Oh esta semana. Fue genial!

Ok skype first. We get to skype anytime from 11-well later I guess on christmas. Before that it is basically a normal day. So I will talk to garrett about when and then talk to yall. I miss saying yall. Anywho so yeah we will do that I’ll talk to Sanders about when we will come but I’m thinking about as soon as we can so thats in your morning. But sanders and I are saying like 1130-12 our time so like 5 or whatever Garrett time. But here is the catch,. We get 40 minutes to talk. That is all. Not even the proper hour. Sorry but thats what presidente is saying and thats what we have to do. Just letting you know now. But next week I will try my connection with dad to seal it all up. But we will be using a members house so I don’t know what all is gunna go down with that stuff. But next week I will know. 

Questions

Literally everything i have learned in my mission has changed me and my testimony. I am no where near the same person I was and its only 4 months in. But one HUGE thing I have learned is about how important families are. Everything about the evangelio is about families. Everything we do from baptism to temple work is basically so we can live with our Heavenly Father together again, and be with our families while we do that. Like obviously there is other stuff but thats kinda of it in a nutshell. Families are so important and I was blessed to be raised in the best of them. (You have permission to sniffle but not cry here).

Blessings. Once again like everything. But I remember dads job thing was a big thing I remember and yours to. Also I feel just like the Lord is trying me and growing me and all the time I am just receiving the blessings of the Lord. The fact that I haven’t got hurt, just everything. There is no way I should even have half an idea of spanish yet but I’m doing pretty well. Umm but yeah little tender mercies of the Lord are what I see the most. We found a house when we needed it. We get  into a house when we feel like we are gunna die and need a drink. So on and so forth. My God is awesome. 

Serving is helping me grow so much. I love the Lord more than i ever realized possible but i know how little i understand about everything. The moment we start to think we have stuff figured out i realize i know nothing. 

Tell everyone their to help the missionaries out. lessons with members are something to kill for out here so help them out. Love them all.

Ok padres. So Skype thing im gunna try and get on at like 1130 my time. Please tell Gare-bear what time that is for him I think its like 530 but if not please tell him. This is the earliest I can get on. 

Ok so this week was crazy and honestly not gunna be able to tell you everything because it was crazy and my time limit is short. So ok here I go. 

Cambios were this week. We got a call from the assistant which usually means someone is training or being made a zl. So Sander is now a DL! And we are both staying here. Which is weird they usually separate the dad and son after the training. But so he and I are still going strong. And he gets the pjs now for sure!! so thats cool. My entire house is the same still Haynes and Baez. 

Umm Christmas program thing. It was...interesting.I The missionaries sang. WE sounded legit as heck. Booom. 

So one of our investigators se llame N was giving us a ride back to a members house when she asked Sanders if because we thought he was leaving if he would be able to go to her baptism. And we were like umm que? because she didn’t have a fecha. And then she was like yeah if possible like this year does that work for you guys??? So We are pumped to see what goes down with that because I have no idea what happened there.

WE offered a lot of service this week a bunch of members bought wood to be stacked so the first people they call are the jovene missionaries. So thats been fun. Cool story the shirt I am wearing over my button up in the picture is a large. Boom. Ok so it was still tight but still. No preguntas. But so yeah. Stacked a lot of wood. Then ate pan de pasqua to make up for it. Its like fruitcake or whatever that stuff is called that has like the gumdrops in it. That cake noone likes. Its not bad. Not many gringos like it but i do ok, i do. 

I love you both muchismo and will email the 22 and talk to you soon. 

Love you

Elder Galbreath

what a week.

Ok sorry but a couple things: 1 who is allie engaged to?????? Did not see that one coming but hey it happens she is cute. One down. And Bailie is engaged as well? Crazy with who?

2:Presidente Blueth is awesome it was good to hear it from him. He was very reassuring. 

So this week was good. We had a Grand inter-cambio on tuesday. This means all the companionships in the zone got mixed. I worked with a native named Elder Dominguez. I did pretty good I could understand everything except when he got excited and started like laughing in his sentences. Then I was lost. But other than that I was good so that made me feel awesome. But geez he is a good teacher. Like I have been focusing on my spanish and my knowledge just thinking that teaching would come but man that guy can go. Like seriously I was blown away. We taught the gospel a couple times and one time I was like yeah I want to be baptized where can I sign up for that? Dude is crazy. But yeah so that was a wake up call. So Sanders and I stepped it up this week and got like 171 contacts this week. Which is a lot. So that was cool. 

So I forgot to write about this last week but last week was the primary program! It was awesome they don’t have all the kids say something so that was different but they still sang songs and it was cute. A little girl was going to say the prayer but she got scared so she ran crying over to her dad who is the stake president. So like the entire barrio went awwww.... and then another girl said it but she was older and loves being in the spotlight so it worked.

Sorry your week was boring. But about great grandma, that was hard. Pres called me and he was super reassuring. He is a great man. But after we hung up I said a prayer and just forced myself back to work. That night I started to remember stories about her. I remember when John moved in to the downstairs part of her house and I was super mad because that meant Zoe and Taylor would get to see Great Grandma all the time. Just little things like that. But I’m sorry I’m not there. But now she can go through the temple so thats good. Families really can be together forever I know that here on the mission more than ever. That is basically all we are trying to teach and do in the church. Be together with our eternal father forever and as a family together. Its really all it is. But its good that she is in a better way now. We will love and miss her though. I love you dad.

