I JUST LOVE GENERAL AUTHORITIES, THEY JUST HAVE THIS MANTLE ABOUT THEM THAT'S UNLIKE ANYTHING ELSE.

Hello Hello!!!

Well I'm glad to hear that everything is going good down in Socal. Here things are going well; it was a short week but it was pretty good. As I already mentioned we had cambios on Tuesday and Elder Bustos and I stayed together, but we still had to wait in the bus terminal for a good chunk of the day waiting for all the new missionaries in the zone to get here. And Elder Ahart (yeah, he came up to my zone. I was stoked) came all the way from Loncoche so we did a lot of waiting haha. Also on Thursday (was that st. patrick's day?) we went down to Angol, like an hour and a half away, to a conference with Elder Corbridge who's the second counselor of the area presidency here in Chile. I just love general authorities, they just have this manto (don't know how to say that in English) about them that's unlike anything else. Like they just emanate authority and you can feel the power when they speak, yeah, it's awesome. Now I can´t wait for general conference jaja. So between him and President Swenson, they took up the whole day and we got back like at 9:30 at night so we lost the day of work but it was definitely worth it. It was very spiritually uplifting hearing from Elder Corbridge.

So besides those two events, it was a pretty normal work week. We had a family night with the Cruces and the Bishop's family (our future mission president) which went very well. Due to this big Catholic holiday celebration thing in Yumbel, yesterday Jose Cruces had to work but now starting next Sunday they are going to be coming back to church in full force and should be getting baptized here in the first or second Saturday of April. They are totally ready, she knows it, and he wants it but is still a little hesitant, probably from not going to church last week or the week before due to work. But now that he's going to be able to go again, everything will go just fine. We are going to put a fecha with them this week.

Now I´ll tell you a little bit about another family we are teaching. Their names are Ale (Alex) and Dina. She moved here from Peru to work a couple of years ago and he is from Santiago. They are very poor and live in this tiny one room apartment but they have enough to eat and to pay the bills from what it looks like. They were taught by Elders like 6 months ago and a couple of weeks ago we found them in the area book and have started to teach them again. He is an alcoholic and didn't believe he could change but now just recently he has started suffering from kidney and liver problems and has been going to the doctor a lot. I think this has scared him because he now hasn't drank in two weeks and he tells us that he wants to change. He says that he wants to start going to church so he can get baptized and get away from the alcohol and his drinking friends. His wife is having some trouble supporting him but they are starting to progress and we are excited for them. We have a goal for them as well to get baptized in April so we are going to be working a lot with them.

Well that's about all that I have for this week. We have good investigators and are really excited to help them progress and to get them baptized so they can truly come unto Christ! Also Christopher (the guy we baptized my first week here) had been starting to fall into old smoking habits but we've been helping him out a lot with that and he's clean again. If everything goes well he should get the priesthood this coming week. Well that's all I got for this week. Bay, keep tearing it up in track and Abs, Mom sent me some Mormal pictures, cute as always. Love you all very much and until next week ciao ciao and work on getting those hard working missionaries some referrals! They cant do it without you!

con amor, Élder Harper =)