Chilean Cook 1/24/2011

Hey Familia,
How yal doing? How was the week, ready to start another one? I am, but I am still good and tired from last week but oh well just got to push through and do it and mas encima I am a week behind in my journal I am just getting lazy to write but I have got to do it. It was a goal of mine. I put a lot of photos on this letter. I took a lot this week. There are some of the sun setting and one of Elder Call and I walking in the Cancha at the top of Cerro estanque searching for souls, and the best ones are of me making Pan Amasado!!!!!! Yes I learned how to make homemade bread from scratch this morning and cooked it in a brick oven so fun. Hermano Domingo taught us and was chill it turned out good and ate it right away for breakfast, I am coming back a cocinero (cook), it was good and fun.
This week went good we had a couple disappointments but nothing huge. Eliana was confirmed yesterday and I got to do it, it was a nice experience. She has good friends in the ward and it is good to see the Hermanas helping her out and sharing their experiences with her. She is going to the campo in February and won’t be back till Marzo but we will have contact with her and she has her book to read and stuff. She told us on Friday about an experience she had, she said she was in her garden and she was looking out toward the beach and tried to find the church, she said she said the words “Where is my church?” said that when she said “My church” she was full of happiness and joy and said she had never felt like that before. I was so happy to be able to hear that from her. She was definately ready and it was her time now I just have to hope that her family will come around and will accept it too. It was a good addition to the week, and I am really happy for her because she is happy.
We did a special fast with one of our other investigators, Clara, we did the fast so that her boyfriend would move out so she would be able to get baptized. On this Sunday the 30 th, she was doing great and the fast went great too. She told him to leave and was going to be out of the house yesterday but yet again a problem came up, she has to buy the uniforms for her kids for school and is no money so he wants to stay and work and help pay but if he stays she can’t get baptized...... it was a bit of a let down but she wants to get baptized so bad but it is one thing after the other....and they aren’t big things......maybe it is easy for me to say “ well tell him to leave and get baptized because everything will work out fine the Lord will provide.....”but I am not in the situation.....I know she will get baptized and I know it will work out, but we need more faith, this week we will find a solution so she can get baptized she is so ready and wants to so bad but its little things that keep tripping her up. I know we will see a miracle.
We found a lot of new people last week and planned for them to go to church but they didn’t but it is okay we will get them here this week. Denis and Marcos, live up on the top of Cerro Santo and just had a baby 6 months ago. They are young but are really great we just need to help them get to church and I am sure they will get baptized in Feb. The only yucky part of this time of year in Chile isa the vaccaciones because here the people don’t go away for a day or a couple days but for a month they are gone......it is crazy so a lot of the people we were working with are gone and wont be back till the end of Feb. The attendance at church was below 100 that is low for us.....crazy no? But that is life... it is all good
The weather has been weird and looks like rain but hope it doesn’t, I sure don’t like the rain in the mission especially because I don’t have any rain. Everything I had got left in Talca...Oh ya got the package thanks a lot I missed butterfingers. Hey could you put a small USA flag in my next package it is for somebody here thanks. About the animated Libro de Mormon...I was taking about the movie....like the old animated movie...if you know what I mean......but send the book I know who I want to give it to. I cannot wait to here about my Sobrino(a) (My nephew or niece) next week so make sure I hear the news! Time has gone by once again but I love you all so much and hope you all have great week and cant wait to hear from you all next week.
Sé que dios vive y nos ama, Jesucristo essu hijo y nos salva del pecado, si escuchemos a su voz, amo este evangelio y sé que estoy en la obra del señor y nadie me puede quitar la alegria que siento. les quiero y les amo muchisimo, espero que les vaya bien en la semana y que esén bien. Tengan buena semana les quiero, paz fuera (I know that God lives and loves us, Jesus Christ His son saves and us from the sin, if we listen to His voice and gospel. I know that I am in the work of the Lord because of the joy I feel. I want to teach and be a good example, I hope that I will be able to share the gospel and that they will feel it)
Love Eric

