March 8, 2017
ok... So this week was pretty normal except for when it wasn't, which was a little bit. The zone leaders asked us to fast as a zone for the benefit of the work therein. This is potentially the hardest zone (or so I've heard) because the leadership is a little whack and there's just a lot of old less actives that were poorly handled by the wards and prior missionaries. Despite all that, we've been finding some diamonds in the rough. Yesterday, we were going to see if some Haitian investigators were home (you gotta love them Haitians) and then some guy came up to us and spoke to us in English like, "Yo, can you come and talk to me in my apartment here?" And we were like, "Yeah, theses guys aren't home, so sure!" We went in and the guy (Javier) was talking about how his wife left him and he was fired from his job. I don't even know why he knows English cause we just went right in to talking to him about his various trials. He was crying a lot and was saying that he felt, like, maybe if he might pray that might work. It was really sad to see him in so much pain, but then we shared with him various truths and scriptures and showed him how he could apply it to the problems he's facing to help him overcome them. He said by the end that he felt a lot better and we're gonna see him tomorrow. He has a little chapter to read from the Book of Mormon and he was really excited to read it. It was neat because a lot of appointments fell through that day for us to eventually choose to pass by this one house of our investigators and then to be able to run into Javier. It just goes to show that no act of faith goes unnoticed by the Lord.
We also had a really nice movie night in the ward. We watched 17 Miracles in Spanish. None of them had seen it before and it had a really edifying effect on the ward.
Fun fact: in Chile they don't salt or butter their popcorn. They put sugar and oil on it! It's kinda kettle corn, basically.
Have a great week everyone!
Elder Sierra
Some pictures of our house (before we cleaned it up, unfortunately):
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