Thats awesome about Eliza. That girl is gunna be good. Just tell her to be careful about her feet. Didn’t John mess up his like ankle or something? Or was the world just not ready for Big John. What are the other munchkins up to? Here school is getting out but its still going strong up there isn’t it? Christmas vacation right? I don’t remember. Geez its hot down here by the way. Like wow. 

So ask the other uncles who is gunna have a baby in the next two years because we have a record of babies being born while someone is out on the mission. Garrett while Dan, Me while John, and Cade(?) while garrett right? Ok whats Johns youngest named? Geez I’m bad I cant remember. Oops. 

I love you mama. Keep setting up for christmas!! Here they have the same types of trees we have so I saw a branch with a white strip and I was like hey thats the 2nd row!!

Elder Galbreath the 6th

Thanksgiving, done

Thats right Thanksgiving happened this week. Just kidding we celebrated like crazy! So for almuerzo the lady we had it with, another elder had taught her how to make cheesy chicken rice bake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So she made it for us and I almost cried. Like seriously it was great. Not as great as yours but seriously it was good. But for thanksgiving we went to a negocio and bought pan and some cheese (which is weirdly expensive) and had pan and melted cheese. Ok so definitely super boring but honestly it was legit. And I didn’t do insanity that day so I got to feel super fat too. Awesome right? But those pictures look amazing thank you. And Taylor and Eliza may or may not have had me tearing up I’m not admitting to anything though. But thats awesome. Thanksgiving with the Galbreaths sounds awesome though. Is there a story with the chickens though?

Ok so this week was INSANE. So started off we moved. Just kidding that was at the end of the week. Ummmm oh yeah I got my package! Super pumped the candy canes are disappearing mysteriously fast though I have no idea why.......Anyway the tree is very proudly displayed in our front window now in the new house. Before it was on my desk. But I don’t have a desk now. That comes later though. But super pumped about the package though. Gunna be great. On the 11th the mission is getting together to celebrate. Well like half the mission. The south half. But thats the awesome half. So look at the blog of Presidente for pictures of yours truly. 

                                        Package received! 

But then we had a bunch of stuff go down with a baptism date. MJ was supposed to be baptized saturday but like she didn’t ever talk with her parents and even though she is 19 we still want her parents to be ok with it. And they are not. Like at all. Her dad was like yelling at us at one point. Like he would say I will respect her decision then Maria would say well I want to be baptized then he would start saying how the family is catholic and such and it was hard. Ehhh people. But she said she is talking to them and we are hoping for the 13th of this month. Super pumped for that because she is basically a mormon she just needs to get wet. And there is a chance I will get to baptize her. In our mission we only get to baptize in our first and last sector so I gotta get going soon. Working on that though :-) and yeah. So then on friday Sanders and I were wrestling but I was in my flip flops so I had no traction so he pushed me and I went back and then I went through a window basically. That’s what those pictures are of. Oops. So we called Elder Pendley (the adult missionary) in charge of stuff for the houses and he was like “oh its happened before just go  get it fixed and we will reimburse you.” So I learned how to put a window in. We measured the window, went down to  the window guy, he cut out a piece of glass and handed it to us. So we went back to the house, took out the old piece, put the new one in, then siliconed it in place. But we didn’t have the little gun to squeeze the tub of silicone and so we made do. My thumb was very sore for a couple days. Yeah I did that. But I felt very accomplished. 

                                            OOPS!

So saturday we moved. That was a hassle and a half I will tell you what. Like it was good because there were 4 boys that can fit everything we own in 3 suit cases but still it sucked. The new house is cool though. It is in the gricco (rich) part of town so thats cool but its like a half hour walk away from our sector. But still cool and more importantly still a house. But the rooms are smaller so we don’t have room for our desks. So we are figuring that out now. But its cool cause now I study in my bed or on the couch. Which is way comfier! So thats legit. Also the Ensign you sent me with the conference addresses? Yeah its called HEAVEN. Seriously we usually get the ensigns pretty close to the beginning of the month but this issue we still haven’t gotten them so I got to read them early though. It was awesome. They translated the spanish guy..interestingly though. A couple points its not how I would have translated it though. Its kinda cool to see how everyone else in the world sees general conference. I love english. It’s great. But yeah. Thats my busy week shoved into a quick letter. I don’t know much about the skype call other than we can do skype. Its awesome. But I will find out more soon. I love you. I want to see pictures of the house though. I will send pictures of people next week. Its Christmas!!!!

Elder Galbreath the 6th

Thanksgiving?

Thanksgiving....the three americans in my house are thinking we will do a nice one after work but other than that nada. We actually just found out what day thanksgiving is so yeah we might work on that. But probably not. Those pictures made me salivate. Looks amazing. But yeah. 

That project Just Serve sounds awesome and a great way to spread the church. We don’t do a lot of service and when we do it’s mostly for members. We always offer service but the people just want us to get the heck out of there. So we are working on it. 

