September 27, 2017
Dear Family,
This week, we had a ward party for the Chilean Independence day, which was cool, but also super lame! It was cool because it was an awesome ward activity: lots of food, people dancing cueca, games. It was great! However, people (like Queene, our super awesome recent convert) asked Bishop if they could invite people, like non-member friends and family, and he said no because there wouldn't be enough food...
But you know who the members DID invite? Their extended family from other wards in the stake who were already members. So, really, no purpose was served except partying, and they made sure not to have investigators there. Elder Bellido and I were kinda mad, but that sums up our ward and many others in Chile. They don't really care that much about sharing the Gospel if most of their family is LDS and they have enough LDS friends to not feel lonely.
Well anyway, we did get transfers. Elder Bellido left, I'm staying in this same ward, we're continuing as DLs and my new companion is Elder McKane! He is super fun and really enthusiastic! He's from Draper, UT, and has been in the mission for 11 months. It's been really nice because he's a lot more relaxed and patient and that just makes things easier for me and less stressful.
We had a rocky start to our first day, though! We had to take a bus back to our house from the stake center because we had his bags, and the two directions for the bus are really close and I took the wrong one! We ended up going about 30 minutes in the wrong direction! We ended up at the end of the line and I talked to the guys there and they sent us on the same bus going the other way and we finally got to the house! But, I think I may have left a backpack on the bus with one of my notebooks, a water bottle and some other stuff. That was kind of frustrating.
Our first day was pretty good. We got to do a lot of proselyting and it was just kind of refreshing. I feel like a lot more will be able to get done now. We found some investigators, made some visits, and we even got a really good reference in a pick-up game of basketball! We got the district pretty excited too. Monday I gave the class on "hablar con todos" (talk to everyone) because we had an area seventy, Elder Bragg, give us a zone conference a couple weeks ago and he talked about that a lot and said that if we need to talk to 600 people to get a baptism, then that would be 21 people a day for a baptism every month. So I was like, "Well, what if we just do that?" so we're going to keep track and strive for 21 people a day.
Today was a fun p-day. We played water-balloon volleyball,10/10, highly recommend. We also wanted to watch a movie so we checked President's "approved" (or so we thought) movie library and saw the Fantastic Four. We thought, ok! We started watching it and then stopped watching it... we're pretty sure President never approved it. It was pretty lame anyway. And now we're here writing!
All in all I'm excited about this week, I think a lot will change and I'm happy!
Have a good one everybody!
-Elder Sierra
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