Another English Teacher in the Family.....

Hola Familia y Amigos,

Yes, we did start english class this week again in this sector. How did you know mom, is there something on Facebook? And the Hermana that put a picture up is who we eat lunch with now! haha we pay here a little bit every day to eat there. She cooks really good. I told her to add me lol. Maybe you should change my name on FB to Elder Farnsworth so it is easier to find me. And really, Olivia is going to Conce?! AYY Chile la lleva. haha thats so sick maybe i can go to the MTC when she is there, who knows. Probably not they are kinda strict on that. Elder Garner (who was in the airport in arizona when i left) is there and he will have a year when she gets to the MTC. wow that means ill have a year too...Crazy. This week, i have 9 months. Wow. So we taught English class like i said and like 7 people went! There were 2 haitians there and I tried to learn a little creole lol but i only learned like 2 things. A guy that thought we prayed to Johnny Smith was there and we had the chance to clear up some things and explain that we arent weirdos that worship men! Haha it was a good class and we hope to see more people. And one of the investigators went to the church again and has friends already and loves it! We basically have to wait till after the conference and the visit from the apostle for her baptism but its okay! The other investigator didnt go because his friend (who is less active) had a few problems in the morning and he is really shy and didnt want to go alone..We are worried about it but we are going to keep going with members to help fellowship him. We are soo blessed in the sector for our diligence these weeks. We are going home dead and barely taking time for the dinner because we are just working and walking and teaching. We had a lot of lessons with members present this week and we found 10 new people. Its just crazy knowing that we arent doing anything. The Lord is litterally just putting things in our path. And i know there is even more waiting for us. BE DILIGENT. Especially you missionaries. Work and knock doors or walk or talk or do whatever you can even if you think that there will be nothing or its not worth it. Because even if nothing happens right away, God will bless you guys with something else later on in the week. I know that this is the key to missionary work, diligence and following the Spirit. I love you guys, i hope you have a great conference weekend and have the answers to your questions. 

Sorry the computer doesnt like my camera again im going to find a way eventually to send pictures.

Love 

Elder Farnsworth

Welcome to English Class!

Note the chalkboard:  Welcome to English Class!

Hola familia!!

Well Dad is working like crazy for Tax season and we are working like crazy for new investigators and to just survive basically! Haha we had an awesome week though! Well i dont remember if i told you but my companion sings good so the mission asked him to sing in a mission choir for the Conference with the Apostle. (There is a mission conference with the apostle and then we have luck because he is coming to our Stake Quilicura for other conference). So anyways, my companion has to go to the office every Tuesday and Friday in the morning and I have exchanges with Elder Carillo those days! And this week we had an exchange (or whatever the gringo elders call it in english) with our Zone Leaders. I went with Elder Richardson in our sector and we taught some haitians because he knows Creole pretty good. And we ordered pizza because why not :)

In the week, we wanted to fast to find new investigators. We put the goal at the beggining of the week for like 4 new people i think. And the end of the week, we had 9. I think we can say that fasting works! Wow it was so cool this week. So the Mission has norms for numbers and the Zone has other norms and goals. In our zone, they have a norm for people with baptismal date, lessons with members, new investigators, and investigators progressing (go to church and have a date for baptism). They are decent goals and this week, we did all of them! We had two in the church who are soooo good. One is the sister of a recent convert and she just came from Peru Monday. We met her tuesday, taught another day, and she went to church and wants to learn everything! Another one that went is a friend of a less active and he asked her about her church and went to church alone (like 3 weeks ago). Elder Williams and I taught them for like the second time because the other elders left and they both went this week! Wow it was a good week but there is still so much more to do here. The Sector is hard because everyone works sooo much and the mornings and early afternoon, there isnt anything. But of well, we just need to keep finding people from the Members and their friends. I imagine that our ward is probably similar. The missionaries might be struggling for lack of people to teach. Help them out! Dont be scared, just tell them about your friends or less actives in the ward that maybe they dont know of! OK family, this is basically what i remember from the week, love you all! 

Elder Farnsworth

HOLA FAMILIA! 

Ok so the first week in Quilicura was...different, but awesome! It is the opposite than Cerro Navia and Galvarino.

