¡Hola a mi gente! 02-10-2014

Hey folks. How is everyone? I hope youre all great. Im doing good! Here i am with a little update of what happened in the week.

So first off... My birthday package arrived! I got the package from the fam! So thank you very very very much! I was way pumped. I love getting some USA snacks and things from the fam. So i was really happy about that. Thank you so much! I already opened most of it... haha i could kind of feel what it all was... so i just opened it so i could enjoy it haha. So thank you very much! Im enjoying it all :) ill send a picture.

This week was a good week. Were having a really tough time with the vacations here... EVERYONE is leaving! And if theyre not leaving, theyre people that dont live in our sector and are just visitingfor the vacations and so theyre leaving in like 2 weeks! haha. Shoot. So we`ve been able to share a bunch, but theyre all people that we cant continue working with... So we just write down theyre information and send the reference to wherever the respective location is haha. So hopefully we`ll be able to find some people of our own soon! 

We made really good progress with Daniela and her Menos activo boyfriend Bryan this week! They were also out of town during the week. but so we did a really good verification with them by phone during the week and left some homework for them. It helped them out alot. And then saturday night they came back into town (so they were able to go to church on sunday) and we were able to have a really awesome lesson about the law of chastity with them. Because theyre currently living together... and thats not okay. So we talked to them about it, told them they needed to either get married or seperate themselves, and they understood and accepted to do one of the two. They didnt make the decision right off the back, but we invited them to go to church the next day with a specific question for God in their mind, and promised them the He would give them some guidance if they went to church with that question in mind looking for an answer. and it was SWEET because we had happened to have already talked to the memebers that week who told us they were going to speak, and that they were going to speak about.... MARRIAGE! and the importance and blessings of marriage :D How perfect. and then the second class was going to be about Agency! And the ability we have to choose. So elder Paulson and I were WAY pumped for them to come to church with their questions in mind. haha. And they did! And we havent been able to talk to them completely about it yet, but we do know that they really liked church and got some good guidance from the talks and classes :) Its crazy how the Lord just puts everything together so it all turns out just right. So that was a cool miracle we saw this week. 

andd.... another cool thing is that randomly in the week one of the hermanas from the ward called us and told us she had some old couches that she wanted to gift us. That they were still good but that she was just getting new ones. so we accepted. and so now we have two more chairs and a sofa in our house. And theyre pretty comfy. It was fantastic. haha. So wednesday night we went and picked them up. It was great and were really happy about it haha. 

On thursday night we got to play futbol with the jovenes. It was the first time ive played in awhile... Its so good for you to play sports. Its so healthy. I need more exercise. I felt so good physically after playing haha. But it was cool because we got to play with them and got to kknow some of their friends that we can visit! haha. So... I still love futbol. but i also still love lacrosse. And as of now still have every intention of trying to play again when i get back. 

But more than that... There are just details from the week that i wont bore you with haha. I have few pictures, so ill send the few that i have. But im loving the work. I love being a mission. I love everything that i learn, the progression ive made and the changes ive made! Im basically loving the person im becoming from all my experiences in the mission! its the greatest.

But... Ill just send the few fotos i have now. I love you all and miss you lots. Im loving the mission and i know without doubt that this is the true church of Christ and his only true Gospel. Have a fantastic week and be a good person! haha. Hasta la proxima!

-Elder Heyman

Hello Family! 02/03/14

Hey everyone! Hope all is well. Heres a quick update from the past week!

So... Elder Holt left. And Elder Paulson arrived! We were as excited as ever to be comps haha. It was way funny. When we saw eachother we were just like "Were compssss!!!" and gave eachother a big hug. So its way good to have Elder Paulson here. We get along way well. We were already friends before he arrived on tuesday! So he got here, and we just went right off to work.

Having been sick two weeks ago, and then having a "despedida week", we kind of had to start from scratch haha. So he got here and we just went out and started talking to everyone and searching and finding investigators. It went pretty well and we were able to find some good people! 

