Serving in Santiago: Another Great Week!

Well. I am so completely jealous of you all. I miss lake powell so bad! But no it didn´t look exactly real because you were with other people so its not the same, doesn´t make me feel as bad. But father, I hope you know we better be going to lake powell next year because there is no way on earth I am gonna let myself go 4 years without a lake powell trip. So prepare yourselves ;)

Mal. You don´t know what a completo is? Its like the chilean version of a hot dog. Remember kid history when ye is like BUT if you buy 2 completos.... its only 2 dollars! BUT.... etc. Yeah its a hot dog with palta, tomate, mayo, ketchup, etc its super yummy and very messy to eat. And yeah renca Ive heard of that, if she does´t know where I´m at you can tell her I´m in puente alto, I´m pretty sure she would know where that is.

Oh trek... I love it so much... hmmm what to say. Trek is what you make it. ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING. But if you go with the right attitude it is life changing experience. In the scriptures it always talks about the righteous people being the ones to REMEMBER the captivity or salvation of their fathers. Trek is just that, out opportunity to remember and grow closer to God by remembering the sacrifice of our ancestors. I don´t think there is a more beautiful way of remembering and growing close to your pioneer ancestors than trek. It helped me understand what close relationships we really have with these people who gave so much so that we could live the lives that we do!

SPENCER!!! WAY TO FREAKING GO!!!!! 33 on the ACT!!!! THAT'S AWESOME!!!!! But shoot you beat me... oh well you owe the score to me because If I hadn´t gotten a 32 you never would have tried to get higher.... haha jk way to go man.

Jake. Freak your hair is getting long. I assume mom is bugging you about getting it cut.

Dooster becca . You are growing up! Looking soooooo pretty!!!!

Well. CHile is no longer in the Mundial. Or the world cup I guess haha. That was a crazy game against brazil. We were so worried because everything was SILENT. Normally we can keep up with the score by listening to the neighbors, they go craaaaaazy with their horns and whistles and stuff so you can always tell when their is a goal but this game with the 30 min overtime and the penales (I dont know wht it is called in english) was super hard to follow just by listening to the reaction of the neighbors haha. But in the end its good because it sooooooo got in the way of missionary work.

So this week started off good, but when I read that y ou guys were going to lake powell I´m not gonna lie I ws a little sad. I calculated right about when you would have been doing each thing haha so I was with you in spirit. So when I got home from pday I just knelt down and told Heavenly Father that I didn't want to have a homesick week and I asked him to help make this one week worth giving up a lake powell trip, because i know that in the end a mission is WAAAAY BETTER, But I wanted to feel like this week specifically I was needed here and not in Lake Powell. It was great. We had the highest numbers that I´ve had my whole mission. Not that the numbers matter, but for reals we visited soooo many investigators and are seeing lots of potential progress so please pray for the people in this sector to progress because they are sooooo close. If you could pray specifically for:

Gonzalo and Ana Maria

Andrea, Belen, Mauricio, and Christian Pinchetti

Jackeline Adasme

Jose, Rosa, Fernanda, and Isidora Navia

Hector and Marta

and Clementina

Well you will be glad to know that I was able to use my piano skills this sunday in sacrament meeting and man were they really tested haha. It was quite the adventure. We were singing the last hymn in sacrament meeting "The Spirit of God" and 3 of the little kids came up on the stand to see me play.... One of the mom came and grabbed two of her kids but the other kid, Rola (like 5 years old, he is the son of our Recent Convert Nancy and he is known for being the little stinker in primary) stayed and was watching, he kept calling my name and trying to get my attention but I was playing piano so I couldn't do much. So he started waving his hands in front of my music and he bumped the book that was propping up the hymn book. So that book fell on to the piano and made a huge noise and the book was playing from fell over. So I stood up while playing to read the book that had fallen on the piano, my comp was trying to lead the music while trying to prop my book back up but it didn´t work so I told her not to worry about it. But then rola came around the piano and tried to put it back up with the other book but he had it half closed and was shaking it back and forth which was suuuuuper hard to read, and then he came up on the bench to put it back up but he was right where my hand needed to be to play the notes, so I was trying to keep playing, read the music, tell him not to worry about it and to just leave it there and get my hand to the right notes which was nearly impossible. Finally an 85 year old lady came and carried Rola away screaming and I finished playing. Hahaha it was funny, everyone came up and congratulated me afterwards for doing a good job of playing the hymns we all had a pretty good laugh.

Well I gotta go, great to hear from you all! Have a happy 4th of July!

With love