May 4th,

mom thanks a million for you help on the letter! and thanks for telling me to smile! it helps a lot and it really does help me in the hard moments!! haha! it helps alot!! and thank you for the conference talks!! those help me and i love reading them because i know you guys felt impressed to send them to me!!! keep em coming!!

love you mom and know that im super excited to see you!! i will call just a little bit before 8 oclock (going by the time here) i think thats like 4 in utah! haha i would check that one!

love you mommy!!

Elder Ethingotn

haha i cant even handle that fact that people are starting to come home! haah its just blowing my mind. going by the amount of time that i have been in this sector, if you double that time, i will have been home for a week haah i literaly dont comprehendo how time is going by so fast!! haha that drink place sound kinda awesome! DRINKING AND DRIVING IS A CRIME KIDS!!!!!! and get me a strawberry shortcake!!

haha im so excited to swim. its goign to be awesome!!

so this week was really kind of interesting!! so to start of we had interchanges with some elder and i was with the first english elder that i ever met in the mission! his name is elder hansen (typical gringo name haha but at least the people can say his name! a lot dont even try with mine!) and so we got work for a little and it took us 2 hours to just change comps because of traffic SUCH A WASTE OF TIME! haha and so that was a fun change and the wednesday my comp got sick with what i had 2 weeks ago and so we had to be in the pension for wednesday and thursday! i was able to read everthing that you guys sent me adn it was really good! the talk about courage by the prophet was really good and also the sleeping during the restoration haha that one was seriously what i needed to kinda wake myself up.,,,,,,... haha get it wake my self up.... and you gave me a talk about not sleeping........KNEE SLAPPER!!!

we also had a meeting on friday with pres his wife and the asistents and it was really good! the spirit was way strong and really it was really fun to be able to be in that meeting. that is honestly one of my favorite things to about being a zone leader is that we can have these meetings! its such a blessing! DE VERDAD!! 

then lo and behold on saturday my sickness came back!

so i have been in the bathroom again and now im going go to the doctors appointment this time when i get one schedueled. haha its really annoying to have to be worried about it all the time! honestly its one of the most stressful things that has happened in my mission! haha its a joke! but i ddi have a cool experience yesterday! so i was really tired yesterday and just before we left i said a prayer and asked that i could be good enough to work till the end of the day with out problems so that we could actually work. and guess what!? i was totally fine for 6 hours of working and we taught 2 lessons and it was a pretty good day and when i was turing the key to the house my prayer had been answered and i was immediatley called to the bathroom again!! im doing good and i know that the Lord is goign to allow me to do what he really need me to do and i just need to believe in Him. 

it was a good week :)

love you guys and i will see you all at 8 oclock  on sunday! we have changes this week but while we were talking to president on friday he may or may not have told me and my comp that we will both be staying! haha so i doint think im going to be changing but who knows what will happen!! i will call you guys without fail at 8 on sunday that is for sure!! l

love you guys!!
 NOS VEMOS  

April 27,

haha that sounds really cool! haha its hard to understand that amber is home now haha! It just kinda  blows my mind that it is all passing by so fast! haha! and i actually dont hardly talk to anyone! we just talk by the group chat thing that we have haha.  i cant believe that josie is going to college haha i just dont understand. its kinda wierd how life is just starting to get here and its really fun to see what we can do with it all!!! haha

so this week we had a really good week!! so we had 2 baptisms! it was freaking awesome!! so i got to baptize both javier and jose! javier was awesome and a bunch of his family came who are less-active members and then his niece (who is older than him haha) came and she isnt baptized and she also came to church with javier and his mom for the confirmation and we are going to teach her this week and get her baptized as well!! haha! so jose also got baptized and it was probably the most special baptism that i have been able to take part in. so this guy was the national boxing champ when he was 23 years old and then he decided that it wasnt a job conducive to a happy family life, so he quit. then he has been working in a successful job for his entire life and also was super famous because of his boxing career and everyone and the dog litterally know him. haha. he had a heart attack 6 months ago and he almost died. because of his heart attack he then had to stop smoking (Gods Plan is Perfect) than after 5 months of not working he was helping his sons father in law and the missionaries in that city passed by and started talking to him. one of the missionaries who came to the mission with me talked to him. they then passed the reference to us and we started teaching him. more than that we almost gave up trying to find his house because it wasnt easy to find at first. The man has had everything that the world has to offer and he regonized that he was missing something in his life. when he came up out of the water he had his hands to his face and i thought that he was wiping the water from his face. turns out he was crying. crying because he knows that he has been cleaned from the sins of the world and that he has started a new life. he gave me a hug and cried on my shoulder and i have never felt so acutely the Spirit testify to me that Baptism Cleans us of our sins and makes us whole. Jose is honestly one of the biggest examples that i have and im so SO SO SO SO SO SO grateful for the calling that i have to teach people about the gospel of  faith in Jesus Christ and Repentance! I love being a missionary:) 

we now dont have a lot of people to teach and we need to get finding!

mom here is the copy of the words an how they need to be written!

i will type it out next time for you!

