I can’t believe it’s already preparation day! Every week just blurs together!!!! Anyways it was a blast and had some fun days!! Here’s some points from last week!

– Ants in my food! This was fun hahaha we went to this super poor guy’s house which he doesn’t have anything because a fire came through and burned his house down which is extremely sad! He then made us lunch with the scarce resources he has and I went to go take a huge bite of my bread and there was a whole village in my bread hahaha I then just tried my hardest to brush it off and just ate it because I didn’t want to decline his only food! Plus extra protein 😅😋

– Intercombios with Elder Moya! It was a fun but hard day haha I love Elder Moya but he didn’t really love to work and he made me take every conversation and lesson by myself which was great practice but it was a tiring day hahaha I was able to carry each lesson and conversation which made me happy because God is real and the gift of tongues is real as well! It was a super fun day though! 

– Getting flamed by this Venezuelan dude! He didn’t like gringos and he just absolutely was going off on me hahaha I just smiled and said God bless hahah

Dogs are racist hahaha they won’t bark and the Chileans but they will barking at us gringos hahahaha

– Drugs in the street, there was this pill in the street that looked very very very sketch and looked man made hahaha I think it might’ve been a drug!

– Twister the new movie was playing in this tiny shop and I was like “No way!!!!” haha it was fun!

– Zoo animals, so everyone in the streets will point at us as we walk and will yell out that we’re gringos and white and basically are aliens and it’s kinda crazy and sometimes gets on my nerves haha but I just keep looking forward and smile! 1 group of kids were like what are you haha and we’re like we’re American and they’re like and we take a picture of you hahaha we felt like zoo animals! 🥲🦓🦒

– Met tons of new people and had a ton of people progress this week!!!!

– Found out transfers and Elder Chambers is leaving which is very very depressing! He’s sad as well but we know it’s for the best!!! Also my new companion is named Elder Nelson and he’s committed to play for BYU which is crazy! I’m excited to meet him and we’ll have a blast!

Anyways this was my week! It went fast and had a lot of new adventures! I’m excited for next week and to meet my new companion and to see the amazing miracles that happen every day!!! Love y’all and can’t wait to talk in a week!!!!

Wow how in the world is this week over 🤯🤯🤯!! Anyways it was a very fun and eventful week!!! If it’s anyone’s first time reading my weekly update welcome, pull up a chair get all comfortable because I’m about to give you the best weekly email you’ve ever heard! Anyways let’s jump strait into it!

(Read in a British accent)

The day of the Preperation: 🎣

• Now as this day began we started in the 5th quartile of Chile know as Viña Del Mar, we went and obtained a couple of items that we both very much needed such as food!

• We then made our way over to the land called Quilpué where we spent our time talking to family and playing the piano

I also forgot to mention my comp was quite ill

• After the day was over and our feet were all ached and sore we made it to the land northward and came upon a body of water with life, small paquliar little animals floating around in water that seemed more toxic than the sewage! Anyhow it was a quite pleasant day!

(OK no more British that took too much time haha)

Tuesday: 🌿

• OK this day was awesome! We had Intercombios or exchanges, we went with the ZL which was super fun! They’re super cool Missionaries! Me and Elder Qüinche had a blast! We talked to everyone and their dog and really just tried to be diligent! It was a ton of fun!

• Weed hahaha yep that’s right we went passed this home to ask if a member lived there and he said, “look, you see that over there “ And me and my como were like oh no! And he said yeah so if you could all leave that’d be great and we’re like ahh yeah, so that was fun hahahaha also the weed plant was taller than I am it was like 7’0” tall!

Wednesday: 🧉

• This day was great! It was pretty chill! I did wake up and drink an entire over 1.2 liter amount of water in a Calabaza worth if Maté and yeah that made me feel really really weird hahahah, but it was super good!

• We then had a normal day of work and just went to all of our points and lessons!

• Also we went passed the best bakery every and I decided with my extra money I’m going to buy a Berlines every day which is basically a soft doughnut with Manjar (better Dulce de Leche) in the middle!!! 

• While we were in the bakery this girl thaf was probably 16 or 17 spoke English and her dad was encouring her to want tk get to know me and thwn she started getting really flirty and it got super weird and then she said can meet up and speak later and I looked to my comp and we’re like CODE RED🚨CODE RED🚨 CODE RED🚨!!! And I kindly was like no thank you and we left hahahahahaha

• Anyways so that was my fun day hahaha

Thursday:

• We had interviews with President which were super awesome! I love President Trythall! He’s a huge blessing to this mission!

• Anyways those went super good and then after we just went to work in our area and nothing too crazy happened!

Friday:

• This day was quite eventful haha it started out with house inspections with 2 elders on the office and Hermana Trythall which was super fun! They said our house was really good!

• After we got pur Imperial de Calabaza! They’re basically fancy Maté cups in a Calabaza!!!! Mine is sooo amazing and I love it!

