Angels that fell out of heaven...

Hey fam how are ya? 

Everything here in chile is good. I am loving the mission. Mom, i am glad you got my letter. Ya that was my drawing, my skills are getting better eh? So ya, to send me letters and packages and stuff like that you just write it just like i wrote on my letter to you. Make sure you capitalize the part that is capitalized and everything. 

That is cool to hear that justin got his call. You will have to tell him or his mom congrats from me. I am excited and after the mission we can all speak spanish to each other. Also tell bry good luck and that i am praying for him to get a job. Thanx for praying for my investagators. Really quick before i forget, if you could look at my account and let me know how much money is in there that would be good. I took out about 100 dollars 2 or 3 weeks ago and i just want to know how much i have, thanx. 

So the other day we went into this members house to ask them to come with us to teach and guess what they were watching. Mr bean...haha i couldnt help but watch a couple mins. It was so funny and it reminded me of home and i just kept thinkin of how you guys love it. 

Dad, thanx for the letter, i started crying when you wrote about chris and bishop. I am such a bawl baby but whenever i hear about him i start crying. Haha landon and jenna and jansen thanx for the letters as always. Sorry i cant answer every one individually i feel bad but know that i love you guys. I dont have very much time so i cant, sorry guys but keep doin what your doing. Your awesome. 

So i wanted to tell ya about a little tradition or something that they have here. It is called the “boca twecho” or crooked mouth. It is this wifes tale or something but they really believe in it, its hilarious. So the weather is getting colder and the wind is starting to blow and rain and what not. And so they have this story that if you come out from your house and the warm into the cold weather then your mouth will go crooked and will stay that way. So last night we knocked a door and the lady came out with her hand covering her face and she wouldnt talk to us, she just pointed and told us to go...these people and their stories haha.

So We found this lady named noris and we went into her house, which by the way is huge!!! Anyways we walk in and she has alcohol everywhere...so we teach her and she loves it. She is a hardcore baptist but she really believes in christ and it is awesome. So we invited her to come to church and she said she would but we didnt believe her. So Sunday we are sitting there and we took the sacrament and looked around and she wasnt there, so we were like dang she said she would come. So when the sacrament was done they opened the doors and there she was, she comes in with her daughter and she loves sacrament. And her daughters best friend is the president of our wards daughter. So this lady is awesome. And to add to that, they passed the sign up sheet for lunch around in relief society and she signed up to give us lunch!!! It was so awesome so we hope she will except a baptismal date. 

One other thing, we were walking along one night and saw this car. All the sudden it just died. So we run over and ask if we can help this guy. So he says yes. So we end up pushing his car seriously like a mile. It was so awesome we were hauling trash haha. And then when we were about to go he was like, “i think you guys are angels that fell out of heaven...” so we are goin to go teach him next week. 

We have seen so many miracles. It is crazy. We gave a bom to this guy who guards our little villa and he has read through half of it in the last 2 weeks!!! Tons of sweet things has happened. 

This morning we got up and we were out of gas so that means, no hot water to shower...it was freezing. I think i have hypothermia now but ya. Also i am goin to send ya pics of my hair today. I decided that i would...well i will let ya see for yourselfs. 

Ya so the other day i totally had a break down. I was so sick of not being able to say what i wanted to say and understand very well and i taught a horrible lesson one and i was so depressed. I am so sick of not being able to speak and do what i want to do. But i realized that this is a test. I know that the language will come i just need to do all that i can and try my hardest. Ether 12:6. i just need to be patient and try and i will soon be able to do all i need to do. 

Some of the pics that i send was of us doing service, of this little cute girl that reminds me of aaliyah and my scripture cases i hope ya like them

Well i dont know what else to say, i never know what to say. But i love hearing from you guys. So far every time people have put tomatoes on my plate i have eaten them. And the other day we had this desert called flan. It is like a mix of pudding and jello but it is made of eggs and with this sick sauce on it. It was like barfing but the opposite direction...and to add to the nastyness, it had a nice black hair right in the middle. I couldnt do it, i just said i was stuffed and couldnt eat anymore ahaha. 

