Monday, April 26, 2010
April 26, 2010 update
Hey everyone! Hey so wanna know something crazy that I forgot to tell you guys about last week? Before I came to this sector, I had a dream about it. I dreamt about the pension, the streets, and even the courtyard that´s in front of our house. It was weird though because I didn´t remember about the dream until I got here, and then everything began to seem so familiar and I realized the night before that I had a dream about it all. It was strange. Oh I also forgot to tell you last week that the week before I received that package with the 8 books that ana and add sent. Thank you very much for sending those. I´ve been using and reading them quite a bit now and I am learning bunches.
Hey I attached some pics. The first is of Marcelo, our investigator that got baptised by Marco a member in the ward. The second is of Pablo, our other investigator that wants to get baptised. He might even be baptised by now, heheh. the third is of my MTC group while we were at changes. The forth is of my new comp Elder Soto and I.
Hey so Mom you´re gonna be happy about this. Elder Soto drinks mate and I might get in to it. I had mate at a member´s house the other day and it wasn´t bad at all, it was just super hot and searedmy tongue when I drank it. It was still good though, and I wouldn´t mind drinking it again.
So we´re gonna have 2 baptisms this weekend. One´s name is Ignacio and he has 11 years and the other´s name is Cristian who is 9 years old. They both had their baptismal interviews yesterday and are now ready to be baptised. We might even have one of them get baptised by his father. He just needs to have an interview with the bishop and we´re hoping that everything pulls through because it would be a whole lot better to have the dad do it rather than one of us.
Last night was pretty cool. We were going to our last appointment to share our family mission plan with a ward family and on our way this guys said hola elders to us. We asked him where he was from and he said just around the corner, and then we kind of got into a little conversation and it turns out that he is a member, but the rest of his family isn´t. So we´re planning on going over to his house soon to share with him this message we have here called permanaced and it´s directed towards activating members and keeping them active. We´re also hoping that we can get the children to listen and the wife too and maybe they´ll eventually end up getting baptised. Hopefully.
Hey I´m gonna be able to call you guys May 7-9. So hopefully you guys don´t have anything planned those days because it´s gonna be awesome talking to you all again. It´s been about 4 months or so since we last talked. Even more crazy it´s been 8 months since I left for the MTC. I can´t believe how long I´ve been out here! Time flies as a missionary.
I have a favor to ask you Mom. Could you obtain Jon Duerden´s mission address for me? His mom might have a facebook and you could get it from her. If not, that´s OK. I could mail one of my friends and ask them for it.
Hey I also wanted to thank Slade for his letter. Thanks for the letter Slade! Man you´re getting good at painting. Maybe you´ll grow up to be like Picasso some day.
Oh yeah, our zone is going to the temple this thursday. It´s gonna be awesome! I haven´t been in half a year and pretty soon you guys will be able to go as well! Aw how awesome.
Well I think that´s it. I love yall and the church is true.
Elder Steinagel
Hey I attached some pics. The first is of Marcelo, our investigator that got baptised by Marco a member in the ward. The second is of Pablo, our other investigator that wants to get baptised. He might even be baptised by now, heheh. the third is of my MTC group while we were at changes. The forth is of my new comp Elder Soto and I.
Hey so Mom you´re gonna be happy about this. Elder Soto drinks mate and I might get in to it. I had mate at a member´s house the other day and it wasn´t bad at all, it was just super hot and searedmy tongue when I drank it. It was still good though, and I wouldn´t mind drinking it again.
So we´re gonna have 2 baptisms this weekend. One´s name is Ignacio and he has 11 years and the other´s name is Cristian who is 9 years old. They both had their baptismal interviews yesterday and are now ready to be baptised. We might even have one of them get baptised by his father. He just needs to have an interview with the bishop and we´re hoping that everything pulls through because it would be a whole lot better to have the dad do it rather than one of us.
Last night was pretty cool. We were going to our last appointment to share our family mission plan with a ward family and on our way this guys said hola elders to us. We asked him where he was from and he said just around the corner, and then we kind of got into a little conversation and it turns out that he is a member, but the rest of his family isn´t. So we´re planning on going over to his house soon to share with him this message we have here called permanaced and it´s directed towards activating members and keeping them active. We´re also hoping that we can get the children to listen and the wife too and maybe they´ll eventually end up getting baptised. Hopefully.
