March 9 2015

so the kid that got baptized was matias. the kid that baptized him is Juanito and the lady in the foto is Eliana (who is going to get baptized really soon also!!!:)

we dont have daylight savings down here.... anymore! haha they just decided a months ago that they werent going to have it anymore! haha so that is wierd!! but oh well!! haha  

thats really cool that josie is oging to study! haha she is going to be a really good doctor also! haha if she is afraid of watching people die its a good thing that she is working in the thing that makes sure people dont die as fast!!! ahah

so on monday we had a good day and we were able to drink some mountain dwew!! it was abosolutely delicious!! and we ate some empanadas also that were really good and a dessert that is called mil hojas!! loook it up!!! its soooooo gooooooooddddddd!! MANJAR!!!!!!!!!!!!! haha and then we taught a convert and his brother who isnt a member and it was really good!!

tueday!

so we had counsel with pres Kähnlein and it was really good! we watched a video called "El Poder de la Sonrisa" haha it was really fun and we were able to learn alot and im pretty excited to got working!!! haha it was a good time and i also got to eat lunch next to pres and talk to him a little bit it was cook!!!!

wednesday!

so it was kinda hectic and we taught a couple of people.

thursday

we had lunch which was some lemon chicken thing and it was really good and then we had interchanges and i was with my old comp and then the guy who just left from being asistant and it was really fun! haha the old asistant guy is on special assignment selling stuff from the pensions that are clossing and we got back to there house and we had like 7 poeple waiting to buy stuff! he use to be a seller and when everyone left he had mad 250 dollars! haha its was funny to watch him just weezle his way into selling them a lot more than they planned to! ahah it was funn!! i also got a portugués book of mormon so im going to start learning portugués!

friday!

we found one of the smartest and most prepared people on my mission and he is 11 years old his name is Javier! haha he understands everything and he wants to find out if want we share is true ( which it is, so obvioulsly hes getting baptized soon!;)

and then we taught a couple of other people and we had a really good day!

saturday!

it was funn! we walked around a lot but it was nice we actually had time to talk and look for poeple and it was a really productive day that we had! it was fun!!! and we had lunch with a really cool family and the  guy kind reminds me of greg goddridge!!

sunday!

we had 2 investigator (Javier and a lady that isnt married) and we got a violin for my comp who is going to play it for a zone conf that we have tomorrow and he is goign to play be still my soul adn we are going to sing it as a zone!! haha its going to be awesome!!!

love you guys alot and i know that we can be and eternal family!! i know that we have a lot of problems in the life but the faith that is firmly set in out heart, thats set through our service to God and all those around us, WE CAN OVERCOME ANYTHING! I know that is true and i do it in the name of Jesus Christ, our Savior, Amen.

Elder Ethington

March 2, 2015

Elder Ethington, Eliana,  Matias, y Juanito

Well mom thank you so much for that letter!! i love you so much and i couldnt even ask for a better mom in the whole world!! 

i am goin to have a good day!! 

we had a really good week! haha its was crazy

so had a crazy experience

so all of my t'shirts are pretty bad and stuff and all the armpits have turned  blue from the book of mormon being held there! so to say the least it is sometimes uncomfortable to wear shirts like that and so i went on interchanges and turns out that my very first zone leader in the mission finished his mission where i went for interchanges. and he finished litteraly a year ago. and so i went in to the apartment and i was just making sure that the rooms were all clean and stuff and it turns out that i found all of his white shirts that he had left! haha and so i tried one on, and they were all clean also! and after going through all of them i took a totall of like 8 new shirts home! haha and i felt kinda bad taking all of them home becuase i thought that i could just give them away to someone else but i decided to take them home. so one of the shirt that i took was a brand new shirt which was fitted and had a 15.5 neck. haha thats freaking skinny from when i first got to the mission! turns out it fit and i just had this spiritual confirmation that the Lord wanted to let me have those shirts and i was almost denying the blessing that he wanted to give me! and then i realized that it was even more significant when i think aobut how hard i can be on myself and it really is just crazy to think of how much stuff i dont let myself have just becuase i dont allow the blessing to come into my life! haah its was kind of a crazy thing and probably doesnt make sense but it was special for me!

the baptism was awesome and it all turned out good haha!!! those are all the pictures i have!!!

again mom thank you so much for the birthday wishes and thank you for being who you are!! it really makes me happy to be your son and know your the best mom ever!!

LOVE YOU!!!

Febuary 23, 2015

well i have some pretty cool stuff to tell you guys!!

so on monday i was writing in my journal to finish of the day because i had some extra time to do it and so as i was wrtiting about what i thought about extending my mission or not i felt a really strong spiritual impression that i should read my patriachal blessing. so i whipped out my blessing and started reading it! as i was reading it, it says how i need to humbly accept the word of God in my life and if i do so i will always be blessed with what in need. as a read that  part, very strongly came to my mind that fact that the First Presidency, or the Lord, had called me to be a missionary and to finish on the 8th of september 2015 and that is the word of God. after reading that part i recieved and even bigger spiritual confirmation that, like dad said to me, the Lord has and eternal purpose for my life and by trying to pùt my desires, as bad or good as they might be, I am going to be changing the outcome of things that can happen in my life and what the Lord wants me to do. So after writing in my Journal and following the Spirit i know know that i have 6 months and 2 weeeks to serve the Lord with everything i have and then when i get home i can find out what the Lord wants me to do for my life after the mission! i know that by recieving that confirmation im going to be doing what the Lord wants and i will be able to "further my eternal progress", just like a very wise man told me! so get ready! i will be seein you fools in 6 months wether you want to or not!!!

also i have no idea what it is that i want to do after my mission as far as working goes. and it turns out that my comp is also knows a ton about the army and stuff. so we have be talking aobu the army the navy airforce and a bunch of other manly stuff and it has all started being really interesting for me. haha i remember that i went on an army phase also when i was like 16 years old. and so we were talking and i think i might consider joining the National Gaurd as an officer after my mission and have that as my like part time job or something! haha im not sure and not even close to deciding but i dont feel like its just some wierd coincidence that after i just lost all idea of what i want to do with my life the Lord has put me with 2 companions that have really good, solid plans for when they get back. haha so Gods plan is perfect and im really excited for what is goin to happen in my life!!

so matias didnt get baptized becuase he was drinking tea but this sunday he is going to get baptized! haha and his dad who isnt a member is going to come the the service also!! ahha we really need to find some more people to teach and the contacts in the street are all dont have the fondest feeling toward us! haha our sector is 2-3 miles long and in the top part of the sector there are more that 10 evangist chruches within a quater mile radius so its really fun to talk to poeple!

also i just thought that i should send you guys a lovely glammer shot of me at my finest moment this last week. yes that is a tie with jumping sheep on it. i traded with a less active guy in our branch. i call it my "Sheperd Tie"

hey mom i just wanted to tell you that i love you so much and that im really excited to see you in a few months on skype!!! im glad to call you my mom and i know that i will be with you forever!!!! im sure of it!! im so happy that im a part of your life and i want to thank you for your love and patience!!! i love you!!

LOVE YOU!!!

elder ethington