A Warm & Sunny December in Ovalle

Hey family how are things going? It sounds like you all had a really busy week. I think that that goes for me too. This past week we had changes. I am now with Elder Millar. We get along really good and have had success this past week together even though we haven’t had that much time to work. We got full nights of sleep on Wednesday night, Saturday night, and Sunday night this week. All of the other times we were up till late doing something.
On Friday morning at 1:00am, we got on a bus heading to Viña for the Zone Counsel with all the zone leaders of the mission. It was a really cool conference that we had. It was in the Mission Home (where the Mission President lives). We went over some new things that are going to be introduced to all the other missionaries at our Christmas Conference on the 23rd. The conference got over at 4 in the afternoon. We finished the conference with an awesome lunch of chicken cordon bleu and a big brownie for desert. YUM!!!
This week we found a few new people to teach and we have appointments with them this coming week. We are going to be doing interchanges with the assistants on Tuesday and having interviews on Wednesday with President Gillespie.
Yesterday we had a really neat lesson with a couple investigators, Tatiana and Kamila. They are a mom and daughter that we have been teaching for some time now but yesterday they accepted baptismal dates for Christmas Day! So it looks like I might be able to have a white Christmas in Chile after all! :) We also had a lesson with Gerardo and Mireya. They are Presidente Nataniel Varas’ parents (our branch president).
Well that is what is going on for me right now…just staying really busy up here in Ovalle -in the nice heat of the sun ;)
Hope all goes well for you this week. We have a few activities planned for the week in the Branch for Christmas.
Take care! Chao
Elder Nelson