We had an awesome experience with one of them. Its actually the girlfriend of Bryan. Bryan is the brother of little Paulita that got baptized a few weeks ago. We went to visit the whole family and only found Bryan and Daniela (the girlfriend) in the house. Daniela is not a member so we shared with the both of them. Long story short, we shared about baptism and invited her to get baptized at the end of this month. She said she obviously still didnt know, but during the lesson she felt the spirit really really strong and got way excited and emotional about it all, and so she accepted to be baptized the 22 of feb (my birthday! :D Hopefully it comes through... haha) and that she was super ready to do everything necessary to find out if thats what she needed to do! Shes been to church a million times already with the family, so shes pretty familiar with the church and now just needs to make the decision that its what the lord wants her to do! And obviously it is haha. But anyway. So were working with her now. Shes really great and super smart. And shes an english teacher here and actually has really good english. But speaks with a heavy british accent its way funny (thats the version of english they teach here. From England) But anyway. I digress. So were working with her as our main focus right now! Shes progressing really great. She has a few challenges, but thats where your prayers come in handy! Pray for Daniela por favor! So that shes willing to make all the changes necessary in her life to be baptized the 22nd!

So that was way good. But anyway, some other things from the week...

This is Elder Paulsons first cambio as a Zone Leader, so im showing him the ropes a little. Not that its too much, but its fun to help him out and show him what we do. Hes obviously super capo (smart) and picks it all up immediately haha. So its pretty easy! He`s a way good missionary too. A really good teacher, really hard worker, and really animated! So it will be a lot of fun being with him.

A funny thing... hahaha Elder Holt is so funny. So Elder Holt left a TON of stuff here at the house since he didnt need all of it and didnt want to bring it all home with him... Well. One of the things he left behind was... His alarm clock. hahhaa. Funny guy. So i guess that he set his alarm clock for 4:02 in the morning, and then hid it in our bedroom... hahahaha. So the first night we were home... Elder Paulson were woken up at 4:02 in the morning by Elder Holts alarm haha. So i had to get up and look for it!! It turned out just to be under my bed in the corner of the thing but i was so mad in the moment hahaha. But it was way funny. Good one Elder Holt! You got me bud! We miss you here in Villa Acero hahaha. (he also had snuck a phone alarm on my fone for 4:05. So i went back to bed, and then was woken up again 3 minutes later hahaha. Nice one).

So that was funny. Another new experience from the week was that the hermanas in our zone are searching for a new house. So ive never done anything that house to do with house searching or buying or renting or anything... So we offered to help them visit this house to see if they wanted to rent it just so they didnt have to do it alone... and so that we could learn :P haha. (is that selfish?) So anyway we went and visited a house to talk to the people and see if they were gonna rent it. Theres really nothing to report from the experience. Theyll probably move in. The people were nice. The house is wayyyy small. But the hermanas like it and want it so theyll probably go there. That will be fun having to help them move their stuff...... ha. Nah it will be fine. Anyways. Ive never done anything like that before so i just wanted to report that we did that this past week haha. 

But anything more than that... Thats about it. More than that were just getting used to all the changes we have around here with new missionaries and new companions and the whole thing. So ¡en eso estamos! I dont really have any pictures from the week either :/ Sorry. I have one from Elder Paulson that we just quickly took a little bit ago. So ill send it to you i guess. Its not that great. Ill get a better one during the week haha. All is well and im loving the work! I love you and miss you all! Have an awesome week! The church is true, the gospel is restored, and Christ lives! Hasta la proxima!

Elder Heyman

Mas o menos no mas la foto... pero aqui esta.

Heres me and elder PaulsoN! Ill get a better one next week!!

This Week was a Tough Week 01/27/14

Hey family! I hope all is well. Here i am once again on monday, the week having flown by. Like ALWAYS, I had another crazy week. This past week was a little different though, and it was a tough week. 

Soooo... it sounds like Elder Tengberg already got the picture off... But on monday AFTER i had already sent my email, i went back to the office... and I got to see Elder Tengberg!!!! It was CRAZY!!! hahaha. It was the best thing ever. We just saw eachother and were like "dude no way!!!" And we gave eachother a huge big hug and just talked for a few minutes. It was so awesome to see him, and to be able to talk to one of my friends in spanish. And it was awesome to be able to see how he`s changed. Elder Tengberg was already an awesome guy to begin with, but still you could note a change in him! The mission does amazing things! Every young man needs to go on a mission for real. I cant imagine what would have happened to me in my life if i didnt go. But so that was AWESOME! Ill attach the picture anyways so you can all see it! 