Well i love you all tons. I cant wait to call and talk to ya on the phone. It is goin to be sweet. Tell all the gmas and gpas hi and aunts and uncles and friends and whoever else. I know that this church is so true. I have such a strong testimony. I love you all so so so much

Love,

Elder hall

Keep up the good work

a peacefull and wonderful feeling

Hello family!!!

How is everything? All is well here. I am still loving the work. It is as hard as ever but awesome. I felt so much better this week. It was nice to not be sick. I think it is just the schedule the work the food the water and everything just piling on but i think i am good now. 

So the weather here is getting colder. We are goin into the end of fall start of winter, it is crazy. At night all i sleep with is my blanket that i got from sis mower, we have a ton of blankets but i dont get cold so i just use that one. But when we are walking around at night it gets pretty cold. So we wear our jackets and soon i might even have to wear my sweater... i know that will make you smile mom, cause you are always right hahah. Ya so 2 weeks ago i checked my weight cause i felt like my pants were getting tighter and i am 147, i was 155 when i left the mtc. Which means i lost what little muscle i had and now i am pure fat...oh well its all good, it will keep me warmer during winter :). 

I know you would be so proud of me, i have eaten every single tomatoe this week that has been put on my plate. It has been hard, but i did it. Also today i found this stuff that is like peanut butter and is made from peanuts but it is chocolate!!! It is incredible hahah. While i am on this subject there are a couple of things i would like to have sent to me if possible.

• 4-5 of the purple auzzy hair gel (cause that is the only gel that works with my hair)
• watermellon sourpatch kids cause i love them, twix, recess, kitkat, snickers, poptarts cause i miss them :( 
•  advil 
• and about my electric razor, i dont know how long the blades last but maybe you could send me some more. 
•  Also for my fusion 5 blade manual razon if you could send me some heads. 
•  And any other stuff you would feel would be nice for your fav son to have!!!

Anyways onto the news. So we have incredible investagators. We set a date with a guy named alex to be baptized!!! If you could pray for him that would be cool. He came to church and said “i want to learn all i can about the church so i can be baptized!” he is awesome. Also we found this lady named cristina. Her story is funny So we were walking down the street and decided to contact her. She was like no, i believe in god but i dont have time...blah blah blah and said if we meet again then it will be a sign from god. So we were like whatever, and forgot about her. Then this week we were walking and saw her and we were like, there is your sign :) so she was like ya, but i dont have work and blah blah blah making all these excuses. So we promised her if she would listen to us she would find work. So we go to her house and she comes running out and said that she had found the most amazing job!!! Then we taught a killer first lesson and she understood it all and it was awesome. Also she said that when she saw us the first time she wondered why we were so happy and had a glow around us. Then she said there was a peacefull and wonderful feeling when we talked to her. So that was way cool, what a testimony builder that was. But her husband is a die hard catholic who was born a catholic, raised a catholic and will die a catholic so that is goin to be our trial. 

I am loving it here. The other day i had coffee...well it is called ecco and it is non cafinated coffee and it is ok to drink, it is what the members can have instead of coffee but it is nasty so i am never goin to have it again. I have a month in chile it is crazy it seems like yesterday that i was stepping off the plane. It was cool cause we did a contact and my comp was talking to the mom and then the dad started talking to me. And i had a conversation with him all by myself, it was awesome!!! The gift of tongues is so so so real. The language is really progressing. 

Also i had changes with the zone leaders so i went to their sector. So we go to the first appt and it is this lady in her 25s about and we are teaching her. Then her daughter comes over and gets on her lap. So then she starts lifting her shirt up and i am like what the heck is goin on??? So i look at the zone leader and he is still teaching and going on like nothing is wrong. So i look back at her and she is breast feeding right in front of us! I couldnt believe it, i guess it is just normal to breast feed anywhere. But it was so hard cause the whole time i am trying not to look and keep eye contact with her and trying to speak spanish. I was so flustered by the time i left....and that same thing happened 4 times that day. And 2 of the women were memebers!!! It is crazy the culture here is definately different.

