Monday, February 13, 2012

Dearest everybody. HOWZIT GOING?!?!
Hey guys, how`re things? :-D How is LIFE :-D On this side of the
world its awesome :-D Live it up. Every moment. :-) (Sophie, don`t
fall down :-D)
SOOO. I have decided, after a quite long session of reading,
praying, pondering, thinking, whatever, that, I am going to stick
around a little while longer here in Chile. Sam, I`m really sorry
that I`m not going to see you before you go. It was really hard to
decide. I honestly would never have missed that opportunity if it
wasn`t for the mission. Ever. BUT, President Martinez said that I
can call on monday next week for an hour to talk with you :-) So I`m
not completely going to not be there. I hope you understand.
I spent this last week thinking of several things over a very long
period of time. The mission in itself, what I`ve learned here (and
THAT is a lot), the people I`ve met, all the things that are forever,
lots of stuff. Elder Demke just left for UTah :-D My father in the
mission, Elder Valdivia also is heading home, to Arica Chile. You can
see it in all of there faces. ``I can`t believe its over``. I
thought to myself why. And I realized its because the mission is
awesome. How can someone destroy their feet and burn their skin and
withstand ridicule and rejection on a VERY regular basis for two
years? Because its one of the greatest things he or she will do in his
or her life. So much of what happens in the mission will last through
the eternities and that is a long time. Mom, Dad, I`m sorry I won`t be home so soon to see you and for school. Sam, I`m sorry we won`t see eachother with our eyes for
a little while. Meri, I`m sorry that I won`t be home soon to talk and
hang out. Grace, I`m sorry that I won`t be home soon to play with you.
And Sophie, I`m sorry that I won`t be home for your birthday. BUT
we will regardless have another birthday when I arrive. ANd
June isn`t all that far off :-D And Sam, two years FLY when you do it
right. I promise.
We`re doing good here in LOTA :-D mY new companion is called Elder
Montalbàn and he`s Chilaen who speaks perfect English. He`s fairly
new but VERY awesome and we`re going to have a ton of fun. Our
investigators are called Fabian, Margarita, Victoria, Bido and
CEsar. Fabian and Margarita have been going to church for a little
while now and Victoria the granddaughter of Margarita went yesterday.
She isn`t sure about god but we`ve been testifying a ton about him so
we`ll help her with that :-D Bido also went yesterday and his older
brother is a member already so we`re helping him out. and Cesar
already wants to be baptized but needs to quit smoking so we`re going
to fix that. :-D
Thats basically it guys :-) so until the next, Mom Dad Sam Meri
Grace and Sophie, I love you all So Much and BE HAppY!!
Sincerely
Elder Jamie McConnell
p.s. I read the miracle of forgiveness in spanish the other day.
Pres Kimball was pretty heavy duty

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