Hello Family,
This week was really good, we had some success and hopefully we will be having a baptism this next week.. the kid is really hyperactive and doesn’t want to stay in his classes though in church so its kind of complicated. On Friday we found and taught this way amazing guy in the rich part of the sector. It was way awesome, I really think he is going to be baptized. We had to answer tons of questions about the virgin Mary though. it was really hard for him to accept that its not good to pray to her. I’m going to take a picture of elder Sanchez right now and send it to you.
We had interviews this week and it was way good. President really is so awesome, and is one of the greatest examples that I have ever seen.
Today was way cool I finally met Cecilia, Brent’s friend from the mission. Me and Elder Wilkey the assistant, and my friend from St George, went and ate with her and her family today. She was so happy to see me and they were asking me all these questions and stuff about my family and my life. They want Brent and all you guys to go there when you come to pick me up. It was way funny today at lunch they were talking about Calvin and Preston because they have them on face book or something ha-ha, way weird hearing their names from this random Chilean family..
I’m so glad the packers won BUT I’M SO SAD I will miss it. Of course the year they go to the super bowl I’m in Chile. I have bad luck like that!! But well if they win it will still be way cool. Gosh the Steelers play in the super bowl like every year.. How was the game against the bears? was it really good? If they win please you have to send me a shirt and a hat...
The fried bananas were ok. They are pretty good but its not like they are amazing. The mom I’m teaching reminds me of you because she looks like you. Her face is like the same as yours mom its funny.
Ya here in Chile there is a cement soccer court almost in every block I swear. There are little fields everywhere. Its called baby futbol. Everyone plays it. That’s what we play too every Thursday.
We have been way busy as zone leaders, I don’t have any time to write hand letters or any of that.. Our zone is really awesome though.. I like the missionaries a lot. This Saturday and Sunday I played the guitar in two baptisms. This girl from Ohio got baptized in our stake yesterday. She is way awesome. She goes to Ohio state and everything. She is down here in Chile for the summer to get away from the winter.. She and her mom speak like perfect English so it was way cool. Elder Daines this new kid got to teach her in English. Well got to go, I love you!
Have a good week. GO PACKERS!!!!
I asked Elder Whitney if he thought watching football on Sunday was breaking the Sabbath and his reply was:
I don’t have an opinion of that as a missionary, because all the members buy and watch TV on Sunday in Chile, so I’m surrounded with bad examples.
Monday, January 24, 2011
Saturday, January 22, 2011
January 17, 2011
Familia..
Go Packers...
I had to get that off my chest.. wow I will be so mad and glad at the same time if they win the super bowl. Please record the last games they have so I can see them in 8 months.
I have been doing really good. Elder Sanchez is way awesome, we get along really good. He is way funny. He is a way good missionary and we had a lot of success this last week. At the start of the week we had no baptism dates or progressing investigators at all but at the end now we have like 4 people that could get baptized this change. We found this one kid doing less active work and his mom reminds me of a younger version of you mom ha-ha. She is a less active that wants to return to church. My comp speaks like really really well without any crazy Chilean slang, so that’s cool.
That’s awesome about Christian Clayton. He seems like a kid that would go to Germany. Its a little sad cause I’m not going to see that kid for so long.
The English class has been going pretty well. Now were going to start and teach some people that go there. There’s like 4 or 5 people that always go..
I couldn’t believe the picture that you sent me last week. There was so much snow in St. George! The snow in Utah stopped some missionaries from going home last week. They had to wait a little bit longer.
That’s way awesome about BYU. Our old assistant told us a little bit about Jimmer. Isn’t he from New York or something? I bet BYU is going to do pretty good in the tourney.
This morning we went to the sector most south of our mission and we played soccer against another zone and won. It was really nice cause it was like the outdoors... The sector is called Pirque and its more farmish. It was nice to get out of the city. It was like my first time in forever seeing an actual river. After playing soccer we ate another barbeque, and it was pretty good. I had been looking for soccer shoes for a while cause I didn’t have any so I was going to buy some, but this week we did service for our neighbor and she gave me some sweet Adidas shoes to play on turf and cement fields.
Chase wrote me something way small like a month ago but he hasn’t writen me forever besides that. I e-mail Levi sometimes. I cant believe Trevor is getting baptized this Sunday, he still seems so little! I freaking love Trevor. The picture he drew me was awesome. Tell him hi for me and that I love him.. Its crazy too that Calvin is graduating... Ir seems like I just graduated a little while ago. Well family thank you so much for everything you have done for me.. Tell Maddie happy birthday for me! I haven’t been able to write her yet. I love you Maddie!
Chao!..
I totally forgot. On the way back from pirque the little bus we were on hit a pizza delivery guy on his motorcycle and probably killed him.. I heard and saw everything. It like sent him flying off the rode. We couldn’t do anything cause there was tons of people and another bus came so we had to get on. He was laying on the road in a position that defiantly showed either he was dead or was going to be soon.
