I love the temple so much

Hey fam how is everything goin. Everything here is well. We had a really awesome week. This week we were able to go to the temple. Man I love the temple so much, make sure that you guys take advantage of having temples all around you. They are such blessings in our lives. 

Well today I am not going to write much. Tons happened this week but it is all just regular missionary stuff that you guys already know about. Joselyn and Rafael are really excited to get married. They will be married this Thursday so make sure to keep them in your prayers. 

So maricela, my convert has helped us so much. She just gives us tons and tons of references. We are going to baptize her whole street haha. We met with one of her friends and it was really good. This woman really needs our help. She is messed up in drugs and alcohol and has 2 little kids. She just smokes the drugs right in front of them. They are so young and cute. But it is sad cause the husband of her beats her so we are going to try to help them. She is really awesome she just needs to find the right way to relax herself. 

these are some photos that i took of the santiago temple. also we had a ward activity and it was really awesome. little kids dressed up like they look there and danced to "forever young". 

Also this week I had a baptismal interview. It was with onofre, the blind guy. It was so incredible to be able to listen to him and hear his testimony. He is a awesome guy and is going to be a awesome member. His faith in Jesus is incredible. When I was listening to him bear his testimony, I felt like for a moment I was Jesus and I felt so much love for him. I felt the spirit so strong and I new that he had repented and changed his life. It was a really awesome experience. Here is a pic of a sunset here. 

That is basically what happened this week. Hope you all are doing well. I love you all tons and I am always praying for you all. Have a great week and keep on keeping!!!

Chao 

Love

Elder hall

she needed to enter in the water and clean herself

Hey family this has been a really awesome week. We have seen too many miracles I don’t feel worthy but the Lord knows that. But I am all He has so he has to use me. But man has it been awesome. First off we have been working with this young couple whose names are Joselin and Rafael. They are so awesome. This week we talked about eternal marriage and we watched the movie together forever. They aren’t married so we challenged them to live the law of chastity and get married. They said yes!!!! So today in the morning we went down to the center and we got all the paperwork ready and they put a date to get married, the 28th of this month!!!! Also my comp and I are going to be witnesses for the wedding. Oh man it is so awesome. Also we put a baptismal date with them for the 20th of june!!! They are so excited and so ready. So make sure to keep them in your prayers. 

So Rafael said that he wasn’t going to be able to come to church cause he has to work on Sundays and so his future wife, joselin came. We were sitting there in sacrament meeting and the door opens. We all look over and there is Rafael… Oh man it was so awesome, he traded shifts with one of his co workers and came to church. It was such a huge miracle. They love the church and are really excited to take this huge step in their lives. 

Then last night we saw another huge miracle. So we went over to maricelas house, the recent convert. We walked in and the mom said that she was out with a friend but she was going to return in like 30 minutes. So we decided to talk with her. We had taught her almost all the lessons and she came to church one time but that’s where she stopped progressing. So we stopped teaching her. So we are talking to her and she tells us about a dream that she had. She was in the forest and there was a man dressed in white. The man asked her why she was all dirty. She looked down and her cloths were covered in dirt and blood. Then the man told her that she needed to be cleaned. He told her that she needed to enter in the water and clean herself. That is when she woke up. So me and my comp were like cool that is awesome. Then she said, “I want to be clean. I want to be baptized…” man, when she said that my heart dropped. I couldn’t believe what I had heard, I thought I was imagining it. Haha it was so incredible. So said that she wants it to be a surprize so we aren’t going to maricela. Then when her mom is going to be baptized she is going to walk into the chapel and see her mom dressed in white… It is going to be so awesome. 

Right now we are finding tons of new people and just having tons of success. I love the mission so much. Everything is awesome. It sounds like everything at home is crazy but that’s all good. Well I hope you guys have a great week. I love you all so much. Hope you guys are doing well. You are always in my prayers. Have a good one

Love

Elder hall

actually I like tomatoes now

Hey fam how is everything goin?? It was really good to hear from you all yesterday. Everything here is good. Last night I found out that I don’t have changes so everything is good. That means that I will be here for at least 6 more weeks. I really love it here and I am excited to keep on working with the investigators that we have. To answer your question mom, yes actually I like tomatoes now, but they have to be prepared right. But it is weird to like something that I used to hate. Sorry this is going to be a short letter cause there isn’t much to talk about but I hope that you guys are having fun. if you guys ever want to know anything just ask me. I love you all tons. 

