Serving in the Chile Concepción South Mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Monday, August 8, 2011

August 8, 2011

this week went awesome. as a mission they put a goal to do 500 contacts which is a ton, usually for a week we do 140. this week went by so fast. i had to go do an intercambio with a sector called Yumbel. it used to be the best sector in the mission, where all the assistants would go and it was awesome. but then a dumb missionary did something with one of the members there the wife of one of the counselors in the bishopric and now it is really hard to work there. there used to be 50 people that went and now there are 25. president swenson actually talked about that in his last conference just about how it takes so much hard work to get up the top of a mountain, and so little effort to slide down. it is so dumb when some one does something stupid and the rest have to pay the consequences. but anyway i had to go there on tuesday, got back on wednesday then we a ton of lessons on wednesday, and thursday we had to go to a different part of our sector and visit a ton of inactive people. so it was friday and we had like 128 contacts and had three days to do them all. so friday we left really early and decided to do our companion study doing contacts, and our language study as well. we left at 10 in the morning and got back at 10 at night i was so tired, but it was really cool. and we were able to get the goal of 500. my companion is really cool and is a really hard worker. we are really similar he grew up in a small town as well and we did a lot of the same stuff. this sunday we were so blessed. during the week we worked a ton and got so blessed. we got 6 people in church which was totally due to our Heavenly Father who blessed us so much. i was in the middle of bearing my testimony during sacrament meeting and this lady walked in who we had taught like a week ago, but hadnt gone by this week and she had brought her husband. it was such a miracle. and than all these people that had been inactive for a while came this week. it was one of the best sundays in my whole mission. it was awesome. so ya all is great, thanks for everything.

Love

Elder Brimhall