July 3, 2012

wow this week went by really fast. my companion is awesome he is really funny and a good missionary. he is new so he comes with all that excitement and desire. things in arauco are doing well. this week church went really well we had a lot of investigators and a lot of inactives or less actives coming back. it was testimony meeting which was really cool you never know here how they are going to go but it was really good i felt the spirit really strongly. a lot of members shared about the restoration which is always a good way to invite the spirit. this week the goal was to find families, so we were working really hard for that goal. so we planned out really well prayed really hard and picked out a street and a time we were going to contact the street. i felt really good about it and knew that we were going to find the family. so we went and started contacting, nothing. no one wanted to receive us. so we kept going. nothing. so we left that place and went to another sector nothing. it is getting a little frusturating because we had prayed and really had looked for revalation and i felt that i had received it, but we got nothing. but we kept going and kept contacting, and then we talked to a man and he let us in. he was there with all his family and we taught him the restoration and it went really well and they understood great. it was such a testimony of just being persistent. just keep going even when nothing is going how you want it to just keep trying just keeping pushing and you will have success. it was a really cool experience. the mission is amazing, there is no better time. everything is awesome thanks so much for all your letters. Elder Brimhall