this week was great. the branch has a lot of challenges still but we
are working on that. i keep having to hound the branch president to
hurry up and get home and visiting teachers because they havent had
them for a while. but he promised me that this week they will so well
see. but the members are really nice. they gave us such good lunches
this week it was so nice. i thought the lunches would go down a lot
since i was in Los Angeles and the members there were all pretty well
off and always gave us great food, but it has been awesome here
aswell. the people here are really humble but really loving and give
you all they have. this week we found a lot of really good people and
everything in our sector is going great. this week was a funny here
like in all poorer towns there are tons of Evangelical people. so
there was this pastor guy talking in the microphone in the middle of
the road and they talk so loud. so he was talking about Jesus Christ
and how we just have to have faith to be saved and stuff like that. so
we passed by him and he looks at us and started saying in the
microphone you dont have to walk the streets of Arauco looking for a
religion to be saved. it made me laugh i thought it was so funny. then
the next day we went to this house where they told us to pass by the
next day. so we went and there on the wall they had written No
MORMONS!!!! once again it made me laugh. we had an FHE with a really
awesome family and a part member family and we watched the story of
John Tanner it was so amazing to see all the sacrifices that he made
for the church and it made me think of how little we do sometimes as
members compared with what the early saints had to go through. it is
such a testimony builder to hear stories of the early pioneers just to
think all they were willing to go through. So all here is doing great.
looking at it i could not have gotten a better cambio than to be here
in Arauco with the companion that i have. the Lord always knows what
He is doing never doubt HIm and His purposes. Trust in God and
everything will work out. there was this cool quote i heard that goes
like this if you accept and live the gospel there is nothing in your
life that will be permanently bad and if you dont there is nothing
that will be permanently good. it is so true. thanks for everything
love you all
Elder Brimhall
