Monday, December 20, 2010
Dearest Family,
¡Feliz Navidad! Man its already Christmas. That's nuts. It seems like yesterday that I was having my first Christmas in the mission field. But its alright, all the time in between has been well spent. That reminds me, I have a little update about the calls on Christmas. So it turns out that the Americans arent allowed to call their family. President says that our families need to call us. They said if it doesn't work then we can use our calling card as a backup plan. So I'll give you guys the number of the house we'll be out. Its a landline so it should be a lot cheaper. Just find something cheap to use because I only have 40 mins to talk and thats it. I'm not exactly sure about the country code and everything but I believe the number is like this, the country code is in parenthesis. (056) 027736730. Try calling me at 3:00pm Chilean time or 11:00 in AZ. If it doesnt work then I'll call you guys but make the attempt.
Well so we didn´t get transfered here. I'm still with Elder Clanton living with the zone leaders Elder Petersen and Elder Francia. Its been awesome here with the zone leaders. We've been learning a lot and we do a lot of fun stuff with our ward Lo Prado. This week was pretty good. Rodrigo has kinda flaked a tad but we still feel like he should progress. A young teenager called Ian came to church with us and liked it a lot. He's planning on getting baptized here in the beginning of January. He's the best man, because he has a ton of friends and is really popular and so he keeps inviting all his friends to listen in the lessons and come to church. We have plans to play soccer with him and his friends and the missionaries of the zone this week. As a zone we always play soccer once a week and I've gotten surprisingly better. We also got some referals from members that look really promising. One is called Eduardo and is really old, like 85 or something like that but he just about got baptized about 2 years ago and says that nows his time. We're pretty excited for him. The real challenge we've had here is getting people to come to church but now we're having more success with that and so we expect to see more progress in our investigators. We've had some real neat lessons recently teaching people not lessons... meaning, focusing on their needs and teaching what best will help them. I can feel the spirit working a lot more through me as we teach focusing on our investigators as children of our Heavenly Father who they are. I've learned to love a lot more the Chilean people. Everyone is so different but they all have the same need, come to know and feel the love of Jesus Christ in their lives. I've been grateful to be here on the mish learning more and more about my Savior, especially now during Christmas time.
Well I still haven't gotten that package but I bet I'll get it this wednesday in Zone class. I hope you guys get your stuff before christmas! We've been toastin down here in the South American summer. Its weird decorating a christmas tree with snowflakes and stuff when you're sweating off your head in your house. There is absolutley NO airconditioning here. The only places are in the church and supermarkets. We just have fans but it works pretty good. It cools off really fast at night and its actually a bit chilly in the morning.
The temple was AWESOME this week. Wow its so beautiful inside. They have something called Lapiz Lazuli, its a rare blue stone that only exists in Chile. I sent you a bit mother so I'm sure you'll like it. Wish everyone a Merry Christmas from Elder Webb. I love you guys!! I'll be talkin to you on Saturday. Chao,
Elder Webb
Que siempre sean las luces para todos los que les rodean y puedan alzar la luz del nacimiento de Cristo a todos sus vecinos.
PS.. no mother the roof isn't actually that low, it kinda looks like it in the foto. But yes our place is really small haha
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Haha cute Christmas trees! Merry Christmas to the Webbs! :)
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