A Test of faith and confirmation of the truthfullness of the Book of Mormon 1/10/2011

Hello Familia,
So what is up with all of you? I hope you all had a good week and a good weekend to rest up for the long haul this week. This week went by very slow with the lack of preparation day on Monday and so I was a couple days off all week. The week was full of very strange weather including rain, cold hot and a lot of wind.....enough to rip off roof tiles and make dogs fly...okay the flying dog thing was a joke but would be cool no? I am good but I think I am getting fat so it is to a strict diet......yep you heard me diet.....no more pan!!!!!!!!!it is hard but must do it and no eating at night.....you all should see my legs, they we big before but now they are bigger, my jeans are super tight of my thighs and loose on the waist. I might have to buy some jeans, I am going to try and tone down we are running in the morning...it is about a 3.5 km run and it is going good it helps wake us up in the morning and making me sweat earlier in the day. I wasn’t built for long distance but I pull my weight and keep with the pace......but its all good. I have got to get into shape. Today is cambios and the big news is nothing....the four of us here in Tome are staying the same for one more cambio. Time is flying by but I am not trunky....I have got to much to do here.
We had a baptism planned for yesterday but Eliana had to go to the campo and harvest papas so she has a fecha for the 16th this coming week and so I am jazzed! She is super ready and wants to do it she actually felt super bad about this weekend but her husband had planned it and didn’t tell her but it is all good, just hope there aren’t complications this week. One other investigator was in Santiago all week and well she came back and much to our surprise she didn’t come back a lot as we thought she would be.....she talked to her boy friend and was going to leave him there but he was persistent and came back so she still cannot get baptized because they are living together and are not married. We are going to do a fast this week to be able to figure out what she can do because she is super ready to get baptized and wants to do it, but cant and it will take a year to be able to do her divorce and to get married....I don’t know what to do......Satanas will not give up on this one, but all we can do it pray and hope it will all work out. Dayanne is doing good and got confirmed yesterday, we found a family of 6 this week but are only sharing with the mom and her boyfriend. We know the law of chasity will be a big important lesson......but they are really great se llaman Raul and Elena, they are cool and Elena knows the bishops wife and also Hermana Sofia the pres of the Relief Society. We are starting to find some people and well just need to get them to progress and tonight we are going to visit a girl of 11 yrs to see if her family will let her get baptized because she has been going to church for a while and she could be baptized within the next two weeks. The work is moving along and I can see that the Lord is blessing us for our efforts and all that we are doing. The Lord keeps His promises. I started to read the Book of Mormon for the 3rd time in my mission, I know it isn’t much but I don’t read to fast haha, but it will be my 2nd time in Spanish and this time I am taking my time to pick the verses apart and pull all out of it that I can and so far I am loving it so much. I am in 1 Nefi 8 but I have learned so much so far. My testimony has grow so much about the Book of Mormon and this week we used it in contacts and it was the first thing we taught to the 8 new people we found and to tell you the truth it worked awesome to tell them exactly the purpose of the book and start right off the bat with it because it is the keystone of our religion and if you don’t believe in it then I don’t know how you could believe in Christ. Because the purpose of the Book of Mormon is to testify of Jesus Christ and His teachings. It is a marvoulus work and no regular man could have written it and I know it was written through inspiration from God. His prophets gave their lives to protect the plates and to do the Lords will and sometime we take it for granted, I love that book and it helps me so much.
This week on Friday afternoon Elder Call, Hermana Nelda, and I were waiting to take the bus to subir cerro estanque to go do a couple visits and a man came up to me and started to yell and scream and make a scene, he spoke with words of hate and anger, claiming to be a follower of Cristo, smoking a cigarette and yelling swear words and speaking very low about the church its teachings and most of all the truth of Joseph Smith, I tried to talk with him but he was there to fight and to make me mad.....my companion didn’t understand so he was very calm, as I realized he wanted to fight I shut my mouth and prayed in my head, with every false accusation and swear word it was like a dagger to my heart, I felt the spirit leave and I was praying to have the guidance, as angry as I was I kept quiet and as you guys know it is one of my weak points, it was when he touched my name tag that I shouted a little but told him not to touch me and to back off, he continued in his rant and I started that breathing exercise that I always do with mom , he came back to yell some more and proceeded to call us devil worshipers and stuff but it didn’t get to me. Although it was a bad experience I am grateful for it and I will tell you why, after he left and we got on the bus I felt a peace and calmness in my fast beating heart, and I know it was the spirit telling me I was doing the right thing. I tell you I have felt the spirit stronger since I know it was because it was a test, the Lord tested me and my testimony grew its like the scripture in Ether 12:6 says “testimony comes after the test of our faith” I can imagine a little better how Christ and the prophets have felt when they were falsely accused and exploited because of their beliefs I know my experience wasn’t as big but helped me feel a little more what they did. I felt bad for this man because he was lost in the opiniones de hombre and was tied up in hatred and jealousness of Satanas. I know God lives and He loves us, He sent His son Jesucristo to the earth to save us and to fulfill the profesies of the profetas, I know without a doubt Jose Smith was called to restore the church and that today there is a living seer and revelator, he guides us in the these latter days through the power of God and keeps us from trying the bitter taste of sin and disobedience. I know this is the true church and that in it we can find the principles and doctrine Jesus Himself taught. I love being a missionary and teaching this great gospel and it hurts me to see people lost in the storms of this life and it makes me work that much more to find them and pull them a board. I know if we live the commandments we will prosper in the land as the Lord told his people in the Book of Mormon.
I hope you all have great week and that you keep moving forward and helping your testimony grow. I love you all take care, te quiero!
Love Eric

