Hey Everybody! :-D
Howzit going?! :-D Things are going aight down here on the other side of el mundo. I`m not sick and that in it of itself is something to celebrate :-D Go FOOD.
There is not much to write about :-P The life of a missionary is pretty much what it says in the white handbook with people inbetween some of the spaces :-D Oh yeah, guess who had a baptism on saturday. . . That would be me and E`Valdivia :-D How cool is that?! :-D I think its crazy that all my life I`ve been thinking about going on a mission and baptizing and stuff and now I`m doing it! :-D It was really cool :-) I was a little worried at the beginning because no one showed up except for her family (bytheway her name`s Constanza Deniz Castro Rivas and she`s 8). Later I learned that that was pretty usual for baptisms here so it wasn`t that bad and she has a big family anyway :-D We`re hoping that she being baptized will help with the rest of her family getting baptized because she`s the only member except for one uncle. So yeah, that was cool :-) She`s a really smart and special 8 year old. We were kind of worried that she would go inactive after a time but I don`t think that she will :-) She`ll be just fine I think.
I don`t have much to talk about for this week so I`ll just tell stories. Elder Mondragon is from a high school whose mascot is the spartans so naturally we like to spartan kick stuff. Speaking of kicking a chair through a window, that`s what he did :-D Earlier I had dropped a chair down the stairs on him to make him mad so he came up the stairs with the chair and kicked it back down the stairs. Because there wasn`t anyone to get hit by the chair it hit the window and broke it. Talk about reverse karma :-D What else, Elder Valdivia hasn`t tried to stab me recently :-D Yay for no stabbing :-D The other day we had a weeny roast in the back . . .yard of our . . .house :-D It was really fun :-D Thats basically it for random stuff.
Recently a sister of the ward has asked if E`Valdivia could play for a choir practice every once in a while so those have been fun. I`ve pulled the whole ``I can`t speak spanish so ipso facto I can`t sing`` trick so basically I get to read and relax with pretty spanish church music. I think some of the people are catching on that I understand a lot more than they think I do :-D Spanish is still coming along great :-D I am starting to be only as lost as I was back in the states with english :-D The other day a family asked if I could give a pray in english and I was like ``. . . No sè`` :-D It was really weird to pray in english.
Everyday I`m more and more convinced that this is Gods work because whenever we`re walking to wherever for some reason or another we run into our investigators, and not just people in our sector. me and Elder V ran into a recent convert of his yesterday who lived more than an hour away from where we were. The other day we ran into a Evelin who we`ve been teaching and her family. She works at this mall that is like fortyfive minutes away from her house and we were there getting money from the ATM and we thought ``Hey lets go check out the computers`` so we did and there she was :-D This happens like all the time. I think that its so that our investigators can keep thinking of us between visits :-) Its really cool to think about.
That`s mostly it for me. Sam you can`t carry sophie around in a box, that`s not right. I almost peed my pants when I saw the picture but its still wrong :-D Until next monday Mom Dad Sam Meri Grace and Sophie, I love you and Be Happy :-D
Sincerely Elder Jamie McConnell