Hey All!
I will start by answering some questions that my mom asked that might be interesting for you all to know. We do both tracting door to door and just talking to people in the streets, but generally just talking to people in the streets in between teaching appointments. My Spanish is coming along alright. Poco a poco. I am understanding a lot more than I was last week, but that still isn't much. It is really hard to learn new words too because we don't have the same kind of study time as in the MTC, but its coming along. And lastly, no my feet don't hang off the bed. haha. We have normal twin sized beds. Not all Chileans are short, just most of them. ;) So although the beds are normal sized the doorways aren't always normal. Needless to say, I have hit my head now many times.
The 18th (their Independence Day), was just like any other day, we tracted, taught, all the usual stuff. The only difference was that night we went to the activity that the ward was having. They had food and drinks there. They were just dancing so we couldn't really do anything but sit there and watch, but it was still fun. It was really interesting to see all their different dances that they have. It was nothing like any dance that we have in the US. They pretty much only did their native Spanish dances. At one part they had some Brazilian music where they did some line dances (those were really entertaining to watch cause they're totally not like how you would think of a line dance being.) But that was all for the 18th. Oh wait, we got pulled (literally pulled) into two houses by drunk guys. Inside there was just a bunch of drunk people sitting there wondering why in the world we were there. It was pretty funny. We just kinda talked for a minute or two and they found a way to escape. Their Independence Day is like our Fourth of July mixed with Thanksgiving; they eat a ton and all the family gets together like Thanksgiving, but then also party and all that fun stuff.
We we had a surprise on Saturday. On Friday a cat got into our house through an open window. We didn't know it was there until Saturday morning when I went to put my socks on and reached into my sock drawer. I felt something super soft and it freaked me out. I couldn't actually see into the drawer because there was a thing in the way so it only opened enough to put my hand in. I jerked my hand out and like 50 thinks flashed through my mind of what it could be. But then I moved my sock out of the small opening and there was a cat... Needless to say I started screaming in English that there was a cat in my drawer (I only say I started screaming in English because we only speak Spanish so it was funny). So all I could see was a little cat face and so I moved some more stuff and "THE CAT HAD BABIES IN MY SOCK DRAWER!!!!!" Yeah the cat had babies in my sock drawer. 5 I think, maybe 6, but yeah. So after a while of discussing what to do we finally decided to make a little home for them until we could find someone who wanted them. So outside of our apartment we made a little house and have been feeding the mom. It's pretty crazy. So yeah, we have like 6 or 7 cats now!
We haven´t really had many progressing investigators lately. I hope that we will be able to commit Gabriel to baptism today. He was the first person that we taught my first day here in Chile. We haven´t been able to teach him for a week because of the holiday. We do have one investigator named Janis. She is super awesome and has a testimony and wants to learn more. After we taught her the law of chastity she broke up with her boyfriend and the were separated for a week. Then they got back together and they are planning to get married, but not until next year. It's really frustrating because she was progressing so well and then he came back into the picture and now we don´t know what to do because she can't get baptized as long as she is still breaking the law of chastity.
I can't think of anything else at the moment that is worth mentioning.... Oh a little side note, I am allowed to write emails to people who aren't family, so if you want to email me my email is william.knapp@myldsmail.net. But, just so you know, I don´t have an unlimited amount of time to write, so if you do write me I may not respond immediately.
Okay I think that's all for today. Love you all, hope you are doing well!
Elder Michael Knapp
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