Chao
Go Packers...
I had to get that off my chest.. wow I will be so mad and glad at the same time if they win the super bowl. Please record the last games they have so I can see them in 8 months.
I have been doing really good. Elder Sanchez is way awesome, we get along really good. He is way funny. He is a way good missionary and we had a lot of success this last week. At the start of the week we had no baptism dates or progressing investigators at all but at the end now we have like 4 people that could get baptized this change. We found this one kid doing less active work and his mom reminds me of a younger version of you mom ha-ha. She is a less active that wants to return to church. My comp speaks like really really well without any crazy Chilean slang, so that’s cool.
That’s awesome about Christian Clayton. He seems like a kid that would go to Germany. Its a little sad cause I’m not going to see that kid for so long.
The English class has been going pretty well. Now were going to start and teach some people that go there. There’s like 4 or 5 people that always go..
I couldn’t believe the picture that you sent me last week. There was so much snow in St. George! The snow in Utah stopped some missionaries from going home last week. They had to wait a little bit longer.
That’s way awesome about BYU. Our old assistant told us a little bit about Jimmer. Isn’t he from New York or something? I bet BYU is going to do pretty good in the tourney.
This morning we went to the sector most south of our mission and we played soccer against another zone and won. It was really nice cause it was like the outdoors... The sector is called Pirque and its more farmish. It was nice to get out of the city. It was like my first time in forever seeing an actual river. After playing soccer we ate another barbeque, and it was pretty good. I had been looking for soccer shoes for a while cause I didn’t have any so I was going to buy some, but this week we did service for our neighbor and she gave me some sweet Adidas shoes to play on turf and cement fields.
Chase wrote me something way small like a month ago but he hasn’t writen me forever besides that. I e-mail Levi sometimes. I cant believe Trevor is getting baptized this Sunday, he still seems so little! I freaking love Trevor. The picture he drew me was awesome. Tell him hi for me and that I love him.. Its crazy too that Calvin is graduating... Ir seems like I just graduated a little while ago. Well family thank you so much for everything you have done for me.. Tell Maddie happy birthday for me! I haven’t been able to write her yet. I love you Maddie!
Chao!..
I totally forgot. On the way back from pirque the little bus we were on hit a pizza delivery guy on his motorcycle and probably killed him.. I heard and saw everything. It like sent him flying off the rode. We couldn’t do anything cause there was tons of people and another bus came so we had to get on. He was laying on the road in a position that defiantly showed either he was dead or was going to be soon.
Chao
Thursday, January 13, 2011
January 10, 2011
Hello ! This week was pretty good, humberto, the little kid that got baptized two weeks ago, got confirmed Sunday. We had changes today and Elder Vargas went and now I’m with Elder Sanchez. He is from Peru.. We knew that elder Vargas was going to get changed though since Friday because the assistants came to our pension and we had a barbeque and they told him on Friday. So that was good cause he had time to say goodbye to everyone and everything.
I have now officially had more Latin comps than gringos.. Its a huge blessing cause it make my Spanish better. I’m teaching English classes 2 times a week and they are pretty sweet. We are having like 6 people come like every time.. hopefully we can start teaching them and stuff, cause now they have our trust and everything. We went to the temple on Saturday with caty our convert and with this other convert from 2010 that’s way cool. It was really good, the temple is a great way to get to know your investigators better and they can feel the spirit of the tour.
Heck ya I knew the packers could beat the Eagles.. sorry dad. They are going to win the super bowl. Tell Brigham he better finish his eagle or I’m going to be driving the car when I get back. What number is ranked BYU?
I was hoping to go to the mountain today but were not going anymore cause elder Vargas left and the bishop cant anymore.. Well thank you for everything you have done for me! I love you guys, see you next week!
I have now officially had more Latin comps than gringos.. Its a huge blessing cause it make my Spanish better. I’m teaching English classes 2 times a week and they are pretty sweet. We are having like 6 people come like every time.. hopefully we can start teaching them and stuff, cause now they have our trust and everything. We went to the temple on Saturday with caty our convert and with this other convert from 2010 that’s way cool. It was really good, the temple is a great way to get to know your investigators better and they can feel the spirit of the tour.
Heck ya I knew the packers could beat the Eagles.. sorry dad. They are going to win the super bowl. Tell Brigham he better finish his eagle or I’m going to be driving the car when I get back. What number is ranked BYU?
I was hoping to go to the mountain today but were not going anymore cause elder Vargas left and the bishop cant anymore.. Well thank you for everything you have done for me! I love you guys, see you next week!
Monday, January 3, 2011
January 3, 2011
Dearest family,
Our new years was pretty good, it was really weird though, president wanted us to go in at 8 and set goals and stuff then read Matthew 24 and 25. That’s about the second coming of Jesus Christ. Is president trying to scare us or something? This guy in our ward called president though and asked him if we could stay out a little later and eat dinner with his family so that was cool. Everyone was just drunk and screaming so it was kind of hard to fall asleep.
