Groundbreaking

So this week on saturday was the groundbreaking of the Concepcion temple. Was super dope I loved the ceremony. Actually my old Stake president got to give the first prayer, saw a couple people I know in the choir and of course my Mission President. President Bluth actually got to translate for the Sister Teixera. Actually if you have ever translated for anyone you know its really not to fun and slightly stressing because the person always talks way to long before giving you time. But he did a good job. But very spiritual the dedicatory prayer was super beautiful. Inviting us all to realize what a blessing the temple is. Elder Gonzalez is our area President and he is a boss. So other than that amazing spiritual high the week was all pretty good. We worked like crazy in all types of weather. Seriously like it rained like crazy one day and then it would get super hot. Today it was hot in the morning but it definitely looks like it is going to rain here in like half and hour. Yay. Gotta love chilean weather. 

Huge props to the name of Smoke. Dope name. I like it. He looks pretty good too. Skinny but hey I'm sure Ma will take care of that pretty quickly.

So other than that we did service a couple times this week, chopped a lot of wood. And still have both legs so thats always good.

Ok so did an experiment this week. So for one hour I counted all of my sins of comission. So all of my conscious sins, thoughts and actions I counted how many I did. Then I took that and did the math to find that on a 16 hours and hard core watching myself I sin approximately 6,508 a day. I did all the math and I sin a lot. And thats only the things I do. I cant even imagine all the things I don’t do and how many that would add up to. But a lot. So then I started thinking about how Jesus payed for all of those. Also how he was perfect so he literally committed none of them. Talk about feeling unworthy. Really gave me a good look on how far along the scale of perfection I am. I’m thinking

like negative 1 million. But it was still a pretty cool experiment.

Well other than that we made french toast for a family home evening. That was dope tasted so good. Love american food.

Well i love yall have a great week!

Elder Galbreath

Woo Hoo

Well this was definitely 7 days.

So this week was just so chalk full of fun and interesting stuff so I’m just not gunna mention any of it.

Just kidding nothing outside of the normal preaching the gospel and trying to not be discouraged in my quest to become more like Christ. Its quite difficult. But here goes nothing right!

So this week couple fun stuff we walked out into the middle of nowhere. Well we kind of live in the middle of nowhere but we went even deeper. We always see lots of little houses and stuff on the way to temuco and stuff so we decided that hey why not go over there and knock those houses. So we did. Walked for like an hour and half only but knocked some of the country houses. But don’t get to excited the people in the country don’t want anything to do with us either. But we are indeed trying. We did have this one guy come up to us and invite us to go to his house like 5 kms outside of cunco and we could do like

a reunion and stuff. So hopefully this week that is coming we can go out and meet with him and his neighbors. I really want to do like the old style get up and present our message to a large group of people

like you see in the old videos of missionary work. That would be super dope kind of excited to try it. Hoping it works out. Then we also got to go see this hermana that just left the hospital last week and it was the first time we got to see her in a while. She is recovering super fast though and is already walking around. So

thats super cool very impressed. She actually made the long trip to the church as well and shared her testimony about how merciful the lord has been with her though. It was super powerful. Then our mamita

shared how she feels horrible cause she has like a bad cold and almost stayed in bed this morning. But the Hermana Vilches is like the coolest lady here. She is super strong in the faith. And her son Mauri just sent his mission papers in. So hopefully he will be getting his

call here in about a month. He is our ward mission leader actually. Super dope guy and really wants to go to the states. He is super cool. Our attendance in church was the lowest it has been with a whopping 15

people this week. CUNCO!! But so testimony meeting was short because well 15 people cant take a ton of time. And not everyone shared. But of course the white people did. Also had a less active member show up

so that was super cool. So this month has been super eye opening for me. Basically in our branch we have seen, 1 major cancer operation, 2 deaths in families, 1

old aunt almost die then get better, 1 family of investigators separate and she took the kids, and the normal problems of the mission. So I have been stressed to the max lately and had a very direct and honest prayer this week about how i needed more help from the Lord. I had been feeling like i was just trying to do it by myself. Then i prayed and after i didn’t feel anything. All i wanted was to feel a little bit of peace, little bit of comfort. But i got nothing. So i wiped my tears out of my eyes and went to bed thinking

