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