¡¡¡¡GANAMOS!!!!! ¡CHI CHI CHI LE LE LE VIVA CHILE!
I'm going to try and be quick in this mass email so that I can respond to everyone that has emailed me. Primero que nada, GANAMOS! Man was it cool to be here in EL MEJOR PAÍS DEL MUNDO. You cannot even imagine what went down here in Chile once they scored to beat Argentina. The whole place went crazy! All the missionaries had to be in their pensiones 30 minutes before the game started at 5:30 because there was no way in heck we were going to get anything done the rest of the day. So we just cleaned our pension and planned basically on Saturday. I realize that it was the 4th of July and if anything I should've been celebrating our independence, but when Chile won, man was that cool! Plenty of fire works were going off here so no worries about me missing out on fireworks. Elder Ramirez and I celebrated the win by eating some pizza we had bought a day earlier and sitting outside on the patio watching everyone go nuts. Quite the riot. So I think it's safe to say I'm in the best mission because I happened to have just been here when Chile WON LA COPA AMÉRICA EN SANTIAGO. SO SWEET!
Other than La Copa, Elder Ramirez and I have just been working as hard as ever. Wish I could say that this week we baptized La Familia Tapia, but we came to find out that the couple is not married! They have plans on sealing the deal this week so that they can be baptized either this weekend or the next. They are progressing very very well and have accepted La Palabra de Sabiduría, La Ley de Castidad, y El Diezmo. We passed by a lot this week and I made sure to have a member present in every lesson. I'm really trying to utilize the members in our ward especially because we have so many returned missionaries that are willing to help us out.
We have two other investigadoras that have fechas también. Javiera y Catalina. Both are really great, the only problem is that they're 16 and 17 years old and they definitely aren't as excited to get up and go to church. They're reading and praying though and I have no doubts that they'll be baptized this change.
Elder Ramirez is hilarious. I honestly think he's my best comp yet. I hope that I can have two changes with him because we get along really well. He speaks a little english and he asked me to teach him while we're in the pension. We sing hymns in English and he prays in English for every comp study. He shares his studies in English as well. It's just so funny to hear some of the things that he says. I still try my best to only speak Spanish, but I help him quite a bit when he asks me how to say something. He's got a great personality and the ward LOVES him. We have a new idea to contact every member of the barrio this change and give 5 proclamaciones de la familia y 5-cristo vivientes to every family. Then we're going to practice how to contact their vecinos with these documents. Our idea is that the members invite their neighbors to a family home evening and we then come over to teach, play games, and eat food. We think that this will be a lot more effective then just straight up contacting. The members have loved the idea so far; we're just waiting to get the documents.
I really have been thinking a lot about what it is that would grab my attention if I weren’t a member of this church. I came to the conclusion that THE FAMILY is what draws my attention the most about our church. Families are literally at the center of what we believe and where we find happiness. That's what I try to put my focus in during a contact. Yes, Joseph Smith saw Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. I know it! However, people are not going to just BOOM believe that Joseph Smith saw Jesus Christ off the get go. Our gospel is PERFECT. I try to get people to focus on how perfect our gospel is before having them focus on gaining a testimony of Joseph Smith. Once they feel the absolute joy that our gospel brings, it's impossible not to believe that Joseph Smith was a prophet. Everything follows after the Restauración.
Tenga una buena semana! I love all of you and thank you for the love and support and prayers! KEEP PRAYING! The mission is definitely not an easy thing. I am growing so much and my relationship with our Savior is stronger than ever!
Con Muchísimo Amor,
Elder Weaver
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