the fleas love me…

Hola family. So I will let you guys guess where I am… Ya keep on thinking, I don’t think you are going to be able to figure it out. Right now I am in a place called San Antonio. I am on the coast my friends!!! Ya it is pretty sweet, it is every missionary’s dream to be on the coast so I feel really happy. It is so cool here. San Antonio is actually a port but we are about 10 min away from a awesome beach. And I got here right in the perfect time. The president doesn’t let the missionaries enter into the beach during summer, because of the women… But in about 2 weeks summer is over so he is going to let us go to the beach, I am pretty excited. I realized that I haven’t seen the ocean for like 5 years cause the last time you guys went to California I was in ohio (you punks).

But ya life is good. But here there are ups and downs. Literally ups and downs cause san Antonio is like just 3 big hills. It reminds me a lot of san Francisco cause it has some big hills. But that isn’t a very big problem. The biggest problem that I have right now are the pulgas or in English, fleas. Ya remember when I had them in my first sector, well this sector is the worst sector for fleas in the mission. Lets just say that the fleas love me… I have oven 50 flea bites and they kill. They itch like heck. I have oven 20 just on my waist. My first night here they just attacked me. But its all good cause of my “wife point theory”. Everytime something bad happens when you are on the mission your wife gets hotter. If you want proof, just check out nephi and his wife. But ya I am fighting with the fleas right now but I think I will win, but its going to take time.

Well my sector is huge. It is two big hills and there are tons and tons of houses. It has a lot of people waiting I just hope I will be able to find the people who are ready. My comps name is Elder geisler. He is from the north of California. He has 3 months in chile but he speaks Spanish pretty well. We get along really well, he is a good guy. He is kinda crazy but all my comps have been a little crazy. He is a really big fan of death metal which will give you guys a pretty good description of him. But he likes to work and is a really good comp. We life in an apartment with the zone leaders in the tallest building in san Antonio. But it stinks cause he live on the 2nd floor and there is a building between us and the ocean so we can only see a little bit of it. But we might move soon to a higher apartment. Also I have had problems with my big toe. I got another ingrown toenail but this one is on the other foot. It is a lot harder to have it cause we are walking up and down hills all day but I think I will be able to fix it soon. 

This is becky and gina the 2 little girls who are going to be baptized in like a week. they were so awesome!!!

This has been a good week. There are a couple cool people here that we are teaching. But I think the way we are going to have success here is by finding a lot of new people. My first day here we found this awesome girl named maricela. She is 21 years old and really smart and spiritual. A member told us that she had a friend who wanted to know about our church so she invited her over. We got there and the first thing that maricela asked us was how she could be a missionary… 

Wow that took me by surprise. So we explained that she could but she would have to find out if this church is true or not. So we left her with moroni 10 and challenged her to read and pray. So we came back two days later and she told us that she had read and prayed and she received her answer. We challenged her to be baptized right there and she accepted. So she will be baptized here soon. So we are already seeing miracles, its awesome. 

Thanx for everything family. Make sure that you keep praying for me and my investigators. I hope you guys know how much I love ya. Have a awesome week ok? Make sure you keep reading and praying and doing all you can to follow Christ. 

I love you all tons. 

Elder Hall

“They are servants of Jesus Christ…”

Hey family how are you all doin? Sounds like you guys had a good weekend and are still having fun down in mesquite. All is well here. The biggest news right now is that i have changes again… Man i am not going to lie, i was really really mad last night. I wanted to stay here, cause we are seeing so many miracles and there is so much to do. I love this sector and the ward members and i am going to miss it here. But it is all good, the Lord knows what i need to do and where i need to be. So i will put my trust in him, and i know all will be well. 

This week has been another awesome week. In the church we had 7 investigators and 4 of them are going to get baptized in this next change. I will take pics of them today and send the pics to you guys. Also i was able to see all 3 of my converts in church. Belen and her family were there. Also anastasia and her brother came. Then my comp had a interview in Las Naciones, my last sector, so we went to that chapel. There i saw constanca, the girl that got baptized there a week after i left. Oh it was so awesome. All of my converts are active, a lot of missionarys cant say that. I am so proud of the work that i have been able to do so far in my mission. I dont have any regrets and have worked my butt off. I only have half my mission left but i am going to keep workin my butt off and do my best till the end of my mission. 

So i had a pretty cool valentines day. First off we were knocking doors during the day to find new people to teach and this young guy and girl pull up in their car behind us. So we go over to talk to them and i get shocked out of my head when the girl starts speaking perfect english. Then i realized that she had a accent from austrailia… Haha it was so weird doing a contact in english. I explained what we were doing, who we are and she said that we could pass by this week. It was so fun talking to someone in english but it stinks that i wont be able to teach her, cause i am leaving. But it was still cool. 

Then we were walking down the street and it started getting dark. This drunk guy aproched us and started talking to us. He was plastered but he wanted to talk about christ. So we talked to him for a little but for some reason he really liked talkin to me. Then at the end he asked me for my number and said that he wanted to call me… Haha at that point i realized that he was a little too friendly. So we told him we had to go and he took my hand and wouldnt let me go… OH man it was scary but after it was funny. So on valentines day i had my own little secret valentine… Kind of haha. 

Lastly the other day we were walking down the street and there was this little girl playing with her friends. They were probably 6 or 7 years old. They stopped playing when they saw us and one of the little girls asks her friend, “who are they?” The answer the other little girl gave was so incredible, it really shocked me. She said, “They are servants of Jesus Christ…” Wow that was so awesome. It really hit me hard. A little girl can reconize that we are servants of Christ, but older people have no clue. In the scriptures it talks a couple times about “out of the mouth of babes, the wise are confounded,” and it is really true. I love being a missionary. 

