Well I finished up my first week of training! I love it! its way fun haha. But it was quite the interesting week to be honest!
So on monday night I went to Chillan so I could be in Concepcion on time the next day to get a little capacitacion on training and then recieve my new comp! So I slept there, and showed up in Conce the next day. So i honestly couldnt explain it to you and have no idea why, but it turns out that 1 elder and 3 hermanas showed up that day haha. So we all showed up to train, got the little capacitacion, and found out that their plane got super delayed and they werent going to get here til 6... So I spent a few hours in concepcion with 2 other elders doing some work haha. But anyway, so they finally showed up, we all got our assignments, and right away sent us all of since it was so late! Well we live in curico, and (depending how you do it) it takes 6-8 hours to get there... so it turns out we then had to spend the night in Talca, and then the next day finally show up to our sector...
So I didnt get home again until Wednesday in the late morning haha! So much traveling. And we travel by bus... So that was superrrr fun..... haha but we made it!
So my companion is Elder Adamson! He`s 6`4 (suuuuper alto) super blancito, he`s from Cedar Hills, Utah, is 18 yrs old, knows some spanish, but not too much, and was in the MTC for 12 DAYS!! I dont even know if thats possible! hahaha. We have no idea why he was there so short or why they showed up in the middle of the cambio or anything. Were so confused why he`s here! But obviously it was just an answer to my prayers! hahah. So im completely content with it. He`s awesome Im way excited to be with him and to train him! haha. I THINK i have a way to send pictures this week... So hopefully they get to you! Oh and just so you all know he DID know/study some spanish beforehand in high school and stuff... So its not like he came out here COMPLETELY blank after 12 days in the MTC haha.
So anyway, we just went to work! and i love it. I love training him and helping him out and showing him the ropes and pushing him haha. Its always super funny because he`s kind of a shy guy and obviously being new he naturally gets nervous when its his time to talk or do something, but throughout the day we always set little mini goals to push him more haha. For example, after showing him how a few contacts were done, i explained it a little bit, and then said "alright your turn!". So he went to the door, the person came out, and the conversation went like this:
Elder: Hola! como esta?
Otro: Bien gracias! Digame!
Elder: (turning to me) Uhh... I dont know what to say...
and then i picked up the contact from there. hahaha. So we kept it up and that happened 1 or 2 more times, so then we set a goal that I wasnt going to talk at all at LEAST until he said something more than "Hola como esta". haha. So the next contact... he did it! And he talked alot more. and we keep going from there. haha. But thats why its fun! Its just fun to help him out, set little goals with him and teach him and help him reach his potential little by little! haha its way fun im loving it.
But so we`ve been doing cool stuff like thattt.... and then another cool thing is that we have some "travelling assistants" in the mission right now, and so on saturday they came to our sector and I did a mini cambio with one of them! And it was awesome. Theyre really good missionaries and i learned alot from them! So im pumped to apply the things I learned and be an even better missionary so I can have even more success! yeahhh! Y para ellos que sepan los terminos de la mision con entrenadores y "familias" y todo... El elder con quien yo hice el mini cambio es mi "abuelo". El entrenò a mi entrenador. ENTONCES, mi "hijo" conociò a su "vis abuelo"! haha. el cual es algo super raro en la mision. y ahora saben.
Uhhh so theres that story.... and finallyyy, this sunday we`ll have 2 baptisms!! Woo hoo at last! haha. This weekend Patricia and her son Cristian will be baptized! Theyre super cool and really excited to get baptized. They were a reference from a family here in the ward, and the family has been a HUGE help with them! But so were super excited because theyre awesome! And theyre even so good we ended up moving their baptismal date to a week sooner! haha :P So were pumped! Pray for them so that everything goes well this week! The final week right before baptism is always the hardest week because it seems thats when Satan fights the hardest to keep these people from doing such a good thing in their lives! So things always go crazy and get stressful the last week... haha.
oh and last thing, on saturday night the bishop decided i was going to talk in church the next day for 15 minutes about the plan of salvation... and that was during the mini cambio and we had 6 elders in our little house, so to be completely honest, i forgot about it really fast. So i showed up to church and quickly remembered i had to do that.... So mas que nada i basically gave my first talk on the fly in spanish... I hope it went well :/ :P haha. I think it did... I hope. But so that was an interesting experience haha.
but for the most part.... that was my week! There are billions of other things I could tell you... but thats all for now haha. Im loving the work, I love being a missionary, i love learning! Im looking forward to having lots of success here.... So here goes nothing haha.
I love you all and miss you!! La iglesia si o si es verdadera. Las experiencias que he tenido aqui en la mision y las cosas que he aprendido han ayudado mi testimonio MUCHO. No tengo duda de que esta es la iglesia verdadera de jesucristo. No hay otra aqui en la tierra que tenga la autoridad de dios. Somos muy bendecidos porque tenemos todas de estas bendiciones en nuestras vidas! Les echo de menos mucho y les quiero mucho! Que les vaya bien! Chau!
-Elder Heyman
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