December 28,2009

I was able to do my first babtism yesterday. I was way happy when she chose me and kinda surprised because of my lack of spanish. It way way cool though. It was really good talking with everyone on the phone.

December 21, 2009

Thanks for the pictures, they are great, and ya i got the package thanks! all the candy was awesome and my companion was way happy too. The garments are gonna help my chaffing too from that bad desicion of buying spandex ones. Haha i laughed when i saw the hot cocoa but its going to be good anyways, i will have some on christmas. Sounds like everytone is doing good, i can´t believe Levi is going to the Athens Greece mission that is so cool. He will definitely love it, i have only heard of one other person that went there. I found out from Jeff, cause he E-mailed me, but thats way awesome.
I won´t be able to use my credit card for like 2 more months because i have to get a chilean ID. The dollar is kinda down right now so it sucks. Everything is still pretty cheap though. The daytime temps here are around mid 90´s in the day but its still not the hottest month. Its pretty dry just kinda like St. George but maybe a tad more humid. The food here is good, i ate a Charrasco the other day they sell on the streets. Its like lamb meat or something with cheese just like a hamburger. It was way good. They put mayo on everthing and the milk and eggs aren´t refrigerated. That picture i sent is where i live off the balcony. There is no dryer so we have to freakin dry everthing on a rack. Then iron it. Our shower house broke today too so i had to sew it back together with the sewing kit you gave me and it kind of works now. Its probably gonna break soon again. Well got to go, i will talk to you on Christmas day! im excited.. Christmas is pretty big here and were going to have a big dinner at this familys house that is way cool. I have played guitar a few times at members and investagators houses which is cool but only for a sec. ok -Bye
Con mucho amor Elder _Whitney

December 13, 2009

Hola, Things are going pretty good, How is everything back there? Chile is really hot, especially when your sector is just skinny hill. I haven´t gotten your package yet but it should be there tomorrow hopefully. Tuesday is when we get our mail. I have only recieved 1 letter from someone so far, from this girl i was friends with at DIxie State for a while before my mission. Hopefully you put jesus stickers or something on it or else it might get stolen. The best thing to put is a big cross and a big virgin Mary picture on it. Then it will probably never get stolen. Thats way cool that levi got his call, i wish i knew where cause if he tells me, i will have to wait for at least a month more probably. or maybe 2 years. That is awesome that it snowed there, it was probably nothing like the time it snowed last year before christmas though, that was amazing. Im starting to understand a little more every week but i still suck at speaking. My mouth literally doesn´t allow me to be able to roll my r´s or speack fast and clear. Its way hard to prunounce all the vowels in the words. I practice by reading every day from the bible out loud. I have almost finished reading the book of Mathew completely out loud and in spanish.

We had a zone conference this week and president amado from the seventies spoke to us. He was way good even though i could only understand a little. We had a special change last night and the kid in our pension that is 6´7 got moved to another sector while a kid from peru got moved in. Which is probably good cause i will have to speak more spanish.

Santiago pretty much is just a big pollutioned city. Its really beautiful sometimes though. There are so may builings its ridiculous. Hopefully we have a babtism the 27 for this girl we are teaching, maybe this pregnant lady too for next month.

Has jeff got his call yet? is he still waiting? Thats cool about BYU, too bad its not USC. Have fun at the Christmas party, to bad it will be a little empty without grandpa and grandma and me. I haven´t taken anything out of my account cause i haven´t really needed anything yet and plus i can´t use it yet cause i don´t have my chilean ID yet too. I want the dollar to go up, its kinda low right now. around 500 pesos to the dollar.

I have no idea how the calling on Christmas is going to work yet but i will let you know next monday which i guess is Christmas Eve. I can´t believe the stupid saints are undefeated. Well everyone here is obsessed with soccer and dogs and weed and beer.

Have a merry CHristmas. I will try and send more pics when i take more cool pics. Love you! Mom and dad, Love you too Brigham and caleb and Maddy!
-Elder Whitney