How in the world has is already been another week? The time
here flies by, the days feel long at times, but the weeks feel like days, if
that even makes sense. This week has been very good and and have been able to
see progress in everything that has been happening with the work down here in
Chile.
So this week was a good week for our investigators. Our
friends from Haiti are making good progress, and this week they had some
questions that Elder Jones and I are answering, we are making sure that they
understand. All of our Haitian investigators have huge hearts, and they are
awesome, everytime I see them in the street they always yell "Hey
Tagman!", because they cannot say my last name right hahahaha. Our Haitian
investigators have a baptism date for next Saturday, so I am praying and
working with them to make them ready for baptism! This week was also good
because Elder Jones and I have a few new investigators that we are teaching and
some of them also accepted the invitation to be baptized! We work hard everyday
and I am absolutely loving it.
So a little background about Chile, the culture here is so
much different than the US it is crazy. Our schedule is different than other
missions because we have to wake up and go to bed an hour later because Chile
is infected by a disease called laziness. Everyone here is so lazy it is crazy.
So anyway, the people here also only eat one giant lunch for their meal of the
day, so our lunch appointments are always a ton of food and it is a ton of
beans, and if you know me, I hate beans. But, I am learning to love them.
Chileans are so funny because all of them try to learn English so that one day
they can go to the US, so everytime we are walking in the street we hear,
"Hello, how are you?" I hear this probably twenty times a day hahahah.
Yesterday we had a meeting with a man from the church who is
in charge of all of the missions in Chile, Argentina, Paraguay and Peru and he
was really inspirational. He made me want to work harder and he really helped
me to understand our purpose as missionaries. I have found that when I am
working I am much happier than when I am not.
There was a super funny incident that happened this week and
I thought that I would share it. So the place that I am assigned to work in is
called La Granja, which in English means The Farm. And it definitely is a farm,
but not a farm that grows food, our area is a farm that grows all kinds of
drugs. I have seen more drugs and drug deals down here than I ever even knew
existed, and the Chileans have no shame, they do drug deals in the middle of
the day right next to a busy road, it is awesome. But anyway, Elder Jones and I
were teaching a lesson in the street this week, and we saw some guys walking
towards each other with a purpose, which means that a drug deal is about to go
down. So I kept an eye on them out of the corner of my eye to watch the deal.
The guys met up and tried to make the exchange all smooth, but they dropped the
little bag of cocaine, so it was just laying in the street. They yelled at each
other and then one of them picked up the bag and they ran away. It was super
funny.
But yeah things are great down here in Chile, I am loving
life. Everyday our entire house gets up an hour early and runs a couple of
miles, so it is a great way to start the day. Spanish is really coming along, I
am able to understand almost everything, so now I am working on speaking! Life
is good, for our P Day today we played soccer and basketball, and we ended up
playing gringos versus latinos, the gringos won basketball, but sadly my fellow
gringos could not pull out the win for the soccer game. Things are going good,
life is awesome, I can see myself learning everyday. Love you all!
Love,
Elder Tilghman
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