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Hey Yall,
Yeah, it seems as though you all already know about cambios (as they are called in the only celestial mission) and kudos to those who said I´m leaving. I have to get up and head the bus terminal early for a three hour trip to...the Zone of Los Angeles Sur! I´m going to a tiny little town called Santa Barbara, about an hour or two south east of Los Angeles. Chile, that is. Los Angeles exists in almost every country, so I thought I´d clarify. Elder Garcia was born in Santa Barbara (in his mission) so he´s been telling me all the good stuff about it. He´s also given me names of converts there so I can visit them and hopefully talk with their friends, too. Supposedly the Branch is about 25-30 members, so there´s a lot of work to do.
Not much to report other than that. I had an interesting experience when I thought I saw Mr. Bateman. There was this big Chilean dude that looks exactly him. I thought it was pretty funny. That happens a lot. I see people that are basically the Chilean version of people I know back there in the states. I´ll let you know who else I ´´see´´
I also have a challenge this week. Read 2 Nephi 9. I knew there were some good scriptures in this chapter, but no. The whole chapter is chock full of wise words and why we´re here. It explains in detail the plan of salvation. Great detail. I highly urge you all to take a day to read it and study it. It´s about 50 or so verses.
We met a nice lady this week who has an awesome house. The house apparently was the first angelical church in Temuco or something like that, but now she lives there by her self. It has huge rooms that she basically doesn´t use because she lives very simply. we occupied the only three chairs in the house when we visited. We´re hoping to have her at church this week. I won´t know, but I´ll pray for it.
We also have a weird schedule for general conference. I assume we have authority to stay out late on Saturday during conference because the priesthood session reaches here at 9 and ends at 11. Yeah, I´ll tell you more about it when it comes along in a few weeks.
Tune in next week for a wonderful update of things in Santa Barbara, Chile. :)

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