Happy New Year

Wow so lots this week. Its weird that the new year was this week. Feels like a long time ago. But lots of stuff happened so here we go.

So Wednesday i did and intercambio in Pitrufquen with an Elder named Elder Tilbes. Super funny he is from Columbia and is blacker than the night. So we had a good old time eating fruit from trees and contacting. We had no appointments so we knocked doors all day. But he is a nice guy actually wants to be a translator when he gets back so he speaks good english. Granted we still spoke in spanish all day but we had fun talking. The next morning for language study him and another elder taught me the first lesson in english. Elder Tilbes can do it. He actually has the first vision(as in Js-H 17-19) memorized in english. Super impressive. Most people don’t actually have that memorized in their own language. But the other elder doesnt not speak english so that was incredibly hilarious. But it was good for them.

So New years eve we actually did service in the morning stacking wood for a member. Then we contacted and actually found someone! It was super nice because basically everyone leaves or is with the family so usually not receptive. But with obedience comes blessings so we worked and we received the blessings. So that was awesome. Then in the night we went to Miguel Angel´s house and we had a super good dinner of...meat and rice. Seriously oh my goodness english. Anyway so then we had to be in the house by 11 so we went to the house and we.......stayed awake till 12. Just sat around and at 12 we lit off these soundmakers and went to bed. We are soooooooooo exciting and definitely party hard. Yes we know. They started to light off fireworks and i saw like 3 of them then i fell asleep. I like to live on the edge ya know. Then new years day we went to the chapel and played basketball for a couple hours, then the other guys had a schedule lunch (lucky guys) so we went to the house and i made fried chicken! It was good not as good as dads but we are also severly limited in ingredients here. Seasoning salt, onion powder and pepper powder. But i cut up cilantro real fine and onion i did the same and it worked. Didnt taste great but the chicken ended super tender and perfectly fried. So im ok. I was happy.

And now the grand finale.....We baptized! Javier and Catalina got baptized saturday. What a ride ill tell yall what. I have never seen a baptism that went smoothly so this one didnt change. Our font doesn't have a drain block so we use a small handtowel inside of plastic bags. Pretty official right? But so we started to fill it and Branch President had told us like 5 hours to fill. So we leave for lunch, get back like 2 and a half hours after and the font was full and almost overflowing. So we stop the water but it was way to high to use. But to lower the water we had to pull the bag out....So we go home i get my shorts and a towel and wade into the font to lower it. It gets to where we want it and i start to put the old towel back in and…..it sucks it right in and the bag rips and the towel goes down the drain. WHAT THE HECK. So i put my foot over the whole and tell me comp to go get more bags and stuff. So he comes back with them and i pray and....it works. So i get out just in time to see President come in the the chapel. Luckily the branch president here was a missionary and didn’t even blink twice when i am standing there soaking wet in nothing but my basketball shorts. I just told him why and he was like "Elder, we need to buy something to block the drain on monday." Thats all he said. I am completely in agreement with him. Haha so today we should be doing that. So then comes 6 and we have the service and Javier and Catalina get baptized. It was awesome they are both super cool amazingly prepared people who are going to do great in the church. They have 2 little kids and they were asking me and what age the kids can go on missions. Super excited for them. Another cool little bit of that is 2 weeks ago a guy named Miguel Angel (who we had dinner with) got baptized so he recieved the Aaronic Priesthood and was able to baptize Javier and Catalina. So basically just about the dopest experience ever. Good times down here in Loncoche.

Today we went to Pitrufquen to play soccer and a little bit of Rugby it was super fun. I really like Rugby now having played it a couple times. Does Big Bend have a team? If not it will when i get back. 

But that was kind of the week.

I love yall have a great week

Elder Galbreath