Hello Fam!
How is everyone? Sounds like its been a party at the house. I´m glad it finally snowed up there. It´s about time. Since January is almost over. Sounds like a lot was going on this last week.
I just about cried seeing the pictures of Mckay. I cant believe he finally got his call. Mexico City!! He´s going to die. I´m super excited for him.
That totally sounds like Ethan. Putting J Dawg stuff on everything. Where did he go Riding? Your emails are almost as bad as mine and you aren´t learning a new language. They are super confusing and freaking random.
To tell you the truth this last week... Sucked. Citas kept falling, We were outside in the heat all day everyday. And all of our investigators were having the same stupid problem. They all needed to get divorced and wait to get married. It is so ridiculous. I hate how long they have to wait. I´m afraid they are going to lose interest. Raul and Raquel are golden though. They go to church every Sunday and give us really good references.
My talk went well. Everyone kept telling me,¨You learned Spanish.¨ really I just had Elder Teske translate it. Surprisingly I did a lot of it though.
A little ironic but I think I´ve been exposed to more on my mission than I ever have been. Profanity, pornography, Smoke, Drugs, Alcohol, etc. Never thought it would ever happen especially on my mission, but I´m pretty sure Elder Teske and I drank alcohol this last week. We went over to an investigators house and we found out he was moving into the other elders sector. He was having to move stuff from his house into a truck. We started to help and he asked us if there were stuff we couldn´t eat or drink as members of the church. We told him the 5 things-Tea, coffee, drugs, tobacco, and alcohol. After awhile he brought us drinks. Mine smelt really funny and the first sip was a little funky but my comp kept drinking it. I took a couple more sips and decided not to drink anymore. While we were moving stuff out I went into the kitchen and smelt the bottle of soda they had given us and it wreaked of alcohol. I´m not 100 % sure we drank straight up alcohol but we think it was in the cup when they poured the soda in. We felt horrible for the rest of the day. I can tell you now I´m going to watch what I eat and drink for now on. The smell haunts me every time I take a drink of anything.
This last week me met a guy from Switzerland that had moved to Chile 18 years ago. His accent was wicked. I could hardly understand him. It was really cool. ha I couldn´t really tell what language he was speaking.
I never thought I would buy a fanny pack... But it happened. I bought a fanny pack. It was the perfect size for my scriptures and it is a little easier and less sweaty to carry around. I got a bag just like a couple other elders in the district but mine cost $15 cheaper than theirs. It isn´t quite a fanny pack but it has a shoulder strap and kinda looks like one. Fanny packs are really popular down here. It´s awesome. Everyone has them. They are kinda handy.
I had a mini cambio with an Elder this last week. Elder Scott. He is from Ogden, Utah. He broke his leg really bad here in Chile and had to go home for two cambios. He had just gotten back. We were teaching a lesson outside and a plane flew by. He asked me, ¨how far away do you think that plane is?¨ I said,¨I dunno maybe a mile.¨ And he replied with,¨Nope it´s 20 months away from you buddy.¨ He thought he was pretty funny. I got my first Greeny joke.
I´ve never been so happy in my life. The Elder from El Salvador is going 5 cities away from me. Last Tuesday I almost punched him. Every Tuesday we have District class. We take a bus to a city called Parral and meet as a district and then as a zone. Our alarm was still set for 8:30 because of P-day so we woke up at 8:00 wondering why the alarm didn´t go off. We woke up, got dressed, and ran to the bus. I had grabbed a couple snacks to eat for breakfast on the way. During our district class while my comp was doing a practice with the other Elders, the Elder from El Salvador walked over. Opened my bag. took a bag of chips and walked back to his seat and started eating them. I was ticked. Then next thing I know he takes one of my pens and starts using it. Elder Teske basically had to hold me back from completely killing this kid. I´ve definitely had to learn some patience because before the mission I would have dropped him. He ended up losing my pen (one of the nice ones I got from Grandpa). The whole district is ready to kill this kid because he is such a baby. He has been calling a girl in our ward and talking to her for over 30 minutes almost every night, and the other day Elder Scott told me they spent 5 hours over at a members house just chilling. Then he borrowed a bike from a member and ended up getting a flat from a nail. The member came to get the bike and he completely lied to them. I guess he has lied about a lot of stuff and Elder Scott has called him out on it and then he freaks out because Elder Scott is listening in on his conversations. The kid basically does what he wants. It makes me mad because none of the leaders will do anything about it. I almost cried when I found out he was leaving.
Hopefully this next cambio will go better. I found out my Papi is going to a little town in the campo. Sounds like my English is only going to get worse. I´m super excited. I will be comps with an Elder Andrade from Honduras. He was Elder Scott's comp when he broke his leg. I talked to Scott about him and he said he was really cool. SO hopefully he´s not like the other Elder. We swear we had the only two Latinos that don´t like sports in our district. So i´m hoping he does.
We found out this week that in the city we are in there have been a group of people that kidnap kids from 5 to 10 years old, Kill them, take out the organs, sell the organs, stuff the body with sawdust and leave the bodies in a field with about $600 for the funeral. It makes me sick that someone would do this. I honestly haven´t missed seeing TV or any of the news. It freaks me out that this has been happening close to where we live. It is so messed up that some one would be that messed up.
While we were writing these emails I felt my first Temblor. Or fist little earthquake. It was awesome. Any other time it has happened I have been asleep. I was pretty excited.
I also was wondering if you could have Grandpa Kratchen send me a story of his Conversion story.
Well this next Sunday we should have 2 Baptisms. The reference we got from Raul and Raquel. Lorena and her daughter Anais. I absolutely love this little family. The mom is awesome and the little girl is really funny. I´m super excited. The mom brought her Boyfriend to church and he really liked it. We have taught him and he is pretty excited. I guess we´ll see what happens this next week.
Well I love you guys. Hope everything is going well. Love you!
Con Amor,
Elder Torgersen
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