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...

Chile ~week 78

so... once again a great week, weve had quite a bit of rain.. but that wont stop us!!

Well i typed all this email, and it al erased on me.. so i dont hav e much time now.. so ill just have to say it fast..

We had a pretty rainy week, but we still worked, on sundya we went to church and we had like 38 people there i counted, and one of the misisonaries told me that there was a lot of people i church, and that suprised me!! because it is my smallest ward, so its gonna be great here, the members seem really cool... but sorry theres not much i can write, i typed it all out and then the computer reset and didnt save my drafty.. and sorry for any errors, this keyboard is terrible!!

Have a Good Week!

Elder Garrett Severtson

Chile ~week 77

So everyone this week was a great one, currently im freezing down here in Pitrufquén... but its awesome, its realy calm and quiet here, i love it!!!

but i had a great week this week, and here it is..:

Tuesday: we had our cambios in the morning, i got my new sector and my new comp, theyre both really cool, my companion is from san Juan Argentina, but speaks normal!! hahaha we didnt do much that day, just got a bit settled in, went to meet some members, its really cool here, i think im gonna love it!

Wednesday: we had district meeting, and i had to teach my first class, and i had no idea what to do, what to talk about, so i just made up a little lesson right there the day  before, and it turned out good, at least i think it turned out good.. then we went out to lunch with a member, did a bit of planning, had a class about the book of mormon my companion teaches, then that night we got to meet the branch president and his family..

Thursday: a day full of service.. we started ripping up some lady´s grass there in Gorbea, a few minutes away... and fur lunch there was a member who wanted to give us an asado, so we went there as a zone to have an asado, it was good, then there was another service where we had to help a member load up some stuff in temuco.. which was really weird, we were driving around my old sector Caupoicán.. and that was crazy to see again!! 

Friday: it staryed raining,. after a long time without rain, it finally hit us.. so its gotten a bitr colder cause of the rian.. but that night i was able to go and meet one of our investigators, named benjamin, i didnt get to meet him real well, but he seema pretty cool, a 1 17 year old kid..

Saturday: in the morning the zone leaders gave us a little training on how ot be a district leader.. then we had conference, all day long we were at conference.. it was good, but for the priesthood session i had to watch it in spanish, ans boy was that hard, its hard for me to pay attention in english, not to mention in spanish its tiring! but it was still a good session..

Sunday: we had more conference, which was once again really good, but sad to hear about elder Hales.. but after conference we had a small miracle.. we were walking down the street when my companion said.. we need to go this way and turned arund real fast.. so i folowed him, he showed me a house they had visited before, and it was an older couple, they let us in and we taught them,,, it was cool! my first week here and were already seeing miracles!! haha its gonna be awesome!!

Well thats my week this week, it was a great one.. hope you all have a greta week aswell!!

love and miss you all!!

Elder Garrett Severtson

me and my new companion Elder Echegaray

and some of the goodbyes we had last week...