hey all you peeps on the other side of the world!! sorry for not being able to email last week! there wasn't a lot of stuff that happened last week, and i had like 0 time to write...but this week some stuff happened! so president, every change, has a little theme or a topic that we are supposed to study for the month. the topic that he assigned to us was joy! so, i dedicated a little study on it and it was so good!! it was really cool to look at what the definition of joy was in the scriptures. basically, i learned that joy can only come from obeying the commandments. but than the question sparked,"wait can we even have eternal happiness in this life? like is that even possible??" so i did a little research and in alma 29:9 talks about how you can get joy by sharing the gospel, and in dc 101:36 talks about how our joy in this life is incomplete without the gospel. so, i was thinking, that we can really only feel a true type of happiness if we live the gospel and if we help other people figure out for themselves what the gospel is about. i mean, whenever i help someone get baptized, or when i help someone finally realize that they can have a repentance of their sins, i get SO GIDDY. also a legit miracle happened this past week. just to give you guys a little bit about the situation that happened. due to the secretaries before me, there were two elders who never got their visas. i was doing extensive research on the two of them and why they never got their id cards, and it said that there weren't some needed papers sent in with their application. they are called judicial antecedents, which basically is a legal document saying that they havent committed crimes. so i called the visa center, and they were like,"so we think that your application period has expired, so these guys are def illegal." i was literally freaking out. basically, the process that would have had to happen was them going to the police station and turn themselves in and getting A FAT ticket. i was like "wait how expensive is it going to be" and she told me "oh around $600,000 pesos each person" (in dollars, thats like $1800). i was literally freaking out. there is no way in heck that the mission has enough to cough up 1.2 million pesos. i got the feeling that they should both go to the visa center in centro and try and resolve it. as they were going up there, there were a lot of prayers said. they went through the lines and stuff, and i got their calls back. "ya so they said that we are legal actually, we just have to send in those papers that werent in our applications is all." I ALMOST STARTED CRYING. i was so grateful that we didnt have to pay that fat fine and screw over the budget for the mission while we are at the end of the year some funny things that happened this week: my comp forgot to fill up the font for a baptism that our ward was having. he was supposed to fill it up at around 12 to get it filled at 4, but people started coming in at 3:30 with 0 water in the font. we grabbed as many pots with water as we could and we straight WENT TO TOWN. i slipped and ate it because there was just so much water all over the place. my pass-a-long cards fell in the font, so we had to use a colander to try and strain baby jesuses out of the water. we grabbed the fire hose that is connected to the wall and started filling the font with a fire hose, some pots of boiling water, and some tea kettles. normally these things take around 5 hours to fill, but we did it in one and a half. *death drop* also there were some members that brought in a snake into the office and i got to hold it and then i tried to take a picture of it and it jumped at me and bit my lens. needless to say, i had to change my pants after that traumatic national geographic episode. gotta scram. love you all!! ekw my christmas package came..thanks mom and dad!
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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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