Hey! This week has been pretty awesome. On Wednesday we had interviews with President Jones and District Meeting. It´s so cool because every time I get done having interviews with him, I feel way uplifted and ready to go and preach the gospel. That day we had a lesson with a 10 year old convert named Francois. He was very full of energy and it was hard to get his attention, but then finally a scripture came to my mind (I think 2 Nephi 9:24) and I read it to him. We were teaching lesson 3 and after I read that scripture, I just started teaching about blessings that Francois will have if he endures to the end. It was cool because I taught in a way that got his attention and he started listening to us. At the end of the lesson, I couldn´t really remember everything I taught. Pretty much I´m sure that the spirit was teaching through me and put those ideas in my mind of how to teach him. It was awesome. The church is true.
Then we had another lesson later that day with some Peruvian investigators and we brought Brother Jose Bergonje, who is a member in our ward. We taught the first part of lesson 2 and then at the end we kind of switched over to lesson 1 again. Brother Bergonje started testifying to them and he totally said everything to one of our investigators that he needed to hear because he had a bunch of doubts before, but now I think they´re all answered heheh. Then we had another lesson with Marcelo and we taught him lesson 3. He´s gonna get baptised the week following general conference. We´re way stoked because he´s got a strong testimony already and he´ll make a great latter day saint.
We also found 2 new investigators this week and one of them is really awesome and we think that he will accept baptism after a couple lessons. Then we got another investigator that we´ve been working with named Patricia. She is really awesome and accepting, it´s just that she has a problem with alcohol and cigarettes. We had a lesson last week that went really well. We started with a hymn, which she liked a lot, and then we taught the restoration. Then we ended with 2 more hymns and left with a prayer.
Pretty much, this last week was totally guided by the spirit and Elder Zmoos and I have gotten a lot of success. Yesterday was what really capped it off though. Usually we have about 1 or 2 investigators come to church, but yesterday we had 5. 1 came on his own, another came with her dad, another with some members, and the last 2 we picked up. It was pretty much the coolest thing ever and made me say “my life is good, rheel good.”
So yeah, that´s pretty much how my week has gone.
Hey I got a request or 2 actually. I was wondering if you guys could send the 4 books that missionaries are allowed to have in the mission to me. I never bought them while I was in America. So if you guys ever feel like sending another package, that´s an idea for ya. The other request was the address of the mission office. I´m pretty sure that I already have the address in my pension, but not completely sure.
Hey you guys asked if everyone is recovering all right from the quake. Yes they are. It´s funny because the news made it look a lot worse than it really was. They only showed all the places in the south that got totally demolished, but really over here in Santiago everything and everyone are pretty much all fine. Everything is up and running again and it´s almost like an earthquake never even hit us.
You also asked me about my Spanish. It´s coming along great. I´m able to understand just about everything now and I can say pretty much all that I want to. I still studder here and there, but I just keep on speakin and getting better.
Well I think that´s about it for now. I love you all, thought the pictures were great, Mercedes is quite cute by the way, and the church is true.
Elder Steinagel
P.S. Happy Birthday Slade!!! Man I can´t believe that you´re 11 years old now! That is so awesome. You´re getting so tall. Pretty soon your voice is gonna start changing and then you´ll start getting liked by all the girls, heheh. Hey man, I hope you´ve enjoyed your birthday and I´m gonna try and send you a letter today, so it ought to be there in a few weeks. I love ya man!
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
More Rumblings!
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:09:52
Hey guys! We just had another crazy week that was full of surprises. As you all may have heard, there was an aftershock this last week on Thursday that was pretty strong. The epicentre was 7.2 on the richter scale, but here in our pension it didn´t feel that strong. We got a little spooked from it, but then in died down and nothing bad happened. We were doing our weekly planning when it happened and when in stopped we just kept planning. Then last night we had another crazy thing happen. So the night was sultry and elder Zmoos and I were just walkin along to our next appointment. We began to cross the street and out of no where everything just goes black. The street lights, the buildings, the lamps, everything. The only light there was were the head lights coming from the cars. So we decided not to go to the appointment and we just went back to our pension. Then when we got back our district leader called us and told us to go back to the pension, but we were already ahead of him, heheh. We heard that there was another quake in the south and it cut a line for the power to the city, so there was a complete black out. It was kind of cool to see the whole city without light.
Oh yeah, somebody told us that there was an earthquake in Turkey just recently. Is that true?
Hey so wanna hear some good news? I finally got my Christmas package! Hohoho! So now we know that if you guys wanna send me a package, you´ve gotta do it about 3 months before, haha. Also make sure that it´s a tough box because this one is pretty beat up, but don´t worry it looks like everything is all there. I´ve got to thank you guys for all the treats and the ties. Oh, I just had some of those truffles last night and wow they are good! I also enjoyed the Christmas tree and stocking. I´m gonna save those for next Christmas, hmhm.