On Saturday we went and had a barbeque with the Cruz family where we called you guys from. That was really good. Everyone was either sleeping or drunk that day so we didn’t do much. We were going to go with the bishop from Gabriela my old ward and his family today to some lake way up in the mountains but we got there and his truck was leaking oil. It was a bummer, cause I really wanted to go. I’m not sure if we are going to be able to go next week cause there are changes. It was really good going back to my old sector and seeing everyone. We talked to the Contreras family too, which was way awesome. they aren’t going to church anymore though cause they changed the bishop so that sucks. They are going to come to our war though next Sunday. I miss that ward a lot it was so awesome.
I cant believe it is 2011... its weird to say that I started my mission in 2009.. That’s so crazy that Christian Clayton is going to get his mission call. I swear he is still like 16 or 17. I would love a keyboard for Christmas and I don’t even play piano! I thought Brigham liked to play, does he not that much anymore? Our church changed to 11, so more people come, there was a ton yesterday, there were 144 people.
I have been enjoying the candy and everything you sent me. The chilenismos book is really good to, cause now I can speak gangster. I’m really glad Packers won. They better beat dads Eagles next week. Michael Vick aint got nothing. Where is the new airport at? That’s really crazy its already built. Isn’t it close to our house?
I love you guys! I hope you have a good week!
Chao!
Love Elder Whitney
Here’s some pictures of the baptisms of Cati and Umberto.. and during Christmas.. and today (Monday) in the morning with Paulina Contreras and her daughter who is going to get baptized in 2 weeks. The baby is the baby of the wife of the bishops son who I taught a little, and she got baptized with elder Vargs. I never got to see her baby cause she was pregnant went I left.
Our new years was pretty good, it was really weird though, president wanted us to go in at 8 and set goals and stuff then read Matthew 24 and 25. That’s about the second coming of Jesus Christ. Is president trying to scare us or something? This guy in our ward called president though and asked him if we could stay out a little later and eat dinner with his family so that was cool. Everyone was just drunk and screaming so it was kind of hard to fall asleep.
On Saturday we went and had a barbeque with the Cruz family where we called you guys from. That was really good. Everyone was either sleeping or drunk that day so we didn’t do much. We were going to go with the bishop from Gabriela my old ward and his family today to some lake way up in the mountains but we got there and his truck was leaking oil. It was a bummer, cause I really wanted to go. I’m not sure if we are going to be able to go next week cause there are changes. It was really good going back to my old sector and seeing everyone. We talked to the Contreras family too, which was way awesome. they aren’t going to church anymore though cause they changed the bishop so that sucks. They are going to come to our war though next Sunday. I miss that ward a lot it was so awesome.
I cant believe it is 2011... its weird to say that I started my mission in 2009.. That’s so crazy that Christian Clayton is going to get his mission call. I swear he is still like 16 or 17. I would love a keyboard for Christmas and I don’t even play piano! I thought Brigham liked to play, does he not that much anymore? Our church changed to 11, so more people come, there was a ton yesterday, there were 144 people.
I have been enjoying the candy and everything you sent me. The chilenismos book is really good to, cause now I can speak gangster. I’m really glad Packers won. They better beat dads Eagles next week. Michael Vick aint got nothing. Where is the new airport at? That’s really crazy its already built. Isn’t it close to our house?
I love you guys! I hope you have a good week!
Chao!
Love Elder Whitney
Here’s some pictures of the baptisms of Cati and Umberto.. and during Christmas.. and today (Monday) in the morning with Paulina Contreras and her daughter who is going to get baptized in 2 weeks. The baby is the baby of the wife of the bishops son who I taught a little, and she got baptized with elder Vargs. I never got to see her baby cause she was pregnant went I left.
December 27, 2010
Family,
Ya it was way cool getting to talk and getting to see you.. Sunday was really good cause the two baptisms were really good and the devotional we had was really good too. In the baptism me and Vargas play I am a child of god, and for the devotional we played green sleeves. They were both really good. That’s crazy that Jake is already home, I’m excited to talk to him after the mission. Yes I’m so glad the packers killed the giants, they should beat the bears too.. Then the super bowl is next.. New years is pretty crazy here everyone just gets drunk and parties, so it should be interesting.
Well I love you family, have a good new years!
Ya it was way cool getting to talk and getting to see you.. Sunday was really good cause the two baptisms were really good and the devotional we had was really good too. In the baptism me and Vargas play I am a child of god, and for the devotional we played green sleeves. They were both really good. That’s crazy that Jake is already home, I’m excited to talk to him after the mission. Yes I’m so glad the packers killed the giants, they should beat the bears too.. Then the super bowl is next.. New years is pretty crazy here everyone just gets drunk and parties, so it should be interesting.
Well I love you family, have a good new years!
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