Last week, last letter

Hello friends and family

Well... not sure what to say... Last week here in the mission and I´m just about going crazy. I´ve got a mix of emotions. I want to come home but I´m going to miss the happiness and even the upsets of the mission. It has been something I have never felt before. The bishop made me give my testimony in sacrament meeting even though I  have this next Sunday to do it. And of course I cried... Every member after kept asking me if I seriously was going home in a week. I don´t feel like its coming to an end.

Well this week was a disappointment. The lady that we had with a baptism date for the day I left got sick and now can´t be baptized. We were really bummed that she couldn't go. Well... it has definitely taken some patience to work with my comp.

This week we had an elder get emergency transferred... lets just say flirting with girls in your ward in front of the stake pres... is A STUPID IDEA... He got transferred and only has a week left also. I had told the AP´s about it and they had given him one chance left... He went on ahead and did it still. He got transferred out and another gringo got transferred in.

I am finding it extremely hard to stay awake and not fall asleep. I feel like every day I have less energy. I don´t plan on waking up early, shaving or walking the week I get home. 

This week we are going to work the hardest we have ever worked. I realized that I will probably not baptize again. but I figured I´m going to do all I can to leave the sector the best I can before I leave. I have completely re done our map and put on it where all the members live and all the INV´s live. My Comp has no idea what he is doing and is still completely lost here in the sector. It is really kind of sad.

Well I have no idea what to say... I love you guys and will see you... Next week...

Elder Torgersen

Hello friends and family!

This week has been extremely hard. I have never been so mad, frustrated and just ready to come home. Problems with INV´s, comp, ward, and just about everything else. I wish we could serve a mission with how it was back in the day. Without so many goals and leaders watching over you and telling you what to do. I´m about ready to drop one of the AP´s with have and the two ZL´s here. 

Well...My comp is driving me nuts... still. He thinks that he is the perfect missionary but has yet to open his eyes and see that he is one of the problem missionaries. He is constantly saying stupid stuff and the members don´t like him at all. I have had a couple mini cambios and the members have asked a ton of questions. I have had to apologize to the members for the way he acts! I have to ask the members and INV´s to turn off the TV or he gets sucked in immediately. 

I have found a new hobby!! Something that not only is really fun but that is going to help me keep the spirit when I get home, maybe keep me out of trouble also haha. I have started Indexing and I freaking love it. I have been going every Thursday morning to help out a little ol lady in the church with indexing. I have been reading Chilean papers from 1890 and writing in all the info. It has been so much fun. I will for sure be doing it when I get home. I promised the little ol lady I would continue helping out with my Chilean brothers from the states. 

We contacted all week and didn´t have any success up until Saturday night at 9:00. Last house that we contact the lady lets us in and accepts a baptismal date and says she will go to church on Sunday. We ended up getting her to church and she loved it. If everything goes well she will be baptized the night before I come home. We were really excited. We hadn´t had any success and finally last minute we find someone. I had been really discouraged because my comp just doesn´t learn. He struggles talking to people and says the same thing in every contact. 

This week had been really tough though. The members know I only have 2 weeks left and keep bugging me about it. If we go to their house to eat lunch or visit they talk about home and stuff and we lose a ton of time. I have decided we are going to  take as little time as possible there in their houses. We did have a member take us to lunch today and we ate sushi. We all four ate over 40 rolls of sushi. It was really good. 

I am having mixed emotions about coming home. I´m ready to take the next step and get studying and working but don´t want to leave teaching the people I have come to really love. There are so many members and INV´s that I´m gonna miss a ton. I´m just happy that the technology will allow me to keep in contact with them.

Well I am excited to work my butt off these next two weeks. Love you all and see you really soon 

Elder Torgersen