Anyway. We had a pretty good week this week. I think. Lets see...
On Tuesday... it was dad`s birthday! haha. We had consejo de lideres on tuesday morning, so I took advantage of being with President and Sister Arrington, snapped a photo with them with a note for dad, and they let me send it to him then and there on their Ipad! woo hoo! hahaha. im pretty sure you`ve seen the photo. Ive received questions about the "Happy Birthday" sign in english that was hanging up. Well it just so happens that coincedentally it was one of the assistants birthday that day as well. And so they had decorated the office a little for his birthday! Que perfecto! Totally took advantage of that haha. But so i have no idea where they found a happy birthday sign in English! but anyway. Happy Birrthday dad! Hope you had a great one.
A funny story from wednesday was that theres a Menos Activa family that were teaching... and they have a REALLY funny dog. They have a dog that just LOVES rocks. You can pick up cualquier rock and throw it and he just CHASES it down and grabs it and chews it and stuff. haha idk its funny. So whenever we pass by their house we always throw it a rock or two because its super funny. anyway. On wednesday the dog accidently got left outside of the gate and was just playing in the road. We were on the way to our house because we had to grab a video we had left there. So the dog saw us, recognized the blancitos, the white shirt and everything, and came flying over to us ready to play. hahaha. And so we threw a rock. It ran, fetched it, and came back, ready for another one. We kept walking.... and it kept following us. and following us, and following us. haha. So we were trying to get rid of him! So we would grab a rock, chuck it WAY far, and run really fast to try and lose it. but it KEPT finding us and following us! And it followed us all the way back to our house! haha. And so everybody saw us with the dog and lots of people were laughing and smiling because we had this dog following us wagging its tail super ready to play and stuff, and we were trying to get rid of it throwing rocks and running and stuff. haha. It was ridiculous. anyway when we went back to where we came from, it was still following us, so we went back to the members house, and called them out to come get there dog from us hahaha.
Thursday night we had an interesting event. We played soccer with one of our investigators at the chapel to finish the night, so before we went to bed we tried to take a shower... The showers here are super funky. and to get the hot water to work, you first have to turn on the sink in the kitchen until that water gets hot, and then when that water is hot, turn on the shower, and then turn off the kitchen. haha. i dont know why its like that. Dont ask. Anyway. So we went to turn on the water in the kitchen... and all of a sudden the knob broke. and the water was on. And we couldnt shut it off. Nor find the valve thing to just shut off the water completely. So we searched and searched for a few minutes... and didnt know what to do. So we finally did a prayer, got up, went searching again, and finally found the knob, and cut off the water to the house haha... But so then we didnt have water in the house. ha. So the next day we called the house owner, but he couldnt come until SATURDAY morning to fix it... so to shower on friday morning, we boiled a bunch of water so we had hot water, then turned on the freezing cold shower, and just worked with that, finding the perfect mix of hot and cold water haha. And we survived.
Friday was also a great day because we finally received a fridge! haha. I havent had a fridge the whole time ive been here in this sector. Finally i went and talked to the office elder in charge. and finally this week we got a fridge. I can finally have cold milk and cereal for breakfast again hahaha. Yay. We were very excited to receive that.
And the last cool thing was from sunday. The first thing is that on Sunday morning we called the Family Sid Vargas to see if everything was all good for church... but they said they were sick and werent feeling good and so "They were going to see how they felt when the time came whether or not they would make it to church"..... which is always bad and nearly always turns out negative. So we were pretty down about that and did all we could to help them out so they came. Well church started and they werent there :( SO we were sad and thought man theyre not coming.... WELL like 10 minutes after we started, they showed up!!! We were so excited and happy for them. It was a HUGE sacrifice they made to make it to church, especially because they were all pretty sick. But they sacrificed and came, and we know that the lord is going to bless them bigtime for that sacrifice. Por sacrificio vienen bendiciones!!! So we were very excited to see their dedication to these things.
The other super cool thing from Sunday is that we had a ward activity/devocional. A guy from Chillan came to the ward who does a presentation about the Book of Mormon, and like the "scientific/geographical evidences" of why the book of mormon is true. And so I guess theres 5 different presentations they have, and it was only the first one. But the presentation was SO COOL. It really like... opens up your eyes and makes the scriptures come to life and shows you that the things they talk about really exist in the world haha. For example, yesterday we only talked about Lehi and Fam`s journey to Abundancia and to the americas, and with google maps and the scriptures he kind of "Showed us the path" they might have taken. and it was so cool! Made the scriptures really come to life! and he also talked a little bit about Christ coming to the americas and some ancient documents theyve found that have been translated and talk about a "white bearded god" that visited some people in the america.... anyways it was just a bunch of stuff like that and IT WAS SO COOL. hahaha. Obviously its not the stuff you should base your testimony of the book of mormon off of, but it really brang the scriptures to life. so I liked it ALOT. and i have a bunch of notes taken down so i can see the stuff after the mission too since its online and i cant search it now haha :P
and that brings us back to monday! And here i am :)
Anyway. I love being a missionary. Its the greatest experience ever. Im learning so much and growing so much. I love this church. I love this gospel. Its true and its been restored to its fullness. Que bendicion! haha. I love you and miss you all! Have an awesome week! Hasta la proxima!
- Elder Heyman
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