surprises. But it gave me time for extra studies! WOOO!!!! Its kinda funny how much we love our studies as missionaries! Its just awesome! the gospel is awesome and 100% true! so that helps a ton I would have to say!!!!
This week we FINALLY put a baptismal date with Jonathan! The son of the reactivating hermano in our branch! We finally were able to sit down with the both of them and show his father that he is ready and he told all of us that and we said "So Would you rather have your baptism the 1st or the 8th?" and he chose the 8th! So we are excited for him! He is excited as well!!! He is just golden and loves the gospel and he wants to serve a mission so we will do all that we have to to help him lograr (achieve) that goal!!!
We also helped a less active lady in our ward move this week. She had some problems in her marriage and seperated and I dont know what happened with her husband, but I feel like she is literally one of my sisters, and it was really sad and hard to see her in so much pain. But we invited her to church on sunday and after YEARS of not coming, she came so that she could get some help and talk with her friends that she knew she could find there! So that made me very happy to see her there!
Well there was lots that happened, I just sadly dont remember a lot right now... haha lo siento. Oh, one last quick story. While we were in interchanges this week, I went over to CABILDO!!! woo!!! and well the branch over there is working to get bigger, its a little smaller than La Ligua, but there are lots of great people there!!! We stopped and shared with an investigator who is a peluquera (barber) and she is really interested in everything! She wants to do as jesus would and she explained to us how she had been baptized before and didnt feel the need. WE shared with her how in the bible Jesus taught that the baptism is incomplete if it wasnt done by someone who doesnt have the authority to do it, and she always be followed by the laying on of hands for the git of the Holy Ghost. We shared from the book of acts with her, and she quickly understood and said "I have never felt so strongly about all of this before!" and it was REALLY cool to be there when she said that and we explained how that was the holy ghost testifying to her of these things!!! I loved it!!!
So yes, another miraculous week here in Chile, but what else is new. With 7 investigators in church, and an EXCELENT gospel principles class, 2 of our investigators were clearly prompted by the spirit through the teacher that "I know that you two are going to be married and that your family with be eternally grateful for that decision!" IT WAS SO PERFECT!!!! So there is your example of how we can receive revelation for others without even knowing
So that has been my wonderful week! I hope that everyone had a very grateful turkey day and that we are all just excited and ready to have a serving Christmas; just as Christ would ask. I love you all! Dont forget to welcome Diciembre with a big ole smile!!! Loves!!!
Elder Marvin
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Monday, November 19, 2012
La Lingua 10
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Can it really be the 10th week that has gone by here in La Ligua. I feel really connected with this branch here, and I dont think I ever want to leave.... so sorry to all those who wanted me to come home, I think I shall stay here a while... Now I just have to explain that one to Presidente Kähnlein... haha
We had a good week, although with lots of different things going on, we didnt teach quite as many lessons. We also had a few different service acts, so that was good! I have done more service in this month than I have in almost all my mission! but I love it! haha I love to get out and show people what I learned best from my home, how to run a shovel! So it has been good! and no new sun burns... other than the one I hada few weeks ago. woops. haha
Then on friday we had special district leader counsel in Viña (did I mention how much I missed Viña?!?! Gosh I love that place!!!! I always feel SO excited!!!!). It was great! They basically did what they do for the zone leader counsels, but for all the district leaders! It was great to see all my MTC district again! Although we were missing a few, but it was still awesome!!!! In the meeting we talked a lot and it was awesome because we all are leaders and working hard to get the mission excited and exploding with success! And so we all have the same vision, or at least in the where abouts and so the spirit was so great there! I loved learning everything, and I love seeing all the great elderes that we have in this mission!!! We even did some practices that were just spiritually uplifting, because we all had good attitudes about it, and that changes everything!!!! Then it was just great in all!!! Then we had to hurry home and well lets just say the meeting was over at 330pm, so we got back... at about 8pm. Not really a ton of time, but enough to go and give a blessing on Karen y Mauricios new house!!! We are so excited for them because they just have so much desires to follow Jesus, but they are a little nervous about getting married. So we are just working with them.
Then on sunday we had a special conference and Presidente Kähnlein came with the stake leaders from Quillota and well *announcement* La Ligua and Cabildo are now going to be apart of the Quillota stake! So the members were all very excited and we are very excited! It was cool to be there on the historic day! and we got a picture with everyone and well we were all just so happy!!! So felicitaciones a La Ligua y cabildo!!! Woo hoo!!! There shall be many great things to come from this!!!
Its been a great week for the spirit! and I know that God as blessed us! We gotta keep working hard so that we can meet all our goals. Well I hope that everyone takes on the mission tradition I did with my trainer a year ago. *TURKEY TROT* gotta run it hard!!! Loves to everyone on your awesome turkey day!!! Chao!!!
