Chile ~week 48

So.. this wee was great, a lot of great things happened. but to explain the title. "6 more weeks in Caupolicán" so... we heard our transfers and im going to be staying here in caupolican, for my 4th transfer here, and im going to be staying with the same companion, Elder Page.

so were pretty excited.

Heres my week: 

Tuesday: we had our last district meeting, which was fun, so we took pics and everything, We had English Classes, but no one came... :( but nothing else real exciting happened.

Wednesday: We had a small intercambio, so i was with Elder Montoya, it was ust for a few hours while my companion went to a different area to check the elders there. I studied Mosiah 18, which was pretty good, i liked it. we did divisions, i was with the bishop which was cool. Then we had a lesson with our investigator christian.

Thursday: Really HOT!! we did weekly planning, then we headed to lunch. and thelunch was good, but me and my comp had a laugh attack in lunch, we started laughing real hard and couldnt stop. Then that night the assistants came to our house to stay the night cause of the conference we had on friday.

Friday: Elder Packer(Son of Boyd K Packer) came and we had a conference with him. it was good, he gave us a lot of new ideas. then we contacted for a bit in the heat. then we went and visited an old investigator, and afterwards a dog almost killed us. it was going for my companion, so i pretended to pick up a rock(normally scares them and they run away), but he didnt, so i did pick one up, and put it over my head, then the dog saw and came running a me, so i threw it. haha i barely skinned it, but it was enough to show the dog we werent kidding so it finaly got scared and ran away. so that was lots of fun.

Saturday: Nothing way interesting happened, but we were able to hear our transfers, And like i said in the beginning, im staying, with Elder Page. which im happy and sad, i thought i was gonna leave cause ive been here awhile, but im happy im stayig cause we have some good people that will probably be baptized this transfer!!

Sunday: We had no one in church... Then for Lunch, an hermana made us Pastel de Choclo. which was pretty good! ive always heard about it but never tried it. so it was pretty good..

But yeah thats pretty much my week, we learned a lot from the conference, it was good. then thismorning we played soccer.. So thats it!

well, Have a Good Week Everyone!

Elder Severtson

Pics: The Zone from this transfer

A Puzzle we made to explain The Great Apostasy(both sides)

Pizza and RootBeer(I found some here! i havent drunken it in a long time!!!)

Chile ~week 47

This week we had a great week!

we have seen many mighty miracles(as says the scriptures). we have been lead by the spirirt and have many great things happening here in caupolicán.

Heres our week:

Tuesday: We had district meeting, then in the afternoon we had a lesson with Danixa, and it was way good, shes starting to progress, but will be going to argentina for a few weeks, so we dont know if we will be able to baptize her until she gets back, but shes starting to want it. 

Wednesday: Nothing too interesting happened,  we just had some good appointments.

Thursday: We had interviews, which were GREAT! our president is awesome! it rained pretty hard, but luckily we were inside to avoid it. we went and visited an old lady in our ward, who was being vidited by her daughter who lives in the states. lived in AZ but now in NY, so that was cool. 

Friday:  was a really great day. Rained a bit, but now im starting to like the rain a bit... we had a service that morning, then we went the the blanco family again, and taught Danixa, and their friends. the "miracles" we saw last week, they all love it and will probably be baptized next transfer, so im praying ill stay! then after that we had an appointment with christian, hes an awesome investigator we found. we went over, he made us a pizza. then we showed him an awesome video. "la esperanza de la luz de dios" he loves it. the spirit got so strong. i followed the spirit and asked him some inspired questions. and he opened up to us and told us a lot about him. and our love for eachother grew. he invited us back for this wednesday. so we will see how it goes!

Saturday: we did weekly planning, we had an asado, or barbecue, with the elders quorum and then played a bit of futbol!  it was pretty fun. but thats basically it.

Sunday: we had church, and we invited that one miracle family to come, and guess what! they DID!! it was awesome! and they loved it, even though we were there without their friends! then the bishop even went and setup an appointment with them for us! then we had lunch after church, and contacted quite a bit.

Tpday: this morning we had our zone activity! we made pb and j sandwiches into a tower. ill send pics. but we also watched efraims rescue. what a good movie!

well as you can see we had a good successful week! im loving the mission, and all the things i learn and the blessing i receive!! its the BEST! 

Chile ~week 46

so this week, as normal, was a great week, working hard, recieving blessings, and learning a lot! oh how great is the mission!

Well heres the stuff we did:

Tuesday: we had district meeting, i ended up doing another intercambio, this time with elder buglioni, from chile from viña del mar. it was pretty cool, we just contacted all day, then we did a cool language study at the end of the day.