Thanksgiving we are working on like I said. 

The heat is hot. But I of course buy and wear sunscreen everyday mom geez.............

Investigators are good. We almost had a baptism but she wasn’t ready for it so we didn’t push her. But we have two dates for this weekend and I think one of them is solid so I might get to baptize this weekend! We only get to actually baptize the first and the last sector we are in so this may be my only chance to actually get in the water and baptize. But yeah so here is hoping. 

My spanish is kind of better. I can understand and I can teach pretty well. I still have to ask Sanders about words every now and then but getting better. My conversational is mas o menos. But always getting better. Baez and I work out together a lot now and we do insanity every night, I don’t think I told you that before so if I did sorry, so we talk after almuerzos still and its kinda cool. Not quite ready for a chileno comp but with cambios a couple weeks away who knows. Gunna be fun. 

So this week was super boring. Cool thing well fun thing, was on sunday we were getting ready for a lot of investigators in church with 2 families with little kids. And last time the kids kinda ruin the spirit for the kids like running around and little kid stuff. So Sanders and I bought cookies the night before and took liahonas with coloring stuff in it for them and stuff. We were basically awesome. Really made me think oh my gosh i am totally getting ready for being a dad. Where are those applejacks!!! But yeah that was cool. 

Today we went to the volcano here a couple hours away and the bus broke on the way there so we didn’t get as close as we wanted but we hiked for like 3 hours and saw some cool stuff. I am loving being able to hike and go crazy out there. When I get back I definitely want to do a ton of that stuff. Put that on the list of stuff right? But it was really nice. It was beautiful. Like super beautiful. I love chile. Outside the city is so beautiful. Its awesome.

So i just saw a trailer for arrow on the tv here in the cyber and I miss it. Its bad. Also Big band theory. In a row. Satan sucks. The tv is the devil. 2 years. Im almost done with my training its super weird. Like I almost don’t like it but super excited all at the same time. Tell me a story from your mission. 

Also tell mom to get on the family history thing. 

Also I found this a while ago but I don’t remember if i shared it 

Proverbs 28:25

I love you guys, 

Elder Galbreath the 6th

Day with the dinosaurs

No idea why Dad wouldn’t want that plate in the rv. I mean really come on dad. Someone get him an interior decorator. 

Also the phones, like how big are we talking? We saw someones phone the other day that was legitimately to big. Like her entire hand big. 

Anywho yeah pretty exciting week. 

So imagine running to an appointment, teaching in a language you don’t understand, running from that appointment to a members house, pretending not to be in a rush while actually being 10 minutes late, going to that cita, saying goodbye to them and running to the other side of the town to a fhe while it is hot as heck out all day and you forgot your water bottle in the house that day. YAYYY thursdays!! 

Just kidding it wasn’t that bad. Like we did all of those things but it wasn’t as bad as it sounds. But yeah this week started off like it would never end all we did was contact because our citas just kept falling but ended with not enough time in the day to do everything. I definitely prefer days with not enough time to days when you wonder when it will end. Much better. 

So Elder Mcguina left tuesday morning. We have Elder Bàez now. He is from Santiago. He seems cool. His english sucks so we talk mostly spanish in the house. But he has 21 months in the mission. So he is gunna die here. But at night sometimes he will read my english BOM and translate it into spanish and I’ll listen and read from my spanish BOM and it actually helps. Its kinda cool to see it going down. 

But yeah so we were super busy this week and it was awesome. So we have 3 people with fechas (dates for baptism) And they are doing pretty well. One is a really new investigator named C and she wants to study english and teach english so she speaks pretty good english. Last cita we had she asked us if next time we can talk in english to help her understand. I was like you know what I can do that. So that was cool. Its weird to teach in english though Sanders and I both reverted back to spanish a bunch. Kinda cool but weird. 

M J is a slightly older investigator having been taught for like 3 months now but she is progressing pretty well. 

Then N has been taught for 6 months now and is finally accepting a fecha. Her Husband Jose is a super awesome dude and we love teaching them but he just wants to be so sure about everything. So working on him and them attending for all 3 hours of church instead of leaving after sacrament. 

But sunday was super busy because we had 5 investigators in church and 3 of those had a bunch of kids to. (Read as: WE HAD 5 INVESTIGATORS IN CHURCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) So super hectic, and an inactive family we are reactivating came to. They weren’t coming because her boys didn’t have ties to wear to church. So Sanders and I gave them 2 ties and they came. 

So funny story we have a part member family that we teach a lot, anyway the girl just turned 8 and she is like the typical girl but she is like in love with us so for her birthday she wouldn’t let anyone eat cake until we came over. So we came over taught quickly and then ate cake and left. Pretty cool but it was funny just because like nothing was happening until we got there. 

So final story Haynes and Bàez were planning and Haynes was telling him about an investigator they have who wont get bapitzed because her dad wont let her. So without even blinking Bàez says "then we pray for him”.

Hi Bill and Julie.

Ok so sorry you shot bad dad. That sucks. But I was pretty good this week. So kinda cool one lady had a scale and I lost 15 lbs since the start of my mission. Booyah. Ok so...