Enjoy the pictures they are mostly picks of the sector like sunset from cerro estanque and looking up cerro estanque and also the oatmeal, platano, miel exfoliant we tried hahahaha You have got to keep care of the skin, love you cuídate chau chau

Happy New Year 1/3/2011

hey hey hey,
What’s up yal? hace tiempo que no les he escrito (I have not written in awhile) Well I am doing great and the baptism of Dayanne on the 26th was awesome she was super happy and a lot of members were there to support her. She did not come to church to be confirmed because she was sick but it is all good, we have daily contact to make sure she will be there this week.
This letter will be short because, I don’t have much time, for New Years we got to go to the mission home in Concepcion. We had interviews in the morning and oh I tell you the mission home is like a palace it is huge, I felt so poor but it was fun and interviews went great had to hurry back to Tome because the other Elders had a baptism so we had to fill the pila bautismal (Baptismal Font) and all went good. After we went to Hermana Caroline´s house for the New Years cenas (Dinner) and ate like pig. It was sooo good and got home at 10, Elder Call and I went to bed because we were tried and well I celebrated sleeping. That is it, I heard screaming and stuff but I thought it was just dreams haha it was chill. Here in Tome they do huge bon fires in all the hills and it is cool to see but I was dead tired and sleep meant more to me than partying, I know I am lame.
I was happy to have talked to you all for Christmas and heard about what is going on there, I forgot all the things I was going to tell you about but it is always like that, oh, well it is sure crazy how time flies by. All the Hermanas that came with me are either home or go home next week, it is crazy to think I have been here in Tome for almost 6 weeks, time gets faster everyday and it is working against me. All Pres talked about in my interview was about how fast time will go and how I will be home soon, I was like “dude I got a lot left don’t make me trunky!” haha but I understand what he was talking about. we have a possibility of 2 baptisms this Sunday and I am super stoked about it. Se llaman Eliana and Clara super awesome.