Elder Marvin
Monday, November 12, 2012
la ligua semana 9
Ok, bueno este semana esuvo muy bien! Creo que estamos aprendiendo como hablar el mismo idioma...errr....
jaja ok, funny funny, as you can tell sometimes as missionaries you have to learn to laugh at everything, so I am just helping you all as well! haha
Somethings that happened this week were VERY GOOD!!! For example, we visited a less active lady whos husband never got baptized though he had been coming to church for a long time! and well we shared with them and I quickly learned he had a lot of the hymns memorized and he prays better than some members! haha and as we shared with them it was really nice to feel the spirit there! The sad part... I forgot my himnario there and well they live in papudo so lets see when I get that back! haha
We had a few different people tell us they were ready for baptism this week! and all of them just haveto talk with their families and coordinate the day! It shall be grand when they tell us when! haha But Jonathon, Manuel, Medelis, Karen, Mauricio, and their two little girls all told us that they feel ready for baptism!!!! So we should hopefully start planning some more baptisms here quickly. We have a goal as a mission to baptize 1100 this year and basically we just need to have 5 more baptisms before the end of the year and I think we should very easily do our part here in La Ligua so that we can get that one! We are working hard and trying to talk with more and more poeple everyday so that we can get it!
With Manuel we POR FIN talked with him after 2 weeks without seeing him and we were expecting the worst but all is well! I was so so so surprised! We knew we just had to stick to the faith with him ,but it was just a big relief when we asked him to say the frist prayer and he asked God for help so that we could get him a new goal set and running! He truly wants it and knows that it will bless his life soo much!!!! It made me quite excited! Then we also did some of our home teaching visits this week and I went with Brian (tan bueno Brian!!!) and we got to talking about how he said he doesnt feel obligated to go with the missionaries because he can feel the difference. SO that was good to see his burning desires to serve a mission and he is just so awesome!I hope to never lose contact with him adn I hope that he will write me through his whole mission! I am so stoked for him! haha
I also heard lots of "Ha ha, Obama won!" and well lets just say people really wanted to let us know! haha it was kinda funny! but oh well, thats life right? haha
One more spiritual thought before I run along, this week while in interchanges with Elder Lara from Mexico y we were out side the church when a mother and her son walked by. The son had DOWN syndrome and so I said "Hola Amigo!" and the boy (about 12-14 years old) came over to me, gave me a big ole hug and said "Mamá, look. Hes my new friend!" and gave me another hug before he left. It was really a very cool moment and Elder Lara said "Wow, I really felt the spirit right there." It was definitely something that I really liked. Sometimes we may not feel like we can do much, but never worry about what others may think, give your all and God will bless you. I love it and all the blessings this gospel brings!!! I hope you are all very well and happy! Loves to everyone!!!!!
Elder Marvin
jaja ok, funny funny, as you can tell sometimes as missionaries you have to learn to laugh at everything, so I am just helping you all as well! haha
Somethings that happened this week were VERY GOOD!!! For example, we visited a less active lady whos husband never got baptized though he had been coming to church for a long time! and well we shared with them and I quickly learned he had a lot of the hymns memorized and he prays better than some members! haha and as we shared with them it was really nice to feel the spirit there! The sad part... I forgot my himnario there and well they live in papudo so lets see when I get that back! haha
We had a few different people tell us they were ready for baptism this week! and all of them just haveto talk with their families and coordinate the day! It shall be grand when they tell us when! haha But Jonathon, Manuel, Medelis, Karen, Mauricio, and their two little girls all told us that they feel ready for baptism!!!! So we should hopefully start planning some more baptisms here quickly. We have a goal as a mission to baptize 1100 this year and basically we just need to have 5 more baptisms before the end of the year and I think we should very easily do our part here in La Ligua so that we can get that one! We are working hard and trying to talk with more and more poeple everyday so that we can get it!
With Manuel we POR FIN talked with him after 2 weeks without seeing him and we were expecting the worst but all is well! I was so so so surprised! We knew we just had to stick to the faith with him ,but it was just a big relief when we asked him to say the frist prayer and he asked God for help so that we could get him a new goal set and running! He truly wants it and knows that it will bless his life soo much!!!! It made me quite excited! Then we also did some of our home teaching visits this week and I went with Brian (tan bueno Brian!!!) and we got to talking about how he said he doesnt feel obligated to go with the missionaries because he can feel the difference. SO that was good to see his burning desires to serve a mission and he is just so awesome!I hope to never lose contact with him adn I hope that he will write me through his whole mission! I am so stoked for him! haha
I also heard lots of "Ha ha, Obama won!" and well lets just say people really wanted to let us know! haha it was kinda funny! but oh well, thats life right? haha
One more spiritual thought before I run along, this week while in interchanges with Elder Lara from Mexico y we were out side the church when a mother and her son walked by. The son had DOWN syndrome and so I said "Hola Amigo!" and the boy (about 12-14 years old) came over to me, gave me a big ole hug and said "Mamá, look. Hes my new friend!" and gave me another hug before he left. It was really a very cool moment and Elder Lara said "Wow, I really felt the spirit right there." It was definitely something that I really liked. Sometimes we may not feel like we can do much, but never worry about what others may think, give your all and God will bless you. I love it and all the blessings this gospel brings!!! I hope you are all very well and happy! Loves to everyone!!!!!
