September 17, 2011

First off Thank you dad for getting the money thing taken care of I should have been more specific last week about that but I can't even remember if I knew it would be today that we had our replacement p-day (which is why I am now writing because we figured it was the best time and we wouldn't have a productive day if we went home and changed and went out prostelyting for half an hour)

So yeah I wasn't planning on sending this email right now so you will all have to wait another week for those pictures unfortunately. But I will talk about it right now. This place was absolutely amazing! It's called Las Torres Del Paine it is a huge national park that is pretty well known (at least here in southern america) and so we were immensely blessed with being able to go there and also that it was (relatively) good weather. Which we were not looking for because when we woke up to head out there it was a blizzard. so yeah. (btw about the weather, It may not be like subarctic tempuratures right now but I it's like the beginning of summer, as if it were 30 degrees in march. and wet. I would never have to wear this much clothes to stay decently warm in march in utah)

I took probably 80-90 pictures so you won't be able to see them all for a while because the emails only will let me put like 4 ish pictures but whatever I'll choose the best ones. Next week.

So yeah the Torres were HUGE like easily 3 times bigger than the rocky mountains. They talked about how people have tried to climb up it, only 3 people have reached the summit so it's like insane. Also I took a video and tried to do a kind of documentary but, it didn't work because the wind was absolutely ridiculous. I leaned into it and it held me up pretty far it was insane we were all almost falling down just trying to walk. We first stopped at a couple lakes and got some cool pictures of the sunrise then the second lake we went to and got pictures of the glaciers there and then just the huge mountains. But they are cool pictures.

So yeah that's about today, I'm sure I could tell more about it but... That's all for now and i'll get those pictures sent and just try to imagine the immensity of these mountains because pictures just don't really cut it.

Okay so to answer a few questions we had our baptism for the guy with the smoking problem yesterday which was super awesome! We did it yesterday because tomorrow is their like independance day or something so their parties and celebrations started today (there was an activity in the chapel that we didn't go to, obviously) but he will be confirmed tomorrow. WOOT! okay and I won't get into trouble reading my friends emails. But I can't respond directly to you so if I have your address I will write you letters, if not... Send me your address :D and I will write to you.

Our mission president is basically awesome also he is allowing us to watch a movie (like a regular one) on monday. I think it is because it is a holiday But nobody knows. I think we have chosen to watch Rango. My vote was Kung Fu Panda 2 but whatev's. (the choices besides those two were toy story 3 and Avatar, which I don't think is really missionary appropriate but we didn't vote for it anyways so no worries!)

So I hope that everything is going well at home! Happy birthday tuesday to Brandon!! You're so OLD!! Jk but anyways (actually my zone leader is older than you haha) Oh question! In Chile the first presidency sent a letter out allowing the young men to go out on their mission at 18. Did they send that out in the states too? Because if they did it would be the same situation for Ethan and I when I get home and I think that would be pretty funny for everybody involved.

Okay about this whole week, it was awesome! We didn't really talk to a whole bunch of people on the street BUT we found 13 new people to teach! That is huge to be able to find those people. And they are all like super receptive and awesome! So it's cool. We did good this week I think. But that's really all! oh hey Britt, I found out that Dear Missionary allows the letters to be sent through email too. Which is interesting although in my case slightly unnecessary But if you wanted to post something on facebook to tell people I guess that'd be cool... Just sayin.

So yeah. Awesome week. Amazing day. Lots of pictures waiting. I'll get on writing those letters to my friends. Sorry this is completely irregular and y'all didn't prepare to write me and await for a response but it is what it is. Thanks again dad for taking care of the money it REALLY helped. Love you all. Talk to you next week!!

Elder Bassett.