Well... so that was Monday afternoon. The roughness of the week began Monday night. On monday night right before we were about to head off to bed, we got a phonecall from the hermanas. Without going into details to respect her privacy, one of the hermanas in our zone has been having some really bad health problems the past few months. We all had been working really really hard to do everything we could for her to help her out, and she had been fighting really really good. She had been progressing health wise, but it was still a big struggle... But so monday night the hermanas called to let us know that she had made the decision to go home, and that she would be leaving on wednesday. 

So obviously she had prayed about the whole thing and new it was the right decision for her and everything... but still. It broke my heart to hear that she was going to home! As a lider for any missionary you learn to really care about the wellbeing of your missionaries and want to help them out the best you can, so when we heard that one of our hermanas was going home, it was way sad :( So we just gave her some words of encouragement and let her know that we knew it was the right decision and that it was going to be the best for her! But so that was a big bummer.

But... to add on to that, earlier that same day i had learned that 2 other hermanas that i had been district leader for were ALSO having some major health problems, and would be going home early and leaving the next week.

Boooooo. So i didnt just get one punch to the face, I got THREE. So THAT was pretty fome. So monday night was a pretty rough night as I realized that 3 of my hermanas would be going home early in the next week. Itttt made me pretty sad. Like i dont know... maybe its one of those "you had to be there things" or like you have to live it to understand, but it was just really super lame and made me way sad! But anyways that got me pretty down that night. I know it will be the best for them though! So ill be keeping them in my prayers and thatd be aweseom if you could include them in yours as well so they can all get better!

So anyways that made the week pretty tough, and to add the fourth and final punch... Elder Holt goes home today to! So i lost FOUR missionaries this week! So basically it was just like i lost 4 friends this week haha. So thats why it was a tough week. More of an emotional tough than anything haha. 

So anyways, going back through the rest of the week... Lets see. On Wednesday we went with the assistants and president and his wife and said bye to the hermana in our zone and helped her with her stuff. 

and then on saturday... haha. Oh man. Its a long story. But ill keep it short.

So remember that football team? We the coach of that team is really a go-getter. So he somehow got a hold of President Arringtons number or the assistants number or something, and set up a meeting so he could somehow continue getting help from these gringo missionaries who are good at football haha. So long story short, they met up, President authorized it, and so now on saturdays (the pday for the assistants) the assistants are going to this football team and helping them out, and on occasion inviting the actual football playing elders to go and help out for 2 hours as well. Soooo on saturday we went and played football again! haha. Especially being Elder Holt`s last week. So anyway we went and helped them out. It was way fun! And Elder Holt is basically famous to them haha. So they had a good time saying bye! haha.

And well... more than that in the week... the time was spent saying bye to the members and other people and getting elder holt packed up haha... 

and now we show up to today! And Elder Holt is officially doing his final things before he goes home. His interview, dinner with president, etc... We`ve said our official goodbyes and now im in a trio with some elders from my zone until my new comp gets here tomorrow morning! 

It was sad saying bye to Elder Holt. He was a great comp, BUT. Hes a super happy guy and we both got along way well and he`ll be there close in Utah and were sure we`ll be friends after the mission and that we`ll be seeing eachother... So it wasnt TOO hard! haha. It was more of a temporary "peace out" haha. So it was sad, but we`ll be seeing eachother again soon! He was a great comp and I learned alot from him! Hes a real good guy haha.

And with Elder Holt leaving.... that means... Im getting a new comp! And you`ll never believe who it is! Im going to be comps with Elder Paulson!!! Do you remember Elder Paulson at all? We both showed up at the same time here in the mission! We lived together in the same room in the MTC! We were both locked in the same room together for 9 weeks in the MTC! Yeahhhh!!!!! hahaha. Another awesome comp on his way! Ill send a pic to remind you who he is! But so its his first time being zone leader so ill be showing him the ropes a little bit. But so im way pumped to be with him! He`s from utah and his little brother played lacrosse at BYU too the year after i left! So this will be great haha. Im excited.

