Everyone here is excited about the copa de america. Chile played against Ecuador on thursday. We weren't allowed to watch it, but we could tell when chile scored a goal because because everyone went crazy, it was actually cool to hear the cheering from the street.
On Sunday Camila and Josè both went to the church for the first time. It was so awesome! Finally Camila went to church! Her little baby started behaving bad at the end of sacrament :) so she went home a little early. Josè went to church in L.A. and said he felt really comfortable in the church and that it was pretty much the same as california. We visited them both later Sunday and they said that they both enjoyed going to church and felt really calm the whole time!
We visited Gabriela and her little kids last night also. The little kids love me and Elder Pope. They are gold but it's really hard to visit them, because Gabriela literally works all day from monday to saturday. We taught them the plan of salvation and Gabriela told us that she felt like it was all true, especially when we talked about the atonement.
So our ward is huge, the only ward in our mission with 8 missionaries. Me and Elder Pope are the only elders so we often go and give blessings to people in all over the ward. We've had so many good experiences with giving blessings to the members here in the ward. This will sound strange but there have been moments here I felt pure warm fire flow through my hands into someone's body like God's love was being transported to them through me.
Friday was rough. We had important appointments that we either missed due to time constraints or fell through. I was so upset because I felt like we wasted everyone's time. As we were walking home in the dark I felt like a total failure. As we were turning the corner I bumped into a man on accident. He got in my face and started screaming and swearing at me. It shouldn't have affected me so much but it did. At that moment a man walked out of his restaurant and invited Elder Pope and I inside. He said God told me to bring you into my restaurant for some hot soup. And that is exactly what he did, free of charge. As I ate it I thought about our failure day and thought we don't deserve this. AS SOON as I thought that, I felt God whisper to me failure days are the ones he most enjoys blessing us with warm soup. My God is an awesome God.
Our goal as mortals is to gain the mind of Christ, to believe what he believes, to think what he thinks, to say what he says, to do what he does, and to be as he is. Bruce R. McConkie
Love you guys, have a great week!
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