Hey everyone! Its been beautiful here and its heating up a little bit. Maybe I´m speaking a little too soon because we aren´t technically out of winter until next month but I´m enjoying the clear sky and sun. Its still chilly but its real pretty.
Our investigator pool is becoming a lot more defined. Its really nice to have a few of your main investigators progressing and going to church. One of the best feelings and sights is to see an investigator you have been working with all week, walk through the doors to the church on Sunday. Its almost like all your hardwork has paid off. Of course, the ultimate goal is more than church attendance but its still a really amazing feeling.
On Sunday a member in the ward asked us to go up to the Bishop after Sacrament Meeting. We went up to him and a couple were talking to him. They asked us "how long does it take to get baptized?" Those words are amazing to a missionary. We told them it would only take two weeks because they had already attending church once. So, things are looking really good next month. We have a lot of work to do these next couple weeks so that we can see through all these baptismal dates that we have next month.
I think I´ve said before how amazing our Bishop is. He does so much and he´s so loving and serving to the ward. Something that I really thought was awesome this past week was that we saw his room that he makes his own bread! Chile consumes so much bread and the people who make them are kind of secretive about their recipies. So, the Bishop (Bishop Chavez) is testing out different recipies and we buy bread from him each time. I think it's so awesome because its really something that I couldn´t see happening too much in the States. He lives about 2 minutes away from where we live and we all live really close to the Church. I´ve said it a lot but I´ll say it again... this ward is amazing. Everyone is so willing to give us references and love treating the missionaries to lunch. Elder Davis mentioned the other day that you would find more people willing to give lunch to the missionaries here than you would find someone who wasn´t able to. I appreciate it so much.
We did service again this past week and this next week we are going to do a Mesa Missional. This is where we set up a table with copies of the Book of Mormons and pamphlets and talk to as many people as we can about the Gospel. We are doing it with the Elder´s quorum and there are tons of return missionaries so it should be really good.
Here´s a few more pictures! Love yáll! Chao!
Elder Gregory