1 where are you gunna put the freezer? 

2: haha dad said hang out. Ok im done. 

3: you have seen the movies, pistols are only good for the 6 shots riding on a horse then you chuck it at the good guy. 

This week was pretty good. Apparently when I blinked like half the week disappeared. 

So something cool I am realizing. The Lord knows when you are at your wits end and will help you if you ask. Every time I get home and just think I am done I don't know if I can keep going I’m gunna die, the next day just goes so well and this back half of the week was just awesome. Lots of citas and it was cool. But first couple days i was dragging the entire time just couldnt get excited. It sucked. But yeah. So thats cool. 

We are currently looking for a house. We got a call last week, the people we are renting from want it back so we have until December 1st to find a new house and move into a new house. So really like another week because paperwork stuff.  Super awesome.... Add that onto everything else we are doing now. Also keep the missionary objective, and learn a new language!!! Ha its great. Good stories for my kids right?

But yeah thats my week. 

Don’t worry about the package apparently the mail is really good and ill get it in like 5 weeks to 7 weeks, 7 is rare though. 

Love you momma 

Elder Galbreath the 6th

         Aren't I cute?

                   Ready to tackle the day!

                      Missionaries can have fun too.

                    Proselyting poster 

Dia de Santos

So I decided I hate halloween. I am the scrooge of halloween. Probably cause my parents never let me go trick or treating after I was like 9. (Ha Ha) I don’t know though. But down here it’s not as big as in the states but it is still pretty big. Especially here in the big cities. They say Dulces, deniro, or trabasura here. It means candy, money or trash. They will also say dulce or brasura. Like give us candy or we will trash your house. Its funny. But if you are in the service of going door to door to talk to people little kids ruining your business is not good. But most kids just do like a mask of some kind and go out. But some kids have full costumes. I saw a kid in a woody costume once he was so cute. But still not a fan of halloween at this point. We will see next year. We ended up coming in early because we just weren’t getting anything done that night. It sucked. So the day after halloween is a huge holiday here its called dia de Santos. Everyone goes to the cemetery and like cleans the family graves and such and visits. But the liders de zona (zone leaders) asked us to put like a poster together and we were going to go and set up a table out there and present the plan de salvacion. I was thinking this is super weird like people are visiting the graves this isn’t some carnival fair we should not be setting up a booth. But how wrong was I. It is legitimately like a fair walking in. Its a HUGE cemetery and the entrance in people were selling clothes, food, flowers and just about everything. It was super crazy. But the cemeteries are so big here. Like super long and wide and the sections were its like graves are so different than in america. They all have like a marble almost section with like the door handles and a big gravestone and stuff. And lots of people do the big family sepluchures here. Like a lot of people. So lots of very nice looking ones and some that look like very old and classic. Super weird. So we did a ton of contacting to everybody it was good. Didn’t really yield much but it was contacts. Behind every number is a soul. 

So its my first full cambio (ummm the 6 weeks you go between transfers). Elder Magùina is leaving. Don’t know who is coming though. But Magùina is going to Temuco which is the big city down at the south end of the mission. He has had 2 sectors and 5 cambios in both of those sectors. His first sector was in Temuco.  Sanders and I are still together. 

It is definitely the warmer season here. Still rains every now and then but getting hot. Going to be very warm Los Angeles is like the hottest part of the mission. And I’ll be here for the hottest part of the year. Booya. But yeah I think the days are getting longer. Our schedule doesn’t change so it could or couldn’t be really haven’t a clue. 

Ok so funny stories this week

Old dudes are super weird so two stories about them 

So me and Sanders were walking to a part of our sector called parque lauqen. On the way this dude stopped us and was like oh you represent Jesus. We were like well yeah. But then he started talking about how oh Jesus has faith in us and it needs to be that way. And we were like no we have faith in him he cant have faith he knows everything. Then he started getting super mad at us and like shouted no he has faith. So we just agreed and were like ciao then he shook our hands and turned it into like the like arm wrestling hand position and like reverently kissed our knuckles. Super weird. 

So other dude was walking by the church and saw us and started yelling how we were the Gustapo and this was our base and we were trying to bomb the world and stuff. We tried explaining but to no avail. It was super funny listening to it though. 

But yeah those are kind of the stories this week. Im doing really good having fun. I wrestled Sanders last night. He lost. It was funny. But loving the gospel. Read the sermon on the mount. It is so amazing I could read it like every day and get something new out of it. 

Elder Galbreath the 6th

Locked out

I think the Elsa dress looks super awesome well done mama. Im sure she was super excited for that. Your pretty cool not gunna lie. 

The primary program sounds pretty cool not gunna lie. Our primary still tiny? Just wondering. I didn’t expect the crying though. Way to surprise me. 

Try reading Isaiah in a language you don’t understand. Then talk to me.

For Christmas the stuff i mentioned and if you wanted to be awesome the twistable colored pencils by crayola. They work super good for marking scriputres. But I think thats really it. A tree. Little one. 

We did so much contacting this week it was crazy. 151 contacts. Thats a lot if you were wondering. Gave out a lot of pass along cards. 

So couple cool stories about this week. 

