hey all you loons on the other side of the hemisphere!! this week was SO MUCH BETTER. less stress, with some new policies that the president is giving us! so we were in a meeting with the president and hermana gwilliam this past thursday. we were talking about how sometimes the office life is kind of stressful and we kind of just want to find a way to relieve a little bit of the stress while we work. he said that the only way to relieve stress is to teach and serve other people. so he is making a new policy for the office elders to leave and teach and visit members starting at 6PM!! its honestly going to help us so much because then we dont have to be staying up until like the wee hours of the morning finishing up all the stuff we got to do, and then we can have a little bit more work and find people to baptize while we work with the missionaries. a miracle happened though while we were out teaching though! so we are basically going into a whitewash primarily because the hermanas dont want to give us any references, (stingy?) nor investigators to work with, so we have been starting visiting the members. we went to a members house who just got married to a recent convert. we were talking it up with her, and we told her that our purpose as missionaries is to strengthen the family and help them progress together. she looked at us with sad eyes and said that she has been recently having marriage problems and that she wants to have us come by on a weekly basis to help her and her husband out with the more spiritual side of things so that they can become closer and in christ!! we are literally so excited to be able to help her our, and to help the ward out a little more as we gain there trust! while we were doing the visits with members, they invited us to go to the temple with them to help them do baptisms. we asked pres if we could go, he said yes. we were promptly told that it started at 6 in the morning. with a 20 minute drive from our house to the temple, we got up at FLIPPING 4:30 IN THE MORNING TO GO TO THE TEMPLE. needless to say, i was falling asleep at the wheel (only for a second, dont worry mom). the baptisms were awesome, but silvaggio and i literally showed up back to the office DEAD. we took naps for a sec to try and recuperate from the damage that we did, but oh man never again am i going to the temple at 6 IN THE MORNING. other cool things that we did this week was go to centro in santiago and we explored to try and find a bike shop. we kind of got lost, but it was so cool to get lost in a city and rome around and see all the cool little hole in the wall hipster shops and to see all the different people that walk through the city. we didnt end up finding the bike shop, but it was cool to wander for a a little while and forget about stress for a second! we also had to go to a dealership to get the car examined, and apparently none of the office elders have done that inspection for like 2 years, so there were A LOT of things wrong with the car that should have been fixed forever ago. #tendermercy #wedidntloseouraxelwhileweweredriving #blezzup here are some pics of us climbing cerro chena at 7 in the morning! love you guys!! ekw pics from our pday hike. everyone in this pic has less than 8 months left on their mission
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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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