Happy Valentines Day!

Well today has been an awesome day. Me and a bunch of my friends went to the beach and had a way fun time. The beach here where I live looks like Jurasic Park its so cool i love the beach so much. We played football on the beach and our team killed. Our special plays completely anahilated the other team. We also went running on a lot of the huge rocks. There was this one part where there were a ton of seagulls and we were under them and im not kidding they totally started to drop bombs on us. A couple of the Elders i was with got splattered but i lucked out. They were litterally aiming for us.

On this past tuesday we moved into the way nice house. It really is the nicest house in the whole mission. On friday we had interviews with the pres and his wife and afterward she came over to inspect the house and was soooooooooo surprised about how nice it was. She told us it is the nicest house and that we need to take care of it. man i really like living there. The Elders in the house are way cool. We´re gonna make brownies tonight! We had a little BBQ last night before going to bed and it was awesome. We are meeting a lot of really cool peopel too. My comp has been sick this week so i went out with other people and i also went on a day mini transfer with an elder in my district. We were going to baptise that kid that i shaved his head on sat (ash´s birthday) but he drank when he went on this basketball tournement so we talked to him more about it and hes getting baptised this sat now!
Things are goin pretty good right now. Yes, there was a "big" earthquake but in my opinion the thing was so small. ya it was long and a lot of stuff fell down but with out trying to sound tough i dont get scared by them whatsoever i actually love them. We had several this week and while i was eating half of a huge watermelon with my friend the house started to shake and we just laughed. that day there was like 32 but 5 big ones. Yesterday during church the church started to shake and a lot of the sisters started freakin out and getting all scared. I honestly dont know why because it wasnt even that big. Man, i feel like im a jerk when i say its nothing and all these chilean ladies and fearing dearly for their lives. I calmed our new convert down and helped them out and the meeting just kept going normal.

ASHLEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Happy birthday i was thinking about you that day and i remembered you and good ol Abe. I hope you had a great one. I hope you all are doing great and remember i love ya lots. Keep praying for the work here and God bless you.

Elder Elder

Well this week went by very very fast like always. But hey, what else is new right? It was a really good week, it was the first week of the transfer so we had to do a lot more contacts to be able to have more people to teach throughout the transfer. like a bust i guess you could say. We ended up finding 12 more really good people to teach this week which was actually pretty good. Im really stoked to go chill with the people this week and start teaching them. I honestly love talking with the people in the street. Joking around is my favorite way to do it. well not joking around but just having a funny casual conversation and getting to know them. We´ve been able to get into a lot of houses that way. So me and my comp we walkin down this dirt road the other day and i told him "you know how different this is then normal life? Having complete strangers trusting us to go inside the walls of their homes and teach them something about Christ just out of the blue. I dont know why but it kinda made us laugh just to think how different it is. Its really cool to be trusted like that. Also on saturday we were visiting a less active member before lunch and all of a sudden the house started to shake and tons of stuff started to fall down. It wasnt a long earthquake just a few seconds but it totally reminded me about last years huge one. I can still remember the noise. I actually like earthquakes now. I cant tell the people here that now because they get mad. But for real i like them, they´re fun!
Yesterday we were visiting some of the people who had recently got baptised and this other lady was there who we had never met. In this order this is what happened. I asked her name, where she lives, if she had talked the missionaries before(she said a little), if she has been baptised, i told her why we need to be baptised and that me and my companion help people with getting baptised, then i asked if she wants to get baptised in three weeks. Then she just punched me in the face! It was the craziest thing that has ever happened here it surprised me so bad. Ok im just kidding, she really just smiled and looked at me and said yes. It was so cool im not kidding. We obviously have to teach her everything but for someone to be that willing like that....tells you that God does prepare his little hijos. Pray for her. Her name is Paula.

Oh another really cool thing is that we are going to live us four missionaries all in the same house so that will deffinatley be really fun. We are moving into the new house tomorrow. Its gonna be so nice because the shower will actually be warm and enjoyable! I love the luxgeries of life like that.

So i got alot of really good letters from a lot of you all and it sounds like you are all doing great and im very happy for you. I love you all so much. I cant wait to be able to spend time with my family again. Yesterday i gave my testimony in church. I talked about how challenges and difficulties have made me and are making me into who i am. The mission is challenging. But so worth it. If anyone is reading this and thinking about going. Just go. You will find out who you really are if you do the things that are taught in the mission. Some one also right before me gave his testimony and randomly said that he loves his mother very very much. It really made me think for a sec. In that moment I remembered that you all still exist. Its honestly so wierd to think that i have so many white people at home that love me. I just dont really think about it too much because of time and thinking about what im doing. And on mondays when i write you its not the same because i am sitting at a computer and writing the screen. But right in that moment it hit me hard. I love you all much. I hope you are all happy and are taking the dissisions you really want to be taking. Take care everyone and I´ll talk to you later.

Elder Elder

so the brown kid right there´s name is carlos. He´s getting baptised this weekend. we shaved his head because he lost a bet. He also did a huge service progect with us for a few hours where we just cut a ton of grass with hoes. Thats the lawn mowing system here i love it.