Garret's Mission Blog: November 11- November 17, 2025 Week 20 Centinela Branch, Talcahuano Chile

Highlights/summary

-played some frisbee last pday

-district council

-two exchanges

-blitz

-made some new friends and taught a lot of people

-family home evening with like the ONLY young family in the Ward

-You heard me right, we've been baptizing so much, the Branch Centinela turned into a Ward yesterday

-we were finding like crazy this week, but not a whole lot of 2nd lessons

-comp study, poor elder roach. I make this man do like 20 minutes of practices with me to practice his contacting and teaching

-I speak some spanish now from time to time-(big dubs here)(and other times I forget every single word ever in spanish)

-It was Chilean election day yesterday, and appearently it is like a law that you have to vote or you get fined. So everyone was asking me if we'd voted

Being a Trainer in hoop terms:

Being a trainer is like being 2018 LeBron James. It be tiring at some points. Trying to help Elder Roach adopt that Michael Porter Jr. mindset, but sometimes he be having that Ben Simmions mindset. I´m trying to get in a companshiop that is like the 2013 spurs, but all the companshipes so far someone has been in their training.

(someone let me know if you got that)

Now in real words

Being a trainer you have to make like all the descions. Trying my best to give my Goat Elder Roach some confidence that it is okay to make mistakes. That is why we be grinding those practices. But it is a lot of fun and we have been doing the basics and all the stuff, and teaching him a lot not to be a robot, and like teach every single person differently. Because everyone has different needs, so we need to teach to meet those needs.

But I be getting to do most (sometimes all) of the contacting and teaching, so my spanish is getting a lot better

Exchanges/ Blitz

Tuesday I had an exchange with Elder Gorinek, he is also new so I filled the roll of his trainer for a day. He's lit. He played football at Utah Tech and when we were playing frisbee he was insanely athletic. But anyway, he also doesn't speak the greatest spanish, but he was very teachable, so I taught him when his comp lets him speak on the street, to look the person straight in the eyes and said, "No hablo espanol, pero se que usted debe ser bautizado (o ir a la igelisa, o leer el libro de mormon), and he was just spamming that all day and that was funny. he would like stare straight into there soul and say it. But, we were working really hard and cracking jokes the whole time and found 9 people with interest.

Exchange 2:

We had an another blitz this week in another area in the zone. I worked with my distrist leader for 2 hours so that was pretty lit. He's name is Elder Holt. He wanted to do this. We can't have like a normal exchange because our greenies would be put together and they can't do that yet. But, we did like a 3 way exchange and Elder Roach and Gorniek went with the ZLs. But anyway, that was a lot of fun and I learned some more to improve my contacts. Our first contact was funny because we both tried talking too much, because we were used to having the greenies, and then we were like "oh yes, my comp can speak spanish now"

Friends:

We had like 8 or so first lessons but not a whole lot of peeps progressing- there was a venzuela fam and also 3 friends at church. Alejandra, Educardo, Hector. They are all like 40ish. All of them are progressing slowly but surely.

Scipture I like this week:

alma 34: 9-10-- this is tuff I'm not even gunna lie

My district