Tyson's Mission: President Diaz Takes Over

Wow, it was good to hear about all the kids from Lyman going on their missions. That is crazy. There should also be a whole heap of them coming home of the kids in the grade before me. So the Cup of America ended and Chile won. It is the first time they have ever won anything, so it was crazy. I can't imagine how it was in Valisapro or Santiago. In Con Con, it was like crazy, but it was fun. The game went in overtime and then there was a penalty. Then Chile beat Argentina, so that is always good to beat them.

I think my mission will be a little different with President Diaz. He is a lot more relaxed so I am super happy about that. Now we just have to get the zone leaders to relax. President Diaz was going to let us have activities in the zone every change and then he changed his mind after the zone leaders said a bunch of stuff. I was kinda ticked, but its o.k. He did change some of the rules, so that was good. Then Sunday we had about 110 people attend church. It has never been that low, since I got here, I guess everyone was partying from the world cup win and couldn't make it to church. Then we did a fast for Chile because they needed the rain so bad. Before we even left the church, it started to rain. It was cool to see the mercy of the Lord. It just shows you how powerful fasting is.

I hope Tate and Brady have a Happy Birthday this week. I will have a zone conference with President Diaz so it should be good. I am excited to see him and meet him. I think he will teach more like a seminary teacher, so I am ready to learn a lot from him during this year.

That is cool about the Cody rodeo and the bears you saw in Yellowstone. Sounds like Mark saw elk too, so that was fun. The only thing I have seen lately is sea lions. Other then that, it is dogs and cats. I don't want to see any more dogs! There are dogs everywhere. It was weird yesterday when it was raining. It didn't have that fresh rain smell. It had the wet dog smell! We are still looking for investigators. What happened to Elder Packer? I heard he passed away yesterday. We asked the bishop what we could do about the cousin thing of the couple that we are teaching. He said there was no law against it in Chile, but he had never actually heard of a case of it. I was surprised, but he just kept saying it was weird and we are like, we know! It wasn't too bad of a week this week. I hope you have a good week.

Love,

Elder Gillies