Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Dearest family,

Hey thanks for the email mom. Sounds like you guys are enjoying the nice weather up there. Its finally getting warmer down here. I love it. Yes we hear all the time about the trapped miners. I think they're a couple hundred miles to the north of us but it sounds like they're all still doing fine. Thats awesome that Elder Cook came down and talked to you guys. Hope you got some good things out of it. In two weeks we have general conference. I'm pretty pumped for that. We get to watch it in english all the gringo missionaries. It'll be a great experience.

Well this week was quite the week. First of all, it was the bicentenial of Chile so everything was crazy. Walking around in the streets the air was full of smoke from the barbeques and everyone offers you food and we probably ate like 7 empanadas each. Seriously, we ate so much meat this weekend I don't think we can teach the Word of Wisdom anymore because we're not living it haha jk. But it was great, the chileans are really proud of their country.

We had some amazing experiences this week. I'll start with Gustavo, Jeremias' dad. Before last week he had some doubts and still didn't want to commit to baptism. We visited him Sunday night and things were the same. So monday was P-Day and we hadnt planned to visit him that night but later that day my comp and I felt like we should visit him. I was reading in PMG about the conversion by the spirit and felt like we should read that with him so we decided to visit him and bring PMG. When we got there is wife (who is a member) wasnt there and we started sharing the lesson with him. We read that part where it says when the spirit touches your heart, your heart changes. When he read that he looked at us and after about 1 minute of silence asked us when we could hold baptisms. He said he's gonna get baptized this weekend the 25th of September but he wants it to be a surprise for his wife haha. So wow, what blessings we can receive by following the Spirit. This saturday he's gonna get baptized. Oh and yesterday we had the baptism of Noelia, who is 11. It was really spiritually and everyone got a little emotional. There really is nothing like seeing people get baptized. I'll send some pictures. Her great aunt came, who is baptist I think, and said that she's gonna come to our church every sunday for now on. Their whole family is now active and we're working on helping their 15 year old son, Eduardo, get baptized. He wants to do it but just needs to work out some things first. We also found a lot more new investigators yesterday. A family of 5 and another guy that is 23 and is single that said he wants to get baptized Oct 17th. We're having a lot of success here now and its all because the Lord blesses his servants when they ask for it worthily. I love the mission so much. Its been amazing. Thanks for your examples. I love you guys. Que siempre estén felices y cumplan con lo que se les propongan. Recuerden a todos que a ellos les aman en sus oraciones. Gracias, chao,

Elder Webb