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The highlight of this week was our lesson with Brillante and Wilken. Wilken is from Haiti but speaks spanish perfectly. Brillante and his family are from haiti and are still learning spanish. When we got to Brillante's house with Wilken there were two members already in there house helping them set up a washing machine. We had no Idea that they were there. Wilken did an awesome job at translating. He always translated what we said, but in his own style. Like we would say something normal and he would translate it but almost yelling and moving his hands and acting everything out. Afterwards he was so happy! Literally he was smiling cheek to cheek. We went back a second time that week and Wilken came with us. Wilken is still an investigator so I think that is what makes it such a miracle.

On Sunday we helped one of the members paint their house. Elder Patterson is pro at painting and I am not. I kept spilling the paint on their floor, but I lucked out because they never saw it, I cleaned it up fast,  ha. The family that we helped was from Venezuela. I love Santiago because there are a lot of people from other countries and I've learned a bunch about other cultures.

We had a pretty bad scare on Friday night. There aren't very many bugs in Santiago but there are spiders. The most dangerous spider is called Rincon spider. I saw the biggest one of my whole life friday night crawling on our wall. I hit it with my shoe and chased it around but I didn't kill it and it got away. So me and Elder Patterson filled four bowls of water and put them on each leg of the bed so a spider would drown before it got on our bunkbed. I've never been so scared in my life, but our plan worked and we were safe.

1 Nephi 8

 14 And I looked to behold from whence it came; and I saw the head thereof a little way off; and at the head thereof I beheld your mother Sariah, and Sam, and Nephi; and they stood as if they knew not whither they should go.

 15 And it came to pass that I beckoned unto them; and I also did say unto them with a loud voice that they should come unto me, and partake of the fruit, which was desirable above all other fruit.

 16 And it came to pass that they did come unto me and partake of the fruit also.

I love you family.  Always  partake of the good fruit God has for you.  Elder Terry