 First off we are on the other side of Cerro Renca (a hill) and second off it is really nice..like there are really big 

houses with Audis and Jeeps and stuff. But theres also a little part to remember Cerro Navia thats called La

 Pucara and its a little more dangerous :) haha but no its normal. And the area is really big. I sent a photo of the 

highway we have to cross over the bridge like every day! ahhh its huge but we will see if we can get bikes. And

 Elder Williams is awesome. He has one more transfer in the mission than I and we are trying everything we got to 

find people in this sector to teach. They didnt leave us that much to work with and the people that are here, need

 to get divorced from their last spouse and get married with their ``boyfriend or girlfriend´´. but that happens a 

lot...its really expensive to get divorced...ugh. oh well. But there are a ton of foreigners here like people from Haiti

 who speak creole and french and people from the middle east, and even africa i heard. But then there are a lot 

more from colombia or peru or stuff like that. Its sweet. We live in apartments that are really nice looking! But 

theres still crazy stuff and people haha. We were coming back to eat dinner and a old guy that lives above us like

 screamed at me because he was deaf and asked me who i was. I tried to talk to him but i ended up yelling so

 that he could hear me and then he asked me if i was a Yankee hahaha. We are gonna teach him next week. Itll 

be interesting. 

This week, Colo colo and the U de Chile played (two rival soccer teams) and everyone was watching it and

 drunk..so that was interesting haha but nothing really happened. We had a really hard but really fun week! 

We were dead every night from walking and being outside knocking so much (or basically yelling ``ALO´´´) 

because thats how you call people from outside their gate idk. But there were some fun times! One day, in the

 night, we went to less actives, but we didnt know what apartment they lived in. We went to the fourth floor and

 my companion sees a painting of a unicorn and says, ``i need that...´´ so we knocked the closest door to it and

 asked if they were going to throw it away. They said yes, so we asked for it and put it in our house hahahahah

 so theres the selfie with Tiffany the unicorn. I dont know...but the latinos really think it is beautiful and normal

 and everything. So we are just laughing about it. An elder from Peru in our ward Elder Huarca asked if unicorns

 were real....oh.

The ward here is really sweet! And i told dad but an apostle is coming to Santiago in April and he will speak with

 the mission and our stake here!! only our stake!! So its gonna be sooo awesome. We dont know who it is yet but 

still. So ill keep ya updated with who it is. Love you guys! hope all is well! 

Elder Farnsworth

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and this was in the letter to his Dad:

And something awesome, another apostle is coming but we dont know who! and he will meet with all the missionaries

 AND he is going to our stake Quilicura where i am now!! two times to see him! Gonna be awesome. Well we are

 opening this sector which just means the other two missionaries left and we came in. i think it is called

 whitewashing a sector in the states i dont know. but it was pretty hard this week but soo fun. Its a really big sector

 and we need bikes..and the people are pretty rich too so some of them are too proud to receive us. The ward is 

legit like a ward in the states and there are like 180 people in the ward that normally go. we have the church in the 

stake center! Its a great sector. there are a lot of accountants here and my comp and i both want to study

 accounting and both of are fathers are accountants ahah! pretty funny. 

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A Transfer!!

BUENOOOO FAMILIA, LA RESPUESTA ES QUE ME FUI! ESTOY EN QUILICURA!! 

Well the answer is that i left! Im in a part thats called Quilicura and its on the other side of a Hill called Renka

 (that i climbed before) and on the other side where i was it said (Renca La Lleva) like fake hollywood, and now 

on my side (North of the hill) it says Valle Lo Campino. which is like fake Renca hahaha so they just copy

 everything here. But Im in the ward that is called Lo Campino right against the hill. HERES the deal, this part is 

like rich. And im so confused because the houses are really nice and it looks like condos in California or

 something. Its like the only sector here thats so nice. So thats sick. We live in an apartment. Im with Elder 

Williams who is from Seattle Washington and have one transfer more in the mission than me! We are gonna kill it.

 Hes a cool kid and he is going to study accounting in BYU!! so we are just gonna be cruising in this one. They 

told me this sector has a lot of foreigners from Haiti and Africa and even Middle East. So im probably learning

 Creole and French...haha or going to try. So sick. 

