an investigator that we had died

Hey fam hows it goin?? Haha sounds like you all have had a good calm week. As for me i had a good week. I was a little sick this week again but its all good. I am really sick of being sick haha. But thats how the mission is. So this week an investigator that we had died. Her name was irene. She had been in bed for like a year and a couple months. She was a reference from a member and was so interested in the gospel. She had already accepted all that we taught her but she could not get up from her bed. She said that the day she could that she would go to the church. But slowly she got worse and this past Tuesday she passed away. She was so awesome but she just didnt have time. So i am sure that she has already accepted her baptizm in the other world and is just going to wait for a year so that her work can be done for her. There is a member here who will do it, she had taken care of irene for the past year. So all wendsday we were in the chapel for the funeral. Here in chile, they do this thing where all day long the family members can come and see the body and talk to the family, so we stayed in the chapel and helped with everything. It was a really good expirience because no one in the family was a member, not even her husband who we are teaching. So we were able to talk to them about the church and the plan of salvaction. It was cool, the bishop did a little devotional and us 4 missionaries sang like 5 hynms. So overall it went good and hopefully the family will take interest in the message we have and be led to the waters of baptism. 

Besides that i am doing well. The other day we went over to this members house cause we were going to go visit this family with their daughter cause she has the same age as one of the investigators daugters. So we go over and the members show up. The dad gets out and so does the daughter and her 2 friends. So we all go inside and the dad says he has to go check on something outside... well me and my comp were freakin out cause we are in the house with 3 young girls. So we are all just sitting there very awkwardly when the member daughter says she needs to go change her cloths so she can leave with us to visit our investigators. So she leaves and now we are alone just me and my comp with 2 snakes... haha by this point we did not know what to do. 

So we decided we should talk to them so it wouldnt be awkward. So we start talking and we have no clue what to talk about because we havent been alone with girls in like 2 years. So i was trying to think of any movies i knew or music or anything and i realized that i had nothing haha. It was so funny cause i havent listened to music or seen movies forever so i had no way to relacion myself to them. So what did we start talking about, the first vision haha. By the time we got done we had taught lesson 1 and commited them to pray... haha so all in all it went well. But i realized when i get home it is going to be so weird cause i am not going to know anything. I am sure i am going to go on dates and end up talking about their reading of the book of mormon or what they learned in Sunday school. I am way excited to we a awkward rm haha.  hey these are pics of me in the holiday of chile, with my old comps, elder lira (who goes home tomorrow), elder williams (who is assistant) and elder finter (who also is now assistant). 

But ya life is good. Last night we had changes, but yesterday during the day my comp, elder finter got called by president jones. He was called as the new assistant cause the old one, elder lira is leaving. Haha that is my 4th comp who is asistant. President told me that i was called to train assistants haha. So i am staying here in pajaritos for another change and will recieve my new comp tomorrow. I am a little nervous but i am really excited. This is going to be a good change. I think i might die here in this ward cause i only have a change and a half left in the mission so it is likely that i die here. But it is a awesome sector with tons of people who are ready to listen. Thanx for everything fam. I love you all tons. Have a awesome week and keep on keeping. 

Love

Elder hall

hey fam i dont know if you have seen this pics or not but shae was whinning about not getting pics anymore so i sent some of grafitti and the national holiday of chile

basketball and dominoes pizza

Hey family this has been a really fast week. It is so crazy how time is flying by. Well we had a really good week. Nothing too exciting happened. It is just one of those weeks were you work really hard but not much happens. 

Sorry this email is probably going to be short but I cant think of anything haha. Today we had our zone activity it was fun. I bought a basketball and we played basketball and soccer in a huge chapel and then ordered dominoes pizza after. It all turned out well and was really fun. Also this is the last week in this change, so either me or my comp are going to have changes next week. I am kinda nervous, I think that I will be taken out but we will have to wait and see. I don’t want to leave this ward, it is so awesome. We have been able to help a lot of people and there are awesome members here but only time will tell. 

Also my converts have been writing me and everything with them is going well. My one convert, maricela is doing really well. She is getting ready to go through the temple. Also last week she gave her first talk in sacrament meeting. All my other converts are doing well. I love hearing from them, it makes me so happy. 