But ya fam thats what happened this week. I will keep you guys updated on what is going to happen in the near future. Who my comp is going to be, where i am going to be and everything. But i love you guys so much. Hope you have a awesome week. Keep reading your scriptures and praying and doing all the thinks that you know you need to do. 

Love ya. 

Elder hall

I am so blessed to see so many amazing miracles

Ok family this week has been one of the best weeks I think I have had on my mission. I have seen so many miracles it is so crazy. First off I am going to let you guys know that in this sector I have lost tons of weight. It is really good and nice not to have my pants really tight… haha I figured out the secret is that you cant eat at night. If you do then you are going to blow up like a balloon… but ya that is the first miracle that I have seen this week. But don’t worry it gets lots better.

So we started teaching this girl named Joanna. She is about 24 years old and has been dating the brother of Belen, (my little red head convert) for about a year. So we shared with her lesson 1 and 2. Also a couple days ago her sister in law fell from a 9 story building and died. So she had tons of questions and concerns. When she hear lesson 2, which is the plan of salvation, she believed in everything and said that she is going to share it with her brother. Then we challenged her to read the Book of Mormon and pray about it. So she did it that night. She told us and so got on her knees and started praying with all her might. She said that she asked for forgiveness of her sins, she prayed for her brother and last but not least, to see if this church is true. She said that she had never felt feelings like that in her life. She said that she felt a peace and she knows came strait from God. After she got done praying she fell to sleep immediately, something that she hasn’t been able to do for 2 weeks. She told us that she wants to be baptized!!! First thought, she is going to talk to her mom, who is hard core catholic, so if you guys could make sure to pray for her that would be awesome. 

That was my first miracle. Second, we got home from church yesterday and went to lunch. We were sitting there waiting for the member to make our food and she introduced us to her 2 nieces who recently moved here from another part of Santiago. They are named Becky and Gina. Becky is 12 years old and Gina, 10. we found out that they want to get baptized more than anything. They already received the missionary´s but were never able to go to church cause their dad works Sundays. But here they have gone 3 times now and they both bore their testimonies last week. They are really smart and said that they are going to pray about the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith. We already put a baptismal date with them, for the 22 of this month. So we are really excited for them!!!

So as you can see we are seeing tons of miracles. but that’s not the end of them. I don’t know if I have told you guys that my dad in the mission, elder Hansen right now is assistant to the president. So last week our fridge broke and he came to give us another one. While we were talking he told me that one lady that we were teaching in Melipilla, my first sector got baptized about 6 months ago!!! She was this really awesome lady and I am glad that she was able to take this huge step in her life. Also in Las naciones, my last sector, Alison, a girl that we were teaching is going to be baptized in a week. 

Man it is crazy to see all these things that are going on here. One person can really have a huge effect on lots of people. I am so blessed to see all these amazing miracles. I love the mission, I have been able to grow so much and I just keep on growing. Make sure you guys keep on praying for me and my investigators. I love ya tons. Hey tell Tyson congrats from his cous at the bottom of the world. Let G-ma and G-pa hall know how much I love them. Tell G-ma lam that I love her tons too and sorry for not writing her, I never have any time. I love you all. Have a awesome week. 

Love

Elder hall

Font of cold water

Hey family sorry for not writting you guys yesterday. I have been having so many problems with the stupid computers here. Yesterday i spent the first 30 minutes trying to get logged into my account. Then after that I got to read all the emails that you guys sent me but it took forever. Then when I tried to write you guys it kept erasing my emails…oh man I was so frustrated. So after about a hour of fighting the computer me and my comp finally gave up. I guess the church site is having problems so I am sure all the missionaries in the world are having problems talking with the families. But ya now everything is all good…

Haha this have been a pretty good week. We are working as hard as ever to find new people to teach and trying to help the people we have to progress. This past Saturday we had the baptism of Anastasia. It went really well, but at the first I was about to have a heart attack. We got there and started the baptismal font and went to go visit a investigator. Then we came back and there was barely any water. And it was 8:30. the baptism was suppost to start at 9. so I was freaking out. So then at nine the only people that were at the baptism were me and my comp, Anastasia, her brother and grandpa, and the president of the primary…oh man I was freaking out. And still we didn’t have very much water. So we turned off the hott water and turned on just cold. Finally at 9:30 we had enough water and about 20 other people showed up so it all turned out good. At the end all went well and it was a very nice baptismal service. Anastasia said that the water was kinda cold but that it was ok haha. 

Also this week we found this really awesome lady. We were knocking doors in the blocks (really getto) and we knocked this door and this lady came out. We told her that we are reps of Jesus Christ and we wanted to enter to leave a blessing on her house so that she would be more calm and happy. So she let us in and we did blessed the house. After that, she told us that she has been passing through a really hard time. A little while back their 14 year old daughter told them that she is pregnant. The dad flipped out. So the mom send her daughter to the south with some relatives so that the dad wouldn’t do anything stupid. So the dad left a couple days ago and still hadn’t arrived when we got there. She said that she hasn’t felt peaceful or calm for 2 weeks and then when we got there she felt so calm. We taught about eternal families and that this life is for us to progress and learn. We taught about the atonement and it was awesome. She said that she loved it and wants to learn more. So we are going to go and teach her and her husband and hopefully in the near future her daughter. 

But ya I better go cause I don’t know if this email is going to work or not. I hope that it doesn’t get deleted again. I love you all tons. Hope you have a awesome week. Keep praying for me. Chao!!!

Love

Elder hall