No
but seriously, this week was suuuuuuper crazy! I'm gonna give you guys
the story from my point of view, I'm sure that you've seen what's going
on in the news.
THE STORY:
We
were teaching a family home evening with some members in our ward (last
monday). It was super awesome! It happened to be Hermano Diaz's
birthday, so we were just eating cake and minding our own business. All
of a sudden, the lights went out. We went outside of the house and all
the lights in the entire city were out! We got a call from Elders Swett
and Giadach (our zone leaders) telling us to immediately return to our
pension. Hermano Diaz gave us and the Hermanas that work in our ward a
ride back to our pensions. We then sat around for a couple hours in our
pension because it was only 8:30 and we don't go to bed until 11:30 in
our mission. We peered out the window into the black abyss that was
Arica for a couple hours. You could see sirens in different parts of the
city. That's one of the cool parts about our apartment, we're on the
fourth floor and can see forever. There was also a fire in part of the
town.
The next day we found out that it had
been flooding in the south and that's why we had lost power. We didn't
really know the extent of what was going on. This day we didn't have any
cell service but we had power.
The following
day we found out the extent of the things that were going on. Apparently
rivers had just taken out cities in our mission. One of the cities to
get hit the worst was the city of Cheñaral, which pretty much doesn't
exist any more. The significance of this is that my companion spent his
first six months in the mission in Cheñaral and is super worried for all
the people that he knew there.
We spent a
greater part of the week worrying for the missionaries and wondering
what was going to happen in the mission. We finally got a call from the
president (through our zone leaders) telling us that all the
missionaries were fine and that there wouldn't be any huge changes in
the mission. Other that that, we haven't really had ANYTHING happen in
Arica. Wait, I take that back. We had a 6.4 earthquake in the middle of
the night. I slept through it...haha...not sure if that's a good
thing.....
Now onto the more important part! The part where we had a baptism!
His
name is Pedro Choque! The hermanas found him in the street and started
talking with him! About a month and a half later he got baptized! We
were super stressed because we had to teach the lessons very basically
and were worried that he wouldn't be able to remember them. He passed
the interview and everything went through without a problem! He was
super excited after the baptism and says that he wants to keep
progressing forward!
Here's a scripture about baptism taht I like -- Mosiah 5:8-10
Love and miss you all so much!
Stay Frosty,
Elder Walker
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