Hey all! This has been a good week, a weird week, but a good one. I've got news from both of my previous sectors though! I'll start with Pichidegua
So, last night we were walking home and a car passes and I hear a girl scream "FOX" in a car driving by. I whipped around and I barely made out a recent convert from Pichidegua (her name is Ignacia) with nearly her entire torso sticking out of the back window as the car pulled the corner and drove off. She made them stop the car and apparently they just kept going after dropping her off because they just disappeared but she came back to talk to us. She's doing good, she's about to start her mission papers so that's real exciting. There's good and bad news about Pichidegua though. The good news is that the family of 3 we found in Larmahue at the end of my time there that gave us pie that we helped reactivate are still active. Also, the Peruvian family of 3 that we found in Pataguas is also still active and the Dad is still planning on getting baptized once he can get divorced and married to his current wife. That was awesome to hear. The bad news is that the other 2 baptisms that were going to happen fell through, and the Peña family went inactive again, along with Luis and Jessica (the eternal investigators of 4 years that just needed to get married), and worst of all, Iván. Iván was the member that was reactivated when Porter was there and accompanied us to almost all our lessons. Looks like he found something in the Book of Mormon that made him doubt. The good thing though is that I'm in the zone again and I'll find a way to talk to all of them. Also, Elder Villavicencio just went over there and he's amazing, so there's high hopes for the place.
Calle Larga! It nearly killed me leaving, and the emotions were more potent than any other place previous. And, along with that, of course the withdrawals have also been pretty sharp. That's definitely a part of what made the week weird. I know that there's an important work here to be done, but I'd give a lot to be there. The good thing is, though, that I'm in more regular contact with Calle Larga than I've been with any other previous sector. I've talked to Elder Sawyer a few times on the phone, I talked to Alejandro once, Alejandro and I are writing each other, and it seems like Hermana Evelyn (one of my favorite members on the planet) might come up here this week to eat lunch with us and her mom. So, I've been keeping in touch. The best news is that everybody's doing well, Alejandro's doing well, that Nashani and Maricarmen got baptized this weekend right on schedule, and René is right on track to get baptized this Friday. YUUUS!! Made me very happy knowing all that.
Here! Here is great. It's a larger branch than I thought, with an attendance anywhere between 20 and 50, and a lot of older members. It's bee great getting to know the members so far though, and the best was meeting Evelyn's mom (same Evelyn mentioned above) when we went to lunch with them on Wednesday. The branch President is awesome, and they have branch counsel every week which is incredible. We have some investigators that are going to be baptized sometime soon, but other than them we don't have much else going on. We're going to be working a lot with less actives, most likely. There's a good portion of city but also a good portion of gorgeous fields. Everything about the fields reminds me of Hospital, including the smell, so that definitely lifted my spirits every time we went there. There's another village in our sector called Puente Negra which is right up close to the Andes and it's incredible. The Andes are incredible and I had never been that close.
My comp is also great! He's from Uruguay, and he was in my zone a few changes ago so we already knew each other pretty well. He's easy to get along with and we've had a fun time so far. I'll send a picture of us and a few of our sector in another email!
I had more thoughts but I'm out of time, more details of everything next week! I love you all! Have a great week!
Love
Elder Fo
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