Loncoche

So if my mission had the boonies, well that would be Cunco but if it had another one it would Loncoche. Its so dope I love it. Really pretty down here as well as there are lots of hills and stuff around here. Hiked up one this morning actually. Super dope. So my comp is Elder Cederstrom, he is from AZ. Nice guy kind of reminds me of how I started the mission. Not quiet but not bursting with energy and happiness. Reminds me of how much I have changed. not saying he isn’t a cool guy honestly we get along well. He actually is a gun guy as well so that’s pretty dope. So had some fun times with that. But he got here with Elder Duffin so thats cool. Working with the new guys is fun cause it makes me realize how unprepared I was when I got

here. Seriously they (Duffin and Cederstrom) are both already better missionaries than I am so I'm excited to see where they go when they get a little time under their belt. Elder Parkin from my district is in my Zone and Elder Dayton is my ZL. Dayton got here with us as well. super weird to see them being important and speaking spanish and stuff. Honestly this cambio made me feel old. I’m not the oldest in my house but tuesday the other guys had exchanges so I was. They all have less than 5 months. That didn’t affect me until one of them mentioned that all of their time added up is less than my time. Dang wippersnappers. Seriously though not cool. I hate being old. But Loncoche is super cool bigger than Cunco but still small. Hard contacting here so we are working with old investigators and trying

to break this bubble here in Loncoche. I dunno how to explain it its just like this weird mist feeling here. So trying my best to get to know the sector so i can really start working it here. But this too shall pass and soon Loncoche will be the new.....I dunno what it will be but it will be good! Haha.

So this week we found this ex missionary who served in Chicago actually and he speaks perfect english and german. Don’t know how good it was but he really went on in weird sounds so I trust him. But he is very inactive not that he lives a bad life he just is atheist. Don't know which is worst. But he is really smart and knows a lot about the gospel so we actually talked a lot about stuff and well he did come to church sunday but after to talk to president as he is in the process of trying to get his name taken off. So we will see how that goes as he is super nice and we are actually teaching his sister in law.

Woohoo!!!.......

Other than that taught a couple people here and had some good times.

Pday we hiked up this hill that overlooks all of Loncoche and had lunch on this big pile of sticks and stuff. It was dope. Great view.

Umm i love yall!

Mom

The new house is dope pretty nice counter downstairs makes us feel classy and stuff. We live with 2 other elders a new guy from Brazil and another guy from Peru. Both good guys we laugh a lot and mess around a lot. 

No lost items in transit!

Pancakes....I miss those suckers. Buttermilk does not exist here. I cry a lot.

Hasta ver.

I am thankful for the opportunity to be able to be here and share the gospel with people who would never know. Thankful for my family and how great of an example everyone is. I grow in appreciation for my

Savior everyday for everything that he has done for me and all that my Heavenly Father puts up with me. Some day he will give me the biggest sigh as he hugs me when i return. But i am so grateful for everything in my life that has lead me to the greatest thing i have, a testimony of the gospel.

Have a great week of thanksgiving give everyone a hug for me.

Elder Galbreath

And that's when I realized I was Batman

Can’t hold me here anymore. And it’s official I am leaving Cunco. Going to another pueblito south of Temuco called Loncoche. It is the sector furthest south of the mission. So that is gunna be interesting. I am sad however to be leaving Cunco I really love the people here and have had so many great experiences here it will be hard to leave. But I am excited to go and see more things and have more experiences. My next comp will be Elder Cederstrom from AZ who got here with my son actually so he is pretty new. So that will be fun but also sad cause I have to leave Elder Duffin. Gunna miss this goober. But anywho so this week was actually super dope because they had a festival in Melipeuco called the Festival of the Baqueanos. A baqueano is like the mountain man type thing the people who live in the mountains here. Super dope festival the outfit of the baqueano is awesome. Totally would SASS that. Hair on wooly chaps, actually lots wear like berets basically and plaid. But it looks super dope. 

And the real cool thing is the knives they have. SUPER nice like big knives but the set is a fork and the knife all set in the leather sheath looks super dope. Almost bought one but didn’t have the money on me. But if I find one. But the festival was awesome because there was a ton of stuff like in booths and SO MUCH FOOD. Like probably every other booth was selling shishkabobs of meat and breads and so much meat. And a ton of places had like hardcore asados going on. Super dope. 

