I love chile with all my heart

Hey family well this is the last time that i am going to write you as a missionary. I am not going to lie, it is very very hard to leave this country. I love chile with all my heart. I can say that i am chilean!! Well it has been a good week. It has been a little hard cause i have been pretty sick the last couple days. I dont know why, i think it is because i am nevous. It is like entering the mtc all over again. I have no clue what is going to happen and i am scared out of my mind to face the real world. But i am up to the challenge. If i can be away from my family and friends and serve others for 2 years, everything else should be easy. I have loved every second of my time here in chile. I would not change anything. Well i am really excited and scared to see you guys it is going to be awesome. 

One quick thing that happened this week. Here in chile there are these gas trucks that drive around to drop off gas at peoples houses. The drivers carry a lot of money so it is a very dangerous job. Well 2 days ago at the corner of where we live one of the trucks got attacked by a armed 19 year old kid. The driver was parked in front of his own house and the kid told him to get out. The guy put up resistance and so the kid shot him. When the wife and children heard that, they came out in time to see the kid shoot their dad again and again... the kid took off in the truck and left a wife and 3 little girls without a dad. 

So obviously it is going to be hard for them cause they dont have money or any way to earn money so the family and friends were doing a little money drive for the family. Yesterday we went over to a coverts house, her name is alin, to say goodbye to them. The convert is 10 years old and was friends with one of the little girls whose dad had died. The mom of alin told us that when alin found out that her friends dad had died she went into her room and broke open her piggy bank and gave the money to her friend. She had been saving up to buy some shoes or something but she said that her friend needed the money more. When i heard that i started bawling like a little girl. I could not believe the sacrifice, the pure love of Christ that this little 10 year old girl had. No wonder the Lord tells us that we must be like children. It is people like alin that give me hope for this world. 

Well family i love you tons. I am way excited to see ya. I hope that i will be able to recognize you guys cause i am sure that you have changed a lot. I will leave you guys with my testimony. I know that God lives. He really is our loving heavenly father. He wants us to come back and live with Him again. Because of that, he sent his only begotten son, Jesus Christ to suffer and die for us. Jesus is the Christ, the Savior and Redeemer of the world. Without Christ we have nothing but darkness. I know that through Him i can be free of sin and death. I know that through Him i can live with my family again. Joseph Smith saw God the Father and His son Jesus Christ and was the Prophet who restored the gospel upon the earth. The Book of Mormon is such a powerful book. It really is the word of God. How i have come to love it here on the mission. We can learn so much by reading and studying it daily. We can find out who the Lord Jesus Christ really is. That is my testimony and nothing in the world can take it from me. I love you all more than you can ever know. Have a awesome couple days before i see you. Till we meet again.

Love

Elder hall

i was able to say goodbye to my converts in the city and the coast

hey family sorry for not being able to email you guys the other day. everything here is good. yesterday i was able to say goodbye to my converts in the city and the coast. oh man it was one of the coolest experiences of my life. i loved seeing them and they made me so excited. i am truthfully say that i have done all that the lord wanted me to do in these 2 years. i love chile so much, I AM CHILEAN!!! i have 2 converts that are going on a mission, maricela is already doing all the paperwork and will probably leave in 4 or 5 months. my other convert, manuel is getting ready and will leave in the next year. i love the mission so much. it was awesome to see all the people who i have been able to help in the past 2 years.

well i dont have much time but we will be able to talk later on the 25th. i will call you guys at like 1 or 2 in the afternoon. be ready. i love you all tons. have a sweet christmas eve and day. see ya later...

chao

elder hall

got to see Elder Hollister!

Hey fam well right now you guys are freezing cold i am being cooked to a crisp. It is so hott down here i can barely concentrate. So if things dont make sense or i just randomly stop that is why. Christmas down here is like living in heck with a tree and lights haha. It is very hott and the sun is very very strong. One of the things i am the most happy to see is snow, and of course all you guys haha. Life is good.