Have a awesome week. 

Elder hall

Some punks broke into the chapel

Hello family how is everything goin? Everything here is awesome. We had a awesome pday today. This morning we woke up and all the zone came to our chapel to have breakfast. So we get there and we enter and there are like 2 broken chairs and a fire distinguisher there on the floor. Someone had broken into the chapel. And this isn’t a regular chapel back in the states, it is really secure. If you want to look at my old pics, there are a couple pics of my past chapels. They have a 15 foot fence around it with spikes at the top. Then every window has bars on it and the front door is very secure. It has a key that is costs 30 dollars to open it. So what the punks did is they took some kind of drill and went through the cement in the back of the chapel to get in. They were going for the clerks office. But also the clerks office here is a lot more secure than in the states. It has a metal door that when it locks metal bars come out into the wall. Then all the way around the room is a cement wall that is a good 4 feet thick. Then there is another room inside the clerks office that is like a big safe. That is where the punks were trying to get into. It has 2 tvs, dvd players and the safe with all the tithing money. And since yesterday was fast and testimony they chose this morning to break in when the most money would be in there. It is sad to say but we are sure that there was a member or less active involved in the robbery. Thankfully they weren’t able to get it. They got away with 2 computers from the family history center but not much else. They just caused a lot of damage… it is really sad but the lords work will not be frustrated!!!

Ya well we decided to call the cops and go to another chapel for the activity. So we went there and had a sweet breakfast with breakfast burritos. Afterwards we went out back and played volley ball. Then we took taxies and went to “las rocas de santo domingo” a beach that is really really rich. (the houses look like those in the states.) so we went to the beach and ran around in the sand and took pics and at the end we had a testimony meeting there on the beach. It was a really fun experience. 

Yesterday we saw a miracle. So a month ago we started teaching maricela, the convert that is always helping us. When we started teaching her, her mom didn’t want anything to do with the church, she didn’t even let us enter in the house. Little by little we have been teaching her and yesterday she came to the chapel. Oh man it was so cool to see her there. She said that she liked it a lot and she felt the spirit really strong. It is so cool to see how different she is now. She is reading the book of mormon every day and praying. We will see how everything goes but right now everything with her is awesome. 

So this week i was in the house of a member and they offered me empanadas and so i ate one. But i guess it was made wrong… So the next morning i wake 6 and rush to the bathroom ready to puke my guts out. Which i did. I puked all my lunch and the empanada up. I felt like crap. So all that day i was sicker than heck. But we had to go to lunch so that my comp could eat so we went to the chapel cause the relief society was having a activity there. So we go in and lunch is all ready and there are like 15 women sitting there as we walk in. We sit down and I tell them that i am sick and i am not going to be able to eat… What a mistake. There were 15 mothers there and 15 different opinions on how they were going to make me feel better. I asked for coca cola cause mom always told me when i was sick to drink coca, and they just exploded. Some started saying how it is against the word of wisdom, some said that it was the best thing i could have and others said that i was going to die if i drank coca cola… Oh man it was like world war 3 in there. So my comp hurried and ate and we went running out of there while we still could. Man was it an experience. 

One last thing before i end. This week i was thinking all week long on what i should teach my district in district meeting. So i was praying and praying and thinking and the subject of obedience kept coming to my mind. But i kept saying no no i am not going to teach that. Everyone knows what obedience is and how important it is and that they need to be obedient. The first thing that they teach us in the mtc is obedience and they don’t need to hear it again. But that subject just kept coming and coming to my mind over and over again. So i decided i would teach it but i didn’t understand why. So Wednesday morning we get to district meeting and 2 of the senor comps in my district come up to me and tell me that their comps are having a lot of trouble with being obedient… Haha wow it was such a cool experience cause i was so ready. I have a strong testimony of revelation. It exists and it doesn’t matter who you are you can have it. 

But ya that was my week. I hope that you guys had a good one. I love you all so much and i am excited to talk to you this Sunday. Have a awesome week ok? 

Love

Elder hall