I baptized the baptismal font!

man this was a way crazy week. really good, really bad, but it finished out good. ok we ill just tell you that we flooded the church at our baptisms. it takes about three hours to fill up and we came back a little before 3 hours and the baptismal font needed a little more water so we went out side and took a bunch of pictures and kinda forgot about the font............well when we went back inside we saw that there was a ton of water in the hall way and the viewing room. i ran to the janitors closet to get the mop and we started cleaning up the water immediately but there was already a lot of water. ill send some pics. anyways after about 20 min of trying to mop up the water from the carpet we started the baptisms. there was 4 people getting baptised. 3 of them we were teaching and another was a little girl from the ward who turned 8 and her uncle baptised her. it was really cool because he leaves for his mission soon. but anyways when it was my turn to baptise one of our investigators i said the baptism prayer and once i started putting her in the water to baptise her she started panicing like crazy and was like shaking while i was trying to put her under the water. it was really bad. well long story short she didn´t end up getting baptised and i pretty much traumetized her, after flooding the chapel of course. but we still baptised 2 of our other investigators!! but now everything is alright and she´ll get baptised soon once she calms down...hopefully. but other than that we had a killer week. this is my comps and i first time not being junior companion and we got a call from the zone leaders and asistants congratulating us on our week. so i guess we did alright.


so how is everyone doing? sounds like katie enjoyed efy  and kevin is riding his butt off on his bike. and everyone is getting married! jeeze that is so awesome. i cant believe talina is getting married. that is really good for her. and jonnie langford way to go! chelsea too!. there will be like a hundred more crying babies when i get home. that´ll be fun.

well it has started to rain like crazy here. you are all in the nice summer and i wear a complete rain suit with my umbrella getting soaked. its actually pretty funny i find myself just laughing for some reason walking down the street while it is pooring and we´re the only ones in the road. its awesome. but we have a lot of people that we are teaching and at least 4 really good possibles for baptism.

dad you asked if i really wanted you to send my longboard to me. i would absolutely love that here the hills are crazy but i couldn´t really use it. i would like a real sized american flag and some of my white and purple electric jacket when you do send a package. hahaha and money is always welcome if anyone is thinking of sending something........

well i love you all a lot i hope you are all doing great! i am having a way good time down here in chile. i liked seeing my plack too that is in the church.

well take care everyone

Elder Elder

3 Baptisms this next Saturday!

well whats up! Angol is freakin awesome just so you know. my comp and i are way excited we are having 3 baptisms this sat plus another little girl that is in our ward that turns 8. so ya i know its pretty sicky. me and my comp have been workin alot so i bought a little tool of some sort. i bought a guitar so it will be a good time. dont worry we´re allowed to have guitars here. i bought one thats kinda crappy but alright for like 60 bucks but it sounds pretty. i have to practice a song from bon jovi i forget which one it is right now but aparently i am going to sing it for all the brown people here at a stake activity. hahahaha ya. its gonna be fun.

right now im in temuco its more down in the south becuase my comp had to do some visa paper work and we are visiting some of his friends here. so i dont have a ton of time......i like you all though dont forget. i was actually walking around today and saw a big group of americans walkin around and i said hey whats up bro to this kid and he looked at me wierd because he wasn´t expecting to here that from no one here in chile. i stopped and talked to them for a while. they´re here for 6 months teaching spanish or somehting. but its cool, i asked them to get baptised and they said yes. so in two weekends. no i lie. that would be very cool though!

i love you all and hope that all is super good. take care and i will write better next week.

