Welcome to Elder Benjamin Sierra's Missionary Blog. Elder Sierra will be serving for two years in the Chile Santiago South Mission as a full-time missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.



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CHILE SANTIAGO SOUTH MISSION
FRANCISCO ARANDA 530
SAN BERNARDO
REGION METROPOLITANA (SANTIAGO)
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Thursday, March 15, 2018

A NEW WARD, A NEW COMPANION AND 2 BAPTISMS FOR THE WEEKEND 

March 14, 2018

Some neat things happened this week! 

It was my last week in Nocedal, which was a little sad. I really like that ward! I said goodbye to some investigators and some Venezuelans too, also a little sad.

But there's some good news: Fransisca, our 13 year-old investigator, is getting baptized this Saturday!!!! And yesterday, she said she wanted me to baptize her! And in my new ward, we have a Haitian baptism this Sunday... so that's cool. 

My new ward is in the same zone as my first one (when I first came to the mission). It's actually right next door. My comp is very cool. His name is Elder Albuquerque. He's a Brazilian from Recife and has been in the mission for about 13 months. He's very excited about being a DL which makes me happy 'cause he'd be my first comp as DL that actually wanted to serve as DL. 

Our sector has a few Haitian investigators and it turns out my comp speaks Creole... Actually, the 2 lessons we had yesterday we did in Creole. I felt like I was back in my training again ðŸ˜‚ 
But actually, I know enough to understand my comp pretty well and I might end up learning it, too, to continue with the investigators we have. However, we won't be putting much more focus on Haitians because there won't always be Creole-speaking missionaries in the ward. 

Anyway, I'm really happy about my new ward and comp and we shall see how things go this first week! 

Have a great week!

Elder Sierra

Saying good-bye to Mary Reyes Manrique and her family


Got my package! 


Bastian and Barbara (they're moving to Bountiful UT this month!)

Some hermanas from my old zone

Elder Boody, my homeboy

La Familia Vera Bustamante (the family of a missionary from the ward)

Los Venezolanos (The Venezuelans)

Marjorie



José and Camila

My new companion, Elder Albuquerque

The view from my new apartment