Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Guess what???!!! I am not getting transferred!!! Also, see my pictures below!

Hi family and friends!  i am so excited to tell you that me and my companion are not getting transferred and we get to stay together for awhile!!!  so this week has been great for me! i baptized a really old lady!! she is awesome her name is mirta. she is really one of my favorite people here. she reminds me so much of grandma goodman so that is kinda special for me. well she doesn´t remind of her becuase she is with more age but because she is way funny and acts like her. (sorry grandma) ill put some pictures up of a lot of stuff.


i want everyone to know that you can email me! my address is austin.elder@myldsmail.net. i love getting emails every monday.  but i dont hear from some of you that i know will write me if you knew i can receive emails.  i respond to dad and then forwards them on to you. if you snail mail your letter it can take 4 or 5 weeks.  but every monday, i get to go to the internet cafe and sit in this nice confortable chair and write emails and respond to those who wrote.  so, send me an update from for your family!
im not going to lie i love the videos dad sends me. they are so cool. RJ where the heck did your teeth go? oh ya and Kevin, you are a freakin liar. i totally believed you when you told me you broke your arm hahaha so you got me. i loved seein all you in the video but i think the part i liked most was seeing my little nieces and nephews. man i miss the poo out of you little guys! you all draw so good!! emily, i like your lighter colors too. it makes the picture look so much better i agree. all of you little kids are so awesome i cant wait to see you again!

me and my companion are doing great together. we have a lot of really great investigators. we are killing the cigarett companies here one by one. we are workin with this girl that is 23 named Romina who smokes like three a day but hasn´t smoked for 6 days! and has gone to church with us 3 times. one of the requirements for baptism in my mission is a minimum of 3 times going to church. to show they are serious about getting baptised and will stay active. so we´re still working with her and she will be baptised really soon!

Also we are working with a inactive lady who is way cool and has two daughters who have never been baptised. BANK!!! this lady loves us so much i like it quite much i must say. i really can say we are helping saving her life. she smokes 80 cigaretts. not for the month. but the freakin week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we did the math, if she sleeps 8 hours she is smoking a cig every 12 minutes. i was talking to her a ton the other night, i told her look im going to say this not only as a missionary but as a friend who cares very much about you. you are going to die if you keep this up, and soon. she just put her head down and said she knows it but she feels so trapped. i gave her a bunch of really good scriptures about hope, faith and encouragement to kinda get her stoked i guess you could say and then we made a big old paper with a weekly smoking allowing chart. hahaha it was pretty cool. her goal is to be smoke free by may 8. so we´re gonna work our buns off with her. to start this week she decided to drop from 80 to only 20 a day this week. and next week is 10, then 5, then 1, and then none!!!!!!!!! so keep that in your prayers if you can. her name is Judit Lara. OH YA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and somethings way way awesome is that her brother is a pilot for the chilean airlines and she told me that she can hook me up anytime i want as many times as i want with tickets! anywhere in the world too!!!!!!!!!! a round trip to chile is about 1000 bucks for one person and she can get me tickets for only 200!!!!!!!!!!! so there you go dad. she said she can get tickets for you as welll!!!! isn´t that freakin cool?  now you and joan can for sure come and pick me up after my mission!!!  wink wink!!! :)

thank you all so much for your prayers and support it helps a lot knowing that i have a fam and friends that care about me!!!!! have a great week and good luck with your talks Chris and Dasha!! take care everyone.

Enjoy my pictures!!!  Here they are!
Elder Elder

My mission car! Only cost me five bucks!

Mirta and i after her baptism
our investigator Romina who is mirta´s niece and us
and that cement that shot up is from the earthquake. the earth moved so much it shoved it straight up like that.
me drinking chilian water! :)
lots of people in white!

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