February 28, 2011

this week went really well, the office is a lot better now that my comp isnt listening to rap music or running off everyday jk. when i first came to the office it was so crazy. but it has calmed down a lot and it is really good now. our new president is going to be from Chile actually in our mission. I dont know him but i guess he is really young but a good guy. there is not a ton new to report this week. i scratched the van pretty bad again. it was really bad but as we were driving there was this guy fixing cars, so i asked him what he could fix it. he actually did a really good job cleaning it up, it is pretty noticable still but it doesnt look that bad, the guy only charged me 10 bucks good thing i am in chile jk. i dont know how in the world i did it. i was leaving the parking garage the one that i leave everyday, but this time i got to close to the edge and scraped. i will have to take some pictures just so you know how tight it really is. someone has to come down here and drive in chile just so i can get another witness. everything is good, my companion is a good guy he does kind of funny things. he used to make chain mail, but now he is obsesed with cards and doing tricks with them. he does it in the street when we are doing contacts even. but overal he is a good guy. spanish is improving it depends on the day though. we went and visited a bunch of people for my companion this p day so it was a little boring but thats alright because i think we are going back to lebu again which will be a lot of fun. so everything is going well, sorry i dont have really any interesting stories, but i love you all a lot and appreciate everything


Elder Brimhall

February 21, 2011

this week went really well. we were able to go to the sector every day which was awesome. the assistants went down south for conferences so they werent here all week so the house was pretty calm, but it was good. we are still trying to find more people, we have these two teenager girls that we are teaching they have come to church the last three weeks and are praying and reading the Book of Mormon. so thats been good to finally get some progressing investigators. i started out a little skeptical of them just because they are two 17 year old girls but they are actually good investigators who actually understand things pretty well. so thats been good we are still having trouble finding people we have been doing a lot of contacts but still really havent found anyone. sometimes i start to get discouraged and then remember those poor suckers in the states or in Spain, jk but really chile is a really good place to be. the people are for the most part really nice. this week we were teaching a lesson in the park and we had these two different crazy people come up and disrupt us. the first one was this old guy, whose argument to us was that Joseph Smith didnt exist, it was such a dumb argument that i didnt even know what to say, and then he went on to say that in Salt Lake City we have a mountain of gold that we are hoarding up or something it was so crazy. The guy was crazy you cant argue with irrational people who try to pass crazy ideas off as facts. the second was another old lady who i swear was old enough to be the lady off the titanic (Singles Ward reference) but we were reading a verse out of the Book of Mormon and she was like why are you trying to teach about the false Christ so we were like have you read it, and then she walked away without saying anything more. So that was the cool thing of the week. this week for p day we went bowling it was a lot of fun, the mall here in Concepcion is awesome, it is really nice i was surprised. so anyway i think that is it, we are trying to work hard stay busy, the office is good i am learning a lot of things here. Love you all


Elder Brimhall

February 15, 2011

Sorry this is a day late, I couldnt write yesterday it was so crazy. it was the presidents birthday so he took the office out to eat at some restaurant it was a lot of fun, but also they gave me a few extra jobs so i have been really really busy. He is a great guy its kind of sad he is going to be leaving pretty soon. We should find out this week who is going to be the next president. This week went really good. My other comp ended up going home. It was sad but he kept running off and was kind of a hard situation. President got really mad and lost his patience with the running off thing. So in the end I think it was the best thing, like President said when he came he didnt think he would send anyone home but in the end he realized that its better that one missionary should be sent home then a whole mission wonder in disobedience jk. but it was really sad, I wish he could have stayed but thats the way it is. We went bowling this p day it was a lot of fun. i started out amazing only to tank at the end. i think in my first 5 bowls i got like 3 strikes, but after i was only hitting like 3 pins. it was crazy. the mall here in concepcion is actually really nice it could pass for a mall in the states. i got to eat mcdonalds which actually tasted the same i was surprised. it is nothing like lebu thats for sure. we have two girls coming to church now which is cool they have come for the last two weeks now so we will see what happens with them. their families are kind of against it so we will just see how it plays out. this weekend was crazy because we have been having little earthquakes like every couple hours. we had a few people stop us in the streets and were asking us what to do. some of them were crying they were so scared. everyone here is terrified that there is going to be a huge earthquake here in chile, and all these little ones are just leading up to it. some of them have been pretty strong, we are in the office which is on the fifth story so we got a few good rockings. but everyone here is save, everyone has been making a big deal out of the earthquakes but they really arent that bad so dont worry at all. i am not sure if you have even heard of them, but all is well. well thats it i think i am doing really well, the office is really good, i am liking it a ton more now, its really busy but really good. thanks for everything. love you lots
Elder Brimhall

February 7, 2011

Hi, sorry i didnt write last week it was crazy with the cambios. the zone leaders had a meeting and they all slept at our house and it was just a crazy day. right now i have to finish the mission newspaper thing, so thats what i ve been working on. i got a new comp so we are a three some once again. my old comp the one that was crazy left and i guess did really good this week he put two fechas and is doing really good. he is actually with elder lewis who is from thatcher so thats kind of cool. so he left so i thought it would be me and my other companion, but president came to me and told me he was putting someone else with us. this was more like the story in the best two years. this guy was going to be a zone leader has trained twice and was the highest baptizer in the mission. he lately has been going through some hard times though and wants to go home. it is really sad because he is such a good guy and a good missionary. i have learned a lot from him. he is a great guy but this last p day he woke up at 5 in the morning and left the house and no one knew where he went he just took off he ended up going into concepcion. So we had to spend our whole p day in the office waiting for him to come back so that was a little frustrating spending our whole p day in the office waiting but its all good. we had to wait there until 5 in the afternoon. i sadly think he is going to go home. he has really bad depression issues. i ve talked to him a lot, and i guess he has this chemical imbalance and the medication isnt working so he might have to go home. he is a great guy though and i really hope he stays i told him whatever he needs i am here to help him out. the day president told me he was going to come to the office with us we drove to angol together which is a part in our mission like 3 hours away and just talked. he knows a lot and has great ideas. my other companion is really funny a little nerdy, he is from Canada, but is a good guy too. he knows the most about random facts then anyone i have ever talked too. in his free time in the office he makes chain mail you know the stuff the knights wear. he also practices how to tie ties and can now properly tie 13 knots lol. he also really likes to talk about deep doctrine stuff which is funny. the house we live in is really good, its an apartment which is as good or better than mountain plaza. it actually has carpet, which is crazy because no one has carpet in chile. our sector that we work in is the richest in our mission and one of the richest parts in chile. its called san pedro and is like a 5 minute drive from concepcion. our office is in the middle of the city concepcion which is crazy. lebu was nothing like this. it was a small poor city, but i think what alma said is true poverty really does humble you a lot of times. a lot of people are harder to contact but its been good. we actually do a lot of our contacts through like microphone boxes because the people are so rich. we are working hard just waiting for the Lords blessings. the same thing happened in lebu, we worked hard for a couple of weeks and didnt have anyone and then all of a sudden the heavens were opened and we got so many people we didnt have time to visit them all. so i know the same thing will happen here we just got to keep working hard. we were opening this sector so we didnt have a carpeta de area or anything like that. also the oficinistas before us were kind of lazy so the members dont really like us a ton so we are trying to change that perception. so ya everything is good, we are just working hard. i am doing well, everything is good love you all lots. also i scraped the van we drive, the parking garages are so tight here, its crazy so i scraped the side pretty good, president always gives me crap about it, but i warned him before, but everything is great. love you all
Elder Brimhall