Hola Familia!
I hope everything is goin well. We had another rainy week
here in southern Chile, one day in the next couple weeks I will actually send
pics of my rain gear but I have other better ones to send right now.
Last week, when we went to work we stopped at the
our investigators house (Monica) to see how everything went with picking
a wedding date. She told us that they had picked the Friday, so last
Friday me and the other elders in my house (district) went to Puerto Varas to
the wedding which was held in the registro civil. It was quick but awesome.
Afterwards we went to breakfast with them and this is where we took the
picture, we are outside of a coffee house where everybody had hot chocolate. It
was awesome and then we picked a date for her baptism which is this Saturday,
I'm so excited to send some baptism pictures this week. The other cool thing is
that she asked me to baptize her, so I will have some wonderful pictures. I'm
not sure of the order in that picture but the people are Elder Rupp, Elder
Quinanola, Elder Brindley, Myself, Marcos, Monica and their son Amaro.
Im very excited for this oppurtunity, and on Sunday I was
asked to give a talk but the branch president asked that I not read the talk
but just follow the spirit, and study before hand. I did that and it turned out
to be a nice talk on how we need to follow our faith, which should lead to
acts. After I talked and Elder Rupp talked, we did a special musical number
that I wrote in the words to "I know That My Redeemer Lives" from the Paul
Cardall book, and Elder Rupp sang it in spanish to "Yo se que vive mi Señor".
It turned out really nice and I think the branch really liked it because
everybody came up and told us how good it was. I might see if one sister who
recorded it on her phone when we practiced could send it to you, I'm not sure
though.
So we did that, and then the reason that I am writing so
late is because we went to Volcan Osorno today as a zone activity, it was
awesome, we didn't get to the top but I guess Jeni wasn't the only one in snow
this week, that's what picture #2 is and I have alot more pictures of it. I've
almost filled a SD card and will send it home soon. We did get up pretty high
though and it had a gorgeous view of Lago Llanquihue, the Andes, Volcan Calbuco
and a ton of other mountain ranges. We almost took a skilift to the top but it
was like an extra 10 bucks that we didn't prepare for, so we ended up
not taking the lift, but it was still an awesome once in a lifetime thing to be on that
volcano. I also got a little sunburned from being that high up with out much
ozone.
Well that was my week, can't wait to send baptism pics this
next week.
Love Elder Jentry Nelson