Well i better go, i hope you liked my letter. I know the church is true. This is the lords work. I love it. I love you guys so much. Thanx for the letters. I look forward to hearing from ya all week. Tell everyone hi and i love them. 

Love

Elder Hall 

cool to see all the miracles

Hey mom and dad this is you favorite son elder hall. How is everything? I am doin pretty well. I have been feeling really sick this week. I am so sick of it cause it really interferes with the work. I dont know why i am sick either so i dont know how to fix it or what to do. When you are sick it is impossible to feel the spirit so i hope soon i will start feeling better.

Well my life is great besides being sick. I am having tons of fun and always loving the work. It is so cool to see all the miracles every day. About ted, we have stopped teaching him because his wife said she would divorce him if we continued and so he asked us to stop coming by. It is sad when this happenes because i know that they need this gospel so much in their lives but they cant see it.

Ya well we have been teaching this mother and her daughter. They are so awesome. The mom is like 60 and her daughter is like 40. the mom has 2 other daughters who are really having a hard time and they are doing drugs and all these things but they said they cant put the book of mormon down because of “this feeling” they get every time they read it. Its so cool. So we put a baptisimal date with them. They will be baptised hopefully in a month but we are having trouble getting them to church. So many people here are just lazy so they know it is true but they dont want to do anything about it. So we will see how that goes.

I hope this email works because the email site has been having a hard time today and it keeps shutting down and stuff. I will try my hardest to get this too ya. About the cd, ya i do have something i can use to play cds so if she wants to she can send me something. Tell gma and gpa hall and elaine i love them. Tell gma lam and tracy and sham i love them too.

Sorry i dont really know what to say in this email. This week has been really hard. 2 days ago we had the whole day planned with planned and everything. And everything fell through. Not one person let us in the whole day and we didnt get one contact. Usually we will get at least 5 or 6 a day but we couldnt get one. It was a hard day. And yesterday was a lot like it. But i think that the lord is just getting us ready for a huge miracle.

Oh ya, so 3 days ago we had our first service project. We helped a member move to a different house. This was a family of 5. it took us about 2 hours to take all their stuff down 4 floors of stairs, packed into a truck, and unpacked in the new house. 2 hours... i remembered the last house i helped move when i was at home and it probably took 2 days. We are so spoiled in the us and i realized that. But the people here are so strong so it is amazing.

Anyways keep me updated on everything. Oh did justin get his mission call yet? Anything exciting goin on? i better be goin but i love you guys so much. You guys are awesome. Keep praying for me and if you could pray for a investagator we have named mario. He is having trouble with the word of wisdom. Anyways your all awesome. The church is true.

With tons of love

Elder hall

Hey Ma!

hey ma :) how is everything? i am so gald to hear from ya. ya i havent written anyone but our family and i am not suppost to write anyone else but the fam so ya... i am glad you liked the pics it takes forever to download them so i think i might just wait for a couple weeks or so then send ya a small box with stuff and my camera card so you can just download them onto the computer. ya you can send pics on this i think, just try and see if it works. i am gald you like my letters. i dont know what to say most of the time cause so much happenes but i cant remember what happened this morning so it is hard, but it is awesome. i love the work. so today was cool cause we got to go and play soccer with some guys in a branch. also we had a bbq which was amazing. it was really fun. i hope your calling is goin well, i know how you get really uptight and nervous when you get a calling but you can do it cause you have never not been able to do anything. you are the super mom :) 

mom, i miss ya tons. as i was watching conference and they started talkin about moms i couldnt help with cry. i felt very homesick as i saw the conference center and the temple. i couldnt help but let my thoughts wander to what you guys were doing right then which i was sure you were at gmas eating treats and playing games and watching conference... i want to let ya know how great of a mom you are. you are so under appreciated i have come to realize that. you have always done so much for me and i dont think i have thanked you enough so thank you thank you thank you thank you!!! i love ya tons!!!! you have always been a great example to me of love and support and service. you and dad always were looking to serve and help others even when it would be hard for you or took personal sacrifice. i am glad you have made me do the same even when i didnt really want to... 

