Wild Weather

Okay, so President Diaz's kids are older and out of the house. That is a change too, cause President Kahlelin had 4 kids with him.  I met some of President Diaz's family when I was in there for the interview with Eider Amezqitua.  My new companion doesn't speak any English. I am going to have to help him a lot to see what we can do. This week was a hard week. It rained for over half the week .No one wanted to receive us, so we had a couple days out in the rain all day. But I learned a lot in that time, so that was good I guess. I don't know, we have had a hard time finding good people. If we do contact anyone, we can never find then again, so that has been interesting. I don't know if i will stay here after the transfer. if i do, I don't know I would like to have a change. Ii have been here a long time. i never thought I would be in a area this long, but I have to make the best of it while I am here. Tomorrow we have the thing with the zone, so that should be good. We haven't had one of these zone conferences in like 4 months because of all the changes with the new Mission President's. So with my companion, Elder Valeso, there isn't any problems, but like it's the same thing that happened with Elder Fotheringham. There wasn't any problems. but your just kinda there. He doesn't communicate a lot. He wants to work hard, so that is good. I will get to learn more stuff about Chile with him. He is like 5 foot, so everyone gives him a hard time. Everyone calls everyone uncle here, so they tell him that I am his uncle and that I need to watch after him. I don't know how he feels about that, but we will see.

Yesterday we had a few people come to church so that was good. Angelica came again and Maria Christina said my friend wants to be baptized. Elder Valeso doesn't know her so, he is like good. When can we come over?  She made up all these excuses, so it is interesting with her.

This week in La Serena there was terrible storms with huge waves that were getting up in the street, so that was really cool to see. Like the waves from the ocean were huge with all the wind that was going on. My umbrella didn't do much for ya with the wind, so it was crazy. It was a good week though and a good humbling experience for me.  Other then that, not much is going on. It's crazy that everyone is getting married.  Tell Tawna & Dirk congratulations.  Have a good week.

Love,

Elder Gillies