Elder Hanes and I were locked out of the house this week. We went running this morning and it didn’t end well for us. They others didn’t have the keys either but luckily our old ward mission leader had a spare. So we got back in without throwing Hanes through the upstairs window. We are going to get some extras made this week so Sanders and i will have some keys. That will be nice. 

Then on sunday Sanders was asked to be in the choir so I had to go to that. We are doing literally like motab style songs. But one song sounds really cool. So yeah that will be interesting. But yeah. So we got back to the house at 7 and found out we were locked out. Not fun. So we hung our jackets up out back and contacted for an hour and a half. Then we had to be back to do numbers for the week. I never knew how much reporting there went on in the church. Lots. 

Our mamita is super nice. She has a son on a mission and she is every bit of a crazy mission mom as you are. So she loves it when we stop by to get our clothes. Mamitas are the ladies that wash our clothers. I don’t like the system I would rather just wash them but hey it works. So yeah. But she like shows us the pictures he sent and everything and its kinda funny.

I got a haircut 2 weeks ago from the stake presidents wife. She is a haircutter so she does all the missionaries for free. Really nice. Had almuerzo with them the other week and she made me think of mom a little bit. If mom was chileno. 

Ok so sob story time. So got kinda homesick this week. Not fun. Kinda missed Odin like i mentioned i don’t know why but i was. And I've missed mom because in Chile there are lots of like super awesome moms so I’ll see them love their kids and I’ll be like man I miss my mom. But for fhe this week we taught a part member family about little moments that really matter. So everyone thought of moments that really mattered and they shared them. I didn’t really think of anything not expecting to share then they asked me. So I was like uhh my dad and I always played cribbage together. They don’t know what it is but I just told them its a board game. But I started thinking about little stuff and got super homesick. Cried a little in that meeting. Not super fun.  So I do miss you old man. 

So this one is for mom. We were contacting, knocking doors, and Sanders let one rip, then kind of looked around to make sure no one was around. Across the street there was this little girl just standing there little trying not to laugh, then we started snickering and she started dieing so we started busting up laughing and we left. We aren’t going back to that street for a little while. Like 20 years or so. Super funny. 

Love you mama.

Elder Galbreath the 6th

                         Las americas

Waterfalls are cool

So first off, caballero is gentleman. Did you mean vaquero? Cowboy or did dad play gentlemen? Cause really either would work I'm just checking :-) But I'm good. Ser (the root of soy) is more of a permanent trait in that case so you are a good person yes! But estoy would be better there. estoy muy beuno. Im pretty sure this is what the natives are thinking I sound like when i talk spanish. 

Work sounds fun!.... How busy are you guys now? Whats keeping you so busy just lots of grids or what?

Havent we met Willie before? At westmatch? Or am i thinking of a different Willie. Of course Lunger won. Guy is a beast. I still love his bearcoat. Its awesome. I wont tell garrett you wore his hat but the picture on photobucket might give it away. But yeah the poncho is legit. They wear a lot of like completely straight brimmed style cowboy hats here. Before I leave Chile I might get one and make a mexican vaquero style outfit for cowboy. But we will see. 

I expected the hawks to lose. I told my casa that this happens. They are really good then they suck for like 6 years then they get good, better, awesome, then suck. And so on. 

I wear it just not in the mornings when I’m cold and my finger is smaller. When I warm up it fits kinda. A little loose. I don’t know i think 11.5 maybe. 

The big tire is a tire outside of our house. I don’t know what it is there for or how it got there. No one knows. It is there though.

So week was pretty good got a couple of baptism dates set!! A lady we are teaching that is like golden accepted. Her husband we are hoping will soon. We will see. They likes the church and everything just isn’t quite sure you know? 

So today we went to the water fall about an hour out. It was so awesome we walked around the bottom and actually stood behind the water fall. It was so amazing. Waterfalls are amazing. Just how much pressure is there. I don’t know if we were supposed to actually go all the way behind the falls but Maguiña and I did. No sign saying not to. So fun it was a good day. 

Our routine. So we start off with half an hour or work out. I run every other day, then work out just sit up and pushups, then the other day I do a lot of situps/core stuff pushups and some curls with this little concrete thing we have. Then we study for an hour by ourselves, then comp study till 1130. Then we contact till like 130 which is almuerzo, then language study after that till 4. Almuerzo usually takes an hour or a little more. Then we go out and teach and contact. Return by 945, then plan and stuff till 11 which is bedtime. We wake up at 7 here so we stay up later. It fits with the Chilean style a little more. 

Week was kinda boring all together though. Just  kind of did our thing. Sorry shorter email this week. Little time. 

We get an hour, unlike your other son who told me he has no time limit. The turd. But yeah I love you, love hearing from you.

Elder Galbreath the 6th

Two months out! Wow.

Sabado is saturday so pretty close. Domingo Ayuno. Kind of. But yeah. (I tried to say fat sunday by saying sabado rapido, oops) You have got to slow down ma that much excitement is going to get to an old lady like you :-) just kidding love you. So sounds like a cool week. Really they lost to the cowboys? Thats just embarrassing. 

