I didn`t even realize this past week was Thanksgiving... :O December 2, 2013

Hey fam. How is life? Its good to hear everyone had a good thanksgiving this past week! I literally didnt even realize it was thanksgiving this week... haha. Obviously they dont celebrate it here! There was only one moment when Elder Holt in the morning said "Hey! Its thanksgiving!" and we were surprised, said happy thanksgiving.... and thats about it haha. Oops! :P

Anyway. We had a pretty good week this week. I think. Lets see...

On Tuesday... it was dad`s birthday! haha. We had consejo de lideres on tuesday morning, so I took advantage of being with President and Sister Arrington, snapped a photo with them with a note for dad, and they let me send it to him then and there on their Ipad! woo hoo! hahaha. im pretty sure you`ve seen the photo. Ive received questions about the "Happy Birthday" sign in english that was hanging up. Well it just so happens that coincedentally it was one of the assistants birthday that day as well. And so they had decorated the office a little for his birthday! Que perfecto! Totally took advantage of that haha. But so i have no idea where they found a happy birthday sign in English! but anyway. Happy Birrthday dad! Hope you had a great one. 

A funny story from wednesday was that theres a Menos Activa family that were teaching... and they have a REALLY funny dog. They have a dog that just LOVES rocks. You can pick up cualquier rock and throw it and he just CHASES it down and grabs it and chews it and stuff. haha idk its funny. So whenever we pass by their house we always throw it a rock or two because its super funny. anyway. On wednesday the dog accidently got left outside of the gate and was just playing in the road. We were on the way to our house because we had to grab a video we had left there. So the dog saw us, recognized the blancitos, the white shirt and everything, and came flying over to us ready to play. hahaha. And so we threw a rock. It ran, fetched it, and came back, ready for another one. We kept walking.... and it kept following us. and following us, and following us. haha. So we were trying to get rid of him! So we would grab a rock, chuck it WAY far, and run really fast to try and lose it. but it KEPT finding us and following us! And it followed us all the way back to our house! haha. And so everybody saw us with the dog and lots of people were laughing and smiling because we had this dog following us wagging its tail super ready to play and stuff, and we were trying to get rid of it throwing rocks and running and stuff. haha. It was ridiculous. anyway when we went back to where we came from, it was still following us, so we went back to the members house, and called them out to come get there dog from us hahaha. 

Thursday night we had an interesting event. We played soccer with one of our investigators at the chapel to finish the night, so before we went to bed we tried to take a shower... The showers here are super funky. and to get the hot water to work, you first have to turn on the sink in the kitchen until that water gets hot, and then when that water is hot, turn on the shower, and then turn off the kitchen. haha. i dont know why its like that. Dont ask. Anyway. So we went to turn on the water in the kitchen... and all of a sudden the knob broke. and the water was on. And we couldnt shut it off. Nor find the valve thing to just shut off the water  completely. So we searched and searched for a few minutes... and didnt know what to do. So we finally did a prayer, got up, went searching again, and finally found the knob, and cut off the water to the house haha... But so then we didnt have water in the house. ha. So the next day we called the house owner, but he couldnt come until SATURDAY morning to fix it... so to shower on friday morning, we boiled a bunch of water so we had hot water, then turned on the freezing cold shower, and just worked with that, finding the perfect mix of hot and cold water haha. And we survived.

Friday was also a great day because we finally received a fridge! haha. I havent had a fridge the whole time ive been here in this sector. Finally i went and talked to the office elder in charge. and finally this week we got a fridge. I can finally have cold milk and cereal for breakfast again hahaha. Yay. We were very excited to receive that.

And the last cool thing was from sunday. The first thing is that on Sunday morning we called the Family Sid Vargas to see if everything was all good for church... but they said they were sick and werent feeling good and so "They were going to see how they felt when the time came whether or not they would make it to church"..... which is always bad and nearly always turns out negative. So we were pretty down about that and did all we could to help them out so they came. Well church started and they werent there :( SO we were sad and thought man theyre not coming.... WELL like 10 minutes after we started, they showed up!!! We were so excited and happy for them. It was a HUGE sacrifice they made to make it to church, especially because they were all pretty sick. But they sacrificed and came, and we know that the lord is going to bless them bigtime for that sacrifice. Por sacrificio vienen bendiciones!!! So we were very excited to see their dedication to these things. 

