Called to Serve: Chile Rancagua : Week 62: Our Investigator Might Be Wanted By the Police

To explain the subject line....we started teaching the sweetest lady this last week. Cute little family and everything and we were so excited. We confirmed the second appointment the night before and then we headed over to her house. We were knocking on the door for a bit and called her a couple times but nothing, it looked like nobody was home. We were just about to leave when suddenly the police start rolling very slowly down the street. They rolled down the window and asked what street we were on...we told them and looked up at the house we were standing in front of and then parked and got out. Andddd started knocking on the door too, right next to us. So when the Mormon missionaries and the police are looking for you....I guess you really don't open the door. Fun times, fun times.

We had a blast this week. We whipped up some peanut butter cookies (oh,how I have missed simple things like peanut butter cookies!) and they were delicious. There was a special conference yesterday too and we made pancakes for breakfast with syrup and homemade manjar (which is awesome). We are learning lots of new stuff.

The rain started back up this week and it slowed us down a bit. We survived with the umbrellas until the wind started up and then it was just fun.

Something I have learned this week is when things aren't going your way, (like the gas runs out while you are showering on a very cold morning, and then the power goes out too, and the bike has a flat tire and you're tired...) you just have to laugh. (Laugh or you are probably going to cry, right?). Hermana Collins has helped me a lot with just letting things go. We just laugh everything off. And laughing is fun, so that's good.

We have a special conference coming up in the mission next month and this morning after our zone activity we started working on a special musical number. I am so grateful for music and the opportunity to help out on the piano. And it's a mashup of "I'm Trying to be Like Jesus¨ and ¨He Sent His Son¨ from the primary song book. We are pretty excited about that.

Thought of the week:

All of Chile had the opportunity yesterday to watch a special conference with President Oaks and Elder Christofferson. We gathered together as a stake here. They spoke about a lot of things but I think what I liked most was how when we are obedient to the commandments the blessings will always be there. They talked about everything from reading the scriptures and praying, to paying tithing and such. And I love the eternal truth behind this simple idea...God is a man of His word and will always fulfil his promises. We have the grand promise that if we keep the commandments, we will prosper, we will be blessed. And I love that each commandment has general blessings and very specific blessings too. They are things we can put in practice too and see the results.

This part has been one of the best things to see on my mission. When the people can put in practice a commandment, especially when they are skeptical (like thinking they can't stop drinking, or smoking, or they can't pay tithing, etc) and then they watch the miracles come pouring into their lives. The Lord doesn't change, and when we do our part, He will always do His. The Lord keeps his promises, always.