Oh yeah so in the evening on 25th went out to carole to the investigators but my companion got sick so Elder Huerta and I had to do it all and we were running up the cerros (hills) it was so crazy and I have some funny videos but I was soaking wet the people thought we were crazy but it was the flowing of the Christmas spirit “I got the Holy Spirit” that one for you Ally! It was nice the people loved it and I did too, got home and was dead tired but it felt good. I love getting home tired means I sleep better.
I forgot all I wanted to tell you but I am sure it will come to me once I log off as usual. I love the tri pod, I have been taking some cool picturess with it and one of me and Elder Hueart in the the forest looking out to the ocean. I wrapped it on a tree it is so cool the other Elders are asking their familes to send one for them also and you sent my apostasy!!!!!!!!! Giants!!!!!! What is this? It is now a painting shirt.....lol no I am just kidding I like the shirt, I was imitating the baseball players because Elder Huerta got me a necklace as a joke I felt so cool and choro! I loved all my gifts thanks a lot and the Elders loved their stockings too. Oh Kellie says Hi.... she is so cute and crazy. There is a joke in their house because they say she will be married by her 18th b-day because she is so flirty and so funny (Kellie is a 5 year old girl and when Eric called us on Christmas Day she kept trying to hang up the phone while he was talking to us). Thank you for everything and for all you do for me.
I love you all so much .....oh about the earthquake we didn’t feel a thing haha, oh well I know what do if there is another one..... hope you have a great week love y’al take care. I know the Lord lives and loves us and is watching over us always. Love Eric

Christmas and Government Bureaucracy 12/20

Hey, Hey, Hey,

How is everyone doing this week? My week did fly by and I cannot believe it is already Christmas..... It doesn’t feel like it because I have other things in my head like investigator problems and tiredness but it is a good thing, I guess. I love it! This week I tried out the new pans you send me.....well the non-stick coating was great but they aren’t good to use in Chilean gas ovens.....the brownie was burned to a crisp but it was okay with lots of ice cream it was good....oh well but thanks Mom, its all good.

Yesterday found out 5 minutes before sacrament meeting that I had to talk, and so I spoke about the atonement and well I did think it was that good. I got a lot of compliments. I don’t think I teach and talk well but whatever. I hope at least I have improved. We went to a Christmas devotional done by the mission last night and was great. I had an investigator Clara and her kids, some members and converts came also, it was great and was a good time.

Today got up early to go do my ID card in Concepcion and had to wait in line for 3 1/2 hours. It took it all out of me but I had to do it because if not I would have gotten fined Well I have a lot more to tell but I don’t have a lot time because it is late but I will tell you all about when we talk on Saturday. Sorry this is so short but the waiting in line all day thing set us back, but we will talk soon

I love you all so much and hope you have a great week and enjoy the holiday and remember our savior and all he does for us. I love being here because helps me focus on Him all the time and I am grateful for that. I love you so much and think about you all the time love you ttyl
Love Eric

Tome "City of Hills" 12/6

Hey what’s up in San Jose?