ya anyways i am sorry bout that but i just had to say it. ya so we did get to watch conference. i was scared cause they couldnt find a tv for us to watch it in english so i wouldnt have gotten to understand very much but at the last second they found one. what a amazing conference it was. i got to see it all. this is the first time in my life that i have done so. what a amazing opportunity it is to listen to the lords servants. i have always taken it for granted but being here and seeing that none of the world knows that god really does speak to us today makes me so much more greatful. elder hollands and elder bednar and elder monsons talks were definately my favorite. the last session was such a power house, it was incredible. 

so keep me updated on the ward and when justin gets his call and all that stuff. i cant wait for mothers day to come so i can call you guys and talk for a while. it should be so sweet. i am glad chris is doing well, tell the cummings family hi for me. tell them how much i love them. 

i got to write gma lam. but i didnt get to talk to grandma hall and grandpa or elaine. tell them hi and that i love them and they are in my prayers. oh also i have been praying for bryant to recieve a job so i hope he has, if you could let me know that would be great. tell tamera and shaun thanx a ton. 

well my time is up so i need to go but i know this church is true. i love it so much. it has helped me so much in my life. it changes life and i hope to change someones life. i hope by serving the lord i will make a difference in this land. 

mom your the best. you and dad are awesome. i love the whole family. make sure to tell shae and lyndsie and chandon and mekhii and aaliyah and jacob and chad and anyone else i have forgoten (sorry :( ) i love ya all. you are all so awesome. have a great week and make sure to choose the right!!!!!!!!!

with tons and tons of love

elder hall

ps i hope i answered all your question but if i didnt send them next time. also if you get the urge to send me mountain dew or dr pepper, dont fight it :) 

love ya bye

Hey Dad!

hey pops how goes the work? haha the work here is great. i love it, it is the hardest thing i have ever done in my life...but it is also the most amazing. it is so hard to explain my feelings but i love it. when everyone back home told me it was the best two years of their lives they left out the fact why it was the best two years of their lives... its is not because every single day it amazing and wonderful and full of joy and love and the spirit... cause that is what i thought and it is not true. the reason it is the best two years is because of the trials you go through. the strength you gain. the powerful testimony you grow. these things dont come with daysies and tulips. they come with hardship, sickness, tiredness, rejection, bad food, no food, blisters, soreness and the list goes on and on. but this is how we learn. we couldnt learn if everything was easy. the days that are the hardest are the best days. 

we had this day when i was feeling really really sick. it was hot and we were walking around all day. no one would listen to us, and all our apointments fell through. i was getting really upset and really stressed. my comp said that we should have an agenda prayer which is when we pull out our agendas and flip through them while we are praying so it doesnt look like we are praying in the middle of the street. after this the day totally changed. people started listening, we started getting apointments and people letting us in their houses, and i started feeling not so sick. it was incredible, the power of prayer is so real!!! 

ya so conference was amazing wasnt it? but it was sad cause it was the most home sick i have felt in the mission. the whole day i kept on thinking about what the family was doing. but i think really the thing i was missing the most was being able to go to priesthood session with you... i was so depressed cause that was one of my favorite traditions in the world!!! i love goin with you then goin out to eat after wards, and i felt so left out cause i was miles and miles aways. but i still enjoyed it and this is the first time i have watched all of the session. i was so proud i stayed awake the whole time. 

wow, tell shawn and tamera thanx thanx thanx!!! that is so incredible that they would do that for me. what a amazing thing that is. tell them thanx and that i know that the lord will bless them so much for that sacrifice for me. d and c 130:20 and 21. they are helping me help the people of chile and they will be blessed so much for that. 

oh also one other thing that happened on the 6th was that sister hinkley passed away...just wanted ya to know that.

that is so sweet that your work is growing so much and giving you an opportunity to grow. i know that the lord is blessing you for your amazing work and examle in his work. he is always blessing us more than we see. we can never repay him for all that he does for us. we are in debt for the rest of eternity because even when we do try to pay him back and do what is right, he just blesses us more and more. so we can never get even or ahead. but we still need to try our hardest to do so. 

