The Epistle of Greg: 2013-09-29

Well, here we are another week gone by it seems like everyday I wake up and the next day is Sunday already!! Anyways some interesting things happened this week.

First of all with Nestor, one of our investigators and his family, he has come to the conclusion that he can not be baptized for the next year and a half (because he is living with his girlfriend and because of things to do with the law they cant get married for the next year and a half), but the good news is that three of his four children are going to be baptized on the 12 of October!! We are super excited and they are as well especially their 16 year old daughter her testimony is strong and she knows and understands the step that she is going to take.

Also this week my companion and I were coming home late one night at about 10 or 10:15 (its okay we are allowed to be out until 10:30) and as we were walking down the road close to our house a group of three young gentlemen start calling profanities at us in English, my companion turned to me and said lets go contact them, I just wanted to get back to the house so that we could plan and also wanted to avoid talking with them, but after a while I turned to my companion and said, Hey you know what I am following you if you want to go contact them I am in. So we did and as we walked up to them you could see the change in their countenance as we talked to them and testified to them they were practically shaking. Later in our house we were relating the story to the other Elders in our house and one of them Elder Garcia (the cover of next months Liahona) started laughing and said well that's not even fair I mean they probably took one look at Elder Hutchins and wanted to run! It hadn't occurred to me up to that point that I am probably in the tallest two percent of the population in Chile and that I am an intimidating figure! Who would have thought, certainly not me! But now I know why my companion is willing to go and to talk to all the people who are rude to us, because they are all afraid of me!

Finally this week I was studying and thinking a lot about the Atonement of Jesus Christ, it is a very interesting and exciting topic to study. I learned that the way back to our Father in Heaven is fully paid. We will all go back to our Heavenly Father the only question that remains is how long we will stay there. We are working in this life to change and to help others recognize the need they have to change. So for this weeks invitation I would like to invite everyone to keep in mind something that President Monson advised us to do, Keep in mind that people can change. That includes yourself. We are here in this life to change. Let us all work however slow or fast to change. I love each of you and pray for you.

Keep reading your scriptures and praying daily it is SO important.

Also as suggest by my aunt here are some fun facts about Chile:

1.When the people here drink hot drinks they think they cant go outside because the change from breathing hot air to breathing cold air will make them really sick, but it is completely fine to drink something hot outside.

2. As missionaries people make all kinds of excuses not to talk to us, the weirdest one by far was "No I cant come out right not the baby is on the table and it could fall!!"

3. Here in Chile the Spanish is pretty weird they put 'po' on the end of everything they say, 'sipo' instead of 'si' etc. it means absolutely nothing, but it is fun to say.