Hey everyone this week has been a great week! Elder Gates
and I are loving the area and the work and we are finally being able to see the
fruits of our labors in the Lords vineyard. I am really excited to tell you all
about it.
Ok so as always we have to talk about the people. These past
few weeks Elder Gates and I have been working with an investgator from Haiti
named Nevel. We have been focusing on baptism and the blessings that come from
being baptised and following God because he is having a hard time adjusting to
life here in Chile. We had a great lesson with him last night about Gods love
for us and how he blesses us everyday in our lives with little things, and
Nevel said he felt the Spirit and that he wants to be baptized! We are pumped
and are so happy for him because we know just how much his life will be
blessed. This week as well we have been able to find some great new people to
teach as well. We were going back to visit some future investgators and we
ended up teaching two lessons to two Haitians, both of which speak perfect
English. They loved what we taught and we are going back to speak with them
some more, and they committed to come to church. This past week we also had
some deep discussion with a Buddhist. I had never really talked to anyone of
that faith, but then we found Tomas on Sunday. He is passing through some hard
times and we sat down and talked with him about God and his own beliefs. It was
a powerful lesson and we testified and bore witness of the power of Jesus
Christ and the power of prayer, at the end of the lesson we all felt at peace,
so we are also excited to see where things will take us.
We have been having English classes here in the church every
Saturday night for a while, but we have had trouble getting people to come, so
last Thursday we went out to the street market that runs right in front of the
house and started handing out cards to people inviting them all to English
class. We had some really funny discussions. This guy started coming up to us
and yelling at us in English, and he must have thought he was saying bad words
but he was yelling words like "pancakes" and "bicycle" at
us, and then he did not even come to English class. I guess he will just be
walking around saying random English words for a while.
Ok so other funny story of the week. We were in the street
last night on our way home to the house and a lady approached us. She had some
alcohol in her hand, so we knew right away it was going to be an interesting
conversation. She asked us to give her a blanket because we were cold but we
told her we did not have any blankets and she got mad at us. She then started
to say some stuff in Portuguese because she thought we did not understand, but
with the little Portuguese I have picked up, I then asked her a question, and
she looked at us in awe. She then told us she did not need a blanket and then
walked away, after asking us for money. ¿Voce fala Portugues?
I am loving the mission and I hope that all of you are doing
awesome! I pray for you and wish you all the best!
Love,
Elder Tilghman
Ecclesiastes 12:13
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