Missionary Referral Machines

When we awoke this morning, the Pacific was pretty active.  Probably a storm at sea.

Leonel Nunez is the owner of the furniture store and we took a picture of his work.

Margaret getting everything ready for leadership conference

The chaos in the mail room getting all of the mail ready for zone leaders

 Elder Erickson, Mom and Elder Maki in the mail room getting the mail ready to send to sectors.

Mail on all of the shelves to be sent out with the missionaries.  Elder Erickson, from St. George, is working hard.

 When we awoke this morning, the moon was setting over the Pacific Ocean.  A boat in the harbor.

 Gabriella Villalobos posed for a picture.  Her family came to to dinner.  We discussed the Book of Mormon with them.

Claudio, Monica and Gabriella pose for a picture.  We had them for dinner and taught them about the Book of Mormon.  We made another appointment with them to be at their home with the missionaries.

 Sister Brocq from Lima and Sister Cabillero from Paraguay who will be teaching the lessons to
Claudio, Monica and Gabriella on the 15th of Agosto.

 Edwards Galdames poses for a picture at our home.  He came to dinner but had no interest in religion.  He took us to his vegetable farm.  It was very interesting

Dear Family,

We have had a very busy week, created because we have kept finding people that we can turn over to the missionaries for teaching the Gospel.  We find them, invite them to dinner, tell them about the church, and if they desire to have the missionaries afterwards, we turn them over to the missionaries.  We currently have three that the missionaries are teaching, and have two or three more that we are meeting with.

LIDER -CAKE MIX COUPLE Raul, Jennifer & baby

LIDER - MAN SEPARATED from his wife & TWO SONS  Alfredo & Ignosio 'and Nichlas

FIRST LIDER CONTACT Claudio  Monica & daug Gabriella

GLASS REPAIR STORE CONTACT Edward (sge 26)

LIDER - CREDIT CARD CONTACT  Diana & her two brothers (one is a member)

LIDER - GROCERY CART MOTHER & two chikdren  Blancha (mother) and 20 year old son Christian and a younger chid abt age 5

PAZ - APARTMENT CONTACT - Movie Lady - Cecilia

PAZ - APARTMENT CONTACT - Two Helping us Carry Things Girls

OFFICE - STREET SWEEPING - MET a MAN - Marcello and his two dogs

This will be an on going drama trying to tell you about these contacts and IF and WHEN any of them actually are baptized. Our  current operating plan is we have them to our apartment to eat with us, get acquainted, then some how we get into a discussion on the church and then IF they want to know more we contact the ELDERS or SISTERS in their area (where the people live) and then have them over to our apartment and then have a lesson and then go from there.   It really boils down to the fact that we do not know if these people have been SENT to us or if we actually found them. Only time will telll. The biggest story of the week was when we told Claudio and Monica about temples and that they could be married for eternity. They gasp and said they were not even married and they had the 7 year old daug. Actually Monica right now is in FIRST place for being very interested in the gospel. She wants to get married. Her husband does not  appear to want to. But they invited us and the missionaries to their home for dinner in  two weeks. The missionaries for where they live do not speak English so that will prove interesting for us as WE direct what is to be taught and when etc. The word has been getting out that we are  pulling in all of these contacts and the missionaries who are getting them are making other missionaries jealous and now missionaries are asking us to FIND them contacts.. Very interesting since we generally find people who speak some English and that is how we find them. We do not say do you wan to learn about the church.We tell them we are missionaries for the Church ad thank them for HELPING us with what ever they helped us with and then  start talking and invite them for dinner at our apartment.We live across the street from Liders so we show them where we live and then they have ALL accepted to come. This will be a SOAP where you will have to read in future emails what happens as it would take far to long to go into detail at this time, Elder Holland said at the fireside before we left Provo to OPEN YOUR MOUTHS and to be honest it truly is what it takes, but the invitations to our home for a meal has been the real  good part to start some kind of  friendship. Tis is NOT something the young missionaries can do, so this is why we are pulling in so many contacts at this time.

We love you all and hope you have a wonderful week.

Mom & Dad