Elder Marvin
Monday, November 5, 2012
La Ligua semana 8
Well another week and this one was a little more of a trial! haha ALthough, we did get three days in Papudo, so that was fun working in a new area!
Last Lunes (monday) we worked for all we had to have a NDH with some investigators and when some of them canceled on us, we ran over to the others ones house and asked "HEY! Wanna come watch a movie with us... right now?!?!" haha and they accepted and it was great and we watched the "how rare a posession" video with them! It was great and they were totally excited about seeing the whole thing because we only had time to watch a little bit of it! But it turned out VERY well!!! That was Karen y Mauricio who came, and they are just AWESOME!!! They really want to do what their heavenly father asks of them! The best part was we got to chare with them every day from domingo a miercoles!!!! So it was awesome!!!!
And well wednesday we werent planning on going to Papudo, but then we realized we had lunch out there and well we got the nexxt bus out there! haha So we decided to take advantage and get some citas set up for tomorrow when we were going to return and work the whole day! and we actually found some new investigators out there and it was just a great trip all the way around!!!! and we got 3 citas set up all at the same time!!! Then thursday when we returned it was a fun little day of citas when we got to know some of the less active members who really know they just need to get it together and come to church! And one of the families that we shared with was excited again and when we saw them in church on sunday OHHH!!! There was MANY happy members! and I am sure that they could feel the love from the branch!!!
Viernes we had an Elderes quorum activity and we went where? To papudo!!! haha So we went to visit even more members out there and we played a little fútbol and had some lunch with a good group of us! It was good fun! and best of all, when it came time to go home, and we said "next goal wins" we battled a few minutes and then an hermano gave me a perfect pass and I got the game winning goal. Oh yeah!!!! haha
So as you can see, it was a good fun week! On sunday we even got even more blessed as we ended the week really helping a few different people to feel the spiirit and have the desires to do what they need to to help their families progress in this gospel of Jesus Christ. I am so thankful for my calling and for the many blessings that we see through this work! I hope that everyone can really try and give a little time to listen to the spirit this week and see what our heavenly father needs from you at this point in your life!!! I love you all!!! Chao!!!
Elder Marvin =D
Last Lunes (monday) we worked for all we had to have a NDH with some investigators and when some of them canceled on us, we ran over to the others ones house and asked "HEY! Wanna come watch a movie with us... right now?!?!" haha and they accepted and it was great and we watched the "how rare a posession" video with them! It was great and they were totally excited about seeing the whole thing because we only had time to watch a little bit of it! But it turned out VERY well!!! That was Karen y Mauricio who came, and they are just AWESOME!!! They really want to do what their heavenly father asks of them! The best part was we got to chare with them every day from domingo a miercoles!!!! So it was awesome!!!!
And well wednesday we werent planning on going to Papudo, but then we realized we had lunch out there and well we got the nexxt bus out there! haha So we decided to take advantage and get some citas set up for tomorrow when we were going to return and work the whole day! and we actually found some new investigators out there and it was just a great trip all the way around!!!! and we got 3 citas set up all at the same time!!! Then thursday when we returned it was a fun little day of citas when we got to know some of the less active members who really know they just need to get it together and come to church! And one of the families that we shared with was excited again and when we saw them in church on sunday OHHH!!! There was MANY happy members! and I am sure that they could feel the love from the branch!!!
Viernes we had an Elderes quorum activity and we went where? To papudo!!! haha So we went to visit even more members out there and we played a little fútbol and had some lunch with a good group of us! It was good fun! and best of all, when it came time to go home, and we said "next goal wins" we battled a few minutes and then an hermano gave me a perfect pass and I got the game winning goal. Oh yeah!!!! haha
So as you can see, it was a good fun week! On sunday we even got even more blessed as we ended the week really helping a few different people to feel the spiirit and have the desires to do what they need to to help their families progress in this gospel of Jesus Christ. I am so thankful for my calling and for the many blessings that we see through this work! I hope that everyone can really try and give a little time to listen to the spirit this week and see what our heavenly father needs from you at this point in your life!!! I love you all!!! Chao!!!
Elder Marvin =D
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