Unreal.

June 28, 2015

This is it.  cho taim.  This is really a sureal experience.  Writting my last letter.  ¿Y sabe que? lo voy a escribir en Español.  

Bueno, ha sido una semana muy, muy exitoso.  Hemos encontrado varias nuevos investigadores y menos activos para enseñar.  mi compañero es mi amigo.  HA!  100% éxito.  así me gusta.  nadie puede resistir la carita feliz de Elder Borup.  Hemos disfrutado cada opertunidad de trabajar.  Esta semana encontramos un menos activo, era bien receptivo y todo, pero los miembro nos dijeron que el se enoja muy fácil y que elder Meneses no debe pasar porque elder meneses es bueno para enojar a las personas.  JK.  

Y hemos visto muchos milagros en la zona.  Muchas veces es super fome ser líder de zona, pero esta semana he visto el lado bueno.  Yo estoy convencido de que cuando estamos en el servicio de nuestro prójimo solamente estamos en el servicio de Dios.  Siento tan, tan, tan, tan cansado por todo que estamos haciendo, pero también siento de que estoy sirviendo a Dios y El está dando me las fuerzas que necesito.  Siento muy muy muy bendecido por eso.

Hay tantas cosas que me gustaría decir.  pero hay muy poco tiempo.  Tuvimos un paseo hoy y no tengo nada de tiempo.  Les voy a enviar los fotos.  Este país es lo mejor.  Soy Chileno/Gringo y estoy muy orgulloso de eso.  

Gracias por todo familia.  Les quiero como un Oso quiere Miel. 

Nos vemos aqui pronto

Con mucho cariño,

Su Bello Hijo, Hermano, y amigo,

Elder Baurup

from the coldest place in the world

Jun 22 2015

m writing this email from the coldest place in the world.  Everything froze last night and when i left the house so did my hands.  So we will see how much i can get out before my fingers snap off.  

Its getting dang cold here.  Each night it leaves a killer frost that turns our house into a refrigerator.  We wake up early so that we can make a fire and iron our shirts ( the two warmest things you can do) and then once we get a little warm we start to work out.  

This week has been a big success.  Well on paper... a real disaster, but we feel good about it.  This week we got up at 5:45 to go do surprise exercises with RíoBueno.  That was Thursday.  And then we did divisions in Lago Ranco.  Lago Ranco is beautiful.  You guys should look it up. Being a Zone Leader.... It is a huge pain in the booty,  I like it, but there are so many things that you need to be worried about that you can have a really hard time balancing time in your sector and time with the zone.  I have to admit, by Sunday i was feeling really stressed.  But i said a prayer and i felt amazing after.  Then i took the sacrament and i felt completely healed.  Its not that the stress went away, but its that i felt totally calm about all of the things.  

We have a sick new investigator that is going to be baptized.  when?  no idea.  But she will be baptized.  We had a killer lesson with her this Tuesday.  Her name is Carmen and she is a pastry Chef.  Awesome.  But we showed her the video of gracias a que El vive, and it blew their socks off.  She was saying that she has been looking for a church to go to for years, because her kids have been wanting to go. She is stoked and we are going to teach her the restoration tomorrow. 

this week i really want work hard and not think about next week.  It is the weirdest experience.  I don't know if i should be excited or sad.  So one hour im really excited and then the next im sad.  Its weird.  I set the goal to think about the now and not the future for this whole week.  So we will see how that goes.  

I am so grateful for you guys. I love you bunches.

Tu Bello hijo, hermano, amigo,

Elder Borup

an eventful week

Jun 15 2015

This has been an eventful week.  We did two intercabios, one planed, another not,  we attended a wedding, and we had a big ole food festival.  it was nice.

Tons of cool things happened this week.   i don't have too much time... sorry but this is going to be a short one.  

We had an activity of international food that was put together be the missionaries... oh boy...  Well it wasn't too bad, every one did their part and we all had investigators and less actives that came.  It was way cool.  Each organization took a country and made a typical food and gave a brief summary of how the church began in that country.  We were The USA!  We made banana boats because the typical food of America is nothing, and for the how the church began we taught the restoration.  it was awesome.  Then we got to eat, first time having Chinese food on the mission, i probably should have waited though because i got some bad poops after that.  

So cool that you guys won that relay!  We have been working super hard and i feel like I'm just sprinting to the end.  Its fun.  My companion might be a little bit of a dingle barry but i like being with him, he does motivate me.

Well that's it.  I love you guys a ton.  

Elder Borup

It just keeps dumping.

Jun 8, 2015

Im an UNCLE!  HOLLY MOLLY!!!!  little baby Wendy, my niece.  

This week was good.  I am so pooped out but that is a sign of how good it was.  It literally rained all week.  I think it stopped two or three times.  The rivers are getting super swollen and the rain keeps coming.  OH, and the forecast for this next week is ALL rain.  Gotta love it.  

So, we´ve been having some hard times in the sector.  I feel good about what we are doing, but we still don't have that elect chosen one.  Its fun looking for new people though.  You here some really crazy things on the street.  For example:  did you know that the grocery stores are in with the 666?  of course.  everything you buy ends with 9.99 so you flip that upside down and what do you get? 666.  So crazy.  

