Well this will be a little shorter being that i talked to you just the other day. But today has been really fun. We went to the beach again. Man i really love the beach. we were just chillin there on the shore playin soccer and kinda resting. I took a bunch of pics and videos. I wish i knew how to send videos! It was really cool talking to a lot of you and being able to have a real conversation with you all! This was my only christmas in Chile and it was a good one. I spoke in church yesterday about the real meaning of christmas and what christ really does for us. I really like talking in church down here. The people really listen to me like i am smart or something. It really is differnent when i realize how different they look at me as a missionary. I really like it alot. Well, this week is already starting out really busy which is a great thing. I am going to put a bunch of goals for myself for the year and advise all you to do the same. I loveyou all!

Elder Elder

Well this week was a great week. We had a competitions bewtween the mission to see who brought the most people to church and we won! The winners got a BBQ that was amazing. We went to a different city today and pigged out like crazy. We played a bunch of soccer, football, and basketball and just chilled it was a really fun pday.

So there are going to be 4 missionaries here in Lebu now! It really needs it because it really is so huge. I am going to stay with my comp Elder Brimhall and my old zoneleader that is dying this transfer is going to come here. The funny thing is that he actually started his mission here like 2 years ago and is going to end it here too. He will be training so we still dont know who it is yet that is coming we wont know until tomorrow.

This week for christmas is really going to be fun. We were going to baptize someone on christmas day but we had to change it for this thursday. But we are baptising someone! I havent personally baptised anyone for a very long time. In Angol my new comp that i trained baptised and then after i left a ton more got baptised and here is the first one and my comp hasnt baptised anyone so i want him to know how it feels. But its our investigators choice. so we´ll see!

On saturday we went to the beach as a branch to have a little lesson and roast some hotdogs. It really was a good time. I love the ocean so much. I just wanna swim!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but i cant. We didnt have any rods or anything to roast the hotdogs so we had to use some random nasty sticks we found on the beach. The chileans dont know how to roast hot dogs with out burning them so the sticks kept catching on fire and the hot dog fell in the fire. They still ate them tho. dont worry.

Well i am very very excited to talk to you all this week! This saturday around 12 or 1 i will be calling. So be ready. I love you all. Have a great week and enjoy the snow if you have it!

Elder Elder

Well hey whats going on everyone?? This week went be really really good. We got 4 people that want to get baptised and 1 will be on christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Man i really am excited for that you have no idea. Me and my comp have one more week together then there are transfers. I really cannot believe how fast its going. this week i have 13 months....man. I feel like i really am living my mission well tho. Im actually pretty satisfied with what has happened so far and what can happen. This week i have to go travel like 3 or 4 hours with a kid from my ward to another city to go do a baptismal interview and sleep over down there. I have to go with him because we have a lot of really importan appointments wednesday night so we are going to go on overnight splits. Its gonna be a good time. The kid im going with is actually going to Bolivia on his mission in March so he always goes out with us. This passed week there was a young singles adult activity here in Lebu and all the youth from all over came here and had this huge activity. One part was to sing christmas songs so we invited investigators and we all went watched. We had a really really good time, me especially because i saw all of my friends i made in Angol and it was awesome to see everyone. The singing was kinda...............................but we still had fun!
We really are meeting so many new people that are awesome. In our room there is a chart with all the people we teach and we had to make a new chart so we could fit everyone. It makes me happy.
Well i hope everyone is enjoying the christmas season and i will talk to you all soon!

Elder Elder

My dog Jamine!

This week litterally flew by for me. We worked so hard and we are workin a ton with the ward here. We really have seen such a difference here its really cool. There a lot more people going to church and a lot of investigators. At the beginning of the transfer we have pretty much no one going to church. Yesterday we had 8 investigators so we were really happy about that. We found the coolest family ever and they really like what we teach them so much. The mom prayed and knows its true and we have to start teaching the kids and husband this week.


Today we went on this hike with one of the ward members that is going to Bolivia on his mission. We hiked to this national park and looked at a bunch of way old trees and stuff. It was super pretty actually. We also had a really good BBQ up there. Man, i really am so full. I never want to eat again. So happy birthday Mom, Adam and Tracy this week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope you all have a great birthday and do a lot of fun stuff.

We have transfers already on the 21. I am pretty sure that i am staying. The pres of this mission wants to put 2 more missionaries here for just a transfer because there are a lot coming and a couple months later a ton leave. And if he does that 2 missionaries will have to live in a members house. So we´ll see!

I really liked the pics and video dad sent of SLC and everything. Its so wierd that up there its so cold and down here its not. I read in my friend Josh Elgans letter that its snowing a lot in England too. He sounds really good. If your reading this Josh i love ya bro! Good luck over there.
Well i love you all so much and im grateful for your support. have a great week and I´ll write next week.

Elder Elder

Well hello my beloved family. Sorry i am writing this so late i just got back from a district and zone leader meating with the pres. Yesterday i had to take 3 buses to go to Los Angeles and i slept there with my old comp Elder Glover and a bunch of way good friends and then today we had a meeting about numbers and all that really fun stuff and how we are going to help the younger missionaries be better. So i just barely got back. I smell delightful just so you know........we had to travel back another 5 hours. And another thing...............i left my camara in my appartment..................so i cant send any pics to you sorry. I had a ton of really good ones. But ill have to do it next week.


So this week was super good i liked it a lot. After 3 sundays of having 1 person and no one in the church we had 5 go this week. The sector is slower starting to look a lot better and we are going to be baptising some people really soon and hopefully getting some people married!!!!!!! So please keep that in your prayers because we really really want a white christmas just like you are having. But i am in "summer" supposably even though its super cold here with all the wind.

But Thanksgiving! We did end up eating in our appartment but our zone leaders came and ate with us. I was not feeling turkey at all so we made french fries, rice, this fruit salad, and juice! It was really good and totally made by missionaries. I liked it. hahaha I wouldnt let anyone eat until we all went in a circle and said what we are grateful for. It was really cool. But just like dad said in his letter..........next one I´ll be with you guys!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thats gonna be so wierd.

So did you all like the pics i sent you? Remember my pet crab? Well i ate him. It was alright but i mainly just did it for the experience. We boiled it and then ate it! It was pretty cool i felt legit. Another really cool animal story is there was little puppy just walking around lost in the road and we went up and played with it for a little and petted it and stuff but it ended up following us to the house and we couldnt make it go away so we decided to let it stay the night untill we figured out what to do with it. We named it Jasmine. It was so cute I litterally fell in love with it immediately. But the next day someone stole her from us. Some crazy lady asked if she could have it while we were walking through down town (doing contacts, it was so cool because everyone actually stopped and started talking to us!) and i told her i didnt know because we didnt know who´s it was but the totally just took it and left. I was stunned and she totally just dissapeared into the croud. It broke my heart to see my puppy go.

So the best was on saturday we were watching the testaments as a branch activity in the church and i get a phone call on my cell and i leave and the person tells me "Elder2?" and i said "yes" and he said "this is the newest member of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I just want to thank you so much for what you did for me and my family." It was the father of the little boy we baptised in Angol before i left. All of the 6 people i left in Angol got baptised. I was so happy and i just couldnt stop smiling for the rest of the day. His wife already was a member and now he wants to go to the temple way bad. Another family was completed. The Rodriguez fam that i told you about the wife and 3 kids and they want to go to the temple too and a 23 year old guy who wants to be a missionary. 14 people got baptized in Angol in the past 6 months. And they told me the place was dead when i got there. Now its time for Lebu!

Well i love you lots. Thanks for your love and support. Have a great week and i will be talking to you all soon!!!

Elder Elder