I learned how we recieve blessings and see miracles!

Hello Everybody!

  So this week has been a pretty good one. Pretty successful too. And eventful. So on Tuesday some guys came to our house in the morning to cut off the electricity! I guess there was a problem with paying the bill or something. So we just took everything from the fridge to the neighbors house, haha. So that made things interesting for a couple nights. But luckily on Thursday they came and turned the lights back on.
  So Wednesday was the conference where half the mission meets and the President and assistants talk to us. That was a really good conference, I learned a whole lot and it really helps to boost the spirits of the missionaries. Something cool I learned is how we recieve blessings and see miracles. It first starts with a desire, then believing that you can do the thing you desire. Then you need to have faith, which requires action. Then comes the trial of your faith, and if you continue working hard and not doubting or losing faith, then the blessings come. This really took effect for us, we've had a couple hard weeks the past 2 weeks, but this week we are seeing lots of blessings. So anyways, back to the goings on from the week. We restarted the English class again. We just need to get more people to come, only about 5 people showed up.
  So on Thursday we had some good lessons. This week we realized that we do in fact have a lot of people that we are teaching, or can teach that have been to church. So this week was really hectic and busy. So anyways, on Thursday we taught Felipe, and he wants to be baptized (more on him later). Also on thursday we taught Gonzalo. He is the older brother of Alejandro and cousin of Geremias who were baptized in November. We've been teaching him off and on for awhile, initially he was pretty skeptic. But he has been changing, and when we taught him Thursday, he said he's been praying a lot about baptism, and he feels and knows and desires one! So that was really cool, when I heard that, I felt the spirit really strong.
  So Friday we were basically running around all day, super busy. We also went out to Maule (20 mins away on bus) during the night to do a family home evening, but it turns out it never happened, oh well. We were going to go teach a family and a less active family, but that's been rescheduled for this coming week.
  Saturday, another day running around like crazy. In the monring we went over to a little town called Figueroa, its like 30 mins away by bus, to teach some less actives and their little girl who hasn't been baptized yet. The family recently moved, and it's hard for them to come to church because of transportation dificulty. But the little girl does want to be baptized! So that was a blessing of the Lord.
  Then on Sunday we had a great day. Alejando and Geremias came to church for the first time in a while, they've been helping their mom with work on Sundays. But they came, and their brother Gonzalo came too! We had a total of 8 investigators in church, which is really good. Carolina also came. (I'll talk more about her in a bit). And a less active lady brought her nonmember brother to church, and he really seemed to enjoy it, we have an appointment with him later in the week. And finally Felipe came, and passed his baptismal interview! So the only problems are, that elections are next week, and we may have to postpone the baptism til the 24th. But we shall see. So thats basically what happened during the week.
  So a little more about our investigators I haven't talked about. So Carolina is progressing. She has grown a whole lot. She has the attendance necessary to be baptized, she just needs an interview. But we´ll see what happens with her, she may be going out of town for a while, ugh! We also recently started teaching a family, the mans name is Job, and his wife (an inactive member), and their daughter. Weve only taught them a couple times, but Job already feels like he needs to be baptized! And Erika is still there, but we are visiting her less often. She hasn't come to church for 3 weeks, and isn't progressing. We´ll see what happens with her.
  So I believe that's about it, things are really looking up from here. Chiles also doing good, it's still hot as ever though. So yeah, I love you all, keep up the good work back at home. Church is true. I'll talk to you all next week !

Elder Ryan Mayberry