Chile ~week 35

Subject: Semana 5 in Cow-Pole-E-Kahn

hey everyone a great week again in caupolican!

im gonna do something a bit different this week, i have voice recordings for you guys, so ill send those in an attatched email. and you guys can let me know what you like more, a written email, or voice recordings, and i can try to do both.

but my week was good, we assisted a viewing and a funeral. which was kind of bad, you can see why in my recording, cause i dont want to spoil it..

it was a week with pretty good weather, not too hot, or not too cold. it was good. 

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Have a Good Week!

Elder Severtson

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Thanks giving that we had here.

Chile ~week 33

This week was a good one as usual, but in this time of year, the allergies kill me, so wish me luck as my head explodes! haha. 

well heres my week!

Monday: after pday we had a noche de hogar with some of our investigators.. so that was good.

Tuesday: We had district meeting, and my comp had to do something during that timeso i was able to lead a lot of it, which was pretty cool. we went to a girls house to teach a little more english, then set a baptismal date with her, but she doesnt want to get baptized, we still need to ask her why. then at night we had mission correlation and our mission leader bought us pizza, so that was good. 

Wednesday: the president came to our church that morning so we had to open it and help him get everything set up for a reunion with the hermanas. i heard trump won, woohoo! haha everyone here is pretty upset, i have to pretend to be sad cause everybody is way upset ans always asks me about it, especially my comp, hes really worried about mexico now. we went to go visit a new, he wasnt there, so we talked with his mom and grandma, his grandma is 95 and isnt doing so well, we gave her a blessing then we left. 

Thursday: we had an intercambio trio type thing. the zone leaders split and went with the district leaders, so that was fun, Elder Castro from colombia was with us.  we went to our investigators grandmas house but she was home alone, so we talked on her porch aand sang her a hymn. or we tries, we all started laughting during the hymn so that was fun.. haha. there is a nations festival on saturday so we went with one of the senior couples and the owner of Jacks(american food place) to see what itll be like. the owner of jacks lived in florida for 19 years, so he knows really good english. 

Friday: i was pretty sick, i had so much allergies, it was bad... but i didnt want to stay home so we went out and worked. that morning we went to a special needs school and sang with the kids as a service activity! it was pretty fun. we tried to do a bit of church tours which was hard cause there are so many people and theyre all "in a hurry". we came home cause someone came home to fix our water heater, it wasnt working very good and kept exploding, so we told our home owner and hired someone to fix it. and then our home owner told us we need to find a new house before the end of the year, so we will see how this goes... 

Saturday: we went and chopped wood for someone in the morning, then afterwards we got invited to go to the nations festival which was pretty cool, we represented the united states, and got a bunch of questions about trump. the nations  festival was cool, there were 13 countries there and a bunch of people, we got some pretty good references from that aswell. and a few people wanted to take pictures with me, what can i say, a gringo in south america, gotta take a picture! hahaha we also were able to give 2 blessings.

Sunday: we had church, and i had to pass the sacrament which was weird cause every ward does it different. but church was good cause juan came, which means this saturday we are going to have a baptism!! woohoo!! there was also a member from idaho in our ward, he was down here for work, so that was pretty cool. 

Today: we had our ward activity and did a white elephant, me and my comp won cookies, so that was pretty fun, then we went to jacks, since we helped with the nations festival we got free food! so thats cool, its also been pretty rainy, so thats soo lameee!! haha

well its been a great week! love and miss you all!!

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Have a Good Week!

Elder Severtson

Chile ~week 32

Hey everyone another good week here in temuco! but its getting really really hot down here, the sun down here is much stronger, cause theres no ozone!

but heres my week:

Monday: we ate papa johns, which was pretty good, american pizza, and it rained a bunch!! that was pretty lame! and then at night it was halloween, so we gave a bit of candy to the few kids that passed by!

Tuesday: we went to a less actives house, and hes a crazy guy, he said he can speak with spirits and dead people, so that was a bit weird... it rained a bit this day, so it wasnt too bad. 

Wednesday: we had an intercambio cause my comp and the other district leader had to do an inter cambio with the zone leaders. so it was me and elder vargas again, and we had to run 2 sectors, so it was a bit busy. we had a noche de hogar, where we taught about the book of mormon, and the investigator we taught seemed to understand it.. and then last minute we had to make jack o lanters for the zone activity, the leaders told us the day before, so we had to make something real fast...

Thursday: we had Zone meeting and presented our jack o lantern. we had lunch with the old mission president and his wife, they made us this weird dish thats native to here in temuco. so that was pretty cool. we had another appointment, and we talked about american politics, and that was the first time i ever heard someone say something good about trump here in south america... but its a bit sad, i cant vote... i wouldve had to sign up awhile ago to recieve a mail in ballot. 

Friday: there was a black friday event going on in Lider, so we went in the morning to see if we could fin anything good, but it was all electronic stuff. so as missionaries didnt serve us good at all. it was another very hot day, its burning up down here. i taught an english class to a young girl that will probably be a future investigatr. so that was weird my first time teahing english... which wasnt good cause my english is going away, spanish is killing me.

Saturday: our water heater in our house is a bit bad, so our house owner came and said hes not gonna fix anything, then he said the best thing we could do it move out, cause he doesnt want anything to do with helping us. he was kinda a mean guy. we started our fast, then we had to stop by lider on the way home to buy food to make to break our fast the next day, cause we didnt have a member sign up to give us lunch.

Sunday: we had church, we had 2 investigators show up, and they both have a baptism date for the 19th! there was also a member from cañete that showed up, so that was pretty cool to see someone i alreadyy knew! but after chruch we got home to make lunch, to make tacos, my comp taught me. and we opened the chicken and it was bad, we bought it the night before, and it was bad. so we ran to lider real fast(on sunday) to return it and get another one. then we ran home again and made food, and we were so hungry cause we were still basically fasting. then we did weekly planning cause we didnt have time the earlier days. then at night we visited my comps recent convert again, which was cool, and we watched the joseph smith movie, so that was good.

Today: we bought food this morning, then we went to an american food place where i got a burger(for once) and a milkshake!

well thats all my week! it was good!

Love and miss you all!

Elder Severtson

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Have a Good Week!

Elder Severtson