Your unloved son
Elder Galbreath
(oops bad Mom. I made up for it and wrote. He did get it)Hello back home! So this week was way faster than last week. After pday everything zooms by. But run down on this week.
Thursday was lots of studying. Ok so everyday is a ton of studying. Both about the gospel and the language. Friday and saturday are the same way so skipping over those. Sunday was great. We have new zone leaders Elder Call and Elder Zavoral. Every week but this week we get a new district and say goodbye to an old one. This new groups DL is from North bend. New District is heading to provo. He was talking to Zavoral and told him he was from Washington so Zavoral was like hey Elder Galbreath is from WA. So I found out he was from North Bend and I just looked at him and said Oh so your a coasty. I thought it was funny, he thought it was funny. No one else did. Its a Washington thing I guess. I end up saying its a washington thing alot now that I think about it. Utahns are just weird people. Anywho, sundays topic was the Holy Ghost. Some really good talks. I have found that if I focus on what they are saying I can understand them but I cant just vacantly listen. I didnt have to speak this week but its coming soon I just know it. Devotional sunday night was by Elder Bednar. An old talk he gave to mission presidents about becoming Preach my gospel missonaries. I dont have my notebook so I cant tell you everything about it but it was way good. About how to be more effective and use preach my gospel. Every devotional has mentioned how we should use the members as tools for teaching so I feel like that is going to super important in Chile. I love when our district gets together and has testimony type meeting. The spirit is so strong. Love it. So Monday was more studying and we got a new investigator. Not teaching Eduardo now he is our night teacher. His real name is Hermano Sanchez. Super cool dude really funny, learning alot from him. New investigator is Hermana Bernal but all our investigators starting out are teachers acting as actual investigators. So new investigator is Mayra, taught our first lesson to her. We really didnt use notes that was good. Its cool my comp is super good at conversational spanish (and all spanish in general) but i can do doctrinal stuff so we make a good team. Then tuesday was more studying no teaching but had a devotional by a member of the first quorum of the seventy. Im not gunna try and spell his last name but he is from paraguay. Super good talk. A couple of points I really liked was 1: so he has a super thick accent and has good english but is very obviously a spanish speaker. So he said "Lose you life in your mission and it will be OK" I really liked it because despite everything half the time I feel like I am only serving a mission because I know it is going to help me, not because I can help others. And while it will help me I need to focus on helping other people. 2: Another thing he said was from I think Mosiah but I dont remember. But the scripture goes something like this "and I will send forth angels declaring my word" I thought this was awesome because I am out here doing an angelic work. Me, a simple kid from Washington, whose biggest achievement in school was graduating and being the outstanding student in ag, am doing a work that was done by angels. Amazing. And 3: He had a quote from Pres. Monson that said we have the PLEASURE of spreading the gospel. This hit me hard. So far its been work. Hard work. And its going to be hard work for a long time. But it is still a pleasure to be out here doing what has to be done. Super awesome. It rains like every night down here it is crazy. I love my rain coat it is so nice. You shake it and the outside is dry again. Very nice.
Wow writing these are hard. Ummmm story time!
So my comp introduced this game to my district that he wishes he hadnt called what are the odds. Basically someone says what are the odds you do this...then they say something stupid like dont talk for a day, or go fake a seizure in the other room (both actually happened). Then the person who is dared to do it says the odds are 1 in any number they want. Then they count down from 3 and if you both say the same number ( it has to be within the 1 in whatever number range) you have to do it. There are a bunch of rules to it but thats the basic overview. So Elder Boyer is kind of our big football player mentality guy so he ends up doing a lot of stuff because Elder Hatch is crazy good at picking what number you are thinking of. So far he has gone an entire day without talking, bought Hatch basketball shorts, alot of other stuff and my favorite belly slide through this huge puddle in the grass. It was awesome.
So my comp was talking to me the other day and he is on the top bunk and is leaning over talking to me on the bottom. When all of a sudden he is like Elder I'm falling. I thought he was joking so I kind of put up a hand to push him back and I realize he is actually falling. At which point he falls out of his bed crashes into our desks and pushes them to the other side of the room. He starts laying there and saying how he pulled a muscle and me being the experienced mature person I am start laughing my head off laying on my bed. Honestly I laughed for like 5 minutes, I couldnt breathe my face was red it was great. Then the idiot does it again that night and falls off again! Honestly funniest thing that happened all week. Im such a good person.
Next story, One day in class we are role playing an investigator meeting and Elder Boyer (I swear he gets picked on for everything, he is the total class clown) is being Mayra. So Elder Stevenson says ¡Mayra es muy gordo! (Mayra is very fat) and our district starts laughing and Hermana Bernal is usually a slightly more serious person starts saying no elder stevenson no! We all thought she was gunna tell him to be nice but instead she says ¡Mayra es muy gordA! You might not think its funny but it was hilarious. The a makes it feminine. Its not funny in english. Maybe senora leavitt will get it.
I really suck at writing emails im sorry. But thats basically my week.
1 Devotionals are in english, there arent that many natives here at the CCM
2 the plate on the upper left is salsa. Salsa is so good here it is the only thing keeping me going. And the bread. The bread here is so good when it is fresh and soft.
Thanks for everything you do tracking my bags. No word yet but yeah here is hoping. Do everything we can and God will make up the rest.
Bueno Suerte at Dave, tell jay to put you and kimmy in a stand. Youll be fine. Love you tons.
Elder Galbreath the 6th
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