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Hey all!  It was another incredibly busy week but luckily I told you all about it completely in the recording I made you!  So it's gonna be another quick letter but there's a lot of information in the recording so that'll make up for it!  But I still have some stories!

So the sign language is progressing pretty rapidly, we went the other week and were able to converse for a while and teach a lesson without the help of her hearing daughter, so that ain't too bad!  I've definitely been feeling the divine help as well as when I learned Spanish, at first I struggled to retain a new word when Emelina taught the sign language classes in the church but now I learn every new work effortlessly.  The gift of signs!  It's been a lot of fun learning it, the only sad thing is that it's not even close to american sign language so if I want to learn ASL when I get back I'll have to start from scratch.

Another story!  This is an amazing one, and it happened last week but I forgot to write about it!  But as you all know, I'm with Elder Mendez, who was my first comp in Hospital.  Up until last week, I've kind of looked at my time in Hospital as the low point of my mission.  I made a plethora of mistakes and I had a lot of things I needed to change in myself as a missionary, also as soon as I left all the people we were teaching went down the drain.  I think it was necessary for me to feel that a little, because it caused me to reflect a lot and inspired sincere change and repentance in how I worked as a missionary and how I was as a person, and as a result I was able to help touch many more lives in Pichidegua and hopefully here.  BUT something happened that made me super happy.

So last week we were in our leadership meeting in Rancagua, like I talked about last week in the video.  After the meeting, one of the matrimony elders asked me a question about a baptismal record that was in our zone.  He had a few other records there, and after looking at the one from our zone, I glanced at the other registros and saw the word ''Hosptial'' jump up at me.  I picked two up and looked at them both and they both said ''Hospital'' I quickly read the names and it took me way longer than it should have to process the names:  Claudio Sanchez and Gonzalo Aspe.  I kind of lost my dignity and yelled across the room at Elder Mendez telling him to come see and we gave each other a chilean hug and rejoiced not too quietly.  The matrimony was really confused at what was going on seeing as I hadn't answered his question yet.  I took the time later to explain to him that Elder Mendez and I had already been in HoHospitalogether and taught both of those people.    

So that definitely made my week :)  I wanted to take the time to share a quick spiritual thought from the week.  But I don't have time haha sorry I'm really bad at this.  Remind me to share it next week!  I was going to share it two weeks ago but I keep struggling at having time to write.  Have a great week though!  See you in a few weeks!

Love

Elder Fox