What do you all tell of you week, good bad, funny stories? I hope you all are doing good and I am happy to hear that Mom is doing good. It has been on my mind all week but good to know all is good now.
As you know I had to make a very long trip from Talca to Tome it was very long. I left at 11am and got here around 3:30, it was a long time to be sitting on a bus especially because I went to bed around 4am on Monday night because had to pack and got up at 6am to finish and get ready to go. In the morning I had to go to centro and pick up my visa before Ileft Talca but the good thing is that I am legal now yay!!!!! haha no its all good now I have to go to Concepcion next Monday to register it and to do the papers for my carnet but it is easy, I just have to wait in a bunch of lines and stuff but cool. I plan to hit up the best food places in Concepcion haha. I am doing well tired because this whole place is hills, hills, hills. There is no flat ground....well there is but it is basically the beach and the centro but isn’t much and we are never there we are always climbing some hill. There is one that is called El Cerro Santo it is the biggest here in Tome, it is about 550 meters tall......it is straight up almost. It is funny to see the cars trying to climb the hill will send some pics. I will have huge muscular legs after this sector. I like it here but the smell of the ocean and the beach gets me thinking about home but not a lot. When we were going to church yesterday saw a bunch of guys going to the beach to surf and all pass in front of the church because it is like one block from the beach. It is sure different here than my other sectors just because I don’t know but it is different not being in flat dry hot areas...but I like it here it is fun. Our ward mission leader got back from his mission like 6 weeks ago so he is cool and helps us out a lot and actually we went to his house yesterday and we are teaching his sister. She is so cool she has a fecha for the 26 December but I am sure we will move it up a week. I was so happy this week because were we searching so hard for people and had a very hard time. I got here and there were no investigatoes so it was starting from scratch and contacts. But we got some great references from members this week so that was good. I hope to be able to help this ward out and get this place going there are over 1000 inactive members on the list......crazy huh and there were 126 at church yesterday....oh yay something weird I have sac meeting last so weird for me but oh well it helps people get to church.
We had 4 inv yesterday in church and 2 we found this week I was so happy to see that, the last cambio was hard but we have 4 people that can get baptized this month and I am sure they will. I like it here just have to get used to the way of life and to the members and stuff and the people. It is weird I can tell a difference in the accent here than in other parts and even my accent has changed now and i speak like they do here....you got to conform to it so I don’t look like such an outsider. I don’t know what else to say.....I live in a house of 4 again and we are in the 4th floor of an apartment building. I tell you it was fun to haul my stuff up those stairs but with help we did it.....I have a lot of clothes to get rid of so I will have space to bring cool stuff home
I have sent a bunch of mixed photos from my last night in Talca and also some pics from here in Tomé, I hope you enjoy them, the beach looks awesome, and sunsets are great plan to wake up and go see and sunrise on the beach too someday but it is early and hard with all the fog and stuff. I love you all so much and I miss you a bunch too I am trying to do a Christmas card but it is hard to find photoshop here but I am trying to do it. I thought it would be cool to do. I love it here and I am excited to be working and working hard too. I love this work it is amazing to see miracles everyday amazing how many there are but we just don’t realize it. I love you all so much hope you have a great week. Love you Chau, Love Eric

Transfer to Tome 11/29

Hello What’s up?
Well Mom I will answer your question right off the bat.....I am about 100% sure I will be transferred before Christmas.....because well today is Cambios and I am leaving Talca and I am taking a long trip down south I am going to the inside of the mission....I am going to Tome......it is about 45 min north of Concepcion on the coast.....yes I will be on the beach and well I hope it doesn´t make me trunky....lol I am not trunky nor will I be. so that should answer your question i will have a hot Christmas at the beach....haha. The chapel is a block from the beach I hear....it just stinks I cannot go because it is summer and we don’t have permission during this time of the year. That my big news. So tomorrow I will have a 5 hour bus ride to Concepcion and then 45 min to Tome....fun right! I will miss Talca and the people a lot, but I feel like I have left this sector a little stronger than it was. The attendan went up to 114 at church so that is good it is a 60% increase.....cambios are always hard and today will be a long day of saying good-byes and stuff and then will be up late packing. Oh well.
Well yesterday was just like the last Sunday I had in Chillan.....I spoke in Sacrament Meeting and I baptized a girl in the ward and then the next day I left.....I can see a pattern haha. Well I found out yesterday morning that I was going to baptized Dyana Jesus Arias Muñoz, she is a cute little girl, her mom got baptized last year and so we go by to share and stuff still. Her mom is Amalia and she is so cool she speaks english and most times doesn’t speak it with us but it is cool because she understands and speaks really well. It was a nice experience and well it was a good last Sunday....I feel there will be a lot of tears today but it will pass and well that is the sucky part of the mission but that is how it is...people always say they wish it were different but like I always say it is to help us all progress so that we can become stronger and better. I am sad but I am here for the Lord and will do as he says.
This week went well and it was so hot though I was dying. We found some new people and had a good time with my kid haha. I think he is bummed that I am leaving but I know it is for the best and he is a great missionary and will have a lot of success here in Talca. I will be in another house of 4 Elders down in Tome and so I am looking forward to that. Elders Cockrell, Page and Teske are upset because they wont get there Christmas goodies you sent them but I am thinking I might send it to them idk.....I am in a hard situation....haha but its all good I figure there will be enough to go around ....oh yeah I might be asking for some addresses from you I want to make a Christmas card and send it out to people. I thought it might be nice. We will see. well this letter is a bit short but I got a lot to do today got to go get my visa stuff today also because I don’t want to have to travel back here to do it. I hope you have a great week and cannot wait to here about more winter adventures, talk to you all later love you all so much. Chau Love Eric

