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Nine to Five

This week has been kind of slow, but we did have tons of people come to church yesterday! We had Cecilia, Marcelo, Pamela, Fernando, Elena, Monica and Rosa all in Sacrament. Even better, we have an appointment with Rosa on Thursday, one with Pamela on Wednesday and another with Cecilia and Marcelo later this week. Rosa is so close to baptism, but she´s having little doubts here and there. She was on vacation this week, so we didn´t meet with her as usual. Actually a lot of our investigators we´re not meeting with just because they´re in santiago or another part of the country for the summer. Yeah, it´s been really hot here. Yesterday it was probably upwards of 35 degrees. Celcius (95 F). No, I´m not kidding.
The other elders of our ward had a baptism yesterday of a husband of someone in the ward. There is one mujer that we´ve committed to baptism, but she lives with her mom in the far north of chile. They leave for home next week.
Elder Kamalu and I are doing well, though. We played soccer with all the missionaries of Temuco last week and we won! Elder Kamalu is getting all of his applications and whatnot done to go to BYU in the fall. He goes home in July, just two weeks after we get a new Mission President.
Other than that, there´s not much to tell other than knocking doors, learning languages and saying good bye to missionaries leaving. There is one in the ward that left this morning to head up to Peru on his mission. Another got home last Tuesday from Argentina in the ward. I like them both. It´s amazing how much you can love the people that you live close to. There are about 5 families that we love to death (possibly because they give us food all the time). One of them is the family of the missionary who just left.
Keep working hard! We´re doing well here. Ciao!

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