?Entendi?

  11:41 AM       4-22-13   

Ésta semana fue super genial. No había mucho, pero me siento bien todavía. 

Elder S----s y yo encontramos una investigadora que ya tiene un testimonio del Libro de Mormon, y los profetas. Cuando era niña, - ahora tiene mas o menos 20 años - ella tocaba el piano en la primaria, pero su familia se mudó antes de ella podía bautizarse.  Su mamá es miembro, pero es ciega, entonces ella escucha al Libro de Mormon y discoursos de Conferencia General. Les enseñamos la primera lección y invitamos a asistir a Domingo. Queremos poner una fecha éste miercoles cuando les visitamos de nuevo.

Por fin, enseñamos una mujer – P-----ia - que va a la universidad mucho, entonces era difícil a visitarle porque no estaba y  cuando ella no pudo recibirnos por una cita, nos avisó. Pero nos encantó eso.  

Cuando nos recibió, nosotros enseñamos del Libro de Mormón. Ella escuchó a todo, y después, nos preguntó de José Smith.  Ella quiere recibirnos por la proxima lección, pero todavía es difícil encontrarle a su casa. 

y yo pensé en una pregunta por ayuda: ¿Hay algo que puedo estudiar y practicar para mejorar las preguntas que yo hago? -En adición a de Predicad Mi Evangelio. O tal vez, ¿Cómo son las preguntas inspiradas?  Yo estaba pensando en esa pregunta durante partes de la semana. 

Here’s the translation from the internet for the previous paragraphs:

This week was super great. Not much, but I feel good yet.

Elder S----s and I found a researcher who already has a testimony of the Book of Mormon, and the prophets. As a child, - now has more or less 20 years - she played piano in elementary school, but his family moved before she could be baptized. His mother is a member, but is blind, so she listens to the Book of Mormon and [talks at] General Conference. We teach the first lesson and invite you to attend on Sunday. We want to put a date this Wednesday when we visited them again.

Finally, we teach a woman – P-----ia - who goes to college a lot, so it was hard to see him because he was and when she failed to meet us for an appointment, we were told. But we loved it.

When we received, we teach the Book of Mormon. She listened to everything, and then asked Joseph Smith. She wants to meet us for the next lesson, but it is still difficult to find a home.

And I thought of a question for help:  Is there anything that I can study and practice to improve the questions I do--In addition to Preach My Gospel?  Or maybe, how are the questions inspired? I was thinking about that question during parts of the week.

 Blog readers, that question goes to anyone who can answer it. I´m looking for any improvement I can. Inspired questions... gotta improve em. 

Oh wow! Aw jeah! Pres. Clark is awesome. He´s been working super hard, so I´m sure he´s getting a lot of blessings. :o)

"TALL in Spirituality."   They say you reach the greatest heights when praying on your knees. 

Question from Mom: "Do you all have microwaves in your apartments?  I just started thinking about that today and I am curious."  Yes we have microhondas. [microwave ovens].  They're super chunky and old if you're in an old apartment. The typical view of non members is that missionaries are spoiled, and that is false.  We're super poor in material things, but happy as can be. That is a physical testimony that lasting happiness doesn't come from things you buy--Other than Ice Cream.  What we want here in Chile is a blender. We have so many fruits here they're falling out of our pockets.

So my friend is going to The Arizona Phoenix Mission… ah que genial [oh that’s great.]  Send him with some sunblock for me and let him know... well... just tell him he's a ginger and I think he'll understand.  I haven't contacted many friends. I'm not really trunky--I love it here. If the work starts getting boring, I'll let you know. 

Yeah. Got the box justo despues [just after] email time last week. {Mom sent a box to Chile that took about 6-7 weeks to reach him!} 

My companion is awesome. We laugh about dumb stuff. We both speak English and love the Work. Looking for those Nuevos Investigadores to teach.  Currently we are an all North American missionary district.  If we wanted we could do them entirely in English.

Fun Chilean Fact:  A lot of people add  -ITO to the end of a lot of nouns, making it "Just a little" one of whatever they're saying. Un vasITO de agua. Just a little glass. Un Pedazito de una bebidita.... it often gets so ridiculously small that you can't even understand what they're talking about when you smash all the words together and take out all the little “itos” and “itas.” 

Oh, and the conjugation thing here is pretty funny too.  The vosotros (talking to a group of friends/family) form of a verb ends in -ais or -eis.  Like "Cómo estáis?" as in "How ya'll doin'?" instead of "How are you all" when you're being formal. As missionaries, we're always being formal, but the Chilenos use the Vosotros form of -ais, but just chop off the letter S, which makes "¿Hola, Cómo estái?". You would think they are talking to a group of familiar friends, but no, they're talking specifically to one person.  I often get the feeling I'm supposed to look behind me for the group of friends they supposedly have, hand ready for a bunch of shaking, but nope. Just me. Did I mention that this applies to every verb? They often ask "¿Entendí?" which literally translated is  "Did I understand? "  [get it?]  but really they're speaking Chilean and asking "Did you understand?".  But it's alright. Eventually I'll get used to it and stop laughing every time that it's so confusing.

Honestly stated, I love these people, and it's been so easy since the start. Heavenly Father really knows what He's doing, because this place is perfect for me.  Even the fleas have started to leave me alone. I think it's because I've started using bug spray and the stuff you sent.  Flea collars around the bedposts too.    Oh and I killed one flea with the soap and water in a dinner plate with light on top of it method.  Super satisfied after that.

Okay, Now I'm going to write something about those pictures I sent last week.