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This week has been a doozy. We´ve had some success, but transfers are happening today and tomorrow. Elder Kamalu left to go be a zone leader in the south and one of the others in our ward did the same, so I´m companion to Elder Gomez for yesterday and today until Elders Garcia and Baltran arrive from where ever they are. Garcia is going to be my companion in Millahue, so we´ve got to get going on our work. The week has just been hectic with baptisms from the other elders in our ward and calls to get baptismal interviews done. Not only that, one of investigators is back and we just found out he´s moving this week. Fome (sorry, a word we use here). Also, the saddest news we received this week is that Pamela´s dad died. she got a call during church yesterday and then left early. We don't know when she´s coming back.

In our days together, Elder Gomez and I have been having little troubles here and there while shopping and whatnot because he only has one cambio more than I do (six weeks more in the mission). Don´t worry, we haven´t been ripped off or anything, we just haven´t been able to do some of the things we wanted.

The best news of the week is that Marcelo and Cecilia have been progressing! I think we´re going to invite them to be baptized this week. We should have 3 baptisms this cambio. I´m pretty sure. So, Elder Kamalu is gone and I´m going to have a completely new set of things here in Temuco. We´re working with a member who just got off his mission in Argentina. His name is Angelo.

We´re working hard and we had a really funny experience yesterday. While Elder Gomez and I were knocking doors, we knocked the door of an older fellow whose first words were, ´´I don't like you guys´´ We then talked to him and discovered that he just doesn´t know much about the church. Too bad he doesn´t want to know more. He´s convinced that someone in the USA is trying to use the church to take over the world. Yeah, I´m pretty sure we´re going to take over the world with the Gospel. I mean, that´s kind of our job. Talk to you all later!

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