HEY EVERYBODY!! HOWZIT GOING!!!??? So whats happening is that the Church doesn´t want me to leave the country so they´re trying to delay me as much as possible :-D Just kidding. President Martinez couldn´t meet up with me on monday the 4th so he asked if he could change flight plans but the next one is on Friday so thats what happened. What are a couple of days to two years. Sorry mom and dad :-P At least I get to go to the temple now :-D I really can´t believe that Grandpa Thad is gone. That is so weird. I was thinking about the people who I am going to have to visit when I get back as well as the cemeteries I´ll have to visit. Unfortunately there are several now :-( BUT, I don´t feel sad. I don´t feel sad. When I read the email I felt like ``Well shoot. Now I gotta wait longer``, something like that :-) I thought that had I came home 3 weeks ago I probably would have seen Grandpa one more time, but honestly I have no regrets. none at all. I will see Grandpa Thad again. I dare ANYONE to tell me I´m wrong. I love the gospel :-) Its just awesome. SO things are going good here in Chilly Chile. Its been raining like a beast for the last couple of days. Sometimes we cant cross streets for the water. I´ve considered renting a canoe but I´ll just wait .-D Everytime the rains fall or the wind blows I yell ``THE ONLY REASON YOU ARE GETTING ME WET OR KNOCKING ME OVER IS BECAUSE I AM ALLOWING YOU TO DO SO! I AM THE BOSS HERE!!`` I stayed so that the rain could me. I´m in control .-D Things are going good with the work too. A lot of the people we are teaching are not progressing as much as we`d like but we`ll fix that.

Saturday we had a Family Home evening about the atonement. The lesson was like this. We had donuts but in order to get one, somebody had to 20 pushups. That somebody was me. :-D i`ve gotten a lot stronger in the mission but i`m still human and there were 7 people in the house. It started to get really hard halfway. I thought a lot about the atonement and prayer. They offered to do their own pushups but it had to be me. they offered water, and i had to wait. they said to take a break but i couldn´t. Quite the experiance. i`m still sore. I was worried towards the end if i was going to be able to do it. I wondered what Jesus thought through it all. Maybe i`ll do it again for a FHE at the church sometime .-D Thats it for me this week guys. Almost there. Until the next MOm DAd Sam Meri Grace and Sophie, i love you all and BE HAPPY!! Sincerely Elder Jamie McConnell p.s. I liked that story about Grandpa dad.