Well, my companion´s names is Elder Haacke. He is from Bountiful, Utah and he is ready to go! Missionaries come out from the MTC with so much energy and I love it! He really wants to learn the language and has been stressing about it a little bit but we are studying hard. He also just wants to be a good missionary and companion so I respect him a lot.
We have been working in a small town named Talquipen about 20 minutes from here. We have been getting in a lot of doors. For example, last Wednesday we were there contacting. We contacted a lady, named Cristina, and she said no at first because she already had her religion. I said that was fine and I asked if we could share something about Christ real quickly (anything to get in the door!) We shared something real quick of about 15 minutes and left. We kept knocking and we got to an end of a street and the door of the last house was open with a lot of people going in and out. I thought that they had visitors so we would just contact it the next time we came to that town. But, I dont like leaving houses unknocked on a street so we knocked anyway. An older lady let us in and we taught a family of four in there. Appearently they are grandparents and have 3 daughters that live all close to them with all their families. We shared of the Restoration and Book of Mormon, and left them one. We went back on Saturday, and we went to the same house. The lady that we had taught for 15 minutes, named Cristina, came out and said that her parents were busy but she brought us over real quickly to her house. I really am never nervous when I teach lessons but when she brought us to her house, I got pretty nervous! She was a totally different person and was completely interested and askes us tons of questions about what we do and what we believe. We shared of the restoration with her and she was completeley receptive. She said that something that she loves about us that no other religion has, even hers, is that we are humble. I just told her that we are instruments in the Lord hands so that is why we have to be humble. So, pure miracles are happening over there in that small town! We also got in 3 other doors.
We had an investigator come to church that lives right down the street. We were not even able to teach her all week because she goes to the hospitol a lot but she called me up Sunday morning and told us that she was going! It was a miracle because it is really rare that investigators go on their own for the first time! We went and picked her up and walked with her to church and her little daughter loved Primary and said she wants to go back next week!
I found my camera! It was at another missionary´s house and I had left it there when I went to do a mini cambio or something.
I love yall!
Elder Gregory
The pictures of me and my companion when I picked him up in Concepcion and where we went with th young men and young women this morning to hike around.
