Why?!

7-14-14

Well this has been another good week.  It was actually a great week.  And then Sunday came.  We had lots of great lessons with lots of great people.  We were doing a great job at finding new people to teach, and then we went on a intercambio with the Zone Leaders.  I went with ElderJauragui.  He is a great guy.  I learned a lot from him.  We were in their sector in Castro, and Elder Watson got to stay here with the other zone leader.  I had a great time.  Elder Watson did not.  Our sector has been ravaged.  Last week i told you guys about Hernan, the guy who is trying to quit smoking. This week i tell you that, thanks to some thing that were said to his parents, Hernan will not be meeting with us, or attending church, or having anything to do with the church.  Apparently there was some hard core bible bashing going on, and there were some very devout Evangelicals who´s feelings were badly hurt. Hernan was really sad to say that he cant visit with us.  He was actually starting to tear up.  It really really stinks to go away for one day, and then come back and have your star investigator drop you like a rock.   Well i don't want to talk about it anymore. 

Positive.  We found a great new family.  We taught the restoration and then invited them to be baptized.  They all accepted.  Family of four to be baptized the 9 of august.  That sounds so nice.  They were way receptive too.  When i had finished saying the first vision the dad said that he had always had the doubt on who was right between the catholic church and all of the protestant churches, but now it all makes sense, none of them are true, because none of them have the authority.  It was way cool, Ive never taught someone who understands that the first time around.

Last week my district got cut down.  Now it is just me elder Watson and the zone leaders.  I thought having Hermana missionaries would be hard, but it was actually great.  Our district meetings are really small now, and a little quite at times because only 1 zone leader is there each time.

MOM! I got the package!!! its so great.  Those are some of the coolest ties ever. I especially love the Hawaiian flower one.  I also love all of the ginger candies. Its great.  Thank you so much.  Love you.

Well that's about it from me.  Remember to study the scriptures. They are great, especially when you feel upset or angry. They will just calm you right down.  And never use the bible to atack people, please.  It never ever ever ever works.

Well, i love you guys bunches, I always love your letters. Have a great week.

Amór,

Elder Brún

So Pooped

July 7, 2014

Well, this has been a really long hard week.  This week we have done so much service.  I Think we have chopped at least 3meters of wood.  That is too much for two gringos who have a terrible plastic ax.  I like it though.  The only thing that stinks about this week is that we have been so busy helping people that we have had very little time to do proselyting.  This is a first for my mission.  Usually there is no one who lets us do service for them.  This week is something special.  We also helped a guy move houses.  The guy who got kicked out of his house because his wife hates the Mormons.  He has had it rough. He was baptized in Santiago 30 years ago. He moved to Chiloe 15 years ago, but there wasn't a church in Dalcahue, so he went inactive.  Then we came and he has started to come back.  But he has had some problems with his wife.  Now he is out though.  And he has a cool new house, where we can visit him all day.  In his bathroom, the toilet stands on a 1 foot tall platform, so it looks like a throne.  I´ll have to try that out.  

This week we did have Hernan in church.  He is coming to church every week now with out us even calling him.  We have been calling him every night to check up on how he is doing with the cigarettes.  He is having a really hard time leaving them behind.  I hate tobacco.  It's stupid.  I just wish that this guy could get baptized this week, but he has to be off the stuff for 2 weeks before the baptism for him to be baptized.  

We had an awesome day today.  We went to go look at some Flamingos, and we got to see a whole ton of them.  I loved it.  We took like 1 and a half hours to walk around this huge lagoon where all of the birds were.  We got really muddy but it was worth it.  Nature is so cool. Then we went into Castro and went to a Catholic cathedral.  It is completely made out of wood.  It was cool.  While inside i was sitting on a bench and this drunk guy came up to me and started telling me all about how he was Italian and that Italians are so much smarter than Americans.  I just nodded in agreement. There are lots of really vocal drunk people in Chile.

Thats about it.

Elder Drup 

So sad, so sad, its a sad sad situation

June 30, 2014

Well this was a really good week.  The only thing that is bringing me down, is the Chile game.  We almost beat Brazil.  So so so so so so close.  I don't even want to talk about it.  Everyone we watched it with were so sad.  Especially this guy named Efrain.  He went into the Bathroom to be alone for a couple minutes and came out after about a half hour, with his face all red.  So dang close.  I think if we would have gotten killed it would not be so sad.  But we lost on the last penalty kick.  

Bueno, así es la vida.  You win some and you lose some. Its has been a great week.  We are teaching a new guy named Hernan and his 8 year old daughter Joana.  We have been teaching them for about 2 weeks now.  He has gone to church 3 times.  He really enjoys it.  He is reading in the book of Mormon and also is loving it.  The only problem is that he smokes.  and he smokes a ton.  He smokes between 40-60 cigaretts every day.  Well he smoked that many. now he is on about 15-20.  Thats a ton of progress for a guy who has been smoking 2 packs every day for the past 20 years.  He has a ton of desire to change, and i think he will be baptized the end of this month.  

Today we went on a nature walk with our friend Efrain.  He is the brother of a member who we are working with.  We went out to the wilderness of Chiloe and were taking pictures of swans and flamingos. It was really fun.  It made me realize how much i miss learning.  I really miss my zoology class.  That was really fun to go out and just learn about nature.  

We still need to find a house for the new meeting house.  I hope we can find it soon, because that is about the only thing that is holding us back from being a branch.  

Lots and lots of service projects planned for the week. 

love you guys lots and lots.  

Elder Baurup

(thats the new favorite of the members)

PS Scott,  i told a guy we are teaching to look you up.  He is into ryming too. cool right?