The other super cool thing from Sunday is that we had a ward activity/devocional. A guy from Chillan came to the ward who does a presentation about the Book of Mormon, and like the "scientific/geographical evidences" of why the book of mormon is true. And so I guess theres 5 different presentations they have, and it was only the first one. But the presentation was SO COOL. It really like... opens up your eyes and makes the scriptures come to life and shows you that the things they talk about really exist in the world haha. For example, yesterday we only talked about Lehi and Fam`s journey to Abundancia and to the americas, and with google maps and the scriptures he kind of "Showed us the path" they might have taken. and it was so cool! Made the scriptures really come to life! and he also talked a little bit about Christ coming to the americas and some ancient documents theyve found that have been translated and talk about a "white bearded god" that visited some people in the america.... anyways it was just a bunch of stuff like that and IT WAS SO COOL. hahaha. Obviously its not the stuff you should base your testimony of the book of mormon off of, but it really brang the scriptures to life. so I liked it ALOT. and i have a bunch of notes taken down so i can see the stuff after the mission too since its online and i cant search it now haha :P

and that brings us back to monday! And here i am :) 

Anyway. I love being a missionary. Its the greatest experience ever. Im learning so much and growing so much. I love this church. I love this gospel. Its true and its been restored to its fullness. Que bendicion! haha. I love you and miss you all! Have an awesome week! Hasta la proxima!

- Elder Heyman

Mas Fotos- November 25, 2013

1. Me and Elder Holt. we were happy campers.

 

2. Me and Luis. The "golf pro" that got us the hook ups so we could go play that morning!

 

3. Coca Cola is HUUUUUUGE here in Chile. This is just some thing thats in our sector. Its cool so i wanted to take a picture with it haha. 

Subject- November 25, 2013

I think the worst part about writing these letters is having to come up with a subject line. Because thinking back on every week, the only thing i can ever think of is "wow last week is crazy" haha. I cant come up with anything else. Ill work on it...

I think im just gonna go through day by day of this last week. Because there were lots of things that happened. Sooooo let us start with monday. 

So monday we went and played football one more time. Once again we enjoyed it, helped out alot, and this time at the end we did an invitation to listen to the missionaries, come to church, left some folletos with everyone...... but it gave very little results :( sooooooo.... That was the end of that. It was fun while it lasted though! haha. I learned alot more about football that i never knew before :P

Then tuesday nothing really happened

But on WEDNESDAY........ well that was an interesting day of the week. Soooooo last week i said ill probably have something interesting to share. This is it. 

So on monday we only had half of a pday. Why? because we sacrificed half of our pday on monday, so we could move it to wednesday morning. So about a week or two before I got here to this sector, Elder Holt, (who goes home in January) has always had the dream/desire to play golf in as many places in the world as possible. Kind of like how i want to get to all 7 continents. So anyway he had went to President Arrington and had negociated a deal with president so that he could maybe go play golf one day since theres a golfcourse like 30 minutes away from our side of town. President said he would think about it. Well last week president reported back to us that he had decided that it was alright if we went and played. But the thing is that the golf course is closed on mondays, so wed have to sacrifice some of our pday monday to be able to go on another day. So we did. and on wednesday morning, we woke up and went and played a round of 9hole golf. IT WAS SO SWEET. hahaha. I obviously have pictures that i will send. So we woke up, went and played, and then came back in time to shower and go to lunch. and then went to work in the afternoon. hahaha. It was awesome. So.... I played a round of golf in Chile on wednesday morning! hahaha. 

And then after lunch we actually had to go to the office in Conce to go pick up two elders, because on wednesday they started the 2 day long "Newbie Conference". and so some elders needed a place to stay, so we picked up two, did divisions in the afternoon, and they stayed with us wednesday night. I was with an Elder Miller from Washington. He was super cool! and had alot of animo and was super smart and a super good missionary haha. We had a good time! and elder Holt was with an Elder Duncan. but it was super funny because at night when we went to bed.... Elder Miller snored SO. BAD. It was the worst snoring i have ever heard in my life. ha. Elder Holt and I were sleeping on the floor on some pad things we had, and during the night the both of us kept waking up to the snoring and just looked at eachother and were like "oh my gosh im gonna die". And so we kept throwing things at him all night and waking him up a million times so he would stop snoring hahahaha. It was so funny. So bad but so funny. so we were super tired the next day haha. 

Then on thursday we ALSO had someething else to do. Because resulta que Elder Holt has a tiny hernia going on I guess in his stomach... So we woke up early on thursday to get ready so he could go get an xray in conce. So we got the xray, turns out he does have a tiny hernia, but its small and he has little time left on the mission so theyre just not even gonna worry about it right now. haha. Hes just gotta be careful. We then proceeded to have a normal thursday workday.

