March 26


HOWDY YAL!

Well... I think my emails are starting to work now so expect emails from this day forward! No time because I just realized my emails send now.

This week was great. We had 8 investigators in church! Officially started to rain. I hated that day haha. As a missionary nobody wants to be outside in the pouring rain or the blistering heat (already passed the heat in Linares and now gonna start the rain here in Talchuano). In maipuche, talchuano means thundering sky..... so im getting ready for a whole lot of storms. My ward seriously has a problem with singing and so about 3 weeks ago we started a training of how to sing right after the closing prayer. The chorister makes us resing the 3 hymns again and stops us to tell everyone what sounds bad. IT IS SO FUNNY. Everyone is just laughing the whole time. A member showed me "25 cultural differences between USA and Chile" and it is spot on. Look it up if you want to see the main differences. So you know how normally some people do not eat the crust of bread.... yeah well my comp does not eat the middle. Only the crust. Zuchini is my new fav vegetable 8i forget how to spell it). My typical P day is.... wake up do my laundry. Then take a nap. Then write a letter to my family. Then leave to go to email and shop and get the stuff we need (or do something with the district or zone if something is planned). Come back and hang up all my wet clothes on the line and eat and watch approved movies and play with our neighbors haha #missionarySOfunhaha. P day I am so tired from the week I just want to sleep HAHA. 

This week I was super focused on reading the BOM. I have a goal to finish this week. I also got to go to the temple and the spirit felt there is just so great. I LOVE the temple because ultimately that is our goal as misisonaries.... so bring families to the temple to be sealed for time and all eternity. I think so many times we get stuck on the idea that baptizing is the only way to measure success but ultimately if people do not enter the temple, they will not recieve all the blessings that Heavenly Father has in store for us. Obviously, baptiizng is the DOOR to entering the temple so it is KEY. But i just have such a strong testimony of the good things that come after a trial of our faith. My sector was DEAD DEAD DEAD 5 WEEKS ago when I got here and now we are leading the zone. I am sooooo grateful for the help I have recieved and I know that we are recieving success after a couple SUPER rough weeks in the start. SO have faith and keep moving forward and the blessings will come!

Love you all! Miss you! watch General Conf! I am stoked! (I get to watch in english YAY haha). Thanks for your emails!

ALSO, I forgot to tell you all but my investigator who I basically taught everything to got baptized in Linares (my old sector) 3 weeks ago. WHOOO. So happy for her. 


~ Elder Nord (Your fav missionary)


Playing a game with our neighbors on P Day

Gabriel (member)

My district leader

View of the only hill in my area

The starter plate of a typical meal

A nice old member who gave us food

Another view

Temple (front)

Temple again (backside)

Soccer in Ecuador Park in Conception (it is their major park)

Climbed a tree in Ecuador Park with Jose my Venezuelan investigator

Dominos pizza in Conception

My ward printed us the pamphlets in Creole for the Haitians

The weird fruit I talked about last week

Mom- This is for you. You always take pictures of cool flowers in different places of the world


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