I guess I'm heading into the old man phase..

First of all one of my pairs of shoes has a hole in them... do we have a guarantee? If you send me tan pants, send me slim fit like the ones like Christmas. And I need to decide to buy a second suit here or have you send me one... what do you think?? Also the same with the bag thingy, I need to buy one cause we cant use backpacks anymore.. ha.

 

Ok well about my President. At first I thought he was really weird because he’s less competitive than President Bruce and like did his thing totally different. But I warmed up to it quick, he is just a lot more humble. Pres. Bruce just was like another missionary really who was the President, but I also feel like Pres. Dalton is going to help the mission a ton. His wife too is cool. She speaks Spanish which is weird and also loves music. They seem pretty cool and really spiritual people.

 

This week was good. My comp is interesting to be honest. He acts funny and sometimes does things that are like... HUH?? But he is a good guy. We have had moments, but get along. I kinda understand why a mission is like marriage prep. haha.

 

 

We have a HUGE pool of investigators. Almost too much, we have had to decide which ones to go to and which ones to stop visiting. But we should have a lot of baptisms this month or the next because we are working more with members and they are trusting us a ton more. It’s been a blessing. 

 

We had a baptism this week his name is Javier. He’s a nine year old kid but it helped his family a lot. His mom after twenty years is going to church and loves having us in her house. Its cool then I had one of those golden investigators experiences. This girl Javier went up to her Mormon friend and was like I wanna go to a church and become more religious. Ha so she went last week and we are going to meet with her Wednesday. We are see blessings in the sector. Its like everything that could be going good is going good haha, I love Paipote. 

 

Don’t worry about having another missionary go out Mom, it’s just two years than we’re together for an eternity. Plus the mission gets rid of the 18 year old attitude haha. Do I look old? Jake says I look thirty here they tell me I look 23, 24-ish. I guess I’m heading in to the old man phase...

 

Love you all,

Elder Farnworth 

 

 

 

                                                       Javier getting baptized 

I love how we feel the spirit so strong when helping other people

It was a little hard with my comp at first, but now we are buds. It's just different speaking in spanish all the time, but things are going good. We went around telling everybody it was the fourth of july everyone knows what it is, but nobody really remembered. I put the star spangled banner as my ring tone, haha it was funny.

This week was good, we have a baptism this week. Its the son of a less active. She smokes and hadnt been for 20 years. The first day I met her we didn't even talk about the church. I just talked to her like a friend and at acted like we knew each other (and it felt like we did, it was weird) But yeah at the end I said, oh yeah and are you coming to church sunday. She said ehh maybe, if you call me and wake me up, maybe I'll go. So we called her, and SHE CAME! Then came up to us and said I need you to baptize my son. So we are and also helping her quit smoking. Shes awesome now. My comp says when he met her he hated her. She would blow smoke in there face and would say I'll never stop and never am going back to church. And she wennnnnt, ha!

 

Then we have Eli whos parents wont let her get baptized, but we are fasting and praying. Then we have Francia who knows this is true and knows she needs baptism by immersion, but its hard for her to let the virgin Mary go, but with time. Then we found a family of four whose mom has cancer. They're going through a rough time, but the mom said I need to be closer to God or she said something like that. She is a little rebellious, I dont know. But she's sweet, she said she hopes one day her fam can all be members. So we are goin to help them with that.

It's awesome because we pray that people who are need can be found in the sector then a week later find them. Oh and one more fam whos mom cheated on the dad and the dad killed himself. So a 16and 17 year old couple is taking care of 12, 10, 5 and 2 month old kids. But we are helping them and we brought them bread and stuff. I love how we can feel the spirit so strong when helping other people. And when we feel the spirit helping others through us. I love missionary work!! I might ask for extension because I'll just be bumming the summer out if not, ya know.

 

Kaleb liked the temple, that is good. He will be a stud missionary, he looks good in the pics and old. That is sad about Scotts son... Tell jord I say hi and are your classes hard? Everyone I tell think its cool your a teacher, ha and me too! Its goin to be cool when I see you teaching. ha. You can't tell your missionary son how much time he has, ha! Today me and a missionary we live with were talking about it and I got teary eyed (Didnt cry, just teary eyed) thinking about the day I'll have to hang up the pack. I love this too much to think about it now. I wanna see you guys, but don't want to stop serving.

I love you mom and dad, miss you a bunch. Let everybody know i say hi and I love them!

