STAR WARS. Well actually I have not seen the movie yet while
I have been down here, we are going over to our Presidents house in about an
hour to go watch it, and we will get to eat Papa Johns at his house too, so
basically today is better than Christmas. This week was really good and full of
brand new experiences for me which was awesome. And our teachings and
investigators are making progress, which always makes me feel very happy for
them.
This week was full of meetings at church and with our
investigators. On Saturday and Sunday we had Stake Conference, which is where
all of the wards in a certain area go and meet up, and it was good. But pretty
much all day on Saturday we were in meetings and learning, so we could not
accomplish much, but it was great to be able to learn from some of the
speakers. On Sunday we had the general meeting of Stake Conference, and we
invited a ton of investigators and they showed up! Our Haitian friends showed
up and some of our new investigators that we invited, so it was a great
experience. Monday was a great day too, a girl in our ward got her mission call
so we went over to her house for the opening and she is going to Buenos Aires,
Argentina, so that is really cool. And while Elder Jones and I were at her
house we met her friends and other ward members who said they know people in
our area we can go teach! We stopped by one mans house and he literally
straight up told us he wants to be baptized, and I almost died of happiness.
So, the work is good, our Haitian friends will be baptized next week, and we
have a ton of new people to teach which is always a good thing.
I personally had some new experiences this week too. On
Sunday at a members house I had my first sushi ever, and it is not half bad. I
just wish my first sushi could have been from a nice restauruant and not a
convienence store, but either way it was still good. Elder Jones had to go
renew his VISA on Friday and we had to travel to downtown Santiago where they
have the nice buildings and it was really cool, it was like being in New York.
But, the trip took most of the day, so for lunch we went into the mall and
ate... Taco Bell! It was so good, I think it might be better than the States,
but yeah Friday was a cool day. And of course, I had another experience with drugs
this week! Yesterday while Elder Jones and I were talking to a member in front
of his house he told us to look over in the park across the street and all we
could see was a teenage girl. The member told us that she is the biggest drug
lord in our area of town and that she is super scary. We did not believe him at
first but then he told us stories about how she has been in shootouts, almost
died a few times and about how she pays of the Carabineros (Police) so that
they do not come drive around and interfere with her operation. And we believe
him because our area that we work in is super rough and we never see any cops,
but now we know why hahahhahahahah.
Things are going good, we walk everywhere to get around
because it is small enough to walk everywhere, but we take the Subway and the
buses to go to places that are far away. Overall I love the mission, it is the
most fun I have had in my entire life, both with helping the people and having
fun with my fellow missionaries. It really is the best two years. I love you
all, I love to hear about things happening at home, do not forget to write!
Love,
Elder Tilghman
(I do not have a scripture, but feel free to go look up Alma
40, it is a great chapter.)
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