Oct 13th

well this week was super good and im excited to be here and working for 6 more weeks! haha its going to be fun adn its very posible that i will be here until christmas now haha so im just going to hunker down and start working again! hahah!!

lunes

well we taught a new investigator who is way way way good and understood the restauration better than anyone else that i have ever know on my mission ahah it was incredible. haha and he also isnt married so that the catch but we are excited to be able to teach him and his wife and are very excited to see how he goes with everything then we had a lesson with the fam bernal and we thougth we were saying good bye but haha NOPE!!

tuesday.

haha so we pulled weeds again and were working and then some elder lefts their keys and phone in their pension and were able to communicate with us about it and so we spend from 1:30 to 6:30 trying to open thier door and then going to viña opening thier door then going back to viña and then finnally being able to work in our sector. haha and we were goign to teach raul (the convert) but he hadnt showed up from work and sister cañas was pretty worried about him and it turns out that he was in the hostpial because of his heart problems. its actually pretty bad his heart problems and so we are hoping that he feels  better!

Wednesday.

so we were able to teach elias y elias a little about the restauration and then we had a good sheperd pie lunch and then we bought our food for the week beacuse we hadnt bought it because of changes and then we went to the change meeting to take some elder to thier new sector they they are opening up right now and then we were able to teach agusto about obedience with the story of Abraham and Isaac and he actually understood really well so that was awesome!! hahah

thursday }

we taught a guy with scitsofrenia haha thats spelt wrong, and a member came with us. litteraly talked for and hour with out stopping. and hes 28 single and talks more about nothing than anyone else i have ever met. haha but he is funny kinda haha. and then we ha a lesson with raul again and we taught him about how he can pray better and he was able to do a prayer a little better.

friday.

so we had leader counsel meeting friday and it was super fun and i learned a ton. haha they are very inspired and i had some prayers answered for me that i needed answered! haha and we ate pizza. haha i have been eating heathier these last couple months and i really felt pretty terrible after eating pizza for lunch. haha i didnt feel like i had eaten anything but a huge plate of fat that was now lodged in my stomach.

 and then we taught Felipe but it is way hard for him to stop drinking and we are not sure what we can do to get him to stop haha any help?

saturday

had splits with a district leader that is from enterprise utah and we had fun. haha walked aroung all day and talked to people and we finished by teaching an investigator and almost put a baptism date with him but he is a little bit wishy washy on how he is. haha he is a smart guy but he doesnt understad very good the lessons that they have been teaching him.

we actually were able to give an athiest a book of mormon and he said that he was going to read it so that was awesome also becuase he was the first one that would actully listen to us in my whole mission! haha

sunday.

we  had a good church. for the first time in a while we actually didnt have anyone show up to church but we had a lesson with the bernal fam and elias about the family history and we then shared a video with them all after about prayer and we even had thier grandma who is less active listen and she said the closing prayer! haha it was super sweet

we just need to work more this week and that is what i am going to focus on this week

love you mom and thank you for that talk! that is a fantastic talk and one of my favotires! haha ill print it out right now!

Oct 6th

Conference with Elias, Solange y Alex

Elias, Thomas, Elias, y los Elderes

haha well conference was sweet!! haha it was seriously one of the funnest two days of my misson! first of we got to just listen and learn with out having to teach which was really nice. i was able to learn all for me and i didnt have to present it to anyone and i can honestly say that was one of the best parts haha and i got to rest for a little and gain some energy back you could say haha.! 

Lunes:

so we taught felipe to start off and its so hard for him to stop drinking and its sad to see. haha he knows that its killing him but he cant get himself to stop drink ing. his fam isnt the best example for him either but its still a work in progress! haha and then we taught agusto about the plan of salvacion and its hard for him to understand but he has the desire to do what is right so that is a VERY good thing! and then we taught the

Tuesday:

 we had splits and it was fun we had lunch and we taught the golf guy really quickly. haha he likes it when we come over and to day we are going to visit him again! haha and the we walked more than i have ever in my whole mission and to add to that i got sick that day. haha that sucked. had a waterfall falling out of my nose that whole day sweating and the front of my head was about to explode. and i was with the most shy missionary in our zone who has a very hard time applying himself. haha so that was a day where, as dad would say, i build a lot of character. but its over now:)

wednesday.

continued sick. haha its kinda funny that is that second time that i have been sick on my mission and the other time was exactly one year ago in the MTC right before General Conference. haha kinda weird! but w then had a lesson with raul helped him with his goals for the temple and then we taught elias and elias about enduring to the end and it was super good! we taught the able guy also but he has alziehmers and so we might pass by every once in a whille.

thursday.

had a lesson with elias and elias and taught them the word of wisdom and thwn we taught agusto about the gospel of Jesus christ with lots of videos and he understood alot better so that was good and then we had a lesson with the fam bernal and we taught them a lot of stuff and ate some lasagna with them. it was deliSHHH!!

