More Rejection

Oh, wow!  I am glad the package got to you guys.  That's terrible that it was half torn open. I didn't do the packaging. The people in Chile did. So next time if I send another package, I will have my own box and do it myself. I sent home the boots because they are huge and it's a lot of weight to pack around. I won't see snow for the next two years so, I don't need them, and I didn't want to have to haul them around for two years. I am glad you liked the cards. I will send more letters eventually, just depends on the area. This area I am in doesn't have a card place, and I can't go in to Vina. My companion will go home in a few months. Everyone in my little area has a ton of time in on their mission, then there is me. But thats o.k. I have a lot of opportunities to learn and grow from them. 

What are some quick and easy recipes I can make? I can make like french toast and stuff, but I am getting sick of oatmeal and cereal. I have eaten that everyday since I got here. This week was another hard week.  It was tough with contacts. The contacts were bad ones.  It's tough getting yelled at. This one guy told us that we have to watch out because our religion is wrong. On judgement day we will be sorry. I wanted to say I am perfectly calm. I am nervous for you and all this stuff.  We had an investigator all ready to come and her daughter got sick Sunday. I won't have a baptism this change either, but maybe the next one. I do think my companion will be transferred this next time. My district will be weird because out of all of us, two are going home. It's their last transfer and I think my companion will be transferred and I don't know who else. If my companion does get transferred, I will just have to make the best of it. He knows a lot about the bible which I really need. I am reading it, but it's harder to understand in Spanish. I did exchanges with Elder Wilcox again. I think he is still a little homesick, but I tried to do the best I could helping him out. I don't know how much he listens to me. I haven't been out much longer than he has. I know you shouldn't look at it like that, but I think he does. I was like testifying to him why we were here and all that, and I felt the spirit. I don't know if he did but it was kinda cool. I learned the importance of charity this week because I was having a hard time with it because all they do is yell at you and won't let you talk or anything, but I read a talk and it talked about charity and said if you don't have charity, you will have a harder time teaching and inviting the spirit. I saw that this week. We had a guy talk thirty minutes non-stop about his job. We get out and my companion said, "I didn't understand what the heck he was talking about." Then i didn't feel so bad because I had no idea either. That was funny. Everyday I learn of something about Chile in the church that was bad or shouldn't have been done, so it makes it harder for us to teach. In the 80's they were baptizing thousands of people and have a ton of churches. Now there are a ton of churches, but they had to shut some of them down because they had Elder Holland come in and cut things and straighten things out for three years. Well, that was my week. Hope you have a good week. Thanks for everything.

Love,

Elder Gillies