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.
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