Chile ~week 89

o jsut so you all know.. next tuesday i will be writing agian, cause of new years.. so when i dont write on monday dont be all scared!! haha

well this week was great.. first of all cause it was christmas week, and we had an awesome christmas!!

heres my week:

Wednesday: so this week was weird, cause there arent many members, so we have had to make lunch ourselves at home almost everyday.. so please send me some recipes!! haha so this day we had lunch at home, we worked with the area book a bit, then went to contact.

Thursday:we had district meeting, we went to buy food so we could make our lunch, we had to travel back home, our area is so small we sont even have any grocery stores.. so we have to travel a lot.. haha that afternoon we went to the church, to have a meeting, we got to meet a few of the members, we set up the branches christmas activity..

Friday:

was also a good day, we had interviews with our mission president, we came home and had ot make lunch again.. then in the afternoon we went and had a lesson with some old investigators, they said we could come back agian, so thats sweet!!! then as we were contacting near home, there was a kid that was like 19.. he said they were members and we had to go to their house.. so we went over there, and we talked to them.. they were all inactive, and the mom had been inactive for 5 months.. so we set goals with them and invited them to do some things.. then oin sunday the mom came ot church!!

Saturday: we had to go to lunch, it was good, but we had to walk a few miles is the mountains to get there.. so that was fun.. then that night we had our ward activity.. and only 11 people came.. which was crazy, theres more people in my family!! haha

Sunday: okay so we had church, and there were only 12 people, with us.. so i hd to lead the music, and speak, my companion conducted and also spoke.. the missionaries have a lot of work here. after church we had ot bring the sacrament to some members.. we went to the area called puren, and celelbrated christmas there..

Monday:  was christmas, we were able to do skype, which was fun, we also celebrated a bit with the fmaily we were with..

But thats all my week!!!

it was awesome, and i hope you all had a rgeat week! and hope you all had a very feliz navidad!! :)

Have a Good Week!

Elder Garrett Severtson

Pics:

me and my 2nd Kid!

mission Christmas pic..

Chile ~week 88

Los Sauces... and Second Trainee

So.. Crazy week!!!!

Listen to my audio!!

Me and my 2nd Kid or trainee Elder Salas

i swnt another auido cause therea a LOT that happened...

Have a Good Week!

Elder Garrett Severtson

heres all my pics

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1xaXsb3K1C3xElr_4KEjBDCUw2b-HRwiQ

these are pics rom the mission devocional we had...

last week we met up to sya goodbye to Elder Page, and all 5 of my comps were there again..

Me saying goodbye to families..

aaand... Me new trainee Elder Salas from Lima Peru

Chile ~week 87

Voice Message... Christmas time is coming!!!

So.. once again one of the hottest weeks in chile.. not realy.. but its getting hotter here.. but once again we had a great week.. i explain it in my voice message.. but christmas tme is coming! and were getting excited!!!

Have a Good Week!

Elder Garrett Severtson

Pics:

a service we did a few weeks ago

us and one of the Hatian investiagators the other elders have "John Maxi" haha

Chile ~week 86

Okay, so.. this week i had a kinda lame title, cause i never know what to out.. so... haha

but once again we had a great week, very fun, and very fast!!! i can believe how fast the time is going!!!

But heres my week:

Tuesday: we didnt end up doing mmuch, cause we had to go to Gorbea to help a lady build a fence, which was still pretty cool, but that took all the afternoon.

Wednesday: we had the Chirtmas conference, we left at like 6:15am and got home at like 11:15pm,  it wwas a long day but it was awesome!! we did it in Los angeles this year.. so i ended up seeing a few members i knew!

Thursday: we did weekly planning, in the afternoon we went to work a bit, printed out the references we havem then we went to teach an hermana english, she needed some help with her english.. then we went to help in the choir for the branch, then that night we ended with mission correlation..

Friday: we had district meeting in the morning, then lunch, after lunch we went to visit juan, that crazy guy,. and we also met his mom, turns out juan understood a lot.. it was awesome.. after we went to pass by olga and see how shes doing.. then we did companion study then went over to a less active family, who we invited to church, and they came!! it was awesome!! 

