I could not post Alex's email until Kira gave us the a-okay because he mentions something in it. Our family has experienced yet another miracle and we are overcome with joy & tears!! Hola Familia!! WOW! I will be honest. I got a little teary eyed, (but didn't make it obvious for I am in a crowded cyber haha), when I heard about Kira. I am so excited for her :) Felicitaciones KIRA!!!!!!!!!! (After years of trying and two adoptions Kira & Justin are expecting their first baby. Yes, you read this correctly......she is PREGNANT. This is truly a miracle!!) So this week was a little slow cause no one was here but we had some weird stuff go down here in Chile this week. So remember how I have been complaining about the flippin heat here? Well, on Wednesday we had a freak thunder storm. It was insane it was like the first time in forever that they had a thunderstorm in the middle of summer. We were at the house of our ward mission leader when it started and their son who is legit he is four his name is Thomas was like DRAGONS!!! and started flippin out haha so ya cool. The next day Thursday it just poured and for the first time in my mission I used my umbrella. Friday we were back to our normal blazing heat and it was terrible. Yes and there was a 7.0 earthquake in conception again. I didn't feel anything but we had people tell us that their houses were moving and what not but we were not affected at all. But also we had a ton of drunken encounters this week. One of them was insane! I don't remember what day but we were walking and this drunk came up to us and started talking. He apparently is in love with boxing and was like in love with me cause I guess I look like some boxer he really likes and kept calling me classic clay (the guy must have really been drunk because Cassius Clay is known as Muhammad Ali. I can understand how they would mistake Alex for German but not for Muhammad Ali). But he was insane. We were talking and then he slaps me across the face! I was like ""what the!" and then he takes my hand and slaps himself across the face, then he laughs gives me a hug and gives me a huge kiss on the neck!! After he asks me to kiss him. I just started laughing and was like "sorry man not gonna happen". But all in all I am kinda tired with dealing with so many drunk people cause not all of them are o friendly. I don't know if I had told you guys about an investigator named Gabriela and her family before, but we had lost contact with her for like a month and everytime we would pass by they wouldn't be home. On Tuesday we had to quickly run into the Santa Isabel to buy tape for something we needed and she was there with her two kids. We said hi and they invited us over to their place a little later so we went and turns out she had been reading the Book of Mormon the whole time we were out of contact! She said she loves how clear and to the point the Book of Mormon is and she had some awesome questions about everything and showed some strong interest in baptism. After the lesson she was like "can you guys accept gifts?" and we were like "ya we think so" and she gives us Ties! awesome haha. She is progressing slowly but is really good. She is awesome. Also for like the last two weeks there has been a huge evangelico convention here in Lo Ovalle! They are everywhere and from all different countries. I guess there is a pastor and his wife here from the states some lady told us but I haven't seen him though. On Sunday it was insane! They were basically just lining all the streets in my sector preaching. What they do is they get in a group of like 4 or 5 people, stand there and just start yelling scriptures and doctrine and what not. It was insane cause there were hundreds & hundreds of people just yelling different scriptures and what not. Funniest part was Elder Diaz and I were the only ones in the street cause it was early in the morning and Chileans don't wake up until 12 o'clock haha so I thought it was a little funny. Samantha told us she wants to be baptized again she is honestly the cutest little girl I have ever seen. The lady in the picture with Juan is his wife Carmen haha. Alan will probably be baptized on the 5th of March and the earliest Samantha could be baptized is the 12th of March how cool would that be? (March 12th is Alex's birthday) The ward started to come back this Sunday things should start getting more back to normal this week I believe. The Youth are lazy. What else could you expect? They will take longer than most people but they come to play soccer with us every Monday guess you can see what the priority of teenage guys are right? Funny story, my favorite youth in our ward came back on Sunday and we were visiting with his family and he was like "hey your sister had a birthday right?" I was like "ya on the 3rd why?" he was like "oh I saw it on facebook and sent her a message saying happy birthday" This kid is ridiculous but awesome haha. Also we found this lady who just moved into Lo Ovalle like last month and we have a cita with her today right after P-Day ends. Wish me luck cause I have a really good feeling about her for some reason. I just pray her husband is as open as she is that is usually the determinator. Love, Elder Alexander Leavitt |
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Alex's 26th email 2/14/11
Monday, February 7, 2011
Alex's 25th email 2/7/11
Alex & Elder Worthen sad that they are leaving each other.Hola Familia!
