VALPO

Both Elder Rupert and I are staying here for at least one more change.  We did a lot of service this week weeding peoples yards and exterminating snails.   This week we tried really hard and we usually contact over 100 people each week but nothing happened.  We were able to teach Robert and Camila.  They were both really good lessons.  Also I had an interchange with Elder Leiva who is a Chilean from the south of Chile.  It was a pretty good intercambio. 

  

Long story short we didn’t find anyone in the week so I fasted yet another time.  And Sunday to church showed up a lady named Jennifer.  She brought her 2 kids too and they werent members!  She went to the general conference and also to another ward but she lives within our ward boundaries so she came to our church building and it was a pretty awesome miracle.  We are going to teach them Tuesday.  This is about the 3rd week in a row where we’ve worked really hard and nothing happened, then we fasted and random people that we don’t know show up to church. 

  

Today we are going to play soccer at the church with some other elders and also this Friday we have a ward activity.  It’s going to be really good and I think the members are going to bring a lot of their friends. 

  

Thank you so much for everything.  I love you guys and I know the church is true.  Also make sure you guys fast this weekend.  I know the Lord answers prayers and fasts. 

love

Elder Gardner

Here's a picture of me in my sector and by a monument in the center of Valpo

Valparaíso is full of weird funky creepy graffiti paintings like this

And here's Elder Rupert and I 

I took a picture of a Canadian boat for ya