Working Hard, Sharing the Gospel and Packages from Home

hola familia, ¿cómo está? ¿qué cuentan? les quiero contar un chiste que es lo más chistoso en todos los chistes de ´´laffy taffy´´ ¿Porque cruzó la calle el captus?.......................... ¡Porque estába pegado en la espalda de la gallina! Jajajajajajajajajajajajaja

Bablefish Translation
hello family, how she is? what count? I want to tell a joke to them that is most humorous in all the jokes of ´´laffy taffy´´ Because captus crossed the street? .......................... Because estába beaten in the back of the hen! jajajajajajajajajajajajaja
I tell you if the whole engineering thing doesn’t work out for me I am going to be a bilingual comedian because everybody thinks I am hilarious.......or do they laugh because I am ridiculous.......hmmmmm I will stick with because I am funny it helps my head stay at normal size hahaha. Well how are you all doing this fine start of the week. What is new and exciting? and if you don’t got anything new and exciting.......well I don’t know what to tell you.......just tell a really bad joke like I did and I will laugh and thinks it is awesome anyway. Sometimes I feel like I am in a big Hollywood movie because when we are out working and stuff everybody just says mean things and swears at us....hahaha okay well if you didn’t think it was funny its because it wasn’t and that means you need to send me some good jokes to tell...I am running out of material....I have stolen all I could from other missionaries haha oh well that is life.

Thanks for the package and well to tell you the truth I shared with the other Elders.......I had to they held me up at knife point...I am just kidding.....I figured we could all use some bad jokes and sugar in our systems.....well that is enough of insignificant talk, lets get down to business......oh one last thought I think I have become hyperactive on the mission...I wasn’t like this before....one more thought What is black, white and red?.......a skunk in a blender....okay that was bad here is a better one Why did the sock cross the road? .................because it was on the chickens foot....lolAnyway

Elder Teske and I are getting along like 2 peas in a pod and he is a fun guy. We have a fun house it is good and we laugh a lot. Last night stayed up playing UNO and I tell you I stink, I lost every time....oh well every time I would change color it would come back to bite me....so I just said “well looks like I got the gift to read peoples thoughts....but it is not helping me.....” haha it was fun. E Teske is fun guy...we have good time together, I see a lot of the things I use to do when I was new....like the confused look of not understanding and the pain full lost look, but I am keeping him upbeat and he is a hard worker....got long legs too. I have to move my short stubby legs 3 times as fast...people laugh because I am the shortest.....oh well its like 3 skyscrapers and the lonely two story house across the street but its all good....they are jealous of my last name haha. Got up early and got ready to go do the visa stuff for Elder Teske and Page.......got to centro at 900........I forgot that Chile opens at 1000.....so walked around for a half hour oh well....haha. Got all the visa stuff done and now have to wait. My carnet, Chilean id, expired 22 weeks back.....I am illegal .... nooooooooooooooo, just kidding my papers were started a while back so I am all good haha.

