September 5, 2011

Hola everybody. First off HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRITT! You need to tell me what you want so I can send something home. (and brandon and tiff and matt... And mom so I can get you all cool stuff!)

So I have added people to the list of people to email because I found out and clarified this week that although I am still only allowed to send one email home per week I can send it to people that aren't part of the family. So Britt when you add this to the blog you can tell peple that they can send you their emails and I can add them to the list of people to send this email to! I thought it was a good deal. And logically they can all email me back because... Well obviously nobody can stop them. SO yeah that's cool news.

This week wasn't like amazing by any means. But I think I told you last week about the guy we found whose wife is a member and we challenged him to be baptized? Because he is basically awesome. I'm not sure if they had talked about going to church before hand but when we asked him to come with us they were worried their son would be like an annoyance to everybody. Which is not true but we were glad we had our bishop with us to tell him that there are small children running around the chapel every week (which reminds me, his son is one of them and this last week he was giving his testimony and had to pick up his son because he ran up on the stand. Haha.) So they came with us and it was awesome because He is going to get baptized. For sure. Yesterday wasn't the greatest though in terms of the work because NOBODY is outside on sundays. Seriously we saw probably 30 people outside of church the whole day. It was ridiculous.

Umm besides that nothing huge this week... I don't know what it is about my hand but when people shake it they like to grab it with both of theirs and rub it... It's awkward. And another old lady kissed me the other day. She knows the rules and that we don't kiss but everybody kisses everybody (except the male missionaries, the sister missionaries kiss other girls but yeah anyways) so at the end of the lesson with this lady she was like "I'm gonna kiss you, because that's not a bad thing" and we were like whatever you say as long as you get baptized. Baha jk we didn't say that... Out loud. ;) so yeah anyways I think she will accept a baptismal date in our next lesson but her husband is gonna have to gain a testimony that he needs to because he was baptized previously.

What else has happened.... Nothing really.... We had some lessons. Found some new people to teach... 

There were some questions asked last week that I don't really remember... I do remember though that Britt asked the average temperature... I don't know what it is but I wear my jacket 24-7 and rarely see anybody else without theirs. But it's getting warmer. Apparently I'm in the part of the world where the o-zone has a hole in it though so I will probably get sunburnt sometime soon. While freezing probably.... Yeah I don't know how that'll work either.

But yeah I love it here, my shoes are doing good so far, i'm keeping healthy (I think) and all is well. I have started writing down the few words in spanish that I don't recognize so I can look them up later. but I speak it well enough to communicate and if the other people don't mumble it's easy enough to understand.

It was good to hear from everybody who wrote me. Brandon yes last week you were supposed to have recieved two emails.... Everybody last week should have. To clarify though I sent two emails and 9 pictures.. I think. Sounds right. I'll put some more photos because I can. haha. So here goes.

This is the Elder who lived in the ward where my cousin Spencer served in Oklahoma

Elder Robinette on the bus to the airport haha

Probably my favorite picture in the MTC of Christ walking on the water. :O

Sunrise on Punta Arenas, Chile

Well that's about it. Hope to hear from y'all next week! And I hope everybody's emails work and you all recieve this email.. Otherwise... that'd just be disappointing.

Oh yeah. Just for fun (and while the pictures are still loading) My zone basically loves me. It's because one day I said "Mister Anderson" Just like Agent Smith in the matrix and because I beat box and stuff.. It's been pretty fun. Because ya know.. I'm me. :D

Talk to you all next week!

With love

- Elder Bassett