Well....interesting
week. Im in this period where you start to realize that there is so much that
we do but that there is so much more that we need to do. I know most of you
wont understand what I'm trying to say but its just all in my head and I'm
trying to get it on paper so have patience. Haha my sector is doing pretty well
but we still have some work to do. But real fast we will just start there!
Nicole Elegida
has just disappeared off the planet...elder miyasaki saw her the other day and
apparently she still wants to get baptized this saturday the 10th and is super
excited but we have not been able to find her so i have no idea whats going on
there. her grandpa is sick so I'm sure thats why, but its just frustrating when
there is lack of contact with people because you cant help them come closer to
christ! But i would be surprised if she doesn't get baptized this week or this
next week the 17th. And that would be with....
Bruno and
Kati! Bruno and Kati are just about the most faithful couple ever now. So cool.
On wednesday we passed by and taught the law of chastity because they aren't
married. And they were like..."well, your right, we are living in sin and
we don't want to do that anymore." So we asked them to give us their
carnets (chilean ID) and we went to the municipalidad and we took out an hour
for them to get married. So now they're getting married tuesday at 9 in the
morning because they let two 20 year old boys choose it. haha no thats just the
only time available, BUT WE ARE HAVING A WEDDING! Haha isn't that so cool? And
we will be here for it too. We are going to marry them and then they will get
baptized on august 17th. We are just so excited and cant wait for them to be a
part of that. They have a ton of faith and are so sweet. So thats bruno and
kati. Bruno worked all night saturday night and came to church sunday too so
its just ridiculous..they really want to follow the savior. There are some
people here that are just so faithful and really have such strong desires to do
the right thing. For all the crap we go through, there is some really special
stuff that happens too.
Oh, I'm with
Elder Rico right now too! he is from Colombia so we are super happy together.
He served in coronel too so we talk about there, we are cruising right now in
victoria and we have already become good friends. He does the insanity workouts
every morning and i tried ONE morning to do it with him and then i was like
NOPE and went back to eating pan amasado and getting fat. He goes home in less
than 3 months so he has to get skinny, but I'm just living the high life still.
Woooo! Anyway, all things are good here in victoria. I really really love it,
love our converts, love the branch. We actually have branch conference this
week and our goal is 100 people, like double the normal, so its going to be
really cool. We have activities every night, and are trying to just flood the
branch with animo. Anyway, thats victoria.
And then there
is consejo. Thats like council i think, but its the meeting all the leaders of
the mission have with president every month. basically it was just like
"You guys are all an embarrassment." haha and i wish i was kidding.
The mission baptized 93 in june and 46 in july... a huge drop. our zone
baptized most in the entire mission which is great but it was still sad. He
started to ask about our goals for august, and what we are going to do, and then
he snapped. Well it was all planned but it freaked us out. He asked one of the
zone leaders (actually the coronel ZL) what their goal was, and they said 15,
and he said "No lo va a lograr". "you aren't going to reach
it." And we all were just like uhhhh...what? And he proceeded to ask every
zone, and said "I promise you, right now, that none of you will reach your
goals. I promise you. In fact, ill sign it. Ill SIGN it. Give me a piece of
paper and i will sign it and promise you that this month, none of you will
reach your goals." We were all just like WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON??? But
if anyone has seen MIracle, the movie about the hockey team and the part where
the coach says there a bunch of losers and they don't deserve to wear the us
jersey, they can imagine what the response of is a bunch of 20 year old
testosterone missionaries...one missionary who served in the military said
"President, with all due respect, you're just a man. I have faith in my
god, not you. I looked in the eyes of multiple captains who said i would never
make it back alive, who said i would never live again. And i will never forget
the look in their eyes when i walked away with my rifle on my shoulder. And i
will never forget yours when i come back here with 2 baptisms as a zone."
it was SO powerful. It inspired us so much, so i guess it worked. The idea was
just "i promise you will never reach your goals if you KEEP living like
this. You aren't being good enough missionaries and aren't obedient enough. We
cant keep doing the same thing and expecting different results." it was
really good actually because it really made us wake up and realize that those
results are truly terrible.
We have 238 missionaries in the mission...and 46
baptisms? I know numbers aren't everything, but sometimes we let ourselves be
complacent in life because its the normal, and we forget that we are really
here for a heavenly father who NEEDS his kids to come back to him. I realize
finally that every person i see needs to hear this message, because if they
don't hear it from me they may never hear it again. like they have a father in
heaven who wants them back and unless they follow this plan they aren't getting
there. But it just really inspired me so much I love the work, and love the
gospel.
Les quiero
mucho,
Elder Tengberg
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