This week has gone a
lot better. I have been doing numbers so I don´t have much time. I´m
glad to hear Ethan´s papers were sent in!! I´m so excited! We have been
getting some of the other elders to finally step up. It has been quite a
fight. I´ve come to find out that you cannot force anyone to do
anything. We have been having trouble with elders just kind of going
through the motion but not really doing what they need to. It has been
extremely frustrating because they are getting baptisms but they really
aren´t working that hard. They spent 4 hours at a wedding and they
didn´t do anything there. There were 100´s of people and they didn´t
contact anyone... A Mormon church filled with 100´s of non members and
what did they do... Nothing!! So frustrating.
We were walking in the street the other day walking home to find a group of three kids. All of a sudden they started talking in English. It was really funny because the first thing they say is ¨Sorry, I´m a little drunker¨ Not only do they kind of speak English... They were a little ¨drunker¨ Me and my comp started busted up laughing! We started talking to them in English and invited them to our English class.
We contact a lot of apartment buildings and we have
come to the conclusion that all the chosen people are always on the last
floor... and no there aren´t elevators. We have to climb 5 floors to
find someone to teach. It is really quite funny. We are determined to
contact every top floor because that is were every one is that wants to
listen to us.
We did a mini cambio during a meeting we had with the Ward mission leader so that we didn´t lose all the time of us 4 being there. During the cambio I was with elder Diaz
from Columbia. We were walking and all of a sudden we found a guy
laying on the ground. He had blood all down his front covering his shirt
and tie. He was around 60 years old. He wasn´t moving and then all of a
sudden he sits up and asks where he was. He was completely wasted! He
couldn´t even stand up with out our help. We ended up having to take his
phone and call almost every number in his phone (didn´t have any
contacts) We finally got a hold of a grandson and had to wait 15 minutes
for him to come. The guy gets there and is this huge dude with a wicked
beard. They guy speaks in English and says he was a member. It was a really funny deal.
We ended up getting a whole family to church this week. Please pray for the family Ferriera.
They are awesome. We are really excited because at first they were
¨Really catholic¨ We have gotten them to church twice and this time the
dad came! We ended up doing service for them and I got to run a
chainsaw... haha we were cutting firewood and he was
surprised at how well I ran the chain saw and an axe. We cut all of the
firewood in about an hour. Thanks for the training Dad!
I finally had to go and buy a smaller back pack. I suggest to Ethan
to not get a big back pack. Tell him to find a smaller back pack that
is just big enough to fit scriptures. I have felt a lot better having a
smaller back pack. It is so much lighter and is a lot easier.
I found out this last week that 3 people I had been teaching in Linares
got baptized a while ago. It is really cool to see the fruits after I
had left the sector. It was really cool to hear about that.
I´m sorry for having complained about the sister
missionaries. It just seems I always am having to deal with the bad
ones. We had to go to a meeting today because now every mission in the
world is going to have sister missionary leaders. There are sisters
training with 6 weeks in the mission. It´s amazing because Pres has no
idea what to do. There are more sisters coming in then we already have.
It is going to be a huge change.
Well we have a lesson this wed at 6:30 in the
morning. Never thought that would happen. Pray that Luis will want to
get baptized. We have a lesson with the bishop and that´s the only time
he could meet with us!
Well gotta head out. Well I love you all and miss you tons. Looking forward to seeing where Ethan goes!
Love,
Elder Torgersen
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