Well as you can probably guess I'm in my new sector! Cunco is a pueblito here outside of the biggest city in my mission called Temuco. But Cunco is about an hour and a half outside by bus. Its in the mountains. So it is beautiful but REALLY cold. I love my big coat and thermals now. Also hot hands. I had 2 and they are the nicest thing ever. But they don’t really exist down here thats an american thing. But my gloves are working well. But we have basically 2 towns that are ours. Melipeuco and Cunco. Cunco is bigger but bigger like Ritzvilleish. It actually reminds me a lot of Ritzville all we need are trains. So needless to say I love it. And Melipeuco would be like Marlin. Super small and about an hour from Cunco by bus. Even more into the mountains. Right at the base of a volcano called Llaima. Super pretty when its not cloudy and raining. But its super cool everything is super laid back here so I'm adjusting to that. All the people here are a lot nicer so contacting is easier. Unless they are in their house. But I lost my wave at everyone in cars thing since I got here but now I'm getting it back. But everyone knows the mormons so everyone we talk to is like yeah talked to you guys 3 weeks ago still no. We also have another tiny town called Icalma but we don’t go there hardly ever because there are 2 buses that go into Icalma, one that enters and one that leaves. So its risky. Also another hour from Melipeuco so thats about 2 and a half hours of bus just to get there. So imagine trying to get someone to go to church from there. But its just about as close to Argentina as you can get without talking with a shh! (Sorry south america joke).
My comp is Elder Ordoñez. He is from Columbia and speaks about 4 words of english. So its pretty fun. But he is about as sassy as you can be. Its super funny he and I get along super well we are having fun here. He is a super nice guy and is easy to talk to, and relates to people really well partly because he is a convert of about 3 years. And he is almost done with his mission. You can do that math. But as he is the only member in his family its really cool to hear his story and stuff. His face reminds me a lot of Norm from Cheers. NORM!! Super funny he doesn’t understand having never seen it and to describe sounds kinda mean. (Bigger guy who sits at the corner of a bar and drinks all the time. But its really funny trust me. Sounds great huh?)
So this week we did very little work here in the sector because we had a lot of meetings in Temuco and one in Concepcion with Pres so we where in a bus a lot. Like a lot. I am so sick of traveling. Never liked it and after almost 2 days of pure bus travel I'm tired of it. Its not as bad as what I heard its only about 5 and a half-6 hours in bus from Temuco to Concepcion. but still lots. But the little bit we could do was good. Our branch is about 32 people in a room so it feels pretty empty because it feels like way less. I am going to count next week because I don’t actually think there were 32. But its super cool. Our branch president is a farmer and has good intentions. So its pretty fun. And well yeah thats Cunco. I’m super pumped to be here.
And other than that that’s my week. More stories next week. So quick spiritual thing for you I was listening to a talk and he asked why do we believe in Christ? Most people respond because its basically history. It’s in the bible, we know he existed. But we need so much more than that. So I kinda want to hear from y’all, why do you believe in Christ.
Internet-5 to Garrett for answering what his favorite scripture was. Mom, Dad, le toque. Love y’all
Elder Galbreath,
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