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