Nov 14th

Well first off this week was great!  We saw a ton of blessings and felt joy working!  I am glad to hear about all the fun your all having!  That is awesome that you all had the opportunity to have a fireside with Elder Ballard!  I am happy that Dad got to spend a lot of time with him.  That must have been a great opportunity.  To talk about the college thing.  I honestly havent put to much thought into it.  However I will fast and pray about it.  I just had some other things that I was thinking about.  I will explain in this email.  For Christmas my comp wants a puppy, do you think you could send that?  We actually dont know if we have a transfer or not, I dont think so.  I believe I will finish the training with him.  I am excited.  For Christmas I just want cards and pictures that is alright with me.  You dont have to send anything big.  Alright to start off!  

Monday:

Well like I said last week we went on a trip on monday and it was a blast!  It was so cool and honestly a booster for me because we saw other missionaries that are in San Jose my old sector right now.  Two of the investigators with whom We started teaching are now baptized!  It was such a blessing.  As well we had to pass San Jose to get back to Valdivia and I felt a lot of love for that town.  It was a tender mercy.

Tuesday:

This day we had lesson with Andres.  We got to his final doubt.  We have been anwsering all of his questions and I have come to understand why all evangelist churches say what they say.  That will help in the future.  So with him we decided to start a fast.

Wednesday:

This day we had a lesson with Nelson.  He is lossing some of his memory, but we are still going to keep working with him little by little so that he can retain his memory.  We will see his progression.  We also set up a lot of lessons with contacts which was pretty cool!  We also had a district meeting and the spirit was really able to testify and help us.  I also learned something I can change and make better.  I am excited to keep changing.  

Thursday:

We had a lesson with Andres again, and it is basically do or die at this point.  Wehn his wife is in the store she always tries to argue with us, and tries to make him doubt.  It is a little hard.  We are going to start the fast tommorow.  Basically at this point we had shared all the basic doctrine.  We hoped and prayed for the fast to anwser his prayer.  We also had a broadcast with Elder Rasband and he talk about ward council.  It was cool!  

Friday:

Alright this day we started the fast,  we also were able to teach a lesson to the nurse of a home bound member.  We taught her about prayer!  The spirit was there it was really cool!

Saturday:

This day we had a Zone Conferance with the mission president.  It was really cool!  The spirit was there, also we all got to eat sushi!  It was awesome!  Well at 9 that night we had a lesson planned with Andres in the church.  So we went to the store and he said he wouldnt be able to make it, however he said he had recieved an anwser.  So he gave us some scriptures to read to descrie his anwser.  So we went to the church and read them with our ward mission leader and we soon came to understand that it was a future doctrine attack he would attempt.  So we tried to not think that, and kept on praying for him.  

Sunday:

Well during my personal study this day I was super frustrated for what had happened with Andres.  So I just spent the whole time thinking about the future contention we had all predicted.  So it was quite discouraging.  Then we went to church, and while in church I felt like a failure because of my human weekness and was praying for forgiveness.  I was really beating myself up when all of the sudden an old investigator, with whom had tried to attack me and say that she will never exceopt our message walked in with her soon to be husband who is a member.  It was a real tender mercy.  Whe later had a lesson with her in Gospel Principles and she had a softer heart.  That wasnt the best part of the day.  Earlier I had been feeling at peace on friday and after my studies on sunday.  With Andres I just felt everything was going to be ok, and I trusted that God was just.  Then we had a lesson with Andres.  Our mission leader and him start bible bashing!!! The spirit was definitly not there, and you could feel the spirit of contention.  I wanted to stop the bashing, but for some reason the spirit didnt allow me to open my mouth.  Then I went to a scripture in Mosiah 4:9 I believe, and waited for the right moment.  When it came the spirit testified with power.  I dont remember really a lot of what happened, I just remember what generally talked about.  The spirit said some really bold things.  It basically told him we fasted for a anwser and you came back with a doubt and the spirit then dirrected us to explain Faith and Testimony and then I bore my testimony.  The spirit was really strong.  He is going to fast and pray again, however this time with Faith.  It was a tender mercy, and it showed me that even though I am weak God isnt and he is just and wont allow my weeknesses to stop one of his children from recieving the Gospel.  It was awesome and I felt humbled.  I have Faith that if he does it all over with Faith this time, he will recieve an anwser. 

That was my week so far.