Jan 12, 2015

haha its was a pretty fun! we had a good week and im getting really use to my new sector and we are teaching a lot of people now and we just have to start going and getting some more people baptized. we have 2 people with a baptism date but they have been listening tot the missionaries for the last 3 years and so we are just really hoping that they can recieve and answer to thier prayers that they need to get baptized and we are goign to invite them to the mutual this friday where they are going to have a surpise movie and so of the youth from the ward are going to go visit the kids. they are 13 and 14 and are just a hard nut to crack. we also had a sweet family home evening with a married family here that are really receptive but they dont understand the restoration. they nodd their head and are good and trying to believe but they arent doing a ton to really try and find out that its true. we had a family that reciently got sealed in the temple tallk about how they know that they are an eternal family and the investigators really liked it but they still didnt understand that it is only available in the Church of Jesus Chirst of latter day saints. haha and so we are going to keep teaching them so that we can help them really understand. they had a baptism date so that is why we are pushing so hard to get them to really understand and everyone in the ward really likes this family! ¡¡¡¡¡THE LORD CAN DO ANYTHING SO VAMOS!!!!! 

so as missionaries our focus has now changed and the only 3 things we are focusing on is Baptize Retain and Reacivate. and the only 3 things that we are tracking is baptisms, book of mormon placed and how many people came to church. and we had a really good week!!!! we had a 124 people come to church so we are basically in the best branch in viña! haha it was freaking sweet!!! and we just had a member call us and tell us that we ahve a FHE tonight with some people that arent baptised and they ahve came to a chruch 2 time and they have gone to a couple of activities so we are pretty excited about that and its just a huge blessing that the Lord just gave us!

we had the meeting with pres and his wife and the asistens and it was incredible!!!! so we started off normally with a scrpture and testimonies of the new leaders and then the leaders that are leaving. 2 of the old asistents gave their testimonies and it was really special to see how much they love the God and Christ. and then presidente Kähnlein felt like we needed to do another prayer and he offered it. ...... litterly the most spiritual and loving and awesome prayer i have heard on my mission! of the 40 or so pèo0ple that were there at least 30 were crying by the end of his prayer and it was just so cool to see the lov ethat he has for the Lord and for us and for all the  missionaries and it was a cool moment. i choked up a bit when he started praying for the missionaries. it was a really special moment. and then we had a good time and i learned that i need to lear from my weaknesses and from my past and that is how i can keeep on getting better!!!!!

i love you mom and i thank you for what you write me every week and it help me a ton to want to help other people!!! i love you so much and i cant wait to talk to you next week!!!

hey also if you could send me a scan of my mission call that would be fantastic so i can print it off!

Elder Ethington