Hey I´m gonna be able to call you guys May 7-9. So hopefully you guys don´t have anything planned those days because it´s gonna be awesome talking to you all again. It´s been about 4 months or so since we last talked. Even more crazy it´s been 8 months since I left for the MTC. I can´t believe how long I´ve been out here! Time flies as a missionary.
I have a favor to ask you Mom. Could you obtain Jon Duerden´s mission address for me? His mom might have a facebook and you could get it from her. If not, that´s OK. I could mail one of my friends and ask them for it.
Hey I also wanted to thank Slade for his letter. Thanks for the letter Slade! Man you´re getting good at painting. Maybe you´ll grow up to be like Picasso some day.
Oh yeah, our zone is going to the temple this thursday. It´s gonna be awesome! I haven´t been in half a year and pretty soon you guys will be able to go as well! Aw how awesome.
Well I think that´s it. I love yall and the church is true.
Elder Steinagel
Monday, April 5, 2010
April 5, 2010 update
Hello everybody. Aw this is so nice. They just recently changed the myldsmail website so now it is so much easier to use and more useful. Well, this weekend was great. On Saturday we had general conference and we were able to watch it in English. So we watched the first 2 sessions and then following the second our district leader interviewed our investigator named Marcelo. He's getting baptised this weekend! Wooohooo! the weekend before I leave this sector. We have changes next week on Tuesday and it is very probable that I get changed. Anyway, conference was amazing and I took a lot of notes. I just thought Elder Holland's talk was incredible, as did many of the other missionaries. He always speaks with such power. All of the apostles speak with a lot of power, but Elder Holland just has that way of speaking, that just astounds. Then between the second session and the priesthood session, we did divisions and went out to proselyte. After that, we got back and watched the priesthood session, which was also amazing. It was so cool because the morning before conference, I decided to write down a few questions to see if I could get the answer, and then I went to Moroni 10 in the Book of Mormon and I looked at the part where it talks about the gifts of the spirit. I saw the gift of healing, and I really felt like I should write the question down of how can I get the gift of healing. So that's what I did and voila! There was a whole talk about healing by the priesthood. It's awesome how miracles happen like that. Another awesome thing is our investigator named Pablo came to most of the sessions and he even brought a notebook and pen to write down stuff during conference. He's way receptive and we have a baptismal date for him on the 24th. He's gonna make a great member.
Oh yeah, one more really cool thing. Our stake president, president Nuñes is getting released this next stake conference and wanna know why? Because he just got sustained to be a seventy. It was crazy because he said that him and his family were gonna leave last week to go to Utah so that they could see conference. Then on Saturday he ends up getting sustained as a seventy. So I thought that was pretty cool.
Oh man, I thought that story about Mario's (the hamster) leg was pretty funny. It's funny how he chewed it off afterward and then gave it to you guys as a token of his gratitude. Hahaha, that made me laugh Dad.
Hey, last night we had another aftershock. It was a really weird one, because it started out as a loud noise that just sounded like a big tractor driving outside, but then suddenly the whole house just started shaking, and then it stopped just as fast as it came. It was strange, but then I just went to sleep.
Well, I think that is it for this week. Oh Mom, I still haven't gotten my package yet, but we get pouch this wednesday, so maybe it will come then. Hopefully :)
I love ya all and I'll talk to you some more next week.
Elder Steinagel
Oh yeah, one more really cool thing. Our stake president, president Nuñes is getting released this next stake conference and wanna know why? Because he just got sustained to be a seventy. It was crazy because he said that him and his family were gonna leave last week to go to Utah so that they could see conference. Then on Saturday he ends up getting sustained as a seventy. So I thought that was pretty cool.
Oh man, I thought that story about Mario's (the hamster) leg was pretty funny. It's funny how he chewed it off afterward and then gave it to you guys as a token of his gratitude. Hahaha, that made me laugh Dad.
Hey, last night we had another aftershock. It was a really weird one, because it started out as a loud noise that just sounded like a big tractor driving outside, but then suddenly the whole house just started shaking, and then it stopped just as fast as it came. It was strange, but then I just went to sleep.
Well, I think that is it for this week. Oh Mom, I still haven't gotten my package yet, but we get pouch this wednesday, so maybe it will come then. Hopefully :)
I love ya all and I'll talk to you some more next week.
Elder Steinagel
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Update 3-22-2010
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!
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!
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