Ok so this last week was pretty awesome. Elder Lindow and I
have been working our ties off and our ward is doing great. We have a ton of
progressing investigators, some baptismal dates, and as well the number of
people who come to church keeps going up woohooo. I am grateful in this
Thanksgiving season for the opportunity to serve the Lord and the people here
in Chile, I know the Lord helps and guides in His work that we perform.
Ok so the investigators. So on Friday we went to go play
soccer at our chapel with the other ward and Elders that we share the building
with. On our way we went and talked to all of the kids that we could who were
out and about playing soccer and invited them to go with us. Two kids, Hector
and Fernando, said they would meet up with us at the church. We were a little
bummed no one came with us, but towards the end, Hector and Fernando showed up
and played with us, and then invited us to their houses the next day to teach
them. On Saturday we went to Hectors house in the morning and started to teach
him about Christ. He stopped us and told us that he knows our messge is true.
He had been praying to God for many weeks to get help with strengthing his
faith, and afterwards he felt prompted to go outside to go play soccer. And
then we showed up. Boom baby, miracles happen just got to go and get them! So
Elder Lindow and I were pretty happy and then we went to Fernandos house later
that afternoon and we show up and he starts asking us questions about the
church and Christ. We teach him and he says he has read the Book of Mormon a
little before and then told us he knows we are people sent from God to teach
HIs Gospel. BAM, two miracles within a four hour period, and on top of that we
had hamburgers for lunch that day, so BOOM, three miracles in only four hours!
We are also teaching the homies (The Haitians) and they told us we need to
teach them english and spansih because they want to get good jobs and be able
to understand people at church. This was also a miralce, but it was yesterday,
so our lucky 4 hour miracle window did not cover it. Actually we have had a ton
of miracles this week, no one in the ward got mad at anyone else, we only got
threatened one time this last week, and the dogs did not bite us but the other
people!
Ok so funny story of the week. Bueno, not so much funny as a
little dangerous, but do not worry mom nothing happened to us. On Saturday
night one of the gangsters got shot and killed by another gang in our sector,
so on Sunday about a good quarter of our sector was having a good old La
Pintana funeral. So people were respecting the dead by rioting, playing loud
rap music (I did hear some english songs) and walking around drunk and high as
freak in the whole sector! The funeral services lastes for 4 days, so that was
fun.
Ok so other story, this one strengthens my testinmony that
God protects HIs missionaries. So on Friday we went to go check on a reference
at like 9 thirty at night. The reference was on this sketchy alleyway with only
one way in or out, and just as we entered, I told my companion to stop. I heard
voices from around the corner behind us talking bout..... us. They were talking
about where we lived and how we looked rich, and all of the sudden footsteps
started to come from around the corner. We hurried and backtracked and right as
we left the alleyway and stepped into the light, two hoodlums came around and
walked right at us, we walked away and they followed us, but we shook them off.
God watches over us.
I love the mission, it is awesome, no other place I would
rather be, I am definitely counting my blessings this week, Happy Thanksgiving!
Love,
Elder Tilghman
DyC 46:32
BYU Bound
The boys that I live with
Typical trash field catches on fire at night time!
We celebrated my half birthday, hey when a good moment comes you got to celebrate it
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