June 30

bueno hoy diá es en epañol!!

yo estoy muy bien muchas gracias!! y todavía no tenemos muchos planes por hoy, solo sé que tengo mucho hambre ahora!!! jaja estoy animado a nader con ustedes! jaja yo no me puedo imaginar que ely va a invitar AMIGAS!!! jaja buena CHORO!!!!

para Josie.... o quizas se llamma JOSE!.... bueno es fome la question pero es necesario!

tambien mamita! la casa se ve muy bonita!!! no lo reconocí cuando me envió los fotos!!! en serio me gusta el suelo de madera muchisimo! bien hecho mamita! se ve muy bien de verdad!!!

Lunes.

encontamos un nuevo investigador que se llama eduardo y su esposa murió hace 6 meses y es buena honda él y por todo esta tiempo ha estado leyendo el libro de mormon de los otros elderes que le visitaran.

martes

bueno, solo tuvimos intercambios y estuvé con un elder de argentina! y hicimos contactos no mas por todo el día 

miercoles

YAHOOOOOO!!!!! solange y constanza alex y marian aceptaron una fecha para el 12 de julio y dijeron que quieren bautizarse!! la mama tambien es mas que animado para el bautismo de ellos y ha  invitado su familia al bautismo! tambien enseñamos el investigador eduardo y el todavía no queire una fecha del bautismo pero sí sabe que el lbro de mormon es verdad!!

jueves

el jueves tuvimos entrevistas con el presidente! fue muy bueno !!! me dió mucho animo a trabajar y ayudar mi compañero y la zona a progresar! dijo el que en el sector donde yo y mi compañer estamos, podemos tener 3 o 4 bautismos cada mes entonces hay que elevar nuestra fe a esto no mas! también me complementó que soy un pilar en la zona. me hizo sentir muy bien porque no llevo tanto tiempo en la mision entonces siento que no estoy tan preparado que pueda ser pero esto me ayudó que tengo lo suficiente para hacer lo! y también entrevisté un hombre para su bautismo y fue muy bueno y estuvó mas que preparado para su bautismo!

viernes

enseñamos a  eduardo de nuevo tiene problemas con  la restauracion pero tenemos una cita con el esta semana!! y tambien hice otra entrevista para el otro hombre para su bautismo i fue muy bueno tambien! y tambien enseñamos la familia bernal ( solange y hermanos) la palabra de sabiduria y no tienen ningun problema y estan animados para su bautismo!

sabado!

tuvimos que arreglar el bolsa para esta stand y tomó mucho tiempo para hacerlo! jaja we use a big blue carp adn duct tape! haha and rope!

y esto no mas!

Domingo

solange, constanza, y alex asitieron la iglesia pero marian no! pucha!!! y la mama esta enferma! entonces fuimos a un noche de hogar y despues fuimos a la casa de fam bernal y dimos a hermana monica una bendición de salud! fue muy bien y el espíritu estuvo muy fuerte.

aquí estoy!! jaja!

una cosa! podría mamita enviar me the theme song of 17 miracles the sheet music! that would be awesome!

les amo mucho y muchas gracias por su animos y amor ! me llega y es lo mejor a hablar con ustedes!!!

Elder Ethington

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

June 16

thats sweet that you guys are getting good contacts for your buisness that is goign to have lots of fruits from the labor! just be yourself and you will find the poeple that you need to !! hha sounds like the mission!

haha i cant even imagine that josie is in charge but she will at least get him up out of bed haha... to school..... hopefully hahaha. i want to hear the story from that next week!!

Monday

well we taught a guy that has activated in the last like 4 months and as we were sitting in his house the relief society pres called us and told us that we need to open the doors to the chapel beacuse her mom had passed away that lives with her. so we went to the funeral and we opened everything up and then we  helped sing with some of the people there while they had the viewing. that was basically all we had monday.

Tuesday:

well tuesday elder robins from the 70 came and spoke to us and it was super sweet!!!! some of the sister started of the meeting by singing a song and the spirit was way strong while they were singing and then after elder robins just had and open session for questions. it was super cool! haha somthting funny that you will like mom! is that yes the church has a vault with a lot of history of the church but! they do NOT have the sword of Labon! haha PUCHA!!! but it was super cool to here him speak to us about OUR questions and he knew a crap ton about the scriptures! its was incredible to see and hear his insight on everything!!! the question that i wanted answers to was what the quorom of the 70 wanted from us as a mision and president kauhnlein asked that exact same question and its everything i needed! haha he just said we can always be more obidient and that we need to use our agendas to find the miracles in the mision work and the last but not least! just have more faith! have faith that there are peple waiting for us everyday we just need to talk with them and give them a chance to accept the gospel.!

also had to interview someone for a baptism and almost didnt pass her because of how bobble headed "i dont know anything" girly she was haha... kind of wierd!

Wednesday

well we had district meeting. then it just freaking rained  a crap ton. haha so me and my comp stole the umbrellas from the chapel and then offered tours of the church to people. haha no one accepted but we did talk to a good amount of poeple while doing it and we didnt get as wet as we could have gotten!!

thursday.

well thursday we finally found a new investigator! an she is straight gold! she read everthing that we had given her and she told us all the parts most important and it was just super sweet to finally find someone and teach her! and we found out that her mom is less active and that solange has 3 other sisters and 1 brother and all of the are younger!!! YAHOOOOO!! so we are super pumped about that and then we just contacted. we have a commandment as missionaries  from elder bednard to have 20 contacts every single day so that is something especially important right now as we are trying to find more poeple to teach.

friday:

haha so friday chile had thier first game in the world cup and man was its kind freakin awesome! haha we cant watch it but as me and my comp were walking down a hill and Chile scored there goal we heard the whole valley of our zone cheer at the same time! haha it was awesome to here! haha we just had contacts and we placed 2 books of mormon.

saturday:

we had splits and it was super fun! haha had a super good day! we found 2 new investigator from a appointmetn that we set a week ago and her mom showed up too and she was a jehovas witness but now she is catholic but she wants to know more about the book of mormon and is going to pray to know if it is true! and then we had a lesson with solange and her sister was at the lesson to so now we are teaching her sister and we are just waiting for the other 2 sisters and brother! haha it was super sweet to see!!!! it was a super good day!

sunday

didnt have anyone show up to church because it was fathers day annd solange and her sister went out with there dad who doesnt live with them. but we did have a brunch thing at church which was good! haha! and then sunday was a little rough but we ended the day giving a book of mormon to a guy and it was super fun!

haha well that is about it for the whole week! haha i have actually got my first blister on my foot from walking so much  i our sector beacuse we dont have to many poeple to teach but we are starting with the bishops family with the referals activity and we are excited about that this week and we going to find some more golden poeple here in santa julia! its pretty cool how hungry this ward is to have baptisms so we are going to just baptized poeple here!!! haha the baptism here is freaking sweet also so i want to use it!!! :) hahah i also saw this crazy thing sunday night

haha love you mom and that you for your animo!!!! have fun in DC!!!!

Elder Ethington!