Hello my fellow gringos. This week was pretty fun actually had lots of little stuff kinda happen, Nothing big or life changing but little stories.
So this Tuesday we had a guy visit our chapel that is the guy that revises and does the changes to all the chapels in our region here in Chile. He was looking at everything seeing what we needed to change (bathrooms, baptismal fonts, etc..) when he stopped looked at us all and said "you know why we do all this? Its not because it’s more convenient for you guys. It’s because this is a chapel of the Lord. The First Presidency recently wrote us and told us that they want every chapel to be up to standard to be part of a temple or to be the chapel next to a temple doesn’t matter where it is. Because when they dedicate the temple here in Concepcion(!!!!!) who is going to be at the dedication? About 50 percent of Concepcion. And the other 50 will be viewing it from their home chapel. So for that moment it will be like the temple." It was super cool and really made me stop for a moment and think about how I treat and think about the chapel. It’s not important if it’s a house with a sign out front, a grand chapel that’s 2 stories tall with an actual basketball court, or a rented trailer, all of them are the chapels of the Lord and really should be better respected and cleaned. It was a super cool little talk he gave to us.
So obviously the 4th of July was this week. So I am the only gringo here in my house and there is only one more in my district. So we did an intercambio friday so we could have saturday morning to sing the national anthem and say the pledge of allegiance. I made pancakes and we talked in english. It was truly amazing. I love america. It was kind of a fun little day.
Then the night hit.
So as y'all know the finals for the american cup was this saturday. And Chile won. It was the first time in the 99 years of the cup that Chile has won. And so the streets went CRAZY. We were helping at an activity that was watching the game (read as I helped serve people food while everyone watched the game) and they all went nuts after the penalty kicks. My comp who is from Argentina was quite sad like he didn’t talk for the entire day and most of the next. I felt really bad for him he really put his soul into it. As for the game it was really cool not gonna lie. I’m glad I was a ref for so long so I understand the rules so I can follow it. If not it would be difficult. But we just went straight home it was dangerous to be outside afterwards. So many chilenos were drunk and driving around with flags honking the horns and stuff.
Today we did a zone activity and we played games and made hamburgers and french fries. It was kind of fun. I’m assuming Garrett remembers zone activities take a lot of time from your pday but they are always some of the cooler pdays you have. Fun to talk to everybody when we aren’t there as a meeting.
I’m doing good. I think this will be my last week here in Boca Sur transfers are next week and I have had 3 here. But we will see what the Lord wants to go down here. It will be cool.
So next monday I will be doing to a store I have heard about that is nearby that sells shoes for real sized people and will be buying athletic shoes as mine have giant holes in the bottom and I have been using a cut of tupperware lid to stop my socks from getting ruined. Just so y’all know.
I love ya. hope for the best!
Elder Galbreath
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