February 6 -February 12, 2018

Hello all!

It has been one of those weeks in the desert. So it was pretty funny that this past week I got all the Christmas mail. I got 8 cards from the family and Wendy Patterson and Sister Ehlers (my seminary teacher in VA) I also got Nancy´s puro peanut butter package! I gifted 2 jars and I have eaten one and am halfway through a second!!! Super happy about that. No other packages to report. I also received the really nice leather case for my Bible that I ordered back in December. This guy in Santiago does them custom. You just tell him what you want on the front and back covers and spine. Pretty much able to use any gospel artwork. It is way sweet. When we got home to drop it all off, we left for work. And there was a straight up dust storm for 20 minutes that we had to walk through. It was very windy and I had some sand in my teeth for a few hours afterwards.

This week was really good in other ways. We were able to make a lot of progress with some of our investigators. We have this really sweet old couple that has been married for 51 years. He doesn't have any teeth, but they sure enjoy having us around. We are working with them to come to church because they can't walk very far and the church is outside our sector. Also this week we saw some other milagros with how our baptism turned out! We had Madai who was an antiguo investigator that we street contacted during my first week and this week she was baptized! There were a few bumps in the road, but the Lord guided us and we overcame.

Photos: View of Iquique from our Sector in Alto Hospicio

View of our Sector and Wonderful Turnercito (we have two Elder Turners in the same house)

HAY BAUTISMO!

More views of the desert

A tranquil pack of stray dogs

Custom made Bible cover

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May 15-May 21, 2018 and May 22 -May 27, 2018

May15- May 21 Super crazy and I am running short on time so sorry! Probably the biggest news is that Elder Turner and I received special Transfers! and it is not because we did anything bad. My comp is going to open up a new sector in Calama which is way hotter and colder than any other city in the mission. It is like 4-5 thousand meters above sea level. My new comp is coming in from another mission (south of Chile) and is from Argentina. He is really new in the mission and I get the opportunity to train him de nuevo. I am excited and a little nervous. Its a big responsibility but I look forward to the challenge. One thing Elder Turner and I decided to start saying is One degree more. Whats the difference between water at 99 and 100 degrees? It boils and so we are wanting to give just that little extra effort. Should be a neat experience. So today was also my birthday and we were able to visit the Esmeralda boat today because today is also a Chilean holiday that mark

February 25, 2019 - March 11, 2019

Sorry to always be writing emails that are not terribly detailed. I have been super tired this past week. It was really good but crazy. Got to go on several intercambios this week and I made a goal to try to take a picture on each one but I wasn't super great at remembering so that's what the selfies are. We were also super blessed to baptize Marleny and her family. It was a close small service that was one to remember. It was a miracle to watch because it was just a ton of resistencia with her situation but we saw miracles. On Sunday night we did a zone attack in one of the sectors that are by the beach so that is that photo. It was a little overcast and not a lot of gente, but we did contact this really cool Brazilian guy. We have a Brazilian elder in our zone and we are always trying to talk with him in Portugese. I am not to good at remembering stuff but it's common to here in the zone Duda bain (All Good) Sorry to all those that speak Portugese because

Oct. 24 -October 30, 2017 Week 11

Hello all. It has been quite the week. I had the chance to do everything as the penultimate week of my training. Next week we have cambios and there is a chance that I may get transferred. Who knows where. The only thing is if I move, I have to leave a lot of the food I bought today in the Pension. I did buy peanut butter today and it is very expensive. I will be taking that in my suitcase but the rest will stay. We are working super hard this week to do all we can to leave the sector in a good place if we leave. Today for Pday we went to go see the Mummies that are here in a museum. Apparently they are the oldest in the World. Who knew? It was actually nice to go see them because the museum is more up in the valley and there is actually a lot more green there. It didnt feel like we were in the desert anymore. This week we also finished teaching a family for baptism next Saturday and afterwards we got to see and hold the llama that they had purchased th

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