Hello All!!!
My week was really good! The Spanish continues to get better every day! It´s funny though because I am like learning Spanish and forgetting English! Haha
This week, my companion and I went to a park to do some prosilyting, we talked to this one girl for thirty minutes about her life and about her beliefs...etc. She is an atheist, but is open to ideas. She was really receptive to what we had to say! She laughed at my southern accent and helped me with my Spanish. Lol. After talking to her for like fifteen minutes, she was like...I speak English? I was like, NO WAAAY!! haha. We ended up getting her information, showing her on a map where the church was and when it starts, and turning her info in for the field missionaries to take over. Her name is Cxxxx Cxxxx. This was a very spiritual experience...it felt soooo good to actually teach real people and not fake investigators. This was Wednesday.
Thursday was 9/11, so it was a sentimental day for me as well as the Chileans. That was the day that they fought for their indapendence from the dictator, so things were pretty crazy. They wouldn´t let us leave the MTC because if the wrong person sees you on that day and knows you´re american, they´ll hurt you. It´s because they blame us for them having a dictator in the first place....kinda weird.
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| Elder Jackson at the Temple |
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| Elder Jackson making friends on Temple grounds |
Then Friday, we went out on splits with field missionaries...my companions name is Elder White. He is a good ole boy from Idaho. We got along really well. He has been out for 18 months and just became a zone leader. We went walking in the streets to go to a certain guys house...we contacted severaly people. The first guy we talked to basically just ragged on other churches, but didn´t want to hear our message. The next lady´s name was Mariah. We talked to her for a minute at her gate, and then asked to have a lesson with her, and she let us in. We sat on the front porch and talked to her about how the gospel has blessed her life. She is a strong believer in Christ, but has problems with a lot of the churches. We told her a little about her church and asked her if we could come back...she enthusiasttically agreed. She asked me to say the closing prayer...super awesome experience...my first prayer in Spanish outside of the MTC!! :D Upon her reccomendation, we went to the house across the street to talk to a family. A young boy answered, his name was Byrun. We talked to him for a minute and then he invited us inside. After opening with a prayer, his sister walked in...we invited her to the lesson and after some coaxing agreed. Her name is Nicol and she is 20 years old. Their family is seperated and they live with their dad. We talked to them about how the gospel blesses families in many different ways. After that, I felt that I needed to share my testimony.
I told them that though my family isn´t members of the church, the gospel has blessed my family in subtle ways. If for nothing else, that it brought my family together for my baptism and for my farewell. They didn´t say anything and thought about it for a good thirty seconds. Then, we got a return appointment, prayed, and left. We went to the boy´s house that we initially wanted to go to...he walked up right after we got there. His name was Miguel. He was very nice. We didn´t really have time to talk, but we setup a time for my comp to come back and he gave us some water because it´s starting to get hot here.
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| Not sure what's happening |
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| Megabed3 Third Continent!!!! |
The streets are crazy here right now because of indapendence day...there are people selling a million different things! Also, I got to ride a public bus and a metro for the first time! Pretty dang awesome! There was a lot of grafitti in the metro station.
Other than all of this, my life is just classes and Spanish here. I am finally at the point where I can sit with the Latinos at meals and make jokes with them. One of the Hermanas here reeeeeaaally likes bread, so we call her Hermana Pan( Sister Bread). HAHA She is from Costa Rica and plays on the University of Costa Rica´s women´s soccer team...she´s pretty good. I started playing goalie in the mornings at soccer because there are so many people now...I´ve still got it! ;)
I hope all is well, and i can´t wait to hear from everyone next week!! :)) Last week at the MTC! I leave next Tuesday morning!
Love,
Elder Jackson
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