Well this week was yet another tough grinder but I feel good I put a lot of effort and force into the week and I know the blessing will come and the Lord will bless us, Elder Teske is still a little timid to talk but I told him he is the “closer” (pitching terms) I may have more words and ability to talk “starter” but the closer makes the deal and makes the bigger impression. the spirit is felt strong when he teaches and the people have to pay more attention.....I tell you I feel so blessed to be with him and have the opportunity to serve with him. Well this week it was....HOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just about died but then yesterday woke up to a cold raining winter looking day..... strange. So got soaked yesterday and man do I mean soaked...well thanks to the rain the attendance was 74......stupid rain...haha. Oh well. called investigators in the morning to get them up and were not answering but much to my surprise...after the sacrament was passed, Daniela walked in. she had worked from 11 am Saturday until 6am Sunday morning for a wedding....and got up and went to church I was so happy....we had talked about making sacrifices to the Lord and it hit her.... I sat down and I said “I did not think you would come because of work” she said “ I need to make sacrifices to receive the help from the Lord” I was so happy to hear those words....turned out to be a good day and then at night had a NDH with Daniela in the house of Familia Cristi, live across the street. It went great Hermana Cristi straight up asked “So when are you getting baptized?” and the convo opened up....we didn´t say a word the family did all the teaching....it was amazing, my testimony grew about work with members last night...the members felt the prompting and acted...they didn’t feel the need to wait for us to talk or give them the time....and I didn’t feel the prompting to talk and at the end I did and I expressed our love for her and bore testimony...it was awesome. The Spirit directed the lesson, and it was just amazing. This is the Lords Work....He directs it through the Spirit and if the Spirit tells us to talk we HAVE to do it and if He doesn’t, we WON´T do it. awesome right? I think so.Well going into week 2 of reading the Book of Mormon as a mission. We are in chapter 4 of 2 Nefi and read until 8 today, I think, I have to check, but it is awesome....I tell you I am getting so much out of it....the pages are full of the marks when it mentions Jesucristo, that is why it is a witness of Him. Well I don’t know what else to tell yal.....think I have bored you enough for one week haha. I am the old missionary here in the ward now and well I think I might be leaving this transfer on the 29 Nov, it is possible because I will have completed 6 months here...I don’t want to because I want one more cambio with Elder Teske,,,,,but we will see. it is a few weeks off. haha but oh well.

The youth are going to the temple Friday so I am going to send some money with a leader to pick me up some books and stuff for my converts....got to get Christmas ready too. haha.

Well I think that is all for this week. I love you all so much and hope you are doing well, I know God lives and loves us and sent His son Jesucristo to die for us. Through His redeeming sacrifice we can present ourselves before the Father and He will plead for us....but according to our works we will be judged, if we follow Him and come unto Him like little children, submissive and humble we will be saved and will live with our Father again. I know the Book of Mormon testifies of Him and His atoning sacrifice, He is our Lord, Savior and King. I love the gospel and have come to love studying it too. It fills me with joy and peace and with things that are not found in this world, things that money and houses and cars cannot give....it is the unconditional and eternal love of God and Christ. When I am out working no matter how bad the day might be, I feel whole, I feel happy....I am happy I love the work and I feel honored to be a part of the Army of the Lord...like the soldiers who fought under Captain Moroni.....they must have been honored to fight under such and strong and brave leader....not just strong physically but he was a man of spiritual power. The kind of power that as man cannot buy or fake.....I feel like one of his soldiers fighting for truth and liberty against the temptations and demons of the world to bring eternal life to Gods children, I wear the name of Christ on my chest and I know that this is His church and His work. I love you so much and hope you have a great week. Take care. I am studying in Alma too Love you take care.Love Eric
VAMOS CHILE! I HOPE YOU ENJOY THE FOTOS. By the way we had a huge ward talent show went great....lots of menos activos and inv were there went awesome we didn’t have time to do our cool scout skits we prepared but it went good....had to leave early...us 4 prince charmings had to be home at 10 haha love yal chau!