Hey guys!
Thank you all for the birthday wishes! It really has been an awesome birthday so far. The Alarcon family invited us to go have lunch with them for my birthday and it was really really fun. And it was a delicious lunch. And they made me a cake and gave me the "mordisco" which is a Chilean tradition. Basically, you take a bite of the cake, but there's always someone behind you to shove your face into the cake. But it was a really good cake, although I still have cake in my nostrils. But it was totally worth it. :)
We also found some investigators this week, so that was fun, but none of them showed up to church. But we have a really fun fhe in the chapel planned this week so, lots of members promised to bring new friends, so we have really high hopes for that. And according to the forecast it's not going to rain, so that means that people will show up! haha. We also found a new less active whose dad isn't a member this week. But she was kind of... weird. But she said she would go to the activity on Wednesday, so hopefully she's more normal around other members. She's 19. Her name is Francisca. (snake)
It's been really fun this week to have several opportunities to serve. We got to move a truck, and organize some wood and clean the chapel! So that was pretty great. And there's something really cool planned for the district class this week. So I'll tell you how it goes, but it sounds pretty awesome. :) Maybe you'll see the video on facebook before I tell you about it. But if not, you'll hear about it next week.
This week we were practicing sharing short and powerful testimonies in our tracting. It was awesome. The responses are one hundred percent more positive. It was really cool. The idea was that instead of asking them for their address we just bore testimony and asked when we could come by to share more. It was fun. And Elder Baquerizo said that he felt really strengthened by it. It was a faith-building experience. So it worked!
I love you guys. And I wanted to extend the challenge to all my nieces and nephews to share their testimony with someone this week, and then on August 7th (Fast Sunday) that they can share their experiences with it during fast and testimony meeting. Everyone is invited to participate, but help them get PUMPED about it and do it! They really do feel God's love through our testimonies. That would be a pretty amazing birthday present.
Have an amazing week!
Elder Robinson
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| Dichato on a cloudy day |
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| My birthday lunch today! Photo cred: Gerardo Alarcon |
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