Also this week one of my comps will go home, elder lira. I was with him about a year ago. He is my last senor comp that I have on the mission. He was able to go say goodbye to my old sector in maipu and he said that everyone there is doing really well. 

Anyways, sorry this is short. I hope you guys have a awesome week. I am glad byu is doing well and I hope they can pull off a big win this week. You guys are so awesome, thanx for always writing me and letting me know what is goin on. I love you all so much you don’t even know. I cant wait to be able to see you all again in a little while. Have a good one. Jesus es el Cristo, el Hijo de Dios. Yo se que el nos ama y que por medio de El, podemos ser felices in esta vida. Ojala que ustedes puedan siempre seguir adelante y que puedan hacer las cosas pequeñas que nos traen felicidad. Se que jose Smith fue un profeta de Dios y que el libro de mormon es su palabra. Nos veremos en dos meses, entonces ¿no se pongan truncisimo k? les amo mucho, y que tengan una buena semana. Con mucho amor, elder hall. 

I love you guys. 

Have a awesome one. 

Elder hall

chile´s soccer team is going to the world cup in africa

Hey family this has been another really good week on the mission. As you guys can see it is Tuesday and i am writting you. We changed pday because yesterday we had a service that we did as a zone. We went to this school and painted and pulled weeds and washed stuff. It was fun and a good way to become closer as a zone. I love doing service, it is just sweet to be able to help others physically just as much as spiritually. 

So ya spring and summer have finally hit chile. Oh man i forgot how hott it gets here. The other day it got to 32 degrees celcias which is pretty hott. The thing is, it actually gets a lot hotter in utah but the difference is that here they dont have indoor conditioning nor do we have cars with air conditioning and stuff like that. Also in the summer at home we dont spend all day walking around in the heat. But it is all good i am doing really well and trying to drink lots of water. I am trying to get back into shape before i come home so i have given up pop and now all i buy is water. Also we have gone out running a couple days in the morning so i can loose my gut haha. 

Well the other day chile´s soccer team played colombia and beat them. That means that now they are going to the world cup in africa. So as i have told you guys, soccer down here is huge so we were walking around in the street and there was no one outside and no one would let us in. So everytime chile scored we knew because in every house everyone started to scream and there was tons of noise. But finally they won and all of chile came running out in the street. There were so many people and everyone was screaming and running around all drunk... haha so we were just walking along trying not to die and all the sudden a group of young punks suround us and start jumping up and down and pushing us and all this crap. But nothing happened and we just kept on pushing till we broke through the group. 

Also yesterday we had a family home evening with this awesome couple that we found. So we got with them into the house of a member and all the sudden we hear a alarm go off outside. Well that is usual but it wouldnt turn off so we go out to look and there is this really nice car in the middle of the street with the door open and the lights going off. We went over to see what happened and this kid said that it was stolen and that about 30 seconds after we went into the house 3 kids, a guy and 2 girls, came screaming around the corner and the car died and they left running away. The cool this is that the car had a anti-theif thing that would only let go like 200 meters before the car turns itself off and the doors lock. It was sweet and after that happened we went back inside and had our family home evening that went well. 

Then this week we found this golden family that we have taught 2 times. It is a couple and they have 3 girls. We contacted the dad and he wanted us to come by. We went by and he told us how he wanted his girls to get closer to God and to be baptized so we have been teaching them and they love everything. We found out that they arent married but its all good we are going to try to get them married and then baptized so they can be a eternal family. They are so cool, i hope i can be around to see them get married. 

Besides that everything here is good. Me and my comp are getting along really well and working hard. This week i got a book of mormon and the cd of the book of mormon in portueges. It is sweet cause i can basically understand and speak all of it. So i am trying to learn portueges before i get home. It is really simular to spanish so it should be pretty easy to learn. Well that is all that happened this week. I love you all tons. Have a awesome week. 

