WOW. haha i know i say every week that its crazy but this week has by far been the craziest. I literally have slept every night for like 4 or 5 hours, been at the church until after 12 (with permission obviously) and just been all over this freaking mission. Anyway. Starting off wednesday....
Wednesday night at
4 am we get a call from president martinez (thats never good) and he told us
the older senior couple missionaries in our ward needed our help. the elder had
a stroke last month and was actually in a coma on life support here in temuco
for 6 days and its a crazy story, they actually have a blog i think, its elder
and sister babcock. They have a crazy story and its a miracle he's alive still.
Anyway he fell on wednesday night when he tried to go to the bathroom and
couldn't get up, so he got ahold of president and we ran over to help him, and
then got to DRIVE to temuco! I let girsberger drive because he had his mission
license when he was temporarily in south carolina, but still. We drove an hour
to the hospital at 4 in the morning. So crazy. Anyway he is still there right
now so we have to check up on him and his wife and stuff but they are doing a
lot better. Thats story number 1.
Thursday and friday
we were setting up and getting EVERYTHING ready for our activities on friday
and saturday and our baptism as well, and before we left for Concepcion on
sunday for conference with president. So we had an activity called "Noche
Fogonera" which is fireside. but we took it so extreme. We built a fake
fire inside the church, got people to bring gas stoves and toasted marshmallows
on them (impossible to find marshmallows here in chile....they're missing out,
we had to go to an american type Walmart in temuco to find it!) and had
speakers and everything. We even had tents. You can see it in the picture. but
basically we talked about eternal families the entire time. We watched a couple
mormon messages and just enjoyed being together. We had people share stories
and just be together and it was really special seeing people and investigators
share in spiritual experiences. Anyway, girsberger and i are going to become
professional party planners, i swear. We are getting real good at this thing.
Haha people LOVED toasting marshmallows and we made hot chocolate for everyone
too. The ward doesn't like how we´re real good at using the ward budget...but
hey someone has to do it, right?
Saturday we had two
baptisms. Until 10:30, then we had a third. Haha karla and mayerly got
baptized, you can see here in the picture that they are just adorable and they
did so well. they have a super long story...they are the sister and niece of a
member int he ward who is our mamita, and haven't wanted anything until 2 month
ago when karla and Alejandra (our mamita) mom passed away. it softened karla so
much and just opened her heart to the gospel and eternal families, and I've
never seen her so happy and peaceful as that moment. Crazy how Alejandra bore
her testimony and said "Two months ago i never thought i would smile
again, and how the lord has blessed my family amidst all this trial. we are
going to do the work for my mom in the temple and we will be an eternal
family". So cool. Later, we were going back and forth between our
investigators and going to Tolhuaca, the other branch in our same city that has
the 4 sister missionaries in it, to do the interviews with a family of 4
that are eternigators and are just taking so long. but he had some crazy dream
where he finally realized that he wanted to do it, so we just put everything
into action. Anyway, the dream he had to cross this river to get to his wife
and family and missionaries on the other side (his wife is just dying to get
baptized, jus waiting on him) and but the thing is that he had to follow this
kid, Esteban, who he had only met once in a noche de hogar the week before with
our golden family that got baptized last week. so.....we got things rolling,
got permission to baptize him with 2 asistencia from president, Esteban had
never been so surprised and so happy in his entire life, and we got them
all dunked. Minus the family, who still were porfiado and stubborn and said its
too rushed, we want our family to be here, and we will si o si do it next week.
So they will be baptized this week (the four of them from tolhuaca) with our
three here in victoria (carolina Camilla y cony). haha going to be really cool!
Anyway, thats the work here in victoria.
Im all out of time,
but we also did a "rescue of the youth" which was a great idea. Had
all the youth gather together of the stake, then go out and pick up the
inactive youth in our ward and bring them to the activity that afternoon. huge
success. Great idea and should be applied there in Poway!
Still freezing down
here. never been so cold in my entire life....but never been so happy and
filled with the spirit and so excited to share the gospel with everyone i can.
I'm so glad to be out here and so humbled to be having the success as a zone we
are having right now, the lord is just pouring out his spirit and we don't even
have enough room to catch it, i swear. but we will just keep trying to
find all those elect that he is preparing!
I love you all,
have a great 4th and ill be thinking about you!
Elder Tengberg
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