First Baptism! (after transfer) :(

Elder Jacobson.  Its freaking crazy, today i was driving home and i totally thought about  emailing you too to ask for you mailing dress. Enserio. Hit me up with your mailing address and i´ll totally start writing you

Lela my Companions name is Elder De Regil he is from Mexico. And he does not speak English. Only Spanish. So i am trying to help him learn english so that after the mission he will have an easier time finding a good job.

So mom remember how you told me that the package should arive here the 1st? On the second of July my Zone leaders called me telling me i had a package in their home. I am going to go pick it up tomorrow

Ok so this last week has been something. For one i recived some freaking awesome information!!! I was driving with one of the AP´s. In fact Elder Balbuena, i know i´ve talked about him  before in my emails home. and that in itself is awesome, we are awesome friends, but when he got transferred  from Valdivia i didn´t think  that i would ever see him again. But then i got sent out too, and now that he is the AP he is in Osorno which is only like 2 hours away so i get to see him a bunch. It is awesome. 

 

But anyway i was driving with him and he tells me. (in Spanish) Hey Elder Crockett, i was in the office and they told me that Paillaco just had a baptism, But i don't remember their name, but it is was a kid from a partial member family who said about three months go the missionaries came to their house and gave them a assignment for sacrament meeting. And after that she was completely active. She now has a calling as the Gospel Principles teacher, and her son just got  baptized this weekend.
And Instantly i knew who it was so i shout Enserio! Richard got baptzed!

Elder Balbuana then told me that ya, it was someone named Richard.
And i told him, about how a couple of months ago i found a menos acvtivo familia y that they hadn't been to church in years in years. So i became friends with them, and then one day i came over to there house and the mom, her name is Evelyn, was making bread, and when i saw her doing this i was hit with a genius plan to trick her into coming back to church. So i tell her that we needed bread for sacrament meeting in a couple of days. And so she agreed to bring it. And ever sense then she has been active. Apparently she has a calling now and her son was baptized. I was so excited to hear this. 

So random fact. I have bore my testimony every single fast sunday except for once sense january 2009. It didn´t matter if i was visiting a different ward, felt sick, was on the other side of the world or anything like that. And that one time that i didn´t i felt like i shouldn´t do it. I wanted to but, i felt like i shouldn´t. I swear this random fact has  story behind it. I just don´t have the time to tell it to you haha

So this last week i got a letter from Morgan Goff, who is currently serving a mission in the Dominican Republic, speaking spanish, and oh my goodness it is so much easier to write people when you don´t have to worry about what language you are talking in hahaha. But it was funny when i reread what i wrote it was literally more than half in spanish, because even though i was trying to write her in english i didn´t have a language filter on, so it came out in whatever language i was thinking in at that time hahaha. She has only been there in the MTC for a couple of days now so when she gets my letter she will probably have such a hard time understanding it but its ok. Eventually she´ll be able to hahahahaha

So mom this waterfall that i sent you a picture of is just a couple mins away from my house. I went with my papito today to visit another one but the road was washed out because of the rain, so we are going to try again another day. But being here in Chile is giving me a huge standard to what is beautiful. Remember how a couple of months ago in my emails i was talking about Futrono, and how i have never seen any place more beautiful in my life? Well today i drove through Futrono with my Papito on the way to the Waterfall and although i still thought it was beautiful, it didn´t take me back or anything. Lago Ranco is easily more beautiful.

Oh so this past week i met 3 different men who where once missionaries here in Osorno, who at the end of their missions decided to not go home. And have been living in different parts of Chile for the past 1-3 years. But they never went home. They asked to be released here, found jobs, got married, and are now starting to have families, and have still not gone home. 

 

They have visited home a couple of times with their wives but they live here now. And when they first told me this i was shocked and thought why on earth would you do that. I then walked outside to see the sun setting over a lake with a snow capped volcano on the other side, with the lake reflecting all the colors of the sunset. And i said to myself. Oh thats why. 

 

I promise though, although i love it here, i do still plan on coming home hahahahaha. Mainly because i wont be the branch president anymore when i get home hahahaha 

 

I love you all I look forward to hearing bout your adventures in the new house. I took more photos, but the computer i m using right now is medio chanta so it isn´t uploading any. I´ll have to try to send more next week. Love you all!!!!