Monday, September 17, 2012

¡¡¡¡¡¡FELIZ CUMPLEAÑOS!!!!!!

Hello Friends and family!
Well, this week has been kind of all over the place. Lots of unexpected things happening.
Well, this last week we tried to learn how to dance the cueca... It was really kind of funny. Everyone is obsessed with dancing the cueca down here. Everyone keeps asking me what our national dance is... Do we even have one? I don´t think we do...
This week has been really kinda slow. We are still trying to find people to teach and we still don´t know anyone. We ended up doing divisions with the President and a returned missionary last night and we ended up teaching a couple less actives and recent converts. I ended up working with our President. He is really cool. He is also really young. He is only 31 years old. He has a sister and two brothers that live here close by. His brother is the handicapped one that was in my last sector. I feel kind of bad for their family. He is the oldest guy in his family and his mom was a single mom. She ended up passing away and he was left in charge to take care of the other kids. He didn´t get to serve a mission, he´s single, and is the president of a branch that is slowly falling apart. He told me last night that he was glad the last Elder got transferred out. He said he had been talking to Prez to change it up a little. The missionaries here before have just been horrible. He said when I got here he was really glad to see an Elder that was really excited about the work and was ready to work. He said the last missionaries were really lazy.
I can´t even explain the load that I am now having to carry. I honestly don´t know what to do... Every couple days the Assistants or President calls to see how things are going. I don´t really feel like my numbers show the work that we are doing. Every Sunday I have to do something with the meeting. This last week they called me at 11:00 to tell me I had a talk the next morning. I ended up having to pass sacrament, give a talk, and teach a class. I don´t know what I´m going to do because I´ve got so much on my plate with such little time and experience.
After church Sunday I ended up cleaning up our ward list because we have 238 members in the registros and only about 30 show up on Sundays. The ward list is a mess and there are very few people that all the information is written down. Some don´t even have an address. I spent almost an hour and a half trying to organize everything. There is a way with the church program to print a list of members but by street not by the last name. I ended up organizing everything and printed out this list to help us find members and less actives. The president was really kind of surprised at how I did it.
We haven´t done much this week besides contacts. We contacted a girl and her friend randomly shows up behind her... next thing I know, she´s asking me what I´m doing tonight... and tells me their is a party down the street and that I should go. Speaking of parties, everyone down here (including me) is really stoked for 18 de Septiembre. Tomorrow is our real  P-day. We were given an hour today to write our families because tomorrow there is a good chance the Cyber´s will all be closed. We are planning on playing soccer tomorrow with the Zone and doing a BBQ.
Thursday we found out my comp had to go to a Newbie Conference 2 hours away. Thursday night we ended up having to take a bus to Chillan to stay in the ZL´s house. 4:00 in the morning my comp had to take the bus. I spent the day working with my DL. We ended up taking a bus back into Coihueco, worked for three hours trying to find people and at 7 we took a bus back into Chillán. Our comps were supposed to be getting back at 7:30. More than half way to Chillan we get a call saying they are just now leaving the conference and won´t get here till 9. We ended taking would another bus that we thought would take us into my DL´s sector. We ended up taking a micro that was going the opposite way. He was really embarrassed to tell me we took the wrong bus. We ended back up in Los Volcanes!! We had to get out and take the same bus, but going the other way into his sector. We got to his sector and passed by 3 inv. and no one was home. We passed by a member and gave a blessing and then had to take another bus back into Chillan. After that we got to Chillan and had to take another bus to Coihueco. We were on the bus at 11, we had to stand crammed into the isle, and two drunk guys were sitting in the seats next to me. They both had 2 liters of cheap wine and kept asking me if I wanted to take a shot. The guy was acting like he was 5 years old. It was really kind of funny. There was a cute girl that left the bus and the two drunks were blowing her kisses. Let me tell you... it was quite the bus ride home.
This week we were able to find 5 new people and they have fechas for Oct. 13. We will see how that goes. This week everyone gets drunk, eats a lot, and doesn´t do anything for the whole week. We then have a stake conference in Chillan. It is going to be really difficult to get INV. to church in Chillan because it is almost 45 minutes away.
I found out there is an Elder TORGESON in our mission. I guess he is from Cedar Hills. I found out because my DL brought me one of his packages. I thought I had gotten two but one was his. I did get one package that had a bunch of presents in it with medicine. I´m still waiting for the other packages.
Well, I can´t believe how fast time is flying by. I can´t believe I turn TWENTY tomorrow. It´s scary to think in less than a year I´ll be home. It´s scary to think I´m already 20. Looks like you guys had quite the party without me. In the picture of ¨my party¨ I thought Easton´s roommate was Kristy Kohlert. Did Colten try to get their numbers? haha Not gonna lie Easton is really cute. Still haven´t gotten a letter from her.
I thought Ethan's way of asking to homecoming was awesome. Where did he get that from? Also tell him there is a book called ¨My Orange Duffel Bag¨ by Sam Bracken. My ZL´s dad wrote it. It talks about his life growing up and wanting to play football and the struggles he had with his family and drugs and stuff. It is an awesome book. The book is really cool. He is going to give me a copy. But it is crazy. It talks about how his dad´s life was growing up in Las Vegas. In this book He says at age 12 he had already drunk and done all kinds of drugs. He said his mom found a stash of weed under his bed when he was 12. His mom ended up asking if she could have some. He also learned how to read from pornography magazines his step dad left around the house. His life was completely jacked up and he completely changed it around. He ended up using track and football to turn everything around in his life.
My companions name is Elder Coronado from Peru. He gets very little mail. I feel really bad for him. He has really kinda struggled the last little bit. He says he doesn´t need anything. He says a couple ties would be great but he says thanks.
Yes....I´m about ready to shoot the stupid dog that has been following us. His name is Spongebob. He´s got fleas and just about every other bug, and he smells horrible. He will walk right next to you and if you aren´t watching he will walk out in front of you and stop. I´ve hit him in the head with my knee a couple times because he just walks out in front of you. ALL DAY Friday my DL and I tried to get rid of him. We trying yelling, throwing rocks, and we even tried to lock him behind the gate of someones house. We don´t know how he got out of the gate because it was cement and about 6 feet tall.
I´m not really close to the mission home. The Zone I was in before was the Zone just to the South. The Zone I´m in now is considered OUTSIDE.
Well Not much more. Love you guys and miss you tons.
Elder Torgersen

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