October 25, 2010

everything is going well. this week was good, its a struggle with my companion of balancing patience and working hard, because he doesnt really work hard but i am learning patience and a lot of other good lessons. so i love letters and dear elders but i only get them like every 3 weeks at a big reunion or something like that so don´t be mad at me if i dont´ reply, the way mom does it i get an email and the dear elder so that is the best and would that so ya ask mom how she does that. we ran out of money so the last few weeks were fun. the money i brought is all dollar bills and there isnt any place to change it here only in concepcion so next big meeting i ll have to change it. but anyway my first month i really didnt know what was going on so when my companion spent money so did i, like we took cabs all over, because i thought he knew what he was doing and we would have enough, but boy was i wrong... jk its been good though. the mission is really good chile is great. lebu is good but there are a ton on evangelica people who are the people who raise their hands in the air and say i am saved. its tough because this people don´t listen really good, they meet together and have meeting every single day. there church is pretty much a party so its been tough. the other day i was walking wondering in my mind how can we compete with this chuch who is pretty much a party place, and then i felt this really strong feeling, it was like a punch in the face. it was like are you kidding me you are a representative of the only true church on the earth, the only church that has the principles and ordinances that we need, the only one that has the book of  mormon. it was a really strong experience. the members are really good here, and all love the members, too much sometimes jk. i still think we spend too much time just talking to them, but its been good they are all super nice. my spanish is still not very good. its really funny whenever i think that i doing good, the very next person i talk to just looks at me werid and turns to my companion and asks him what i was trying to say. its really funny and is a constant reminder that i need to be humble and always remember Christ in any success or progress. Chile is good we work hard to reactive families, chile has a ton of inactive people all for different reasons, from being offended, to the church being too early its at 10 (THATS impressive). so thats good to try to help people come back to church. i think the key is you just have to keep doing the little things every day like reading and praying. every day you don´t its just harder the next day, and then you get in a habit of not doing it and then its hard to get back in the groove so just do it every day. thanks for all your letters and support. you are all awesome and i love you all. i will also accept any food that you want to send, chilean food is good but nothin beats the good ole usa. we eat with members so its always a risk everyday to eat breakfast or not, because some people just load up your plate and if you don´t eat it all you are the devil, but sometimes they don´t and its not the best so you are dying by the time we return home, becuase in our mission we don´t eat dinner. so its a gamble everyday. so thanks again love you and continually need your prayers.