ok so our mission pres is super chill with the music we can listen to so its really nice. we listen to a lot of music in english and i always have to translate for my roomates for instance like tarzan and aladin and other music its pretty cool to tell you the truth being able to do that. they constantly say que dice? and then i give them a crappy sentence or completely make it up if i dont know how to do it haha.......all well they dont know the difference.
i found out i can play the guitar down here too so i want to buy one! there only 20,000 pesos!!! haha thats like 40 bucks or so. so we`ll see it i buy one.
my spanish is doing a lot better to tell you the truth. occasionaly i dont dont what some one wants and i just smile and say no entiendo haha and my comp tells me really simply. but that doesn´t happen too often anymore. i can understand so much more than i speak tho. so im working on that....
well happy birthday everyone who had birthdays!! ashlee! chris ryan! emily barfuss! adam and tracy like a month ago! crap....i cant remember anymore.....sorry if i forgot yours. but happy birthday anyway!!!
ok now for the juicy stuff. litterally. so as i told you all in my previous letter we had a member of the church in my area that passed away last sunday. monday night we had a viewing for him and tuesday we got a very strange call. his son called us asking if we could hacer un ollo which means dig a hole for his dad....i never imagined in my life that i would do that. but we willingly accepted and told him we would be there in a hour or so. anyway when we got there, there was a couple other men there already who are his uncles but we came to relieve them. and when we arrived there were wearing masks, i just figured it was for the dirt that was getting stirred up. it smelled different when we were walking up but nothing totally crazy. anyway, i jumped in the hole that was like 2 feet deep at that point and i was going along for like an hour straight cuz im so freakin buff and i hit something hard with my shovel. i dug it up and it was a freakin shoe. i was like what the heck is this doing here and one of the guys told me it was from a dead person. i told him i didn´t believe him and he said no im serious. i looked closer and there was freakin bones inside the shoe! i was digging up a grave of someone that died like 20 years ago to replace it with someone else. ya. it surprised the crap out of me. i looked at my companion and he just shrugged his shoulders and so i just kept digging! as i continued i pulled out ribs, legs, fingers freakin everything!!!! messed up! i did not like it but it needed to be done. we all we switching spots because it is way hard work to tell you the truth. especially when you are digging a 6 foot deep hole by 7 feet by 3 feet. it was huge. and it didn´t only have one skeleton. but three. they dont like to waste space in the graves down here in chile aparently. so there you go. there is my most strangest experience i have had on the mission. oh ya!!!!!!!! i forgot. sorry this is a little graphic but there was still....flesh on the skulls. and a bunch of hair and teeth. after we dug them up it started to stink. i dont like it. nope. i dont.
im not gonna lie this week was a little slower as far as the work down here goes. with that, the funeral and trying to regain strength phisically and spiritualy it was a pretty challenging for me this week. but all in all it has been good. ive helped with 4-5 baptisms this week and we have our own this saturday!!
i love you all and i hope all is well.
later
elder elder
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