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

Feb 16,2015

Monday!.

so we ran down the hill that is like 3 4 miles long to get to Viña just because we wanted to do something different andwe also had to get everythingt ready for the zone meeting that we were going to  have  one tuesday and it was freaking crazy! haha got home and had time to shower and then we went out and got to work and teach people! so we had a good day and we were able to teach a reciente convert girl who has been having a hard time coming o church lately

Tuesday!

haha so everything that we had planned for the zone meeting just fell through at 7 inthe morning! haha the computer didnt have the right slot for the cable the projetor didnt workd the extra computer that we found just stoped working 10 min before the meeting! haha so we had to start runing around and we are right next to the office luckly so we found a projector and the computer from the Job Finding place that we  have there adn it was like a huge miracle and we only started the meeting  30 min and we still ended on time to give the projector and the computer back with out problems! haha it was freaking nuts!! and then we ahd lunch with 2 investigators and we are going to help them  get baptized! the guya asked us how can he know which church is true so we are excited for him!

wednesday

we had changes and my comp got changed so im now with an elder brock and he is from las vegas and he is really funny! haha he was in the army and is really cool and then we taught matias who is going to get baptized this next week and is way excited!!!

thursday

we taught a couple people and were able to do some contacts

friday

i was on interchanges with a guy from spain and we talked to 2 drunk guys who tried telling us that we were all wrong! hahah I ALMOST BELIEVED THEM!!!

saturday

we just got cooked haha its gotten really hot here the last couple days which is kinda wierd!! and we taught matias agina and his grandma and we also talked to eliana and she totally wants to get married to her dying husband so that she can get married!!

sunday!

matias and his grandma came to church and we have the interview planned for thurday! haha he is awesome and is super excited! we just need to teach him everything to him and he will be ready to go!!!

so hna monica got her stuff and im sitting next to elder dalton and he said that she put on her earphones and just started crying and that she told the elders to not talk so loud to her cause she can totally here now! haha who crazy is that!!!! i cant even handle it how awesome that is!!! haha it makes me want to cry almost! thank you guys so much and i know that we live in time that God works Miracles for the Faithful!

have fun in the drougth also!!

Feb 2, 2015

(answering question about why they can’t eat food from the markets)  becasue it can get really bad for the whole gringo digestive system when they say its "beef" and mayo" and it turns out to be "dog meat and 3 day old, unrefigerated mayo" haha and you cant really tell if you are walking around and eating fast like we do all day haha. but if it is an established place i can buy what ever i want and all the members say that those places are better anyways!!!!

so a completo is a hot dog, hot dog bun. avacado, tomatoe, ketchup sweet mustard and mayo, and then if you want to they have a version were its all that with sowercraut on it also! i like it with sowercraut! its really good!! and then a Fanta drink to go with it and your are on the CHilean side of the food world!! im goign to eat one of those today! hah they are so good!! 

well this week was really fun! i dont have a lot of time but we are teaching so much and it feels so good! haha we have are agenda filled up till thurday and its monday so that is really nice! we are just trying to keep that going and fufill our commandmetn to teach poepel!! we have this one lady that is just GOLDEN!!!!!!! GOLDEN!!!!! but she is living with some one and isnt married but the guy that she is married with is on his death bed so its kind hard! but her grandson can totally get baptized so we are working on him going to chruch and getting stuff going! what did you guys do to teach people that talk alot!? eliana talks alot and so its hard to teach stuff!

mom your so freaking cool! haha thanks for making the challenge to everyone to read the book of mormon this year! that is so cool and that makes me so proud to be your son! haha!!!!

really mom i just love a lot and im grateful for the chance to talk to you everyweek! you make me feel special! te amo y te aprecio mucho mamita!!!

cuidáte!!!

Jan 26 2015

well that is really cool! and i dont have beckys emial but give her a hug and a happy birthday for me!!

will that is awesome about the gas! some had told us about that this last week but i didnt think that it was that low! haha that is a lot of money! A TON!!!

haha well that work is going relaly well and we are just doing a ton of stuff! haha litterally this branch is so coo!!! there are a lot of young people in the ward and we are just getting stuff done for the Lord!! so we have average of 113 people coming to church  and we had 7 people come to church this last week that we had taught and invited and its really cool! we have this one lady that has came to church 2 times now but we just found out that she isnt married but her grandson is striaght GOLD!! im telling you hes GOLD!! he now has a baptism date for the 15 of febuary and is super excited and understands everything really well!!!  so we are way excited for that to happen! this week what we did was fun was that im just really enjoying my mission right now! its one of the biggest blessings in my life to be able to serve Heavenly Father!! the more i learn the more grateful i am for how perfect the gospel and how simple it can be taught a lived. i wish you guys could just understand how i feel in my heart. it makes me want to be a better servant of the Lord and do what he wants no matter what. i phrase came to my mind this week and its "obedience isnt obedience, if its only for convience" what the Lord aske us to do isnt easy if we are focused on other stuff but if we dont forget which way we face it makes it really easy to do what the Lord wants us to, and recieve the blessing from doing it, that we dont really deserve. haha more than anything im just so grateful for the change that the Lord has made of me and especially that i can give this beatufil gift to you guys and to others here near me! we arte completos yesterday! in Santa Julia we ate a ton of completos and i hadnt eaten one since then but yesterday for lunch a really funny member made us them and it was awesome!! mom if i had to choos one thing to eat it would be Pastel de Choclo!! ES LO MEJOR!!!! they have some big street markets but we actually cant buy food from them! so i am just scop0ing out everything to buy if you guys come here!

i just hope you know that i love you a ton and that im really happy talking to you guys and doing the Lords work! Mosíah 3:20 El Salvador del mundo ha venido ya!! CONGREGUEMOS NOS!!