November 20-26, 2018

Buenas,

Pues, I got my 3rd Hijito from Antofagasta last week. His name is Elder Burton from Ogden, but he doesn’t look as gringo as the rest. He plays good soccer and his Spanish isn’t too bad por una semana en el campo ( 1 week in the field). Actually, he is a lot like my cousin Jake so we get along pretty well.

This week we did a lot of things, but 2 highlights. The first was our Christmas Service Project, We went to an Ancianato (old folks home) and sang and visited them with our Christmas hats. There was also a man there who destroyed half the Elders in our zone at chess. The other half didn’t get a chance to play. It was really awesome and fun.

The second one was that we have been teaching this Haitian couple for about 2 months and now this week we will go take out an hour so that they can get married. They will be baptized either next week or the one after. They are really awesome and I can’t wait to see them take this next step!

Hay algunas fotos

Ciao

Elder Porter

Misión Chile Antofagasta

La Iglesia de Jesucristo de los Santos de los Ultimos Días

7/'17-6/'19

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