October 10, 2011

Hello everybody! How is everybody doing? Well okay I got a couple emails so I know a little bit, but Britt hasn't emailed me yet about the accident so I don't know what happened there really or have pictures but I'm sure that they'll be here by next week right? :P so yeah anyways.. Haha I guess I can't buy your car from you when I get home now.... Bummer. No but seriously I hope that you really are all doing good, not just the car.

Umm I'm thinking if I need to remember anything outside of questions you've asked. Umm in that package you are thinking of sending I would like that John Schmidt music book I played out of (not the same one that Brandon had on his mission) and maybe some sunglasses, because I might get permission to wear them down here because the sun is SOOO bright! It's ridiculous. Actually in the rules this zone is allowed to have hats to help with the sun but I would rather use sun glasses as well or instead or whatever word works there. I'm thinking about drum sticks too But I don't think that there are really any drumsticks at home that are in good condition... If you find some you're willing to send that'd be cool but if not then it's no issue. I'll continue to use my ruler and pens. Oh yeah and the pictures that you're planning on sending, if they could be printed out that'd be cool. And any american food you want to send haha. (Cream cheese wouldn't go well in the mail probably but it doesn't exist here :O and neither does Peanut Butter.... :O)

The weather is getting warmer, it's pretty crazy I noticed yesterday that the sun has moved sooo far towards the south, I would have liked to take pictures of the difference in the sun sets but I didn't think about it when I got here, and usually to the west there are clouds on the horizon, like 95% of the time actually. The wind hasn't stopped since I got here though. Seriously.

Oh hey this week was pretty cool we celebrated 50 years of missionary work in Chile. I thought it was interesting. Also about that, Diego and his family is from Concepcion so I was thinking if somebody could figure out what ward aunt Jackie was in while she lived here I could see if it's familiar to them. Also I remember in the MTC dad said Johnny wanted my address so if you could get that to him or just get his and tell it to me I'll write to him and that could work.

Oh hey I am still trying to get something for birthdays because they don't allow some kinds of jewelries and stuff to be sent by mail, but I'm working on it for Britt and Mom. We've got a member in the ward who sells jewelry so I'll get something cool :)

ummmm This week wasn't super exciting. Yesterday everybody had work or got sick so nobody came to church (actually a lot of the members were missing as well...) so it was kind of lame there. Sebastian and Diego are both giving up coffee and are basically for sure getting baptized it's awesome, but we've got to find more people to have progressing. We found just a couple of people recently even though I feel like we worked really hard this week walking through the streets trying to find people. But yeah nothing really happened super exciting that I could talk about... The week went by really fast. I only have 3 weeks left of training... Crazy stuff!

But here's something cool that happened about ohhhh an hour ago. We were going to the internet place we usually go to (except its closed today because its a holiday) so we get out of the "colectivo" which is basically a taxi but here the "taxi's" are different so anyways we get out of the car and cross the street and this old guy hangs up his phone and gets our attention and starts talking to us and tells us he's a member since 1980 and his wife is at home by herself sick at 76 years old and his only daughter is in Texas, also sick, so he feels really bad and worried (obviously) and wants a blessing of comfort. Coincidence? I think not! So long story short we got the keys to the nearest chapel and walked there (5 blocks away) and us and the other companionship do the blessing and the guy bears his testimony and talks about how he knows God had us cross his path for a reason. He is an awesome guy really he said he is going to one day buy 300 Books of Mormon, 300 Bibles, and 300 Hymn books and give them as gifts to new converts or investigators with his picture and a testimony in front. :O Yeah he's great. and now we're here in this internet place because the Elders of this sector were just like "hey the usual internet place is closed but we know one that's really close lets go." So here we are.

And that is basically all I have to say this week. It's getting warmer but still in Punta Arenas it never gets hotter than 70 degrees. Baha! so yeah. That's all. Talk to you next week!