Hello all! It was a great week - despite the title of the email. It's just incredible how much destruction happened this week! Here in Chile and the rest of the world!
We also did divisions with the assistants this week! That definitely came as a surprise, but Monday night Elder Crane (good friend from Santa Cruz, now assistant) called us asking if we could come to their sector the next day to do divisions with them. It was a shock, but it was great! I worked with the other assistant, Elder Evans, I learned a ton. It was a great learning opportunity, and I've been applying what I learned in the division and as a result we have 3 new investigators! Pretty dang excited about that. Two of them my comp already knew but had never taught, we passed by to see how they were doing and ended up teaching a lesson on faith. They're awesome people! I don't have a lot of time so I'll have to explain more in my next letter, sorry this letter is a shorter one too, I wanted to send pictures this week.
Luckily, Chile is really good at handling earthquakes! For Chile it was a relatively small one, only about a 5.5, and it was very close to where we live. The embarrassing thing is... well... I slept through it. I'm very sleep deprived here, I literally slept through an earthquake. The whole zone were under tables and doorframes and I was just chillin in my top bunk... happy as a clam.
Another funny story about the earthquake! In district class Wednesday we played a game that had to do with our emergency backpacks, we had to bring our emergency packs and whatever was in it (and not expired) were our resources for the game. It was a board game type thing that starts with an earthquake and the goal is to get to the chapel. If you run out of your resources before you get to the chapel, you die! So it's a good way to see if our emergency packs are up-to-date. At the end of the game Elder Matsen said, ''So update your backpacks because there's gunna be an earthquake... TOMORROW!!'' Then his eyes got wide and dramatic and it was silent for a while, then he got normal again and said that he was just kidding. The next morning, the earthquake happened with the epicenter being practically right underneath his house (he lives in Maipo) so I thought that was funny.
After the earthquake came the rain! Which proved much more destructive than the earthquake. It's been raining since Thursday hard without stopping, and the flooding is so bad in Santiago that many people are going missing and they've found a few dead bodies. It's not that bad here in Buin, but apparently Santiago is having a ton of problems due to the sheer amount of rain. The river here in Champa did overflow, however, and that's caused a lot of problems for a lot of people in our sector. So we'll just pray that the rain stops! Everything I own is wet.
Anyway, other than all that, life is great! We got the changes last night and Elder Mendez is going to Rancagua, and I'm training!! Definitely sad to see Elder Mendez go because he was a great friend, but I'm way excited to train! So I'll be going to Rancagua early tomorrow morning to get my trainee. It's more likely that he's latino because there are 9 latino Elders coming in this group and only 2 gringos, but it'd great to have a latino because he could help a ton more in the lessons and I wouldn't be so on my own. So stoked!! It's great!!
The other new investigator we just found contacting! At first he didn't want anything but he actually let us in and we taught him lesson one really quick and he accepted the invitation to pray, we didn't invite him to baptism because we want to invite the whole family at once, and we have an appointment with them this Saturday! So I'll definitely update you on that!
Hey can someone send me a good waffle recipe? Hard to use a waffle iron without a waffle recipe.
I love you all a ton! Thanks for all the love and support, I appreciate it a ton. This is going to be a great change! Pray for me and for my trainee! Have a great week! I promise that longer emails are to come!
Love
Elder Fox
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