OH Buddy!!!!!!

Hey!


So wow.... Lots has happened this last week... I cant believe it. Tell kiera I love her and will pray for her everyday! I cant believe that though... That is so insane. I know everything will be ok though! I am glad you are keeping in touch with her and everything is going well in work with the girls and with tony. It is good to hear that. So, P-day is on monday. just so you know haha

CHILE, I LOVE IT HERE! I am being completely honest it is so freaking amazing here. I will send you pictures soon. Oh, this letter is going to be all over the place just so you know. First off, It takes 10 days about to get letters, assuming they dont get lost or stolen along the way(which has happened 2 to my companion) then it can take longer to get from the mission house to me. Everything gets sent to the mission home and then they distribute it out when we have conferences and stuff like that. This is because my companion and I are like 3 and 1/2 hours away about. haha so it can take a while. So after saying that it would be better if everyone in the family just emailed me. Oh and I have no requests for american things. I love the culture here and the people and just everything. It is different though because they are a very "loving" people. Especially in the parks and other public places haha it is so weird. besides that though I have recieved no culture shock. I just love it and get how they live. well for the most part. The only cruddy thing is, is when they feed you lunch(which is the BIG meal here) they expect you to eat everything! and when you are done they ask you if you want more and if you dont accept they can and sometimes do get offended. SO much food! I am not even kidding! I can eat like one meal a day and that is it. I cant fit anymore food in my stomach haha I love the food here though! IT is so much sweeter. and better especially the bread! but that will get you so fat so fast haha it is made from lard pretty much haha gross but SO good haha. I have never seen a more ghetto place in my life haha I was told it was pretty ghetto before the earth quake but now it is worse haha especially in my area TALCA. But hey, I LOVE IT! It is everything that I wanted haha. When I go in to my house we have this huge gate that we have to unlock and then we go in lock they gate and then we unlock the door and then lock it when we get in. haha Everyone has gates and huge locks and stuff like that walls with shards of glass cemented in on top, barbed wire haha Oh and another thing, I HATE DOGS!!!! I hate them now. I cant stand the little suckers! There are SO many dogs just running wild down here it is insane. They get in packs and will go fight or just do other stupid weird things. They even sometimes attack people, I havent really been attacked yet but I will be sometime haha they eat all of the garbage that is just everywhere and sleep where ever they can haha insane. this is because the peoploe get them when they are puppies and when they grow up they just get rid of them. I cant understand half of what they people say here haha oh well though. the people we are teaching are so so cool and I know what they say because I love them haha but I still need my trainer to help translate sometimes. haha My comp/trainer is Elder Pulver. He is from layton and he is such a stud! I love him so much and we get along great! He is very good with people. He reminds me alot of steven swenson but way different at the same time. I love him haha I already went through my first earth quake!!! IT WAS AWESOME! It was only like a 6 and only lasted for like 20 seconds but was still cool. It rocked the house. So my investigators are, Songel(20) with her little girl. She is proggressing so fast and I am excited for her! the there is loreto and her boy michael who I love and we are making good proggress with them as well. then maria and veronica their parents just got baptized and now we are working with them, their husbands are making it difficult though. then marcia, and her family. they are cool too! I have talked with them much though. and I think that is all the ones we are working with everyday. we have others but they just are not really proggressing which sucks. But soon enough. The ward is really nice and accepting. There are not that many people in the ward that come. Chileans are very lazy. it sucks haha so yeah I think that is all I can really think of that is going on. My district rocks, mission pres and his wife are nice, I didnt get much time with them but they are very kind and take care of us. I cant really think of anything else to write. There is just so much I could spend literally hours but I am trying to make it short.

Do me a favor... Tell tanner to just write me on this... It will take FOREVER to get letters and talk if we do mail. it will take months to get 2 or 3 letters to and from one another. But she can still write some haha if she wants. So.... This next part is for tanner. :)mom... Dont read... I know it is tempting...but dont ;)haha who am I kidding I know you are going to read it anyways.

Well I love you family! :) Talk to you next week.


Love,
Elder Brown