DEAR FAMILY Wed Feb 24 to Wed March 2, 2016
The days go by so fast we can hardly keep up with them.
George said he sent the photos so here are a few stories to go with them. We
hit our half way mark this past week.
84 BELLAVISTA STREET WORK PROGRESS Feb 2016 (photo)
Our street we walk by has huge equipment and they are digging down
through solid rock. The height of a normal home probably 12 to 15 feel down.
They say that Antofagasta is built on ROCK, sort of like volcanic rock. It is
black. This is why when another Earth Quake hit this past week it did not alarm
anyone. Like we told you earlier unless the earth quake center is in the ocean,
they do not pay much attention to them. However we did have our water turned
off for several hours but think that was from the street construction.
85 ALEXANDER and JIMAMEZ for DINNER Friday Feb 26 (no
photo) This was a couple from our ward. They came and we had dinner and then
read from the book of Mormon in Spanish for over an hour. This husband has sort
of a (not come to church) then (come to church) problem. We hope we can be an
influence for good on them, and asked them to be our 'Home Teachers" and
come for dinner once a month and we will read the Book of Mormon together. We
gave them a chart to mark the books they have read so far.
86 ORIGENS WARD HIGH PRIEST DINNER Saturday Feb 27
(photo) The Chileans have a (late to later) problem. We came on time at
7:30, but the dinner started at 8:45. We surely enjoyed it, even though there
was a small turn out. But those who did come were well rewarded. One family
even brought their children (it was a pay meal) and that was fun for them. The
women at the table all want to learn ENGLISH so I told them about the MEMRISE
program on the Internet. They went and found it and we were talking about it.
For those of you who have children learning Spanish, go to this program and
sign them up. They will like it.
87 MANGO CAKE DESSERT (photo) One lady came in
carrying a huge cake from a bakery here in Antogagasta. We should have had a
photo of the whole cake but George took one of my piece. It was mango cake,
with mango slices in the layers. Very good.
88 BUGS ATTACK GEORGE SATURDAY Sunday Feb 28 Your
father found some bug bites on Saturday and more on Sunday. We looked up on the
internet and they looked just like "Bed Bug Bites." We washed
all of the bedding and sheets even though it was Sunday morning. Hope
they go away!
89 INVESTIGATORS WENT TO THE WRONG BARRIO Sunday Feb
28 We had a family with two children and the wife's sister who were all
coming to church for the first time. George wanted to meet them at their home
and make sure they got there. Then they insisted that they knew where the
church was and would just meet us there. They never showed up. We were so
surprised. But during the 2nd meeting George got a phone call and they went to
one of our churches, but not the church building we were at. We plan to meet
with them on Tuesday at their home.
90 MAKING OUR HANDOUTS at the OFFICE on Monday Feb 29
This was a much bigger job than we imagined. We do not have photos but
will send them next week. We made one for the Where did we come from, Why are
we here, Where are we going, (in Spanish) and had 20 scriptures to go with it.
We then typed all of the scriptures out (in English). This took us nearly 4
hours. Then we made strips of the scriptures and cut them to be book
marks. We had told Martha that we would bring this to
91 THE TABLE WORDS "We Love Having You Here"
Monday PM Feb 29 We took our handouts and also took the (meal) a soup I had
made, rolls, salad and brownies. The table was all set so beautiful. Then she
brought out the WORDS each in wood painted white and made the above saying It
was a tender moment for us. We really love this couple and their son Goga, and
the extended family members. We are taking them one step at a time with
teaching them the gospel. It took Brigham Young a year to finally accept it, so
we don't plan on anything too fast.
We took dinner over to Rodolfo's and Martha's and they had this on the table for us. We were really touched by their kindness. We keep hoping they will join the church.
92 MARIAS GOODBY DINNER(Martha's Mother) RETURNED TO
BRAZIL Feb 29 Her mother flew back to Brazil the next day. We loved sharing
some time with her. She was raised in almost poverty. She said she never had a
pair of shoes when she was growing up in Brazil. The family was large and they
had a farm. She milked the cows too. She never had very many clothes either,
and hardly any toys or dolls or anything of the sort. A very humble beginning,
but she turned out to be a lovely young mother of two daughters, and they love
their mother very much. She LOVED the plan of salvation chart and discussion we
had over a week ago.
93 JAVIER VISITED US at OUR APARTMENT Tuesday March 1
Javier is the member of the church who was baptized nearly three years
ago come March. He had been going to the church for activities and one Saturday
he was attending a baptism and the young elder Parker, said why don't we
baptize you too. He said his parents nor his siblings came because it all
happened so fast. We do not recommend this kind of pressuring someone to be
baptized. But he never really had a strong testimony and has never wanted to
receive the priesthood, so he is just baptized and confirmed. He called and
wanted to come and see us. He came at 7:30 and stayed until 10:30 when his mother
and family members came to our apartment to pick him up (he is 29). We do have
a photo. He told us a wonderful story where he had a prayer answered. George
gave him a priesthood blessing. We read the Book of Mormon together. We plan to
meet with him every Sunday evening (as that is when we have a car) and try to
strengthen him. He has never come to see us like this before. We do go to his
place, and we stopped by last Sunday and no one answered so we left our church
card and our names.