Bueno, espero que les haya ido muy bien este mes y que realmente hayan hecho lo que es lo más importante para ustedes!! Ustedes son muy especiales y sepan que Dios les ama!

Este mes pudimos escuchar al profeta y los 12 Apóstoles, quiero agregar mi mensaje a lo que ellos dijeron y especialmente a lo que el profeta dijo. El Templo puede y debe ser el centro de nuestras familias. El templo nos brinde paz y felicidad en los momentos más débiles. No tenemos ser PERFECTOS pero tenemos que ser DIGNOS. No son los mismo, hay una diferencia….Al ser dignos al entrar el templo nosotros cumplimos con los requisitos que Dios ha mandado, atreves el Profeta y los 12. Si no somos dignos tenemos que arrepentirnos. Es sencillo y nos hace feliz. Hagamos los cambios para que entremos en el Templo todo juntos y participemos del Espíritu des Señor. Que el sea el centro de nuestras vida. Hagamos los sacrificios para ir.

¿Somos como el pueblo de Rey Benjamín? Mosiah 2:5-6

Estuvimos caminando en la Calle Valparaíso en el centro de Viña, y de la nada avele de asado! Que rico! Empezamos a buscar de donde venía… lo encontramos y un hombre estaba al lado al parilla. Después también vi que el hombre tenía una sierra! Las ganas que tenía se me fueron y también nos fuimos nosotros. De alli para comprar almuerzo mas rico, a un hombre menos peligroso!

Busquen las respuestas en las palabras de los profetas! Se que las encontraran!

i would send you pictures but now my card reader broke..... again! haha i will send them next week love you 

April 20

haha well mommy im feeling better! haha i still have to go to the bathroom a random times but im better than i was! haha thursday it got bad and they schedueled an appointment with the doctor for next monday! the health care here is so slow! hahah that was the next closest time i could go but ill survive! haha but since then i ahve felt better! haha its was fun this week and we had a good turn out at church! in total we had 5 investigators come to church and we are totally going to have 2 baptisms this weekend! haha it is going to be awesome! onve one of them was a boxing champion of Chile who has litterally everything he could want and he just told us. " i have a house family, money, everybody knows me, and i still feel like i need something else, and its God, thats what i need!" basically those are the most blessed words someone can say to a missionary and oh how blessed we are! hahah he is acepting everything and really we are going to  have a really fun time this week! haha we have got a ton to do but we will get it all done! hahha! im so excited! its going to be awesome! 

i got to go on interchanges with one of my old comps elder campzano and man was it fun to see! hahah i was able to tell him how thankful i am for the time that we had together and what i could learn. it was interesting becuause when i was with him he cut me a couple time for things that i was doing that werent obedient and i really made the decision with him that i was going to be obedient because I WANTED TO BE OBEDIENT.  i really feel like that was when i felt like it changed from being MY mission to the LORDS MISSION and we all know that that, is what will really bring peace and happyness into our lives and we will come out victorious in the end!! im really grateful for what i could learn from him and for the chance to thank him for it also! i also saw a guy that was cooking a BBQ and then he had a saw in the other hand so im not totally sure what kind of meat he was cooking but i sure didnt buy anything from him!! 

the new converts are doing really well and they are just hungry to learn and they have the Holy Ghost to help them whch is really cool to see how it helps so much and they learn and absorb everything so easily! haha its really fun to see!!

mom speaking of that i was wondering if you could help me with my converts!!! so  im just doing a monthly news letter that im sending and i was wondering if you could help me with it and make it look cool and pretty at the same time, so that i can print it and send to my converts that i have! could you get it to me by next monday if i sent it to you?

for all the college stuff i cant log on to anyother website unless its the church website and this email page to write you guys so if you wanted to send me the essays of the stuff that i need to write out and then i can get it too you in photos. and then ill just sign up for the spring semester. do you know if i still have my scholarship from weber state?

i hope you guys get rained on and then you go snowboarding or sledding in the mountains to take advantage of what you guys got! 

love you all and thank you for all your prays!! mom im going to keep on  smiling! haha you should look up this video called El Poder de la Sonrisa haha we watched for a counsel with pres and it was pretty funny! its going to be weird that he changes but ive heard from alot of people that our new pres is reallly loving. haha he will be my pres for 2 months so i guess ill get to know him a little! haha ill miss president Kähnlein and Sisiter Kähnlein though! they are really awesome people!

i love you guys so much and we will be seeing each other in like 3 weeek with the motherday call!

