We meet again...the Family Ochoa from Ovalle
Group Picture...Elder Ford and his mom (in front laughing)
An odd fruit here: chirimoya
Another beautiful Chilean Sunset!!!!
A mask here at the mission homeHey everyone!
So this week was a very busy one. On Wednesday, I went and did interchanges out in Punitaqui. I had done them out there last year and about died of heat but this time it wasnt that bad. I was with elder Allenbach who is from Farmington. On Thursday night, well, at 1am Friday morning, Elder Allen and I left for Viña for Zone Counsel. We got to Viña at 5:30am. The bus ride was freezing! Viña was even colder! We had to wait until 8:30am to meet up with everyone, so we went to the zone leader´s pension in Viña to wait. The cousel was pretty fun actually. It was cool to see a bunch of friends in the mission that i rarely get to see. For lunch, we had some taco salad and strawberry shortcake for dessert. SO GOOD! Haha...perks of leaders from the USA. ;)
We got back from Viña on Saturday morning at 1am, so in all, the trip was 24 hours. On Satudray and Sunday we had district conference. President Gillespie came up for the Sunday meetings and Elder Jorge Zeballos (of the 70) came up for the whole thing. He is actually from Ovalle so loved coming back home. There were some great talks given. It seemed that the main focus of the Sunday session was missionary work. Hma. Gillespie spoke! She had everything written down of course but did really well. She had all of the missionaries stand up she said that these were the missionaries of the members here in Ovalle and gave a big thanks. There were a lot of people from Limarí there that were happy to see me. The old branch president there, Hno. Gutierrez was thrilled to see me. President and Sister Gillespie drove us to the pension to drop off a box of Books of Mormon. They came in for a little bit to see the pension and stuff. Good thing we cleaned up! ;)
In terms of the missionary work, we are getting ready to have a couple baptisms in the next couple weeks. One is a guy named Claudio Wilches. He is a husband and father of one son. We just started teaching the family so the idea is that he gets baptized whenever his family is ready, he baptizes them. The other baptism is a guy named Ignacio. He is 26 years old and showed up to church last week with his university professor who invited him to come. He loved it and accepted a baptismal date right away! It was pretty sweet! We are really excited for them!.
So how is the Book of Mormon reading going? (Just a little reminder) :) Hope all is good back home! Take care everyone! Chao Elder Nelson
So this week was a very busy one. On Wednesday, I went and did interchanges out in Punitaqui. I had done them out there last year and about died of heat but this time it wasnt that bad. I was with elder Allenbach who is from Farmington. On Thursday night, well, at 1am Friday morning, Elder Allen and I left for Viña for Zone Counsel. We got to Viña at 5:30am. The bus ride was freezing! Viña was even colder! We had to wait until 8:30am to meet up with everyone, so we went to the zone leader´s pension in Viña to wait. The cousel was pretty fun actually. It was cool to see a bunch of friends in the mission that i rarely get to see. For lunch, we had some taco salad and strawberry shortcake for dessert. SO GOOD! Haha...perks of leaders from the USA. ;)
We got back from Viña on Saturday morning at 1am, so in all, the trip was 24 hours. On Satudray and Sunday we had district conference. President Gillespie came up for the Sunday meetings and Elder Jorge Zeballos (of the 70) came up for the whole thing. He is actually from Ovalle so loved coming back home. There were some great talks given. It seemed that the main focus of the Sunday session was missionary work. Hma. Gillespie spoke! She had everything written down of course but did really well. She had all of the missionaries stand up she said that these were the missionaries of the members here in Ovalle and gave a big thanks. There were a lot of people from Limarí there that were happy to see me. The old branch president there, Hno. Gutierrez was thrilled to see me. President and Sister Gillespie drove us to the pension to drop off a box of Books of Mormon. They came in for a little bit to see the pension and stuff. Good thing we cleaned up! ;)
In terms of the missionary work, we are getting ready to have a couple baptisms in the next couple weeks. One is a guy named Claudio Wilches. He is a husband and father of one son. We just started teaching the family so the idea is that he gets baptized whenever his family is ready, he baptizes them. The other baptism is a guy named Ignacio. He is 26 years old and showed up to church last week with his university professor who invited him to come. He loved it and accepted a baptismal date right away! It was pretty sweet! We are really excited for them!.
So how is the Book of Mormon reading going? (Just a little reminder) :) Hope all is good back home! Take care everyone! Chao Elder Nelson
