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