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

March 16, 2015

haha so it was really fun week this week but also kinda hard! haha we are always doing so much and running from one place to another but it doesnt feel like things are progressing like they should and we arent baptizing as much but we are working to get to it!

so this last week we had zone conference with president and it was really good!! we got to watch the Meet the Mormons and it was really really good!! haha it made me want to endure to the end and do everything that is good and fun in the world! haha its going to be really fun!! haha it was really cool also to see how much the gospel changed that life of that mom at the end and also in how great the impact of what we do can have on people in like 20 years. its a really good movie and if you guys havent seen it i invite you all to do it!! what have you got to loose!!!???

so also another wild fire happened this last week almost exactly one year from that huge one in valparaiso and we were right next to it once again! haha it was a huge cloud of smoke! so i had to do a baptism interview for one of the district leaders and we came out of the interview and the sky was red from all the smoke that was billowing in front of the sun and as we got into a taxi to got to out sector i heard on the radio that they were having my old sector, nueva aurora, get ready to evacuate just in case the fire got out of control and so i felt like i needed to call the other zone leaders for the stake im in so they could call the elders that were in nueva aurora. so i called them and it turns out that they are so far away from the city that they knew there was a fire but not how big it was and so they called the elders and had to check up on them! haha it was a kinda crazy. hope that makes sense what i just explained!" hahha. 

and then yesterday we had a meeting with the High Counselman from the stake to talk about what we are going to do for a meeting we have. and when i walked out guess who was there?!! BAVI!! haha it was really good to talk to him and to be about to see him! i talked to him a little bit and the cool part to was that he was going to say hi to my convert because it was her birthday today!!! haha and it was super cool i got to see solange 2 times in viña this week! haha it was really cool!!!! 

im doing good and me and my comp get along really well!! for example we shot nerf guns this morning to figure out who does what for the cleaning today...... i have to clean the floor and wash the dishes!! HE GOT LUCKY!!!!!!!!!

i want to send you guys pics but i have another virus on my camera card. so i dont know if you just want me to save them and show you guys after or if you want me to send them anyways!!???

also if you guys could send me The Barrons Foriegn Language Guide for Portugues! that would be great!! Pres Kähnlein said i can study it so if you wanted to send me that book or whatever grammer book that is good would be awesome!!

love you guys!!!!

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