this week was a little crazy this week in our branch. on friday our branch presidents wife had a son, and friday night one of the members of the branch passed away. he was an older man that had been sick for a while everyone knew that he didnt have a lot of time left, but it is still sad. today we went to the funeral. in chile everyone meets in the house of the person, and then as a huge group everyone walks to the grave yard, i dont remember it being like that in the states, but i thought it was a little weird. but i was really happy for our branch president. he was an investigator for 3 years, and couldnt get baptized because he wasnt married and had to get divorced but here in chile it is really complicated, and he couldnt. so he has only been a member for a year and a half. but with his wife they couldnt have children, but after they went to the temple and got selled that week she got pregnant and they just had the baby on friday. they are an amazing family. i asked him how does he serve so well, and he told me his thought process. here in chile a lot of people use the excuse that the family is the most important thing and for that dont go to church sometimes dont magnify their callings and dont do their visits. he told me that if we serve the Lord like we should and magnify our callings the Lord is going to bless our family, more then if we were with them. we have to develop a love of the Savior above all else, and then everything else will fall into place. he is a really good example of sacrifice and dedicated service. this weekend was also really crazy because friday we had to go to los angeles to do a baptismal interview. so i asked the missionaries how we could get their and he told me the taxi we had to take and the street we had to wait on. so we waited for almost a half an hour, and this taxi didnt pass by. so i started asking people how to get their and they kept telling me different things. so i decided to go to this other street and wait there, and finally the taxi that we had to take passed by (its actually called a colectivo, which is different than a taxi because it has its set route). so we got in and it turns out that it was the wrong one, but he at least took us close and we just walked the rest of the way, we finally made it to their house at 10, and i did one of the fastest interviews of my life. it was for a 9 year old girl so it wasnt too hard. so that night we had to stay in los angles. and in the morning we came back because another sector yumbel had a baptism buut they dont have a font so they had to come to our chapel. it was a mom and her 8 year old son. the son went first but the first time he didnt go all the way in and he got water in his nose and started crying and it was a little weird, and he ended up not getting baptized that day. so it was a crazy week, with lots of stuff happening, but everything is really good. thanks for all the letters and the support
Love
elder Brimhall