But on friday morning... I once again woke up DYING. Friday I woke up with a really bad cold. Super headache, super congested, super hot, and a horrible cough. So i feel ALOT better now. Ive still got a little cough and a tiiiiny bit of congestion. But i dont know what it is here in Talcahuano... but ever since ive showed up ive just been getting sick each week with something new.... :( I dont know why. Im taking care of myself and being careful... but it looks like its just not working. shoot. But im getting better. Hopefully I dont get sick again...

But then on saturday we had a normal day. We had an awesome Noche de Hogar with the family Sid Vargas that went really well. But thats about it.

But on SUNDAY was a special day too! Because It was the Primary Program in the sacrament meeting! haha. and I played piano to accompany them! haha. They did a good job. They were made up of about... 15 kids haha. So obviously they sang quiet and what not. But it all came out really good! haha it was super fun to accompany them and see them do their thing. 

andddddd that was a bit of the week. I shall send pictures as well. Were still doing really good with our investigators. The family of 4 (sid Vargas) is doing really well. Theyre loving it. Keep them in your prayers! and we still have 3 others were working with as well. Were working hard and happy with the work were doing! We just gotta keep going up! haha. 

Well thats it for this week. Ill get on those pictures now! I love you and miss you all! I love learning and growing and progressing. Its the best. haha. Buttttt. The gospel has been restored! Christ lives. Have an awesome week!

-Elder Heyman

An Awesome Week-- November 18, 2013

Hey fam! I had an awesome week. Not like... a TON happened. But it was just a good week! We had some good accomplishments and some good spiritual highs! I shall share.

Well first off. CHRISTMAS PACKAGE ARRIVED!!!! Oh yeah!!!!! Suhweeeeet!!!! I shall send some pictures, but thanks so much to the fam for sending me my stuff :) I opened the things that werent wrapped... but was wondering if im supposed to wait until christmas to open the other ones?... :P haha. But thank you so much for that! My comp and i are way stoked haha.

That was a fantastic highlihgt of the week. So another fun thing from the week was last monday night... 

So one day during our verification with the assistants, they encouraged us to do more finding of investigators, and to be super creative and just do something crazy to be able to find more investigators! Well.... just coincidentally, a day or two before Elder Holt and I had run into a guy who is in charge of an american football program here... who has a team who is new and inexperienced, and he invited us one day to their practice to help them out with their plays and just everything. Well I dont know anything about football, but I love sports. AndElder Holt played quarterback in highschool. and we have an elder in our zone who played for BYU. Sooooo.... After that, and after the assistants telling us to just do something crazy to find, we took advantage of the invitation and monday night we went to their football practice with them and played. There wasnt much contact. We obviously didnt use pads. but.... IT WAS SO FUN. hahaha. I have a few pictures that ill send of that as well. So that was awesome. Last week we kind of just built confidence with everyone, but were going again one more time tonight to help them out... but this time were gonna bring some materials like folletos and books of mormon and what not to gift and invite them to church and to listen to the missionaries. Hopefully we get some good results out of it... because if not... Well. its just a waste of time haha. but ill send pictures so you can see. And hopefully things turn out well. If not... oh well. it was fun while it lasted.

Another cool thing from the week was that i had a mini cambio with one of the assistants on Friday that went really well. His name isElder Morgan from utah, and hes awesome. hes way young in the mission too. He only has a little more than a year, but hes a way good missinary and we get along really well haha. Anyway it was awesome to be with him and he taught me alot of good stuff that im really excited to apply. it was just a good experience that put me on the spiritual high i referred to at the beginning of the email. 

Other thing. Elder Holt has this like... study book about the book of mormon... I have no idea what to call it. But its just like a Book of Mormon manual that you can use as you study the book of mormon thats way good and way interesting, so im excited to use it as i study the book of mormon to learn more. So its got me way pumped to be reading through the book of mormon. Ive started over and im currently in 1 nefi 16. 