Well this has been a good week. You wrote me last week and said to be looking out for elder hollister, well i found him...in my zone haha. It is sweet, he has changed a lot since the last time i got to see him. He is taller than me and very mature. It was fun to see him and be able to talk to him. He is doing good but is really nervous. He still doesnt understand very much spanish but he will get the hang of it soon. He is a good elder and will have a awesome mission. He has a really good trainer even thought he is a utah fan...but its ok i am sure that grant will be able to convert him. His trainer lost a bet with me over the byu utah game and had to buy me a hot dog right in front of elder hollister...haha oh sweet sweet victory. I love life haha

Well landon and mehkii i hope you guys have a good bday and everyone i hope you all have a good christmas. I will be able to call you guys and see what is going on. We will call either the 24th or 25th. We are still not sure but we will let you guys know. Write me and tell me when would be the best to call. 

Other than that this has been a very good week. We have been able to see many miracle and tender mercies from the lord. One was really funny. We were just walking along and all the sudden my comp needed to use the bathroom really really bad. Well we were in a area of our sector when we didnt have investigators and not very many members live there. So i was trying to think really fast of where we could go. Then for some reason i thought that we should go to this members house where we normally never go. So we run over there and go inside and my comp is able to use their bathroom. After we are just sitting there and we ask them if they know anyone that we could teach. The mom was like ya we do, wait a sec. She goes into the other room and comes out with her daugter and her daugters boyfriend who just happens that he is not a member and wants to know more. So we taught him and yesterday he went to church. So that was so cool. The lord works in very misirous ways, i dont know how to spell. But it was so awesome, so he is really interested and i am sure that he will be baptized soon. 

Also this week we had a meeting as zone leaders with the president in his house in this really rich area. To get there we have to take a bus, go on the subway, change cars on the subway then take another bus. So it takes a long time. So we went in the morning and had the meeting, which by the way was incredible. Then after all the zone leaders go on a bus together to get back to our sectors. So there is this bus, full of people and we decided that we are going to give them a little bit of the christmas spirit cause they all looked depressed and sad. So we started singing christmas songs, all 22 of us. It was sweet by the time we got off the bus everyone was so much happier. So we got onto the subway and we decided to do the same. So we started singing and handing out pass along cards and it was awesome. I think that people really enjoyed it and if they didnt at least we did. Haha i love the christmas spirit, it is a gift from God.

Well i am buring up and i need to go so i will stop writting. But have a awesome week. Next pday i will be saying goodbye to all my converts all day long so i dont know if we will have time to write you guys or not next week. I will try but if i dont, dont freak out cause that is why i cant. I love you all so much. Thanx for writting me and supporting me. Have a awesome week. Keep on doing the small things. 

I love ya

Elder hall

wickedness never ever was happiness!!!

hey fam ya its been a really good week. i have been getting sick a lot lately i dont know why but whatever i just keep working. the weather down here keeps getting hotter and hotter. man summer here is heck. but ya its so cool that you guys have snow, man i miss the snow so much. but ya, it has been a really normal week. 

one thing happened that tore me apart. we went to this converts house to teach them and we have tried to find then for like the last 3 weeks. it has been hard but finally we did it. it is a mom and her 2 daughters, nicole and alin. nicol is 15 and alin is 10. (by the way alin is the cutest little girl i have ever seen in my whole life. i might have to bring her home with me haha. anyways, they havent gone to church in like 2 or 3 months cause the mom works and she does other things...anyways, when nicole was baptized she left behind a bunch of not good friends and started chilling with the kids in the ward. then little by little she stopped reading the scriptures and didnt go to church very often. then she got back together with her old friends and got a boyfriend. so she kept telling us and her mom that she was fine and that she could control her life. so we went by this past week and her mom told us with tears streaming down her face that nicole is 1 1/2 months pregnant... it broke my heart. she is only 15 years old and a good girl. now she is waiting for a baby and guess what happened to the guy, who "was so in love with her..." he is gone, when he found out that she was pregnant he took off, freaking idiot. ya well now nicole is not doing well. she has a child and the love of her life is gone. now her whole life is going to change and she is not going to be able to live her life like a little chile, which she is, should. she can barely take care of herself and now she has to take care of another person. 

and you see this a lot here in chile, the youth here are so bad. you see little girls who are like 12, 13 years old walking around in barely nothing. there are drugs and cigarets everywhere. satan has a good graps over this world. but that is why i am here. that is why there are young men and women all over the world with the lord´s name on their chest to bring the world the good news of great joy. without the church of Jesus Christ this world is (sorry mom for the language) screwed. without the message that we have there is no hope. that is what moses was talking about in the pearl of great price when he says that "he saw satan with chains that when all around the world, and he looked up and laughed and his angels rejoiced"... that is why the church is so important. people think that the world is so much fun, but that is bull crap. wickedness never ever was happiness!!! you can not have happiness in the world, only through Christ. 

