Well hello my family that is super far from me. How is every one. That is good.
Well I now am in a small town called Lebu. Right on the ocean!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Today was awesome we went body surfing and everything....just kidding. It actually is really cold here and is super windy but all well, i guess i will just have to pull out all my winter clothes that i had putin away so happily so i dont die. I really hope it gets warm again. The weather is really strange here. It rains, then its sunny, then it rains again. It just doesnt take one side. But i like it!
I am finishing another white mans training here. He got here last transfer and is from Arizona. Last name Brimhall. Where have i heard that before? But i dont think there is a relation. As far as we know there isnt. I left Angol saturday morning after saying bye to tons of people. My comp commented to me that he hopes that the people love him as much as they love me. Man i really loved serving in Angol but i am really stoked to be here. We left a bunch of baptismal dates behind so i felt content with that.

So dad asked what i will be doing for Thanksgiving..........................well it turns out we will be the biggest rejected losers down here in because we dont even have lunch with a member! hahahahhahahahha we are going to have to eat lunch lunch in our apartment. I actually laughed my head off when i saw that. Im probably gonna talk to a Sister here in the branch that cooks really good. You know me i have amazing persuading skills.

Well things are still going really well down here. I love it so much. I actually cried when i left ha, we´ll have to see how it goes in a year. Man, a year. That is so so wierd for me. Right now all i worry about is how i can help these brown awesome people go to the temple and in a year i will have to worry about college and other stuff. How selfish right?

Well family of mine that i like a lot i gotta go. I love you all so much. I appreciate your prayers and support. I dare you to just try to have a cooler week than me! just playin. no im not. bye love you lots.

Elder Elder

here is a door for midgits. no one answered....

this week has been a really fun week. well to start off we started this transfer with 5 people we were actually teaching...now we have more than 15. these past three weeks have been so crazy trying to be able to do everything we need to do! we had to borrow some girly bikes from some members so we could make it to all of our appointments in the days to be able to visit everyone. its cause our area is so big! but it has been a great time. hahaha it was the funniest though when we first got on the bikes we both just lit up with huge smiles because it was so cool to ride a bike again! like over a year since i have ridden a bike! it was probably to coolest moment in all of my mission by far.

so my comp is doin really good and catching the language pretty well. i am helping him. i have studied a lot of the slang i guess you could say here and it is really funny to say some stuff because they laugh super hard when we say it. today me and a bunch of my buds went to Los Angeles and just chilled there. we ate this huge kinda hot dog things but a million times better. there called completos. its like a hot dog with tomotoas, mayonaise, and guacamole. i like it a lot.

i only have 3 more weeks left in this area so i am trying to tie up all ends and leave the sector really good before i go. man i have loved it here. almost half my mission. i love the people here so much. i dont wanna leave but i gotta.

oh ya! so this sunday was probably the weirdest sunday of my life. we were in our room studying before church and all of a sudden someone knocks on the door and tells us he wants to get baptized. first i asked if he was drunk(just kidding) (but totally thought it) well anyway we let him in and found out he was talkin to the missionaries before. turns out he is actually kinda crazy and more or less brain fried i guess you could say from excessive use of some pretty serious drugs if you catch my drift. but super cool dude. his name is hector he´s my bud now. well anyway we took thim to church and in priesthood meeting he kept talking about how he used to do drugs, drink, wants to help a lot and do a lot of service, is willing to give us his money, he was gonna get baptized the day of the earthquake but got scared and started going to the catholic church, and the list continues. oh ya and to top it off a kinda smelly....ok understatement a stench covered dog followed man also showed up to church and the both of them we were going crazy. i had to give the priesthood lesson and i was havin a good ole time trying to control them. at the end of the day we could only just laugh about it. i hope they get baptised and end up being like bishops and stake presidents some day. wouldnt that be so tight! its like the ultimate mission story.
well i love ya lots. the fam is in mexico and the hotel looks really boring sorry. my apartment is hundred times better. ya just kiddin it looks amazing. i am glad everyone is doing good and appreciate your support. love you all.

Just to show you all how much i starve on the mission.

elder elder

I am a firefighter, a trainer, and a missionary!

Elder Elder, the firefighter!

so............im pregnant. tomorrow i will be giving birth to a new missionary. i have to take a bus from here in angol to concepcion to go pick up the new missionary that i will be training! i am actually pretty excited to tell you the truth. i have been here in Angol for 4 months and i love it. i wrote my president week and i told him how much i love it here and how i get along so well with everyone and that i didnt want that to distract me from the work. i asked him for some suggestions of what i could do and a few days later i get a call......he told me Elder, (i dont know if he was refering to my name or the title elder) i have just the thing for you. you will be training and staying in you sector. these next 6 weeks will help you more than you know. it was really cool and i am really excited. it is way awesome too because tanner goodman is training too! well at least he was. i heard that he is having an emergency transfer.

