Man what a week. I really have so much to tell you all. I dont really know where to start off. Well things are going great in the Branch. We had 32 people in church and that being that it used to be 10, 12, 15 consistantly for years. We also had 7 investigators in church! We were even lacking 10 or so faithful people that could go yesterday so we would have broken the record for sure. My goal is that have at least 50 in church before i go home.
On saturday we had a branch activity planned and we went in a bus to the snow!!!!!! I was in heaven and the members even more. Almost all of them had never even seen it before. they were all like little kids at christmas time when we got there. But it gets better. At the bottom of the mountain we all saw that there were sleds for renting so we went to check it out and they more we saw the happier we got. We found out they were really cheap to rent for the day and so were snowboards. They members asked me if we could rent some for everyone...............so we did! It was probably the funniest thing i have ever seen in my life. Almost every one went sledding and they were laughing their heads off the whole time and my comp and I taught several of the bigger people how to snowboard. I went down 2 times and i could not stop smiling the entire time. We were only going down this hill but it was still so amazing! The really funny thing too is that the member in charge of renting the bus said that we were going to have a bus for 40 people. We didnt get it. We got one for 25. But we already had 41 people going! So come saturday morning realize we all had to cram into the bus. It was a nice tight fit both of the 3 hour trips ahahhaha. It is chile so there aren´t the seat belt laws and stuff like that that we have in the states.
Friday night was a very crazy night for me as well. We were walking back to the church down a long dark sidewalk and i was telling a story to my companion about a friend and how he once was walking really crazily. Well as i was showing him i lost balance and fell off the side walk. But the thing is i didnt realize because it was so dark that right in the very spot where i was walking i was walking over a small bridge. So i fell back first off the bridge into a stream. It was about a 4-5 feet drop and i landed squarely on a huge rock above my buns. I didnt move because i was terrified i had broken something in my back because i really did fall way hard. I kinda whispered yelled to my comp to take me out. we both were soaked. I ended up going to the doctors office and being that we are in a very developed county they only gave me some antiflaming pills. We got homp at like 1130 at night. Now that i think about they story i can laugh my head off because of how funny it wouldve looked. I am just glad i wasnt hurt.
We had a lot of really great lessons this week too. We are getting really really close to reactivate another member that hasnt gone for 15 or so years. All kids went to the snow activity and church. We have a family night planed with them tomorrow and we´re making waffles! I really am excited for the missionary work in this sector. There really is so much potential.
I hope you all havea great week. I love you all so much. I willl send more pics later but i need to go. take care
Elder Elder
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