And these members had a fruit juice booth going on so we had a ton of free fruit juice. Super dope. And we contacted so many people in that place. Just everywhere you go just people and people. Awesome Also tragedy this week. (always comes after the good stuff) The aunt of our branch presidents wife died and they had been taking care of her for a long time so that was really hard. So we had her funeral and stuff this week. I also became a pallbearer. A privilege I had hoped would not come for a while but it happened. Here in Cunco the missionaries kind of do everything so we had to organize a bunch of stuff and go open everything and clean the chapel saturday morning. But it was an experience. So sunday we went to the cemetery and buried her and it was weird so the aunt that died wasn’t a member so supposedly her family had asked that Adventists and Catholics did stuff as well so we got to listen to the catholics sing and read

scriptures and the adventists as well. I will give this to the adventists though wow that lady could sing like a boss. Very impressive. But that was kind of our week really lots of walking and touching doors. 

Dad very impressive turnout for the match. And that’s funny to hear about Chandler, sorry that he has to deal with that though. I do enjoy hearing about everyone back home though so thanks.

Mom. Calm down I am looking for a nativity set. Doing my best but so far the only one I can find is a very catholic one where Mary was the center and I think there was a baby jesus in the background. So working on it.

Garrett. Oh wait awkward. Just kidding still love you be good.

Elder Galbreath

Temptation at it's finest.

Preaching to the Lamanites

Walked and walked and walked

Ok so good news monkeys are all much calmer now so we do have time I apologize for any complications that may have arisen because of the primate riots. So the last two weeks were good. So last saturday we had a zone attack or when all the missionaries go to a sector and work for a little bit. They all came to Cunco. Literally they contacted all of it. Super dope. But it was really good they did find a lot of people and so we are slowly finding out which ones are actually good and which ones really didn’t want anything and there are actually quite a bit of people who don’t exist. So working on that one. But it was super cool. Then that night we went to Meli to work. Had lots of people to visit including one guy who lives like 15-20 minutes walking outside of Meli. So we go and he is a super dope guy lots of questions but is super skeptical about all religion. He doesn’t really believe in the bible and is always asking like super deep hard question, but we always answer as simply as we can to help him and testify a lot. but so we did that then went back to an old lady we are teaching. Basically the opposite. Lots of repetition and everything about as clearly and simply as one can make it. But she is super nice. So we were trying to explain prayer to her and try and let her realize that it isn’t something written down. So trying lots of that. But we missed the bus from Meli to Cunco at 8. So acting under the assumption that there is a bus at 10 we start walking try hitchhiking and thinking if it don’t work whatever because the bus. There isn’t a bus at 10. So after like 3 and a half hours of walking our branch president calls cause he figures out what we did and starts chewing us out royally, and calls almost everyone of our ward to try and find someone with a car to come get us. so we walk...and walk....and walk....and about 1 someone gets us and we get to the house. So that was a fun day. And then in church the next day president chews us out hardcore in front of everyone twice and the hermanas in the ward. Well i was lucky to leave with my life. My comp of course doesn’t say a word and everyone just chews me

out then someone looks at him and asks why didn’t he say something and he says in exaggerated bad spanish well he is older than me i dunno. So they all return to me and treat him like he was innocent. Darn new kids. I still love him but dang it. But then wednesday we had interviews and that was cool. Got my temple recommend again. So I'm good now. And hermana bluth was teaching people to direct music and she asked if i knew how and i kind of chuckled and said yes i did so she had me show her a little. I explained moms story of callings in the church and she understood. Props to mom.

So other than that the week was long. Nothing real exciting until sunday when we had Maria (the old lady from Meli) come to church. So that was super dope that she could come and we were able to help her feel more at home and at ease with the church. It was great.

Last week heard a dope quote from Elder Hallstrom that goes what we are now doesn’t define what we can become. Really liked that. Made me think of the quote "The Lord doesn’t care who we were. Only where we are and, with his help, who we can become." The point of all the gospel is to change for the better (ex:Mos 3:19) so if you are the same person you were 3 years ago you need to change what you are putting into the church. So everyday be looking to change. Not necessarily become a cookie cutter mormon or a normal Christian but always be looking to change to be a better person, husband,wife,son, etc.. My thoughts that i share in the name of Jesus Christ.

Mom, sometimes in life the grass is just a little bit to high to see the hanging down things. Its times like that we have to move on and trust the spirit.

Questions

So dia de los muertos they don’t have and halloween yes but its not as big. Kids go around but more than anything its little kids and the teenagers go around throwing eggs at houses. Like its very common actually. Like everyone does it. I just don’t know sometimes. They do however have dia de los Santos. Its the day they all go to the cemetery and wash the graves of the family and stuff. Really big, like everyone goes to the cemetery. But that also means that there are a ton of people selling stuff so it almost turns to a quickly take care of the fam and lets go shopping. Sorry thats the only question i remember.

Love yall

Elder Galbreath