Elder Elder

I am in a new area! It's huge!

happy anaversary or however the heck you spell it mom and dad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sorry to say this but your getting old. love you.

i am in Angol Chile now and it is freain huge. my sector here is litterally about 4 times bigger than cabrero. and the chapel is the biggest chapel i have ever seen. even in the states. it is ridiculously nice. im with a little tine columbian from bogota columbia. im pretty sure that the anderson family is from that city i might be wrong......but he is way funny. he´s 25 and about 5 feet tall and loves to dance hahaha its pretty sweet. well this passed week here we put 3 baptismal dates with our investigators! all of them are for the 12 so keep them in yours prayers so they go swimming that day please. much appreciation. also as well 3 of my investigators that i had in cabrero all got baptised yesterday. my old comp elder glover was actually able to go back lucky piece a poo. but tons of people are getting baptised! i already told you last week that we were going to have a baptism my last night in cabrero and it was so awesome. i ended up baptising her. we did a coin toss haha. actually me and glover were both in the water and after we took pictures together. we are working a ton here that is for sure. me and my comp both have the same amount of time in the mission. things are going great here this sector has a lot of potential. our goal for this transfer is 6 baptisms. yep! well have a great week and enjoy the warmth. i can see my breath all day. its cold. i dont like the cold. but all well loveyou all bye!

Elder Elder

cómo están todos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! estoy super super bien acá en chile! bautizando los cafecitos!

alright. well this week has been pretty sick week. pretty up and down and around or something like that. first of all saturday we got a call from our mission president about transfers. when he actaully calls you about the transfer it means 1. your in trouble and you did something stupid. or 2. you did good. haha we set his ring tone to like the emergency siren thingy so we would know it is him calling. ok anyway saturday morning we hear it and we told ourselves. crap. turns out that we are both leaving Cabrero. that hardly never happens when they take both missionaries out. the reason why is because we are both moving up. I am gonna be co-comp with columbiano that has a few more months than me and my comp is going to be a zone leader. its pretty bitter sweet because i figured i was gonna go i already knew that. but i thougth he was gonna be able to stay behind with all our investigators and take care of them and you know, baptise the heck out of them, litterally. but in the end it turned out great. we went and told Romina our pretty much best friend here and she started crying. but she decided she wanted to get baptised yesterday after church. so on saturday we had her interview and everything and everything was going great and saturday night she had to go to her cousins wedding and there her entire family was pretty much yelling at her to drink with them and saying come on come on bla bla bla. and she drank. so it was really crappy yesterday. i was gonna baptise her but now i cant. but in a way i am glad this happened because she realized even more how important it is to keep the commandments. so she will be baptised this weekend. we just wont be there. but i guess its ok. another thing that is way awesome is that there is this lady (with no teeth just so you know hahaha...) who always washes our clothes. she is a member who got baptised a year ago. and she has a daughter who has been talking to the missionaries all the time since. almost always went to church but just never felt that she should get baptised. she always felt pressured from the missionaries and that drove her away even more. anyways this passed 2 transfers we have been good friends with her and she even went and taugth with us they other day. which is something kinda unheard of. a non member going to teach about the church with the missionaries. ok long story short last night we were saying goodbye and she told us if i was going to get baptised i would do in my way. when i am ready and just do it. like tomorrow. so i asked her if she wanted to do it tomorrow and she sat there thinking for a second. and said yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so we have a baptism tonight at 9:00! and she told us that we both had to bring our baptism clothes and she will tell us there who she wants to baptise her. oh man last night was pretty crazy. when she told us we really started jumpin around and stuff and yellin. it was pretty freakin hilarious.

So that is how i am finishing here in Cabrero. i am going to miss here so much. and there is like 4 baptisms set up for next weekend. so the missionaries that come here are way lucky. my friend is actually coming here so i am content with that.

Kevin and katie both gave talks then huh! and you both did way good it sounds like. kevin a really enjoyed reading your talk it really was a way good talk. direct and powerful. i like it a lot. and katie did good with the nibley pagent that is really cool as welll. whats this about ashlee pulling someone back in the car and saving them and rainy´s family moving to pensalvania maybe!? it sounds like everything is giong great. here too. i love it here. it sucked way bad last night saying goodbye to everyone. but its part of the mission.

Ok well take care. i will tell you all about my new sector next monday.

love you
Elder Elder

I am so happy!!!! The members really love me....

