June 22

June Transfer con Elder Valencia

mom i want you to know how much i needed that quote.( quote from Pres. Monson from a talk he gave called "Courage Counts" and really liked it. "It is this sweet assurance that can guide you and me—in our time, in our day, in our lives. Of course we will face fear, experience ridicule, and meet opposition. Let us have the courage to defy the consensus, the courage to stand for principle. Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God’s approval. Courage becomes a living and an attractive virtue when it is regarded not only as a willingness to die manfully, but as the determination to live decently. A moral coward is one who is afraid to do what he thinks is right because others will disapprove or laugh. Remember that all men have their fears, but those who face their fears with dignity have courage as well."

Have courage this week and know that the Lord and his angels are on your side!  I love you and miss you)   and i cant thank you enough for that. haha you made me cry haha thank you for your support i means a ton to me!!!! and i need that desperately!

so sounds likke you had a ton of fun in DC! haha that rasberry lemonade sounds freaking good!! MAKES ME THIRSTY!!! hahah

Monday:

so finally got to do this activity for the references with the bishop and his fam so it was super fun! and got some got people to work with. also we taught a recent convert and that was basically alll of the day haha.

tuesday: 

had splits with the district leader Elder Enright. his twin is in the same mission as Josh!!! haha josh know his brother and taught him the batman workout to do in the mornings! haha it was fun elder enright is training a new missionary also and he is just a goofy guy haha we went to some pretty sketchy parts of his zone at like 8 at night with no lights and taught a family and they all were just kind of listening to the missionaries to just make them happy but this time they just kind of changed and they made a scheduel to pray everynight and read and just started progressing! and they want to get married also!

wednesday:

so elder enright also taught me the batman workout and just freaking destroyed me in the morning haha you guys with have to look it up! haha those type of workouts are super good to do since we only have a little bit of time to workout in the morning! had district meeting it was good hahah and we just contacted people for the rest of the day. we also did a fast as zone to have or investigator progress and also to find a new family.

thursday:

so we finished weekly planning and our fast and we also taught solange and her 2 sister and brother! haha there are now 4 of them that we are teaching so that is freaking sweet! and we also are trying to find her mom account and if we cant find it then we will have to baptize her also! haha they are all super awesome people and super humble! its really fun to teach them all and her mom, monica is way funny! she is deaf but man does she have a personality! haha! we comitted them to read and solange said that she would get baptized. she doesnt want to have a date but she wants to get baptized before me or my comp leave! haha so in like 2 weeks hopefully! and if she decides to get baptized her brothers and sisters will get baptized with her!

friday:

haha one of the most ridicuolous days of my mission. so we started out the day with that stand and 10 minutes in some evangelico came up to us and starts telling us how all of the churches of the devil and lots of scriptures from the bible. he then started to acuse joseph smith and that the first vision is false and didnt know anything about first vision so i cut in and said if he want to acuse us he has to know what hes talking about. i tried sharing a scripture about what we believe and he walked away. 20 min later he came back and started yelling at us and telling us how the book of mormon is false and that our church is false and we can only have the bible. haha me and my comp just started laughing at this point. he walked away. then he came back with his bible and showed us a bunch of different scriptures of how that second coming is now and 5 of the 7 angles have came to the earth. he left. then his other buddy from his same church convienently showed up, that was trying to convert us 2 weeks ago, and started in on us again for another 20 minutes. haha all of this before noon. haha then we later contaced another guty and he just started talking aobut how great the bible is. then we introduced him to the book of mormon and just started laughing and saying nothing would be as good as bible and then started saying that the book of mormon is false and that nothing can be as good. and then proceeded to condemn us becasue we were reading from something that god didnt write so that means it from the devil. haha and then we had a family home evening with a less active family. haha they had a good cake! then we ended the day and while we were planning we heard 6 gun shots like half a mile from our apartment building. haha and then we heard sirens like 5 minutes later. haha that was my friday night.

saturday:

we went with solange alex y constanza to a baptism and then from a baptism we went to ward activity. it was karoke and i pushed into singing micheal buble home. haha not sure if i can do that but it was ward activity so  yeah haha..... it was fun thought and i freaking love that song also!!!!!

Domingo:

Solange, alex, constanza, monica went to church but we didnt get the other daughter to come! but they loved church and they made some good friends! also had a freaking good BBQ with the Bishop and his 2nd counsler! its was lots fo chicken and steak!!! and then we just contacted and we actually taught a recent convert family!

haha and im now a legit chileno

lvoe you mom and thank you for everything!!!!!!!

Elder Ethington