Buttt.....more than that.I cant really think of too much! Ill just send a couple of pictures... I dont have too many :/ Elder Holt has them on his camera haha. he just took all the pictures this week. So ill send what ive got! I love you all and miss you! Have an awesome week. And ill talk to you next week! The church is true, Christ lives still, and through his atonement we can be saved! SO take advantage of it! I love you all! HAsta la proxima!

Elder Heyman

1. Our final abrazo! "Dont go elder holt!" haha.

2. Comps.

3. My new comp Elder Paulson! This is from a few months ago when we were in the same zone! Hes the one with the bright shirt right next to me with his arm around me! Were gonna be comps! Woo hoo! Im pumped! haha.

4. Me and Elder Tengberg! Que Bakan! we were even coincidentally matching (kind of) for the occasion!

A Super Lame Week. 01/20/2014

Hiiii everyone. well. This week was pretty lame with like 0 things happening... ill explain why soon. but i have some more pictures to send so ill get those on their way as well. Im sure everyone enjoys the pictures more than the letters haha. 

So anyways. This past week Elder Holt and I were.... sick. ha. Ill tell you as much as i can without going into too much detail haha....

So for a lonnnnnng time ive been kind of sick. Just like, stomach sick. So of course i just didnt really do too much about it. Sometimes id be fine for awhile, but then itd come back, then go away, and so on and so forth. and recently Elder Holt started having kidn of the same thing.... So my mission president asked how my health was in our last interview, and i explained the situation to him. And he told me how i maybe had a bug or parasite of some sort.... Sooooo. I went and talked to the mission nurse, and she gave Elder Holt and I.... "The bomb". hahaha. 

So long story short Elder Holt and I spent almost the whole week just in our house, getting our systems washed out. It was super lame haha. BUT i did alot of studying! So that was good. We were going pretty crazy from being stuck in the house so much. But we survived. We were able to leave a few times to do one visit to someone that lived close by, but we couldnt really ever travel too far from the house. Just in case. haha...

So anyways thats what led to a lame week. We just did absolutely nothing. So we didnt really have any progress in our sector. No new investigators, no progress, nada... Soooo. Yeah. 

But as for my health, so far im feeling alot better! So hopefully this medicine worked haha. Hopefully. 

But more than that... ill just send pictures and tell the stories with those! We had consejo de lideres today and it was really good! I continue learning lots and lots and love being able to feel the presence of the Holy Ghost in my life and I love receiving confirmations testifying to me that i really am following the promptings of the spirit. Its the best feeling ever. 

Well i love you and miss you all and hope that all is well! Christ is our savior, the church of jesus christ of latter day saints is true, and the gospel is restored as well as the priesthood of God. Love you and miss you lots! Have a great week!

Elder Heyman

1. This is a cool foto i forgot to add the other week from when we went to the beach! The other elder had it. This was in camino to the beach and once the beach came into sight. We all saw the beach, got way excited and started yelling and cheering. So i ran ahead and did a heel clicker and an elder got a cool foto of it! haha. Enjoy.

2. One day during the week we bought this huge box of fries from this little restaurant thing on the corner of our street. And so we just ate a ton of fries. 

3. Grandma and Grandpa Curtis sent me a package! I got it last week! Woo hoo! Thank you so much Grandma and Grandpa! They gave me a tie and some socks and some peanut M and Ms! It was fantastic! 

4. We took our pills on tuesday afternoon. On monday night we did a noche de hogar with paula and her family because there are two unbaptized girlfriends in the family that are possibilities to be baptized. So we taught them, and then for the noche de hogar activity.... We made sopaipillas! They taught us to make sopaipillas! It was fun haha. But hard. Im a terribel cook.

5. Some of the final results haha.

Hello! 01/13/14

Hey family and friends! I hope all is well. We had.... no surprise here... another crazy interesting week! haha. Ill share a few things with you of what happened this week...

