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| My name tag on the beach at Frutillar Bajo |
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| A mother dog with her cute puppies we pass all the time. We don't dare touch them. |
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They were right when people said that there is alot of
German influence in this part of Chile. In Fruttillar bajo, there are alot of
buildings like this one around with pure German look. This one is a hotel, there
is also alot of German flags, a German school and I guess some Nazi's around
here. There is also some food, like this dessert called kuchen, that is either
really good, or really gross (I've had both). Its just an interesting area of
the country here, people always ask if we're German too haha.
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Hola Familia!
Well this week started out very uneventful, we got a reference to teach a lady and we went and met her, her name is Rosita, and she just started crying to us saying stuff like "Quiero Salir de ese" and "Quiero acercarme a Jesucristo" which is I want to leave this and want to come closer to Jesus, so we taught her the next day, found out she has a drinking problem and wants to quit drinking, and wants to do whatever it takes to join the church because she is sola (Lonely). We have a baptism date and set up another appointment 2 days later and tried to pass by to remind her not to drink before the cita and remind her about the appointment, but she wasn't there any of the times, and then we had a member to help us with the appointment and passed by and she wasn't there again. We came back the next day and her neighbor told us that she was in the hospital, not sure why but I think it has something to do with alcoholism, we'll see. But that brings me to the next point of my letter, I made a list of how to know if someone is drunk or sober, because there are alot of drunks in the street.
Well this week started out very uneventful, we got a reference to teach a lady and we went and met her, her name is Rosita, and she just started crying to us saying stuff like "Quiero Salir de ese" and "Quiero acercarme a Jesucristo" which is I want to leave this and want to come closer to Jesus, so we taught her the next day, found out she has a drinking problem and wants to quit drinking, and wants to do whatever it takes to join the church because she is sola (Lonely). We have a baptism date and set up another appointment 2 days later and tried to pass by to remind her not to drink before the cita and remind her about the appointment, but she wasn't there any of the times, and then we had a member to help us with the appointment and passed by and she wasn't there again. We came back the next day and her neighbor told us that she was in the hospital, not sure why but I think it has something to do with alcoholism, we'll see. But that brings me to the next point of my letter, I made a list of how to know if someone is drunk or sober, because there are alot of drunks in the street.
1-They come over to talk to us (Everybody else tries to
avoid us)
2-They sing and try to take off there shirt
3-They gladly take pictures of Christ
4-They refuse to take a picture of Christ becasue "That
picture won't buy bread"
5-You put your hand out to shake theirs and they can't find
you hand
6-They will tell you the longest story or try to talk with
you forever and when you tell them that you have to go they ask for 100 pesos
(20 cents)
7-They try to grab your shoulder
8-They try to talk English always (The only english they
know is cuss words and thank-you very much, and little things like that; like
the rest of chile, they have all the little kids who yell "Hello,
thank-you, whats your name, how are you", its kind of annoying really)
So yeah, that is my list of how to know if someone is drunk
or not, that and they just smell like liquer and other stink.
On Wednesday I did an intercambio with the
district leader Elder Brindley, and we were running home becasue we were
teaching late and we almost got killed by two dogs who jumped out at us in the
dark!
Saturday, we had a zone training put on by the zone leaders
in Puerto Varas (our sector) and Puerto Montt. We went to the training and it was just basic stuff and they had a foot doctor
there to look at anybodys feet who needed it. On the bus ride home, I heard
some people talking English and I started talking with them, they were from
Australia taking a 1 month vacation through South America. On the bus ride I started
to not feel too good, but we finally got home and went over to the house of our
mamita and had lunch which was cazuela which is this soup that all chileans
make that is just like throwing everything into a pan with a bunch of oil (They
can't live without oil), its kind of gross because we have it almost 3 times a
week. After we walked home and I still wasn't feeling too great and we got back
to studies, we were practicing and I didn't feel good at all, so we finished and
I was just going to tough it out, we got done and left the house and did some
contacts with people, all of a sudden I felt really sick, and just headed back
to the house. I had the runs pretty bad and called it a day and took off my
missionary clothes and went to bed. I woke up a little bit later and threw up a
ton. Bottom line I spent the hole afternoon throwing up and being on the
toilet, but yesterday I didn't feel good at all in the morning. Slowly towards the afternoon I started to feel a little better and eventually I worked for an hour. Today I feel fine. I think it was food poisoning. I was
hungry Friday night and we stopped at a members business to have a completo, and
that may have gotten me sick. So that was my week. Hope everything is
going good for everybody there.
Much Love
Abrazo
Élder Jentry Nelson
