How is everyone? Sounds like everyone´s Christmas and New Years went well. Sounds like the party was pretty fun.
For New years we went over to Jose´s house. He is the guy in the picture of me holding the little girl. They are an awesome family. He is willing to move out of the house to get baptized. We had dinner with him and they had a huge barbecue for us. I felt like it was a Chilean Tucanos because I´d finish a piece of meat and next thing I new there was another piece in its place. They cooked a ton. We had Steak, grilled chicken, ribs, potato salad, green beans, and bread. Jose and his paraja Angelica had their son and daughter over. Each are married and have two little girls. One of them was the little girl in the picture i sent. The other little girl is a little older and is really shy. We were supposed to be home at 11 and got stuck at his house til 11:30. We got him talking about being a carabiñero and he just kept going on. He told us that after our mission if we come to Chile again we can come and stay with his family. If you guys come to pick me up in two years we are definitely visiting him. He basically told us ¨Mi casa es Su casa.¨ He Is SO AWESOME! He told us he was going to buy us a Christmas present but didn´t get to Santiago. He is going to get his 3 Carabiñero suits and have us all put them on and get a picture dressed up as Chilean cops. He is also going to get us Carabiñero pins to wear on our suit coats. He said he also has another surprise so we´ll find out about that by the end of January.
One of our next door neighbors who is a part member family invited us over for once and a lesson with the dad who isn´t a member. They always drink a hot drink, coffee, hot chocolate,Pero etc. and eat bread with ham and cheese or something like it every night. They have a daughter that has a kid that is about 5 years old. When we were all making our drinks they brought out the pot with boiling water in it. They poured some in the kids cup and he didn´t know it was boiling and took a huge gulp from his straw. he screamed, Spit it out, and started crying and screaming. It had burnt his mouth and all the way down his throat. Before we could do anything the sister took off for the car to go buy medicine. I am always the one that gets the idea to give a blessing so of course i asked if they wanted us to give him a blessing. We gave him a blessing and by the time we were done he was pretty much asleep. We checked with them a couple days later and they said he was fine like nothing happened. I was so glad because the dad isn´t a member and he witnessed all of this. He told his wife he promised he would go to church everyday this next year so I guess we´ll see what happens.
Well... I was really getting used to Chile and the food and everything until I found this....
...I had laid down on my bed to read before bed, looked up and this little friend was about 4 feet above my bed on our slanted ceiling. We ended up catching it in a jar and have been feeding other bugs we catch in the house.haha It is so nasty.
This last Sunday we had 75 people at church. 5 minutes before sacrament meeting we had 20. It is so depressing. People were up until about 5 in the morning on New years. No one was at church.
We haven´t heard anything about the new Strength for Youth. I´m glad they changed the modest clothing thing. That is about to make me throw up down here. We saw a lady that i swear was around when the dinosaurs were that was wearing short shorts and basically nothing up top. She was wrinkly, old and saggy. I just about threw up. Even some of the members are a little edgy. Most of the people I see wearing such little clothes... Really shouldn´t be... because usually they aren´t good looking at all. It is really a problem down here.
Well i´m going to try and write some more emails but that's about it. We are waiting for tomorrow to see if Raul and Raquell´s divorce goes through. Pray for them. We really need their divorce. Well i love you guys and miss you all.
Con Amor,
Elder Torgersen
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