October 18, 2010

everything is going really good. this week was good we found a lot of people that are so ready for the gospel. chile is really cool. we were just walking down the street the other day and this guy stops us and was like i want to change my life, and become better. it was so awesome. then on wednesday night there was this guy lying on the side of the road, he was drunk really bad. so we offered to help him because he lived up on the hill and had to go up a ton of stairs to get to his home so we carried him up the hill, it was really sad because the guy was crying and you could tell he was really sad. so anyway we went back to his house like three days later to see if he was doing alright, and his grandaughter answered the door and we talked with her and she was so awesome and we are going to start teaching her. so ya we have been having a lot of really cool experiences. i still don´t really teach a lot which is hard my companion does most of the talking, but i am improving and getting better everyday and understanding a little more so ya its been good. spanish is still hard but i can understand a lot more now, i can actually hear words, before the sentences were just one long slured word. i broke a rule which i felt so bad about. we are not suppose to eat dinner with anyone. well one of our investigators has three kids and they are all awesome and cool, well the other day i cut wood for them and we always help them with stuff. so we went over yesterday and they had made completos which are like really good hot dogs, for us because i had told them that was my favorite food. so ya sadly i ate it, but really it was a lose lose situation. i really love my mission it is awesome something crazy happens everyday, but its starting to slow down a little bit and i am starting to get a handle on things. one thing that is still kind of hard is that we give our laundry to a lady in the ward and she does it for us, we pay her though. but like every week when you open the bag you get a strong wiff of like pond water. i think she just goes down in the crick as john wayne would say and washes them. but ya i am grateful i don´t have to do it but ya my clothes all kind of smell like the creek at the ranch. i don´t want to sound fairy mary but lebu is the most beautiful place i have every seen. it has like everything, forest, grassy meadows, a river, ocean, beach, rolling hills. i ll have to send you guys some pictures because it is awesome. today we went to the beach and just walked around it was so pretty and picked up sea shells. they were all over the place it was crazy, the chileans all look at you weird because i was all excited. its kind of like when some one from a foreign state comes to arizona and is all excited to see a cactus. but ya it was my first time going to the beach or even seeing the ocean so ya that was really cool. another funny thing about lebu is every day at 12 they sound this ridiculously loud alarm. i feel like i am in great britain and the nazis are coming, no joke. so ya i am doing really well, its still hard, but i am starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel when i will finally know what is going on and will be able to understand everyone. thanks for all your letters and prayers. i really do appreciate them all. i love you all.