friday.

we did service. those weed pulling hours at our house helped know what to do! haha and then we taught 2 less active people here and then we missed a FHE which sucked becuase the littel kid was waiting for us to get there. haha that sucked. and we walked around for most of the time that day.

saturday. haha well i abostlutley love conference. haha its so sweet. and i know that sounds nerdy but i cant even handle how good it was and it helped me a ton! and we also were able to go to preisthood session with felipe and he almost left because of how long it was but we convinced him to come back in haha 

sunday. so we helped the sisters set up the Bapt. that they had in between the 2 sessions and then we finished up the temple goals with raul. also i ablsolutely loved that part when eyering said that GOd knows our name! haha that was such a cool talk with a lot of some what funny facial expressions. haha but that marked me of how he spoke and then we had a lesson with solange and alex elias and elias aobut family history.

haha i actually really like this ward. haha i dont want to leave and i dont think i will. my comp has been in this zone for 6 months now so he will probably leave but we will see what happens in 2 days. haha im sure solange will keep you informed!

love you mom and than k you for you emails. sorry mine are so short!

love you!!!!!!!!!

elder EThington.

Sept 28th

Senor Elias

well this week we were able to have a lot of fun! haah thats cool that you cut your hair hahah and that awesome that you got that check also haha after a lot of work it has now paid off and there will only be more! im pretty sure that i read that talk you sent but im not totally sure haha its hard to remember what i have read an not read. haha but i do remember that i at least read the first part Could you send it again? and yes! send the talks that you like haha its fun to read them! and they help a ton! haha well at least she is goingt o graduate soon and be done with everything and if she is doing that much the time is going to fly by! haha! way fast!

monday.

so we had a good day we were able to teach raul about the sabath day because he bought some stuff in the open market right after he got confirmed. haha whoooops! hahah we that was intersting! haha and then we gott o teach elias and elias finally together after 2 weeks and so we taught them about the temple and were super excited to be able tot go to the temple on saturday with the ward!

Tuesday.

so we got to teach a lady that lives right in front of a catholic church and we put a baptism date for the 12th of october but she didnt come to church but we are going to find her again this week and put the bapt. date again with her again! then we had splits and i was with an elder from costa rica and we did a BLITZ in there sector for 45 min and then we went and taught a member and then we taught someone with schistofrenia. (i know i spelled that wrong) haha)) but yeah that was super wierd and he talked faster than anyone i have ever met in Chile. and then he took off his jacket and showed us his guns hahah he was JACKED! hahah not really but he was pretty proud of his bisceps! haha and then we taught elias and elias again and filled out there member progress sheet and set goals to go to the temple! and thebn we had once with a less active lady. we actually couldnt enter into her house at first because her husband wasnt inside so they invited him in and he had once with us and it was super cool ahah he is a funny guy!

Wednesday:

so we went and found a less active fam but we werent able to teach them adn they live on the other end of the sector from where the dad of the RS pres.lives. agusto   is super cool! haha we taught him about the restoration and he accepted to be baptized the 12th! then we had to run home for 20 min becuase they at the other end of our sector haha that sucked a lot!

Thursday!

so we taught felipe. its sad because it is so hard for him to stop drinking but he wants to do it so bad.!

then we taught augusto again about reading and praying and he liked it and is oging to read haha. we do know that he drinks but we are going to teach him that this week! and then we taught jose who came to church the other week and he loved the church so we taught him bout how to find answers to his prayers and then he said he was going to pray! haha YAHOO!!! oh yeah i say a tarantula also. and i made it one year in chile!

friday: had interchanges with another elder and we contacted a lady and gave her a card that says HOw can i find peace and happines and she just said this is what i was just thinking about and when we left and gave us her direction she asked us if her fam could come to ther lesson too and we were just like YESSSSS!!! haha and then we talked to another lady who said hi to us and she wanted to here the lessons again and then in the morning before we changed a member came up to us and told us that there is a lady that want to listent to the elders there and wants to got to church and everything haha. that was super cool because that sector needed alot of help and it was cool to see the lords hand in the work!

Saturday.

we then taught a less acitive fam aboiut going to churcha nd said they are going to go to church in another ward so that is good! ahha and then we taught elias and elias again and helped them finish there temple goals and so that was fun and then we taught felipe again and he said he was going to church. HAAAPPPPPYYYYY BIRTHDAY DAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sunday. so felipe jose and agusto came to church and they all liked it and felipe even said that he drank less than he normally does! if you guys could pray for him so that he can overcome his addiction! that would be great! and then we taught a guy named abel and he just lost his wife and so we tuaght him about eternal families and he cryed and it was a really cool lesson that we had and then we taught raul about tithing and he is going to pay his tithing when he gets payed and then we tuaght elias and elias again about mission work. so that was fun also and he gave us some books made out of wood that the dad made. it is super awesome!!!