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Hey Y'all, This week was a thriller. I don't know why it took me so long to notice, but of the 12 missionaries in our zone, there is only one Latino. His name is Elder Sandoval and he is from Peru. He's learning a lot of english because he's with all of us gringos (Even though we should be speaking spanish whenever possible). We've had a lot of great experiences this week and a couple of bad ones. Let's see what you all think. First off, we found a wonderful inactive member named Soledad. She and her kids live with her parents and she left the church because of a divorce and bad things her ex-husband did. She teaches all the principles to her kids, but she doesn't participate with any church now. We're going to visit her this week again and talk with her kids about Seminary. We're very excited. The best story of the week comes from the Hermanas that work in a little town called Nacimiento. They talked to a homeless guy a few weeks back a...

Hey Yall, This week was a very slow week. However, we did have several people come back to church. Hermana Milka and Hermana Lorena with her kids all came back. We are having lots of fun here, don't worry. (Culture of the mission #5: We enjoy the mission) We had a weird experience on Thursday. That is our planning day, so we usually do practices and things in the morning and don't leave the house until we go to lunch. We got up and did all of that and noticed that it was a little darker than normal. We didn't think much of it and left for lunch at about 12:45 to be there at 1:00. We got to Carlos and his family and they were still preparing food. They asked us, "Elders, what time do you usually eat lunch?" We told them that we always come to their house at one and so we just talked to them while waiting. We then realized that my watch was an hour off. We don't know how, but that made us over an hour early for lunch...oh the joys of the missi...

Hey Yall, This week we finally got Angelica to Church. She was baptized back in April and this week finally was confirmed by yours truly yesterday in church. The Spirit was very strong and I'm sure that all who were there were very excited to have a new member of the church. Her kids both are planning on getting baptized at the end of this month, but we'll see how it goes. Her oldest daughter is very active in an Evangelical church right now... I've had many a dream this past week, most of them having more and more to do with missionary work. I've had dreams with my companions beating me up and all sorts of stuff. Fun dreams, huh? We had another exchange with Zone leaders again this week, this time Elder Smith worked with me in Los Angeles. It's quite exciting, actually. I have seen big changes in the people we've met in Los Angeles. One girl named Ingrid has made all kinds of progress in the past couple of weeks since she got baptized. I almost kno...

Hey Ya'll, We've had kind of a slow week as far as the work goes. We had a conference on Wednesday and an intercambio with the zone leaders. When all of that happens, the numbers of our work go way down. However, we did chop all kinds of wood this week and I'm getting very good at it. Its all in the wood. That's all I have to say. Anyway, the conference was good. President Swenson talked to us about the point of what we do. Sure we help people put their lives in order, make them happier, but what does it manner? However, he shared with us that our purpose here on earth is to do the things that will win us eternal life. The commandments, doing good deeds, etc, all helps us gain eternal life which is to know and live with our heavenly father. As for the intercambio, I worked with Elder Elder again in Los Angeles. We had all kinds of appointments that all went long and we got home at about 10:45 after an appointment with a member that doesn't read...

Hey Yall, This week has been quite a thriller and it seemed to pass by forever fast. My New Companion, Elder Cottrell, is from Layton, Utah and has a million stories about his life. He got in an accident when he was 19 and was told that he wouldn't serve a mission. His doctor told him to apply for a service mission or something, but his call came with Chile, Concepcion Sur. Anyway, he's the district leader here in LA, and it's his first time doing so. He's really nervous for every time he has something to do for the district, like a district meeting or taking the numbers on Sunday night. He's the youngest of 5 brothers and says he doesn't know of any relatives in Salt Lake, so apparently my question is already answered. The experience for the week is something that frustrated me, but I kept my cool. We were talking with a guy in the street and he said that God provides for us. He also said that we don't need men because they are all corru...