August 13. 2018- The Housewives of QUILLON (literally)

QUE TAL YAL! This week I got here to my new area Quillon and omg haha this area is SO dramatic. I feel like I am on a reality TV show when I am with the members. SO this week I really was thinking about the topic of gossip.

Quick info about my area: I am in a ward with about 50 people who attend. There are 4 missionaries in my ward (us and 2 sisters). My companion is Elder Evans from Indiana. I only have 9 weeks more in the mission. It was hailing, raining, and super hot today. The weather is bi polar. We are on bikes! We just switched houses with the sisters because someone tried to enter their house last week so our house is nicer (still not that nice haha this is still chile). There are quite a few haitians here. The hermanas are teaching all of them though. I had 4 interviews this week ALL with haitians haha and I had to use some Creole even though I have no idea how to speak. My sector was/is completely dead. We looked in the area book and visited some people. 3 people came to church sunday and now we have 3 with a baptismal date (we still need the permission of parents for one of them). We have a FHE in the church every friday night and this week we watched a movie and ate after! Saturday we have spanish class for the haitians (even though we are teaching none we help the sisters). I live in this tiny town and there is nothing to do haha. Also everyone in my zone lives like an hour away! We are on the outside (or estamos afuera de los limites de la misión) of the mission. 

I really have been thinking about how much damage gossip does. I think the easiest and one of the most harmful things is gossip. You cannot take words back once they have been said. This ward has a problem with gossip and MANY people have gone inactive because of it. I love the phrase that the church is perfect but the people aren´t. We really need to have the focus to help lift others up, not bring them down. That is the COMPLETE opposite of what any follower of chirst would do. We need to find the lost sheep, or in this case, search out after the one who is lost or really struggling along the path. Sometimes we are focused on finding the ones who are completely astray, but if you think about it... someone also needs to protect the sheep that are left behind. We need to be those that help those around us. I have no idea if that made sense, but all in there is no use in spreading pure garbage about other people. We all have faults and we would not want someone criticizing us for the things we do. I am really going to try to work on this!

I love being a missionary! It is just SO fun (as stressful as it is to meet the goals of our president haha). Till next week! 

- Elder Nord 

Members!

another pic with the 2 hermanas

when we were taking the bus to District Council (I started the bus ride studying and the hermanas showed me how we looked by the end of the bus ride).



My district with the two Elders

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