Hola mi familia

Hello! So this week was pretty fun had TONS of rain and of course....its getting colder and colder. 

But its still a good life. I dont complain.

So this week yeah it rained a ton. Like seriously wow. I do not miss this part of winter. But the umbrella I have is holding up. Don’t know for how much time it will hold up but i don’t worry about that. My big coat is great and i usually get back not to wet so I am not complaining.

So Thursday was a day and a half I’ll tell you what. So We live in a town like 15 minutes away from where we work most of the time. So we always go to the church to use the bathroom and leave stuff we have to. So i got back from an intercambio wednesday and we entered the chapel so i could leave my bag in the church and we see that the bishops office is open and the wall has a hole in it. We think nothing of it because they have been doing a lot of repairs to our chapel lately. So thursday we go back and we see that nothing has changed. So i start looking harder and see that the lock on the door is removed and not in a nice way. Just then a guy from the church administration comes in takes one look and says umm someone robbed the church. So we start calling the people we need to so we can get everything fixed and informed. But that night we went with the leaders of the branch to see what they took. They almost didn’t. They took the microphone, a little speaker from the office and the worst........roller blades of an hermana. NOOOOOOOOOO. Seriously super weird. But of everything they left includes a tv, a nice speaker, a computer and a couple envelopes of money. These guys were not thinking right. So that was fun. 

Saturday we had  a "talent" show in our branch. Overall it was a success because we had 2 investigatores there and a couple less active members. But noone really did talents just 3 skits and 1 really racist announcer. Our branch president walks in with a scarf and a robe and talks with an indian accent saying he is from bollywood and how life is in saudi arabia. Funny yes, but awkwardly racist. But the besat sketch was definitely ours. We "reenacted" the robbery in the chapel and spent the time making fun and joking and stuff. Because i repeat, they left the tithing money and took a cold medicine. Yeah noone really understands. So it was a good time. Everyone liked it. 

Sunday was our district conference. So everyone went to Pitrufquen for the conference. It was funny i walked into the parking lot right as Loncoche got off the bus. So i had like half the branch run forward and say hi. Then all of my ward came. I have gone to Gorbea to help with the sacrament several times so they almost all know me and i know a ton of Pitrufquen because i have worked there a lot. In other wards in the sessions i knew by name a good 80 percent of the people in my district (which if you don’t know is a small stake) Super good times. 

So awesome miracle/God provides story. Our lunch on sunday fell through she had forgotten so we were looking at not eating till like 7 when we got back to the house. The problem was that we hadn’t eaten for about a day at that point. Whatever its happened before and will probably happen again. Hermana Wilhelm finds out, talks to an hermana from pitruf who promptly gives us a small plate of spaghetti and is practically begging us to forgive her for not having more. We were so happy and grateful for her sacrifice so we start to eat when we are finishing Pres. Wilhelm comes up and says oh you found food, Hma Wilhelm told me you didn’t have it so downstairs we have 2 plates set aside for you. Come down anyway" so we go downstairs and eat another lunch with the leaders of the district and of the mission. So that was something. So in like 10 minutes we went from not eating for 2 days to having lunch twice. So I testify that the Lord provides for his missionaries and that i am well taken care of here in Chile. 

Also another really cool thing happened Sunday. Miguel Angel who got baptized during my time in Loncoche also received the Melchizedek  Priesthood on sunday. And the cool part is that i was able to be in the circle to give it to him. It was such a cool spiritual experience. So i was very happy that day to see him basically go from beginning investigator to receiving this power. So awesome. 

So that was basically the week. Cool stuff huh?

I love yall tons, have great weeks, remember God loves you and that the Sun will always rise. And if it doesn’t, well we might be in a tight spot. 

Elder Galbreath

New sector here in Freire

Hey fam,

So this week was a huge change for me as I went an hour north of Loncoche to my new sector of Freire. I am still in the same zone and still in the same district as Loncoche so that's a pretty big change. Actually it was funny I left a suitcase in Loncoche and just had Elder Ormeño bring it to me at district meeting so I could help Elder England with his stuff. It worked well for me.

So this week was a rollercoaster backwards as switching sectors always is. 

So directly after writing last time we went back to Temuco to drop Ormeño off so he can go get his kid from Concepcion, then when we got back all we had time to do was go get my shirts from a sister in the ward (she was whitening them) and come home to pack. We did get a picture with my favorite person ever in Loncoche, The Hermana Quezada. She is awesome and always helped us out. But it was sad that I could only say goodbye to a couple people. But I will be fine I called a lot of the members to say goodbye. 

Tuesday we went to Temuco for the bus station, i said goodbye to Elder England, Elder Sanchez and i got in a truck of some members of Gorbea (the sector of the Sisters here in my zone) and headed off to Quepe to our house. So my sector is called Freire its a tiny little city about the same size of Cunco if not a little bigger. But we live in a town like 15 minutes north of that called Quepe. (say it ke-pe) Its cool but it sucks because we waste so much money of tickets having to travel everyday. But its cool its a nice little town. 

My new comp like i said is Elder Sanchez. He is like i said from Peru and is a lawyer. We get along really well he is really funny and we enjoy the days. The good part is that he is also really new in the mission (just finished his training) but he does have more life experience so it works well. But this makes my 4th comp that has less than 6 months in the mission. Pretty fun stuff. 

So i cant even explain how AMAZING general Conference was. Oh my goodness it was amazing. Just wow. I loved all the talks and i cant wait to download some and i eagerly await the next liahona/ensign so i can read them all again. It was awesome. If i had to choose a favorite i would say that it is impossible but i did love Elder Bednars talk, as always, and Elder Mervyn Arnolds. They were both super awesome. Elder Hales talk was very inspiring and I just love hearing the prophets amazing experience and testimony. Also the emotion in Pres. Uchtorfs voice after Elder Kearsons (i think) talk about refuges was just so heartbreaking. Oh how i love this Church and how obviously truthful it is. I offer everyone a modified version of the challenge the Lord makes in DandC 67:6-8 (revised) "now choose the General Conference and someone is who is very intelligent among you. And if they can do the same thing then you can say it isn’t true. But if you can’t then you are under condemnation if you don’t testify of the truthfulness." Obviously very edited but you get the point (hey I’m working on memory here don’t judge)

But Mom I got my package. Thank you !! All the gringos in the english room enjoyed the candy I shared (I couldn’t not) and I am waiting for the cookies. I am finding the right moment. I would also like to mention it is cruel to send someone wrapped gifts 2 months before he is able to open them. Not cool. I know what 3 are but the 4th clothing feeling one has me confused and anxious. Not cool. I’m going to eat a chocolate bunny out of anger. haha. 

But I am doing wonderful here in Freire with my buddy Elder Sanchez. 

I love yall

Elder Galbreath