"I feel honestly good to say that I speak spanish. It is a great feeling! I am not perfect, but I feel so comfortable in it now. I haven't slept in like 3 days and we played soccer today. This week will be different for me. We have 2 weeks of training and it begins tomorrow. We do practices and focus on a specific theme, like the Book of Mormon, etc. We had the opportunity to hear from two leaders in the Church. It was very inspiring. I got to see a friend from the MTC from a different mission.

We will be having 3 baptisms this Sunday. The Family Bravo is ready. They have stopped drinking tea, and I am so excited! (In order to be baptised into the LDS church, one must refrain from drinking coffee, tea and alcohol) Ignacio said the other day when we talked to him about his baptism, he said, ¨I am decided.¨ And with conviction. It kind of surprised me....in a good way. Can you pray for them? I was praying, praying for a baptism for this change and look what we got....an entire family. How freaking awesome.

We have had weather of like 72 this week...so weird for the winter. But I like it."

"There weren't a lot of hopes for baptisms the next few weeks. I have been praying, praying for someone to be able to get baptized this week. Then on tuesday we got a reference from Elders (male missionaries) in the North Mission. A ward member has been sharing the gospel with her family and they live in our area….wow. We contacted and taught them about the Restoration (of Christ's church on the earth) on tuesday, the two teens went to a church activity on wednesday; friday we passed by and shared a short message about how the Spirit (the Holy Spirit of the Lord) will help them to know that what they are doing comes from God. Saturday we played soccer with the teens, and sunday the mom and the daughter came to church. The family consists of Tamara (15 yrs), Ignacio (14 yrs), and Claudia, the mom. The mom of Claudia is somewhat interested and the dad doesn't listen (yet). Tonight we're meeting with the family. This week we are setting a baptismal date. What a blessing! I don't feel like I deserve such a wonderful blessing! Pray for them? The mom drinks coffee and smokes occasionally. Pray that she will understand and be able to overcome these things that will keep her from getting baptised?

"A funny story. Yesterday we walked by an area where they were selling all sorts of things ( I believe every Chilean breaks the Sabbath day because of these ¨sunday markets.¨) A guy that obviously was selling fish (I could tell by the fish tails hanging off of his shoulder) said hi to me and told me that he would be my captain fisherman and that he does everything for me. Now my companion jokes that I have a capitan pescador (captain fisherman). I also got called ¨sweetie¨ by a guy on the street. This week has been full of adventures.

"I am getting tired of people that lie to us. I hope that I can have a better outlook, because I hate knocking doors now (to talk to people); it makes me just mad and sad. I get on the verge of tears. I have been in Chile for almost a year. One year of Chileans, well, people rejecting the gospel I should say. Five more months...."