Week 69

Elders Castellon, Letelier, Flores, and Haws

Up on the hill above the sector

Phew, another week down again! Time isn’t slowing down a bit!

So here we are, another day in the cyber describing the week. The week was very simple. The letter will be pretty brief because nothing really happened. Seems like our sector is just a ghost town.

With investigators we didn’t see much action.

-        Estefano was working double shifts during the whole week and we couldn’t talk to him by calling him either. He didn’t come to church on Sunday either. So let’s hope he’s still out there and interested.

-       We were able to find a few new people but they didn’t want to give us too much time to share. We found a lady named Ana Maria and she seems pretty cool. She is having some troubles with her family and we testified that our message was to help people in their family situations like those. We testified of the savior and the lesson went pretty well. We weren’t able to set a stable time to come back so we hope that we can find her this week again.

Our work with the less actives and converts was hard. None of them were home. And we couldn’t visit a single person that we had in our focus group. It was kind of disappointing but we went on anyway.

The great international fair of Concepcion came into town on Friday. It’s a huge setup where various stands from all sorts of countries are there selling cool stuff. We went there today and it is pretty awesome. I got myself a really cool Quena. It’s a typical Chilean folk music instrument. It’s like a flute or a recorder or whatever but the difference is that it’s a long wooden stick. It sounds pretty legit. I like all the instruments that are here. Some are pretty unique.

We are enjoying getting to know the members just a little bit better! We are passing by them a lot more, and I personally can see that it is helping them.

We made glorious brownies with the Castillos.  Here I am ready to cut it all up

One cool thing that happened with a member this week was:

There is a guy in the ward named Alex and Alex was born deaf and therefore mute as well. He was baptized a few years ago and is married to a lady in the ward who has epilepsy. This week he got some special hearing aids and now can hear. It’s pretty cool because he has just discovered what all sound is like and now is trying to learn Spanish. He is a really funny guy. We were all really happy for him. Cool stuff. Amazing what technology can do these days.

Our days this week honestly consisted of walking around hopelessly all day in the heat looking for any living soul that would listen to us. It was kind of depressing but hey, that’s the way it goes sometimes!

There isn’t much else to say! The week was a long one. We hope that this one will be better! Thank you all so much for all that you do for me. This week I especially felt the power of your prayers. I am so grateful for all of you and all of your love! I know that our Heavenly Father is prepared and waiting to help every single one of us. He has angels ready to bear us up. I know the gospel is true. Thank you for everything guys! Love you and miss you! Have a great week!

Elder Ethan Haws

Up on the hill again