I miss the temple. Definitely didn’t appreciate it while I was there. Apparently when we leave we stop by the Santiago temple for a session with everybody that leaves. That will be cool kind of excited. But thats not for a long time. 

Training is going good really. I’m learning the language slowly. Very slowly. Sanders is a machine I am constantly impressed by his knowledge of the gospel and of the language. Taught a new investigator couple and they kind of sortof (maso-menos) accepted a baptism date. Excited for that to progress to see how it all works out. They had another couple there that listened as well and it seemed to go over with them well to. So hopefully coming up we will get investigators. Right now we really don’t have investigators so we contact a lot. Like all day most day because our citas (appointments) fall through. Contacting some less or in actives trying to get them to come back to church. Its frustrating when you hear someone say that they believed the church and got baptized but stopped going and now they are attending a different church because it is easier or family wants them to. YOU KNOW ITS TRUE GOSH DANG IT! But yeah. So working on that. 

Kind of a weird week overall, so tuesday was zone conference with Presidente Bleuth and the assistants and everyone. It was cool I didn’t understand like 90% of it though. But they had a video in english I liked so that was a good 9% of the meeting. Then we had almuerzo there with the zone. Had some amazing pollo empandas. Seriously probably the best food I have eaten. Then el Presidente went on splits with the district leader in Santa Barbera and we went on our way. Then we got a call that Presidente wanted to go on splits with us at 8. But we had pec at 8 so he came to that with us. It was cool he was impressed by how awesome our ward is. Our bishop is like hard core into missionary work so Bleuth was impressed. Then he took us out for completos and papas fritas (french fries) after. Super cool just to talk to him. He grew up in mexico actually on a farm. So we talked about that for a little bit. They would get 7 cuttings on average of alfalfa a year. Thats crazy. But yeah. It was nice because he is totally just trying to understand what he is doing too. Im not the only one! haha.

So the next day was interesting because Elder Haynes the short one in my casa, fell into the river. So there is this canal thing that is like halfway in our sector that separates a neighborhood from us. So we can walk around or jump it and save a ton of time. So they jumped it and Haynes threw is bag to Mcgeena ( i cant spell his name. He is from Peru) and mcgeena dropped it into the canal which has a little river in the bottom. So Haynes has to crawl all the way down and get his bag. The river is nasty its like sewage and trash. But all his stuff in his bag was soaked to the breaking point. We literally squeezed his scriptures dry. So wet. So everything of his is completely ruined. He is working on getting new stuff. Luckily his flashdrive and sd cards are still good. But his camera is toast. Then he ran back to other side to get his ring and we could not stop making Frodo jokes.  He rolled up his pants, and didn’t wear shoes because he just got out of the river so he looked like Frodo so much. And he was looking for a ring, and oh man the irony. But yeah. 

        Ok he is shorter, here he is wearing Wyatts coat!

So I am in las americas. Its all first world so paved and everything just not well taken care of. Dirty and the sidewalks are crazy here. Like they will go up like 2 feet at random point. And the trees here are super low so I have to duck every ten steps. The people mostly have a car or truck but most people take meecros or taxi things. Lots of taxis all the time. Kids come out at night times but during the night they are in school. And no one in this country wakes up in the morning so no one is out then. They have a little top type thing called a trompa that is pretty fun. I picked it up pretty fast so its been fun. But the people are kinda just a lazy people. There are little shops that sell like bread and pop and stuff on every street. Legitly every street has at least one sometimes 2. So you never walk far for frac or pop. Or pan. The food is pretty much not super weird compared to american food. Had pasta last night. Like spaghetti stuff. 

So last story, we had almuerzo on Domingo with the familia Elos, and they were trying to pronounce my last name. No one in this country has been able to come close its funny. I have several nicknames now, Elder Nuevo, Elder Frac segundo, and Elder Woodruff. Woodruff is easier to say for them and somehow one kid got woodruff out of Galbreath so i dunno. And Frac is a cookie oreo type thing that is delicous but my comp has a serious problem with them he eats like way to many. But so he is Elder Frac and they couldn’t say my name so im Frac Segundo. But back to the story they were trying to pronounce my name and gave up so they asked me what my first name is. So I snickered and said Wyatt. So they looked at me, tried once or twice and gave up. So they asked me what my second name (middle name) and I died laughing and said Zimri. The entire family gave me blank looks and gave up. My name will be the downfall of my mission. But it will be worth it because noone here will be able to forget it. They can’t say it but they wont forget it. 

There is graffiti everywhere. Those are just some cool ones. 

And i agree that Garretts house looks legit. Much better than my little casa here. 

Pday we shop, plan, clean and nap. Next week we are thinking about going to see the volcano nearby. But until that we are unexciting. Its fun though honestly. But our sector is the city so we don’t have a cool ocean or anything to go see.

And yes i know that song that will now be in my head forever. But thats cool ill watch it sometime...oh wait no i wont. 

Love you muchly,

Elder Galbreath the 6th/Frag Segundo/Woodruff.

Ps its been 2 month exactly since i left. Thats weird right?

               He gets a little cold.

               Pretty, green country.

