<hey hows it going so much has happened since i last wrote. My trip went well it was really long but i made it. the nine hour flight was crazy. sorry i wasn´t able to call but my calling card died which was weird because i only called dad and it said i was out of minutes so ya that was disappointing but your right christmas isn´t too far way. so ya sorry about that. it was so weird to go from the<mtc to the real world. there was all this bad music playing and all these bad pictures of girls and it was just horrible, you don´t realize how much evil is in the world until you leave for a little bit and then come back. so ya that was crazy coming here.... So n< let me start by naming the similarities between the usa and chile-------- ????ok thats the end of that list. jk but seriously it is so different here. The airport as very misleading, they have all these signs but they had the english translation under it and everyone speaks to you slowly. so i was like hey this won´t be bad at all and then you leave the airport and everyone is speaking like 200 miles an hour. When they say you won´t know what the heck is going on for the first 3 months i used to think they were exaggerating but now i am pretty sure they are serious. people talk so fast i cant even describe it. you really have to just here it because it is insane. the members in the ward don´t even talk to you because your an american and they know you don´t know whats going on. its pretty frustrating because i don´t know what in the world is going on. but it is getting better i ve improved a little bit every day which is good, but i still have no clue what people are saying. any pride i may have carried with me into the mission field is now definitely gone. i have become aware of my own nothingness and as King Benjamin would say I am an unworthy creature jk, but seriously it has been hard. but i´ve been reading the scriptures alot which has helped and the second verse of the hymn come come ye saints which has helped me a lot. Also the talk that elder holland gave when he came to the mtc, he talked about why the mission is hard. he said it was becasue salvation is not a cheap experience. the life of christ wasnt easy, the atonement wasn´t easy and his crucifixion wasnt easy. if you want to be his disciple you have to go through a little bit of that pain. so ya that has helped me carry on and just keep working hard, knowing and trusting in God that one day i will be able to understand this language, even though right now it seems impossible. i feel like the guy on the best two years. where he goes to buy bread and just has that dumb look on his face and has no clue what is going on. my companion is good but is not the hardest worker which has been tough, because i don´t know exactly what we are suppose to do or how to do them or the language for that matter. but we talked about it and hopefully that gets better. his name is elder orellana and is from bolivia so he knows a lot of spanish which has been helpful. The showers here are freezing and they don´t have hot water which has been horrible. i dread taking showers in the morning. i am going to become the smelly kid in class jk. <um so every monday i will be writing you guys, an every tuesday i will receive the letters so it is probably a better idea if you do as mom did and just email me back on this website and then i ll be able to write you back or else i will not be able to respond for a week. also i am now allowed to email other family members so if anyone wants me to email them just send me your email address. i will probably just send a generic to everyone and then respond to everyone else individually. Sorry bridgette but i just got all your dear elders the day i arrived at the mission home so ya sorry i never wrote you back but i never got your letters. Que mas. um its good here, its been hard but so was the uofa and the mtc at the beginning and i ended up loving both of those so i just need to stick it out keep working hard. love you all o ya also a funny story we were having our study in the morning and this street vendor guy knocked on our door, so my companion was outside with him talking so i went out to see what was going on and when i went out the door shut behind me so we were locked out. we went to our land lord lady but she didn´t have another key so we were trying to open the window and other things but nothing was working. then the street vendor guy got this plastic soda bottle and cut it up and slid it in the door and unlocked it. <i was like i can tell youve done this before. it was good that he opened it so we could get in but not really because that means he could do it anytime he wants so ya i am kind of worried now i put all my valuable away and hid everything. so ya that was kind of funny. the people here are really good and are usually really nice. the kids are usually really cool but every once in a while there are some punks.but hey what can you do. i am in the city lebu which is freezing because it is right by the ocean and it is windy everyday. i wear that wool coat of jons like every day. by the way how do you wash that? Sorry for any mistakes i may have made typing this its on a spanish keyboard which is a little different so it is kind of hard. But ya i like it here a lot. o ya conference not gonna lie i didn´t understand very much, or for that matter really anything i was able to get little bit and pieces here and there but ya overal not very much. you´ll have to send it to me in english when the ensign comes out. the food here is ok, not as much fruit as i thought, and it is pretty much just as expensive as the food in the us. they do have this completo which is way good its a hot dog with mayo and avocado and tomatoe it is so good. <my mission president is really cool i like him a lot. also another funny thing was on the plane to chile they had like this 10 minute video about how chile was awesome and you shouldnt liter to preserve the beauty o Chile and it just kept going on and on so i thought chile was going to be all nice and clean boy was i wrong. there is trash everywhere. everyone pretty much lives in the ranch house but a smaller version no joke it looks so much like the ranch house its not even funny. if times ever get rough and we have to go out and live in the ranch house it will be all good with me becasue i ll have already spent two years living in something like it jk but seriously. it is good though becasue these people are humble and ready to accept the gospel. i think we ll have a lot of success here. so ya sorry i am kind of rambling on here there is just so much to talk about, but ya <i love you guys a lot keep praying for me i need all the help i can get :)Final funny thing of the day chilean don´t sell soda by the ounce like americans they sell it by the liter. it cracked me up when we went shopping for the 1 st time and i saw there soda they are so huge it was awesome. So ya thats all sorry this letter is so long just a lot of info so ya love you lots!!!!!
