JUST HAVING LOTS OF FUN TEACHING, FEELING THE SPIRIT AND SEEING WHEN THE LIGHT BULB TURNS ON AND INVESTIGATORS UNDERSTAND. GOOD STUFF.

Hello everybody!!!

Another week come and gone, but it was a pretty good week. It started off kind of slowly and a little disappointing the first couple of days but things worked themselves out by the end. I´ll start by telling you about this one new investigator that we have that was basically a gift from God dropped right into our laps. Her name is Alejandra and we found her in church not yesterday but two weeks ago. She´s Chilena but she just moved back here to Chile two weeks ago after living for twenty years in Argentina, including most of her childhood. Besides her family, she has no connections here and has been feeling kind of lost and alone. She came into contact with the church through an employment service thing that they do in the Los Angeles South Stake and they have helped her to find a job and have really given her a helping hand, orienting herself here in Chile. They invited her to church but she said that our chapel here in this stake was closer to where she's living so she just showed up two Sundays ago and that's where we found here. She really liked church and is grateful to the members who are helping her out. We tried to get her address and an appointment after sacrament meeting but she said that the house where she is staying isn't hers and that they aren't really friendly to the church. So she just said that she would be back next week and ran out before saying anything else.

Now yesterday she showed up again and stayed for all three hours. The sisters in relief society did a great job fellow shipping her and now we have an appointment to teach her in the house of a member who lives very close to where she´s staying. So we are very excited to teach her on tomorrow because she seems very enthusiastic and interested in learning more about the Gospel. So we will see how that goes this week. With Patricia and Rayen.. well they are still really good but kind of sketchy. She loves when we come to her house and she loves hearing about the gospel and wants to get baptized and then other times we go to her house and everything is locked up and we see her hiding from us. And she's just kind of a sketchy person. We think that her sincerity and her desire to be born again and get baptized is sincere, but we also think that something else fishy is going on under the surface. Due to her behavior and demeanor and some other clues we actually think that she might be a drug addict. But that's ok, it's nothing that we can´t help fix. If her desire to come unto Christ is sincere then we will be able to help her overcome any obstacle that might arise while she and her daughter prepare to be baptized. They both came to church yesterday and it seemed like they liked it a lot.

We are also now teaching this big part-member family that seems to get bigger every time we go over there. The Dad and the kid got baptized in Galvarino a couple of months ago (I did the interview) and now they are coming to Villa Obispo. We are now teaching the little kid's cousin, Mattias, who is 10, Mattias´s mom and the mom of the little kid who is the ex- wife of the convert. Mattias has been to church twice now and he loves it. He would get baptized tomorrow if he could. His mom is also very receptive but we've only taught her once. She couldn't come to church this week but she said that she would next week. The ex-wife is also very receptive and said that she wants to get baptized to start over new again. She also said that she would go next week so we will see how it goes. Before we couldn't even go over to this convert's house because of family issues but now they have softened their hearts and every time we go over there more and more people are there waiting for us to teach them and participating in the lessons. Last time we went over there it was awesome and the spirit was felt so were are excited to see how this family progresses.

Well that's all that I got for this week folks. Just having lots of fun teaching. Teaching, and feeling the spirit, and seeing when the light bulb turns on and investigators understand. Good stuff.. stuff that I'm going to miss in two months time.. sigh.. oh well. That's what life is about. Changes. Well I love you all very much and like always am grateful for all of the love and support you guys give me. Take care and have a great week! CIAO!!!!

con amor, Elder Harper =)