• After we went out to work in the hottest day I have ever been in, in my life!! There was humidity heat and a strait up Villa Hermosa which was so insanely HOT! God helped us persevere but it was sooo hot!

• We then went into El Sauce (the tomas) and went to meet with a family but on our way we helped this Haitian lady with like 7 huge bags of stuff that she’d been carrying for over 5 miles and she was dying from the heat do we helped her and it made her day!!! So that made me happy!

 • Anyways we ended the day with cars drying by playing all kinds of English music which was hype hahaha 1 that stood out the most was “The Final Countdown” that was super hype hahaha

• Also just to mention not a single house in this whole area has A.C. or any A.C. units, nothing! They just open windows and it’s so hot outside It doesn’t stop the heat from coming inside! In some houses it was hotter in their house hahahaha!

Anyways it was a good day!

Saturday:

• This day was pretty chill just a normal day!

• We did buy for lunch a completo and a 3 liter bottle of Kem which is a pineapple drink which is soooo good! That was probably the most exciting part of the day haha

Sunday:

• This day was great! I did have to give a 10 ish minute talk that I had to prepare just about an hour before church started which was great hahaha

At our lunch this member used to live in Canada and they couldn’t stop talking about how much they love Tacobell hahahah

• Everybody and their dog stopped what they were doing to watch soccer which was crazy! It made the work way harder but after the game was over we were able to get back to work!

• Anyways it was a pretty good day!

Well that sums up my week! I had a great time and a lot of fun things happened! I’m very excited to see the great miracles that come next week! Every week just gets A little bit better and my Spanish gets a little bit better as well! I love yall and can’t wait to connect next week!!

Wow I can’t believe it’s been a week already! Time is flying by!!!! Anyways this week was a ton of fun and full of unique experiences hahaha here’s a few points from this week!

Monday:

• Preparation day!!!! We went over an 1hr and a half to Valparaíso to get a Calabaza de Maté for only $17 which is super cheap here!!!

• While in Valpo we saw a dude get tackled to the ground and arrested and like 50 cops showed up haha (it’s also the sketchiest part of our mission)

Some dude saved my bag from being stolen and was like put it in front of you because there are thieves just waiting to steal!

• We then just went back to the Capilla and chilled, and played Futbol

Tuesday:

• This day was quite chill, not too much craziness happened, just a normal missionary day!

Wednesday:

• This day was pretty chill as well, not too much happened! We just went to work all day!

Thursday:

• This day was super fun! It started off strong with me giving a homeless super duper skinny dog a banana and it made me feel so happy!

• We then just went out to work, it was hard not to get distracted because there was American Halloween music playing everywhere and kids were all dressed up trick or treating! 

• We also went to this guy’s house who owns a food Truck and he made us the best burgers ever! Sadly he’s leaving to Southern Chile for 4 months so it probably was my last time eating it!

• The day went pretty quick and we ended up finding 2 new guys that want to start taking the lessons so that’s sweet!

Friday:

• This day was awesome! We had a Zone Desayuno and me and my companion were bold with our zone because everyone has had no success because they just knock random doors and don’t try super hard to find people so my comp and I were like first off we need to work with members! Members are the most effect way to do missionary work here and so we need to do that and be diligent and work hard! After we said that the whole zone got hyped and we went to work!

After we went and found a bunch of new people through members and had a ton of success!

• Later in the day my companion breathed in a lot of pollen and he couldn’t breathe, his throat felt like it was closing up so we called Hermana Trythall and they’re like try and take an antihistamine, so luckily he had one and he took it and it started to stop which was a huge blessing!

• Anyways after that we just worked for a couple more hours and then went back to the pension!

Saturday:

• So this day was awesome! My comp told me in the morning during my study “I DID IT” I was like what are you talking about and he’s like “I FINALLY DID IT!!!” And I was so confused, he then said “I FOUND THE CALABAZAS” So to give you background there Are these Calabazas de Maté or pumpkin or gourd of Maté so basically it’s the original Maté cups and they’re normally like $80-90 here in Chile because they’re hard to find, well long story short my companion found this guy that sells the Imperial Calabazas which are decorated with leather and fine meal for $50 which are crazy cheap for them! Anyways we ended up getting them and they are shipped in 2-3 days which is super 

hype!!!

• We then went and fed some tunnel spiders some earwigs and went to work the rest of the day!

Sunday:

• This day was super fun and eventful! It’s started at 12am with a 5.0 earthquake which was fun, me or my comp didn’t wake up but supposedly people woke of and it was shaking them haha

• We then went out to work and I had a Maté in 1 hand and a granola bar in the other and those 2 combos gave me energy and joy hahahahahahah but anyways we went to work and ended the day finding a super duper cool river in our Sector that has a lot of fish so we may go fishing in it which is fun!

