So, I have been in Chile for about a week. It is SO hard to understand
the Chileans. They speak so so so fast, and speak Chilean as opposed
to Spanish. They laugh sometimes when I can´t understand. They kinda
slur all their words together. Its hard, but everyday I am
understanding more and more.

My area is Renca. GoogleEarth it! There is a hill called Cerro Renca
that has this huge cross on it, and its right by our apartments. Its
freezing every morning, but around 12 its alright. The Chileans stay
out super late, so in our mission, we go to bed at 11:30 and wake up
at 6:30. The food is alright. Sometimes, I am praying the whole time
while we are eating that I willl be able to finish without throwing up
haha. But for the most part, íts pretty good. In Chile, they eat a
decent breakfast, and a huge lunch at around 2. After that, they
usually don´t eat until about 8 or 9 or 10. Then they have once, or
eleven. My trainer told me that the word they used to use had eleven
letters, and that's why its called that... But I don´t know. Anyway, we
don´t eat dinner. Ever. After 2, that is all the food, minus the
snacks that the members give us.

My trainer is Elder Kouts. He is from Arizona, and he is awesome. He
has been here for 3 changes, or maybe 5. Either way, he has been here
forever. He knows everyone. But we get along well, and I´m learning a
ton.

The work. This past week, we "knocked" on a million doors, and not a
single person let us in. Everyone had a fence here. Everyone. And
usually a huge dog. But the fences are like 8 feet tall, and the
usually have some sort of thing to prevent people from climbing over
it, like glass shards or razor wire. Some of the houses have
doorbells, but the ones that don´t, we just yell, "Halo" which sounds
more like ALOOOOOO. Its pretty funny. But yeah nobody let us in.

We are teaching a man named miguel, who is from Argentina. He thinks
he was baptized but not confirmed. We are waiting to find out what is
going on there. We are also teaching a family with Ginnete and Victor.
Victor served a mission, but they aren´t married. That happens a ton
here. A lot of people live together their entire lives, but never get
married. Anyway, we are teaching them, and hopefully they will get
married and we can press forward. We also taught a lesson to Yimena.
She is a college student, and is super busy. We taught her lesson 1,
and she told us we could possibly come back in one week! One week is a
lot of time for Satan to play with people. But I´m keeping my fingers
crossed.

Our zone is pretty cool. Our district is sweet too! Elder Simmons is
our district leader, and he is in his last change. That means he has
like 5 weeks left! so crazy! But he played lacrosse in high school,
and he is going to play for Texas A&M after the mission. He has two
lacrosse sticks and during our zone activity, we played around for a
little bit! We also played soccer. Here, there is no grass anywhere.
Well, not enough for a soccer field. So we play in these things called
babies. They are like baby sized soccer fields. Its way fun.

Today, I was reading in Alma 26. My goal for my mission is to be able
to say everything that Ammon could say after their mission. I love my
scripture study. Unfortunately, one of the rules of our mission is
that during personal study, we can only study El Libro de Mormon, and
Predicad mi Evangelio. 30 minutes each one. Its a little frustrating,
because I wanted to read a little in the bible, and finish the New
Testament. But, a rule is a rule, and I am doing my best to be 100
percent obedient. The one good thing for this is that during our free
time, which we pretty much never have, we can read whatever we would
like. As long as it is approved for missionaries. So, Slowly I will
finish that and Jesus the Christ.

I want you to know that I´m doing the most important thing of my life right now. I
am bringing people to Christ and there is nothing more important.