Also on Thursday we had a capacitacion de lideres that was also really good, where I learned alot, and also put me on a spiritual high! haha. So it was all good. 

andddd the last awesome thing from the week is that this week we were able to have 6 investigators in church this sunday! Which is super super good. The family of 4 came to church, and had a really good experience. So were very excited about them. Were working so that theyll be more than ready to be baptized in the month of december! We also had 2 menos activa families come that have one kid not baptized, so were working with them so they can also be ready to be baptized in december! December could be an exciting month!!! because we also have one more familia menos activa that has a child not baptized, who love church and are so excited to come back and the kid is excited to get baptized... but the mom is stopping him from getting baptized... because shes conviviendo (living with her partner without being married) and so shes not living the law of castidad, and her pareja causes aLOT of problems and drama... so this week were going to teach her about the law of castidad... and were hoping it will change her heart and that shell repent and make the right choice to NOT convivir... So we need her in our prayers because shes kind of sensitive and could very easily get really offended. So we`ll be praying hard. So yeah. Thats an investigator update. Were doing really good because we have alot of people progressing to teach!!

y eso. eso es basicamente todo. Thats about all folks! That was my week. And thats why it was a really good week. Just full of lots of highs and lots of good happenings. So im loving it! Hopefully it all keeps up like that and that everything goes well with these people that we have to teach. 

I love being a missionary and i love the work that im doing. Its the best. Okay last little spiritual share.

The thing ive learned most on the mission is the importance of the spirit in my life. The importance of having the companionship of the holy ghost and being able to recognize it day by day. And ive learned and seen many times that the best feeling ever is not finding a new investigator, or having an awesome lesson, or when an investigator gets baptized or confirmed. Those are super exciting and i feel great! But the best feeling ever and the best feelings ive had on the mission have been when the promise of Eter 12:6 has come true, and after having had the faith to follow what I thought was a prompting of the spirit, I later receive a witness that i really did follow the spirit and was able to be an instrument in the hands of the lord and bless the life of someone else or just complete with whatever it was the lord wanted me to do. The best feeling ever is KNOWING that I recognized and followed the Holy Ghost. And I invite you all to strive to do the same. Cuz its the best feeling ever. I hope that all made sense. Talking about the gospel is super weird in english haha. Its easier in spanish.

ANYWAY. Thats all I have for today. I love you and miss you all. Have an awesome week! Chauito.

Elder Heyman

Fotos- November 18, 2013

1. Football. The Afterpractice stretch up haha.

2. After practice huddle. Theres not many guys who play... so the team ranges from ALL ages. For example. The running back is 41. The quarterback is the running backs son, and he is 14. hahaha. es lo que hay no mas.

 

3. The Team. Me, Elder Holt, and Elder Jensen (who plays/played for BYU. His comp is latino and didnt want to play... ha)

4. Christmas package!!!!!!! :D :D :D Thanks so much!!! Heres the gift nolan wrapped for me! hahahaha.

5. Thanks for helping out Nolan! haha. I guess i shouldve waited til christmas... but i couldnt NOT open the thing :P

November 11, 2013 Lots of stories from the week!

Hola mis amigos y familia. Como estais vosotros? haha. That was only funny if you know spanish. Sorry. Well once again, like always, i just had a crazy week packed with lots of interesting things. There are a million things I could share from the week... But ill just have to share a few. 

Well if you remember, I got changed on an emergency cambio. So this past week we had the REAL cambios on tuesday. So on saturday elder holt and I were in charge of the missionaries and making sure everybody got on their buses on time and off to their new sectors, and that everybody received their new companions and what not. So that was something new haha but it was kind of fun. We were really excited about all the cambios we had in our zone because we have some awesome missionaries coming. idk it was just a good cambio and we had some changes in our zone that were needed and that are going to help us out alot! So were really excited to have our new missionaries and be working with them!

Wednesday was a super funny day as well. Because on wednesday we had another "emergency cambio". After lunch we randomly got a call and said that we were having a surprise cambio, and that (legitimately) one of our favorite Elders from the zone was getting taken out! So we were super sad that he was leaving. It turns out there had been a mistake in the cambios and one of the elders in the mission got sent to a sector he had been in 6 months earlier! oops! haha. So they switched up 2 of the elders, and it turns out Elder Shumway (from our zone) was the one to get switched. So we were super sad and didnt want him to go... But obviously he had to. So we did as much as we could and at least came up with a little recuerdo for him... So we called up a member from the ward who works with photos and some photoshop stuff, and who can make personalized tshirts super cheap! So we made Elder Shumway a tshirt to give him. and it was the funniest thing ever. I will send pictures. But on the front we put a picture of Elder Shumway`s face, and below it it said "Shumway" and then on the back of the shirt it says "...or the highway!" hahahahaha. Ill send pictures. It was so funny. 

