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W36: Upward

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Welp, my time at Entre Lagos has come to an end. We ended on a high note...one of our friends chose to get baptized. She is a little bummed that the Elder she wants to baptize her is about 1000 miles away in Punta Arenas (next to Antarctica). Super stoked for her. She will be in good hands with Elder Cresap who is replacing me in Entre Lagos. He was my first online companion in the CCM for 1 day but we made that day count.  I was preparing to make the most of another transfer in Entre Lagos with goals to work a lot with the members but there are other plans for me. In retrospect I feel like it was just the right amount of time to be here.  1 transfer would have been too short but 3 would have felt long but I was prepared to stay. One of the most interesting things that happened this week was witnessing a cat fight outside our apartment.  It was pretty funny with hair flying in every direction in the air.   God is sending me upward....literally, not figuratively.  I am going to the no
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W35: Welp

Just made it through another week in Entre Lagos. In nice chilean fashion it was really sunny the first part of the week, then proceeded to downpour for the second half of the week. No idea when we are supposed to enter into real summer but the Chileans say soon. NOt sure if real summer actually exists. My only doubt is that they have been saying soon for the last 2 months but I am keeping the faith. I got to go have my interview with President. Interviews are awesome for a lot of reasons. I'll list some right now... 1. Get to talk to President 2. President buys lunch 3. Possible that President brings packages that where waiting for you in the office 4. You get to see other missionaries So prettty much those are the reasons that interviews are lit. We got Papa Johns pizza. In a Zone where you only get fed on Sundays, a nice lunch is always appreciated. Also President brought me a package. I got some new TRX bands for my mission/home gym. There pretty nice. So my range of worko
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W34: From Musician to Demo Worker

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I didn't know California went though the whole daylight savings thing and was a little worried when my family wasn't picking up the phone but now that I understand that it was 6AM there and my parents were on the swim grind. Chile is now 5 hours ahead of California time which is a little wild. This week we had zone conference. It was pretty fuego. Per usual I brought my camera but ended up forgeting my memory card at home. It was really unfortunate when I went to turn on the camera and it gave me that screen that no card was inserted. Good news, while no photo to prove it, I saw my first district leader Elder Nielson. He went to Coyhaique right after my first cambio. He's a super cool guy. We tried to convince the APs to let us be comps next cambio but they seem less than reassuring that would happen. But we'll just have to see what happens. I have at least 2 more weeks in Entre Lagos, if not another transfer. We are working hard but have lots that falls through. I f
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W33: Elections

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So I'm waiting to get a haircut right now and I'm currently in a barbershop listening to Chilean rap. I don't understand most of it but it is definitely not mission approved music. One song is called "Blankita Como Nieve", so yeah, go look up the lyrics if you have time and you will know what it was like for me today. This week I had 2 intercambios. One with my Zone Leaders and one with an elder in our District. Our Zone leader, Elder Ramirez, is from Costa Rica and he's super cool. He speaks super good English because he worked for Amazon in customer service before the mission. He's also super tall, considerably taller than me. We probably scared half of the Chileans we tried to talk to. We ended up making lentils to finish the intercambio and they turned out super good. Then I had another intercambio with Elder Vasquez. He's from Mexico and has 2 transfers less than me in the mission. We ended up buying a choriana to finish the day which was super
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W32: Chilean Musician

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Pretty much everything went downhill this week right after p-day ended. Literally 30min after pday ended we got a phone call from the 2 people we had on baptismal dates and they said they didn't want to see us again and that they're never going to open the door for us. Came out of nowhere. Just stuff like that. We haven't tried to contact them since. That was a low point of the week for sure.  Also I was able to teach a guy from Canada in English. He said that he had come down to Chile to marry a Chilean woman and then she divorced him. Looks like he's now in a pretty rough spot in his life. He feels like he has a really strong connection with birds. Like he said that birds generally just come and land on his shoulders and hands and stuff. So that was pretty interesting trying to teach him a gospel message. My companion said he got about 50% of what he said since it was in English which is pretty good. I'm on a bus going to Osorno right now. It's an hour awa
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W31:

First off you should all join my google photos. Thats where I upload all of the fire flicks. https://photos.app.goo.gl/MeSu7s9Vg6jNCaap9 So this week was basically cooked. We had pday on Tuesday instead of Monday because of interviews with President. Thursday night we went to Osorno and spent the night there since we needed to get to Zone conference on Friday in Valdivia. The Elders forgot to pay their electricity bill so we didn't have any power for a few hours. Got up the next morning and Conference was pretty fire just really tiring with a lot of traveling. We didn't get back to our house until 9PM. Good news of the week is that we finally got an Electric Heater so our house isn't super super cold all the time!!! Saw some of the old CCM dawgs. We completed 7 months to the day at the conference. Mission has been like the Truman Show lately. So it can get really easy to lose track of time. Like bruh what do you mean we're already in October? Before I know it Chri
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W30: 50mm

Yeah so pretty much another cambio ends this week which means another 6 weeks has passed in the mission. I don't really know where the time has gone. It feels like we always need more time to get everythign done. Kinda crazy how fast time goes in the mission. We are losing a lot of missionaries this transfer so we'll see our fate. Not a lot happened this week. We were in our area for the whole week with no Chilean Holidays so it was just a normal work week. Luckily that means the grocery stores were stocked again. Unlike the States, the essential items are nowhere to be found after a holiday. We did meet some interesting people tho. We met this one lady and she was down to pray with us so we where like "lit, she can feel the spirit and want to learn more," but that's not quite how it went. She prayed for 6 minutes. And she started shouting about halfway through. That was an interesting experience. Then we met a guy who thought that God was like in a t
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