Saturday: in the morning we studied a bit of french, i now know how the say the churchs name in french.. but not dure how my pronunciation is...but we also went to visit alison and her family, we brought the branch presidents wife with us.. and she helped a lot!! Then that night we had to cut our grass in out yard.. it was really long, there mgiht have been parts that were taller than i am.. so.. it was about time to cut it!! hahah

Sunday: we had district conference, and Juan ended up coming.. after we had an attack in loncoche, which was cool, we went caroling and i got to meet some of thee investiagors.. then that night we went with a member to meet her sister, who is less active.. shes cool..

But thats all.. it was a pretty god week, its getting closer and closer to christmas!!! 

Have a Good Week!

Elder Garrett Severtson

Pics: 

us elders at district conference,

us singing in the plaza in pitrufquèn

us as a zone is our attack in loncoche

i was with all my comps at the christmas devotional, well, all tht are still here

Last pic.. i drew all my comps

Chile ~week 85

Thanksgiving, Hatians, French, Interviews, What else?
This week has been great, ive got another voice message for you guys.. weve been learning a bit of french here, a tiny bit, not toomuch, its hard.. but weve been enjoying it here, Happy thanksgiving to you all.. i hape you all had a great week!!

Have a Good Week!

Elder Garrett Severtson

Pics:

Our thanksgiving dinner!

Chile ~week 84

So here in the south, its been getting hot, then cold, then hot then cold.. over and over... this week it was in the middle, it was hot with a cold breeze... but its getting hotter here, so were getting closer to christmas.. and were about the use the new "ilumina el mundo" cards for the new christmas campaign here!! wwere getting excited!!

But as always.. we had a great week:

Tuesday: we got a bit of rain, but not too much happened, we visited olga for a bit, same with alison, and in the night we visited a less active... ELba is her name... but not too much happened..

Wednesday: we decided to go visit a place a little further from our normal area, but is still within our boundaries.. which is called Tolten, its a small little town, we went to work for the day there... it went pretty good, we found one person, and were gonna be going back soon to meet her family..

Thursday: not much happened this day either, we had weekly planning, then lunch, then we went and visited Olga agani, shes going through a hard time, her brother in law is in the hospital, and isnt very well, so were trying to help her and her family out in these hard times...

Friday: we had district meeting, then went on an intercambio... i was with Elder Rodrigues, who actually finishes the misison with me... he is from brazil, from sao paulo.. hes my zone leader, so i live with him.. we had a pretty good day, we visited some of their investigators and we taught them...

Saturday: we went and finally found alison in her house.. we taught her a bit, then left and found a less active who had changed churches cause the members stopped visiting him, so we talked to him a bit, but hes kinda old and doesnt understand much...

Sunday: we had church, and turned out none of our investigators showed up, even when they told us they would.. but thats okay, were gonna teach them still and hpe they come next week... we went contacting in the afternoon and we found a guy, he doesnt want to commit himself to anything yet, but well be working on that...

Today: so this morning we watched the youth, singles ward face to face with Ballard and Oaks, it was really good.. i liked it a lot...

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But thats my week for this week! it was great!! i hope you all have a great week this week!!

Have a Good Week!

Elder Garrett Severtson

Pics:

Me and my New comp Elder Duke

A teddy bear we made!!

a guy fixed me shoe for free!

pics from face to face this morning

Chile ~week 83

so this week has been a great one!!! we have had transfersonce again, Elder Echegaray has left, and Elder Duke got here.. and with the transfers of the weather, it has been HOT this week... out of nowhere... but thats okay...at least its not raining!!!

but here i have a voice message for you guys again!!! :)

Have a Good Week!

Elder Garrett Severtson

Pics: from the Capilla Abierta

Video: something we like to do with the spider webs here...

Chile ~week 82

Okay so mi have another voice message to send this week!!! and ill be sending it here, but for this week we will be having transfers, my new companion will be Elder Duke, ive never met him, i heard hes kinda weird, so im excited!!! but ill let you know how it goes next week!!!

Have a Good Week!

