CHILE                                  

                                   

This week was good. We had changes on Monday & that went well. We announced most of them and that’s always good and fun. Then Tuesday we went and picked up the new missionaries from the MTC. I love doing that because they are always so excited and ready to work. We started talking to people in the street and they just did, like naturals--no fear. One elder who barley spoke any Spanish started talking with people on the subway and on the buses.  It was awesome, even though he could barely talk but he was already doing all he could!! 

Our drunken friend sneaked up on us two times this week! We were doing a contact and "Yankee" our drunken friend came out of no where and just stood behind us. He scared the woman we were contacting so BAD!! Then he started calling us Communists and told us to go home so we just started laughing and said goodbye to our contact and walked away. He ruined that conversation. But then he asked us what was so funny. We just laughed and left.

But that was not the end. Two days later we were walking in the street and we look over and out of the bushes came...Yankee. My comp said Hola and he said. GET OUT OF HERE! and started following us...We invited him to come along but in the end he didn’t want to.

Yesterday we had a really good day! We taught 6 lessons and we found a new investigator. In the morning it was kind of crazy because we had a problem with some missionaries, sisters getting separate form the companions-- well actually one ran away. But no worries we found her and she came into talk with President. After that we found a new investigator named G. He`s Colombian. We taught him lesson one and he told us he likes more liberal churches. We got up to leave and I was trying to be nice and asked him about a picture on his wall. I asked if it was him with his mom. It wasn’t… he said it was his boyfriend. Then we got all uncomfortable and left. You find a lot of different people here. But that was a weird situation.

Last, World Cup. So Chile beat Spain. We have to be in our house during the games. But after we left to work and the busses were so full!  We couldn’t even get to our sector because all the people left their houses and filled the streets and started drinking and jumping on buses and bus stops and crazy stuff. We ended up walking for like 25 minutes to get there.

Anyway, the mission rocks! I read Elder Hales conference talk on obedience today. I loved it. I learned about the importance of being obedient like Christ was. We must do what he did. He really did give us the perfect example and is here to help us follow him! I know that Christ lives.  He taught us the truth and set us free from sin. So we can return to live with our God again! I love you mom and dad

Elder Christensen

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