wow this was a really busy and interesting week. i thought i said it in my email but i was transfered to Arauco, which is right in between Lebu and Lota on the beach again. I am really happy because now i should be able to go back to both of those sectors and visit some of my converts, it will be awesome. i am definetly getting repaid for never having seen the ocean before in my life, now have 3 sectors right by it. my companion is named Elder Ancco he is a new missionary. it is so much easier to train a latin than a gringo like the first time. He is from Lima, Peru and is a really humble hard working missionary that has a ton of desire to be a good missionary. we get along really well. He already knows the language so it makes it 10 times easier to train him. we are both new to Arauco so the first few days were pretty crazy. Tuesday we had a meeting for all the trainers and then we met up with the newbies and they told us who were going to be our companions. so after that we took a bus to arauco and i called a member to see if he could meet us in the chapel so he could show us where we live. we live with the ward mission leader, he doesnt have a wife or kids he is an older guy really nice. so he took us to our house its nice really small, but nice. the first few days were pretty crazy because we had no idea where anything was, and the map was really bad it didnt have any of the streets names only the centro, so i tried to look it up on google maps, but it didnt have the names either. so we had to get lost a couple of times but now we have an idea of where everything is. it is a really humble sector as well with a lot of poorer people and lots of Evangelicals. this week went by really well we found a lot of really good people in our first week. conference was a little interesting. usually in all my other wards or branches in the mission they always have the conference in the church, but here they didnt. we missed the saturday morning session, and were able to watch the saturday afternoon with a member, and in the night our branch president told us they were going to watch the priesthood session in the chapel so we went and the internet didnt work so we werent able to watch it. we watched the sunday morning session ok, but then returned for the afternnon session and the door of the chapel was locked and there was no one there. so it looks like i am going to be reading the ensign a lot again. but from what i saw the conference really was awesome. so everything is good i am excited to be here in Arauco it is a lot like my other sectors before. i am excited to be with my companion he is a great missionary as well. so everything is looking up,
love
Elder Brimhall
