Hello Friends and Family!
¡Feliz Navidad y feliz año Nuevo! or Merry Christmas and a Happy new year!
This week has been pretty good. Last week was my second week as DL. I have had to teach our district class and check on the other sector in my district. It has been kind of a pain having to worry about them. I have a mini cambio with them tomorrow.
Saturday, we had the Baptism for Richy. We have now had 9 baptisms in 4 months. We are pushing ZL numbers. They are beating us by one baptism. President is extremely happy with us and what we are doing.
It has really bugged me but one out of the 9 baptisms that we have had is a little iffy. She changes her mind a lot and is just a little weird sometimes. We had a sister in our ward tell us that we shouldn´t have baptized her. She passed the interview and was ready to be baptized. It really drives me nuts and really ticks me off when people judge MY CONVERTS when they don´t know anything. She told us that we shouldn´t have ever baptized her because she is going to go inactive. I´m sorry but it isn´t our job to judge if they are going to stay active or not. Our job is to get them to the gate of baptism. and then hand them off to the branch. It really bugs me when people judge our converts. I´m sure no one ever thought that the ex president would ever go inactive but right now he doesn´t want anything to do with the church. No one ever knows what will happen.
PRAYERS HAVE FINALLY BEEN ANSWERED!!! WE HAVE A NEW MISSION LEADER!! He is the RM that his family moved from Los Volcanes where I was before. He is still motivated to work and is really excited to help us. He told us I´m going to make it so that you guys will never have to knock a single door again. We are really excited! We have some good activities planned and are really excited to work with him.
We are working with a 13 year old kid named Felipe. He is the son of a member but hasn´t wanted anything to do with the missionaries or the church. We have started inviting him to play soccer and he actually came to church this last Sunday. We are going to keep working with him. The Missionaries before kept pushing and pushing to get baptized and he got scared and wouldn´t do it. We are going to work really slow with him and see what we can do.
Yes while trying to cook sausages, Charcoal and cement exploded sending hot ashes and chunks of cement into my face and eyes. Couldn´t have happened 5 seconds before, had to happen right as I got there. Luckily nothing got in my eyes and I didn´t get hurt. I did have a pretty crazy burn close to my eye. But I´m all good. I will not be cooking those again...
I had a mini Cambio with my ZL so that he could show me all the things I have to do as a DL. During the mini cambio we were walking in front of a house that I had felt we needed to pass by for awhile but could never find the time. We were walking in front of the house and all of a sudden He walks up to the house and knocks on the door. A young mom, Sandra, opened the door, We didn´t even have time to say anything and she tells us to come in. We took a look at each other, shrugged and walked in. We sat down on her couch and she says that she has seen us pass by multiple times and that we are always happy with huge smiles on our faces. She said that she had seen us passing by playing with the kids for a couple minutes in the street in front of her house and she said that she noticed something different about us. She said she knew we were from a church but didn´t know which but we always seemed to have a light about us. She said We just looked different, Happier and brighter than anyone she has ever seen. Then walks in the two daughters. Camila, 15 years old and Katherine, 13. We started teaching them and the older daughter tells us she has been going to the adventista church. I have never seen someone so young know the bible like she did. Luckily I had just put a Scripture guide in my bible backing up our doctrine. We shared with her the Restoration and about baptism. She had a baptismal date with the adventistas and we came walking in and put her with a new one. My ZL asked her if we have the authority to baptize, would it do any good getting baptized in the other church, after a second she said No and accepted a date to get baptized. It was one of the coolest lessons I have ever had. The next day they were actually in the plaza doing some paperwork and they came to the church to do a tour. I have no idea how but the doors to the font were opened and we were able to show them the font. They were really fascinated with it. they said they had never seen anything like it. We are excited to help this family. The mom has had a rough time. The dad just left her and she had just separated from him. We are hoping they continue progressing.
I found out that Chile is supposedly a 3rd world country. Not sure if it is true or not. I have really started to think about the different classes here. It is really kind of sad. One neighbor has a four door jeep with a huge house and the next is sleeping on dirt floors with barely enough money to buy bread. I feel really bad for a couple of the people I have been teaching. We have been teaching in a sector that the government has given people houses because they are too poor to buy one or because their house was destroyed in the Earthquake. There are really humble people and also really kind of trashy people that are doing drugs, smoking, drinking or whatever completely wasted inside the house while the kids are running around outside half dressed and without food. From what we have heard the new sector in Coihueco has brought a whole new group of people into Coihueco. We have heard there are a lot more drunks, drugs, and robberies. It is really kind of sad.
I just got another email from President and he said, ¨You are doing great and will be a very good leader. I can't believe the progress you have made just being in this sector. Don't worry about the dog. It isn't' yours and tell the lady to call so they can come and pick it up. That would solve the problem Congrats with all you are doing and keep working hard. You have been a great example to your companion. He will be eternally grateful to you.¨ I guess when he did the cambios he decided to keep us together because he said he wasn´t going to put me with another great missionary because he wanted me to stay with him and help him get better. I guess there is something more I have to learn from him.
Today we did something that I have never done before... We straight up killed a lamb, skinned it, cleaned it, and we are going to cook it later on today with a family. for lunch we ate lamb liver, heart, and lungs. I didn´t really like the lungs but the liver and heart weren´t too bad. I also braided intestine, cooked it and ate it. I also tried tongue. definitely the weirdest, grossest thing I have ever done.
By the way I do not have an accent!! I will find out tomorrow if I have more packages. Pants are a 32 x 29. If you can find Grey and light weight it would be great.
Well not much else happening. Love you all and miss you tons.
Elder Torgersen
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