3/20/2017

Hello family!  I heard Spring Break was awesome for you guys! It was really crazy here. In the morning we had a massive rain storm and there was lots of lighting that was really loud for like an hour and the lights would flicker on and off during the lightning.  Then we had a black out for awhile. It was pretty scary but everything is ok.  It just means more service for me to do haha.  Anyways there was lots of mud throughout the city and Copiapo isn`t really built to withstand rain or basically anything.  Like if a small wind came it could blow a house over... no not really, but just everything is built on dirt and there are lots of mountains to protect from other natural disasters.  Anyways back to the point, so we had to help people with all their problems after the rainstorm.  Luckily everything was ok.

We have a really cool investigator that went to church twice and he loved it!  He said he really is trying to repent and he is going to get baptized this Saturday!  So that`s going to be really cool. He has had lots of problems in his life so it`s really cool to know that I am going play a part in helping him receive the truth of the gospel and to help him with his problems.  He is about 67 and he really just wants to find the truth and repent for his sins and change for the better.  Anyways I hope you guys will pray for him to feel that he truly has received repentance.  

I felt really bad these past weeks like I had failed or something, because we haven`t had very much success in our sector and I`m the one who knows the area better.  We had been working more with the other missionaries in their sector so everyone could have success, but I just felt like I was falling behind on the needs of my investigators and recent converts.  I made a promise that I would try to work harder and focus more, and that day on intercambios (exchanges) with Elder Saarelainen we found someone who is really cool!  Her name is Ligia (lee-he-a) and she said she knew about Joseph Smith already and she has read the Book of Mormon.  She said she liked it, but she never prayed to know if it was true.  So we invited her and now we are going to ask about her answer, so I hope everyone can pray that it will go well!  Thanks for all the support I love you guys tons!  

Love,

      Elder Hirschi

p.s. I forgot to wear green on St. Patricks so we wore green the next day haha!  And Steven says hi!!

Scripture: Helaman 5:12 - If Jesus really is our rock we cannot fall!

Answers: 

Does anyone there celebrate St Patrick's day? Did anyone wear green?

1. The people don`t celebrate it here, but I got pinched from Elder Burnthorn.  I wore green the next day.

Do you help teach any English classes there?

2. We actually are planning to start teaching English classes soon

Did you get the Werthers we sent for General conference?  Do you think you will wait to open some of the stuff for your Birthday that was in your package?

3. I don`t think so, but for General conference we are going to have this thing called the gringo room, where they play it in English and have lots of food.  

What are your district meetings like?  

4. District meetings I haven`t been to for the past 2 weeks because I was too lazy... haha no I didn`t go the first week because we don`t have it on Transfers and the next I had a problem with my Visa thing (Carnet in Spanish)

Do any of the missionaries like to go running there? 

5. We did for a while, but now we only run on Mondays

Have you met any new fun people lately?

6. Yeah Jorge is really cool guy I hope he feels good this Saturday

What is something your new companion has taught you?  What other languages does he speak?

7. He is teaching me how to draw and he taught me some words in Tagalog which is the native language of the Philippines (they all speak in English too).  Like I know how to say Magandang hapon (good afternoon).