Well this past week sure has been a shaky one! As you all know, Chile was hit by a big earthquake early Saturday morning. We were sleeping and around 3:30am, were awoken to the whole house shaking. It was strangely quiet because with the little earthquakes (temblors) it is usually louder but it was a longer one that was stronger than usual. I looked outside to see all of the cables shaking a lot and of course heard all of the dogs howling up a storm. We were really too tired to realize what was going on and fell back to sleep. In the morning we received phone calls from the mission office asking how things were up here and telling us that things were pretty bad down south. Later on in the day, we saw that the real problems were in Concepción and Santiago. Viña got a bit of it but up here in the 4th region, there werent any problems.
Eduardo's Baptism and Elder Millar
Lucky for us, we were still able to have Eduardo's baptism that evening. It was such a perfect baptismal service. The branch president, President Varas, baptized him. It was the best baptism I have seen. Pres. Varas later told us that as Eduardo was coming up out of the water, he already had his eyes open and as he came out, he started to cry and gave pres. Varas a hug and said that he felt so good and was never going to forget how he felt in that moment. Elder Millar and I sang in the baptismal service. We sang "There is Sunshine in my Soul Today" only it was in spanish and without piano. I guess it sounded really good. I had no idea because i cant hear myself when i sing. It is Eduardo's absolute favorite song! He loves it! He actually started singing it under his breath with us as we were singing. I played the opening and closing hymns on the piano as well.
We were supossed to have changes today but they are being delayed until next week of the end of this week. The airport in Santiago is still closed so the new missionaries cant get into the country. We will have to see how things go.
Thank you to those of you who have us, the missionaries, and the Chilean people in your prayers. Have a great week!
Elder Nelson