Hey guys! We just had another crazy week that was full of surprises. As you all may have heard, there was an aftershock this last week on Thursday that was pretty strong. The epicentre was 7.2 on the richter scale, but here in our pension it didn´t feel that strong. We got a little spooked from it, but then in died down and nothing bad happened. We were doing our weekly planning when it happened and when in stopped we just kept planning. Then last night we had another crazy thing happen. So the night was sultry and elder Zmoos and I were just walkin along to our next appointment. We began to cross the street and out of no where everything just goes black. The street lights, the buildings, the lamps, everything. The only light there was were the head lights coming from the cars. So we decided not to go to the appointment and we just went back to our pension. Then when we got back our district leader called us and told us to go back to the pension, but we were already ahead of him, heheh. We heard that there was another quake in the south and it cut a line for the power to the city, so there was a complete black out. It was kind of cool to see the whole city without light.
Oh yeah, somebody told us that there was an earthquake in Turkey just recently. Is that true?
Hey so wanna hear some good news? I finally got my Christmas package! Hohoho! So now we know that if you guys wanna send me a package, you´ve gotta do it about 3 months before, haha. Also make sure that it´s a tough box because this one is pretty beat up, but don´t worry it looks like everything is all there. I´ve got to thank you guys for all the treats and the ties. Oh, I just had some of those truffles last night and wow they are good! I also enjoyed the Christmas tree and stocking. I´m gonna save those for next Christmas, hmhm.
Monday, March 8, 2010
Here's Jordan's latest update, FINALLY!!!
Hey!
From: Jordan Steinagel (gospelbomb921@myldsmail.net)
Sent: Mon 3/08/10 10:19 AM
Hey family! Aw man, I´m gonna have to apologize to everybody because you guys never got an email last week. Graugh, that makes me so mad. I wrote you guys this way long email telling about how the earthquake went and how everything has been going and stuff, and then sent it and it said that it was sent, but apparently you guys never got it. I am officially unpleased with myldsmail.net because there are so many problems that it has. Oh well, I´ll just tell you guys what happened again because I love you that much .
Ok, so the night was just like any other night. We planned, got something to eat, and then went to sleep. I was just dreaming along and suddenly I hear Elder Zmoos yelling my name, so I wake up. I looked at him and he´s standing there between the door and yelling “Elder Steinagel get out of bed! There´s an earthquake!” apparently I slept through the beginning of the earthquake because when I woke up it was already going. So I hopped down and the whole house was just shaking. It kept getting stronger and stronger until it felt like a giant man had picked up our house like a piggy bank and started shaking it to see if there was money inside or something like that. Then I looked outside and the whole sky was being lit up by flashes of blue, green, red, and yellow light. Those were coming from all the explosions of transformers of power for the city. It was crazy! I felt like it was the end of the world and started praying. I don´t even remember what I prayed for, but all I know is that it was crazy and eventually the pounding and shaking died down, but that wasn´t the end. Once the shaking ended, we could still feel the house moving and it felt like we were sailing on a boat or something. It was like the earth was adjusting itself after letting out a giant belch. We also looked outside and could see all the 20 story buildings rocking back and forth, but luckily none of them ended up falling. When everything finally mellowed out, it was funny because all of us were going crazy! We were all full of adrenaline and yelling “Terremoto Terremoto!” It was kinda funny, but then we settled down, had a group prayer, and went back to bed. I wasn´t able to sleep that well afterward though because aftershocks kept coming. It was a cool experience.
When we woke up, our district leader called us and told us to just go out in pday cloths and offer service to everyone. That´s what we did, but there really wasn´t that much damage in our sector. There was only one house that completely fell and there was nobody living in it because it was really old, so no one got hurt. We kind of just walked around all day searching for people that needed help and visiting members to see if they were ok and it turned out that they all were. Then at 6:00 our district leader called us and told us that we needed to return back to the pension for the rest of the night, according to orders from Pres. Jones. So we went back for the rest of the night.
The next day, we were supposed to get a call for changes, but our district leader called us and told us that we would be staying with our companions again for another week because there was a big epidemic of missionaries from the south coming into our mission. Changes would have just made everything a little more complicated, so President just decided to postpone it for a week.
A week passed and last night we got the big call, but it turns out that I´m gonna be staying in this sector with elder Zmoos for one more change. It´s crazy because I´m going to end up having 6 months in my first sector by the time I finish this change. I´m cool with it though because this last week went really well and we were really guided by the spirit. We found this young guy named Antonio who has 23 years and 3 kids already. He´s pretty faithful and he was interested in what he have got to say. So we set up another appointment with him and we´re excited to teach him. We also found another person named Blanca and she was really receptive to us. It was cool because Elder Z. and I were just walking to an appointment we had and suddenly Elder Z. just walked up to this one door and said we need to knock it. So we did and that´s where we found Blanca. We also found this other lady named Patricia who just left the catholic church because a family member of hers just died recently and the catholic church did nothing to help her out. So now she´s looking for some comfort in life and we´re here for exactly that. Then we got an investigator who has a baptismal date for the 20th and we are way stoked about him. His name is Marcelo and he´s got a strong testimony already. Also I´m gonna be here for his baptism, so it is gonna be awesome! Woo hoo! Life is good.
