November 16, 2016
Dear Family and Friends,
This week there has been a lot going on in terms of proselyting! We've got tons of things to do all the time and it's pretty tiring! I'll be honest. In my last area (6 months), we were always so exhausted that when we learned that President Kimball took a 15-minute power nap daily, I decided to follow his example. The trick was not to just go to sleep for an hour but to take a 20-minute nap. It made such a difference! I could power through until midnight somedays. (We actually had permission to work until midnight if we needed to!)
We had a really cool experience Sunday night! We were going from one appointment to the next one, which was about 15 mins away (cause we walk everywhere :( ), and we were already going to be about 5 minutes late. However, on the way there we saw this guy walking with a walker SUPER slowly, like, he took a step every 3 seconds. We passed by him without offering our help because we figured we were late enough but then, we kept looking back and by the time we were about 30 yards past we decided to run back and help him. We had the guy sit on his walker/stroller thingy and asked him where he lived so we could push him there. He ended up living about 15-20 minutes away!!! (and that's for fast-paced missionaries)
When we got to his house he thanked us and walked inside. He actually lived behind another house (very common in Chile; people live on top of each other a bit) and there was a women there who started talking to us and thanking us for the service. She was his neighbor but thought it was cool that we helped him. She said he usually gets home around 2-3 in the morning! (this was about 9:30ish at night) We were about to just leave and try to salvage our appointment but the women was so kind that instead, we started talking to her and began to share about the gospel. She was very, very interested and we started sharing the Plan of Salvation. Then her husband showed up and I thought he was going to try to shut us down but then he was also super interested and started asking us about José Smith and why he was so important! It was unreal! They invited us inside and we taught them for a good little while and then the both of them started crying and said they've been through such hard times. We talked to them about the healing power of the gospel and set up another appointment. They were basically estactic to read the pamphlet we left them! So we'll see what comes from this but it was just a super cool experience on following the Holy Ghost because I know it was His influence that lead us to find that family.
On a less spiritual, but much tastier note, we made fried chicken wings in buffalo sauce at a less active's home. Elder Sims used to make fried wings at a B-Dubs back in Utah so he showed us how it's done. It's actually stupidly easier than I thought!!!!
That's mostly all I have to share for this week!
Lots of Love!
-Elder Sierra
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