So the first thing interesting that happened this week... is that on wednesday we had to babysit the hermanas house for like 2 hours! haha what? Well so the house of the hermanas in our zone is kind of junky. And the owner of their house went by one day, saw the bad state of the house and said "im gonna send a bunch of workers to come fix this up!" soooo.... the hermanas just have random worker guys coming into their house at random times on random days and like... its weird. Anyways. So the hermanas shouldnt and cant be alone in the house like that with these guys, but they dont want to leave these guys alone in their houses either with all their stuff. So basically someone has to be in their house at all times when those guys are there. Normally theyre looking for memebers or someone to be in the house... but theyre not always available or willing. so on wednesday the hermanas asked if we could stay for a little so they could go work and not be in the house all day because they couldnt find anyone else. So we did that. It was weird. But so we asked the assistants/president about it... and long story short, we are now looking for a new house that the hermanas can move into so they dont have to deal with that! haha. 

Another thing from the week is that we had interviews with President on friday! That was good. and it was good to see him and the hermana arrington. He basically justtalked to me about how things are going in the zone and about the parents and about making sure i help Elder Holt finish strong in his last few weeks haha. But it was a good interview! 

also we were able to find someone new this week! Her name is rosa. Shes pretty old and really funny. Shes the neighbor of Matilde! The hermana who celebrated her 73rd birthday (that foto i sent!) We met her on saturday (she was a reference) and invited her to church, and she accepted and came the next day! It was awesome :) So we`ll be working with her. Ive never taught or baptized an old lady before haha... so this will be a new experience :P

and those are basically highlight events that happened this past week. haha. A happy birthday shout out to my nephew Kyle! Happy 6th birthday bud!!!! I saw the reptile pics and that was crazy awesome! I love you bud happy birthday!

anddd just to add for maybe your curiosities sake, as of a few days ago in my personal studies ive been reading in 2 nephi, the isais chapters. And its actually been awesome haha. Normally theyre chapters that are super slow and confusing and blahhhh. BUT! Elder Holt has one of those Book of Mormon class books (Like religion 121 or something like that) and ive been rereading through the book of mormon with this book at my side... and its been AWESOME. It helps so much and gives such cool insights to everything. And so ive been reading the isiah chapters with this books and it helps me understand it alot better and makes it alot more interesting.  So im learning lots! haha. Ive learned to really love the book of mormon! And its cool because as i read it and study it in the morning, i always find an opportunity to share something from the chapter i read that morning, with someone during the day. The scriptures are true and they always work! Read them! Your life will be better that way haha. 

Anyway, thats all ive got for now. Ill send some pictures from the week. I love you and miss you all! I love the mission and time is passing by WAY too fast haha. Its crazy. Have an awesome week!

-Elder Heyman

1. We went to a members house and they randomly had an infestation of bees inside the wall of their kitchen. It was gross. We took a picture with it.

2. This is me pretending the bees are going crazy and attacking me haha...

3. We went to lunch on sunday with the family that let us do skype. And we discovered this SWEET reclining chair. I pretended to take a nap. No nap was actually taken.

1. One morning Elder Holt and I drew faces on his birthday balloons he had. We then took funny fotos.

2.  Suspicious

3. Sometimes you get really tired during personal study... hahaha.

¡Vamos a la playa! 01/06/2014

¡Hola mi familia! I hope all is well. We had.... a rough week this week. But. Thats life, and life goes on. We survived! haha. 

Well ill start with the bad news first.... The bad news is that we now have 0 people to teach here in our sector. We had 5 people that were pretty seguro about baptism (La familia Sid Vargas, and another lady) anddd..... well now everyone here is on summer vacation. And the family, and the mom of luis (the joven that got baptized when i first showed up to this sector) ALL "fueron al campo"..... ughhhh. So here in Chile everybody either has campo, or knows someone that has campo.... And campo is just like... land in the middle of who knows where where they go and visit and camp and plant things and... I honestly dont even know what. But everyone ALWAYS talks about the campo. and like every weekend theyre all "going to the campo". Well so since its summer vacation, instead of just going to the campo for the weekend... the family Sid Vargas and Luis` mom and family all went to the campo, and theyre going to be there until the beginning of March.... :(((( bah. So we just lost all of our possibilities. And now were left at 0. And have to start from scratch. Booo. We were pretty sad/upset/frustrated when we received the news. It was a bummer. But. Like i said. Asì es la vida. Ups and downs. But so just pray for us so we can be finding some good people that we can teach please!!!

