Labor in the Vineyard: week 76: I saw the Ocean

February 5, 2018 (transcription from audio file)

Hey guys, this is week 5 of transfer 12. Today's gonna be a short one. We just got back from a trip to a Lake called Lake Vichuquen and the beach. So we're heading to the library right now to write and Licantén is pretty small so it's a short walk. But it's been a good week.

Earlier in the week we found a lot of new investigators. We went out with the Branch President and he helped us. He brought us some references. He knows just about everybody in this town because he works in the bank and it's the only bank for about two hours. I think I may have mentioned that. So yeah, he knows a lot of people so we just show up at people's houses and he talks to them for a minute and they're like, "Oh, Juan, so good to see you. Come on in." And they just invite him on in, and we go in with him and share something and it's great. It's really great to be able to work with the members. It helps a lot. A LOT! We found a family, two families, of less active members who were baptized about twenty years ago. There were some missionaries who just baptized a LOT of people in that time but none of them stayed active.

But then, Wednesday we went down to Curico for district meeting. Then after lunch we had a meeting for the District leaders, the Zone leaders and the sister leaders...a little leadership meeting. And then we did splits. We went in the sector of the Elders there in Bombero Garrido, one of the sectors in Curico, and so I went with Elder Mora, who's Brazilian, he's pretty new in the mission...he got here with Elder Hiatt. And Elder Hiatt went with his companion Elder Bundy from Nevada. So we worked there all afternoon and in the night we ate Sushita which is sushi wrapped in pizza. Pretty awesome idea.

On Thursday we had Zone conference, so we stayed the night there because it's like a two hour drive to Curico from Licantén. Other than that the week has been good.

We found a new investigator a couple weeks ago who's really awesome. He's intelligent and receptive. He's a single dad. He's divorce and has his daughter on Tuesdays during the week. And he accepted a baptismal date this week for the 17th of March. He seems pretty excited to read and pray and get his answers. He understood really well.

And that is about it. I'll send you some pictures from the week. We are in the library now. Take care, I hope everything is going good back home. Love you guys. Bye!