Hello hello!
One to tree! Ha thats what everyone says to me in the street. They cant even
say one two three. But i swear i still find it funny when they try.
Anyway this
week has been awesome! We started off the week really strong and then it kind
of got difficult to the end, but things are really going well. This week we had
the Busqueda del Tesoro, that activity that i had told you about. We made
little burnt maps for the teams that actually had NOTHING to do with the
treasure, then hid it somewhere in the church (but 10 minutes in, we didn't
want them to find it fast so we hid it after it started. what?? we had to keep
the game going! everyone was like "i totally looked there!" haha yes,
you did.) But it turned out so good. We had about 50 people there and 16
investigators, which was awesome. Now comes up another one end of this month!
So things are looking good. People really had a good time so that made us
happy.
In other
news....Fernanda and Gladis are doing really well! They are super good for
their baptism for the 23rd, and they are excited. We may have a tiny
complication but we still aren't sure, but as of now everything is good.
Fernanda has so much faith, seriously. She told us some stories confidentially
and it was crazy to see how she really trusts us and believes we are sent from
God. Some stories that after we gave her the blessing (she left the next day)
that she saw a man dressed in white by her bedside all night, and the next day
she was fine. She thinks it was an angel, and it was just such a spiritual
experience when she told us. I thought it was a doctor, isn't my faith so
strong? but she assured me it wasn't the doctor. haha I'm so dumb sometimes.
Anyway she is super happy and we are happy for her too. They went to a baptism
Saturday of an 80 year old man (it took about 10 minutes to get him to actually
go underwater, so sad) and she loved it. So things are good there!
In other news,
Cecilia is super prepared. She is the mom of a recent convert we have been
working with a ton. This week we had a really spiritual experience with her and
she accepted a fecha for the 30 of november! She has been evangelical her whole
life and her only fear is talking to her evangelical friends in the future and
having to tell them she truly believes this stuff. She said "I know its
true, but they just won't understand...but it doesn't matter. I get it."
And it was super spiritual. I wish i could say i was part of it but elder
medina has been working with her for about 5 months so its cool to see how
things changed. Her daughter is 13 and now she is coming to the church too!
Anyway, great stuff. She actually was in Santiago this week so she went to the
temple to see it, and we will find out how it went tomorrow. Super, super cool.
Sometimes the Lord just needs time to prepare people! Or i guess maybe they
just need time to recognize he has already prepared them. But anyway, she is
awesome and we love her. She is so funny and just never stops making
jokes.
Emilio! SUCH a
cool kid. This story is honestly exactly like Marcelito from Victoria. We
passed by the mom and she is super super closed off. She will listen to us and
everything but she has just come from a catholic background her whole life and
even when we showed her a couple things in the bible about baptism, she was
just like "I would never change. Never. My padrinos (godfather i think?
not sure what the name is in english) would roll in their graves. I could
never." and at the very end we just talked to the son, who is 13. and he
came and played football the next day with us (also i am very good at goalie.
Probably because thats all i have played for a year and a half because NO
ONE LET ME PLAY BECAUSE I CANT DRIBBLE WITH MY FEET) and he LOVED it. he is 13,
such good kid, and just super sano. Like doesn't do anything bad and just
wants a place to have friends and have fun. He is super awesome so we are
excited to watch how he opens the door for that family too. Anyway that's all
for this week.
I love you all
so much. Its hard being a missionary sometimes...but every time i think its a
little hard, i remember how little i do and how much Christ does. Honestly i do
nothing, he did all i do and 100x more for BILLIONS of people. All i do is
teach - he suffered and died. All i do is walk - he carried a cross. I get
doors slammed in my face - he gets nails in his hands. I love being able to
experience LITTLE parts of what he went through, because it just makes me
appreciate him so much. I can honestly say that I love the savior, and i think
its the first time in my life i really mean it. That i can really say that I
love him and appreciate what he did.
love you all.
The church is true and God lives!
elder Tengberg
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