Wednesday: ended the intercambio, lunch, planning, a normal day, until that night. we had a noche de hogar, or fhe. and it was great!! we had 2 investigators come, and they loved it! they want to come to church but couldnt. we also contacted a taxi guy on the way home, that was pretty interested. but doesnt live in out sector, but was cool. 

Thursday: We did weekly planning. then we went to lunch. theres an hermana that makes us lunch, were grateful that she gives us lunch. but her lunches are kinda lame... she gave us a small container of rice, with 4 hot dogs. just the sausage part.. like i said, were grateful, but its weird. then we planned, english classes, and then had a lesson that night.

Friday: we did puertas abiertas, or church tours. we found that guy form london again, which was pretty cool, then there were some members who brought investigators to play basketball at the church, sp we decided to go. and oh my... am i out of shape with basketball. i was soo bad! haha..

Saturday: good day, but not much happened. we had some investigators come to play soccer, but we didnt have members come, so we waited for awhile, then just ended up leaving. so that turned out not as we ecpected!

Sunday: another day of mirales! i love the gospel!!  the miracle that came last week brought her mom, who hasnt come in like 15 years. and she even brought friends who arent members. and they all loved it!! it  was so cool, we had a big ward yesterday, and we only had like 63 people. so thats big for here! haha. then we had completos for lunch, theyre really growing on me. chilean food is getting better. then we had a lesson with a testigo de jehova. or a jehovahs witness. and that was weird. we contacted him a few weeks ago, and wanted to have a nice little chat with him and ask what they believe, because im ignorant about that church. so it started nice and all. then he brought out all these stupid questions about doctrine that wasnt even ours. and why we believe these kinda of things. and just trying to prove us wrong. i was not ready for that. but it ended kinda rough and we ended up just leaving.. so it wasnt a great experience. and it really just strengthened my testimony about the scriptures. because the scriptures testify of people like that. 

Today: we played soccer this morning. and my skills i had as a young kid came back to me, i was playing pretty good, scored a few goals.. it was crazy!

but yeah we had a great week!

sorry no pics this week!

Chile ~week 45

so in my title it basically says, finally we recieved rain, and and did we...

but this week was a great one as usual...

Here it is:

Tuesday: nothing way special happened,we had good studies, visited some people, english classes, and mission correlation.

Wednesday: we had to wake up at 5 again, to do that same firewood service, which was terrible... we were so dead. then after we were able to start living the new schedule, which is way nicer, but we couldnt talk about it until the next day.

Thursday: we has zone meeting, where we got the new schedule and it is...

7:30 wake up, exercise, get ready

9:30 Personal study

10:30 language study(if theres time)

11:30 leave, have to be out of the house)

1:30 Lunch

3:00 daily planning

3:30 companionship study

4-4:30 leave to work

10:00 Return home

11:00 have to be sleeping

This new schedule is really cool, they give us al the freedom we may need, if we need to rearrange it we can, we can do whatever whenever we want, except for wake up and sleep.. and thats awesome cause we get an extra 30 mins to sleep now! woohoo!! but the purpose of this scedule is to make sure the missionaries that return home will know how to plan their days...

Cont.. we did and intercambio with the zone leaders and i was with elder callister from idaho. he pretty cool, we contacted a bit and found an adventista family, that was okay..

Friday: another intercambio, with elder guedes from brazil, hes kinda crazy but fun.. we had a great lunch, planned a bit and did a bit fo studies.. then it rained, and oh did it rain, way hard and flooded some streets we had to walk in ankle high water, which was pretty cool.. except for having to walk in wet shoes all day. i got soaked, almost everything i had got soaked. 

Saturday: ended intercambio, planned, went to a baptism in lican ray, cleaned the house of some of our investigators, who are kind of sketchy, who are gypsies, so we were on the constant lookout fo anything sneaky. they always spoke hungarian, which is weird, but its cool, i have picked up a bit, just simple stuff like yes, no, mom, dad, stuff like that. 

Sunday: it was fast sunday, and it was cool, me and my companion decided to fast for a miracle in church, when at church an old investigator came to church with a good family, so we are going to follow up with her and see what happens!! we were very grateful for our heavenly fathers help with a miracle! then not much more interesting happened..

Today: so far this morning we played soccer with a few missionaries form our zone and from the other temuco zone, it was pretty cool.

But thats my week, was pretty good and fun!

Chile ~week 44

Okay, sorry i dont have a lot of ime, so ill try to go fast! 

but the title, yes it was my birthday week for thos who didnt know... and by fire, some of you may heard, theres been a bunch of fires here in chile in my mission, not in my area, so imm all good and safe..

