Monday, May 25, 2009







Hey, things are going good here in Chile. We had a baptism yesterday. It went really well. It was my companion´s first baptism so he baptized her. We´ve been teaching her for a couple of weeks. Both of her parents are members and her two sisters are members. So she had been taught everything before we even showed up. We just had to get her to commit. But everything was good. She has a son who is turning eight at the end of June and after the baptism he came up to me and asked me when he could get baptized. So if I stay here for the next change we´ll have at least one more baptism. Sounds like you had a fun weekend up at Shaun and Jenni´s. I sent Robbie a Dear Elder. I hope he´s going to the Buenos Aires South mission. Alright I´ve got to get going. Talk to you next week.
Love,
Matt

Monday, May 18, 2009






















That is awesome about Robbie going to Buenos Aires. Give me his address and I´ll try to send him a Dear Elder or something. This week is going good. It is starting to get pretty cold, and it gets really cold at night riding the bikes. But everything is good. We´re teaching this lady and she has a baptismal date for this Sunday. So we´re going to be busy preparing that this week. Where I am right now is huge. On Sunday we took the bus to go to one of our investigators house, then we were going to take the bus to church to make sure that they went. We left the apartment, then waited for the bus for over half an hour. Then we had to ride the bus for about a half an hour to get to the investigator´s house. And when we got there the investigators weren´t there. So we had to ride the bus for another half an hour to get to church. We ended up getting to church really late. I felt really embarrassed walking in to the sacrament meeting really late. But when the members asked us what happened and we told them that the buses are horrible, everybody just understood. It was weird, I thought everybody would make fun of us but nothing happened. So I guess here in this area we can get away with skipping church just as long as we blame it on the buses. I´m going to send some pictures today so you can see what Pirque looks like. Thanks for everything.
Love,
Matt