Hello my friends! Another beautiful day down in Santiago,
the weather is actually a little warm and sunny today, so that is a nice change
of scenery. The dogs have started to chase around the other Elders so now it is
their turn to suffer. And we just watched the Chile soccer game in the
Confederations Cup against Portugal for Pday, overall it has been a pretty
swell day.
Ok where to begin? This week we made some serious progress
with our investigators. we have strong concrete dates with people who actually
have the desires to submit themselves to the Fathers will and follow the
example of his son Jesus Christ. It has been a miracle watching the Atonement
work in the lives of people, the ones we teach and also my own personal one.
Elder Gates and I have also started to teach some of the kids who come to
Mutual and play soccer with us. We had a good lesson in the street with them
about The Restoration on Sunday, the Spirit really testified of the truth. The
kids decided to learn more and have been studying the pamphlets that we have
left them to read, so we are excited for the progress that we could have there.
We also had a powerful lesson on Monday night with a less active member. He has
been struggling with some life problems and choices and we had a powerful
conversation on the power of Christ to break the strongest bonds, even those of
heartache and addiction. Overall I am loving the work and how it is
progressing.
Ok so funny story of the week happened about an hour ago. We
were watching the Chile soccer game in the house of a member and all of the
sudden during the penalty kicks the tv stopped working. We were freaking out
and we decided to ran outside in the apartment complex, and we finished
watching the game with the neighbors of the people we knew. We just burst in
their door asking about the game, and they told us to sit down (Chileans are
very nice when you want to watch soccer with them). Chile won, and we got
scared. We were in a prettty rough part of the neighborhood, and everyone
started leaving their house and yelling and going crazy, on top of that they
might have been a little drunk, so it was interesting. But Chile won!
I love the mission and love how things are going, I can
honestly say I have not had a better experience in my entire life. The people,
places, animals, food, atmosphere and the lifestyle are all different, but in
the end all of us are sons and daughters of a loving Heavenly Father. That is
our purpose, to bring His lost souls back to him, and I would not rather be
doing anything else. I love you!
Love,
Elder Tilghman
Jeremias 18
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