So that was fome. But anways. Happy new year to all! I hope you had a great new years and que lo pasaran bien! We didnt have any changes to our schedule or anything. So we didnt do any dinners with anyone or anything like that. HOWEVER. We did pass by some members that day to visit thema nd share something. And they were all super super nice and by the end of the night we were sent home with 3 little dinners to eat for New Years since we werent allowed to just be with the members. haha teyre so nice here. but so anyway we were in the house at 10 and in bed by 1130. However, we were definitely not asleep at 1130... Even though we werent celebrating the new year... the neighbors definitely were! So we were just hanging out in our beds at 1130, because we wouldnt have been able to sleep with all the music and noise and everything. And plus at 12 they always do fireworks here. So we just kept talking until 12, then watched the fireworks at 12, and then after the fireworks really put in the effort to fall asleep. But it still wasnt very successful. Our neighbors are quite the partiers. Even when its not a holiday they always have people coming over and have bbqs at night and stuff... theyre crazy haha. But so finallyyyy after awhile i was able to get to sleep. 

And the other cool thing/big highlight from the week is that we had a zone activity today! We went to the beach again! haha. this time we went to a different beach. Its called Ramuntcho! Its a tiny little beach that has pretty white sand and pretty clear water. It was a lot of fun! It was a little weird because this time when we went (as i mention before, its summer vacation) there were people there.... haha. But not very many. Just a couple. But so it was fun. Elder Holt and I brought our ukuleles, and someone else brought a football. Like an american football football. So it was fun, we took some pictures, played the ukulele, and we played a game of 2 hand touch football! The hermanas didnt even want to play so we didnt have any problems or situtations with that... it made it a little easier that theywere content with not playing haha. Not to be mean and exclude them, but to avoid the whole "dont touch the hermanas!" thing haha. 

It was also cool because we have an elder in our zone who was a legit gymnast before his mission... so hes good at doing flips and stuff. Well i can still do my backflip, so we took a couple cool pictures doing backflips in the sand at the beach haha. I didnt get them on my camera, theyre on his, so im going to have him send it to me! Hopefully i can get them today!

Well so that was really fun. And those are basically some big highlights from the week. More than that, were just trying to find some new people to teach... we could use your prayers and such... Its gonna be rough! haha. 

Well. I dont have too much more. But i love you and msis you all! The church is true, the gospel is restored, and the priesthood too! I love it all. Its the greatest thing ever. It just brings blessings upon blessing upon blessing. There aint anything better!! I hope you all have a great week and a happy new year!! Ill send some pictures now for you all to enjoy. Hasta la proxima! Chau!

Elder Heyman

1. Here was the food we received for new years eve! You can see that rice and meat is a very popular food here..... haha. I couldnt even tell you what it all is. I just eat it no mas.

2. Me with the new years steal. 

3. This is a recent convert in the ward. Her birthday is January 1st! So we stopped by to say and sing happy birthday to her. She turned 73!! Here is a picture of her with this plate thing. The picture of the woman on the plate is her when she was 24!! hahaha. We had to take a foto! Her name is Matilde.

4. We dont know what this is. We just found it randomly and it was super gross. It was kind of squishy and we had sneaking suspicions it could have for real been a heart of something hahaha.

5. some of the beach and the zone.

1. Somehow this was seriously the best picture Elder Holt and I got together on my camera.... Oh well. Here you are haha. 

2. Here`s our zone pic. We have an awesome zone! haha.

3. Heres me and Elder Stewart doing our backflips! (Note the dog in the water. Its not Chile if theres not dogs!)

4. Sweet pana picture of the beach we went to stolen from the camera of another elder! haha.

Less Talk, More Photos 12/30/13

Well today we had consejo de lideres today... And we just talked on Wednesday.... So im gonna keep this short today and just send whatever fotos i have on my camera that you havent seen! haha. 

