It's a Great Week in the Alberdi Ward!

 

View from Alberdi apartment window

 

 

Is that pollution or fog?  Probably both!

 

 

A 40 cm hot dog?  Did you eat the whole thing?  Almost!

 

 

 

¡Hola todos las personas que leer el blog de mi, gracias por todo, y por querer a saber sobre mi vida!

Ok here we go!

¡¡¡¡¡ I HAVE A NEW COMPANION !!!!! Ya I'm companions with Elder Nicoll from Arizona. He is way awesome! Ya pretty much the exact opposite of my last companion so we get along great haha. He is super nice, and constructive about how he tells me stuff instead of being destructive so that's a nice change. I actually feel like a missionary now, and we are keeping all of the rules, so we are having a lot of success! Ya it's pretty amazing, that and he helped clean the apartment so things are great!  He is crazy about being excited to help people and talk to them, which helps me, and the people want to talk to us because we are so energenic. There is this thing called contacts, where we go and just contact people.  We go and talk to them, well ya we were doing contacts in the street, and then next thing I know my companion wasn't next to me, but he was talking to someone else across the street, ya kinda freaked a little, and then realized that I could do it. I knew what I needed to say, and for the most part how to say it. It was awesome.

 

 

Other crazy stuff. This week we saw miracles, almost everyday. But first, when there is a soccer game on, and Chile scores a goal, you know almost instantly, because everywhere we were when they scored got really loud and crazy. It was fun. Other crazy stuff, a lady stole Elder Nicoll`s Book of Mormon, it was way funny. She took it from his hand and then everytime we asked for it back she said "what book"? Then we asked her if she was ok and she said she was sick and just got back from the hospital, so we then asked her if she was on pain meds, ya she was haha that explains it.

We were called 2 interesting things this week. One guy said that I was an angel sent from heaven to preach and to help people, he then wouldn't let go of my hand and at that point I just started to ignore him because he was saying how I was sent from God. Made me feel good. Then the other a guy said that we were prophets, ya we tried to explain what a prophet was and he wouldn't have it. We were prophets and that's that.

 

One day we contacted this lady and she said we had 5 minutes, so we started talking.  We asked if we could start with a prayer and then explained the steps of prayer. We started to say blessings that we could see in her life, and that's when she started crying. It was true, and she realized how blessed she is. so we will be teaching her later. Then we went upstairs to a family and their baby was sick so we explained a little about the resurrection and then said that we had the authority to give a blessing.  They accepted, and I had to bless the oil in Spanish, ya first time doing that, and in spanish.

 

What else. One night my companion killed the electricity in our apartment, and so we had to go ask the people to fix it.  We were without lights for about an hour it was fun haha. Oh ya! Tomorrow is Chile's Independence Day, so there are drunk people everywhere. Ya yesterday one came up behind us and brushed our butts with his coat, and when we turned around he was like "dance with me" and started dancing. When we shook his hand to leave he wouldn't let go of me and he just started dancing.  Haha I can officially say that I danced with a drunk guy.

Ya but this week was amazing we had 190 contacts, 17 new investigators, and we got the zone norma which means we made the goal for all of the stuff we have to do.  So we get a party thing. Ya I know cool. But right now everything is closed for the Independence Day so I am writing this in the Family History part of our church building, there is a ward party outside this, and ya that's pretty much it.

 

The Quiespe family that we baptised a few weeks ago are doing great.  They got the Aaronic Priesthood last week and are preparing for the Melchizedek Priesthood in a few weeks.  The father only needs an interview and Josba passed the sacrament yesterday.  The ward is great here, they try to help. There are some families that are awesome with helping the new families, and we actually have a lot a very active youth in our ward.

I figured out today that I can email whoever I want from back home so ya email me people!  I may not respond every week but I will read it and try to reply as soon as I can.  ( If you are interested in Nate's email address send your request to LaurieAlder@comcast.net and I will respond to you.)

Love you all and miss you tons!!!