HALO!!

¡¡HALO!!

Hey hey everyone! How are all of you doing? I figured that this would be alot easier to do than to write each of you individually. I have written letters for each of you but I cant send them all at once because that is going to be alot haha it is like 500 peso each so I will send them over time and I have to write other people too. BUT I have written them. I was wondering why I hadnt heard from all of you for a while I was actually really sad as well. But hey, YOU CAN EMAIL ME TOO! I think what I am going to do I write a big email with my week in it and them section it off for each of you ok?¿ cool beans! ;) haha and then you can write me back or whatever you wanna do. Ok? Oh and if you have something you dont want to talk about with everyone and you just want it between us I will send you a seperate email. haha I am just a nice guy like that sometimes. ;) just kidding.

MY WEEK,

Well in the land of Chile this week I had a lot of interesting experiences. Tuesday- well tuesday was a very interesting day to say the least haha we did a mini cambio. Elder pulver went to a different area named piduco. He went with an elder by the name of elder kaykandul haha he is the trainer of elder teske who came to my sector. Wow!! Two brand new gringo´s going out into the world of chile. We were like two little infants. Our parents abandoned us for the day and just said go and have fun. I WAS SO SCARED!! I understood about half of what was going on. haha The crazy thing is, is we had TONS to do that day too. It was a really critical day here in the life of a missionary. first what we had to do was go and visit one of our investigators and teach her about the word of wisdom again and invite her to leave smoking. It was interesting but she said she would do it and has been trying so that was fun. Then we went out and did some street contacting. It was hard and we didnt really get into any houses but we got a few references, so that was good. After we did that we went to a lesson Elder Pulver had set up the week previous. I was really nervous for this one because I didnt know these people and they didnt know really anything about the church and we had to tell them about the vision and baptism and invite them to be baptized. The crappy thing though was we went there and talked to the lady and she didnt want to talk because she said she had verguenza which is like shame or embarrasment because her house is messy but that is just chilean for I am to lazy right now so I dont wanna talk. It was dumb. So we left her house and went to a menos activo. I dont really know how else to say that. Like an inactive member I guess. yeah haha that is it. But her name is Marina and she loves us(missionaries) she calls us her angels haha but we talked with her and she wanted to have a noche de hogar with us which is a famliy home evening so we set that up and then after we shared a brief message we left to go to our next appointment. This was with this lady call Ines. She was an investigator but doesnt want to follow some of the commandments so, yeah. haha but we went by her and wanted to share a message but she got up and started getting ready for something and I thought she said she was making us once. which is like the dinner here but she wasnt. haha so we sat there and waited and then she left and we didnt even get to teach!! ¡¡Que Fome!! But anyways after her we went to luis and loreto´s house and had to teach them about the law of chastity and let them know that they cannot get baptized the 14 because they are not married. It sucked because the day before we had a bomb noche de hogar with them. Oh and what made it worse was when we got there they were all like we consider you guys family. Oh it sucked. But we talked about family and why it is important to god and why we need to keep it specail and that stuff. They understood it but Loreto started to cry and Luis was almost there too! I felt horrible, but I had to let them know and the thing that makes me sad is that they want baptism SO badly. They are willing to do anything and everything to get it. But they dont wanna rush their marraige because it is a big thing and luis wants it to be big and way good! So yeah, I will talk more about that latter :) after them we left and went to Marcia´s. At her house we put on the movie finding faith in christ. we watched that and by the time it was over we were late to get home. So we bore our testimonies on the movie and left. WHAT A DAY!!! Oh and that whole day we invited everyone to church and the noche de hogar with the ward.
Wednesday- So this day I got my comp back and we started the day by going to this man named alberto but he wasnt home and, well pretty much no one was home. untill like seven. It was insane!! So at seven we went to see how veronica was and share with her. After that at 8:00 we went to Luis and Loreto´s house. I was so nervouse. When we got there they let us in and we started talking. We talked a little bit about the law of chastity and their concerns with what they had to do before baptism. You could tell they understood but were frustrated about it. We learned some new things and then we left. we went to Marcia´s next and just talked with her. She it seems like she is not making anymore progress and it really bites.
Thursday- ok This day was kinda just a regular day so I am not going to bore you with to many details but it was effective to say the least.
Friday- This day rocked!!! What we did was our weekly planning in the morning and that went untill lunch which is always at 1:30 so after lunch and our siesta we went out into the world I cannot understand completely. It was fun. haha we went and visited some members and new converts and also the people in our boom boom room. Who are our progressing investigators. Then some other people and did some contacts as well. It was good and then at 8:00 we had our Noche De Hogar with the ward. We showed up a little early to set up and we waited. Around 8:15 we had maybe 8 people. Haha then around 8:30 we had maybe 15 and we were a little upset so we just started and shared a little about the book of mormon and then around 8:45 like 10- 12 people showed up.(just like a chilean, lets arive late to everything.) Stupid. haha but it was really fun. We played some really fun games and had a blast. Everyone loved it. I have pictures and video I will send you one day so be excited.
Saturday- ok this day was cool. After lunch and all of that we are going out to go see Veronica and we had previously decided we wanted to talk about the word of wisdom. As we were walking over there elder pulver looks and me and says ¨elder brown, Do you think we should talk about the atonement today with veronica?¨ I looked at him and was like sure why not. We get in there and talk about it. It went well and found out that she doesnt really have the desire to smoke. It seems also like she is lacking faith and doesnt believe she can. So that was good. After them we headed for loreto and luis. On the way over we both looked and each other and said we should share the atonement with them too. I cant tell you how badly they needed it.!!! I was amazed at how much it helped ease there concerns and troubles. but of course the savior is the only one who can do that! It was cool and as we were talking loreto brought up something we had never heard before. She says, ¨I havent told you or even luis this but a few nights after you came and talked to us and told us we needed to be married I had a dream that I was talking to my family and out of no where came a voice that said I didnt need a big wedding.¨ HA!!! Is what I said. She didnt know if it was an answer or what it was really. She asked us and elder pulver didnt want to be like well duh! Haha so he said it in a way that is pretty obvious that is was an answer and then we gave them lehi´s dream to read and hopefully that works and she realizes hey yeah it was haha. We are going by there today so we will see what happens. :)
Sunday- Ok the only things that was different about sunday was that I saw my first Passed out, Drunk, Chilean, on the side of the road under a tree hahahahahahaha. SO FUNNY!!! I wanted a picture but elder pulver said hey he wont be your last so take one when not as many people are around. Oh and the funny thing was, is later that day I saw another one!! Haha it was cool! But this one was even better because he had a bad bladder. If you understand. But the spiritual thing is that we had 4 investigators show up to church! SO COOL!!!!! I was really happy. So yeah that was my week. A pretty ordinary week but always way fun. :)