October11, 2010

this week was really good, it definitely had its ups and downs but overall it was good. the mission conference was really awesome and i learned a lot, it was mostly in spanish but i understood most of it and the president would say the important things in english so ya it was good. spanish is still really rough but every day i am getting better understanding a little more its slowing down a little more everyday. the members here are really nice sometimes a little too nice they like you to come over and talk to you for ever so its hard because my companion like to talk to so we end up spending over an hour at there house just talking about different things, so thats been hard but we talked about it and hopefully we don´t spend as much time this week. thats really my only two problems spanish and sometimes i don´t think we work very hard but other than that its really good. my companion is really nice and a cool guy not the hardest worker ever but is a good guy and i am grateful to have him as my trainer, i am learning a lot from him. the food is definetly different but its good (sometimes) jk lol. i am grateful but ya its crazy because they just load your plate up and if you don´t eat it all your prettty much the devil, so you just have to shove it down your throat. but in our mission we don´t eat dinner so it usually works out because your not hungry for the rest of the day after lunch and you don´t eat very much for breakfast knowing for lunch your going to have to force yourself to eat so ya its been good. our shower and our toilet flooded this week it was crazy. the water wouldnt drain in any thing, the sinks, toilet, or the shower. it was crazy and then it started leaking out and our kitchen was flooded. it was so nasty because the toilet wouldn´t flush so it pretty much looked like the one in the ranch house with poo smears all over, it was awful but its all good becasue now its all fixed. this week was pretty cool and there were definetly miracles. one that was insane was this we were going to visit this inactive member so my companion wrote down her address and we left. we were walking all over the street trying to find the house but we couldn´t find it. there this other house in the background behind this other house and we couldn´t see the number so we thought maybe that was it. in chile they just yell hello in the persons front yard so thats what we did. this guy came out with his little daughter and we talked to him for a little bit, and then he invited us in. we taught him and it was a really good lesson the best we have taught so far. so the crazy thing was that when my companion wrote down the wrong address it was 247 and he wrote 240. CRAZY!!!!!! so ya that was awesome i don´t know what will happen with that guy hopefully it all works out but he seemed so ready for the gospel and listened and really opened up to us so ya that was awesome and was a totally miracle that we found him. one crazy thing in chile is that there are drunks all over the place. we always say hi to everyone and when we do they start following us and its crazy. one time we were contacting this kid and the drunk came up and started to hug us. thats pretty much the test if someone is drunk here if they randomly come up and hug you out of nowhere when you are walking down the street. you be nice and let them but it is definitely werid and not to be mean but they smell really bad so after you smell bad too so its just crazy. also being an american drunk people love you no clue why but they do. yesterday we were walking down the street and this drunk guy with like 4 guys yelled for us to come over. i felt like the guy in the movie a christmas story where that guy is yelling hey you ya you get over here. so ya my companion went and i followed. they were nice not dangerous or anything just talked to us but it is crazy becasue they are drunk. so ya that was interesting. it just depends being an american some people really love you for it and some people hate you it just depends. also a funny sad story we talked to this older couple. the wife was really intersted in our message it was about eternal families, but the husband was catholic so he was like no thats not true when we die were not going to be married and stuff like that it was kind of sad, just to see someone really want our message but the other didn´t i wonder what his wife was thinking. todays p day was really fun we played soccer gringos versus the natives 3 on 3 with our zone and the gringos won it was crazy. the natives are all way better but they show off a lot so we just steal the ball and go down and score it was awesome. but ya everything is going well its starting to warm up the weathers nice. its really windy here i found out this week that they call it the ciudad del viento which in engligh pretty much means the windy city. , also yesterday we had to change our clocks to be an hour faster it still makes no sense why people do that but ya that was interesting. but ya there is so much to say sorry for this lengthy letter. the mission is really good i am having a great time. love you lots keep praying for me i need all the help i can get. lol. thanks for all your letters, love, and support. love you lots