Hello everyone,
Well, I just wanted to share with you an awesome event that took place Night.
About a month ago, there was this man who came to church. We all just assumed he was a member of the church. We had a wonderful spiritual Sunday School Class. As I have mentioned before, our young teacher is one wonderful teacher, any how, as we all participated in the class, many of us were baring testimony about the subject of the lesson and the importance of the gospel in our lives. One wonderful meeting. Any how, afterwards, in visiting and introducing ourselves to him we all found out that he wasn't a member, Who would have guessed. He acted like a member and even participated in reading scriptures. The doctor went and found the full time Elders. They came and talked to him. They have been teaching him and tonight he was baptized. He is a single man probably in his 50's and in the air force. He said he learned about the church and upon arriving in Chile he looked up the church and came to the meeting. He had been living in China and couldn't be taught in
China. Amazing story.. We are all so excited for him.
Never seizes to amaze me how people here in Chile are looking for the
gospel. Everyone day, it seems that we get phone calls about people
hearing of the church and wanting missionaries and want to be baptized.
Will write more later.
Mom, (Eileen)
Monday, November 17, 2008
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Sunday Nov 9th
Sunday, Nov 9th
Wow... Happy Birthday to me. The past two weeks have been really busy for us in the office. With the arrival of New missionaries, that gives us a lot of paper work to do. We had 40 baptisms in the month of October and I have been busy typing and inputting the information into the computer and sending the information to Salt Lake. We are starting to feel like we might be able to do the work in the office now. The Visa process is still slow coming for me, partly because I haven’t had the time to really work on it. This past week I did start to learn more about it and process some papers for the new missionaries.
We had a fun Saturday last week. We went with the Davis’ and the Dixon’s out to a hill in the middle of town called Santa Lucia. We walked up to the Metro and then took the Metro up to where Santa Lucia was. It was a wonderful walk and we were able to walk to the top and look out over the city. I should say, all but me went to the very top and looked out. I just enjoyed the surroundings without looking out and down. It was quit a walk to the top, several switchbacks.
We also have gotten close to a couple of cute sister missionaries in the East mission, and one was going home so the 6 of us adults took them out to lunch before going on our adventure for the day. Because our office actually is in the boundaries of the East mission we see some of their missionaries more than ours. I feel like we know their office missionaries as well as ours. The two sister missionaries are assigned to the temple area. One sister is from Tonga, and the other from Alabama.
We were in charge of the family home evening this past week. We did a skit from the 40's that dad rewrote to go along with genealogy... known as “who’s on first base”. Everyone laughed. Then we showed a slide presentation with some thoughts on genealogy written on the slides with back ground music. Then each of us told about our spiritual adventures in doing genealogy work. We have had many people come up to us during the week and tell us how much they enjoyed the evening and that we inspired them to get back on theirs, and they also have shared some of their experiences with us. That has been nice.
Thursday, we had the opportunity to share in the missionary zone conference. That was really fun and special. It was amazing to watch so many missionaries sitting in one place sharing testimonies and feeling the special spirit that was there in the meeting. We have one special elder from Lehi, that is having a rough time, and without anyone really planning it, the talks seem to be specially for him. Hopefully they will help him. They really applied to us all, but because I knew of his struggles, I thought of him.
Yesterday, we welcomed two more couples into our mission and the area mission. It was kind of a crazy mixed up morning. The president and the AP’s were to meet the couples at the airport at 10 am. I received a phone call at 11 from the president to confirm with me that the couples were to arrive at 10. He couldn’t find them. I told him I would go over and recheck the schedule. He said no, he would check with the airlines and if there was further problems he would call me. I sat down to finish reading with dad, but I really felt I needed to go over to the office and recheck the schedule. Well upon arriving at the office, I found that the schedule was correct and I started back to our apartment. When I was leaving the building, I saw a taxi pull up and unloading a lot of suitcases... I looked twice and saw that two couples were getting out of the taxi as well. Behold it was the two couples were we expecting. I hurried over to them and welcomed them to the mission and called the president to tell them they were at the office. President was so sorry he missed them, and couldn’t figure how that happened. I guess their plane came in half hour early, and they thought they had waited long enough and took a taxi to the office. Well, we took them down to the office and waited for the president to come. I also called dad and told him what had happened and had him come and join us. We did some of the paper work while we were waiting and talked a little about this and that. Then president arrived and we then loaded up their suitcases and took them to their apartments and made arrangements to meet with them later to take them shopping, to an ATM, get their PIB card so they could ride the bus and metro system as needed, email their families and to show them around. We met up with them about 3:30pm. We had a good time with them. We took them back to their apartments around 6 pm.