another thing. i became a firefigher this week too! about 5 oclock on friday we were walking down this street and we see a ton of smoke so we went to go check it out because it was really close to a members house. turns out it wasnt a member but a house was on fire. the firefighters had arrived 45 minutes late and the house wasnt able to be saved. the firefighters actually left early as well and after an hour or so that they had left we were in a members house getting ready to do an activity with them and some other people and the sister comes running in and yells "elders! the house is on fire again!" so we went running and i entered the the house with a hose and put the fire out. it was actually way cool. i dont feel bad for not calling the firefighters because i didnt feel like waiting for another 45 minites. all this is in my church clothes. i dont have a picture of that but i got a bunch of other ones. the next day we went back to help the family take out all of the things that were destroyed. they were really really grateful for our help. it was so sad to see all their possentions destroyed but the coolest thing ever was how they werent even sad. they said that god had blessed them with life still and that no one was hurt. we were able to save about 1/4 of their stuff from getting burned. it was so gratifying to be able to help them. i have 6 more weeks here in angol. i am actually still in my 2 area! i will have 6 months here when i leave. i leave november 9 and the 18 i will have a year in the mission! where is the time!?

i stil havent gotten any letters or packages from anyone yet but hopefully when i go to to concepcion tomorrow i can pick them up! i want real candy again!

well i love you all so much. your support and letters make me feel so much better. i love being here. it is so amazing to be a servant of the lord. i love him so much. i love you all so much as well. take care everyone. oh i do have a favor....how many nieces and nephews do i have now and how many that are coming?....i feel bad for not knowing when people ask me! i am pretty sure i have 14. right? well love you all. be good.

elder elder

Happy Birthday to ME!!!! 20 can you belive it??!

two families gave me a birthday cake haha

well im not a stupid teenager i guess now. but i feel exactly the same i guess that is normal though right? this week was an awesome week we had a ton of fun. like you all know i had my birthday on the 17 and it was sweet. there was actually a stake activity that was huge at our chapel. on the 18 of september its like july 4 but even bigger and this year chile had its 200 year birthday so on the 17 the activity was for that. there was a ton of cultural dances and tons a food and just a huge party. i was talking to some friends here and all of a sudden i hear this anouncer dude start talking and i hear my name...elder elder (and of course every one starts laughing) but the guy called me up on the stage and absolutely everyone sang to me. it was way cool wont lie. then the guy told me thank you so much for what you do for us and we are all grateful for your sacrifice that you are giving to us and the lord. i felt all special inside it was just so freakin nice!

on the 18 we had this huge lunch with a family that is awesome here. we couldnt work because the mission said we couldnt because there is a ton of drunk people on the street and they like to attack missionaries..........so we didnt work. actually to tell the truth i felt like a piece a poo at the end of the day. i felt so worthless!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! is that how life is after the mish? awesome. you know, i was missing you all so much on that day. just being with that family and seeing them all happy together it made me miss you all so much, man i just want it to be christmas so i can call you all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i love being here but man, i really do miss seeing you all it made me remember how much i love you guys. right now im good and all we are ready to work this week. we want to finish this transfer really good so we are just workin a butt load. today we work because on sat we didnt. but we have time to write you guys and all so its nice.

on the 15 we had a conference with the pres and a lot of the missionaries here so we had hardly any time to work at alll this week. we still did the best we could and are just trying to work smart. i think i am going to a different city in a week........im pretty bummed out but it will be good too. im excited. i dont know if i like the fact that i have no idea where or with who i will be in a week. but its part of the adventure!

well things are going great down here in chile. not a lot of stuff new. we are going to visit all of these references that we got and starting to work with these families. pray for us. we need a lot of help and we can not do it alone we are coming to realize.
i love you all so much. thanks for all your letters and packages that you sent.......im sure i will enjoy them in a couple weeks! haha still havnt gotten anything but its cool! take care everyone.

elder elder

me and my little cowboy friend

me drinking this drink from a cows horn. it was way good.

Buenos Dias Familia

well whats up family of mine! how is everyone doing? im doing great this week was awesome i liked it a ton. we are teaching a lot of way awesome people and trying to help everyone out. i think i only have 3 more weeks in this place. it pretty much sucks but its part of the mission. i did the math the other day, i have been in the city for like 105 or something. Crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it has gone by so so fast for me. i cant believe it. im coming up on a year in the mission too what the heck!?! it is what it is right? right.

so can someone do me a grand favor? what is my new niece or nephews name? knowing the sex would be nice to know too. hahaha i read in the letter that krystal had the baby......................but some of the major info is lacking. thanks!
so everyone is really busy and doing a ton of stuff. katie with her dancing kevin with his huge plans for making money already man that is so cool. i was actually thinkin about chris and dasha the other day. man you guys are doin so good it awesome. everyone is actually god is blessing the family so much right now.

