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Hey Y'all, Well, this week was a heck of a week with all we've done lately. I swear I've worked more this week on people's houses than I have in the last 2 years of living at home. ;) No, but the week went like this: First of all, we went and helped Eduardo, an investigator, move a bunch of sand and rocks into his back patio. It was good physical labor that wiped me out for the rest of the day. Eduardo and his family our so awesome that they gave us lunch that day, too. It was fun working with him on his house. Today we're going to help him take down a pared (wall). :) Apart from that, we also helped demolish/clean up an old lot of land that a member owns. He's thinking of remodeling it to become a car wash. So, we took down the one building on the lot and sorted out the wood from the rest of the garbage in the wreckage. We hauled a good ton or so of wood between the four missionaries. The member's son helped us out and we're going to try worki...

Hey Y'all, We've had quite the week as exciting stories go. Unfortunately, very little actual work has gotten done. But that's OK. When I say work, I mean actually teaching people. But we've been working in other ways. Just this morning we've done about a month's worth of physical service for a missionary (As you know we should being giving service every time we have the chance). We went to Concepcion to get Elder Brann's carnet (license) early this morning (I slept on the bus...ugh...) and we were on our way to the Mission office when a girl stopped us in the street. She and her cousin were helping a dog and asked if we could help her carry the dog somewhere in Concepcion. We decided to help her and her cousin out. Apparently this girl goes around helping abused or abandoned animals in between studying/going to school and working as a veterinarian. She is a little fireball. She spoke pretty good English and didn't believe me when I told her ...

Hey Yall, Well, cambios are upon us and Elder Brann and I are staying together here in Coronel. Elder Gonzalez is leaving and Elder Leiva is coming to be with Elder Camargo for his 2nd cambio here in Chile. There are all sorts of new people coming, I think about 19. We're going to have all kinds of new people in our zone again, which is a relief because our zone is really old as of right now. Actually, the entire mission is really old considering that about 50 missionaries are going home in the next 2 or 3 cambios. Wow, time flies fast. As for this week, we've had a an interesting one. We met a guy in the street the other day that said,¨See those trees over there? About 30 years ago all the trees were my idea. I'm also building a jet with 4 jet turbines in front and 8 in back. It's going to be the biggest jet in the world!" Needless to say, this guy was nuts. He talked about the french people 800 years before Christ...planning to kill him then. H...

Hey Y'all, So, this week was conference. Because of that, we didn't do a whole besides talk to all the people we know about how awesome it is to hear the prophet speak. We were excited by the turnout we had to the District Center in Coronel. For those who have forgotten what we do here in Chile for Conference (Holly...*cough cough*), here's a quick rundown. The stakes in Chile have the stake center set up the internet in the stake center and everyone can come see it when it's on. We're three hours ahead of Utah Time as of now, so conference starts at 1 in the afternoon for us. This means that priesthood starts at 9 and ends at 11...yipee! But we as gringos have our own special room where the conference is broadcasted in English so we can understand. However, this time was a little different because the District President didn't realize they needed to set it up. So, we watched Saturday morning's session in Spanish. Luckily I understand pret...

Hey Y'all, This week has been a doozy! Roger, our fine friend from Camilo, finally stepped down into the waters of baptism on Tuesday and received the Holy Ghost on Sunday. We and his family are all very excited to finally have him as a member and he's going to progress very well. We're going to give him a tie when we go to his house on Thursday! :) This week we've also had little miracles! We met a guy named Patricio a couple of weeks ago, who we're not quite sure whether his mind is all there or not. We had been inviting him to come to church and yesterday he not only came, but brought a friend with him! We're going to visit the both of them this week to talk about the Plan of Salvation because Patricio recently lost his mom. His friend's name is Armando. They're pretty cool guys. We also found 2 or 3 other people that are awesome as well. On Sunday we went to the birthday party for Nancy, a lady we recently met while knocking doors. Her fa...

Hey yall, Sorry you didn´t hear from me last week. The new mission president proclaimed september as a ¨month of santification¨, part of which being a week without internet, including writing to families. He talked to us about getting rid of Facebook and other problems in the mission. So, we went the 12th without internet, but I still wrote a letter to the family. :) As almost everyone asked, the 18th of September is the independence day of Chile. Actually, it´s the anniversary of the first congress of chile, but it´s basically the same. This week is what they call the Patriot Holidays, between independence(201 years) and the 19th is military day. So, basically all of Chile shuts down today to party because the 18th was a sunday. However, the real party was on the 17th, with the branch. The following happened on that saturday. Seeing as no one even looks at us on these days, it was hard to work. However, on saturday we went to the Branch Party where we celebrated ...

Hey yall, This week has been a whopper. We got into our groove with the new cambios and now know our companions pretty well. Elder May left and now works in Talcahuano, and his replacement is Elder Brann. Elder Jeffrey Brann comes from England. He was born there and lives there now, but most of his life he has lived in Idaho. He's a good guy and is a master with a Rubix cube and flute. He uses the rubix cube to grab the attention of those dumb kids in the street who call us out. He pulls that out, starts putting into order and they automatically start paying attention while we explain how the cube is like our life and we need Jesus Christ to know how to put it in order between going to work, school and having a social life. It's really awesome. As for the other cambios, Elder Camargo arrived Tuesday night to be Elder Gonzalez's companion. He is direct from the MTC in Santiago and is originally from Bogota Colombia. He's a good guy and has the body build of ...