June 11th, 2018

Well folks,

My birthday is Thursday and I will turn 20 years old WOW. Shoutout to my dad. HAPPY BDAY ON FRIDAY! AND HAPPY FATHER'S DAY. I love you so much! Literally have the best, patient, supportive, loving, determined, hard-working, funny, and FUN dad. Miss you like crazy!

We had zone conference. My prez showed a video of this war scene for like 25 minutes and the guy was a doctor and he kept saying "one more. Lord just let me save one more" and then he related it to us saving people one by one but with the gospel. We are spiritual doctors! I had an intercambio with the zone leaders and the assistants this week. Our ward had a baptism for an 8 year old girl so we invited literally EVERYONE. Andre drank coffee so we went and bought him Ecco that night. Belen has a baptismal date but her dad said ONLY if she gets better grades in school. Alejandra and Vania both want to be baptized but the dad (carlos) left in the middle of the lesson mad that they had a baptismal date after 5 weeks of lessons (he picked up his keys and said CHAO). And then the mom started to cry because she wants to be baptized but he says "no i command this house". Anyways so that was sad but we found a 9 year old whose family has all been baptized but are inactive and she came to church sunday and the baptism and we put her with a baptismal date. And we had 4 less actives in church sunday! IT STARTED TO RAIN. It is so cold here ah haha (props to people in places with snow). I hate rain bc not only are you cold, but you are wet. 

(I realize it is in spanish but you can still watch the video). It is the new video to show everyone about the temple here. I semi start to cry every time I watch it hahaha

random:
1. hot water does not work in sinks here in chile (only in showers)
2. Chilean slang of the week: caleta (means a lot)
3. Every sacrament meeting the chileans sing "oh, god, the eternal father" during the sacrament (they do not know like ANY of the hymns so they just repeat the same ones) but this week I am going to start teaching piano lessons! I realize I am not very good at piano haah but I figure I can teach the basics.

Scripture of week: D&C 123:17

Thank you so much for all the birthday wishes. I really felt the love here in Chile! I will try to respond in the next few weeks! YOU ARE ALL THE BEST! 

My quote of the week: Smile like a monkey with a banana in its hand. 

~ Elder Nord




A kid wanted to take a picture with me last week when we were out eating

This member's store (every store is so random. here she sells dog food, cheese, and drinks).

We were knocking doors and this guy invited us in and he told us that he had a museum inside of his house of ships he had made. HE WOULD NOT LET US TALK. haha biggest waste of time but super funny. he was really into it.


An umbrella that I got in a package!

My zone. Talcahuano Norte!

My district (the glasses crew) we are "smart"
new blankets for the winter that hna catala gave us


Lunch with member (EQ Prez)

Intercambio with the ZL's

Intercambio with the AP's (elder romero... I lived with him in Linares)

When we have to eat in the doorway to be obedient (she lives alone). It was raining lol.

Nobody came to the EQ activity so we ate all the cake ourselves
Our investigator drank coffee so we went to the store and bought him Ecco.

Banana Phone

The nicest baptism I have ever been to. They had sushi, lemon tarts, flan, chicken, like 10 different desserts, hummus and veggie quish, every type of drinks, fancy cheese and crackers. It was awesome haha

This morning in the office cutting our hair.


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