First Rain in Antofagasta

Diana Leyton and brother Aviar to the right.  We arranged to have them meet with the missionaries.  Elder Estraca from Bolivia and Elder Allred.

 Went to the home of Raul and Jennifer Merino for the second meeting.  This time we took the Elders with us.  Elder Cordova (from Chile) is on the left and Elder Fakahafua from Tonga is on the right.  Elder Fakahafua is going to play football for Utah state

I let a Elder look at my camera, and this is what I got

 We invited this folks for dinner.  Diana Leyton is next to Margaret and her brothers are on the right. The first is Aviar, who is a member and Camilo on the far right and is not a member.  Diana is not a member.  Elder Erickson and Elder Maki are in the center.  We met them when they helped us at Liders.  We are going there tonight for them to have the lesson with missionaries that are in their sector.

 Elder Gonzalez on the left and Elder Hortua next to him.  Blanca Ramirez and her son Christian are on the right.  They are the grocery cart family we met at Liders (Walmart).  They will now be meeting with the missionaries in their sector next week.

 We met a young couple at Liders who are talking marriage.  The boy is not a member, but  (He finishes writing about them below) :)

First rain we have seen in Antofagasta

 First rain in Antofagasta.  It hardly ever rains and people are not prepared for it, as their roofs leak.

The storm has caused the Pacific to be very active

8 August 2015

Dear Family,

I accidentally touched send before finishing writing on the one picture.  What I was saying is their daughter is looking at marriage to a non-member even though she served a mission in Paraguay.  Her parents are really concerned and invited us to their home for dinner.  The people in front of the office with me are her parents.  Their names are Jaime and Purisima Vera.  We had invited the daughter and her finance to our home for dinner, but with my name tag on, being a missionary, he was afraid to come.  We will see what happens next Wednesday.

We have had it somewhat quiet at the office this past week, but have made up for it by having investigators for dinner in our home.  It seems we have had something going on every night.  We now have six families or people that we have met now meeting with the missionaries.  Five of he six we met at the Walmart grocery store.  It seems way beyond coincidence that we would be able to meet that many people and have them interested in speaking with the missionaries.  We have the credit card contacts. the cake mix contacts, the shopping cart contacts, the father whose son wanted to practice english on us contact, the eye glasses contact, the needing english contact, the social visit contacts etc.  Hopefully some of them will be sincerely interested in the church and we can attend their baptism.  The are meeting with the missionaries, so we will see what happens.

We seem to be doing pretty well, although Mom has been under the weather a little  for the past couple of days.  One of the contacts that came to our home had a little boy that was as wild as I have seen.  Mom tried to entertain him so that the missionaries could talk to the investigators.  I think she may have picked up something from him, as he was almost impossible to handle.  Our next meeting is scheduled with them while he is in school.  I suspect that meeting will go better.  They were quite receptive, however.

It is supposed to be winter here, but I see people out in their shirt sleeves.  I seldom wear more than a long sleeved white shirt and seem to be fine.  Mom wears her light coat she purchased, but is often to hot with that.

It is time to go with the missionaries, so will say goodbye.

Love,

Mom and Dad