Bonjour Surprises!

Hey Everyone!

This week has been really cool. This last week we have really been
trying to improve ourselves in every aspect. From Teaching, to
Finding, to Obedience, and we have been trying to apply things that we
learn from our leaders into our missionary efforts. It has been
amazing to see the blessings that come from just trying to improve and
grow.

We had English class again this week, and we have never had any
success from teaching English class before, because no one would come.
So we decided to see what we could do to improve, and we decided to
move places from the Hotel in Carill, to some tables out by the beach.
We were hoping this would making it easier for people to come, and
four people came! It was a great blessing to see the Lord helping us
out with that.

Then, on Wednesday we had a companion exchange and I was with Elder
Forseberg from Norway! It was a fun experience and we were able to
teach some cool lessons. We even got to teach Rum! Rum is one of our
investigators from Thailand who speaks very little Spanish. Haha it
has been a different experience, but we are here to teach whoever we
can. We got her the pamphlets in Thai, and we teach the lessons by
explaining things a couple of times, and pointing in her pamphlet to
what we want her to read, or what we are trying to say and it has been
a great experience. I liked what Martin said in his letter that "The
language of the Spirit is universal" because we have really seen that.

And right after we were finished teaching her, we had a cool street
contact. We stopped a family walking by, and we almost taught the
whole first lesson right there. They listened as we bore our
testimonies to them that we KNEW these things are true, and the father
thought about it for a minute and said the weren't interested. When we
asked them why not, he told us that he had seen too many people who
don't really live their religion to believe in a religion. And right
there I felt prompted to give him a Book of Mormon. The only thing,
was that as I looked in my bag I didn't have any! And as I started to
looked at my companion to ask him for one, he asked me if I had one! I
though "shoot what are we going to do?" And then the prompting came to
me again really strong, "give him a Book of Mormon". And right then I
looked done to my hand, and I had my copy that I had gotten from
Grandma and Grandpa Chandler. I had bought a cover for it, and had
burn some cool designs in the leather all over and had decked it out,
but I decided that if God wanted him to have a Book of Mormon, I would
give him mine. It was full of markings, and had my name all over it
but I grabbed some of my papers out of it I gave it to him anyway.

I felt so much power as I explained to him that this book really meant
a lot to me, but that we wanted him to have it, and the spirit was so
strong as we testified again of this Book.

Something our zone leaders have been pushing for this week is for us
to have more faith, and to pray for things we need in our areas. So we
have been putting our faith forward and praying really hard to have a
baptism here in Villagarcia. And this week Soledad, a less-active came
back to church and asked us if we would begin teaching her 8 year old
daughter so she could be baptized!! Sometimes I feel like we really
just need to ask the Lord with faith and he is waiting to bless us.

And then a member from Boiro who just moved here from Venezuela called
President Temis and wants to come to church! He just needs a ride!

We have just had SO many cool experiences this week, as we have done
everything we can to improve and so I want to encourage all of you to
try the same! I know through the Atonement we can become so much more
then what we were before and it has been changing my life little by
little "poco a poco".

I hope you all have an awesome week!

Con Cariño,
-Elder Chandler