Chile

Chile

Monday, May 16, 2016

I can't think of a good subject

Hey family!!  I have to admit that I don't actually remember what happened this week!  Usually I keep a sticky note in my planner where I write down things I want to remember to write you guys but this week... I suppose I didn't do it!  Not really sure why... it wasn't a bad week though!  

Claudio #2 came to a church activity this week!  We discovered that his struggle is getting to church because he's extremely shy and very reclusive, in fact his siblings promised us that we'd never get him to leave the house.  His siblings also said that there's no way he'll ever change and that he shuts himself off from them (when he tells us that they don't let him enter their houses because of how he is), which made me reasonably angry and I decided not to talk too much more with his siblings!  Sufficeth to say, we did get him to leave the house and it was great!  He was very shy but he made friends with an older member of the branch (who's just naturally very good with people) and we left the activity early and Claudio stayed with the member without a problem!  So it's a big step for him!  He didn't come to church however, when we went to pick him up he said he was sick :P  But it's a work in progress!

Even though we haven't seen Claudio #1 he seems to be doing really well!  We talked with his girlfriend about him a lot during a lunch appointment and she tells us that he's understanding the Book of Mormon a lot better, and that he's taken our commitment to figure out a baptismal date very seriously.  He's treating it like it'll be his actual baptismal date which is really exciting because the missionaries have been working with him for years.  He says he wants to do it in July because he wants his girlfriend's dad to baptize him, so we're going to put a date for the 2nd of July next time we get the chance to talk to him!  We're pretty stoked.

So that was about it!  SO I want to talk about P-day today!!  Today was easily the funnest p-day I've had since Conti, and I already sent some pictures of it!  Some more pictures are attached to this email.  We've been wanting to climb some hill in the sector (because there are a ton of huge hills) for a very long time now, and the opportunity finally showed itself and we went and climbed a hill!  I've been eyeing a hill that's a little east of our house for some time now that's pretty large but not too steep or rocky and ridiculously green so we decided to go climb it!

The pictures don't do justice, the hills were incredibly green, like a green you've never seen in your life type green.  I have a ton more photos of the trip but I can't possibly send them all.  It was a ton of fun though, it was a pretty good hike and it was definitely very adventurous.  The view at the top was breathtaking, it was just awesome being up there.

1.) More Andes!
2.) Our nametags on the Chilean flag with Hospital in the background
3.) Us four with the whole Buin zone in the background

So that was my week and short letter!  I hope you all had a great week!  A little spiritual thought and challenge I have for you all this week is just to read the Book of Mormon every day.  I think I realized again this week just how important it is to read it every day, and how big of a difference it makes in everything.  Have a great week!

Love
Elder Fox





















More P-day pictures:

1.)  Me with a Chilean flag, not a huge fan of this one because the camera was at a weird angle and it looks like I'm doing a disco pose and the flag is super small, I like the one with the argentian flag much more even if it makes zero sense

2.) Green hill with pretty flowers!

3.) Andes!

4.) Panoramic of the view!

5.) FREEDOM!!  Even though I'm holding an argentian flag and I'm from the states and I'm in Chile...








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