So basically this week was awesome! First I guess I will tell you the super big news that Juan was baptized this last Sunday! It was awesome. We made sure to get the whole ward participating, (well that part of the ward that was still here there were 24 people at church this Sunday). But it was awesome we had musical numbers and people brought food for afterward it was awesome! I had never seen Juan smile so much he was soo happy, he has totally changed his life and has been wanting this for awhile now.
Look at Juan's smile that Alex commented on!Oh also, I was writing in my journal this last week and saw it was Alycia's Birthday "HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHISHA!!" But besides the baptism this week was still awesome. Alan just makes me so happy to be a missionary. We had two citas with him this past week. We taught him the plan of salvation and was so stoked he just gets it. Also the crazy kid, so his niece took out his bookmark of the reading we left him soo what does he do? Since he didn't remember what his assigned reading was the kid just started at the beginning and has basically finished first Nephi and was able to tell us everything that has happened like perfectly! Also his niece is 8 years old and she is seriously the cutest little girl I have ever seen in my life. Like I would pay money if I could have kids as cute as she is! Like I will have to somehow take a picture cause I doubt you guys believe me. I am dead serious. But to add to her cuteness she sits in on all the lessons with Alan and after the lesson when we were all talking I lean over to her and joking I asked her if she is going to get baptized with her uncle. She then responds and says "I talked with my mom and I want to be baptized, and my mom said I can!" She is legit! So then we have a our second lesson with Alan and we are teaching the third lesson. We get talking about the holy ghost and read a scripture about the fruits of the spirit and how feelings we get receive from its influence. So then Ia ask him when have you felt the spirit most strongly in your life. I was expecting something like with my family or something but no this is Alan and he gives this crazy story and the spirit was so strong! So I asked him and then he gets all quiet and was like when we lived in our old house my mom went to go buy bread or something, and I was in my room and I had this dark feeling come over me and on my bed was this black guy. And so I went to leave my room but then he followed me, so I knelt down and started praying and then in through the window came to people in white and took away this bad spirit. He then said that was the moment in his life where he felt the most peace and how and those fruits of the spirit. I was like wow... you are amazing.
I honestly feel like the reason I was sent to Lo Ovalle was to find Alan. He has been waiting a long time to hear the lessons I know it. He is amazing. I honestly can't even begin to tell you how awesome he is. All he wants and he told me this was to be baptized by the true authority and reactivate his mom so they can go to the temple.
To answer your questions; the Utah Hat is mine :) I found it in Malloco from an older missionary who left it. I don't know everyone just does thumbs up there is a cool story about President Eyering doing it though which it sounds like you heard. I heard it starts cooling off around the end of March but I forgot sunscreen today while playing soccer lets just say not good. I have not done anything but play soccer. I am going to try and talk my zone into going to the ZOO!!! ya we got another gringo named Elder Mann he is pretty cool way more serious than Elder Worthen but I can live with it. There are some other deader sectors in our zone but you are right me and elder Diaz are doing WORK!!!
Some other funny stories I wanted to share with you were that I don't know if I told you but there are a ton Gypsies here in our sector and we have one that honestly just follows us. We have a gypsy stalker! It's creepy and when I say gypsies I mean dresses, tents, and like everything. It's crazy. Also an hermana gave me the coolest bookmark. Like Chile has these famous bookmarks and I had always wanted one but have never seen them and lo and behold an hermana came back from vacation at Viña del Mar and bought me one of these bookmarks! Also we found 3 more youth we are starting to teach. It's like crazy unbelievable how God knows what our sector needs. I told you before that our ward was all old people and we had like zero youth. Well all of these people we are teaching and finding are all young men like 15-16 and we found three more, two are legit. I just love the mission!!
Well I love you all and I will write you all next week!
Con Mucho Amor,
Elder Alex Leavitt
Alex & Juan
Elder Diaz, Juan, Elder Leavitt & Juan's wife
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