Elder Garrett Severtson

Chile ~week 81

so.. apparently we were starting summer, but were not sure cause its still raining a lot and its cold, so were a bit confused, at this time last year it was hot already...

but as always, this week was a good one!!

Tuesday: we had district meeting, i gave another class, i like giving classes now.. afterwards we had a GranIntercambio, i was with Elder Ziemer from Alaska, which was cool. 

Wednesday: we had a multizone conference, so i got to see a lot of my old misison friends again!! but it was really long, we got home at ngiht to go right to book of mormon classes, then home..

Thursday: in the morning we had a service in Gorbea, then in the afternoon was crazy, we contacted a few old investigators, some curent investigators, some werent home, and finally at night we had mission corelation.

Firiday: we had another service in the morning, which i will send pictures of, where we helped an hermana make a garden.. then that night we had a family night with one of our investigators, Olga,  and her less active daughter, it was good..

Saturday: we were running all arounf the place, later in the day we went to Gorbea again, because we had a capilla abierta, where we do a tour of the church, it turned out pretty god to have been raining the whole time.

Sunday: ot much happened, we had our branches primary program.. 

sorry the letter today is a bit short, this keyboard is not very good... 

Have a Good Week!

Elder Garrett Severtson

Pics:

Book of mormon in french and creolle for the haitians here

Service project we did

my friend Francisco(pancho)

futbol from last week

Chile ~week 80

this week has been a pretty interesting one..  we have gotten soaked.. then the sun comes out, then we get soaked, and the sun comes out.. thats how it is down here in the south i guess...

but once again we have had a great week!!!

Heres my week:

Tuesday:we had our meetig in the morning, i had to give another class.. which was good.. we went to lunch, then we had to go but bus tickets to travel to los angeles.. ill talk about that later... then in the afternoon we went to work in the area book and find some old investigators..

Wednesday: we woke up, studies, luinch, the same routine, then we ended up walking to a part of my area that is pretty far away, like 40 mins, that i didt even know existed before.. but its cause theres a family there that has a daughter who is 9 whos isnt baptized, and really wants to get baptized!! so thats exciting!

Thursday: we woke up early in the morning to travel to temuco, so we could travel to los angeles... the reasonw e went was cause i started my visa again, it was all about to be finished up, then they transferred me.. so my chilean id was stuck in los angeles.. so.. the president gave us permisison to go to los angleses and pick up my id.. but while there we went and got lunch, we ate with hermana marilyn from my last area.. and wow... she gave us a HUGE ñunch, we left very full!!! but was good!! after we hurried to the bus terminal to travel home, we had another 4 hours in bus to get back all the way here.. just in time for correlation meeting that night!! was a fast, long, boring day, with lots of traveling... 

Friday: we went to an appointment we had with a less active member, she had her grandson and her friend there.. so we taught them a little bit, which was cool! then we went around visiting some of the investigators we have.. 

Saturday: not much happened... that night we had a ward activity, sadly none of our investiagators came, but waas still a fun actvity!

Sunday: we had church, the branch president asked me to speak on friday, so i got a talk ready, and they didnt even call me!! hahaha but now i have one for the next time!! hahaha then in the afternoon we had an attack in loncoche... we found a guy who served as a misisonary in chicago 15 years ago.. approximately the time we lived there... but the crazy thing was he told us hes inactive and ateo now, he told us a lot of the reasons why... some of the things made me think... could it be true? but then i remembered i need ot think of the testimony i already have, so i just started ignoring the things he said.. but was still an interesting experience, its fun to talk to people like that, cause afterwards i fele my testimony grew..

Today: this morning we got soaked cause we were playing soccer in the rian, which was fun!!

well thats my fun week this week!!!

Have a Good Week!

Elder Garrett Severtson

pics:

we got soaked this week!!!

zone elder activity we had

Me and my comp

Chile ~week 79

Well this week has been a good one once again, i have another voice message so i dont have another repeat of what i had last week.. but its geed being a giant here in the south... my companion seems to like it aswell.. so were getting along great! haha

Have a Good Week!

Elder Garrett Severtson

pics: a service we did this week...