Chile Earthquakes and cold!

General Conference

This past week has been crazy tons of earthquakes lately. like huge. 

sounds like airplanes crashing and stampedes of animals. 

but i stay calm and actually pull out my camera to record it. 

lots of people panic and have anxiety which worsens the situation.

Our Zone

its been getting cold. Im using my winter coat and a beanie. I need to buy gloves soon and ear muffs cuz they are ice cold! oh and im so excited to be here for the next transfer with all 4 of us still together. Elder F is going to die here, well thats how we say it in spanish. But he is going to "end" is mission here! 

I loved conference, hearing it for the first time in spanish was fun! I understood it all suprisingly and got many things out of it. What i liked a lot was when they talked about the improtance of having faith in god, and that he is always there. It was great that M and his mother came to conference and sat with us. While we were listening to one of the talks about how everyone is a missionary I looked at M and said, "everyone is a missionary... like you." We are all excited for his baptism at the end of this month and i know that he will continue strong in the church.

In between general conference session at a members home

i still study spanish as much as i can to try and perfect it. in the house i talk with my companion in english to help him learn and he is doing great! 3 gringos and 1 latino, he is learning english just fine. welp im excited to still be in this sector and am pumped to keep working. Thanks for the emails and pics you guys send. have a good week.

The cold is coming

On the Metro

Finally we are getting cold here. As missionaries we love the cold more than the heat. We just layer up and good to go! 

Things have been going great for me and my companion. We really are looking forward to the baptism of M. The ward boys are getting along with hiim great. He is becoming more comfortable with the church and wants to come to every activity! Like yesterday he walked all the way to church alone and stayed for all the classes. We are teaching him every other day to prepare him. Hes a great kid and i know that this will also help reactivate his mother in the church. I hope to stay in this sector and see my first convert from beginning to baptism. It makes me so happy to see the difference and change in the lifes of those who want to follow jesus christ.

oh my foot is all better. i actually have a damaged nerve in my foot too. but i only get random shocks sensations in my foot at times. but it's all good and i don't have any pain. it'll all heal perfectly over time.  

We get plenty of earth quakes every week. and they are huge. like during the middle of the night.

The other day we had to come in the house a few hours early becuase it was a day of the ´´young combatents´´ i think it is in english. where many tennagers go out to mess around and just do bad things so to be safe we got home early.  The next morning as we are walking around we say many things sad things.  But were safe.

All is well, i keep working and i hope to stay here next change, we will find out the end of this week. But im happy as always for everything. Love you guys so much. later alligator

Things are gettin real

Chile CCM

Today is the first day that i am going to have to be speaking Spanish. I will be attending all Spanish classes and church and everything will be only Spanish from now on. I have got it all down though so I'm not worried. 

Two more weeks in here and we leave on December 3rd. Oh also there are tons of earthquakes here, but I'm used to them. sorry this letter will be all over the place because I'm checking the random notes i write throughout the week to email. Happy birthday to dad as well! hope you have a good one. 

Well this week we went to lunch and saw some "sausage," so we did what any hungry guy would do. We got some and started eating them, they didn't taste bad. As we look around the room no body else had eaten theres. So i lean over and ask one of the latinos why no body wants them. He said something in Spanish and I asked him again. He said "sangre." Now sangre means blood. So it ended up being cow blood and pepper haha.  Well I love pepper and it wasn't half bad at all.  

Well, i don't have much time to email. But i am still doing good here. -Elder A Jaeger