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Hey Yall,

Well, this week has been a doozy. No, yet again we didn't feel the earthquake we had. It was a 7.0 up near Conce, but we didn't feel a thing again. It's kind of boring to tell the truth. Apparently people in Conce were panicking, though.

The Bishop is out of town, so we're having a hard time progressing in the work. We didn't get Rosa's Baptism announced, so we'll have to wait another week on that as well. But, we found a couple of people while knocking doors during the rain. I know the Lord was blessing us because we were working in spite of the weather, so we're going to work extra hard to use those blessings to our advantage. A couple of the people we found already have been lost to vacations and whatnot, but there are several more we are going to visit.

I'm learning lots here. during our personal study, I've been finding answers to questions we've had from investigators. There was one about UFOs that I didn't even search for because the investigator who asked about them probably doesn't really care a whole lot anyway. Actually, it only came up because here UFOs are called Omnis, like the Prophet. So she found the name of prophet and asked about them. But I also learned that there are two types of angels. You can read all about it in the Bible Dictionary. :)

I also discovered something about Elder Tanner. We watched the film "The John Tanner Story", and he is a descendant of John Tanner. To the Tanner family in our neighborhood: I found your relative! He is super capo, so we're really excited to have him in our house along with Elder Valdivia.

Apparently there was some confusion about transfers. I am still in the same area, same city, same ward. It's the Millahue Ward in the Temuco-Cautin Stake. It's in the city of Temuco. We're awesome like that. :)

Hopefully this finds you all well! The work progresses, no matter what comes in the form of opposition.

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