The members love me here in Chile!!!!

well this week went by soooooo fast! i cant believe it. the time is flying. tomorrow is my 6 month mark and i am going to burn a tie. yes. that is how cool missionaries are. we burn stuff for celebrations. but all well its cool!

well this weekend was awesome but could have been better. we were going to baptise 2 but we´re going to have to do the other next weekend. we have 3 getting baptised my last weekend here in cabrero! i am going to send a picture of the boy we baptised. his name is victor. he is such a stud. hahaha he learns way good. it was pretty funny when we taught him the word of wisdom and the law of chastity because we didn´t want to be like too upfront with him so he got curious of the stuff because we didn´t know if he knew so with the law of chastity we told him that we dont look at girls until we´re married and when we get married we only look at our wife. haha it was actually pretty funny. he is only 9 so.....ya.
so this is my last week here in cabrero. im pretty bummed about that. i have lived here for 4 months. i dug graves here, lived through the earthquake, torn apart houses, and even built houses. but most of all i will miss the people. those of you that served missions know what that is like. well i am doing great here and it sounds like you are all doing really well as well. i hope you like the warm weather that i dont have.

oh hey dad thank you so much for the package i loved it so much. real candy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh man i was so excited for that. i think the thing i was most excited for though was the Crest toothpaste. because i hate the toothpaste here! and everyone knows that crest really is the best. my friend loved the soccer shirt you sent thank you again. everything you sent was perfect.

ok well take care everyone and i will talk you to next week!

Elder Elder

Victor

Victor on his baptism day!

FHE in Chile!

Nice Skyping with you on Mother's Day

well it was way awesome talking to you all yesterday! you all sound like you are doing great. sorry i couldn´t talk to everyone tho. we kinda have a butt load of people in our family. today i am at one of my friends house for a birthday party. we are having a huge bbq so its a way good time. chilenos know how to cook meat. i like it!


well things are going great we have 2 baptisms this week 2 next and about 3 posibles! so we are very excited. we have to do divisions with some of the members of the church here so we can visit all the people we need to. we are being very blessed. i hope all is well with all of you and i will have to write a better letter next week. i love you all.

Elder Elder

Hi family!

i want my package with american candy so freakin bad. i couldn´t go today to concepcion to the mission office because we had to go to a zone activety. all well i will get it soon. hopefully nothing gets spoiled!
well i will just tell you this week has been amazing. we have 6 people that will get baptised and 3 more that are way close! it has been nuts. i like it in large amounts! we have been teaching of ton of people and explaining the importance of baptism and how awesome it is. we found this one kid a few days ago named Victor. he is the only person in his family that hasn´t been baptised and is 9. so we are going to baptise him with 4 other people on the 15 and at least two more on the 22. i am very excited!

i am not going to lie it is getting pretty freakin cold here and i dont like it too much............i sleep like a white man in a eskimo suit. and a heavy sleeping bag. its pretty rad. i know you are all just so jealous and enjoying the ocean, pools and whatnot. but i get to baptise brown people so its cooler!

i am very excited to get to call this week! i will be calling during the week to corredanate (cant spell thanks to speaking spanish) when i will call on sunday. and yes dad i will use that email you gave me.
i really enjoyed your video this week. kevin looks like a stud and apparently he scored. that a kid bro you are so buff and ripped now! you can use my dumbells while im gone. i permite you. so dad you sent that big old truck thing to Jack in the mail? you wanna send me my longboard in your next package? im not joking.
the work here is going amazing and we are having a lot of succes. keep my people in your prayes so they go swimming in the baptism font and scrub their sins away!!! thanks.

it seems like things are going great down there for you guys. you all look great for real. well i will talk to you this sunday night! see ya later

.congradulations Adam and tracy! i am so stoked for you two! and i cant wait to see Gavin walk. becasue that is when i will see the kid is when he is a year and half years old. i am so happy for you two. love you adam, tracy, kaylin, and gavin!

Elder Elder