Chile ~week 13

monday: pday, so notmuch happened,

Tuesday: we strarted running because it was recommended by our health missionaries. me and my comp have a goal to read all the book of mormon in one transfer, and were a little behind already. he told me that traniers dont normally stay with their trainers for both combion in our mission, but some reason we stayed, so we will see why. just from reading the bom in spanish my spanish has gotten way better.

wednesday: we had district meeting, i got to meet my new district. and our investigator gave us some good cake.

thursday: we saw some dogs in the street start fighting, like real fighting, and they almost died, then they ran around the corner so we didnt see what happened.

friday: we went to the hermanas in our districts area because my comp had to interview for baptisms and i sat behind a drunk guy on the way back so i could smell him the whole time, it was bad. i almost got sick, theres alwats a bunch of drunk people here!

saturday: we have a progressing investigator named krishna, she is super ready to get baptized, and we had a lesson with her this day, and many other days i forgot to mention.

Sunday: krishna came to church for her 3rd time so she can be baptized, we had branch council, and the copa america partido was that night, chile vs. Argentina, AND CHILE WON!!!!!

Monday: we helped more with service, smoothing walls inside our investigators house, so we were super dirty, we had a lesson with krishna and planned her baptism, she is getting baptized on saturday and i will be baptizing her, which is cool!

Today: we went to a museum this morning, thats what the pics are, and not all of them fit, so i will send more in another email!

well thats my week!!

have a good week everyone!!

Elder Severtson!

Chile ~week 12

okay everybody this is my week.

last week we were in lebu for pday, we went to the beach cause thats where the sword shop was, and as you know me, i ended up buying a sword. and we ended up walking a TON that day, but its good.

Tuesday: we bought a new gas and a new lock for our gas which is good, that night we went to an evangelical church for our pastor friend, it was super weird, they were all sreaming and stuff.. we helped our investtigators with hr english hmw, and we taught a good family.

Wednesday: we had district metting, we were taching one of our investigators and a huge dog came up tairs, the biggest dog ive ever seen!! it was huge!! we taught our investigator benjamin, who is 10 and his parents are less actives.

Thursday: we had weekly planning, aa member made us pizza which was good, and she loves missionaries. we taught a family and made a big tough guy cry, his name is alfredo, he is a less active and is the uncle of one of our investigators, 

Friday: we had another lesson with benjamin, we had a family home evening with our ward for fathersday. and for lunch we a roast meal, like the one we have at home, it was so good!

Saturday: This da was CRAZY!! we were going to a small town called tirua, with a family who needed help ainting their house. on our way there there was an accident, a bad accident, between a bus of super police and a micro, and in the back was a big semi truck pullng logs. so we walked through traffic and on the other side got in the back of a truck and we rode across the country side on the highway. it was sooo cold and sooo windy, im never going to be cold again! we came home and were super busy...

Sunday: we had church we had 8 people committed to church but only 3 came which is sad... we had to talk in church, they told us on saturday and we had no time to plan at al!!! it was hard cause i couldnt plan anything and i cant speak that well. our topic was missionary work, so i had to find something in english pmg, and found it in spanish and shared some stuff. there was a returned missionary there visiting an hermana that was in his mission. his name is nathan witch and is from pima az. sunday morning was super cold. there was ice on the road and grass and stuff.. but it wasnt too bad, i want a scarf but we cant find them anywhere!!

today: we got transfers and me and my companion are staying!

well have a good week,

i have some pics of the beach, part of our area, and my weapons i need :)

here a song i wrote about my sword to the tune of nephis courage!

The lord commanded garrett to go and get the sword,

from the windy lebu that is near our sector,

And i dont have much after that hahha..

anyways have a good week everyone!!

Elder severtson!

Chile ~week 11

This week was super fast! also i amgoing to apologize in advance, this keyboard is terrible, worst oneive used, the space bar doesnt work too good. but this is my week!

Monday: finished Pday and we gopt a call fromsalt lake about a chinese family in our area that doesnt know spanish or english, so we would be able to teach them through skype with a translator in salt lake!