There really are some interesting people here.  

Bueno.... I feel good.  Every one in the branch it feels like is on my back trying to make me feel Trunky (excited to pack the bags),  but i feel very little effect.  i know I'm gonna work hard to the end.  I set the goal that i was going to finish strong, and i have had that goal since the beginning, so it will be done.  

My companion is getting chiller.  There are still some moments when we have our differences but the unity is getting better.  I would like to say we are friends, we laugh sometimes now and we have our jokes, but he told every one in the house, the other day, that we are not his friends.  haha!  its funny sometimes to hear the words he says.  Ridiculous. 

I love you guys a ton.  Say hola to Wendy for me.  

Elder Borup

Stressin it.

Jun 1 2015

Well this is it.  JUNE.  final count down.  Push it to the limit.  Pedal to the metal cpt..

This has been a good week.  We are having lots of sucess and we are seeing tons of miracles.  The other day we were knocking a super duper rich area and we talked to like 30 nanys that told us to come back another day and to like 2 home owners who were super bitter.  We did talk to one guy who seemed legit interested.  His name is Sammy.  He is about 85 and has a house that sits on about 8 acres of garden and waterfalls.  He said that we could come back another day when his wife was there.  so we went back yesterday when i was on an intercambio with elder Nielsen.  We knocked the door and hot in.  Sammy lives with his wife his daughter and her family.  They are way cool.  They gave us candy and we watched because he lives with them.  I am way stoked for them.  

This has been a hard week at the same time.  Elder Meneses. is a crazy dude.  It really is going to be a push to the end.  In the lider conference that we have every week he said that a lider can not be a friend.  That a leader needs to lay down the law and thats it.  This can give you a little window as to what its like in the house.  NOt too much fun.  But its cool.  I like working with him and we are seeing some cool things happen, so i cant complain too much.  

I have been looking through my journal this week.  The mission is the best thing ever.  We are trying to get a kid named Felipe out right now, and i just want to let him feel, what i am feeling, its that best!.  But i am out of time.  Sorry its so short, but i have a date with destiny.  there is a sandwich eating chalange at a restaurant here and im gonna go reck it.

I love you guys oodles,

Elder Borup

Sweet mercy its gettin Chilly!

May 25 2015

Its that time of year in the south of Chile.  It is so dang cold out right now!  I have kept all of my thermals berried in my suitcase ever since Punta Arenas but now i get to use them every day again. oh joy.

Well there is a big surprise this week.  I have a new Companion. Elder hazard left. We found out Monday night that he was going to Villarica (the place with all of the volcanoes).  Now my companion is Elder Meneses, he´s a cool guy, from Chile, before the mission he was a weight lifter. I´m still getting to know him, but I like working with him alot. We have been working really hard this past week and we are starting to see miracles happen.  

The thing that is going to be hard is that Elder Meneses is a huge stickler, i mean i can be strict but i do it with all of the love i have, Elder meneses lays down the law and now we have 3 district leaders that are not too stoked on us.  I mean we need to be corrected sometimes, obviously.  But we need to be corrected with love. lest he shall esteem you to be his enemy.

I´m just gonna have to always throw my flare on things.  Keepin it Elder Borup style.  It defiantly is going to be an interesting cambio though.

I love it here. Ido not want to leave.  If there was just someway for you guys to all move down here, i would stay forever.  Chile is the best!

We had a couple cool finding experiences this week and we have a couple new investigators that have some huge potential.  

Love you guys oodles,

Elder Borup

Cambios???

May 18 2015

We just got the cambios.  I get to stay with Elder Hazard for my last cambio.  He has already been here for 6 months and now he is privileged by a 3rd cambio with me.... Not really, i pray diligently so that he can have the patience necessary to deal with me.  But im way stoked to be together another one.  Its gonna be way cool.  This is the last push to the Finnish.

This week was hard but super good.  We are working like a bunch of crazy men to find some new investigators.  The thing that i know how to do and i know works are contacts.  We contacted up a storm this week.  I feel really good about it.  The thing that I have noticed this week is that each time a person rejects us, i have a horrible feeling, its not that I'm offended or that they hurt my feelings, its that i know that this is something that will make their lives so much better.  It really does stink when you try and talk to the family and the mom stops and the dad keeps going, it ticks me off.  But i think that my studies of charity are really helping me out.  I love these people.  Chileans are the best.  So many of them are crazy and so many of them are cranky and proud but there are so many of them that try so hard to do what is right.  This country is the best!  so much better than Argentina!  

This week we had a performance in the catholic church.  At the cathedral here there is a rec gym kind of thing off to the side that is always open for events.  This week there was a charity Bingo where the Church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints were the main source of entertainment.  Elder Davis did a parcour show and then Elder Johnson and Elder Hazard sang and played guitar. I sat back and hit my drum sticks on the ground a couple of times.  But it was way cool, about 350 people were there, and we got some great publicity.   

The Copa Americana starts soon and all of the Chilean flags are startting to come out.  It takes place in Chile this year so its gonna get nuts here.  

Anyways I love you guys a ton!  This is gonna be a good week.

Keep good,

Elder Borup