Golden Area

So I am IN LOVE With Coyhuique!!!!!!!!! Actually im not in the city of CoyHuique i am in a little town called Puerto Aysen that is about an hour outside of the city but it is SO BEAUTIFUL! But just about everything that other missionaries is true haha. Except for the snow part. There is snow on all the hills that surround the town but none in the city. But shoot it is so freaking Cold here. Goodness. Its like the cold just slams through my pants, the pajamas that i have under, and the thermals that i use under those, and gets me to the bone. Shoot its cold here.

So my companion is a Chilean named Elder Silva, dudes pretty awesome we have been working a ton here. OH AWEsome random fact, my district Leader is Elder OWENS!!!!!!! He was in the MTC with me, and he would come into my room all the time and we would have Nacho Nights. He is awesome i love him so much, i am so excited we are in the same district. He called me last night too, and he is just excited to work with me as i am to work with him.

Ok story time. I was with my companion driving down to Aysen when he said ``Elder Crockett, i feel like i should tell that i expect alot out of you. Just so you know there has been a bunch of unfocused disobedient missionaries here in Aysen before, and when it was almost impossible to work with them, and because of that this sector is pretty bad right now, we havent seen progress in a long time. And so i wrote a letter to President asking him to please send me a missionary who is a hard worker, who would be able to turn this sector around. Because all we need here is someone with a really good work ethic. And then a couple days after writing that to president he called me telling me he was sending you here, so i am expecting a lot out of you``

So we got to work here, and Aysen is AWESOME. We have found so many families who are just straight up GOLDEN! I have never in all my mission have found a people so prepared to here the gospel. Ever. They are incredible here.

We found one girl who while we were talking to her she asked ``If Christ established his church in the world why is there so many now`` And so we taught here about prophets and apostasy, and right after teaching about apostasy she asked ``Why would God let this happen, wouldnt he just call a new prophet`` So we taught her about The restoration of the Gospel, and the prophet Joseph Smith, and then after that she said ``This is incredible, but i feel as though God would give us a little evidence to help us believe this happened.`` So then we taught her about the Book of Mormon, and gave her a copy. And wow she was so excited to read it. And then we taught her about prayer and how after reading in the Book of Mormon to pray to ask God if its true, and if everything we just taught here was true`` She then said that she wants to come to our church, so we told her when it starts, and she also asked if she was aloud to get baptized too. Pure Gold

She isnt the only person we found that was super Gold either, there was another man who works in the fishing boats, and so he is only here for 7n days and then works for 14. SO we wont be able to teach him much. But this man was just as receptive as the first.

There was another family who went through a really hard crisis and was really wondering if God Exists. This one of them wants to get baptized the other is a little more skeptical but is willing to investigate to see what we are teaching is true.

there is so much potential here in Aysen. I am so excited to get to work here. Its crazy i have been seeing so much success in this last week, but shoot i have been seeing so much opposition too, kind of things that you only imagine happening in missionary movies haha. But thats good, because i know that if satan is working so hard to stop us, it`s because God has alot for us to do here.

Love you all Keep me posted!