Austin has arrived in Chile!!!

well its official. im in chile and i cant understand nothin! yay! haha just kiddin i can. but not a lot of it. they all talk so freakin fast but i love it. i have been here almost a week and its awesome. my feet hurt so bad at the end of the day but its cool cuz i am baptising someone this week!!! he´s 14 and his name is pedro aquiles. he is a way awesome kid. and he is really excited. the missionaries were already teaching him when i got here but i picked up with my comp where they left off and we are going to baptise him!


ok so now about my comp. his name is elder rodriquez. i told my mission president that i wanted a comp that didn´t speak english at all and was a latino. and i ended up getting him and two other roomates that are also latinos and only know how to say won chu tree. soooooooooooooooooooo i dont talk that much hahaha. ok no im lying one know very little but i can say what i need to. im really not that helpless here. my companion is actually from santiago chile and has been serving for 9 months. the other 2 are from columbia and boliva. the columbian one has been serving for 10 months i think and the other only a month. we have a lot of fun together. my comp is a way chill kid. he talks slower for me so i can catch everything so that is definatley really really nice.

we have been teaching a lot of lessons already and talking to tons of people on the street. its crazy, we´ll just be walking along and we stop and stick our hand out to shake someones hand and they´ll stop and talk to you no matter who you are. well except for the butt wholes who just look at us like we´re satan. its pretty much the best moment of the day haha i really do think its hilarious. my comp does most of the talking while we talk to people on the street mainly because i dont understand much of what they people say(because most people have like 3 teeth) and still talk sooooo fast. but now im starting to get used to it. its great

ok so the bread. holy crap. its so freakin goooooood!!! but i guess its really fattening so i cant eat a ton of it. but i love it. i dont know how they make it but they make it good. just for the record..:)

ok so my comp and i were walking to the church the other day like thursday or something and right when we got they they was a girl with a little kid walking so we stopped and talked to her. we ended up talking about baptisms and stuff and we brought her in the church and gave her a tour becuase she was interested and had never seen the inside. we also showed her the baptismal font and she thought it was really cool. we even taught about the restoration right there in the church and also about the importance of baptism. we talked for probably 45 min or so. it was really awesome. the only crappy thing is that she lives like 9 hours north and is only visiting here for another week or so. so we´ll see! it was really cool.

oh ya! i am working in a little town called cabrero. its east of concepcion im pretty sure. i think its north of a town called los angeles. look it up. its pretty sweet. like 30,000 people and 29,000 are evangelic and hate us! hahaha no not that many. but the evangelics really do hate us. its the best! i loooove it! its totally kinda a run down town. im going to try to upload pictures for you all. hopefully it works. tons on dogs everywhere!!!! there all just muts too. there so loud at night. our house is so awesome! two rooms and a bathroom. the bathroom is about the same as the bathroom as my friend brady´s apartments bathroom. its disgusting. i have to wear sandals everywhere in my house or i get this disease that comes up through your feet and does something bad to you. i forget. but its really bad! so yes. i wear shoes all the time which sucks cuz i just wanna not wear anything when i get home. but who cares i´m freakin in chile!

the flights were so freakin long. you have no idea. well some of you do. but still holy crap. at least the food was good! they fed us like terriaki chicken and stuff which was cool. im glad i dont have to do that again for another 22 months.

so guess what. we can listen to any disney music and church music. and we can also watch disney movies! hahaha we´re going to go watch konfu panda in a half hour! hahaha

ok as far as emailing goes for me. i can recieve emails from anyone but i think can only email family..................so i dont know how im gonna do this. but ya email me.

so my favorite people to talk to here are the ´´borachos´´ which means drunks. there are freakin crazy. i always tell them to stop drinking there life away and they need to change there life and they say they know they need to and try to hug me and stuff. but we haven´t had a chance to teach any of them lessons while they are sober. still working on that one.....

well things are going great here. i love it so much. oh ya!!! i only can speak in spanish obviously but i had a conversation in english on saturday! we talked with a professor that teaches english here. her english is not that good tho......haha. but it was so freakin weird because at first i really didn´t know what to say. i forgot hahahaha man im excited for when i can actually have full conversations in spanish so i can completely forget english. it will be way tight. well, love you all.

sorry that i couldn´t talk to everyone on the phone while i was at the airport. but those of you that i did talk to i loved it so much. it was great to here your voices again. well im gonna upload me pictures now.

bye for now until next monday which is my new preparation day.

Elder Elder


A note from Austin's dad:  The upload must not of worked...darn!  We didn't receive any pictures!  When we do, we will post!  Thanks for your support!