that is why i am so gratefull to be a member of His church. He is in charge of it and with Him in charge we cannot lose. i love the people of chile so so much. i know what i have will help them. and that is why i walk around all day in the heat. that is why i keep on talking to people even when they reject me over and over again. and if they dont believe me at least they know that i know it is true. what a blessing it is to be able to have the gospel of Jesus Christ in our lives. i am so thankful to know the truth. 

i know this church is true, nothing anyone could ever say could change it. i know God lives, that Jesus is my savior. I know that through Him, I can live with my family forever. i know the book of mormon is the word of God. It is so powerful, i love it. we can find out who Christ really was though that book. i love you all so much. i hope you all have a awesome week. please dont let satan win. do the small things. always be obedient to the commandments and to the prophet and leaders of the church. obedience is so important, we dont even understand how important it is. it gives us so much power. just do it!!!

i love you all tons

elder hall

"no one here believes in God..."

yo fam what up?? haha im trying to get back into my getto language stage hows it goin??? man first off i am pretty mad that i missed out on the byu game it sounds like it was amazing. it was so funny cause saturday night we got home, planned for the next day and all the sudden our cell phone rings. i look at it and it says, "president jones." so i am freakin out tryin to think of what i did wrong or if he is going to change me to a different sector... so i answer it and it is his wife, hermana jones. first off she is so awesome, she is obsessed with all sports so anytime we want to know anything about the sport world we just ask her. so she just called to tell me who won in the byu game. i was so happy when i found out that byu won. it totally made my day. so i was pretty happy. Go cougs!!!!

so ya it has been a really good week. we have been working hard and trying our hardest to find the chosen who are ready to accept us. so this week we taught this convert, who we have helped get reactivaded, we taught her the importance of missionary work. so what did she do, she went out and found us this lady that she wants us to visit. it was awesome. so we go over and she comes out and is like "no one here believes in God..." so we are just like, ok we just want to share a message about the family. so she is like, "ok come in you got 10 minutes..." well that 10 minutes turned into 45 minutes. we found out that she has depression really bad and has tried killing herself like 10 times. she said that the drugs that the doctors give her are not working and that she needs something else (the restored gospel!!!) we taught her about the love of God and prayed with her and it was awesome. at the end she was like, "i want to go to your church." then i pulled out a book of mormon and left her with 3rd nephi 11 where christ comes. usually we have to get down on our hands and knees and plead for the people to read cause chileans dont like to read. so as i was bending over to start pleading she asks, "after i get done with this chapter, can i start reading from the beggining??" haha i told her of course not that would be way too miraculous. so it was so awesome, we are going by tonight to see how it went. 

besides that it was a pretty normal week, teaching people, walking around, getting sick haha the regular. on thanksgiving day we were invited to this ladys house who lived in the usa for a couple years. here they dont celebrate thanksgiving, im just throwing that out there cause every single one of you guys asked me haha. but anyways, we have a nice little thanksgiving lunch and then she comes out with these slices of pumpkin pie... oh man we were in heaven. im sure she may be the only person here in chile that even knows what a pumpkin pie is. anyways it was sweet. 

but ya life is good, just doing my thing down here. next week is changes so i am praying that they dont take me out and they just let me die here. but ya only time will tell. but ya i love you all tons. cant wait to see ya. i love the Lord so much. i love this church and i know that it is true. thanx for everything fam. 

love ya

elder hall

daisy got baptized

hey fam how is life going. everything here is awesome. i am loving life even though it is so hott!!! man the heat has hit and it came with a vengance. but its all good, i am excited to get back to the snow and be able to enjoy the cold. we have had a really good week. we are finding a lot of cool people to teach and it is all good. today we went to a hill called the santa lucía and it was fun. it is right in the middle of the city and over looks everything so it was cool. 