General conference

Paps,

We got to watch conference in english it was awesome! They have another room set up in the chapel for the missionaries so there was like 6 of us in there. Most of our zone came to this chapel for conference. Pretty much all of LA sur. It was so amazing I have never appreciated conference as much as I have while on the mission. I mean I took notes on so much stuff and got so much out of it. We had 1 of our family investigators come to the first session on sunday and another investigator to the 2nd. It was awesome when Bednar stood up and said I am talking to the non members in specific here. I got so excited. But it went really the first investigator is a family who is super cool he speaks some english so he tries talking to me and I try talking to him in spanish so it works. Haha. But they don’t feel like they know enough to get baptized yet so we are working on getting them to realize that they don’t need to know enough. Alma 32 21 is like our calling card at this point. And the other investigator is a 20 year old girl who just isn’t a hundred percent sure. So same thing basically. When we can get them to realize they don’t need to know everything they will be golden. 

I can’t repeat Conference enough. Seriously it was amazing. Elder Robbins was so crazy good he was like the Holland of the 70. Then the German elder of the 70 was just like hey be the master of your house. Work out, study, stop making excuses. That was super good. Right before Uchtdorfs talk on not pointing fingers the talk on tithing and fast offerings. Then a missionary said all of chile needed that talk, because they have major problems about tithing. Then Uchtdorf got up and said don’t think oh that was meant for someone else. It got super quiet in our room and we all went, oops. I love how you can so many emotions during like 13 seconds worth of talk.

So this week was pretty uneventful. We got a couple new investigators we are excited for. A couple kids actually introduced us to their parents and we are teaching one of them. Excited for that. 

Story time!!

Ok so there was a lady throwing wood into the back of this like old bus type thing with no seats so we walked up and asked if we could help. So we started helping her and talking to her and such and i realized how soft my hands were now. Like the wood actually felt rough in my hands. I don’t like it I have sissy hands now. 

So on the way to conference we were like a block away and this super short woman starts calling us over. So she catches up to us and starts talking to us and follows us into church. So we sit down and she is talking and we kinda tell that maybe she isn’t all there because she is super loud and repeats herself like 20 times. She starts yelling give me a book give me a book so Sanders like grabs a restoration...folleto? Like a flyer thing I don’t know in english. But yeah and that satisfies her. And I'm thinking I am gunna have to watch in spanish because if we have investigators here I would have to. Then she just stands up and leaves. Super weird.

Sunday comes and Josey Natalia our investigators come. So I sit down with them and right before it starts Jose leans over and asks if I will understand anything. I say I’ll get parts and I’ll be fine. He just kind of laughs and tells me to go to the english room. Sanders tells me the same so I do. I felt a little bad but it was awesome enough that I’m ok. But I ran back out and talked to them after. He is super nice guy. 

Standing outside session made me realize a little more what I am. I mean I still think of myself as some big white kid in chile and not as a missionary. But I mean really when people see me they think of a missionary, not Wyatt the kid who likes Ag and guns. Its kinda weird. I still have to remind myself that i am in chile sometimes. Hasn’t sunk in a lot yet. 

Intercambios were this weeks. Splits to you english people. Went over to santa Barbera with another elder. Santa Babs is a pretty small pueblito. Kinda liked that. But it made me really appreciate Sanders. When I am senior comp I will definitely work on being good at talking to everyone.

Who cooks your almuerza?  Is it the same person?  Could you ask for smaller portions? 

Almuerzo is with members so it changes everyday. No its a country thing like they all just eat a ton. Like I could but it would be super rude and I wouldn’t do that. I’m getting better. I just eat small breakfast and nothing else. It works. I think I’m losing weight. My ring like doesn’t fit anymore. Thats kind of annoying but I went down a belt thing. I’m sure I’ll gain it all back when I get used to all this food. But until then I’m good! 

So cold and rainy?  Have you worn your rain pants?  Are you switching shoes?  Let one dry while you wear the other.  Do you want me to find overshoes?  How is the shopping?  Anything you miss so far?  

This week was actually only rainy one day for a little bit. Pretty warm and sunny. Its supposed to be like this for a while. No on the pants yet. Yes I switch shoes everyday. Shopping well we don’t do a lot. I got a journal today and just some little stuff for breakfasts. for now I’ll be good. The only thing that might be nice is some like cheaper dr scholls insoles in case these get wet for the next day. But no rush on those with this weather. 

What in the world was in the giant sandwich?  was it smeared in guacamole?  

That Mother is a hot dog. Called a completo. And yeah they put guac and mayo on everything. Actually doesnt taste to bad. They put some other stuff in it here. And yeah i dont eat it all or often if i can help it. 

So your heater is gas powered? so do I need to send a co2 detector?

No we have one. And yeah just a propane tank. Pretty high tech. 

Citas are slow. Noone is really ever there. kinda sucks. But when we do get in and if we can get past the God is uno solo thing we do well. 4 progressing investigators right now. Couple new hopefuls. 

Well I guess thats it for this week. Miss you 

Elder Galbreath the 6th and confused and happy.

Ist week in Chile!!

Mama,

Oh my goodness not a clue where to start so here we go. 