• Anyways that was basically my day!

So these were just a few points from this Week! It was a huge blast and I’m excited for next week and to see all the amazing miracles that God will bring! Just know God always has you and he will ALWAYS take care of you! I love yall and can’t wait to talk next week!!! Nos Vemos!!! ♥️🧉

Wow it’s crazy that it was another super fast week yet again! I’m loving it here in Chile and it’s starting to become home! With a daily cup of Maté and Poncho will do the trick!! Anyways, here are a few points from this week!

Monday:

My preparation day was a blast! We went to the boardwalk in Viña and got empanadas and tequeños!! 

I got some groceries from a humongous grocery store called Jumbo!! I also got Chalulah the hot sauce (i dont know how to spell it haha) which was so awesome!!

And lastly we ended the day at La Familia Lopez! We had 4 completos at their house which were insanely good!!!

Tuesday:

We had the usual District Council which was fun!

I had a 3-4 inch bone in my soup so that was nice! 😅

The weather was super nice and cool that day! It felt like Washington weather again!

Anyways it was a super fast day with not a ton of stuff happening haha

Wednesday:

This day was also a super fast day! I don’t remember much because it all felt like a blur!!!

We had a bunch of lessons and I had to share a ton in Spanish and the members and my companion said my Spanish is doing super good and that I’m learning fast which made me feel really good!!! God is helping me a ton!

Anyways not too much happened!

Thursday:

This day was a blast!!! We had intercambios or exchanges with an Elder that only spoke Spanish! It was super awesome practice! He could understand me the whole time which was super cool! I was in Charge of the sector because my companion was on exchanges somewhere else so it was a super cool experience!

I extended my first invitation to 2 families to be baptized and they both said they want to and will pray about It so we need to pray for them!!

I miss heard a lady say that her husband is dead and I thought she said her husband joined the church a year ago so I said “sweet”! And she got pretty upset hahaha

Anyways it was a super duper fun day!

Friday:

It was a pretty fast day! I got together with my companion again and we just went to work! They day just flew bye and no much happened!

Saturday:

So Saturday was an interesting day hahaha

We went to the church building to text members and inactive members, and friends in teaching to come to church on Sunday and all I remember was waking up and it was like an hour later! I had no idea but I guess I just fell asleep, my companion was giving lesson 3 to this person on the phone so I guess I just dozed off hahah I felt super bad but at the same time it was sooo needed hahahah

As we were leaving the building this drunk guy called us over and started yapping and we were like we gotta go and the dude grabbed my hand and wouldn’t let go so then I had to force bend his hand back so he would let go and then we just walked away, we’ve seen him a couple times since and he has no clue about that day hahahaha

We went to a recent converts house who has a lot of health problems and he works 6 jobs to try and make enough money to survive and in our lesson with him he took of his shoes and I thought somebody had pooped their pants because it was the most potent smell I have ever smelt in my life I was holding in gaging because it smelt so horrendous!!!

Anyways it was an eventful and fun day!

Sunday:

This day was super fun we had lunch with this amazing family that reminds me a ton of my family so that was super cool!

We then went out to work all day and then towards the end of this day we went to this super cool family that was inactive and are now active again and they made the best “Mexican Tacos” they weren’t really Mexican tacos they were definitely Chilean way of cooking tacos but still super duper good!!!!

Anyways my week was super fun and went super fast! I’m super excited for this next week and can’t wait to see what journeys come this next week!!! Love yall and will talk to you in a week! Nos Vemos! Chao!!!!

Wow this week flew by! It was very eventful, slow on a couple days and other than that just a blast!! The language is still hard! I feel like I’m trying to understand ancient Arabic but other than that it’s great 😅! Anyways the week was awesome! Here’s a few points from the week!

Tuesday:

I had a good day! We spent the day contacting some people that the members gave us which turned out to be pretty successful! We then had a few upsets in the day which were pretty unfortunate! 1 of our friends we’ve been trying to get to the temple found out he wasn’t going to be able to recite the priesthood! It was trash but we were able to make up for our sadness with an Alfajor the size of my face hahaha! After him we tried to put 2 other friends on date for baptism and they both didn’t want to commit so that was also trash!We ended the day in this member’s home and they gave us tons of pie and milkshakes haha it was the best! After we went home!

Wednesday:

We had a Zone Conference which was super fun! It was my first here in Chile and I was really anxious to see how it would differ from the Zone Conference in Spokane! It was mega different haha but it was still spiritual and a great time! After we went to work and found this 12 ish year old boy named Lucas and he is the grandson of a recent convert! He is extremely interested in the gospel which is amazing and he’s just really excited to learn more so we will get Him baptized! Later in the day a random dude walked up to me and said I am a Jew and I was very confused and he said yes you are a jew and he said “GEW” you’re a “Geeewww” and I was so confused my comp said he’s like he’s trying to spell JEW and he said that I’m a jew because I was wearing a purple tie hahaha idk where it came from but yeah that was a funny experience haha! Anyways, it was a great day!

