I've been out a year and a half!

this week was one of my favorite weeks so far in the mission. It was ward conference so we had a blast. We had 3 activities, 2 baptisms, the most people i have ever seen in church here in chile, and 27 people in our new people class on sunday! On tuesday my comp and I were in charge of the activity so we taught a little about the iron rod and then played a bunch of games. One was there was 2 teams and they had to throw a ton of balloons to the"balloon popper" on there team. there was like 30 balloons flying around and everyone screaming and pooping balloons. It was so funny. and then we tied little balloons to the shoe and you had to stomp the othere people balloons while you protected yourself. you know that one game we always played for our birthday parties as kids? ya it was legit. and then another game where it was a contest to tie a tie and if you lost you got kicked out of hte circle and your face got drew on. everyone was laughing so hard and said they really had a good time.

On Wednesday there was a kararoke night with shishkabobs that were way good! we sang really loud when the microphone came to us.

And then on Friday night we had a costume party! I was batman and my costume had huge muscles and everyone kept feeling my chest. i felt extremely awkward hahahah. My comp was a three muskateer. The ward here is so awesome i love it so much. And they keep thanking us for the work we are doing here.

Saturday we baptised my chilean grandma and members sister. She is the one that wants to be a missionary. It was another of the best baptisms ive been in too. We sang a special number. the primary heavenly father melody but in spanish. It sounded really good. Well at least in my opinion......................................................after the actual baptisms we went back in the sacrament room to finish and afterward every one went over and congradulated them. there was probably about 40 people there in the baptism. I just stood back and watched them hugging everyone just way happy and it made me really really happy. Ha, i actually started to cry a little. A brother from the ward said me that God was really happy for the service we have been doing here. I really love this place so much. I am scared I am leaving soon. I really dont want to.

So today i had to go do some visa paper work stuff and at the foreigners office place there was this way funny guy from Australia. I asked him if he had seen Dumb and Dumber and he said yes!!!!!!!! So i aksed if he remembered the beginning part when he pulls up to that lady and she says she from Austria and he´s like well good day mate! lets put another shrimp on the barby! hahaha when i said that to him he just looked at my stupidly and i could help but laugh. ahhahahahahah i probably looked like such an idiot. all well. I thought it was so funny. and he told me that they really do say that there tho! and then i taught him about baptisms and he wants to get baptised! no just kidding. that would be really cool tho.

Alright my family. I love you so much. I hope all is well with you all. And i will see you in exactly 6 months from this morning!

Love, Elder Elder

I also had my last interview with my pres. He leaves in a month. I am going to miss him and his wife so much. They are such great people.

And we also celebrated my year and a half mark! i burned some pants. six more months and ill burn the whole suit!

I just read a ton of letters! that took a while. Well we had another great week. i feel like i always say that in my letters, like the same thing but its really true. i love this place so much. We had another baptism on saturday and it was one of the best ones ive had. Her name is Ginette. I´ll send you a pic. She is 39 with 3 kids. She used to be a top studier for the Jehovas witnesses but never got baptised with them. So she knows the bible a TON! Last monday we had a lesson with her and explained really well how Jesus is Jehova not God. She gave her testimony about how her baptism went and thanked my comp and I so much for caring so much for her. She is a really awesome lady. In church on sunday it was so awesome! We do the Gospel principal class for the newly baptised people and investigators and there was 20 people in the class!! The bishopric is really happy with the work we are doing in the ward and every one is excited to help us out. Oh ya and with the baptism we had my comp and I made programs with the hyms we were going to sing for the baptism and showed them to Ginette the day before and she actually started crying because someone took the time to make it more special for her.

This weekend we had HOPEFULLY 2 baptisms........hahahha its really funny. There are 2 more people that really want to get baptised but one said that it might be......................you know like that time of the month............and she doesnt want to if it is. so we all started laughing and we said we could pray so it doesnt happen this weekend hahahahha but they are both really really excited. One is the grandma of 2 other people we baptised and we call her Mama and the other is an 18 year old girl that wants to be a missionary. We had 2 other men but they are losing interest. We´re trying to keep them there tho. The really fat guy we baptised last transfer got the priesthood yestderday tho! Man, that guy is so funny. We are going to eat lunch with him and his fam today actually. I was way surprised by Kevin´s story tho! I really thought it was gonna be like some crazy guy chasing them but im glad it wasn´t. It so weird that he is finishing 7 grade and Katie is graduating!

Alright well I am doing really well and loving it down here. I love you all so much and hope you have another great week! Good luck with all the new babies new houses and jobs and everthing! Happy birthday to those who are having birthdays soon! bye every one.

Elder Elder
We had a Zone Paint Balling activity!