So this week it was a bummer to leave Galvarino but im stoked now. They called us saturday but they just said 

that i was going to leave and nothing else. So that was right before out Sector Attack with the members and i was

 a little bummed after 7 months in the ward. But the Attack was real cool and it was awesome to see the

 members excited to work and help us. We contacted the less active members from the ward (not all cause we 

didnt have that much time) but a good part of them. It was cool to see the reactions of the less actives when we

 are with members (because we did divisions and i went with the ward mission leader). There was a different

 spirit and the people were more receptive. You should do it there in your wards!! Talk with the missionaries and

 organize something like that! But Sunday i was packing and saying goodbye to everyone. The photos are with 

Gonzalez family (Hermana Irma where we lived and her daughter and boyfriend) and Araya Family who helped us 

a ton with lunches and the dad loves hunting and we ate rabbit there :).

Wow i dont know what to say cause im just thinking about how excited i am to work here and my comp was in

 the same ward but the other sector before so he already knows the ward and everything. Its gonna be a sick

 transfer i think and we will work hard. 

Love you guys a ton! Thanks for everything

Elder Farnsworth out. 

HOLA FAMILIA,

Well got the exciting news about Ryan serving in MENDOZA ARGENTINA! It literally borders my mission but the 

problem is there are the Andes (mountain range) in the way so we will never see each other. But im stoked cuzzy!

 And The Baldwins too will be in Argentina and Chile! Wow i wonder if i will see them! 

So what happened with my companion is that he has an ulcer in his stomach and his back hurts for another reason

 but he cant take medicine for his back because of his ucler. But hes better now! Just tuesday he was like dying

 because the medicine he is taking is so strong and he slept the whole day. But he got used to it and we work

 normal now! Just cant eat any red meat or anything spicy! Stuff like that. So thats good that hes not going to die 

ha,..mom, transfers are this next week! Half the people say i will never leave Galvarino and the other half say im

 definitely leaving this time. I want one more here at least! We found some new people this week, but only two. I 

was hoping to find families and was a little discouraged when we taught the new people alone (2 seperate people)

 but in each of the lessons, we learned that they both have big families that all live with them! So hopefully the next

 time we can teach the whole family of each of these people. 

This week, we helped with an activity for mutual, and thursday we had to set up and friday is their mutual here. But

 it was acting out the Plan of Salvation. For the Kingdoms, they had moons and stars hanging from the ceiling and i 

was the only one that reached with the ladder haha so i had to put like 50 stars hanging from the ceiling. Ill take a

 picture if they are still there. We got asigned the roles of Satan and his follower....haha it was really weird to act out.

 But they started in the Sacrament room and then passed through a veil and learned about different stages of the life.

 And all during that, we had to annoy them and tempt to leave or not listen. It was kind of hard to play this role and

 distract from what i know is good but it made me really that Satan is real and that stupid little thought we have like

 ```no, dont pray now or dont read the scriptures´´ or even like ``you dont have to study or work or anything´´ are from

 satan and we shouldnt listen.  But then they passed through the other veil and learned about Paradise and Prision 

and the 3 Kingdom. It was really cool to be up on the stage talking about how the Celestial kingdom is going to be 

and what peace and love there will be. We could feel a strong spirit that this plan is real, not just something that a

 man made up or drew out. But Heavenly Father really made this plan for us. 

We had another activity that was the second MTC for the Members and we are using Preach My Gospel to teach all 

of this. It is awesome to see the members get excited about this. Everyone should have a Preach My Gospel and

 should study it! Help the missionaries there. Give them references!! Tell your neighboors about the gospel. this is

 the greatest gift you can give.

Love you guys, miss you all!!

Elder Farnsworth

The Gonzalez family (the old bishop and his family) are going to another church :( I used to eat lunch with them every

 day for like 2 months. And the little kid is Camilo the grandson of Hermana Irma where we live haha i dont know 

why he is in the picture.

And Hermano Oliva made us burgers! He made a huge one and chicken sandwiches too. Hes the best! 

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