thanx for your prayers. you will never know how much they really help. every time i think it is too hard or i think about giving up i think of you and mom and everyone at home praying for me and i dont want to let you guys down. you are awesome. i love ya so much. the tomatoes are still sick...but i am eating them more and more. 

la inglesia de jesucristo de los santos de los ultimos dias es verdad. jesucrist es mi salvador y redentor. thomas s monson es un siervo de dios y guidados la iglesia hoy. a traves la expiacion de jesus podemos vivir con nuestros familias para siempre. te amo mucho. la obra es progresando siempre. yo se que el libro de mormon es la palabra de dios 

con mucho amor

elder hall :)

Love you Jenna!

hey jenna my red headed friend. how are ya? i hope all is well with ya. i am glad you enjoyed conference, i did as well. that is so cool that you are writting a book. you and landon are so much smarter than i was at your age, its amazing. keep it up. work your hardest at school and trust me in the long run it will be so worth it. well have a great week love ya tons j

elder hall

I dont think i have thanked you enough...

hey ma :) 

how is everything? i am so gald to hear from ya. ya i havent written anyone but our family and i am not suppost to write anyone else but the fam so ya... i am glad you liked the pics it takes forever to download them so i think i might just wait for a couple weeks or so then send ya a small box with stuff and my camera card so you can just download them onto the computer. ya you can send pics on this i think, just try and see if it works. i am gald you like my letters. i dont know what to say most of the time cause so much happenes but i cant remember what happened this morning so it is hard, but it is awesome. i love the work. so today was cool cause we got to go and play soccer with some guys in a branch. also we had a bbq which was amazing. it was really fun. i hope your calling is goin well, i know how you get really uptight and nervous when you get a calling but you can do it cause you have never not been able to do anything. you are the super mom :) 

mom, i miss ya tons. as i was watching conference and they started talkin about moms i couldnt help with cry. i felt very homesick as i saw the conference center and the temple. i couldnt help but let my thoughts wander to what you guys were doing right then which i was sure you were at gmas eating treats and playing games and watching conference... i want to let ya know how great of a mom you are. you are so under appreciated i have come to realize that. you have always done so much for me and i dont think i have thanked you enough so thank you thank you thank you thank you!!! i love ya tons!!!! you have always been a great example to me of love and support and service. you and dad always were looking to serve and help others even when it would be hard for you or took personal sacrifice. i am glad you have made me do the same even when i didnt really want to... 

ya anyways i am sorry bout that but i just had to say it. ya so we did get to watch conference. i was scared cause they couldnt find a tv for us to watch it in english so i wouldnt have gotten to understand very much but at the last second they found one. what a amazing conference it was. i got to see it all. this is the first time in my life that i have done so. what a amazing opportunity it is to listen to the lords servants. i have always taken it for granted but being here and seeing that none of the world knows that god really does speak to us today makes me so much more greatful. elder hollands and elder bednar and elder monsons talks were definately my favorite. the last session was such a power house, it was incredible. 

so keep me updated on the ward and when justin gets his call and all that stuff. i cant wait for mothers day to come so i can call you guys and talk for a while. it should be so sweet. i am glad chris is doing well, tell the cummings family hi for me. tell them how much i love them. 

i got to write gma lam. but i didnt get to talk to grandma hall and grandpa or elaine. tell them hi and that i love them and they are in my prayers. oh also i have been praying for bryant to recieve a job so i hope he has, if you could let me know that would be great. tell tamera and shaun thanx a ton. 

well my time is up so i need to go but i know this church is true. i love it so much. it has helped me so much in my life. it changes life and i hope to change someones life. i hope by serving the lord i will make a difference in this land. 

mom your the best. you and dad are awesome. i love the whole family. make sure to tell shae and lyndsie and chandon and mekhii and aaliyah and jacob and chad and anyone else i have forgoten (sorry :( ) i love ya all. you are all so awesome. have a great week and make sure to choose the right!!!!!!!!!

with tons and tons of love

elder hall

ps i hope i answered all your question but if i didnt send them next time. also if you get the urge to send me mountain dew or dr pepper, dont fight it :) love ya bye