But like i said i dont have a lot of time, so ill just talk about my birthday, 

so we started that day with church, we didnt have any investigators come, and guess what... i had to give a talk, the bishop told us right before that i need to prepare a talk just in case... so i had barely any time to plan, it was probably the worst talk ive ever given... i was pretty nervous.. ut i got up there shared scriptures about missionary work. and then i also told the bishop(from the stand) that was a good bday present. so of course after everyone was wishing me happy birthday... Then to get thrown under the bus again, the bishop asked us to teach gospel principles, so of course we did it... then after church we had lunch with the bishop, they gave me a cake which was nice of them. then after lunch we were walking by the church when a man yelled hey from the other side of the street. he came over and sterted to speak with us in english. said he was elder white. he served there llike 42 years earlier, in all of temuco, which is 2 stakes now... how crazy!!! then we stopped by the church and we were able to stand in the circle to give reinaldo the melchezidek priesthood, which was a realy cool experience! then that night an hermana that loves missionaries decided to give us once(which is like a late dinner/dessert thing) where we ate even more cake...

so all in all, id say it was a great birthday, so thanks for all the birthday wishes!!

oh and something else real fast!!! on wednesday, we had a misisonary conference, with all the misionaries in the whole world, and they changed the misisonary schedule, so we will see how it is this week in our mission, and ill let you guys know next week!

But its been a fun/hot/scorching week!! haha pray for colder weather in chile! haha

Chile ~week 43

so this week has been very hot, as in warm... and its been weird thinking that now i am the only Elder Severtson in the whole world...

well i did another voice recording, so i will send that, but its been a good week!! i hope the voice recording works, its a different file type, so let me know if it doesn't...

love you all and miss you all!!

Chile ~week 42

okay i got a few announcements...

transfers first: i will be staying here in caupolicán and with my same companion. so im excited for that!

pictures: were in a cyber that doesnt read my card, so ill try to send my pictures next week, and theres a LOT of them

okay and heres my week:

tuesday: okay tuesday was a good day, we had out last district meeting for this transfer, we had a good lunch, we went to our investigators house to talk with them. there was a word we were trying to learn and understand, then the hermana brought her dog in to try ot explain the word, the dog came and ran all over us, and it was wagging all around and my comp felt something wet get on him. we just thought maybe it was playing in the water outside. cause the whole floor was wet also.. then the hermana started to laugh really hard, and it started to smell, and she said "El perro hizo pipi" which means"the dog peed" so that was funy we started laughing pretty hard, and my companion was a little bummed cause a dog peed on him! hahahhaa it was so funny! then there was another lady we visited that night who is from another church, and she did the closing prayer, it was kinda funny, the like got into a rhythm and sounded like she was rapping or something, so thats exciting!

Wednesday: not anything real interesting, we basically just contacted alllll dayyy....

Thursday: we did weekly planning, our lunch forgot, so she made us something small and fast, then we went to buy empanadas cause we were still hungry. then we contacted then had a noche de hogar, and it was good, we shared the video"la esperanze de la luz de dios" i dont know what it is in english, but it exists, and the family we shared it with loved it, the dad started crying, he said it explained exactly his life, so were glad we got through to him..

Frisday:we contacted a bit, then we had an "attack" in fundo el carmen, where we go and contact for them and everything, so nothing too exciting..

Saturday: What an interesting day, i wish i could send these pictures ot you guys... but, we woke up at 5, to go do a service, we had to load 35 meters of wood into a truck, us the zone leaders, and the other district leader and his comp. the wood was so heavy and we loaded it in like 2 hours.. then we had to drive an hour back into town to unload it as a zone, it took like 3 to 3 and a half hours ot unload it, everyone was so beat, and tired. im still sore from that! we went and got changed ot leave and we left, and i got whistled at by some girls, so that was cool, i cant blame them, im a good looking guy, hahaha... then that night we went to play futbol or soccer with the ward, we have a rule in our misison that were allowed to play if we have investigators or a missionary ourpose for being there. so we had investigators come, and we played, i only played for a few minutes cause after i got huge cramps in my legs and could barely walk, so i had ot sit our for the rest of the game, but it was fun, the bishop and young men came and got to know our investigators.. then we went to go home, and a bus never showed up, so we walked and got home late cause i can barely walk. then that night we heard cambios

Sunday: dont have much time, so im gonna go fast.. we saw some miracles, 3 investigators randomly showed up to church, so that was a HUGE blessing, then we walked a lot in that day, then we came home and said bye to elder diaz, aand then contacted the rest of the day, but thats basically it... hehe

Well have a goo dweek everyone i had a great week!! it was lots of hard work and a lot of fun!!

Love and miss you all!!