So last night in the CCM we all just sat on the roof and shared our testimonies and stuff. It was really nice. So we get to the airport get everything through customs and such. I’m skimming because i told you most of this on the phone. Talking to you was amazing. So we get to the airport and we see the mission pres and some elders waving at us. It was nice to arrive somewhere on time for once. Wooohoo! So We all load up into a bus and kinda take a tour around Concepcion. Concepcion is not in my mission. We start just south of the Rio Bio-Bio in San Pedro and basically go just past Temuca. Then we get to the mission office and start getting everything figured out. It was really cool, Pres Bleuth is a really nice guy and so is Hermana Bleuth. But so we eat dinner at the Bleuth's house and then back to the office for more orientation. We sleep in a holiday inn which i am now in love with. Seriously comfiest bed i have ever slept. Not really but it felt so good after 6 weeks of the ccm bed. Then on Wednesday we got our trainers. We got a cool talk about the history of the church in chile, which i will tell you about later im sure. Then we all move to one side of the chapel and our trainers come in. Then they stand up say their name and where there area is. Then Presidente says who is the newbie with them. Then everyone claps and so on. I was towards the end. My trainer is Elder Sanders. He is from Utah but so is everyone. But he is a super cool dude I really like him and am super glad he is my trainer. Seriously nice guy. 

And yeah. So we get on a double decker bus back to my area. Im in Los Àngeles Sur. Las Americas sector. Best sector ever. But then we get a mecro or a smaller bus that continually goes in a route back to our casa. Its a pretty nice little casa. Bunkbeds. Im on bottom and this is seriously the most sketchy bed i have ever been on. Everytime Sanders moves I think its gunna fall. Seriously sketchy. My mattress is on the floor because the boards are like half gone so its easier.

 So we get back and start walking around. I met our mamita who is the lady who does our laundry. She is nice, kinda crazy but nice. And then we met another member and start contacting. No luck on contacting. We get back and I unpack and get moved into my cabinet and stuff. 

Thursday is lots of contacting and walking. Meecros are like 400 a piece so we walk a lot. The chilean peso is about 500 to 1 us dollar. Just over but for easy math we go with 500. So we had zone meeting in the morning. It was super cool, we had to introduce ourselves with water in our mouths. Elder Patino who is new but went to the chilean ccm spilled water everywhere but other than that everyone did decent. My video should be on photobucket. Then we all split up and went to our districts. I have an insane district. Seriously noone there would pass a sanity test. In other words it is awesome. Then we had a few citas fall through and then contacting. No real luck there either. 

Friday. Lots of citas actually. Sanders taught a lot. I sat there and tried not getting completely and utterly lost. Didn’t really work but I tried. Some contacting success some people told us come back later and got into 2 houses. So that was awesome. Hopefully they will be there when we come back.

I hated saturday. I kid you not it never stopped raining. Everything on me was soaked to the bone. My insoles to my shoes are still not dry. Nor are my shoes. And its the end of the month so we are pretty much out of gas so we cant run our heater if we want hot showers. So thats been fun. But I love my rain jacket and thermals. Seriously amazing. I also don’t think a day has gone by where I haven’t worn my sweater. Its cold here. 

Sunday was cool. I introduced myself to the barrio and shared my testimony. That was nerve racking. But I survived. One of our investigators came to church so that was awesome. We are hoping she will accept a fecha this week for baptism. Excited for that. We have one other guy with a fecha right now too. The 18th. 

Monday has been fun. Studied all morning then went downtown and got the mega completa. Thats what those pictures are. Seriously I mean HUGE. I couldn’t eat it all. I thought I could eat at home but I am dieing out here. I struggle to finish Almuerza everyday. They give us a 3 course meal for lunch everyday  called Almuerza. The first day I leaned over and asked if i had to finish it everyday. Sanders just nodded and cleaned his plate. Im serious i am going to explode one day. I don’t eat breakfast or dinner because i am always full. Its hard i know woe is me. 

Ok so couple stories.

So we are contacting with a member named Ramone. Nice kid. We aloo a house and a kid comes out and opens the gate and lets us in. We ask him where his parents are and he is just like oh just a second. But like a minute and half later no one is there so we leave. Pretty sure they had no idea. 

They don’t knock here. You stand outside the gate and yell aa-loooo say like ahlow. Then they come out. 

They also do this thing where they shake hands hug right shoulder to shoulder then shake. We don’t do it with hermanas but other than that. The locals if they know each other do the kiss on the cheek thing. We also don’t do that with anyone. 

All the houses are small but they don’t think anything of it. Its just how everyones is. But yeah. I really loved talking to you at the airport. Oh I lost my journal. That sucks. Writing in my notebook for now. So maybe in the next package you could send me one. Or something. But yeah. Yeah DyC 4 is great. I memorized it in spanish yes, Kinda what you do right? I haven’t used my english scriptures since i got here basically. I cant read fast though. Like 2 days for a chapter. Of like half an hour a day. Its pathetic. But I’m focusing on understanding not getting through it. So I look up a lot of words. I think I lost some spanish ability since the CCM but yeah. Oh well right? Ill get better I hope. 

Wow there is not enough time in this hour. I love my mission and am super glad to be here. 

Elder Galbreath the 6th confused as ever.