Hello my friends! That is the phrase that I hear everyday
when I walk by one part of my sector because this guy always yells it
hahahhaha. We are planning on stopping by to talk with him during the week
because he always yells at us. But anyway, this week was awesome, there were
some weird experiences and some major spiritual impressions.
So last week was my first week with my new companion Elder
Topalda, he is a great guy, but things are definitely different than when I was
working with Elder Jones. I have taken the lead this week because he does not
know the sector, and I have really been scheduling us to work hard because
honestly there is a ton to do here and I love it! As far as our investigators
go it was a great week. We finally found Jacob Jupiter, our Haitian
investigator, and during the week he is working in a different part of town, so
we can only find him on weekends. We had a lesson with him on Sunday just to
catch up on how things were and he began to cry because he is having some
troubles and life problems. The Spirit was really strong, and we shared the
love that our Father has for us. We had a member in the lesson and he invited
Jacob to be baptized and he said he will when he finds an answer! Our other
investigator Rudolfo is progressing a tooooon. On Monday we had a lesson with
him and we explained the importance of the Book of Mormon, and as we were
talking we all felt very peaceful and the room got very reverent. We commited
him to pray to know if what we are saying is true, and he did it and said he
recived an answer! He said it was not strong, but that he definitely felt it is
true, so now we are just working to get him a baptismal date.
All these lessons were great, but I think one of the
most spiritually powerful moments I had on my mission was with a less active
yesterday. His name is Juan and he has problems that he really wants to fix. We
went to his house and just started to talk, just a nice conversacion.
Eventually he told us that he feels lonely and that he feels weighed down by
these burdens he has. He told us that the only time he ever felt truly happy
was when he was baptized. He began to cry and we testified to him that the
feeling he had was sent from our Father in Heaven when he was baptized. The
Spirit was so strong I felt like I could physically touch it, like it was an
object in the room, I have never felt so peaceful or more sure of anything in
my life than when we were teaching him. I honestly love all of these people so
much, and I want to do all I can to help them.
The crazy story of the week was that on Saturday we had
lunch with a less active family in our ward. They started talking about past
missionaries and showed pictures of when the missionaries baptized one of their
daughters like 20 years ago. I could not believe my eyes. As they were talking
they said one of the missionareis was named "David Woffinsomething",
and they pulled out a picture of my uncle Dave! I always knew he served in
Argentina, but I guess this part of Chile was part of his mission too. Uncle
Dave I want to give you a shout out and say that the Moreno family that you
worked with in Parque Combarbala is partially inactive, but we are working on
reactivating them, and we already did it with Carlos. That moment was crazy,
and it was a testimony to me that missionaries are called to serve in the world
for a reason, and I think I found one of those reasons.
I love you all, I hope you are doing good! Read your
scriptures, pray and go to church!
Love,
Elder Tilghman
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