The Chileans are going to make a singer out of me it if kills me
(and it probably will). We had a talent show and after all the members
went the missionaries sang "Come thou fount of every blessing." There
was like 80 people and only 4 missionaries so I was a little
intimidated, but we pulled through.
Also we got some really good cake this week and that was the only picture I took this week, so I gotta start taking some more.
Someone thought I was Brazilian, I don't know if that was an insult or...
This week the teaching drought ended!!!!!!!
First,
we were on interchanges during a game of the American Cup. Chile was
playing so no one wanted to listen to us. We decided to say a prayer and
we prayed to find the person that wasn't watching the game. So we
walked a little more, talked to some more people that didn't want
anything and then finally we found Estefany. We were able to teach her
and her mom and we left a Book of Mormon with the introduction for her
to read. We went back two days later
and she read until 1 Nephi 9 and remembered just about everything. It
was super great and we're going to meet her "partner" to keep working
with them!
Also, we taught Cherry (daughter) and Rosa (Mom).
We taught in a family night and they had been with the missionaries
before us, but we haven't had much of a chance to teach them. We were
talking and Cherry said that she ahd wanted to get baptized from the
first lesson the missionaries taught. It was so awesome and we invited
them to get baptized the 10th of July. Were going to keep working with them too to help them get ready for their baptism.
This week I want to share a scripture from 2 Nephi 2:24
that says, "But behold, all things have been done in the wisdom of him
who knoweth all things." I love this scripture because we really just
have to trust that everything has a purpose and God knows that purpose.
In the end, all He wants is us to be happy and He knows how to make us
happy.
Hope you guys are happy and everything is well!
Love,
Elder Cheney
June 13
So thanks a lot for this email! Also I gave your email and address to someone that has a daughter in Charlotte that is less active and wants to go to church but doesn't know where to go, if someone emails you, her name is like Yanina or something like that.
There's not a whole lot of questions so I'm going to have to go off of what I got.
We
had a Zone meeting this week and one of our zone leaders bought a bunch
of ties, in his words "I looked for the ugliest ties I could possibly
find." So all the elders in our zone got new, ugly ties. I was pretty
happy because it was free.
Also this week Marta made some
onion bread for us! It was really good and I'm going to try to get her
to teach us how to make it. It is exactly what it sounds like, bread
with onions. We ate it all that night haha.
Sunday I gave a
talk in Sacrament meeting. It went pretty good, there wasn't too many
confused faces, so I guess everyone understood me.
In Sunday
school we were talking a little bit about the glory of the world and the
glory of God. Someone in the class said "The glory of the world is in
obtaining everything, cars, houses, jobs, money. The glory of God is in
leaving everything and serving your fellowmen." I loved this because I
know I'm the happiest when I'm serving someone else. This happiness is
also something that is lasting, things get old and wear away but the
service we can give to people and the relationships we can make with
people are lasting. So remember to do your good turn daily!
