Hello everyone!Hey how are things going? SO this week has been a good one. Christmas was fun. The people down here do things on Christmas eve instead of Christmas day so that night we went caroling with the Branch President´s Family for an hour or so and then back to his house for a dinner. The dinner was way good. There was tons of steak and pork as well as sausages called chorizo. yummy. There was also a bunch of potatoes and rice as well as bread. Elder Tondevold and I made Brownies to take over for them. The other elders that we live with came over for dinner too.
Christmas day was pretty relaxed. We played games in our pension with the other elders and then went to lunch at a members house. SO there is a family in our branch that doesnt have a lot of money and it is a single mom working 2 fulltime jobs to support 4 kids. She is really awesome and has taken her sister in to live with her so she can still go to school. We have been teaching the sister for the past few weeks now. Anyways, we got a box and stuffed it full of candy and some toys and took it over to them. They loved it. Later on that day, I got to talk to my family....finally. The guy who said we could use his house phone to receive the call wasn't even at his house when we told him to be and then our families ended up not even being able to call. After like 3 hours of going into town and then buying minutes on a cell phone and having a guy call around, we got the code to get out of the US and got everything worked out. PHEW!!!
Phone number they called us at in Chile 0115653636681
Okay, so now on to the good stuff. This past saturday, we had a baptism! Her name is Nayareth Rojas and has moved in with her older sister who lives in our ward. My companion baptized her and yesterday in Church, I confirmed her. It was a cool experience for me but I was pretty nervous! I hope everyone had a great and safe christmas! Take care and i´ll talk to ya next week. -Elder Nelson
Nayareth's sister, family & us.
