Sitting on the Curb Cause It's Hot Tonight

September 1, 2015

Sitting on the Curb Cause It's Hot Tonight

Family and Friends,

Well winter is pretty much over here in Santiago. It's hotter than Satan's armpit over here now! It's crazy how dramatically the weather changed here! It got hot and I don't know why, but "Hot Tonight" by Tokyo Police Club has been running through my head all week. I don't know if that's a bad or good thing, but it brought back memories of Kyle Waters and I going up to Vail to see Tokyo Police Club play at the GoPro Summer Games. Good times, now I'm here in Chile over a year later and my comp doesn't even understand me when I sing that song. He swears he's heard it though... Needless to say, it's hot here and contacting in the city heat is a trip. 

Maria Jose did not get baptized this Sunday so that was a shame. She still wants to be baptized, but it's probably going to be later this month. The danger with that is that September 18th is coming up and everyone is going to be going nuts and going out of town that weekend here. We're afraid that we might lose a lot of our investigators this month due to the holidays here. People are already getting excited for Chile's independence day and honestly, so am I! It's just too bad that September 22nd will probably be my last day in this sector. Unless, presidente keeps me here another change. I can't imagine Elder Ramirez leaving though, but anything can happen! 

This week we had a ton of "cosechones" which is when our whole district works in the sector of one companionship for the whole day. We contact like crazy and the idea is just to get a ton of new investiagators for the other missionaries. It went great for everyone and there's a lot of potential for this next month! My life as a missionary literally is just contacting, contacting, and contacting until SOMEONE let's us in.

I had divisions with Elder Clegg this week in his sector. Elder Clegg is zone leader now of Cinco de Abril and I'm so happy he is, we get along really well. His sector is Amengual and literally I've never seen so many Haitians in my life. We talked to so many Haitianos that day. A lot of them speak pretty good Spanish, but their language is Creol, so it's a bit difficult sometimes, but SO MUCH FUN! The Haitianos are SO FAITHFUL. They are not like so many people we talk to where they say that they believe in God, but don't do anything about it.  They go to Church and they have SO MUCH FAITH! They're way, way, way, way kind too and it makes it easier teach them a lesson. They're extremely intelligent too and they listen very intently. I literally have not seen poverty like the Haitianos have since Padre Hurtado, but it's even worse in Amengual. The sector is ghetto to say the least, and it's a little hard to sleep at night with gunshots going off all night long. It's an experience though! Love Amengual! A Haiti branch is already being formed there! The kids are ridiculously cute too! They run up and totally hold our hands and everything, and I got really distracted just playing with two kids jumping from one block of cement to another block of cement. I COUNT MY BLESSINGS EVERYDAY!  COUNT YOUR BLESSING PEOPLE! I have learned to really appreciate the family I have and all the blessing that we receive for being American! 

That's pretty much it for the week. We have a new investigator named Darwin who is 24 years old and he's a really great guy, but his need is a bit hard for Elder Ramirez and I. His girlfriend broke up with him this past week and our response was basically just GET BACK UP ON THE HORSE AND TRY AGAIN! He really loves our lessons, but I've never heard so much crying about a girl in my life. I wanted to yank my freaking eyeballs out. 

I Love this work, I Love this gospel, and I Love my Savior. There really is no greater work than this no matter how hard it is at times! I REPRESENT JESUS CHRIST IN EVERY MOMENT! It is and honor and a privilege to bear witness of Him everyday! 

Love all of you and have a great week! 

Elder Weaver