Cambios

Ok so big news of the week cambios are in! Elder Sanders is going to leave me after 3 cambios. Elder Thompson is coming. I’m pumped he worked in the office before this and is a really smart guy so I am hoping to learn a poop ton from him. It’ll be cool. Sanders is going to temuco to work with a guy from my district in the ccm actually Elder Pulsipher. Thats cool. And Elder Haynes killed (that means he went home after his two years) his comp Elder Baez who right now is probably asleep in the office but the elder that is coming to replace him is Elder Langeveld. Thats right my comp in the CCM. It’ll be interesting because elder Haynes and Langeveld are extremely similar, like its a little weird so they will either mesh and become one person or completely hate each other and destroy the house. For all of our sakes I'm hoping for the first one. So that will be interesting. 

But this week was good just worked super hard, got quite a few lessons this week. We had 2 lessons with a new kid we found named S. THIS KID IS AWESOME! He is super receptivo and listens and asks questions about everything. When we taught the restoration lesson we got done and he was like I don’t quite understand the priesthood part can you explain that again. You bet your two left boots that we can! It was awesome. Only catch is the dude runs cross country hardcore (saturday he went to compete in Concepcion to qualify for the national level) so he can’t come to church a lot. That sucks but we can work on that. And he will be baptized! We are working on some other people now to but he is kind of my sunbeam through the dark clouds now. I decided I was tired of sowing and I am going to reap this cambio. Its gunna happen doesn’t matter gunna happen I decided. So excited for that. 

We sent Baez off with a raging fire of his clothes and the appropriate tombstone. We aren’t gentle about dead people here in the Mission Celestial. (that translates into Celestial Mission if you didn’t know.) But it was weird seeing him die. I got a new pair of shoes from him, and a bag. The shoes are kinda like oh cool they are nice ecco shoes pretty much just like what Garrett bought in good shape and everything to. And the bag is for my crap because I have 14 pairs of pants and no room in my suitcases. But luckily it doesn’t matter how many bags you have during the mission. Baez did that and I thought it was smart. 

It is super fun to hear about you guys and the house. I loved your letters this week they are awesome. The address you should use does have Bio-Bio in it because that is the region which is like the state, that we are in. I got a package from Grandma I think I told you that though. 

I would definitely still be cool with a spanish childrens songbook if you could send one or i can just buy one and it will come to chile for me. That might be quicker actually just on lds.org. And cheaper. But tell me what you would like me to do. I am going to reteach myself piano so I'm gunna start on that again.

Love you guys muchly. 

Elder Galbreath XI

This week

So this week was super fun and a couple key points

1: So an elder in our zone bought a scale and so i was interested and I have lost approximately 30 lbs on the mission so far. BOOM yeah pretty happy about that.

But yeah the mission activity was awesome played some different games and some stuff with the mission. We all got mission t-shirts and mine was huge because apparently I am not even kind of a 2x or the shirt sizes here are weird. But it was super fun. We watched meet the mormons! It was super good the mission mom part was funny couple guys had wet eyes. But when they showed him going to mr mack for his stuff like every elder from Utah went Hey I went there that guy helped me! Then the airport scene was the same Hey I went there awesome. Friggin Utahans. But it was funny. We all wanted to know how he got his name tag already though. Something fishy. but yeah. then we finished it with all of us singing Called to Serve which in my mission is sung more like a war chant than anything else its awesome. And it was all 220 some odd of us it was powerful. but it was awesome.

So this week was hot as heck. I was dieing all day. We have taken to just asking for water during contacts because waterbottles last like15 minutes before empty now. So it works well the people here are all super nice and only one guy has said no in the 2 weeks that we have been doing it. So thats cool. But yeah very hot and all of our citas have been falling so we have had like a lesson a day and a whole lot of contacts. Not an ideal day. But yesterday we had a cita that was there and they were like yeah come in and we almost didn’t know what to do. So that was fun. But yeah.

And yeah we have just kind of been going. Sanders' last week here in Las Americas cambios are monday so we will find out who my new comp will be. Interesting and fun!

So fun thing I got a package from Grandma Galbreath! She sent me 4 killer ties, socks a calendar from Ag northwest and a little tractor keychain.

Super awesome the ties are amazing and the calendar has a bunch of pictures of home, different fields and stuff. Its amazing every since I got out here Ag is like all I can think about home. After the mission and stuff. I do miss the fields. It was beautiful back home. Enjoy it

for me. And the tractor I have literally shown like all of my investigators I'm like hey check this out! It’s awesome right? I am super pumped about it.

