hey all you people!! how is it going!? i was recently told that there are some people that are preparing to go to the chile santiago south mission here soon who read my blog...to let you guys know, THIS MISSION IS THE BEST MISSION WITHOUT A DOUBT. anyway...... this week in los castaños was prertty awesome!! we had a ground breaking 17 lessons this week, and we have really been focussing on trying to find more people to teach here. one of the cool miracles that happened a while ago was we found one of our other investigators named marc, who we thought literally disappeared of the face of the planet. we had an awesome lesson with him this past week. we were able to pass over the restoration with him, and we were able to show him the power that there is in the restoration of the gospel. the spirit was really strong during that lesson, and we were able to commit him to a baptismal date! we are going to work with him for the 9th of june, so we are going to see what happens! in other news, we had a lesson with carlos and jackaline, some of our eternal investigators. (meaning they just keep investigating, but never commit to being baptized) the only reason why they havent been baptized is because they dont obey the law of chastity (down here in chile, people just live together and never get married, so its really hard to commit them to marriage). we were in the lesson with them talking to them about moses 1 in the pearl of great price, and explaining to them how we as humans can resist temptation and combat the devil. my companion got the feeling to try and extend another baptism invite, which was promptly rejected. instead, they told us that they were going to commit themselves to a future marriage date in october!!!!!! it literally made me so happy to see them FINALLY making the decision to get married. sometimes when you are on the mission, the agency of others can be super annoying. my companion and i have really strong testimonies that these things are true, and we really want everyone to know about the message that we have. the only thing is, is that people have the option to say no, even when the spirit is present in the lesson. it really hurts us when people say "yapo pero i dont believe in god or anything like that, so vayase". missionary work will NEVER BE EASY. any of you who are preparing to go and serve missions, get rid of the paradigm that everybody is going to say yes to baptisms. get rid of the idea that you can waltz on the mission thinking that you are prepared. 100% just prepare YOUR testimony, and everything else will fall into place! use the spirit, and that will convert people! love all of you to the moon and back! EKW we made cinnamon rolls at the house giving juice! more juice me and some lights..keeping it lit down here
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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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