hey all you cool cats! this change is slowly coming to an end, and i have to say goodbye to amaro because he is going home this next monday....literally so depressed. (i mean not really, but im going to miss the heck out of him!) The blessing is, is that i can stay for 11 more months and serve the lord! not a lot of things happened this week...but i will share a spiritual experience with the lot of you! so we were walking down a street in our sector, just knocking doors and trying to see who was interested in listening to us. we received a reference a little while back to pass by a less active that lived on the outer most part of our sector. we thought that we would stop by this alleged Jean. there is a bad stereotype for the less actives here in the mission because the elders pass by to visit them, and they let them in, and and tell them that they are going to come back to church and that they are going to go back to being active, but never do. we had a really strong prompting to go and visit this guy and see how he was doing. we knocked on his door, and out comes this 23 year old guy , with a huge smile on his face. it was jean! we walked inside his house and sat down and talked to him for a little bit about what he has been doing for the past couple years of his life. he told us that he went inactive when he was 13, and he went through a lot of trials and a lot of rough patches with his girlfriend and his parents. he said that two days before we showed up, he decided to pray to God and ask him what the heck he should be doing to feel happy. then we showed up knocking on his door. he said that he wants to come back to church, and that he is over the sadness that he feels. we picked him up for church, and when we went to the chapel, there were so many members that came up to him and started to hug jean crying! it was such a tender experience to see what happens when we turn our hearts to the lord and LISTEN to the spirit and the promptings we are given! we are meeting with jean to teach him the lessons again so he can remember a little better on the doctrine side of things, but we are literally so excited for the decisions that he is making in his life to come back to the presence of god! i challenge you guys to find one way to turn your heart to christ this week and try it out! maybe that means going to mutual, maybe that means lengthening your scripture study, maybe just try saying a quick prayer before bed...who knows??? i love all of you so much! hope that you guys have a fun week this week!! EKW hermana knight and me at the one year lunch last week literally peed myself cause i had legit Peruvian food see you later amaro! (he's been a great companion!)
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Elder Karson Wattles
Chile Santiago South Mission apartado postal No. 544 San Bernardo, Chile Archives
May 2019
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