Hola Buenos Dias!! :)
This
week was a crazy intense week! For those of you who watch the news
should already know most of my week. For those of you who don't, the
title should explain and give a few hints ;)
But to start at the beginning of the week...
We
were out working really far away from the apartment and my companion
had to go to the bathroom really really bad. So we passed by all the
members, investigators, or anyone we could think of to use the bathroom
but no one was home. My comp said, lets just go to the apartment, I
don't think Ill make it, but it is worth a shot. I just told him that we
would keep asking people if they had a bathroom. We talked to a guy on
the corner who looked like the owner of a little cafe and asked him if
there was a bathroom there. He said yes and that we could use it. He
took us to the cafe and told us to use the bathroom but the lady inside
said no. We found out that it wasn't his cafe and that people from
outside weren't allowed to use the bathroom. The lady kept saying no but
the guy kept telling her that we needed to use it and that he was
willing to pay her to let us use it. Then another lady showed up and
started arguing for us as well. She told the lady who wasn't letting us
use the bathroom that she was a horrible person for making missionaries
who walk in the street all day hold it when they had to go really bad.
It was kinda nice to actually have people arguing for us and not against
us, I'm thinking it was a once in a lifetime opportunity. None the less
the guy paid the lady 4 dollars so that we could go to the bathroom ha ha
:) After using the bathroom we contacted him and he wanted us to pass
by and teach him. We will see how it goes.
Quote of the week from some little kids... "Elder, You look like toasted bread!"
This week the big thing that happened. Lets just say I survived an earthquake and a tsunami!
This
week we were teaching a newer investigator and we were just about to
teach about Joseph Smith when I felt a little bit of shaking. For Chile
little "Temblores" or mini weak earthquakes are common and I have felt
them before. But it started getting stronger and stronger so I looked at
the investigator. He told us to be calm and that it was nothing. But
then it got stronger and stronger and it felt like the whole world was
shaking! He stood up and we all went to the door frame (Apparently the
safe place to be in an earthquake). We watched his truck shake and look
like it was about to flip over as the world was spazzing out! After 3
minutes of shaking everything stopped. We started listening to the radio
when the tsunami sirens started going off. We found out that our
apartment was in the tsunami zone and that we had to evacuate and get
to the safety zone. We went to the apartment quickly to look for some
basic things and went to a members house. While there we tried to get in
contact with our zone to see how they were. The phone lines were crazy
busy because everyone was calling. By 1 in the morning we had managed to
contact about half of them. We ended up staying the night at the
members house and the next day we went to the apartment. It was fine
and the tsunami didn't make it up that high. But we learned that the
center of Coquimbo was destroyed by the tsunami. We spent the next 3
days doing service in the center. Ill send picture because they can
explain it a lot better than I can. But all in all Coquimbo was the
second most affected place in Chile, after the city that was the
epicenter of the earthquake. We are going to keep doing service, but
there isn't too much that we can do.
This
week was also the 18th of September which is Chile's independence day
celebrations. And President Diaz is awesome and gave us the whole day to
celebrate and have fun. So we ate barbecue, played soccer, talked with
members, and enjoyed the day. It was pretty awesome :) We also spent the
morning doing service for the people whose houses were destroyed and
who didn't have anything to celebrate.
As
a zone leader one of the things we have to do is make sure everyone is
working hard but is happy at the same time. It is definitely a
challenge. I came up with the idea of doing "Funday Sunday" "Wacky
Wednesday" And "Fetchin Friday." On each of those days my companion and I
make a recording of us explaining the challenge of the day in a fun
way. We say it the same way every time so that it will catch on. We do
it with background music and everything. Then we send the recording to
the district leaders to send to their districts. This last Funday Sunday
was to contact everyone that was wearing a soccer jersey and to invite
the to be baptised. Most people enjoyed it, we for the first time in my
mission, didn't find anyone with a soccer jersey, and some were lame and
didn't do it. But we are going to keep going with them because I am
pretty sure they will work, and then Coquimbo will become famous for
Funday Sunday, Wacky Wednesday, and Fetchin Friday. :)
That is basically my week as much as I can describe with words. Ill send the pictures to explain it a little better :)
I love you all, Stay Golden! :)
Love,
Elder Nielson :)
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