Hola Family!
Well this week was a little better. It started off a little crappy but really finished up to be good. We had lots going on. I´m really starting to learn that fighting and yelling does absolutely nothing. I´ve really had to learn to just go with the flow and put up with crap even if i don´t want to do it.
This week we had lots of service.We could have had more service. It kind of bugs me because we are here to serve the people of Chile but my companion tells people all the time we cant help with something because it´s not in the morning. To me, it´s service. WE ARE HERE TO SERVE. I don´t care what time of day it is, or how hot it is, or where it is. We are here to serve. It really bugs me when a member or an investigator really needs help with something and he tells them we cant help. I feel like that is wrong. I feel like no matter when, where, how hot it is... we can help. I really don´t know what to do about it.
Another problem we had was one of our investigators had a wedding and they invited us to go. We helped set up the wedding the night before and told them we would be there. The next day my companion tells me that we aren´t going. The night before we had put it in our plans for the day. It bugs me because he had just told me that you stick to your plans no matter what happens because that is what you planned and that is what Heavenly father is expecting you to do. We didn't end up going to the wedding. We had met the mission goal for contacts for the week by Friday which is 140. We had that plus about 30. I didn´t want to do any more contacts. Instead we walked down the street for an hour and a half doing contacts at the worst hour of the day.We had a total of 5 people answer the door and 3 were just complete jerks. The mother of the girl getting married is a member and she invited us to come and contact people at the wedding because there would be multiple people of different churches. It really bugged me. I just kinda had to let it go.
We were doing contacts the other day and I was standing by a fence and all of a sudden the biggest dog I´ve ever seen jumped up to the fence right next to my face and barked freaking loud in my ear. I´ve never jumped so bad in my life. It was hilarious. My companion almost died laughing. Speaking of dogs I got my first dog bite. We were outside an investigators house and all of a sudden their dog bit my calf. It bit and then ripped away. It didn't break the skin but it gave me a pretty good scratch and it was swollen and bruised for the rest of the week.
We sit in the house during studies waiting for the guys driving down the street selling stuff. We each got 30 eggs for about $2. It´s a little sketchy because they don´t refrigerate the eggs. but no one has gotten sick yet. The eggs are huge though. We also wait for the sandia or watermelon guy to drive by because we can buy huge watermelons for about a dollar. We eat the watermelon with Harina tostada. It´s toasted flour but it´s so good on watermelon.
We have an investigator named Eduardo. He has a family of two daughters. We went to the ``campo`` or country in the mountains with him today. We started out teaching him English and then led into teaching about the gospel. He watches movies in English and sometimes he doesn´t learn the greatest words. He kept saying the S word and we had to tell him not to say it because it´s bad. He also say`s Oh my gosh but not gosh. We need to teach him the commandments. His dad lives in the mountains outside of Linares. His house was so cool. They have tons of raspberry, blackberry and apples out in random fields. He told us that if we come back to Chile we can take his horses and his motorcycles out. I guess there´s tons of trails every where to ride motorcycles. They also have a river through their property that the grandpa dammed of the river and they have a little swimming pool. But as missionaries we couldn´t swim. I took lots of pictures so I´ll send you some.
The whole week had been kind of a bummer. We couldn´t get any members to go out with us to help teach, appointments kept falling and we spent a lot of time in the street doing contacts. We had a little bit of a disagreement in what to do and he just all of a sudden took off. So i had to follow him. While we were riding our bikes we found a lady that just looked completely depressed. Andrade stopped and asked her what was wrong. She wouldn´t tell us and kept trying to get away. He finally stepped in front of her and was like what´s going on. She told us that her son had died 10 days ago and she didn´t want to live anymore. We were on a dirt road that led into a field with train tracks running through it. We weren´t sure what she was going to go do but it couldn´t have been good. We finally calmed her down and got her to show us where her house was. We talked to her on the way to her house and tried to calm her down. We got to her house and were there for about 2 minutes when all of a sudden the front door opened. Her husband was standing there. He looked ticked. He took a look at us and then at his wife. All of a sudden his wife is in his face and she´s flailing around and screaming a yelling and slapping and punching. Then he starts to shove her back and at that point I was thinking holy crap We´re gonna have to stop this guy and it probably wont be pretty. I drop my bag and next thing I know E´ Andrade is in between them breaking it up. The husband starts yelling ¨¿Donde Estabas?¨ I´m thinking to myself... What in the crap is going on? She runs into the back room and he tells us that she has been super depressed and basically ran away. The family had been looking for her for almost two hours. She was really emotional and was screaming and crying. We finally calmed her down and had to basically force a lesson on her. The rest of the family ended up all coming out on the porch to listen to our lesson. We taught them the plan of salvation. I don´t know what happened but basically words were coming out of my mouth in full complete sentences. It so amazing. We went from here screaming, crying and slamming her hands on the ground to her sitting there listening to us. It was definitely a spiritual recharge that was really needed for the week. It made me really realize how blessed we are to have the gospel in our lives. It made me realize how blessed I am to have grown up in the family I have and to have parents strong in the church.
I will find out on Thursday if I´ve gotten the packages. We have interviews with president and he will bring the packages and mail. I started writing a letter toCayden last night but I´m not sure where to send it... I don´t know if I need to send it to his house or the MTC or to Paraguay.
Sounds about right with mom praying. Unlike her others have to really pray sincerely to receive an answer. Things are just placed in her hands on a silver plate. That is really cool she found someone to translate the papers. If you guys were to come to Chile I´d want to go home and be released first. I´d even pay for my ticket because there´s too many things I´d want to go do that we couldn´t do as a missionary. There are a ton of places to ride horses, ride dirt bikes, and swim in rivers, waterfalls, and beaches. We don´t have much time to really explore the city. I´d want to be able to do that more. I´ve heard that they might be able to do it over the phone but that sounded kind of weird. We have a long time till that comes. But tell dad thanks for reminding me i have 1/4 of the way over with. I could have gone without that. I am not yet ready to come home. I need some more baptisms.
Yes I did get the picture of the new baby. That is really funny about Clara. I started busting up laughing when I read she wanted pancakes.
And... I´m not sure I have room to tell Ethan to go to seminary. I did the same thing.... As long as he´s going most of the time. As long as he isn´t missing too many days to not get credit.
Well I´ve gotta wrap it up. Love you guys miss you tons
Con amor,
Elder Torgersen
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