Tusday; We had district meeting, we ate lunch in a hotel because oneof our ward members owns a hotel. some of our good investigators finally came home. and that night we were able to teachan inactive lady. she said she doesnt believe that god loves her. that was powerful forme, i have never realized howmuchgod lovesme,or howmuchi love him, until i have met someone who doesnt believe it! it was super sad!

Wdnesday: we had a super busy day,.we have a lot more investigators now and were super blessed this week. we did a bunch of walking to a bunch of appopintments and found some good investigators.

Thursday: We were able to teach some less actives who have a less active daughter,we think next transfer we willbe able to baptize a lot, we hve 6 people preparing forbaptisms. we have a family home evening that nbight and found some more good people, and we raced home and made it rightontime, we were super far away!! 

Friday: Friday wassuper hot then got pretty cold that night. we wokeup that morning and we were robbed of our gas, it was brand new, i was trying to shower in the morning, but the water was reezing cold, we checked our tank.and itwas gone!!! We had lunch with an hermana that can speak english which was cool, we were able to teach a pastor that night,and he usedto bethe equivilent of an area 70 for the evangelical church, so hes a big deal andhes agoodfriend of ours. 

Saturday: Wewoke up so coldin the night, the tops of our blankets and pillows were wet! wewentto afamilieshouse and that played a lot of english music and we played some chileans games, we werent supposed to,but the elders they hadbefore werent good,we were trying to ease themback down. a lot of our plans ended up falling cause of it. 

Sunday:We had church, mycompanion was talking to a nonmember family, and this drunk guy alked up to us in church. my companion told m to take him away, soi wasstuck tryingtotalkto a drunk guy inspanihs, most of thetime i didnt even say anything cause i didnt understand. wedidlotsof walking thatday. andi finally stepped in dog poop... i knew it wascoming everyone always does.

All inall it was a good week!

Were about to go buy someswods that aremadeof swordfish, soi will sendpictures next week!

i also have a pic attthed of french fries, and a videoof our area!

Have a goodweek!

Elder Severtson!

Chile ~week 10

okay so this week was pretty good, last week was pday and we did a bunch of walking and found an inactive family.

on tuesday we had district meeting asnd i had mashed potatoes for the first time here! thewyre pretty good, we planned our ward family night a lot aswell, a lot more walking, and something super cool is that one of the ward members said that my pronunciation in my spanish is better than my trainers!! hahaha

on wednesday we had no rain! but it was super cold, this whole week was freezing cause there was no rin and no clouds!! but we havent had much appointments and lots of walking.

thursday was sunny but stil cold, my companion ended up stepping in dog poop 3 times that day! hahah, we did a lot of walking again and visited old investigators and menos activos.

friday we did interfcambion agsain, so i went to Lebu with the zone leaders, i have pics of lebu, its the ones where were by the ocean, everything there smells fishy and there are dogs that follow us everywhere!! and i got to help an elder whos mom had recently died and tried to help him get throgh it, we had a noche de hogar that night as well!

the other pictures we have is us blocking out window with boxes, these cats would always jump through our window and make our bathroom dirty and pee on our floor and stuff, how annoying right!! then on saturday we had practices in the morning, like practice teaching! found a good family in a part of our area that is super far asway so we cant walk there! members said my spanish is super good again! but its not that good really, im stil learning a lot and its still pretty hard to understand!

then yesterday was freeeeezzzzing!!!!!! and was fast sunday! we found 2 new families and had ward counsel..

well thats basically my week!

Have a good week everyone!