CHOW CHOW!!

April, 13 2015

well leonor is doing really well and she also got confirmed yesterday and it was really cool!!

haha i cant believe that nathan is back! that is seriously so scary and awesome and i just dont even know what else! haha i dont understand just how fast time is going by and i CANT BELIEVE AMBER IS GOING TO BE HOME!!!!! SHE´S TOTALLY GOING TO BE MARRIED BEFORE I EVEN GET HOME!! HAHAHA SUCKER!! i have less than 5 months as of saturday and i think my mind just gets blow more and more by how fast is all is going by! what doesnt help with that is that we had interviews this last week and as we sat down in the interview Presidente Kähnlein laughed and said: Well this is our last interview together! i was just like holy crap!! haha the interview we had was super good and he helped me feel at peace with my question of what should i do with my life after the mission! he told me that im a successfull person and that i can do what ever i want and that if i focus on my mission now He will bless me even more abundantly after my mission and that i can just worry about the mission now! he even said i shine!! i just felt like i got a really strong answer that it is all going to be alright and that i just need to help the Lord as much as a can right now and all that doors that i could ever want and need will be ready to be opened when its time to open them! so now i just need to make sure i close this door really really good! 

haha so we also had a good week and we are teaching this guy that is super awesome. he totally wants to find that truth and he really is just chugging along on his way to baptism! hahah its really fun to see peopel who progress in the Gospel so easily and we are going to put a baptismal date with him today! he came to church this week and he really liked it a lot!! and we have this other kid Javier who is really awesome and he has a baptismal date for the 25 and he came to church yesterday as well and he is just chugging along as well! but after that we need to find more people that are ready to get baptized.

so i was still kind sick this last week and i have been fighting with and upset stomach! haha oh how grateful i am to have a mission nurse who knows what shes doing becuase i would be screwed if it wasnt for her! haha its so awesome how the gospel is becuase we fasted this week becuase it was the first sunday, i hope all you guys fasted too!!! and i was feeling really good! and a whole lot better! my stomach didnt bother me i felt like i had energy and that i was doing just fine! haha so we finished our fast after church and i started eating my stomach didnt like the spoon of peanut butter and juice that i had and i had to go to the bathroom. so then we walked to lunch adn i just felt like weak haha but after i ate lunch, and i ate hardly anything, i felt terrible!!!! haha we had to call the nurse and we stayed in the pension yesterday. and i slept for 2 and a half hours and then i read the BoM. we tried leaving but i got about 5 min from the pension and we  had to turn around again and it was really wierd!! i have never had to stay in the pension for and entire day and it went nby really slow! i feel rested but i still havent had hardly anything to eat and my stomach just feels kinda sucky! haha but the nurse said taht i just need to rest for a sum totall of 24 hours and i will be better! haha like i said a billion times before my mission. I´ll survive :)

my comp is pretty hilairious!

my card for my camera is flipping out so i will send some pics of the baptism when it stops being stupid!!

love you mamita!

hey mom so are you guys still planning on coming to get me?

 is there anything you want from here that i can get you?

April 6, 2015

Green Tobasco from Home!

Used the Tobasco on Breakfast.

Dipped Oreos from Mom for my birthday!

Dunkin Doughnuts at the Mercado

haha so we had a pretty good week adn a really bad week at the same time! haha so it was a really good week becuase we  got leonor ready for her baptism, finished teaching her everythignt and we get her to pass her interview and she got baptized inbetween the session of General Conference and it was really cool because we had the service in the stake center and she got baptized with another lady also! it was a DOUBLE BAPTISM!!! haha it was also really fun becuase she asked me to baptized her so that was awesome and it also gave me a momente to whip out the TEVAS and strut around with a terrible sock tan line! haha it was a glorious day!! haha and we also had counsel with president and it was freaking awesome! there is a big focus on humility right now and it was really spiritual counsel i think for that reason! i heard a cool phrase the presidente kähnlein said. all of confernce is done so that we can live the commandments easier. haha its super true! 

so conference was super cool and we had a really good turn out! it was so helpful to hear all the counsel that the Lord has for us and i could really understand a lot about what the Lord wants me to do and how to be a better missionary in His hands! it was really fun to see how many people can really just come together and be focued on the same thing and all of the sudden we hear just what we need to here for are lives from the same talk! the prophet is getting old! haha it was crazy to see! hes prob got a lot of stuff to do though!  and i got to see a couple members from the old ward de nueva aurora and it was freaking cool! haha

so now for the bad part! I GOT SICK!! haha it started thursday night and i just didnt feel good at all. i went to counsel on friday with stomach pains and feeling really weak and then on friday night it attacked haha it coming out both ends for a little but i will say after i barfed i felt alot better! haha! and then i went to conference sick but i survived!! haha between thursday afternoon to right now i have eaten KFC (litteraly the worst thing they could have bought us for counsel), a piece of bread, a tiny bowl of oatmeal and finally i got down some spagethi last night. haha i have felt really weak but im feeling a lot better now! 

