Bueno

May 11, 2015

Today was awesome. We went on a hike and found some saweet places.  Im writting late and i dont have too much time and we kind of already talked for an hour so im just going to send some pics.

Love you guys tons.

Elder Borup

has it already been a week?

May 4 2015

Shoot.  time is going by way to quick. This week was on the slow side, but still a really good week.

Lots of fun things always happen.  La Unión has one of the highest populations of drunk homeless guys in Chile.... At least that's what it feels like.  Every corner of our sector is full of them.  Remember those guys who live under the bridge?  Well there are like four other bridges just like that in our sector.  We have been trying to be as Charitable as we can.  Some times we go and buy some bread with them or we help them get a colectivo or we give them a little bit of money, but we´re trying. 

This week we had a Noche de Hogar with our ward mission leader and we learned how to make Sopaipillas.  Super easy, basically just scones but then you eat them with Salsa called pebre.  i guess ill make some of that for you guys when i get home.  

We are having English class every Saturday. They are successful in the way that sometimes we get a couple less actives come and maybe an investigator or two, but mostly just kids from the branch who need help with their homework.   This week we were doing an activity of sentence making where you make a sentence with "to be" and a random word that was written on the board.  And when someone would say the sentence they had to act out what you said.  So the sentence was "They were Fighting", and everyone started to "pretend" fight.  The problem with that is that Elder Hazard and Elder Davis got too into it, and elder Hazard got a big old punch to the face.  HA. He´s fine and we all laughed really hard about it, and his eye did swell a little.  

I love you guys bunches. I am so stoked to have you for a family.  

Take care, see you Sunday

Elder Borap

(they all say it sounds like the noise a frog makes)

Saweet week.

Apr 27 2015

All is well here in the land of fire and ice.  Its getting kind of cold already and the Volcan Calbuco and the volcan Pucon are still spitting fire.   Calbuco just blew this past week and  all the missionaries in Calbuco got evacuated.  We have seen no ash yet and we probably wont because of the wind right now, But when it went off, you could see the mushroom cloud from here.  Supposedly the ash is going to travel around the world in 25 days and that argentina is getting buried in it. HA.  And we keep working as if nothing happened.  

This week was fun.  We had intercambios with the Assistants.  It was awesome.  I went out with elder Crotzer and we were walking to our sector and i felt like we needed to talk to a lady.  Turns out she is way drunk.  But right as we start talking to her her husband, who is sober, walks past, and she invites us to go to her house.  So we go to her house and we start teaching the husband, a way cool guy named Juan.  and we teach about how Christ can help this lady, Maria, to change her life if she wants.  So it turned out to be really good and the husband felt the spirit and told us that he is willing to try and help his wife change again.  The wife said that she just wants things to go back to the way they were before she was addicted to alcohol.  Its rough to see all of these people out in the street.  They dont want to be there, but they are so addicted to alcohol that they can't do anything about it.  

I have been studying a lot about charity.  Charity is what should fuel missionary work.  We need to love these people and want the best for them.  I am trying to learn from my companion, who is a really touchy feely kind of guy.  

We did a lot of service this week, and we taught a lot of people.  I really am loving it.  I am determined to suck every ounce of good out of my last few months on the mission.  Its gonna be the best!!!!

Love you guys tons

Elder Burop.  

a missionary from the US called me that the other day!  

PIcture of the guys we live with.  

A huge spider that was living in front of our house.

week has been saweeeeeet

Apr 20, 2015

This week has been saweeeeeet.  We have been able to really focus on the sector and on finding new people to teach.  

We have had some cool experiences.  As we approached one old guy, we asked him how he was, and he asked us what our problem was, then we said that we were missionaries, and then he said that he didn't worship John Smith, then we said that we dont either, then he asked us how many wives we had waiting for us in the USA, we said maybe 1, he said that that's not what the TV says, and i said that the TV also says that aliens abduct people and brain wash them.  That's where the argument ended and he kind of started to pay attention.  I get really frustrated when people  just want to argue and not listen.  You try and get them to laugh and then you can somehow bring up the Gospel less aggressively.

Finding people is really fun. Not as fun as teaching though.  We got to teach a bunch this week.  I loved every minute of it.  

We taught a lesson to an investigator that was not the best.  We watched the restoration video and the only thing that he noticed was that he plowed the same way as them......  we asked what happend to Joseph and he said that he fed the sheep and the cows.  We are going to have to go back to square one with this guy.  If he wants to learn anything......  He is a crazy dude though.

