So ya.. It was
another good week. I'm just trucking along on the daily grind. Finding
Investigators to put fechas with, trying to bring them to church, bringing in actives to church.... I swear THE hardest and most stressful
thing in the mission is Sunday morning 1 hour before church when we go looking for all our investigators and inactives. Running around every street. All of them sleeping. Having to wake them up, pounding on their door to come to
church, yelling through their open window when they don't wake up..... Oh
the Agony.... hahah. The mission¨for ya...
We have this investigator
named Kelly, her daughter was baptized about 6 months ago and we
decided to try and work with the mom. BUT WAIT. Kelly is Blind.. She has
been Blind since birth and is very famous here in the city of Arica. So
ya she is very receptive and loves listening to the missionaries. We
are trying super hard to get a Libro De Mormon en Braille for her so she
can read, if not then just audio. But we put a Fecha with her and she
accepted. We are planning to baptize her the 23rd of November. She just needs to come to church and get some friends and stuff like
that... Yep. We're excited. Hopefully she progresses more rapidly. Other
than her we don't have many investigators but we have re activated a
lot, which is basically like baptisms for me so I'm happy.
The garbage men here in Chile are on strike
(paro)..... You can imagine the wonderful smell that are in the streets
during the mid day with the sun blazing down on the mountains of garbage.... I´ll send you some pictures. Ya but here in Chile we are
starting summer and boy is it HOT HOT HOT, especially here in Arica. At
the end of the days I am super super dead from the walking in the sun,
but that's what I get for coming to the driest desert in the World. I'm
getting super super tan. More tan than my Latin Comp haha.
This week we
did some intercambios. I went on a Cambio with my new Bishop. He is
excited to visit visit visit people, inactives, our investigator. He is
very excited to work, so that was fun to talk to him and work a little
with my Bishop. I also went on a cambio with an 18 year old in my ward,
his name is José. He has his mission call to Lima Perú and leaves in
Enero. He is a stud, a little shy but he is gonna do great in 
Perú. That's awesome that he is getting the practice of what the mission will
be like for him. We found an inactive this week, se llama Paul. He has
been inactive for about 15 years but right now he wants to be an example
for his wife and son. He is sooo humble and it's so amazing finding
people that actually WANT to change their lives and start coming to
church and be a good example. We don't find many people like him so I'm
super excited to hopefully help reactive him and his family. He is such a
great guy.
But ya.... Calm week working hard. We went to the
beach again today and played baseball on the beach... Man I love baseball and the beach haha. I miss you all so much. Hopefully I can
control my crying when I write all of you haha.
Con Mucho Amor
Elder Paxman
1 comment:
Hahaha. I love your newly-acquired tender heart Mason. So cute. And I will never take garbage collectors for granted again. Sick! This here are great. Emily is all married and happy. It's cold and rainy (snowy in the mountains) today, so just the opposite of where you are. Tom and I are headed down to your old stompin' grounds this weekend and are hoping to enjoy some sunshine and hiking or mountain bike riding. . . and of course just plain relaxing. Keep up the good work reactivating--you know how near and dear that is to my heart!!
Love,
Julie (and T too)
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