The final
week before another cambio...geez time really does fly by and I sitting here
trying to recap what happened this past week! It definitely was a week a little
bit more bitter than sweet. Once we hit hump day, the work was pretty slow and
got worse until Friday. Friday night we met a man who was better than gold, he
was platinum. We were going down a road that we don’t usually go down to get to
a less active’s home and a man cleaning a car called out to us in English. I
ignored it at first because usually that happens a lot; men say the only English
phrases they know to try to flirt with us. Well this man kept talking and so I
stopped and turned around and figured that we might as well invite him to
church because we had no success the whole day. When we came up to him, the
first thing he said was I know about Moroni. My campanion and I were surprised,
as he continued to tell us that he had read the entire book of Mormon and while
clasping to his chest he said, "I love that book, it touched my
heart." Unbelievable! We continued to ask him questions one after another
in excited high pitched voices like little girls talking to Santa Claus. He
told us how no one had given him the book but that he had found it a year ago
in the street. He said that one night in particular, he was leaving work to go
home but felt impressed to go a different way home than how he usually goes
home. As he turned on a street, a car came down the hill with its lights on and
the car shined on the book. As he picked it up, he said he felt a profound
feeling in his chest. I wrote down all the information of this man, Refugio,
but unfortunately he didn’t have a phone number and so I told him about meeting
up in the capilla at four in the afternoon and we invited him to church so that
we can start teaching him ASAP. Excited, he accepted both offers, but as the
next day came he wasn’t there even though we had waited at the capilla for an
hour.
Along with
our disappointment, our hearts dropped a little when we found out suddenly the
familia Galleagos were moving to Alto Hospicio which is a city behind Iquique
and up the mountain, its about a 40 minute commute. We helped them pack up as
much as we could, but in the end the two zone leaders from Alto Hospicio ended
up loaded the truck and making two runs to and from AH because we were loaded
with investigators to find to bring for a baptism and get to church with us the
following day. We were hit with another misfortunate event when Augusto wasn’t
at home, the next morning he was there as well but finally after church we
waited two hours outside of his house and sure enough he came home from the
beach. We walked with him to the church building and he asked us what we were
doing outside his pension. We told him we waited for two hours outside and he
smiled so wide he couldnt believe it...Pitola was right about him, he really
looks like Chris Brown when he smiles. We ended up teaching Augusto the law of
Chastity and reading from the Book of Mormon, both of which went really well.
We asked him about his baptism still for this Saturday and he told us he really
feels ready, Augusto has really surprised me considering he is 21 and a body
boarder, his views and opinions on life were already very aligned to several
laws of the church, he has shown me that there is hope amongst the youth in
this country who still uphold values and wisdom. We introduced him to the young
single adult group that meet up every Sunday night for family home evening, he
really enjoyed it and Castro and I felt relieved that we had actually secured
one of our precious investigators :)
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