December 20, 2010

Wow this week went by so fast! It was my second cambio, but I am going to stay in Lebu with the same companion and everything. Our old zone leader got moved down and is going to come to Lebu to train a new missionary here, so we are going to have 4 missionaries here in Lebu. This p day was really fun. Our zone won a competion to see who could bring the most people to church, and we won. It was crazy because before the competion started our zone was one of the lowest but once the competition started our zone went crazy. It was really cool the assistants came down and we ate steak and hot dogs, and played a ton of soccer, I am really tired but it was really fun. i am still not very good at soccer, but hopefully by the time i come back i can hold my own. The president of the mission couldnt come because his wife is coming back from the states today. she had to go back up there because her daughter who was pregnant was really sick so she went back up there to help out. This week went well. Its hard because a lot of people are leaving for the holidays, also because this is the summer break for the kids in Chile so a lot of people are leaving to Santiago and places like that. Also we are losing a lot of investiagtors to the new missionaries coming in, because we are going to be dividing the sector in half, so all the ones that are on the other side are going to be theres. but its ok we ll just have to find more. About christmas calls i think i ll call at 4 our time so i dont know what time it will be there. Sorry but i dont think i am going to send a package back home this time, maybe later when i find cooler stuff to send back. i have found things all right but nothing really amazing thats worth sending. the work is doing really well, it doesnt feel like christmas but its ok because we are working a lot. this week i think we ll be really fun, we have cambios tomorrow, the next day we are going to concepcion for the mission christmas party, the next day we have a bautism, the next day is christmas eve, christmas, and then sunday again. Happy Holidays to everyone and hopefully everyone has a good time, I love you all, and will be thinking of you on Saturday. Thanks for everything...

Elder brimhall

December 12, 2010

this week was really good. today we went to the beach and played futbol with some kids from our ward and an investigator who has a baptismal fecha for christmas day, which i hope happens because that would be really cool. my companion hurt his foot so we might have to go to a doctor here but we are still not sure. we have been walking a lot pretty much every day. the other day it was really funny there was this drunk guy who ran over to us, and started asking us if we were from germany. so anyway we just kept walking, but then he started bumping us with his chest, so then i told him not to do that. then he put his arm around my companion and was just like walking with him. it was so weird. so finally we were able to get rid of him, after he followed us for like 3 blocks. then right after that we were looking for a woman who gave us her address. we were on the street looking so we decided to ask this old guy sitting outside of his house. when we asked him he started yelling at us, why do you want to go to her house, i dont know who that is. we were like hey its ok were missionaries from the church of jesus christ she gave us her address, and the he just started saying the craziest things like you cant make me meet her, i dont want to meet her. so we gave up and went and asked someone else. it was a very funny 15 minutes. we have this really really cool girl we are teaching, the last week she went to church with her 4 kids, but the problem is the husband now is not letting her come, so this week she wasn´t able to go. its really frustrating to have such a cool person, who really is prepared for the gospel, but she can´t do it because of her husband. so that kind of stinks, but everything else is doing really good here. we are finding lots of cool people to teach. my companion is a really cool guy i like him a lot. so ya everything is really good. i still havent figured out what i am going to do about christmas and how i am going to call, but when i do i ll let you know.

December 6, 2010

this week went really well. we worked hard and found a lot of cool new people. my Spanish is still not that great my understanding has past my speaking. i can actually understand almost everything, except crazy people who speak ridiculously fast, or drunk people or sometimes people use words that are only in chile. but i guess the speaking will come. i am totally getting fat here. . the food here is really bad for you i guess. i just recently found out that the bread here is horrible for you, which stinks because it is way cheap and tastes pretty good. the members here are really funny, this sunday was fast sunday so we were really scared about our investigators that someone was going to say something crazy but it actually went well. the only person who said anything a little weird was the dad of the branch pres. he is really funny he always goes off for a five minute lecture in priesthood meeting. its actually kind of sad, because right when he starts talking you look around the room and no one is listening, everyone is either reading or whispering to each other, its funny. we found a crab in the beach the other p day i cant remember if i told you about it, but it was pretty funny we ate it, it really wasnt that good, it at least we can say we ate a crab. the transfer here is going to be 4 days before christmas which kind of stinks, i am not sure but i think i am going to be transfered, because that is the usual duration for a missionary 2 cambios in an area.so i am not sure, i hope i stay we have been finding a lot of really cool people, but i guess you just go wherever your called. our mission president is a really cool guy, i like him a lot, he sometimes is a little laid back on the rules but he is really nice. my companion is good, we sometimes both lose our patience with each other, but he is a good guy. you always hear about decisions and how you can choose to be angry or happy, but i dont think it really clicked for me until this week. we were having a dumb little arguement, and i was kind of annoyed and bothered by him, but then i thought about it, and realized that i wasnt getting anything out of being mad, it didnt help me or him, and i realized it was my choice whether to hold on to this feelings or just let it go. so that was definetly a good lesson to learn, hopefully i dont have to learn it again. but everything is going well, i love you all, thanks for everything. 

elder brimhall