August 27, 2012

Well I had an awesome week!

Well I went on cambios earlier este semana with Elder Goycochea from Peru. It was fun stuff, but rained the whole day and was freezing! The mountains got some nice snow though, and the air was a little clearer. Its been warming up ever since. I'll be going on changes the rest of this change, Im excited! We had a mini mtc saturday, with the youth of the stake.  Although a little crazy and disorganized , the end result was really good. the youth got to go on splits with us and teach and contact for a little over 2 hours, to experience a bit of the work. They all had great experiences, and realized how easy it is to share the gospel, and I truly think are excited about missionary work, now and in the future. Its funny, I keep wanting to write spanish words. 

Well today is P-day, and we played futbol for the first time here!!! We always want to, but with our schedules and conflicting opinions its hard to make it happen. It was good stuff, we played with 5 other Elders here. Its futsal too, everything is here. No grass, no sir. 

This past week we did a mountain of contacting! The mission average this past week was 55 contacts. The standard of excellence is 140. We hit 151, without actually changing a whole lot, just our attitude. Im excited to see the fruits of that. 

Its still hard to get people to keep commitments, ha obviously! But nonetheless, our citas always seem to fall through! But we´ve got Claudia, Juanito, Marco, and Teresa really progressing! Teresa didn´t attend church this past sunday, as the sunday before, but the three before that she did. This sunday she worked until 8 in the morning, slept till 10, and then took her sick mom lunch after. What do you do, or how do we help that situation??? People seriously sacrifice so much here. Always. But we meet with her tomorrow I believe. 

Juanito! Juanito is Evangelico, but his family is actually about half members, although inactive. We had an Awesome experience with him. Our 4 of the above people really know the BOM is true, and this is God's church. We just need to help them make that covenant with God about their feelings. Yesterday we taught Jaunito and he actually just came right out and said, "Here comes that feeling." about the spirit. And the mom bore a really powerful testimony of the LDM too. We set him a fecha for the 6th of october. 

Sounds like your all doing really well. Its super weird to think that you have school going on right now.

Thanks so much for all the letters, about the newletter tambien. Lots to read, but good stuff. 

And thanks for Eric's letter!

Got to Go, Love ya all, How´s school?!

Elder Spencer Tasso

PS.  Random but touching, we were teaching the family Garrido, the grandma is catholic and I sneezed once but kept teaching. Well she left and brought me back a little pack of vanilla scented tissues. Absolutely an angel, that whole family. A little experience obvisouly, but very touching. 

Also there are dogs here everywhere. Its hilarious! MIKE DAVIS! If you read this, remember spanish how we talked about a dog party? Welcome to Chile, thats how it is. Except the dogs here are all really gross and dirty.