Well this week was great. We started to work
better or we started to see the fruits from our labors. The zone leaders taught
on diligence and why it’s important. I thought that was a great thing for the
whole zone to learn more about. My companion and I started to work on that and
we also learned a lot this week about LOTS of stuff.
We were able to talk to a lot of people this
week and we found many more people to teach. We still have to wait to see if
they will progress but it was great to talk to them and teach them a little bit
but we will see this next week or so.
We have an investigator that has been progressing
a lot and her name is Emily. Her mother
named her after a sister missionary that taught her. She is 11 and really wants
to get baptized. Her grandma and mom are both members that are starting to come
back to church now and really are supporting Emily. It’s amazing to see the excitement
Emily has when we teach her or when we invite her to do something. She loves
reading the Book of Mormon and she has just been reading it like crazy.
We also learned a lot about getting robbed by
some Chilean selling donkey milk... let’s just say I had to try it and before
we knew it, we were having to pay a lot of money.
(Mom note:
This part is from an email we got Friday)
... well you could say something
super stupid happened to us today. So we left the house today and some guy was
selling donkey milk... me being me, I
wanted to try it. So I told me companion that we were going to ask how much it
was to try some. Well he told me 1000 Chilean pesos (that’s a little more than
a dollar) for a class of milk. He told me that I had to go get a glass. I went
and got a glass. Then I returned and he filled the class half full and I drank
it... he started to say some more stuff about the milk and then asked my companion
if he wanted some. My companion told him yes and he tried some then after that
he started to explain more about how much the milk costs and then both me
and my companion did the math in our heads and asked him how much we would have
to pay him. He said we had to pay him 4000000 Chilean pesos!!!! Well you could
say that I felt like he was tricking us and that he didn’t explain it to us
really in the first place. So I talked to him and told him that I was not going
to pay him that much money. One because I wouldn’t be able to live for the next
three weeks and 2 because I didn’t believe him and that he tricked us. We
called some members and they told us that the milk was expensive but not that
expensive. So, we tried to bargain because he tricked us. I wasn’t going to pay
him that so I talked with him for an hour and half and he wouldn’t take
anything less than 30 million pesos and we couldn’t get the police involved
because our president... or I actually think it’s for all the missionaries...
but we can’t because they don’t want problems. Soooo, we paid him $25 for
a glass of donkey milk!
My back is
better I have really been trying to just work out a lot so that I can strengthen
everything but the doc. told me that it still wouldn’t be enough. He told me
that the good thing is that I will be living a normal life again soon and that
I will have time to work out and do other things that will help... such as
climbing and hiking and other things.
I’m so grateful for the time that I have to
serve our Father in Heaven. I learn so much every day and really I never
thought that I could be where I am now. I’m so grateful that I have this chance
to help others know of the gospel of Christ now days and I’m glad that I can
strengthen my testimony and come to the knowledge that I have and continue to
keep learning.
I love you all!!!!!
Con Caleta de Amor,
Elder
Smith
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