So i just finished all my visa stuff so i am legally
allowed to be here in Chile from 1 more year! My 90 day visa expired super
quick. So many things has happened this week. I don´t even know
where to start.
I received 2 letters from Truman this week, one the
day after his birthday, and the other just a day or two ago, i also received a letter from Nick Chambers. I have a letter coming for Truman
this week, and i should have a letter coming for Nick next week.
So
this week i had 3 different intercambios (exchange, for those who were wondering what that's meant all this time.J). Only 2 of them was for more
than just a couple hours. My first one was here in Paillaco (speaking of
Which uncle Bill I live on the end of the North side of Paillaco. My
first house here though was right next to the train tracks. Those where
fun to have in the middle of the night hahahha) But i was with Elder
Pariona who is from Peru, and it was fantastic, he started his mission
here in Paillaco he knew a ton of people that we could visit who for
one reason or another were either dropped or Baptized.
And speaking of
members of the Church Miya the priesthood is starting to turn around
here. I just helped ordain two men to the Melchizedek Priesthood this
Sunday, and i would like to say that i helped with bringing them to
the church, one of them was that really humble man/my home teaching
companion who i told you about before, and the other was one of my
friends who i reactivated his family.
So when i got here other than
the Branch President (who doesn´t even live in Paillaco) there was 1
active Melchizedek Priesthood holder there are now 6, and the stake
president was here this Sunday and was talking about how, with the members
help, we could turn Paillaco from a branch to a ward with how much it´s
growing. It was my goal to get it into a ward by the end of the year,
but he wants to do it sooner, hopefully the members help out because
even thous there are about 20-30 more people who are attending since i
have arrived here it has taken me 3 entire months to get that many.
So
if all the members helped hopefully my goal will be accomplished. And
speaking of growing the Church i should have my first baptism this
weekend. It is the girl that i told you about when we were skyping who reminds me of Ella. I have 4 more that have baptismal dates and 2 that
used to have baptismal dates but have recently fell through so i'm hoping
we can change that.
I also had an intercambio this week With Elder
Balbuena in Laurel, and i loved it, me and him are great friends, and i
pretty grateful for it too, because just a few day after he got a call
from President and got sobrecambiod (transferred.J.) and so sadly i probably wont see
him again on the mission because he is way down South now, and only has 2
more cambios left before he goes home.
But i am really hoping i get to
see him after the mission because me and him where really good friends,
but if there is one thing that i have gotten really good at these last 5
months is how to say goodbye to people i really care about, because i
have to do it alot. And at first it was really hard, and in fact still
is, but honestly i am hoping that it stays that way. Because i don´t
want to see the day when it´s no longer hard for me to say goodbye to
people. Granted i´m a whole lot better at it than i used to be, but that
is a weakness i intend to keep.
Sadly i'm already out of time this
week, because i received a bunch of emails this week, please for
everyone who is emailing me please continue, i am just going to start
printing them out and reading them later instead of reading them all at
first just so i can have more time to type. Thanks for everyone who is
sending me Letters too! I absolutely love them, And just as a side note i
tell so much better stories through letters just because i don´t have
to worry about time, so let that be inspiration to write me haha.
Love
you all! Keep me posted with everything!
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