this week we met with the pres of the mission. he is such a cool guy. he is really smart too. we had interviews to see how we are doing. we talked for like 10 min and he said i am doin really good. haha i also talked to his wife for like 15 hahaha we talked about monte pithon and my plans after the mission a little. i dont know where monte pithon came from but it was hilarious we were laughing a ton. the people here take such good care of us here. so dont worry.
well i am so happy that everyone is doing soo good. we are teaching 4 people that are really close to baptism but just need a little more help. if you can keep them in your prayers. andres, angie, marie jose, and nicolas. thanks for everything you all do for me. have a great week and i will talk to you all next week!

oh ya and how awesome is that brady is in the mtc now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we´re almost all out on missions. jake in peru, josh in england, brady going to bolivia, liam in mexico, chris goin to peru also. it is so freakin crazy. so awesome though isnt it. this work is true and necessary(do you spell it that way)? necesario there thats better. loveyou all.  elder elder

well whats up everyone!


this week went by great. after i wrote you all last week we made brownies for a family. i about cried they were so good. i forgot about the simplicities of life like brownies.

we found a lot of really good people this week and one of them decided to get baptised last night. she has to wait a couple months because she doesnt have anyone in her house to go to the church to encourage her and stuff so there is a rule about that. but dont worry, we met her mom and we are going to baptize he to i decided. then we can baptize them in 3 weeks!

i think i already told you but im going to stay with my comp for another transfer so we are excited. we want to finish a lot of things before i go.

man it is weird to think that you all exist and stuff up there in gringolandia. its already been so long it almost just seems so fake. its messed up but chill.

dang so everyone started school and everything! how is it going to for you katie and kev? is kevin still going to thomas edison or to south cache now. i think that katie is a senor now. that is just messed up......hey so how is my car and cell phone doing? you can actually keep my cell phone katie. im getting a iphone 4 when i get home. i heard that they are so sick! only.............15 months! hahaha tahts a lot but its cool.

well i am doing really good. i really appreciate all of your prayers and support. i hope that you are all doing great and you are getting a butt load of blessings because i am. i love you. big squeeze. welp................see ya later!

elder elder

Glad you all had a great time at the Brimhall reunion!

man another fast week! i dont know if i like it or not....but it is what it is right?

Dad thanks so much for sending the brimhall reunion video of all my family saying Hi to me.  it was so awesome to see everyone and hear them say hi.  glad to meet heaths girlfriend. they look very happy. glad to see all my cousins, aunts, uncles, and especially grandma goodman. i sure enjoyed hearing grandmas testimony that she gave on sunday. i have such a wonderful family. i enjoy teaching people here about how families can be together forever.  i love you all so very much!

things were pretty sweet this week. we baptised two peole on sat. hahaha i think i wrote you all about a couple months ago how i was in the water with this girl and she got all freaked out and in the end didnt get baptised and a bunch of stuff.....well she got baptized on sat! finally. he dad did it. and it took 3 times before she would go under the water. she wouldnt let him! all well it happened finally haha.

oh ya ha so after i finished my letter last week we went home and had to stay in the house because my companion was throwing up and stuff and so he went to bed really early. so i started to read the book of mormon and after an hour or so i took a break and started cleaning the house and stuff. well anyway i have this plastic thing that holds my bar of soap for the shower and i wanted to put wholes in it so that the water would leak out and stuff instead of just sit in there and ruin my bar of soap.......so i had my knife and..........i had the plastic thing in my hand and with my other hand i was drilling and it slipped and i stabbed myselft......hahahahha ya i know i am an idiot. it went in my hand like an inch and was bleeding all over the place. it was awesome! well my comp was way sick and couldnt get out of bed so i called a bunch or people and no one would answer for like 15 min! i thought i was going to die! i guess it wouldnt be so bad i would go straight to heaven i guess....but finally i got a hold of my zone leader and we went to the hospital. after and hour and a half they finally called my name. and on top of that they put two stitches in becuase it wasnt wide just deep( and the stitches fell out after 3 days) and they charged me 110 bucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i think it is because i have a rich gringo face and they took advantage of me. i dont know but it is retarded. the medical system in chile is soooooo good! if they charged me that much for 2 stitches im just glad i didnt cut off my hand! probably like 5000000092 dollars or something. but its chill i love chile still.

we have transfers this week and i have been asking my pres to let me stay here for another transfer and we are both staying! actually something really cool happened. Liliana ( the lady i always talk about) actually fasted that we would stay. its because we are finally getting in with her sons and are teaching them. man i love that family.
oh ya i hope you liked the pig pictures i sent! sorry if they were too graphic.....it was a crazy experience thats for sure. i know dad only put one up on my blog...which was a good shot of me showing the guts of the pig.
well i love you all so much. i hope things are going great for you all. things are great here. be good now and i will let you know whats up next week!

hahahahah this little kid ripped open a bag of cement and was playing in it while i was talking to his mom Liliana. oh man it was so funny we laughed our heads off.

elder elder