I think that´s all that´s been going on so far. All I can say is the church is true and I´m glad to have you guys as my family. I´m very glad for the blessing of the priesthood and this church, the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, which is the only true church there is. Sometimes it´s just so obvious of how false other churches are, but that´s why we´re here so that others can know the truth.
Well, I need to go, but I miss you guys and the church is true.
Elder Steinagel
From: Jordan Steinagel (gospelbomb921@myldsmail.net)
Sent: Mon 3/08/10 10:19 AM
Hey family! Aw man, I´m gonna have to apologize to everybody because you guys never got an email last week. Graugh, that makes me so mad. I wrote you guys this way long email telling about how the earthquake went and how everything has been going and stuff, and then sent it and it said that it was sent, but apparently you guys never got it. I am officially unpleased with myldsmail.net because there are so many problems that it has. Oh well, I´ll just tell you guys what happened again because I love you that much .
Ok, so the night was just like any other night. We planned, got something to eat, and then went to sleep. I was just dreaming along and suddenly I hear Elder Zmoos yelling my name, so I wake up. I looked at him and he´s standing there between the door and yelling “Elder Steinagel get out of bed! There´s an earthquake!” apparently I slept through the beginning of the earthquake because when I woke up it was already going. So I hopped down and the whole house was just shaking. It kept getting stronger and stronger until it felt like a giant man had picked up our house like a piggy bank and started shaking it to see if there was money inside or something like that. Then I looked outside and the whole sky was being lit up by flashes of blue, green, red, and yellow light. Those were coming from all the explosions of transformers of power for the city. It was crazy! I felt like it was the end of the world and started praying. I don´t even remember what I prayed for, but all I know is that it was crazy and eventually the pounding and shaking died down, but that wasn´t the end. Once the shaking ended, we could still feel the house moving and it felt like we were sailing on a boat or something. It was like the earth was adjusting itself after letting out a giant belch. We also looked outside and could see all the 20 story buildings rocking back and forth, but luckily none of them ended up falling. When everything finally mellowed out, it was funny because all of us were going crazy! We were all full of adrenaline and yelling “Terremoto Terremoto!” It was kinda funny, but then we settled down, had a group prayer, and went back to bed. I wasn´t able to sleep that well afterward though because aftershocks kept coming. It was a cool experience.
When we woke up, our district leader called us and told us to just go out in pday cloths and offer service to everyone. That´s what we did, but there really wasn´t that much damage in our sector. There was only one house that completely fell and there was nobody living in it because it was really old, so no one got hurt. We kind of just walked around all day searching for people that needed help and visiting members to see if they were ok and it turned out that they all were. Then at 6:00 our district leader called us and told us that we needed to return back to the pension for the rest of the night, according to orders from Pres. Jones. So we went back for the rest of the night.
The next day, we were supposed to get a call for changes, but our district leader called us and told us that we would be staying with our companions again for another week because there was a big epidemic of missionaries from the south coming into our mission. Changes would have just made everything a little more complicated, so President just decided to postpone it for a week.
A week passed and last night we got the big call, but it turns out that I´m gonna be staying in this sector with elder Zmoos for one more change. It´s crazy because I´m going to end up having 6 months in my first sector by the time I finish this change. I´m cool with it though because this last week went really well and we were really guided by the spirit. We found this young guy named Antonio who has 23 years and 3 kids already. He´s pretty faithful and he was interested in what he have got to say. So we set up another appointment with him and we´re excited to teach him. We also found another person named Blanca and she was really receptive to us. It was cool because Elder Z. and I were just walking to an appointment we had and suddenly Elder Z. just walked up to this one door and said we need to knock it. So we did and that´s where we found Blanca. We also found this other lady named Patricia who just left the catholic church because a family member of hers just died recently and the catholic church did nothing to help her out. So now she´s looking for some comfort in life and we´re here for exactly that. Then we got an investigator who has a baptismal date for the 20th and we are way stoked about him. His name is Marcelo and he´s got a strong testimony already. Also I´m gonna be here for his baptism, so it is gonna be awesome! Woo hoo! Life is good.
I think that´s all that´s been going on so far. All I can say is the church is true and I´m glad to have you guys as my family. I´m very glad for the blessing of the priesthood and this church, the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, which is the only true church there is. Sometimes it´s just so obvious of how false other churches are, but that´s why we´re here so that others can know the truth.
Well, I need to go, but I miss you guys and the church is true.
Elder Steinagel
Monday, March 1, 2010
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