Hunter Mission July 30-August 5

This week was absolutely amazing (which is saying something cause i've loved every week) but this week in particular had so many miracles and tender mercies.

The language is still difficult as always but little by little I can understand more. It's nice to finally see a little progress because it moves so slow it doesn't seem like any progress at all. But I've been loving it. The language will come with time and already, even though I can't understand them, i love this people. So many people will smile and wave back at us whenever we show them love through a wave or even a simple "buenas." We even have a cop car that will honk at us whenever they see us because I thought it would be smart to wave to them as we crossed the street. Which probably could've ended badly i've heard a few stories where they'll pull over and try to ask for papers and all that, but these ones were nice so were chilling.

Oh and we also had a huge miracle this week with our friend Tamara who loves the church and everything we teach but she has a Family with an awesome guy named Gino and they aren't married. So this past week we talked to them about all the blessings from baptism and the fact that they would have to be married beforehand. First of all it turns out he's already a member and was baptized when he was a kid, and then secondly the huge miracle was the fact that she was super ready to be married finally, so she was baptized. The reason this is such a huge miracle is because Gino has been trying to get her to marry him for 7 years. He later came up to us and said, "the fact that you got her to say yes in 4 days when I couldn't in 7 years is a miracle." So hopefully he will start coming back to church he already committed for next week and an activity tomorrow. But anyway the moral of the story is... me and my comp are basically Cupid bringing salvation to all jajaja. In all honesty I love these people and have high hopes for them.

I also had my first rainstorm here in Chile which is a very different experience when everywhere you walk is a dirt road and the gutters don't work. So that was an experience we had a bunch of the roads flood and our rivers that usually only have puddles were overflowing, it was actually super fun to just not care about getting soaking wet and then using the excuse that we are freezing and need shelter to get into peoples houses to spread the gospel , gotta use all your resources God gives you and rain is one of them. 

Overall was an awesome week and so glad to be here working for God. Hopefully I'll be able to speak Spanish soon but it's all God's timing. He knows perfectly what we need and what we can handle so as we look to him for help and hope he will give it to us in the way that will best help us grow. Once again I love all yall, if you need anything let me know and I'll send my prayers!

Elder Nelson