Chile ~week 17

so this week was pretty, good,cold, windy, rainy, like normal. our baptisms ended up falling, ill explain why in my week... but heres my week:

Tuesday: we had district meeting again! then we went on another intercambio, i went to lebu again with Elder Smith, hes one of our zone leaders. for lunch in lebu we had empanadas and a good soup.. but dad youre going to be jealous, they werent any empanadas, they were CRAB empanadas!! they were pretty good! and this is when we founf out that our baptism was pushed back, because we had one planned with a 10 year old named benjamin, and he drank coffee!! dang kid! so now itll hopefully be this saturday! 

Wednesday: Rained a bit, not too much, we ended our intercambio, then that night we went and met with crishna, my baptism. and she suddnly decided to move to santiago to live with her mom, we helped her find a church and everything so she could go! but we were sad that shes leaving!

Thursday: my companion and i have been questioning how to keep ourselves focused in the work and not on other things, we found a scripture in Luke 17:33, which we believe is our answer. and it also rained this day AGAIN! haha benjamin and paola should be able to be baptized together, paola is 21 and was almost baptized a few years ago, but decided not to last minute. so hopefully this saturday!

Friday: literally rained ALL DAY!!! ughh... its hard being wet, and i mean wet, like soaked and cold, ad still having to work, but we recieve more blessing that way! we had a family night with the president of our branch, then we found a big family that lives at the top of a muddy hill, so it was a bit scary walking up and down, never knowing if your going to slip and fall!! haha

Saturday: Recieved another answer, which is kind of like the opposite of our other one, in Helaman 15:9 we went out on splits with someone named nicole who recently returned from the osorno mission, and presidente rozas, who is in the branch presidency. we have investigators named macarena and javier, they truly believe our message, but still dont want to change or go to church, but we will keep working on them. it was a super good day, a day of blessing, it was cloudy all day, but with no rain, and when its cloudy, its warm, so we were pretty warm all day. theres a youth that goes on splits with us a lot, his name is nelson, and he had a good experience with Macarena and javier, because theyre a mom and a son, and thats how he got ba`tized, with his mom, so he has a special bond with them! and its cool to see how excited he gets when we teach them! this day was probably one of the best on my mission!

Sunday: rained basically all day, always does on sundays, so not much people come to church.... and banjamin didnt come to church, so we will see if he can still get baptized, but he should be able to. but yeah it was a good wet day, nothing special really happened.

Today: still raining in the morning... basically it...

Well everyone have a good week!! dont have any more pics to send!

Elder Severtson

Chile ~week 16

This week has been a pretty good week, this morning we had our zone activity so i will try to send pics of that.

but this week:

Tuesday: We had district meeting, and we had a grand intercambio, i was put with lder montoya, he is from santiago but he knows lots of english. we ended up walking all over lebu that day which wasnt very fun, because this week i had blisters on my feet(another pic i have). it rained not much that day, and to make it a great day our lunch appointment fell... so we went and ate churrascos and fries, so it wasnt too bad.

Wednesday: Wednesday was a craaazy day! it rained a ton!! from in the morning when we woke up til right before we went to bed that night. the intercambio ended, we went and did an attack in los alamos, which means we contacted as much people as we can for them. but we had to leave a bit early cause we had appointments back in cañete. this day was also super windy, so lots of wind with lots of rain... not a good combo... maybe the coldest ive been in my life, but ive said that a few times jajaja. 

Thursday: i was able to go on a little cambio with Elder Deus, he is from brazil, we spent the day in los alamos again because i was supposed to go get my chilean id there, but it didnt work at that registro civil. then that night we had interviews with president and his wife, which was cool, they are good people and im excited to work with them. 

Friday: We did another intercambio, ive spent a lot of money this week on travel, but i was with Elder Runyan again this time. there wasnt rain which was good, but he told me starting sunday we were supposed to have a huge storm. i was a bit scared for it.

Saturday: we had another similar thing like los alamos, but this time in curanilahue. we used that to end our intercambio, but this was a good day, me and my comp were wondering why our past weeks have been so hard, then after that we had some miracles. the first was when we were talking to our investigators about baptism, and one of them said lo haré which means i will do it. she regrette4d it last time she did not get baptized. one of our inactives said she will go to church(which she did, it was awesome!) then another inactive that went to church last week said she can really see how her week was blessed from that experience. then that night it started raining again...

Sunday: it was raining all through the morning, then the beginning of church, i was scared it was the big storm, but the rain didnt last long, so the big storm was just a mis call. which really made my day. we had church, then lessons with some people.

This week we should have a baptism, so were pumped for that!

And the sun was out and shining today!! so this storm isnt so bad at all!

well thats it!

Have a good week everyone!

Elder Severtson

Chile ~week 15

So this week was a wild one!!

Tuesday: We did inter cambios again, i went toLos Alamos, And we did Lots of Walking. I waswith an elder namedElder Loose, He is from argentina, so he didnt know a lot of english, so i was able to practice a lot mof my spanish and it get a lot better from that. We also had district meeting that morning!

Wednesday: We had to wake up early to go to San Pedro, The shower i took was coldunlessit was barely drizzling, then it was kind of warm. I finally dreamed in spanish where i realized it! I was asked to give the prayerin the reunion where we met our new mission president, President May, And they are supercool!! We had Papa Johns For lunch, which was awesome! it remimded me of home!! imiss american pizza. We had a super long day home then headedto Quirico, Another town by the beach, so thats what the pictures are!  And it rained a little bit that day.

Thursday: We did another Inter Cambio, i was with Elder Runyan,hes a crazy missionary, he stayed an extra transfer in the mission, so hes going crazy!! But it was a good intercambio, I lkeatrned a lot!

Frisay: We were finally able to getmoney, i was outof money, i was only able to take money out a few weeks ago, and it wasonly 20 mil!! vause my card had problems. but now weregood cause i have more money!!

Saturday:Rained a lot again!! Its weird when it rains here it gets warmer!! We also ended up walking a lot!

Sunday:  We had church, And it still was Raining, its basically been raining non stop since saturday... Then we had tqacos for Lunch which remionded me of tacobell athome!! which Was Super good!

Yeah...

Today its still raining!!

Well thats reallyit!

Have a good week!!!

Elder Severtson!

Chile ~week14

Happy 4th of July!!!

we kind of celebrated, we had to go to lebu again for my chilean ID,

so we met up with the elders there and made strawberry pancakes, so it was pretty cool

not much time to write! 

anyways on wednesday: zone conference, intercambios with elder smith, whos dad opened our zone almost 40 years ago, we saw a dog that was ran over or something, all its guts were hanging out! eww... and crishna passed her bap interview!!!

Thursday: we got lost in Los alamos because we couldnt find our companions, so we went to the elders house there and eventually found ur comps, so it was a weird day,

Friday: we washed the baptismal font, and i had a completo with no tomatoes! so it was awesome!!! we founf out it wil be this cold for 2 more months!! the temperture was below 0 celcius so we decided we should buy a new gas cause we were out for a few weeks, and our investigators dad doesnt believe or have a testimonsy( hes inactive) so we strengthened our testimonies hering he doesnt have one..

Satuday: We started our fast, BAPTIZED CRISHNA!!!!! it was a funny baptism i was putting her under and she didnt bend her knees so she just fell and splashed all over!! hahaha... and we helped paint a house again that morning!

Sunday: fasted still, had Church, nothing really special happened...

This wednesday: we will be meeting our new mission president, named President May from alabama!

Well thats it! Have a good week everyone!!

Elder Severtson!