Heres some pics, love ya!

 

Elder Farnworth

 

                                 Elder Farnworth and Elder Rogers at a Zone Conf.

                                           Zac and his baptism in Arica

 

                                    Zac made brownies for a competition

                                      Will stop for soccer players??

                               "We are here to save the world-in a missionary way"

                    Paintballing on p-day.  "Zac said we are here to save the world"

                 Elder Farnworth and his comp Elder Contretra in Copiapo at FHE

                    Lady we reactivated who wants us to baptize her son.

Francia @ Church

 

                                                              SERVICE!

I'm used to this place already

I took all the pics and stuff but I just need to send them. I'm in the city Copiapo and the sector Piapote. My comp is Elder Contrera and is from Argentina. I've had comps from everywhere, ha. My camera is fine now, but when Pia got baptized it wasnt working and my comp still hasn't send me pics, but when he does I'll send you them real quick. Our sector's good, we have two baptism dates, but hope to have more. I'm used to this place already. But the cool thing here is Claudia, I think I told you about her. But she hadn't been in forever and now shes going and her kids are getting baptized. Then this other family, Veronica Edward and Elizabeth.  They love me, but aren't that interested, only the daughter, they're cool tho. 

 

I bought a new coat its helped a lot and I love it. I'll send you a pic next week. I'm having someone lend me a computer and  we had no time to do anything this Pday because we had an activity. 

 

We meet the new Pres the eleventh of July. I have heard he is more spiritual and wants to baptize even more when we are already number one in Chile. 

 

Jake passing the sacrament, ha, weird. Tell me how Kaleb likes the temple. Next week for sure I'll send pics, we are going to do internet with more time. Thanks for keeping  me updated. Tell jordan and jake to write me and sorry to everyone else. I get too busy and have to many, its not my fault we just run out of time.

 

But let everyone know i love em and am praying for everyone.

Love you mom send me pics, Take care!!!

 

Elder Farnworth

She is my miracle and my motiviation to have faith in everyone.

Sorry about last week, I haven't been able to take a pic yet, but my new sector is awesome. My comp is a little weird, but the sector is aesome and the members are good too. It's a rama in the city called Copiapo. It's called Piapote and like 3 months ago there like 30 people going to church and this Sunday we had 85. Every less active we taught went to church. It was pretty awesome. Then we had investigators who should be getting baptized in July.

Before I left Arica we had an awesome baptism experience with our investigator Pia. When we met her she had a bunch of peircings and smoked. When we first taught her the importance of baptism she told us "dont talk to me about baptism, I dont want to." But we helped her get them all out. And finally Saturday, ten minutes before the baptism she decided to get baptized.  She had told us she wanted to get baptized at four, but in the morning her mom and sister said it was too soon so she almost didn't. So we were baptizing some of our other investigators and then she called ten minutes before and said, "I'm spiritually ready come get me and Ill be baptized at six", it was a miracle! When I met her I thought this girl wont ever progress, but it was cool because I gave a talk the next day and talked about how she is my miracle and my motivation to have faith in everyone. I told them I call her my miracle, it was cool. Yeah I saw the conference it was cool. I don't think we will use technology that much here, but maybe.  You guys all sound great!! Take Jake congrats and send more pics from New York.

 

Love you guys, I will write more next week.

Elder Farnworth

I love the mission and this week

I heard about Grandpa, hope everything is good.  I'll keep praying for him. Tell meg good job on her dance recital!! I miss you guys!!  You sold my car? I was planning on driving that red car... aww man.. But awesome about your trip, take lots of pics and I'll take the ones you want. That is cool about Amy leaving, it seems like everyone I know is on a mission or married. 

 

So our prospective baptism is putting it off this week, but she will get baptized I know it. Our fam were working with is good. Everything is going good, we just have to keep working. We have all these people going to Church, now we just have to baptize them you know? There has already been a ton of new missionaries and new sisters too. And I guess I'm going home two weeks early because of the number of missionaries coming out, crazy huh?

 

Missionary work in our ward is booming. We've been having a ton of people in church. This week as a ward (there are four missionaries for every ward now because so many) we will have two and the others three. Its awesome! This ward has always been the crappy one for missionary work for a while, but we are building it up like crazy. Just the members don't always help. But still its going good.