But yeah i love you guys I will try and post pictures but this internet is horrible so I don’t know if I can. Next week definitely.

Love ya

Elder Galbreath

Dads email:

Ok so first

1 Hi dad

Ok now that the important stuff is out of the way

There is a guy here who sells scripture cases here of leather hand carved stuff with pictures of what you want. Super cool stuff about 20 mill a piece which is about 40 bucks a piece. Which is expensive i know. I have been looking at them not sure if I'm sold but they are really cool. Ill send you the email and you can google translate it to see what you think.

And if you could compile a list of dates like birthdays anniversaries and such for me that would be awesome now that i have the calendar for the year and stuff.

And this is the cool part for you

So the other day we were talking with Jose who is an investigator and he had a ton of stuff go down, he lost his job, his wife was in a car accident and his son got scraped by a car kinda bad. Luckily no one is hurt beyond some scrapes though. So he is kind of at wits end dealing with everything and he kind of unloaded on us about his son who basically is a really nice kid and all this and is super selfless. But just the show of love for his son and his story made me miss you

pretty bad. I realize how much you do for us and how difficult it is for you sometimes and i just wanted to tell you i really do love you and appreciate you. I probably cant understand everything but I felt like I got a little glimpse and I was really humbled. Love you muchly

old man.

Your son

Elder Galbreath XI

Tranquilo

Last week we had two hours from 11 to 1 to do everything we needed to do and we were in the campo doing fencing stuff until like 1258 so I was technically not even supposed to email last week but I didn’t want presidente to have to deal with and angry mom. Sorry but it happened. 

So I am writing both of you because I have to fit two weeks worth of stories in 1 email. And the videos won’t upload they are to big sorry when this card gets filled I will send it home and you can watch it then. Sorry. 

Ok so christmas was legit like we went out to the campo with a couple families from the ward and had a huge asado (bbq) we had lamb. Slow roasted for like 3 hours over a fire. It was so tender it was amazing.

 Matching Christmas Jammies!

 They got socks from some members

And tomatoes and potatoes and sopapillas (basically a scone). Super good meal. Then we played soccer missionaries against members and with 3 gringos and a chileno against all chilenos I’ll let y’all figure out how that went. But I did score once so that was my proud moment. It was all luck but still. We had to be in the casa at like 8 that night so I went to bed at like 8:30. It was heavenly. Then yeah. 

So the day after christmas sucked cause no one was home. Then the rest of the week was boring.

So new years eve we would have dinner with a member but they cancelled on us so Sanders and I bought some pan and cheese and just did a little thing that was super good but Baez and Haynes were like heck no we need meat so they bought stuff to do their own asado. So they had churripan which is like a brautwurst thing and some pork. They shared and it was pretty good. Stayed up till midnight then out like a light. Not to exciting but Haynes and I chilled outside for a while just kinda talking so that was cool. Then morning rolled around. I am pretty sure almost none of the meat was cooked all the way cause we couldn’t really see the meat with the flashlight so I was super sick. Not fun but I got over it by like 9. and then we had an awesome Zone activity! Everyone from Los Angeles (minus Haynes and Baez because they didn’t want to pay) so two zones got together and we played real football (well two hand touch) and frisbee and did some volleyball stuff and some fun like relay races stuff. WACHITOROS! We definitely probably almost won I dunno. But if we didn’t we should have. We had the only candadian on our team. He is a really cool guy name of Duroscher. Built like a hockey player. Nice guy. We dominated the wheelbarrow race together. But anywho. Yeah so super fun activity. It was basically like just hanging out with a bunch of friends again back home. But you know, different languages. But still super fun. I wore my america socks!! Everyone was impressed.

So this week we had one day where we got like in every house we contacted and challenged people to baptism and it was awesome killer day. Then we had the next day where it was blazing hot and we couldn’t drink water cause we were fasting, and had 41 contacts (read as a lot) and almost no lessons. We figure we where in the sun for about 5 hours. Horrible. But on the way back home we were just dieing tired feet hurt thirsty when a member who drives a collectivo (basically a taxi but on a fixed route) picked us up and took us home. It was a tendermercy from the lord straight up. He takes care of the missionaries. 

But yeah sorry again about the email last week but stuff happens. Got super busy and yeah. But we got the fence put in out there. Looks good. Thank you for teaching me how to work.

Love

Elder Galbreath XI

this neighborhood is protected by guns.

Alarmas are alarms and Armas are guns. Thought this was hilarious