Remember some time ago when I was teaching the Riquelme family, well the daughter got baptized by her now active father and they have the goal to go to the temple to be sealed together forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Chilean sky

Well this week we have focused a lot of the Guajardo family and they are progressing well. On Monday night for a family home evening we talked about sacrifice and watched the John Tanner movie. He was a man who truly sacrificed all that he had in order to serve the Lord and bring about his eternal purposes. 

They, as a family, are now reading the scriptures together as a family on a nightly bases (the Book of Mormon) and they love it. They really love the fact that they can read it. Both the help with the spiritual, but at the same time it is a story or rather a history of 1000 years with wars and heroes and bad guys and trials and afflictions but also joys and triumphs. It really is the world's greatest book. 

They, as a family, are working towards living the law of chastity, they are going to get married and will have the date at the end of this week. Also every time that we go there Brother Guajardo, Christian, always tries to feed us. It is a rule in our mission not to eat with the members or others unless it is in a family home evening. So it is like a competition, he tries to give us food and I always try to get out of it. But he is a really good guy and will soon be a leader here in San Carlos.

This week was made a little difficult by the loss of our cell phone. Monday, the other elders we live with lost their phone so on Tuesday morning I gave them my phone to use and when they returned it, the sim card in it was fried and no longer performed its function. So on Saturday we went to the city and got a new phone from the mission, not quite an I-phone, but a step up from the brick we used to have. Hastening the work in simple, but big ways.

In district class the week we learned about consecration and the importance of being consecrated to the Lord's work, opposed to merely interested in it. Being consecrated is a tough thing and involves many different steps, but it is the most important thing the we can do with our lives. I mean, the whole purpose in life is to see if we will do all things that he /God) commands.

We left with Hernan this week (a new convert) and visited some of our investigators. He gave a simple but powerful testimony to them saying, (after one of them asked us to ask for peace in our prayer) "If you really want to find peace, here is the place to find it. I searched for my whole life for peace and I wasn't even close to finding it until I met with the Elders, now my whole life has changed and I am happy, and more importantly I am at peace."

Another important thing that I learned this week is the importance of looking for the one. In every thing that we do every place that we go I am convinced that the Lord sends us there to find the one. Maybe there are many that we can edify, but we always go in search of the one.

My companion and I focused this week on cleaning out the vineyard. We have a giant book full of old investigators and old converts and new converts and less active members of the church. Well in spirit of Jacob 5 (from the book of Mormon, if you haven't read it: read it) we asked the Lord for one last chance to labor together in the vineyard and we have gone to work cleaning and pruning and A LOT OF DUNGING: But it is fun and I couldn't think of something I would rather do.

Love you all

Eder Hutchins HAPPY EARLY BIRTHDAY TO ISABEL, TREVOR, AND HANNAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here is the new door of a less active member...?