 

This past week this girl, Pia, was talking to us and said she didn't feel ready for baptism. We had been praying for her and felt that her and her sister (Shes 15, Her sister 24) are both ready because theyve been changing there lives, there just scared to get baptized. Anyway, we told her we've prayed and know she is ready. She said no, I'm not and we were like, weve prayed and Heavenly Father has let us know that youre ready! So she said she will pray too and hopefully be ready to be batpized the 15th. It was a spiritual experience Ill never foget. She had problems with smoking and piercing and was just a straight up rebel, but has really change. When I got there I almost didn't want to work with her because I thought she wouldn't listen at all, but her and her sister will be sweet members. We just have to get them less scared, ya know.

 

Anyway, I love the mission and this week. I'll write and send pics next week.

Love you guys, thanks for everything.

Elder Farnworth

I COMPLETED A YEAR! I feel like time is going too fast.

Things are good, I COMPLETED A YEAR! I feel like time is going too fast.

 

This week was awesome though, we had 7 people in Church. Ximena wants to wait to be baptized but we are talking to her telling her it's the start. Then that fam of three are awesome, everyone likes them in Church and they,re more social than our whole ward. This will help alot because our ward is kinda of all to them self old people, so they will be young members.. I just don't think I'll be in the sector long enough to baptize them. But they said they want to, just not as soon as I proposed, but it's good.  OH also we found this girl who speaks perfect english we are goingt to start teaching her tomorrow, she's cool. Other than that nothing interesting really happened, just preparing investigators ya know.  Oh and this week we went paintballing and we wrecked.

 

Crazy dream, Was it weird? I've had a few like that and they feel real! And ALLRIGHT I'll send pics, I just can't on the computers so were going run over to someone elses house in a bit to send pics okay!! Tell kaleb congrats, I'm proud of him!! That is cool about your fast, inspiration is incredible.

 

I love the church and especially this gospel. I bore my testimony this week for our investigators,   normally we leave the time for members, but I cried talking about how much it has changed my life. I love it and want to keep helping others change too.

 

Anyway, thanks for the package, I love the ties and the shoes and glasses. I look tight haha!

Love you guys and thanks for all you've done.

 

Talk to you later and the pics will be there soon,

SEE YA,

Elder Farnworth

Zac and his companion Elder Rogers

 Studying hard..

 I assume this is where Zac lives

 Elder Farnworth and Elder Rogers on P-day

 The one year tradition, burning a shirt

 Dave did this same thing on his mission:)

 

Get on the wave!!

That activity sounds awesome, Im sure it will help the missionary spirit a ton also. I wish I could have seen it!  Did they like the food? Chilean food is great! There is a Chilean restaurant in Provo that I wanna take you guys to after the mission to show you what its been like!  Dad said it was a success, good job, sounds awesome!

 

I  can't believe Kaleb is graduating!!  Haha It'll be awesome. He is going to love the temple. Tell him to go as much as he can, because he might not go that much on his mission. Oh and tell Patrick congrats, that is awesome! Isnt Edward there? He ll love it. Its awesome so many missionaries. Get on the Wave!! Haha.

 

Our baptism fell through... I've been frustrated with this girl, shes like our best bud she just is being dumb making excuses. But we had 7 Investigators at church so it wasn't a horrible week ya know. We found this fam of three and the husband is a military nurse, they went to church and liked it. But they have this daughter, so I took her out almost the whole meeting so they could pay attention and feel the spirit. It was fun and they liked it. We want to teach them about eternal families this week. Then, We brought another investigator to new beginnings and they talked about preparing for the temple and she loved it.  She finally started saying her prayers and even though she was up til 5, she still came to church. We want to put dates with the fam and that girl. I feel like I'm being blessed and the spirit is just working through us. I love it,  I don't think I wanna ever stop. 

 

My Mission President leaves June 30th and the new one gets here an hour before he leaves. Weird huh?  Mom, I have to burn a shirt, but I will use an old one!! I'm completing a year baby!!!! Haha, I can't believe it. I got your package and  I ate the fruit snacks super fast. Thanks for everything, is was an awesome package. And you sent dr pepper! I almost died, haha. Thanks a ton!! Im going to take a pic standing with all the drawings of everyone with my vans and glasses. If my cam works, I'll send you some pics. Mom, your incredible, thanks for everything you do. Don't be nervous about the teaching job, you will wreck!!

 

Love you, Your son, Or Elder,

Elder Farnworth