Chile ~week 9

okay some things i forgot to say last week is that our mission president isnt president bluth, he got sick and had to go home early, so right now we have a new mission president from here in chile for a few months. last week we found out our trainer by sitting on balloons that had their name inside. all the missionaries in my mission, the majority of them are gringos, which is pretty cool, i thought thered be mostly latins. we have a really big house for missionaries, so its always super cold at night, we can see our breath. i was a little sick last week and am still recovering, its just a cold so i think its because of how cold it is  here. we go on splits with our branch here, we have some cool members, but our branch is huge, we have a few thousand members, but only like 100 show up.. members feed us lunch every week and theyre big lunches.. so im always full, but were not allowed to eat with the members. the houses here are weird, everyone has nice phones and tv´s but their houses look poor. we have to have fireplaces or gas stoves to keep out house warm. 

okay now this week,

it was super cool, on th 17th whatever day that is, we had a little earth quake, it only lasted like 5or 10 seconds! but it was super cool, it was rated a 5.4, it shook our whole house! im finding theres a lot of missionaries from AZ in my mission, ive already met at least 3 or 4, a few days ago we prayed to see which street we go down. we didnt reeally know, my companion felt inspired to go down this small street, at the end there was this huge white dog that looked like a polar bear, it was huge and scary. it ran out of the garage and was coming after us, i booked it.. my companion stayed there and was trying to block the bites and jabs with his bag... after what felt like forever but was probably just a few seconds the owner came out and saved us! phew! i was so scared, we are both antsy with dogs now, they just dont like us, sometimes they gorlw and bark at us and chase us, idk why its really annoying, i dont like dogs as much as i did before.we have 2 investigators who agreed to be baptized but we still need to teach them, my companion does most the teaching, because its still hard for me to understand chilen spanish, i feel like i can speak okay, its just dificult to undeerstand them. but everybody says my spanish is good so far for only 2 weeks.. well nothing else really exciting happened this week! except that a random dog appreaed in our back yard and then disappreared, i got a picture of it. but yeah, we went contacting and knocking doors a lot, i did inter cambios again and went to lebu.. today for lunch i ate a sweet hamburger thing, its chilean and i forgot wht theyre called though.but yeah thats it! sorry for the spelling mistakes, the key boards here are terrible! well everyone have a good week!

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Chile ~week 8

all these weeks are going by super fast, and i cant believe it! but this week was good, nothing really big happened, we had zone conference, it rained A LOT! and i got a haircut last week, i do lots of walking so my implants in my shoes are breaking... which isnt super good... we do lots of contacting and its hard ot teach our converts because they always leave to the campo, we dont really even know what that is... but then they come home and we teach them more. almost everybody here is evangelical. its hard to teach evangelicals because their pastors tell them not to talk to other religions because we speak evil, but then there are some that listen to us anyways and we get a few lessons with them, thats where we are at right now, we dont have any baptisms coming up because its hard to get people to go to church. i will try to write a lot more about our week next week when we have more stuff to talk about, and hopefully our investigators will be home. but yeah sorry for not much in this email dont have much time but i have lots of pictures to send! in here is a pic of me and my comp

Have a good week everyone!

Elder Severtson

Chile ~week 7

Okay guys, I'm going to apologize for not emailing last week, I was supposed to email, but I was flying all day and night here to Colombia. my mission is pretty sweet, I have pictures from the MTC and pictures of my house here, and pictures from 3 weeks ago from when I couldn't send them. But here in Chile is super cool, its really cold where I'm at the the air seems super polluted it always bothers my eyes. But everyone's houses are small and packed with stuff, everything here is kind of dirty ans there are dogs EVERYWHERE!! some of the dogs here try to jump into the sides of cars when they're driving which is kind of scary. My first area is in ca city called Cañete. my trainers name is Elder Willey from Utah. He's been out 7 months. I got here and Chilean Spanish is way different, I can barely understand anything, but everyday it gets easier and easier. I just tried to see if I could send pictures but I cant find out how. So if you don't receive any I'll try again to send next week! My its great to hear about everything that's happening at home. We already have a few investigators and members here always feed us which is good, I got to go to another city called Lebu. Its on the coast, we had splits or intercambios with the zone leaders since my companion is the district leader. So it was good to be with other missionaries and a new zone. But Chile is super cool, its good to be in the mission life, the members always feed us and give us pasta and chicken and rice. Yesterday in church I got called up to introduce myself, so I tried my hardest in Spanish and everyone told me I did good, which is good, my Spanish is coming super fast already, everyone tells me they're surprised how good it is already. Well I just wanted to let you all know how I'm doing, if you have questions email me! Ciao! have a good week!