I hope the others do better than me in survivor at Glencoe HS. Hopefully people are more interested in it that last year.  I'm sure they'll have a lot of fun with it too. I did. 

I clean my own clothes because I'm a man and I know how to do it all. I even scrub my collars with a special detergent because I'm a responsible adult. Lunch is usually provided by the ward, but in other sectors we buy and cook our own food. It's because Chile is richer than the rest of South America (especially Peru, people here are prideful about it, and the Pacific War when they basically crushed peru into dust) so the church doesn't do pinchenistas here.

We just made our 7th baptismal date invitation-

J----, who should be but probably won't be baptized since she wants to wait until she has work that lets her go to church

I-----, a grandma that is awesome and most definitely will get baptized

J----a Peruvian who has a really evangelical family but the mom is listen behind the wall, and he might be able to go this week to church

K----- a Colombian who is really nervous about being ready for the last days and is reading the book of mormon like a machine

C----- and her 12 year old daughter I-----, who both took the lessons but weren't baptized and have friends in the church

and S-----, a reference from the South Mission who is bomb but literally can only be met with at 10 am on our pdays.

 My comp is on his 2 to last change, so I'm either spending this change and then leaving or being his last comp and being in the same area for 5 changes (to help the elder that would come in after), or in other words, 6 to 7 months. (November to April or May)

I have yet to be bit by a dog but nearly have twice by the same devil and all I know about ecuador is that they LOVE platanos. Not bananas, platanos. The chilean money is like monopoly money, they only eat rice and chicken and have never heard of the word spice, and it is the best mission in the world by far. 

This week was tough on saturday, but we pushed through and have had a great past few days. Saturday we had 16 appointments and 15 fell.

Elder MacGregor 

All I experience here is just a ton of hot sun. Though, yesterday we did have some clouds that lead to a cooler temperaturea and that was great. I do actually miss the cold. My new comp is Elder Cuence from Ecuador and he hates the cold, so I guess we'll have to figure that out :) 

 My prayers are great. I really have a reason to focus on other more now that I can talk about issues going on at home (AKA tons of work) and also for my investigators. I really don't have any real need to blow off steam. I just need to keep working. I haven't gotten really angry at anyone yet, but I almost did at a family that wasn't progressing.

thios family we had taught for the whole of my 2 changes and came to church only once in my 3 months. They don't read the book and this last visit openly lied to us about reading (I left them with nephi 3 and they said it talks about baptism). Then we saiud howe this is the only church with authority and one literally said "well according to you guys." We aren't going back. They won't read and act as if they can be in 2 churches at once- the 2 churches mentioned in 1 Nephi 14

But, it was a learning experience.

Love you, XOXOXOXXOX

As for my stories this week, we met a dude who served in theUS Marines as a drill sargeant. He killed someone after his release, and instead of going to jail, he got deported becuase he's a naturalized citizen. He was pretty angry, but I felt for him. He talked a lot about his service and how he just wants to go home and be a father and husband again. Supposedly, if everything goes well, he'll be back in the states by March.

We also found a super drunk dude who was trying to walk his bike home. Another dude came up to help him, but the drunk resisted, fell backward, and hit the ground with a hard THOCK. He laid there for  about 10 seconds, and for a second I thought I had seen someone just die, right then and there. Then he got up, had blood all over the back of his head, and another family came to help him. I think he's fine, but me and Lewis aren't sure.

As for new people, we are now teaching a Dominican here who likes church, but won't get baptized until she has a secure job so she can obey the sabbath. If all goes well, she'll be in the water by next week.

Love you!

XOXXOXXO