Hello All! This week was way, way better than all of the weeks previous for a long time hahaha so I'm feeling good! I think getting through the tougher problems of the previous weeks helped me to keep a better perspective about the littler problems that are happening always haha so I guess I turned out more patient in the end after all! So this week was good.
The fires are better! The temperature dropped (one day last week it reached 114 degrees Fahrenheit... luckily this week we were in between 70 and 100) and one day the sky was completely cloudy, and one day it even rained! So I'm sure that helped a ton. The miracle is that it never rains in summer here, in fact, it's really weird to even see a cloud in summer here. There are so many miracles everywhere always it's so great!
And we got changes! Elder Mendez is going to Rancagua, and it is sad to see him go. It'll be very different without him here, but we've had some crazy good and some crazy bad weeks together and we'll stay friends forever because of it. He's a great guy, and he has a unique ability to look outside of the box of all-too-common LDS/missionary perceptions of reality, and because of that he has taught me a ton. His biggest motto is that love is what matters most, and it's really true, and he shows it in the way he lives and serves in his calling. So it's been a good time! The good thing is that Elder Covey is staying in the house, so we will keep having a good time together. My new comp is going to be Elder Sawyer, who is my first companion since Elder Barbosa (over a year ago) to actually have more time in the mission than I do! He was a secretary recently so everybody knows him, and he's an awesome guy. I'm really excited, because I know we're going to get along great. Elder Young and Elder Heap (two of my best friends that I lived with in Santa Cruz and Hospital) are also coming to the zone as district leaders so it'll be an excellent change.
Updates on the sector! I had my personal record of investigators at church this week, with 7. We were pretty excited about that. Patricia and María gave us a good scare because they were progressing soooo well and then Patricia got back together with her boyfriend and she wasn't progressing as well and we were afraid of losing her, but we went by with Alejandro and an amazingly awesome hermana in our ward called Hermana Evelyn and we had an excellent lesson. María expressed her concern that Patricia was getting back with her boyfriend and Patricia started to get really offended but then Alejandro and Evelyn controlled the situation really naturally and fantastically and helped her understand that she needs to figure out what's best for her and her son and really do what's necessary, which includes progressing in the gospel. And this week she went to church! With her son and even María, who had never come before. So that was exciting!
A Bolivian family that recently moved from the North of Chile are being reactivated so we're excited about that too! They went inactive really young, so they want us to teach them all the lessons again and baptize their nine-year-old daughter. Their names are Lorena and Dixie, and they're sisters, both in their mid-twenties. They both have several children but no husband, but I'm not sure which children belong to which sister. The younger sister stays at home to take care of the kids and the older sister works. Even though they're in tough circumstances, they're super happy people and have a lot of faith and they're very friendly. So I'll let you know how that goes!
All in all, I'm really excited for how the next few weeks are going to go. I think the changes are going to help the zone a ton, which was also a significant source of stress this change. I'm also excited about developments going on in the ward as a result of Alejandro's and Evelyne's service. Things are really changing down here, and change was very needed! So lots of prayers!
Thank you all! I love you all! Have a great week!!
Love
Elder Fox
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