Buenos dias familia,
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> So I made it to Chile. Wow things are quite a bit different than I imagined. Santiago is huge. It seems like I´m always lost while walking around. My trainer is a gringo, Elder Moser who is from Los Angeles. He´s been out for about a year and a half and so his Spanish is great. Mine.. is getting a lot better. The people here speak Spanish so much different than the mexicans back at home in Mesa. Its kind of hard to explain but its taking a while to get used to their accents and their dichos(sayings). I´ve learned a lot of phrases and now can speak pretty comfortable with the Chileans. I´m still waiting for my ears to pop though Dad so I´ll let you know when that happens. Hopefully soon! Well the address of my first casa is... Lircay 328, Recoleta Santiago, Chile. Its a small little neighborhood pretty close to the edge of the North part of the City. My first area is a little flite which means gangster/getto. But its not that bad, most everyone is nice and no one is gonna try to hurt us or anything. My companion said he´s only almost been robbed once and is was by a baracho (drunkard). So no worries here in Chile. The work is pressing forward. There are an incredible amount of inactives though here in Chile. Most likely because when the huge boom of missionary work happened here, they were baptizing people that werent ready. So every week we have a little project called Permeneced to help reactive families. I love the people here though. Most Chileans espeacially members are extremely nice and welcoming. I love talking with memebers because they help me with spanish a lot. Right now we are working with a lot of investigators and this week we have two baptisms to look forward to this next Sunday. One is an 18 year old girl named Joselin and the other is a 10 year old boy named Nicholas. Its great to see them so excited about their baptisms and being able to make this huge step in their lives.
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> Well everything else here is pretty good. Our times are a little different because the Chileans usually wake up a little later and work later so we wake up at 7.30 and go to bed at 11.30 at night. Presidente and Sister May are really awesome and I´m excited to get to know them better. Usually once a week we (jugar la pelota, literally play the ball but it means play soccer) and I need to get better at that. Its definitely weird being almost Christmas and it gets pretty warm in the day. I´ll get used to it though. Just so you know I might need some stuff so I might ask you to send a package later so don´t send one if you were going to. Everything is different here though. The food is pretty good but I´ve noticed they don´t really eat very much here. I still havent gotten sick yet but I think I´ve already lost a couple of pounds. They have one big meal a day at 2 called almuerzo and then they have Once around dinner time but its just like tea and pan(bread). So as missionaries we eat almuerzo with a member and then just work the rest of the night and eat when we come home at night. We do a ton of walking here.. I sure hope my shoes last haha. I really like the culture though and the city. Its strange being at the bottom of the world but its an awesome experience. And also, after I email you guys I´m allowed to email friends so you can share with my friends my email address. And I also can send pictures over email so I´m probably going to by a digital camera down here maybe. We´ll see. Thanks for everything and I hope I answered all of your questions. I love the mission and the work. And I love you guys. Chou!
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Haha wow um...ok so I didn’t know that friends could email. that’s pretty sweet. As for the "Permeneced" I heard about that happening in a lot of different places in the mission fields. I wonder why that happened so often and why because of it now the missionaries have to worry about the inactive families as well as finding investigators?
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