Alright so I will explain the title of the email later, but
basically I am 100 percent sure no one will mess with the missionaries in our
sector hahhahaha.
This week was a really great week, for those of you who do
not know we had a world wide broadcast where church leaders talked and spoke to
us for two days on Saturday and Sunday. It was amazing to feel the spirituality
of their messages and the Conference comforted me because I know that God calls
his servants to work here on the Earth, and these servants gave us counsel
directly from Him this last weekend. If you did not have the chance to see it,
I would highly recommend visiting lds.org. My
favorite message was definitely the one by President Monson in the Priesthood
session about charity, it really teaches us how to better love others.
That being said it was a great week this week, as always we
had some ups and downs, but overall I really enjoyed the work we were able to
accomplish.
As always with the people. This past week Elder Gowers and I
had a cool story I would like to share. Last week I think I mentioned a man
that we contacted while we were looking for another person, well we went back
to his house and had a lesson with him. His name is Ricardo, he is 60 years old
and comes from the South of Chile. He lives in a rough situation at his house.
He lives with his wife who is almost deaf, and their son Christian who has some
mental and physical problems, so Ricardo has to work almost 90 hours a
week to support his family, but he loves us coming by to visit. We had a
lesson about the Restoration of the Gospel and how Christ´s love for us is
something that will never cease to exist. He then told us he knows our message
is true because of the Spirit he felt, Elder Gowers and I are going back today
and we are going to invite him to be baptized. We have had a little bit of a
set back with Nevel and his baptismal date, he wants to wait until is family
from Haiti gets here so he can talk to them, but he continues to come to church
and read the Book of Mormon, so we are still excited for his progress.
Overall things are great, and now I will explain the funny
moment and the title of my email. On Saturday Elder Gowers and I were going to
an appointment in between Conference sessions and we stopped and talked to a
guy on the street who called us over. He looked like a total thug who just
wanted to rob us, he had a cigarette in his hand, his reggatone music playing,
and his pants really low. We talked to him and he said that we were really cool
and that we are friends now, so he would "watch out" for us in our
sector. His name is Bastian. So moral of the story is, make friends with the
drug dealers so none of the other gangsters want to pick on you hahahahha.
As always it was a great week with some great people down in
Santiago. We had interviews with President Gwilliam this past week and it is
always nice to get some spiritual upliftment and be able to talk with him.
Things are going good, the weeks keep flying by, there is so much to do in so
little time to do it!
Love,
Elder Tilghman
Moroni 7
Capture the flag paintball
Elder Soto
The Condell and Balmaceda house
This is Elder Brown, I read his blog like a year ago before I left on the mission, and now he goes home soon
This is a view of our back porch
Paintball
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