also this week daisy got baptized as you could see in the pics that i sent ya. she is so awesome and the baptizm went really well. between us 4 missionaries, we had 8 investigators in the baptizm. so it was good, almost the same number of members...kinda sad but its all good. it doesnt matter who goes cause the lord is there with his angels. but ya it was fun to be the one who baptized her. she is such a good girl, and has completely changed her life around. also she is helping her family to come unto the church so that is awesome. so the work is progressing here in chile. i am still shocked at how little time i have left. it goes by way to fast, i am trying to work harder and harder but it just keeps going by faster and faster the harder i work. there is nothing i can do to slow it down. but it is all good, i will just try to work my hardest to the last second. i love being a missionary, it is so challenging but so rewarding. thanx for all that you guys do. i love you all so much. have a awesome week.

love 

elder hall

hey fam these are pics of daisy´s baptizm. it went really well. she is so awesome, and she got really emotional when she came up out of the water. also her mom felt the spirit really strongly and i believe that she will be baptized here soon. wow the miracles that go on

hey fam these are pics of my and my son elder bennett at a huge hill called santa lucía. also one is of me and my desendants. me elder burgos (my grandchild), elder bennett (my comp right now) and elder maldonado, (my first son) haha so i have lots of children and soon hope to have a great grandchild haha. well love the mission, its awesome. have a good one

I look over and who do i see? Sister Laycock

Hey fam how is it goin? I love getting letters from you guys you are so awesome. Well everything thing here is going incredible. We had a really good week. I love my son elder bennett he is so awesome, he has the funniest humor. We are just working hard and trying to find the chosen of the Lord. We are trying to use our time well so that my sons feet can get better but at the same time so we are working to our full capasity. It is hard cause our sector is really big and just to get to it take ten minutes of walking but we are doing fine. 

So this week we went into the doctors to see what they could do for elder bennetts feet and the doctor works in the office building of the church were also the santiago east mission is. So we go in and we are walking towards the doctors office and i look over and who do i see? Sister laycock just sitting there making copies of something haha. It was so trunky. She freaked out when she saw me and almost gave me a hug haha. She was way excited. She told me that mom always talked about me, how long i was out and how i was doing. She said that her and president are doing well and just loving life. So ya it was really fun to see her and find out how everything was going. 

Also a couple days ago we had a kinda hard day where we didnt get into any houses. So we decided to start knocking doors and try to get in. So we knock this door and no one comes out so we keep on walking and all the sudden we hear, “hey you guys, were are you from???” so here in chile everyone wants to try out the little english that they know so we are used to that but this time it was said in a perfect acent. So we turn around and what do you know, there are 2 gringas (2 girls from the states for thoes of you who dont know what a gringa is). So we go over and start talking to them and find out they are from washington and california. So they asked us what we were doing and why we were here in chile and so we explained a little about missionary work. Then we told them we wanted to teach them more. One of them said, “ok lets go to this sweet sushi place, ill pay...” haha i wont lie i was pretty tempted, cause i love sushi and i havent had it in like 2 years. But i explained to them that we couldnt go on dates in the mission but we wanted to share a message with them in their house. Then they said that they wanted to know right then and there what we taught... so we ended up teaching the restoration and the word of wisdom and prophets and baptizm and a lot of other stuff for like 30 minutes in the street. It was sweet but way hard cause i have not had to teach the gospel in english like my whole mission. So i kept on coming to words that i couldnt remember for the life of me what they were in english. But it was awesome so we are going back this week to visit them and see how everything is going. Also yesterday we were just walking along and another girl from the states came up and started talk to us. It is so weird, i havent seen so many people from the states before in my mission. Whatev...

But ya all is good. Daisy passed her baptizmal interview yesterday so she will be baptized this Saturday. She chose me to baptize her so that is going to be awesome. I am way excited for her and this step she is going to take. She is a awesome young lady and is going to be a good example for her family. 

Ya well i love you all tons. Hope you have a good week. Keep on praying for me and my investigators. Do the small things that you all know you should (read the scriptures, pray, go to church all three meetings and serve others) and you will be blessed more than you know. 

Love ya tons

Elder hall

Hey mom thanx so so much for always supporting. i love you so much. you are so awesome and i am thankful for all that you have done for me. me training really helped me realize how much parents give up for their kids. it is different in the mission i know, its not that intense but you still have to sacrifice yourself to help your children. i am so thankful for all that you do. you are awesome. i hope you know how much i love you. you have always been one of my best friends and i know that you are a angel sent from heaven to help me. have a awesome week mom. love ya tons. 

elder hall