Elder Talbot and Javier Leyton. He is a member of the church, but not very active. We would like to get his whole family in the church. We went over and read the Book of Mormon with him.
94 LESSON AT IDEIDE'S HOME WEDNESDAY Wednesday March 2
This is the family who did not get to the right church building on Sunday, to
be with us, but they did go to church. Ideide said it was certainly different
from the Catholic church. We met her at her home today with a ward sister
(Kathy Hermanis) and the two sister missionaries who only speak (Spanish).
Kathy speaks English and Spanish. We had to introduce everyone, and then
we left to go back to the office Ideide's sister is the one most interested at
this moment. We plan to have the family and Kathy and her husband (Area 70
Authority) over for dinner this coming Saturday at 6 PM. Hope some good will
come of this.
95 OUR OWN FAMILY NEWS (recorded on Wednesday March
2) Well, tomorrow Thursday March 3, is our first born son Bryan's 52nd
birthday. We just tried to call him and got an answering machine. One WISH we
have, is that all of our children will call their siblings on their
birthdays. We hope this wish comes true, 8 phone calls for our 8 children
every year, and then each child receives 8 phone calls on their
birthdays. In a day of emails and Internet face book, a phone call is a
rare thing. It would be an extra mile to call all of the spouses of your
siblings too. We have many birthdays coming up in March for SIX other family
members. It is a time for me to remember my sister Kathleen too. I MISS her so
very much. She died so very young. We also SO appreciate our daug. Julie
keeping up with the mailings and sending the money we gave her to do this, for
all of these birthdays, since we cannot do it from here. Also congrats on our
granddaughter Kristin Talbot being accepted to BYU, with her photo on the BYU
home page too. WOW! She will be attending for summer term and live with her
Davis grandparents. We are so proud of all of the accomplishments of all of our
children, their spouses, and our grandchildren. We are still loving the fruit
and vegetables we buy here in Chile. The cantaloupe we bought today was the
sweetest and best one I have ever tasted in all of my life. It probably came
from Peru. We also so appreciate Amy keeping up the blog. We skyped with
Stephanie this past week and saw her children, had phone calls from Bryan,
Merrill, David, Jonathan, and a good long newsy email from Laura, and photos
from Amy, so we caught something of everyone. Had a nice visit with Hannah too,
she is SO excited for her mission to Florida and she also has to learn
Spanish! We love and miss you all very much.
MARCH Family Birthdays
2 Bryan Talbot
(our first born child)
9 Lisa Mecham Talbot Reed Talbot
12 (Deacon) Grace Klein
17 Kathleen Fawson Pearce Savage (my sister who died
would have turned (67)
18 Allyson Talbot
21 Merrill Reed Talbot (our third born child)
We know the church is true and hope we can help others to
come to this knowledge too. We so appreciate your prayers for us and for our
investigators, and pray that we will also find more people.
Love Mom and Dad
96 STORY of the WEEK One of the APs is
from Chile and speaks fluent Spanish and a little English. He was at the office
and since George just gave he and his companion (Elder Hart the other AP) a
good referral that George got at when he was getting the oil changed for the
mission van. This elders was telling George (both at the office) that he
cannot believe how many referrals George (Elder Talbot) gets! Side note
from me - he generally averages (1 or 2) every time he is out in the car to go
some place. This elder then said (in broken English) "Isn't it scary
to talk to people like you do, aren't you afraid?" George said "Oh
No!" My commentary, for George is that he is just a natural at
talking to people. Today we were in a long line at the grocery store. He
started doing coin tricks with the little girl behind our cart, who her parents
had their cart behind ours. It was a LONG line and we waited a LONG time, so he
had a long time to talk. He ended up with a name, address and phone number and
we will be seeing them next week. It all amounts to just "Opening Your
Mouth" and talking to who ever your can when ever you can. But for George
it just comes natural.
Some had tomatoes on, I doubt it will have time to produce now.
My first tomato. The cost of this tomato right now is about $30. I have a few more coming, but I spent about $30 for soil pots and seeds. When I get my second tomato, this will only be a $15 tomato. I have one more that is turning red. Unfortunately, the wind blew off my really good plant and broke off many of the branches - some with many tomatoes on.
From left. To right - Elder Talbot, Claudio Villalobos, an investigator who came to church, Catherine Jimenez, her husband is an area 70 here and they are moving to Ely, Nevada in April and then Hermana Talbot.
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