Wow it has been sooo long since I wrote an email! I decided that this was a good day to write one! These past couple months have been filled with ups and downs and miracles all around! From baptisms, to sickness, to injuries, to moving to viña!

To start off I moved to Viña Centro which just means its the city of Viña. It used to be an Hermana area but they decided to put Elder LeBarln there knowing hes been in the hood his whole mission haha. It has been a blast these past 4 weeks here! Time is flying!!

We had the last baptism of the Viña church building before it becomes the temple! Its a pretty neat experience, preparing the way for the Viña temple! We have been working out butts off here! When we got here the area wasn’t having much success, it was a very slow area with like 5 people found a week and 0 people in church we have been able to work as hard as we can, with the help of God, to be able to have much more success here which is a blessing! We are working a lot more with members, and the success shows, because of the prophetic promise that if we work with members there’s an increase in the probability that this person gets baptized! But its been really cool!

I got sick! It was my first time throwing up on the mission! Wahoo 😐, I was dying haha! I had to go to the ER to get this steroids shot because my esofogus started to spasm so bad I couldn’t like breathe haha but the good news is it stopped and I feel MUCH better! Jesus Lives!!

I decided to change my plans a bit and now im going to BYU this year, im coming home June 30th to start school this fall which will be a ton of fun! Go Cougars! 🔵🏈🏟🔵

Franco got baptized!!! 🌊🌊🌊
It was a super cool experience! He had such a big desire to be baptized! He loves this church so much! He grew up his whole life being catholic, and he decided tk be baptized in the form of Jesus Christ, and it changed his life! He’s 30 years old and hes like “hey Jesus was around my same age when he was baptized, its symbolic haha”! But anyways it was a really sweet experience! His mom is going to be baptized next which is really cool! I want Franco to Baptize her!

We had a huge miracle this past Sunday! We started the day off either 3/15 people found because I was sick all week, dead, and we were working out butts of with 0 success! Then i decided we should pray. I told my companion to say a prayer and so he decided to say one and right after within 30 minutes we found 4 people and in 2 hours we found 8 people! It was super cool! It shows that we need to do our part by being diligent but it shows that this really is God’s work! If was a pretty unforgettable experience!

But anyways im doing really good! Just enjoying my last couple months here in Chile! Trying to soak up all of the culture and good food! Man just thinking about leaving this place makes me miss the Completos, Empanadas, and Las Panaderías! But anyways I love you guys and miss you guys tons! I’ll see yall soon! Until the next time! ❤️