Hey everyone so this week has been a little crazy down in
our sector, for some reason a weird heat wave is rolling through Santiago, so
it is boiling down here, but that just makes it easier to contact people
because we just knock on their door and ask them for a glass of water, and from
that point on we start the contact. But this week has been very good and very
spiritual, I have definitely seen the hand of God in the work that we are
doing, and the guidance of the Spirit has never been stronger.
Ok so as far as the people go that we are teaching, ca va
bien. That means it is all good in French, because we are literally getting
about one new Haitian investigator everyday, they just love to share the gospel
with their friends and family that they know, and invite them to listen to us.
About two weeks ago, Elder Gowers and I passed by a house to go teach one
Haitian, who was a contact we got in the street. We have continued to teach
them, and everytime we pass by, another one of their friends is there in the
lessons, so I think there are about 7 people in that house we are teaching.
They have amazing questions about the gospel, and some of them are super
Evangelico and have a hard time accepting the Book of Mormon. But we shared
with them about faith and how if we have faith we will want to learn more about
God, and then we invited them all to read and they all got quiet and said that
they would love to learn more about God, so they are going to read the Book of
Mormon. Like I said in one of my previous emails, I want to visit Haiti. At
this point right now I think we have about 13 Haitian investigators, they are
all super piola. We are also teaching a bunch of younger people that we have
met by playing soccer with them and talking with them in the street, so we are
excited to see how they progress as well, and we are trying to see if we can teach
their families!
This week has been a great week of finding and working to
help out the lost children of God. Yesterday we had a big mission meeting where
we got introduced to a new system and a list to help us find the less active
members in our wards, to help them come back to church. Our initiative is to
use this list to find and teach the less actives, and then teach their non
member families or friends, so we will see how it goes. Elder Gowers and I went
to one of the said houses yesterday. We were in an area of our sector that we
rarely go into, and we saw a house on the list that said a less active member
lives there, so we dicidimos a stop by. A lady answered and we started talking
to her, and we asked her about her life and she told us she grew up in
Australia, so then I looked at Elder Gowers and we started to talk in English,
and she told us English is her native language! So it was awesome and cool to
teach someone in English, and this lady had an Australian accent as well, so it
made it even cooler. We got her reference and we are going to stop by again.
I am loving the mission, and I honestly would not change
this experience for anything. Yes it is hot, and yes the people refuse to come
to church, and sometimes they yell ugly things at us, but that is the path that
Jesus walked, so when we walk that same path, we only get closer to Him. I love
you and pray for you and hope that you are all good!
Love,
Elder Tilghman
Ether 12:25-28
The man Elder Gowers and I
Elder Sims and Elder Shirrod, love those guys
And another picture with Elder Soto
Kinda blurry, but we had a nice district family night last night, and we made some food at Elder Rodriguezes house
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