We spent two days in the house this week. Elder Hazard is having some crazy pooping frenzies, and we could not get to far away from the baño.  Fun times

Love all of you tons..  Sorry the emailwas a little jumbled.  Ill try better next week.

Elder Borup

¡Èxito!

Apr 13, 2015

Well, I`m stoked!  This was a great week.  We have had lots of things to do again but we are finding more and more time for our own sector.  We are finding new investigators!!!!!!!  

So this week we get a call from a guy we contacted in the plaza during the activity.  His name is moses.  He told us that he was reading the book of mormon and that he was loving it.  Later on we asked him where he was at in the book and he said that he was in 1 nefi 13!   Crazy.  But anyways, so we set up a cita with him and meet him in the plaza.  We talk for a while and we then ask him if he wants to go check out the curch.  So we go and walk to the church.  He loved it.  We sit him down after giving him a complete tour and we teach the restoration.  Increadible!  this guy is unreal.  We set up another cita with him to come and play ping pong with us in the church the next day.  HE CAME.  miracles do exist.  Then we had another lesson on prayer with him.  It was a super spiritual prayer and we testified that if he prayed to know if the book of mormon was true he could get an awnser.  The guy is way too cool, and im way pumped to see his progress. 

I kind of just got side tracked.  Sorry.  I got no time.  I love you guys bunches.  Miracles are real. Crazy.

Elder Boyup

It`s done Sam

Apr 6, 2015

his week was so crazy.  We did not have a normal day all week. This week was all in preparation for the dang activity.  ITS OVER!!!  and it was a big ole success.  Tons of people got to see the new video, and we got lots of new people to go by and visit.  In the end the activity consisted of 5-6 different stations of missionaries and activities.  Some were doing magic tricks, others were playing footbol with the kids and we also had a kids table, where they could color and get their face painted.  But we had lots of people there and it was way cool.

I am so pumped on General Conference!!!  those are the best days to be a missionary.  Some of my favorite moments were all of the hammers that they threw down about playing on your phone while in sacrament meeting.  Also the Latter day Hypocrite was crazy.  We got to watch the sessions in English to, so we could really enjoy Holland's talk.  Actually two returned missionaries came and watched Hollands talk with us.    

I am so happy that it is all over!  hopefully things will calm down now

Well i am way stoked. We just found out cambios and me and Elder Hazard are stikin together!  So we have 6 more weeks of constantly running to the bathroom.  Haha.  we are still always doing that, but he is a lot better.  Its going to be way fun though.  

Love you guys so much and i hope you have an awesome week.

Love,

Elder Borop

http://www.mormon.org/spa/pascua

PS.  We are famous. Go to this link, and try to find our picture.

Way too much

Mar 30, 2015

My head is about to blow.  I dont even know where to begin or what to even say.  So much stuff has happened this past week.  Well, all we have really been doing is planning this darn activity in the plaza.  We have had a couple ideas and all of them have been shot down,  we need to be ready for sure by the 3 but we think we will be doing another activity the 2.  i dont really know.  But the point is, is that there are too many things.

This week we did a big ole activity in the feria.  The church actually is right in the middle of it so we could actually set up a table right in front.  We put out a sick sign and Dvd players playing the new video from the church, contacting people while they are in a hurry to shop is hard, but there were a few people who stayed and watched the video.  And almost all who watched the video wanted missionaries to come back to their house.  Doing missionary work with this video has been really fun.  Something that i have never told you mom and dad is that way back at the begging of my mission, i bought a portable dvd player.  I bought it because at the time we had a lot of investigators who didn't have tv`s, so we couldn't share anything like video or movies.  Anyways, i bought it,  And now it is coming in big handy.  Using it in the plaza and just asking people if they would like to watch a 2 minute video while they sit is way fun, and really effective.  They can definitely feel the spirit during the video.  I love it.  

We haven't had too much time for anything else. but we did find another new investigator named Alejandra.  She is way cool.  But we are going to have a FHE with her this week.

I love you guys so much.  Today has been a cool day just because i could talk to you.  I have the best family.  Thanks for all of the B day wishes. I have really had a good day and an elder gave me a handful of Peach e o`s as a gift.  Best gift ever!!!ç

Well I love you bunches!

Elder Borup