First
off...haha mary I TOLD YOU!!!! hahaha i told you you would train your third
cambio. I'm so proud of you. You are doing great out there in hong kong and
although that is a whole new set of challenges, its so blatantly obvious how
much trust the lord has in you and how good at this you are. Training a new
missionary is so much fun, because what you show them becomes their
expectations for the mission - obedience, work, everything. Its really fun and
you'll love it. Work your butts off again and i have no doubt you'll be
baptizing exactly 6 weeks from today....
So. crazy week
here, like always. I got to go on my "honeymoon" this week! Haha
Girsberger and I had to go to Concepcion which is like a 5 hour bus ride and it
was our first big trip together so we called it our honeymoon. Fun stuff. Also,
buses are so cool. They have huge super nice luxury 2 story buses here and
elder girsberger made so much fun of me because i literally thought it was the
COOLEST thing ever. why am i such a nerd? i was freaking out the entire day.
Anyway we got to conce and there was some pretty big news there.
Basically....they're changing the entire way we do missionary work. I know that
sounds like a big exaggeration but its really not haha.
So we know how
usually every missionary does everything - finds new people, baptizes, helps
less actives, recent converts....well, not anymore. They think that we are too
spread out, and they have been systematically putting 4 missionaries in every
branch to prepare us for Operation Alma. Operation soul that would be? I don't
know what that is in english. anyway....2 missionaries are now 100% dedicated
to finding new people, baptizing, pure work with investigators. The other set
of missionaries is 100% dedicated to less actives, recent converts and
incomplete families. That way people can better focus on their respective
things and be able to improve the quality of work in each sector. It has seemed
to work in the places they have tried it in. in Lebu, a district here, the
assistance has doubled from 78 to 150 in 2 months, with 9 baptisms and over 40
less actives reactivated. Its not supposedly a PERMANENT thing, but im guessing
it'll be the rest of my mission. So i'm about to have a much different mission
then i thought! Haha i'm like a permanent home teacher now. Cool but very
interesting. Anyway, my sector is the recent convert and less active sector
because we have more of them than they do. So thats our big thing coming up
right now. We have to present this to the zone right now and that will be
interesting, because we have a ton of fechas bautismales right now and i cant
imagine people are going to be stoked having to pass of their investigators.
but its all for the work of the lord and if we don't its just our own pride
holding us back. Kind of a good barometer of where your faith is at, no?
Anyway, other
fun stuff. Damian has literally disappeared off the face of the planet. We have
called, visited, everything. cant find him for the life of us. so....thats kind
of disappointing. but we are going to keep working and not give up. Its been 10
days since we have talked to him so we are kind of worried, but oh well. Maria
Castillo is doing great as well, she is set for the 15th! it will be super fun.
Other
stuff...today we went to Temuco! Thats the second biggest sector in our mission
besides Concepcion, and it was super fun. We went bowling and everything haha.
I loved it though, we had a super good time and it was good for the zone to be
together.
Last
thing...so this past week it was raining a ton here so we just were playing so
many pranks on each other (last p day after we wrote). Girsberger and i took
some of the water balloons someone sent me and literally made the BIGGEST water
balloon ever. Like the size of a normal helium balloon but with water inside.
Haha i don't know what we were thinking, but it started off so well. We brought
it upstairs, were about to launch it out the window to get our companions as
they were coming home from buying food, and then it broke right next to the
window. We have wood floor panels upstairs and we were like aw thats too bad.
until i started hearing something downstairs and i rushed down and realized t
was DRENCHING my desk where all of my stuff is and was just a waterfall coming
through the ceiling. oops. And then thats not even the best part, it filled up
a lightbulb (that luckily was off) with water (don't even know how thats
possible) which then shattered in this giant explosion as we were trying to
clean up the water. haha it was such a disaster. our companions had JUST
cleaned the house too and were so mad at us. ahem....oops?
LOVE YOU ALL!
Ive learned more this cambio and this week than ever before...the lord tries
our faith so much. but its all good stuff, and we can get through it if we
truly trust in him. Love you all.
Les quiero
mucho
Elder Tengberg
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