August 6, 2018 - I'm going to PURO CAMPO!

Bonswa! Koman ou ye. I am starting to have quite a few lessons in Creole.... I just nod my head and try to understand when they respond. I have learned like 50 words and I teach the Restoration with those 50 words and verbs lol. It is terrible but hey we have 2 haitians who have accepted the baptismal invitation and are progressing so something is working. I have learned to just read some important paragraphs, explain what I can, and then show the Restoration in french (they speak french and creole). It is messing up my mind though because sometimes when I want to say simple things like God or Church or Sunday in spanish to chileans... I say them in Creole accidentally. Anyways this week was good. We found a GOLDEN GUY named Murat Luis (yes he is haitian). We found him while looking for another Haitian last Sunday night. We met with him twice this week and HE CALLS US TO TELL US HE IS WAITING FOR US IN HIS BROKEN SPANISH (that NEVER happens here...) then yesterday he called us at 8 in the morning to say he will be waiting in his house at 9:30 to go to church. He came outside with his Liv Momon An (Book of Mormon) in his hand and during the Sacrament I showed him the Sacrament Prayers in Moroni 4-5 so that he could read them in Creole and he brought his own scripture marker and highlighted the verses. It was GREAT. Sonia and Hector could not come to church because Hector is still sick and Sonia had to help her brother find a job... but both still progressing) they will both be baptized now it is just a matter of when. Other than that, this week was hard to find some people... Remember how last week I talked about how we had a lightbulb moment and realized the kid who lives behind us hasn´t been baptized... yeah well someone told us wrong and he is still 8 so we can´t work with him yet (that was a sad day haha). This week we had exchanges with the AP´s and WOW lol I think everything that could go wrong happended in that exchange haha. Jehovah´s Witnesses walked in our lesson with Sonia and would not leave and were SO PASSIVE AGGRESIVE to us. It was very awkward. Anyways a ton of other things happened but we will just say that I was excited to finally go to bed that night haha. Something I have learned is how we need to go the second mile. In Jesus´s time, there was a law that the Roman Soldiers were allowed to demand any Jew to carry their stuff for up to one mile. If you were a Jew, had worked all day, are dead tired and were walking home and a soldier saw you... you had to carry his stuff or you were fined or went to jail. Jesus taught us to have the attitude to do more than we are obligated to do. We need to be the type of people who are willing to do the above and beyond even though we were NOT asked to do it. Blessings come when we do what is not expected of us. I know when we put in that little extra effort... (as my choir friends know it the "silver beads") THAT is when we see the miracles.  We got transfers and after 6 months in San Vicente, Talcahuano.... I am going to Quillon, Chillan! I will be in the middle of nowhere haha with no cyber haha (I will email in a member´s house and the area is big with VERY few houses... you could say PURE FIELDS). I have to take an hour and a half bus ride to go to District Council. Anyways my comp will be Elder Evans who has arrived 9 weeks after I did in the field (he is from Indiana and idk if you remember but we had xmas olympics in the mission and we had to audition to compete and he was the guy that I almost lost to haha so he has a good voice too) and I will be District leader of the hermanas there and the elders of another city (Bulnes). But I will miss San Vicente and the GREAT people and ward we have here, but I can def say that I have left this ward in WAY better shape than I found it in. This last mutual, they had over 10 kids there and my first week in the sector nobody came. And also a Haitian had never come to church and now the ward is thrilled to be working with them and help them! Anyways, MIDDLE OF NOWHERE HERE I COME. - Elder Nord