So Much Better

Hello everyone.  How are you all doing? thanks so much for all of the letters! they were great.  Whitney I'm glad you enjoyed the fair so much. Dad those glasses were very nice. Mom I'm glad you are all healed up, and that you enjoyed chalk the block.  This week was much better. I am completely healthy now! So that's good.  Mission life is great.  I feel really fulfilled at the end of every day, and really excited for the next day.

The work is really hard.  We have been really trying to work with the less active this week.  And until Sunday night it had been going awful. We just kept getting rejected. It was hard.  But then sun. night we went out with a member and every house we went to let us in and we got to give a short lesson and then give them a small assignment for church next week.  I am super pumped.  We need to be working with the members a ton more.  There are members that are willing to go out with us and we just need to work with them to get these less actives active again.  

This week in district meeting, we were told that we weren't aloud to leave our house.  None of the other missionaries from our zone were told this. Just us.  We live right on the corner of the most dangerous part of Valdivia, and last year, just a block away from us, they stole a bus and set it on fire for the 11th.  So we were stuck in our apartment again this week.  But i am really happy that we weren't aloud to leave.  When we finally left the house, we walked out side and almost immediately had to go back.  The sky was full of tear gas residue.  We could hardly breath and my companions eyes were watering like crazy!  It was nuts.  we went back out with bandanas over our faces,  we got out of that area as quick as we could.  While we were hurrying out of the area we noticed that there were a ton of rocks laying around. We didn't understand why, so when we had a meeting with the ward mission leader we asked him.  He told us that some people decided to steal a taxi and set it on fire.  While they were watching it burn they would throw rocks at passerby's.  It was nuts.  but all over now.  

Next week we have the 18th, which is the complete opposite of the 11th.  The 18th is Chile's 4th of July.  Except my companion says that it is the biggest holiday of the year. bigger than Christmas.  And we aren't aloud to proselyte on the 18th or the 17th.  But the members have invited us to their houses to eat.  I can not wait there will be so many empanadas!

Well i think that is all from me.  Love you guys a ton.

Love 

Elder Steam Boat Willy

PS please, if it isn't too much trouble, send some bear grylls deodorant.