On Thursday we had a couple interesting experiences... So first off in the morning on our way to lunch, we turned the corner of a street, and we saw a girl like laying down in the street. And next to her was another lady who was sitting down like helping her out. So Elder Holt and I were like "oh shoot what happened". So we went over and it turns out the girl had been alone and was walking to go take a bus, but randomly passed out. The other woman was the closest one around and so she found her just on the ground and went to help her. So we went to help out a little bit... But werent able to do too much. But its alright because the medics showed up pretty quick to help her out. But so that was just something interesting that happened that doesnt happen everyday haha. 

Then on thursday night we had a lesson to an investigator with a member to finish the night. So after the lesson we were walking back to go to the house, and out of nowhere we just heard two gunshots SUPER loud and sounding pretty close to us... So Elder Holt and I were like "uhhh.... oh shoot. Why did we just hear two gunshots..." and we slowed down walking and were trying to be super careful and figuring out what happened so we didnt put ourselves in danger. But the memeber we were with just like payed no attention to it and just keep walking full steam. Just totally blew it off like it was no big deal hah. So we just obviously stuck wih him and picked up the pace a little. Nothing else happened but... it was just super sketchy. But were all right. The sector were in isnt really too poor or dangerous either... well i guess there are a few poorer parts... But it doesnt seem THAT dangerous! Just a few knife fights and gunshots is all :P

and there are lots of other things that happened this week, but the finishing story is something wayyyy crazy and suuuuper funny that happened Sunday Night! So in church on sunday an hermana came up to me and said "Elders! I have a reference for you of a family of 4!" So we were PUMPEDDDD. she continued "and i invited them to listen to you guys and so can you go visit today?" So we said "offff course!" and then she said "okay perfect well Ill call you later after church to let you know at what time were gonna go!" So we were super excited, and turns out the cita was that night at 8. So we met up with the member and she drove us all over there (because the house is far right on the edge of our sector). So we show up at the house, yell "Alo!" (thats how we "ring the doorbell" you could say) And the investigator opened the door, saw us THREE, and had a really surprised look on her face! So we looked inside the house... and there were the two other elders from the neighboring sector! haha. So we all got really confused and were like "uh what are you two doing here??"

Well it turns out that by some coincedence those two elders thought that the neighborhood they were in, being on the edge of OUR sector, was actually a part of THEIR sector! So they were just knocking doors and de repente knocked on this families door! The investigator opened the door, saw them, and right away said "come on in!" So of course the two other elders were way pumped. They asked "uh are you guys members of our church?" And they said "no! But the missionaries were going to come by today!" So the other elders were WAY excited and thought this family had had a vision or something and were expecting the missionaries or something like that hahaha. So anyway it was just really funny and really confusing, and we didnt know exactly what to do... cuz they had already been there for 15 minutes and had basically shared a whole lesson... so anyway we just did our lesson... with all 4 of us missionaries there. haha. It was really werid. But it all turned out good! And the family is SUPER awesome haha. so we had to break the news afterwards that the family was part of our ward and not theirs haha... That had NEVER happened before in my mission or in the mission of Elder Holt... and im pretty sure that doesnt happen to often ever haha. 

And those are the stories from the week. There were still a million other things that happened too... but that all i have time for really ha.

As for a quick investigator update... were basically working with a few menos activa families that also have children unbaptized! So were in that process. And also this family of 4 that we just found. Sooo... its going good for us! Ill keep you updated on how everything goes! haha.

But. Ill send a few pictures now. I love you all and miss you all! Pray for my health por favor because im still kind of recovering from my sickness. I feel fine and my body is all fine, ive just had a lack of energy the past week. Ive been SUPER tired. So i just need more energy! haha. I love being a missionary, and i love this church and gospel! Tengan una buena semana!

.Elder Heyman

November 4, 2013 Once again.... Just another crazy week. Asì es la mision.

Hey everyone! How was halloween? Its starting to get bigger here in chile... but they still dont do much. Not many people decorate or anything like that. haha it was weird thinking "Oh... today is Halloween!" Definitely didnt feel like it.... Well anywayyy.... what a week. Ill just hop right into it!

So last monday I think i said how I had woken up sick. Well due to the consejo we had last monday, we also had all day pday so we had enough time to finish the stuff we needed. So after internet, we went and did our compras, and then we just went right home and I went straight to bed. At like 8ish. Well. I slept terrible. I was waking up all night and was hot and cold and had to go to the bathroom and just miserable... but finally tuesday morning came around and it was time to get up and start the day... but my body was just not having it. I felt TERRIBLE. I was extremely sick ha. So i just stayed in bed all day and rested because seriously i was bad. so on tuesday we didnt go out to work either because i was way sick. and it was super lame. Im still a little sick to the stomach... but im alot better now. Ive been taking some meds to help me out. So i should be hanging in there haha. 

