February 22, 2017
Dear Family,
So this week was very neat with a couple of funny stories. First off, this happened like a week or two ago but I forgot to mention it:
My comp and I were on our way to do divisions with our district leaders and were going to meet up at a food court in a metro station. We got there early and, all of a sudden, a guy who looked really German (there are some Germans here in Chile) came up to me and my comp and spoke to us in Spanish with quite a strange accent.
Guy: Hey do you understand me?
Me: Yeah.
Guy: Cool. Come, I'm too full and don't want this chicken sandwich from KFC, so you can have it. Kapish?
Me: oh... ok
So this guy just came up to me and gave me a sandwhich like I was poor or something! But then I realized, I AM poor... and this sandwich looks pretty good... My comp didn't want it so our district leaders found me eating a KFC sandwich, laughing and quite perplexed. Later, I came to find out it was an $8 sandwich! And it was REALLY good.
Sunday, we were leaving an apartment complex and a visibly drunk young man came up to us with his less drunk friend and invited us to come to his house in about 3 hours. It was pretty weird, but so are people when they're drunk, so we ended up heading over to his house around the time he mentioned and followed his vague directions to where he lived. We found him (still drunk) and his friends and family outside having a barbecue. We just started chatting with them and they handed my companion and me a fork with a piece of steak on it! We began getting to know them for about 10 minutes and they kept giving us steak on our forks and then gave us some soda. They then told us some people inside wanted to talk to us. We kinda wanted to go because we noticed they weren't super interested, but we were invited inside and didn't want to be rude and not accept.
We entered the house and there was an older mother and her adult daughter. We talked to them and they had some questions and we ended up teaching them about the Restoration. They turned off the TV and settled down a couple of loud children and the Spirit was really strong! Just when we finished, a middle-aged guy came in and was like, "Hey, what's the truth?" and we were like, "What?" He repeated the question and everyone listening was confused and he was like, "the Bible! DUH" and we were like, "Well, yeah." Then he began saying things like the Book of Mormon might be neat but the Bible's the only word of God there can be, and thus began the closest thing to a "Bible-bash" I've had on my mission. It wasn't really a Bible-bash because it was actually just us pulling out scriptures from the Bible that contradicted his own falsely conceived ideas of its nature. And the guy didn't even know the Bible well- like at all. We looked up his OWN scriptures FOR him because we knew where they were and he didn't, and then we explained how it clearly didn't say what he thought it said. We didn't even do it for us or for him, but so the people we were teaching in the room could see the authority we carried with us. It was obvious to everyone in the room. It was a funny and neat experience and we have a return visit so we'll see how it goes.
That's the bulk of what happened other than we've been just enjoying the sun (actually not really- it's hot!) and doing ward activities. We're actually getting almost the same attendance at activities as Sacrament meeting (which is great and sad at the same time!!
There is progress, it just seems like it can't be with the same person for more than a lesson or two, but that's February here in STGO. We got dope swag ward lists that have all the baptized members of the ward (approx. 500 for us) and it's very organized in a nice folder with some pages with filters. It's gonna help a LOT with the work, we think, and finally, we can actually update the state of everything in the ward because the list is all on the drive. We take notes on all the less actives and actives we visit and put it in the computer via Google Drive and then, later, peeps put it in the MLS (Church program thingy?)
To answer your question, the best part of being a missionary = having a better testimony, love for the Savior and Gospel and then getting the chance to share it. It's really a bonus if they accept it to a lasting extent because I've learned to find joy in being able to just share it (though of course it's SUPER better when they accept).
So that's all for this week!
-Elder Sierra
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