Love 

Elder hall

I know that the gift of tongues exists

Hey family this was a really good week. Wow did it just fly by, it feels like i was writting you just just yesterday. Time is such a weird thing in the mission it seems to pass so slow yet it flys by so so fast. I look back at the time i have been in chile and it seems like i just got here and i dont know anything, where i am, what i am doing and even less spanish. But it is incredible to see how much i have grown. And it is fun to see that i can speak spanish. It is weird to think that i can speak a different language just by opening my mouth. 

Yesterday we got into this house and we started talking to this lady that lives in arizona and is just visiting here. It was kinda trunky but we talked about arizona and utah. She has lived there for 25 years so she knows utah very well. It was just fun cause as we were talking we would talk in english and then all the sudden we would switch and start talking in spanish without even thinking about it. I know that the gift of tongues exists. I am so grateful to God for all the gifts that he has given me to be able to help His children. 

Well the conference was incredible, i loved it so much. As you guys know they anounced a temple in conception chile. We were so excited when we heard that. It is going to be so awesome for the people here. Many faithful members have to drive very long distances to get here to santiago to go to the temple and so it will be a huge blessing for the people down south. The missionary work down there is just exploding so it will be a awesome way to help the work move foreward. 

So there were a bunch of talks that i loved in confernce. As it always is, elder hollands talk was again my favorite. He just says what he knows and bares strong testimony of it. I love the way he talks and the power i feel when i hear him. Also i loved elder scott, elder erying, elder callisters (awesome powerful talk), elder ballard in priesthood session, elder uchtdorf, and elder chistoffersons. They were just awesome and i felt the spirit so strong. I have come to love and cherish and treasure the conference on the mission. It is so incredible to listen to the prophet and the lords other servants bear wittness of Him. I hope you can all take what you learned and apply it in your lives or the conference was all in vain. I made a list of my favorite quotes in conference and i want to share them with you all to refresh your memory. Hope you like them

Even the elect can be decieved. Successful travelers resist all distractions. 

No wicked man could have written such a book (book of mormon). And no good man would try.

Jeffrey R Holland

Love is obedience.

Quentin L Cook

The saviors call comes to all. There is no greater call than to teach the gospel. 

Brent H. Nielson

Choose the right even when it is hard. 

The lack of internal control is outwardly changing governments. 

Our dependance on laws shows how uncivilized we really are. 

Seeking to be neutral in the gospel is rejecting the reality of God. 

Meer wanting is not a proper guide for personal conduct.

D. Todd Christofferson

Prayer is your personal key to heaven and the lock is on our side 

Boyd K. Packer

It is in the doing not only thinking where our goals are accomplished. 

Retirement is not in the Lord´s plan of happiness. 

Dieter F Uchtdorf

Anger doesn't solve anything, builds nothing but can destroy everything. 

A man is a fool who takes a insult that isn't. 

To be angry is to yeild to satan

Thomas S. Monson 

Real intent is really doing what we receive.

Russell M Nelson

If you don't reply and respond you can miss the most precious inspiration. 

Pornography is the most damning thing on earth. 

Richard G. Scott

What we know is not always what we do. 

We don't need to know more but do more.

Each family prayer is a brush stroke on the canvas of our soul.

David A Bednar

Eternal principals can be lost in the labyrinth of good ideas. 

God doesn't need us to love Him, but oh how we need to love God. 

Dieter F Uchtdorf

Whom the Lord loveth, He chaseneth. 

Real love doesn't accept self destructing behavior.

Dallin H Oaks

God doesn't require more than we can give, that would be unjust. But neither will He accept less. 

Jorge F. Zeballos

Sorry for going on with all thoes quotes but i loved them i want you guys to remember them. They are so awesome and so true. These men are of God and no one who really listens to them can deny it. That last quote by elder Zeballos is the dad of one of my comps that i had in the mission, elder Zeballos haha. It was fun to listen to him. 

Well it is good to hear from you all. I am glad you are doing well. I am doing well also, just working and trying to help the people of chile. I love you all tons and i love this gospel. It really is the only thing that can bring us true happiness. Keep on working and God will bless you. I know this church is true. I know God loves us and that He gave us His only begotton son. I love Jesus Christ so much. He is my Lord and Savior. He died for me personally and for every one of you. He just wants us to be happy and we will as we lose the natural man and accept His will. Have a awesome week.

Love

Elder hall