we are goign to have interviews tomorrow and it going to be grate!

our pres feels like we need to ready this pamphlet "Let Virtue Garnish Thy Thoughts" as a mission and its a really good one to help you avoid the all the bad stuff early!!! i invite you guys to read it!!

wish you luck on your website building!! that will be awesome to see up and going!!

well i think i might just go to weber for the first semester and i should be accepted to there already but if you could send me one to that to UVU, BYU, UofU, Utah State haha basically just all of the them that are close... it wont hurt to try!!

i love you mom and im grateful for you email every week! im sorry that i dont send as a good of and email but i will try and get better emails going!! I WISH COULD TYPE FASTER!!!

LOVE YOU MOMMY!

Elder Ethington

March 30, 2015

well this week was really fun and we were able to do a lot! haha so me and my comp were looking for this less active lady adn we were standing in the street and all of the sudden this REALLY gangster lady gets out of her car and  starts yelling at this guy on the street! haha so i only understood the words "you owe me money" and the rest was a bunch of gibberish and swear words! thankfully thats why i didnt understand!! so she starts like slapping this guy in the middle of the street and the guy just takes it! haha and the the lady freaking pulls out a knife!! haha she cut the guys face with he Camp Keisel knife and cut him, not stab!!, a couple more times and then she got in the car and left with her friends! haha it was the craziest thing i have seen in a while!! hahah but im totally fine and we are going to baptize someone this next week named leonor! she is so awesome and she is way excited and has told us multipule times that she wants to get baptized!! its going to be awesome!!! and we are going to baptize her at general conference in the stake center! Leonor is one of the Chosen!! its so crazy because this is litterally my last general conference! i dont understand how time can even pass this fast!! it so crazy to me how hard you have to push to get past the first year and then once you get there its like you jump of a cliff and are in free fall mode! haha in two weeks i will only have 4 months left!! its really just a big old joke!! im so excited to get the most out of these last months and really just do as much as acan for the Lord as i can. EVERYTHING IS JUST TO TRUE!!! haha:)

so mom could you get me a cool version of army of helaman to play? we sang it in the ward when we all left and i would like to play a cool version of it when i get home for my farwell but i need time to pracitice it.

also is there anything i need to do for my college applications? if you guys could send me that i can get started on that on my P-day  next week!

thanks mom!! i love you a lot and im SO EXCITED to read you letters every week! thank you for you love courage and support you help SO MUCH and i will put that in pracitce with the invesitgators this week!!

Love you mom

ETHER 6:3 The Lord is always gives us things to help us believe!

March 23, 2015

haha well it was really fun this week and we had a really good week!!

so on monday we went to a huge store that is really nice! and they had dunkin donuts!! haha i havent had an american donut for a year and a half!! hahah that was really good!!!!! and then i made this weird ramen egg and steak sauce sandwich thingy haha.... it wasnt very good but it was eatable!!

 so we got to have splits with the asistants and it was fun! i got to be with the guy that has been asistant for the last 6 months and it was really crazy! hahah we sat down on a bus for litterally 2 minutes and he was fallling asleep! haha he was jsut telling me how he just laughs at how tired he gets haha! haha poor guy!!! and we just walked around in their sector for a couple hours cause that was the first day they had been in there sector working for 2 weeks! haha it was really fun to get to know him though!

 my comp and the other asistant found this lady that we had taught a long time ago and when they started the lesson she said "i want to get baptized!" ahah so we are working with her now! her name is Leonor and she is really good!! its kinda hard for her to understand but she wants to learn!!

ive never seen this in any of my other sectors but it is really hard for anyone to understand anything that trys to get done! likeEVERYTHING WE SAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!        

what did you guys to teach in that kind of situation?...... or just teaching us as kids?........ haha please help.

we did service on friday for a family and we just cleaned up all the garbage around their department. and then we also have been visiting this family who is way cool! the father is in the army and him and his family go and practice Jui Jitsu everyday as a family!! haha its fun to visit them! they just recently got sealed in the temple so we are just trying to thelp them stay active cause they havent came to much these last months! its really fun though!!

they are going to try and get us some GRACIE JIU JITSU t-shirts for us!! which is where they train at!!

and then leonor and her 2 grand daughter came to church yesterday and we had 3 other investigators that came to church so we just need to get them some baptismal dates!! if you guys could pray for them that would make the Lord and me really happy!!!!!!

love you mom and thank you for fotos!! i will try to send granda jones another postcard!!!

LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!!!! Dont get to trunky!!!!!!!!!!!

Elder EThington