Thursday:

This day was great it went very very fast but also slow hahah! We Had some crazy things happen this day haha to start out we had some crazy experiences with dogs trying to eat us and we were trying to get away but this 1 dog would not back down! My comp and I had a rock in our hand just in case we needed to use it and he started coming at us and I chucked it super hard next to it to try and scare him and it made him way more angry! He then started sprinting at us and then my comp just stopped and starting acting all big and scared him away which was clutch!

After we were walking back and in the park there were these 2 people full on making out! These people here are crazy and don’t care about privacy! My comp has seen some crazy things!!! This day ended with just more contacting and sharing the gospel!

Friday:

This day was great! We met this new guy who’s very excited for the gospel! We taught him the Plan of Salvation and he was like “wow this really makes sense” we were like let’s good he’s interested!!! So that was amazing! After we just continued doing the regular missionary work and the day went pretty fast! After the day was over we stopped by this members house and he made us this super good hamburger which made me very happy because I was starved! These people only eat lunch which is crazy for a starving giant hahaha! Anyways it was a great day!

Saturday:

Idk why but I guess in my journal Saturday isn’t here but anyways it was a great day just contacted and met new people! We invited a ton of people to come to church and was trying to get people to come because our branch is very small and we’re trying to grow it!! The day went very fast and I remember just feeling very excited for Sunday to take the sacrament!!

Sunday:

Sunday was a wonderful day!! Started out With the sacrament! We had a bunch of our friends in teaching come to church which made my day!!! After I found out about Kaden Hernandez back at home was going to be baptized and I freaked out! I was in the middle of this member lesson and my phone was blowing up so I checked and I read it and I was like yesssss!!! So that was awesome! Afterwards, we went to a member’s home for a family home evening thingy and we were able to get some referrals from them which were amazing and they taught me and my comp how to make this super good Chilean bread! We cooked it in a wood burning oven which was super cool as well!! The day flew by but was super fun!!!

So that’s a little recap from my week! It went fast but I’m very excited for next week! Pray we can get Niferson, Sofia, and Lucas on date for baptism this week! I love yall have an amazing week!

Wow this week has been the most eventful week of my life! So many cool experiences, and new adjustments that’s for sure! I was able to make it Chile without Any major problems which was really nice! I was able to meet my mission leaders which was super amazing too! I had a blast this week and had some crazy adventures!! I I am going to now give a few points of what happened this past week!

• I was able to make it to Chile and eat my first meal of non CCM food hahah

• I Met my trainer and he is the best! We get along super well, and he’s been a missionary for a long time so he’s got a lot of experience which us a huge blessing!

• I got to my area which is called Los Aromas, and it is basically just a strait up hill with a million houses which is the best for missionary work!!

• I was finally able to meet the famous dogs of South America hahah they are rabid monsters hahaha they just want to eat everyone! I was able to learn the technique of throwing a fake rock at them and they run away

• I found out that Chile only eats lunch and not dinner so I’m basically starved everyday hahah, but the lunches are amazing!!

• I helped an old man shove his earwax and mold hearingaide in his head while it didn’t even fit and it was a weird situation to be in hahah, basically it’s a long story but he just walked up and asked for help and I tried my hardest and nothing was working hahaha and then a second later I looked back and he was just smoking a cigarette with the hearingaide just hanging out of his ear hahaha

• The Spanish is basically impossible understand hahah, everyday does get easier with trying to understand but at the beginning it sounded like reformed Egyptian hahah

• We had some crazy comments by all the locals! They say we’re from either the CIA, Germans, Russians, or that I looked Chilean, so basically I look like I’m from every country hahah

• The roads here are named after every Country so technically I’ve visited the whole world!

• We went into the poorest part of our Sector and it is called El Sauce, they are basically just a huge group of immigrants and homeless people thag build their own homes and legally they can live there and be residents if they live on the land for 5 years or something like that! So there’s a ton of Haitians, Colombians, Venezuelans, and then old homeless Chileans! It’s a super fun town because they just play African music and there’s little kids playing soccer and it’s so fun!

• There was a guy singing mariachi music in the streets which was so cool! The whole town basically comes alive on Saturday night

• There’s crazy gang cowboys riding horses in the street! They speak a crazy language that doesn’t sound like Spanish and they try and kiss anyone they see, they call you over in a weird language and then they try and kiss you which is very weird! They almost did it to my companion hahah

These are just a few points from this past week! There’s a lot that goes on but these are just a few highlights! Anyways I’m very excited for next week! It’s going to be a blast! I’m excited for the crazy adventures that next week brings!! Anyways I love yall and I’m thinking about yall everyday!! Nos Vemos!!