Heyo! :-D Howzit going everybody?! :-D Things are going aight here in the other america. We wake up we go out we come back for lunch we go out again we come back again and then we sleep. :-) Asi es la vida de los misioneros. Every time people ask how I am I say tired, which basically means great in missionary talk because if we weren´t tired we´d be doing something wrong :-D
Just to answer some questions so I don´t forget. The Dear Elders are sent to the mission office where they need to be picked up. Where I am right now in (or at least around to) Coronel is about half an hour to forty five minutes from the office. We try to go to the office every pday but that´s usually because we plan to do somethings else in the city. Usually if we are expecting something, we´ll ask our zone leaders to go and pick whatever up because they usually have meetings during the week in Concepcion. As for mail that comes from me, I´m not entirely sure how long it takes to get from here to there. The first letter I sent wasn´t written the same day that it was sent And I cant remember the date that I did send it. I did however send a little package with the thumbdrive in it last monday so when you get that you can figure out the amount of time it takes.
My companion and roomates are all really cool people :-) E´Valdivia, my companion, is from Arica Chile, and he´s super annoying and really cool. :-D Just to explain how annoying he is, for fifteen minutes after we left the house one day, he tried to stab me with a thumbtack. After that he stomped in puddles to splash water on me. When there aren´t puddles, he´ll throw the water thats in his bottle at me. The problem is that if I get really annoyed I can´t talk in spanish so I just try to avoid these situations. Something that I try to take advantage of is a game he likes to play. here in Chile for heat, cooking, heating up water, and sometimes electricity, they have these trucks driving around carrying gas tanks. The missionaries like to play slugbug with these gas tanks and E´Valdivia is no exception, so whenever I´m annoyed and I see the truck first, you can bet I´m not gonna pull my punches :-D But naw :-D He´s actually a really cool guy and a great teacher. I was worried that I´d get so frustrated being with him that I wouldn´t be able to teach but he´s never made me that angry :-) And there´s always the gas trucks :-D Then there´s E´Wilde and E´Mondragon. Their both from utah and their both really cool as well. E´Mondragon likes to play a game as well. He´ll occasionally yell down the stairs ¨HEY NEW GUY¨. I really love him. . . :-D Naw he´s aight. He helped me a ton when I was sick the first couple of weeks. He knows how to make a drink that the Chilaens here like to use for sick stomachs. E´Wilde is a really cool guy as and he doesn´t have any really creative and fun games that he likes to play either .-D Double bonus :-D
This weeks been alright :-) We had a bunch of our investigators come to church yesterday which was good :-) I think I said in my last email that we were going to have a baptism on saturday but we had to change plans :-P The mother and Grandma of the girl who had the date on the 9th felt that she wasn´t quite ready yet but we asked if it be alright if we moved it to this saturday and they said that would be fine. :-D Yay. So Coni (the girl who´s going to be baptized) and her grandparents (non members but regularly come to church) came yesterday and so did an entire investigator family. We found them like I think a week ago and we taught them a bit and they said they´d come to church and they DID :-D Really cool.
The language is coming along great :-D With families that I´ve know better I can understand better than with others. The problem I think is that I´m still just not used to listening to spanish yet :-P But no, I´m doing a TON better than I was :-D The trick is to take it all at once and then guess waht you think they said and then answer the best you can :-D If you´re right, Good for you. If you´re wrong, the Chilaens are expecting you to mess up anyway so they just laugh and talk again slower :-D Its alright when you know how to play the game :-D
That´s basically it for me :-P Sorry for not a lot of words :-P Until the next Mom Dad Sam Meri Grace and Sophie, I love you and Be Happy
Sincerely Elder Jamie McConnell