week 69:Jorge is getting baptized this week

December 18, 2017

Hey everyone, how's it going?

This is week 4 of transfer 11. And we are just finishing up an activity in one of the play centers/parks here in Rancagua with 3 of the zones and the office. It was like a big combined thing, it was like an Olympics but without sports. Doing things that President's wife invented, like wheelbarrows and piggy back rides and like filling a bucket with water...you know, that kind of thing. So that was fun. And then we had Papa John's!  They gave us a budget for it. I was sooooo excited about that because normally for our zone meetings we kind of pay for everything...we buy food if we're going to do a BBQ or something and then everybody pays us like 2 like dollars per person but a lot of the time it ends up being a little more expensive for us and we lose a bit of money almost every time. But this time they actually gave us extra money to be able to do it so we got some Papa Johns Pizza, which was awesome and had some medals for the winning team for the winning zone. We did NOT win although we kicked butt at the wheelbarrow race and some of the other races but there was a type of soccer baseball mix, almost like kickball, but it was still different from that, and that wasnt good for us because we're 9 gringos in our zone and almost no latinos so we were kind of in trouble for that game.

This week was a good week, we did exchanges/divisions, I don't know what it's called in English, with Do ñihue, I've mentioned it before...it's a country town. So that was good. I was with Elder (?) We're working a lot on talking with everybody. Kind of helping him get over the fear barrier and talking with people in the street. so that was fun, it was good. He's a really really good missionary...great future. He's kind of new in the mission. He only has about 6 months.

The next day, we didn't have lunch, so we just went and bought pork (sorry just had to run across a street) so we made pork tacos, something I'd never done before. Luckily it turned out super good. Elder Lee had had some mexican companions so he  made some sweet salsa the other day and we put the salsa on the pork tacos and it was soooo good. We like grilled up the veggies and blended it all together it was good stuff.

Another thing that was really cool this week was working with Jorge. I'm pretty sure I mentioned him last week. But he is an investigator who we found at the very end of November. We contacted him in the street with Elder Davis. He was just super prepared, like God does all the work with him, we haven't done anything. I mean we've obviously tried to help him as much as we can but he was basically ready to be baptized right away. We moved his baptismal date now...this week we moved it from the 13th of January to the 23rd of December so we're really excited about that. So yeah, he's going to get baptized this week. I'll be able to tell my family about that in the skype this week. He asks questions when he has them, and nobody's gonna just have NO questions. Like he has some doubts every once in a while, but nothing that impedes him from being baptized and he's really excited. There are some members who are really excited to help out with him and actually a member that we've been working with, with him, who's going to baptize him. The story is actually kind of funny. We sent a text so that brother/member asking him to congratulate Jorge on accepting the baptism and that he was going to be baptized. So then we go to talk to that member and he speaks English, and he was like, "Hey guys, guess what?" and we were like, "What?" and he said, "I talked to Jorge." And we said, "Oh? yeah? that's good. And how'd it go?" And he's like, "yeah, it went good, bro. But I asked him if I could baptize him and he said yes. I'M going to baptize him." And haha, so he made an executive decision to kind of decided that HE'S going to be baptizing him which is great, it was just kind of a surprise for my companion and I because we'd planned him to ask him about it in the next lesson. So that was good. 

We had a couple chances to go and help with school activities. We went and sang with the ward choir in Rengo on Tuesday and then yesterday we went and practiced with the Church's Choirs for this big activity in the plaza here in Rancagua that we are going to be doing. So it's actually tomorrow. It's this big Light the World activity, which is going to be cool. 

I think that's about it. Nothing super interesting. I'm excited to talk to the family on Christmas. That'll be good. I don't have my scriptures out to give a good spiritual thought right now. But I hope everyone is doing well. I'm doing great. I love you guys. Take Care! Bye!

Elder Lee and I and our pork tacos