So im dead tired right now because when we had consejo de lideres we have all day p-day... So after consejo we went and played futbol for awhile. And its getting pretty hot here. So i am DEAD tired right now haha... That sunscreen that was sent to me in my christmas package was inspired. I need it big time. Its saving my skin right now haha thank you so much!!!

Wellllll it was just FANTASTIC getting to see and talk to all the family on Google Hangout on Christmas!!! EASILY the best part of the day haha. IT was so awesome to see everyone. It was werid and amazing for me to realize that... besides my parents, it had been a YEAR since i had seen and talked to everyone else! WOW how time passes by so fast. haha. All the siblings look great and happy, and all the nieces and nephews look GINORMOUS and cuter than ever! I miss you all so much! 

Well so just a quick update of how the Christmas week went. So on Christmas we just woke up, opened presents, skyped, ate lunch, and then went to the "mission activity" where we just basically had a big asado and dinner and played games (i played futbol the whole time haha. I love it and make sure to take advantage of every opportunity i get to play it. Helps keep me in a little better shape as well! haha) and it was alot of fun! So we just passed it well on christmas day!

and that was basically it haha. There were lots of little funny things that happened this week. We had a ward christmas party (it was super.... okay. not anything great haha) there was some crazy drunk lady in the street that out of nowhere starting yelling at us and tried to hit my companion with her big old purse. But she was drunk or something so she missed and wasnt even close.... I had something in my mouth so i tried to spit it out, but its really windy here so it just came right at me and nailed my shirt... haha just things like that. But overall it was a good week! 

Now we just need to get back to the hard work so we can llevar a cabo la obra del Señor!!

Were having some struggles with this family weve been working with... so if you could please include them in your prayers. Theres just something thats not clicking and their not making the gospel a priority in their lives... So keep the family Sid Vargas in your prayers please!

oh and last thing i remembered. On Tuesday we had our district classes, and since it was Christmas eve we asked our district leaders to just have a little fun with it and do something christmasy in their classes. And so the class i was in, we reinacted the first christmas... i dont remember how to say it in english haa. pero hicimos un pesebre. and we videotaped it and it was way funny and fun. But i dont know how to send the videos on this email so sorry :/

But more than that I just have some fotos from opening presents and stuff haha. So ill pass them along. Its not much but better than nothing.

I love you all lots and lots and miss you lots and lots too!!! Have an awesome week and have a happy new year! We dont have any special plans or get any special exceptions for the new years, so we`ll just be out working! But have a good one! I love you and miss you!

Chauuuuuuuuuu!

Elder Heyman

1. This is the son of the family we ate dinner with on Christmas Eve! One of santas little helpers haha. He wanted to take pictures with me with our christmas hats on. His name is Diego.

2. We got our christmas ties!!!! Yeahhhhh!!! We were so happy haha. Theyre awesome ties. Thanks so much mom and dad!!! :) We love them! (We were so tired. We went straight to opening presents haha)

3. Heres me with my awesome stocking! haha i loved it. I was gonna send a prettier looking picture but i just found this picture WAY to funny to pass up. We were SO TIRED. haha.

4. Heres me with some of the take away christmas morning! Ties! Peanut butter! Lotion! Sunscreen! American candy! WOO HOOOOO!!!! I scored big time!!!! Thank you so much parents and family :) I Love it all! 

5. This picture is funny because it just shows how religious Chile is. This is just an average little corner shop thats called "La Nueva Jerusalen" which means The New Jerusalem. haha... Not quite... not quite...We just thought it was funny it was called that.

1. This was a SWEET dessert we got the other day. We never get desserts as well presented as this. So it called for a foto haha. 

2. Me with previously commented dessert. 

3. This was just funny. Elder Tafur (to the right) is new and we went to go sing for those kids like i told you about. On the bus ride elder tafur PASSED OUT. and had his head on his comps shoulder haha. So we took a picture and it was funny. 

4. Heres an awesome chocolate santa claus that the same hermana that made that sweet dessert made herself. She gifted it to us!.....

5. ...and it was DELICIOUS!