Today, the president has asked us to take the one couple, the McCowns to a stake conference in the area that they will be working in and he will meet us there. Then after church we all have been invited out to the president’s house for dinner. Nice... And its my birthday! Sister Jones said she would have strawberry short cake for my birthday. That should be fun. The other couple will attend the ward meetings here and we have arranged for the two senior sister missionaries to meet them and show them around. Sister Graham and Sister Meyhew will also be training the Westovers in their jobs in the employment center. So today should be a wonderful day and we are looking forward to it.
Love to all,
mom and dad (Eileen an Ron)
Wow... Happy Birthday to me. The past two weeks have been really busy for us in the office. With the arrival of New missionaries, that gives us a lot of paper work to do. We had 40 baptisms in the month of October and I have been busy typing and inputting the information into the computer and sending the information to Salt Lake. We are starting to feel like we might be able to do the work in the office now. The Visa process is still slow coming for me, partly because I haven’t had the time to really work on it. This past week I did start to learn more about it and process some papers for the new missionaries.
We had a fun Saturday last week. We went with the Davis’ and the Dixon’s out to a hill in the middle of town called Santa Lucia. We walked up to the Metro and then took the Metro up to where Santa Lucia was. It was a wonderful walk and we were able to walk to the top and look out over the city. I should say, all but me went to the very top and looked out. I just enjoyed the surroundings without looking out and down. It was quit a walk to the top, several switchbacks.
We also have gotten close to a couple of cute sister missionaries in the East mission, and one was going home so the 6 of us adults took them out to lunch before going on our adventure for the day. Because our office actually is in the boundaries of the East mission we see some of their missionaries more than ours. I feel like we know their office missionaries as well as ours. The two sister missionaries are assigned to the temple area. One sister is from Tonga, and the other from Alabama.
We were in charge of the family home evening this past week. We did a skit from the 40's that dad rewrote to go along with genealogy... known as “who’s on first base”. Everyone laughed. Then we showed a slide presentation with some thoughts on genealogy written on the slides with back ground music. Then each of us told about our spiritual adventures in doing genealogy work. We have had many people come up to us during the week and tell us how much they enjoyed the evening and that we inspired them to get back on theirs, and they also have shared some of their experiences with us. That has been nice.
Thursday, we had the opportunity to share in the missionary zone conference. That was really fun and special. It was amazing to watch so many missionaries sitting in one place sharing testimonies and feeling the special spirit that was there in the meeting. We have one special elder from Lehi, that is having a rough time, and without anyone really planning it, the talks seem to be specially for him. Hopefully they will help him. They really applied to us all, but because I knew of his struggles, I thought of him.
Yesterday, we welcomed two more couples into our mission and the area mission. It was kind of a crazy mixed up morning. The president and the AP’s were to meet the couples at the airport at 10 am. I received a phone call at 11 from the president to confirm with me that the couples were to arrive at 10. He couldn’t find them. I told him I would go over and recheck the schedule. He said no, he would check with the airlines and if there was further problems he would call me. I sat down to finish reading with dad, but I really felt I needed to go over to the office and recheck the schedule. Well upon arriving at the office, I found that the schedule was correct and I started back to our apartment. When I was leaving the building, I saw a taxi pull up and unloading a lot of suitcases... I looked twice and saw that two couples were getting out of the taxi as well. Behold it was the two couples were we expecting. I hurried over to them and welcomed them to the mission and called the president to tell them they were at the office. President was so sorry he missed them, and couldn’t figure how that happened. I guess their plane came in half hour early, and they thought they had waited long enough and took a taxi to the office. Well, we took them down to the office and waited for the president to come. I also called dad and told him what had happened and had him come and join us. We did some of the paper work while we were waiting and talked a little about this and that. Then president arrived and we then loaded up their suitcases and took them to their apartments and made arrangements to meet with them later to take them shopping, to an ATM, get their PIB card so they could ride the bus and metro system as needed, email their families and to show them around. We met up with them about 3:30pm. We had a good time with them. We took them back to their apartments around 6 pm.
Today, the president has asked us to take the one couple, the McCowns to a stake conference in the area that they will be working in and he will meet us there. Then after church we all have been invited out to the president’s house for dinner. Nice... And its my birthday! Sister Jones said she would have strawberry short cake for my birthday. That should be fun. The other couple will attend the ward meetings here and we have arranged for the two senior sister missionaries to meet them and show them around. Sister Graham and Sister Meyhew will also be training the Westovers in their jobs in the employment center. So today should be a wonderful day and we are looking forward to it.
Love to all,
mom and dad (Eileen an Ron)
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