This week was great, the progress we are seeing in our
sector is amazing and the things we have been able to accomplish with the help
of the Lord are unreal. This week was also really great because a ton of
unexpected things happened, so that shook up our routine for Elder Gowers and I
in terms of what we did a little bit.
Ok so as with always, lets start with the people. So a new
thing that our mission has implemented is that every ward has a list of all the
members in their ward, whether they be active or not. We have been asked by our
President to go and visit all of these people and share a message with them
from our bishop with an emphasis to get these peeople to come back to the
church, and try and find new investigators from these sources of less actives.
So it has been awesome, we have found a ton of people who are members but do
not go to the church and we have been able to teach them and their families,
all while having the Spirit present so that it touches their heart. But, that
being said there are always the people who for some reason hate us missionaries
and who do not want to talk to us. Yesterday we were going through thelist
finding these people and we knocked on the door, a man opened it and was
smiling, saw us, frowned and without saying a word closed the door shut. So that
was funny. I guess my name is just too hard to pronounce, so he just figured he
would save time by slamming the door shut hahahha. But these people are great,
and I love working and serving with them, it makes my life exciting.
Ok so funny moment of the week. ON Saturday Elder Gowers and
I went to the city center to go and do some paperwork for the mission so that I
can be legal here in Chile. On our way back we got off the bus and started
walking back towards our sector. but on the way back Dude (who is basically the
mission pet dog) found us and followed us around all day in the sun, he would
not leave us alone. Usually this dog just stays by the misson office, but it
decided to spend the day with Elder Gowers and I, the problem is that all of
the other dogs hate this dog. So as we were walking around during the day,
hordes of dogs would come up to us and Dude barking their heads off and trying
to pick fights, so we could not really do many contacts in the street because
we were more worried about our heads getting taken off by the dirty street
dogs. So, that was a fun Saturday, definitely something I never thought I would
be doing in my mission, avoiding dogs who want to pick a fight with our friend.
Eventually we called the office in the night and they came and took Dude back
closer to the office, so that was our experience for the day.
As always I am loving the mission and the things that I am
doing here, I would not rather be doing anything else with my time. I am
excited to see how we can complete the Lords work and keep teaching his
children about Repentance and salvation. I love you all and I hope you have a
good week!
Love,
Elder Tilghman
John 14
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