But speaking of that im starting to get pulgas again like crazy.... GOSH DANG IT. If you dont remember, pulgas are fleas. I was doing so good and had no pulgas. But then the other week when we first got here and we had the mini cambio, the elderthat slept in my bed had fleas so im pretty sure he passed them to me and so im getting bites allll over ago. Sooooo fome. I hate it. I HATE PULGAS. ughhhh i itch. 

Moving onward... Also the other night we experienced another temblor. It was loco. It was at nght a little after we had gone to bed. And all of a sudden our beds started rocking alot haha. They were just swaying pretty heavily side to side and we were like "whoaaaa elder do you feel that?!" haha. I dont think it was bigger than the other one i experienced in curico... but it was still pretty big and worth writing home about haha. 

Well the next story to me is just like.... embarrassing. So on Saturday someone in our zone had a baptism! Yay!! So we went to the baptism and brought an investigator. But... it was just legitimately the worst baptismal service ive ever seen. So first it started an hour late. Just because nobody showed up, AND the font wasnt filled all the way. So finally the service starts... and the ward mission leader was directing. Anyway he said "Welcome to the baptismal service. Im directing today. Im hermano so and so from the ward......" and didnt even know what ward he belonged to. haha... someone said it out loud and he said "oh yeah. From the ward Cerro Verde. and here presiding today from the bishopbric is the 1st?... 2nd?... counselor. El Hermano...." and had no idea what his name was. He turned around, asked him, and then just kept going. Anyways he did lots of little stuff like that that just werent very smooth... he messed up the name of the woman getting baptized as well. So that was just lame... anyway. But so there was this kid there as well that was just KILLING the spirit. The kid was just INSANE. I think he might have had some sort of special need though... Im not sure. But anyway he was just yelling things and kept yelling out comments about whatever the person was giving a talk about, and in between every talk he`d run up and yell something in the microphone that just.. nada que ver. and he had his toy hot wheel cars and was throwing them all over the place and people had to duck one or two times to avoid them... oh man it was mal. BUT. Thats not even the worst of it.

At the end of the service, they asked the hermana ana maria (The woman who had just been baptized) to give her testimony. So as shes walking up, i made eye contact with the missionary who was working with her and he just had this scared look on his face. So she gets up... is speaking, and in her testimony says "Well ten years ago the Jehova´s Witnesses passed by my house and shared with me, but i never got baptized. But ten years later, theyve passed by again, and this time they convinced me!" so we just died when she said that... It was just bad. BUT. Then when she ended her testimony, to just put a little extra salt in the wound, she finished by saying "and I share this things in the name of the Lord..." she then paused. and we thought okay good shes just going to end. But THEN she said" ...and my father Jehovah, and the holy ghost..." she then proceeded to CROSS herself (the forehead, chest, shoulder to shoulder thing) and then said amen. 

Oh. Man. It was a terrible service. and seriously just embarrassing. uaughusrhushfd. So. We had to have a little talk with the other elders and then we sent them to go visit her al tiro to make sure she knew she got baptized in the LDS church and not with the Testigos de Jehovah.... It was rough. haha..... 

Dad you would have died if you had been there. hahahaha.

anddd the last story was just something interesting we saw yesterday. Yesterday after lunch we started walking back to the house and were about to go down this one street, but right as we turned the corner there was this one lady with her two little daughters who said to us very sternly, "Dont go down there. Theyre fighting with knives." and we were just like "whaaa?..." So we looked down the road, and sure enough there were a group of like 4ish guys that had knives that were throwing punches and slashing at one another... That was the first time I had ever seen that in my life. And when it WASNT on tv or in a movie or something. Anyway, we didnt see anyone actually get slashed or hit bad. It was more of just threatening eachother than an actual fight. But still. We just saw it and said "ohhhh yeah. Gracias! Were just gonna go another way then." So that was super whack.

andddd.... now im here writing this letter to you. That was basically my week haha. Pretty crazy. but. All is well. Were working good and having fun. We had the real cambios today and of course elder Holt and I are staying together. So that will be good. He only has 2 more cambios left... so he`ll probably just end the mission with me! haha. Bakàn. butttt. Eso. 

Christ suffered in the Garden for us, died on the cross for us, and was resurrected three days later. I know it with all my might and dont doubt it for a second. I love you and msis you all and hope you`ll take advantage of that atonement that He did for us. Have an awesome week!!!

-Elder heyman