I´m starting to lose track of the days... They are blurring together into walking, teaching, and contacting. haha. But I guess that's what life is as a missionary. So... today we had a zone activity where we played fútbol and ate a bunch of food and stuff, it was fun.
So with Gabriel we still haven´t challenged him to be baptized, because every time that we are about to, his mom comes in or says something that just totally kills the Spirit. We are still teaching him, but he also hasn't really read any of the Book of Mormon, so we are trying to get him to do that right now.
Janis has had a lot of good experiences. Not yesterday, but the Sunday before, she had a bad experience at church because no one talked to her and she didn't feel welcome at all. But we had a member come to a lesson with her last week and convince her to come to church yesterday. She had an amazing experience in one of the classes, they talked about eternal marriage and the types of things or blessings that it can bring into a home. It really helped her to see what she can have if she decides to follow the law of chastity and be baptized. We had a lesson with her later that day and it was so amazing. She really wants to have an eternal family because family is all she has. I think she will come around eventually and decide to do what she knows is right.
We had an experience this week where we were going to an appointment with Janis. While we were walking there we saw her in the street going to the doctor because she had been sick. We decided to go to her house anyways and try and share with her sister, because we have shared with her once before. When no one answered the door we went and contacted this woman that was just standing on the sidewalk. Her name was Jakylin (spelled something like that) and we started talking to her. She said that she had had the worst past couple of days and she explained a little of what had happened, it really kind of had been pretty horrible. We shared how much God loves her and how she can receive blessings in her life, and things like that. She then told us that she felt so much love and peace and joy when we started talking to her. She basically said that she was feeling the Spirit. At this point we were pretty pumped cause YA!!! she feels the Spirit!!! Woot!! We talked a little more about the doctrine of Christ. After that she told us another story, that earlier that day something had told her that everything was going to be alright (cause she was super depressed), that God would send two angels to send her a message to tell her what she needed to do. Now at this point, I don´t even know how to describe it, the Spirit was so strong. We shared more about the restoration and Joseph Smith and gave her a Book of Mormon and a pamphlet. Then we went on with our day. This testified to me that the Lord really does prepare people to hear the gospel. It is truly amazing the Spirit that is in this work. I really don´t know what to say about this experience, but to testify of the Spirit that I was able to feel.
We also taught a lesson with a new investigator name Isabel. She didn't know anything about the life of Jesus Christ, or really anything religious for that matter. It was really interesting to teach her because we literally had to define and describe every religious word that we used. It was a good experience and a good lesson. She seemed really interested and I hope she continues to want to learn more.
There is a lot of reactivation work here in Chile. In my ward there are about 800 members, but only 100 of them are active. It is really sad, but it is the truth. We teach some reactivation stuff, but mostly we try to just find and keep new members. Mostly because we can´t find the non-active members. A lot have moved and we don´t know where, things like that. For that reason, we mostly just teach new investigators.
That's all for this week. Oh, I think I forgot to say that we named the cat Cajóna, because Cajón means 'a drawer' in Spanish, so... yeah. The kittens don´t have names, they all look the same as the mom except one that is black. Love you all!
¬Elder Michael Knapp
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