Elder Austin Elder's LDS Mission Blog: Dasha! I am so happy for you!!!

A member with his awesome cowboy hat!

wow what a week for me! i am sending you pictures of water in a bucket that i used to wash some of my clothes. hopefully you all appreciate that.

DASHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! holy crap that is seriously so awesome. i was so excited when i read that! i am so happy for you Dasha. and you as well Chris you are the man bro. thats so cool you baptised your woman and bebe! i mean blessed your bebe. its also even more cool for me because saturday aout 1;30 your time we baptised one of our investigators as well!! that would be crazy if they were at the same time.
it sounds like you are all doing way good that makes me way happy. this week has been so busy for me. unfortunately we haven´t been able to teach hardly any lessons because we have been helping people tear down there houses so that they can rebuild them and not have to sleep in tents. its really really sad to see what has happened here. and the crazy part is that where i live there isn´t hardly any damage in comparison to concepcion area. im about anhour away from there. but there is still a lot of damage here. just the freakin crappy houses. so......................not gonna have a freakin crappy house when i grow up! im sending pictures of what i have been doing. but it is really awesome because even though we haven´t been able to teach alot we were still blessed with our baptism and a lot of really good discussions with the people about the gospel that we are helping. starting this week i think we can get back into our normal schedule as proseliting missionaries. im really excited for that to tell you the truth. when we taught our first lesson earlier this week it felf soooooooo good after ward. you have no idea hahahahah it was cool.
well we finally have tranfers tomorrow. they were supposed to be two weeks ago but with the earthquake everything was screwed up. i told you i was going to have elder heiser come but now it is elder glover. i met him the day i arrived here. two months ago!!!!!! holy crap, but he seems super chill. it will be good times with him. me and elder rodriguez have had a lot of fun and success these past 8 weeks.
so saturday we had a baptism session for 3 sectors who each had 1 baptism so we had 3.......obviously. but anyway one of them was this super old man who is about to fall apart. i feel bad for the guy but he is super funny. i think at least. i cant really understand what he says but after he says something to me he laughs and i laugh along with him and he hugs me. how precious right? but during his baptism he didnt know what to do to go under the water so he pretty much just squatted and was shaking on the way down. man it was pretty funny he is a stud! i gave the holy ghost for the first time yesterday as well! it was kinda shaky but i did it! in spanish too fyi.

well i am doing quite superb out here thanks to the lord. we are making really good relations with the people and doing what we think is best. its really really awesome spending your whole day doing stuff that isn´t even for you. i like it alot. the work of the lord is something so amazing. i love being here in chile doing this. thank you all so much for your support. i love you all.

welp see ya later

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