well tomorrow. That night i had a dream. Nothing amazing but for me it was big because i usually never dream. Like i cant remember the last time i had ever dreamed. But that night i had one. Just my comp and i

walking down the street talking about weird stuff when we turned into the seminary building back home. Walked in like it was normal and i just said hi to a couple of people i remember from back home. Then we went into sister Payne´s classroom and were just there for a minute. I woke up and it was morning. I realized that was my answer. Nothing big nothing overly dramatic just going back to a place that back in high school was such a place of comfort and peace when i needed it back when everything was just hectic. I just wanted to share that with y'all to let you know 2 things. 1 the lord answers prayers in any way possible but it probably wont be the answer you are looking for but it will come. and the 2nd is i just testify of seminary and church buildings. I miss seminary for the peace it brought to me. Always went to the seminary building for lunch and it was kind of a part of my day to be there. I love the gospel and everything about it. This is the only true church on the face of this earth that can do all this.

So answers,

Yes i checked back on my bag but they didn’t have anything. Gunna check once more tuesday. I don’t know if y’all want me to buy a camera or anything or just have yall send me one. I don’t know the price down here I will check. I would appreciate another scarf, they are super warm. Also I know this is weird but maybe if yall find another camel? I actually use it a lot to teach so it was very nice. Or if not a camel some other stuffed animal of approximately that size.  No my photos were not in it. I have this card still, didn’t lose my home credit card, and I already got new scriptures.

Thanks for being patient with me.

I love yall have a great week!

Elder Galbreath

Ummmmm.......

Well this week was definitely full of interesting activities. Going to Concepcion, going to our local police department, general conference, all of it was awesome.

Yeah so starting out with the big news as far as yall don’t know, I got robbed this week. They took my sidebag from the bus terminal when i went with another elder to go see if the bus that pulled in was ours or not. So that is slightly really sucky. So list of stuff i no longer have, a bag, my carefully marked and loved scriptures, my camel, my carnet(id here in chile) my money for the month, my camera, temple recommend, my little study books i had been filling with scriptures, my scarf and those marking crayons i had. 

Worst time to get robbed is right before a huge trip where you plan on studying a lot. 

So the mission is letting me "borrow" a little bit of money to live for the month but they will take it out of future allotments. So this month may be interesting. Also the mission can’t technically help me with anything as far as getting anything again. So if its cool with yall i will have to be getting some stuff this week that is coming. Sorry I’m not happy about it.

But other than that black mark on my week it was super dope i loved it. 

So friday i went to Concepcion to do a return and report during my kids training. So that was cool got told how we all need to work harder cause if not our kids would suck.

But the cool part was definitely the general conference. Watched it in english except for like a couple talks I walked over to the sacrament room to check on everything. But it was super good i don’t have the time to express all my love for everything that happened but just know i was super super happy. Loved all of them. One talk I would like to stress is that of Elder Durrant of the 70. He talked about ponderize. Please if you don’t remember that talk go back and look at it its from the sunday afternoon session. I love the idea and am starting it today. Take a scripture, put it somewhere where you will see it often such as your wallpaper on your phone, the fridge or in your car and be thinking about that scripture during your free moments. You will memorize many scriptures but more than that you will have your thoughts constantly on good things and will be filling the commandment of "treasuring up constantly the words of life" I love the idea and am putting them on the cover of my agenda every week. Very excited to see all that will happen with this. And next week i will get to study another. But think deeply about these scriptures every moment you can. Super excited. 

Loved Elder Eyrings talk sunday i believe about the spirit. The spirit will make good things look better and bad things look better, that alone is reason enough to strive to have it. So really enjoyed that. 

Pres. Monson´s talk was very powerful and i was very worried but i took strength in the promise that angels will bear us up. There is a story in the old testament in i think 2 kings like 16 or something about Elisha being surrounded by an army but saying there are more with us than against us. Then the young man who was with him had his eyes open to see the scores of angels around them. I know that we cant see them but at every moment we have scores of angels around us and the prophet has legions to help him. 

I love the lord and the spirit that abounds from his servants. 

Love yall keep safe,

Elder Galbreath