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