I love chile with all my heart

Hey family well this is the last time that i am going to write you as a missionary. I am not going to lie, it is very very hard to leave this country. I love chile with all my heart. I can say that i am chilean!! Well it has been a good week. It has been a little hard cause i have been pretty sick the last couple days. I dont know why, i think it is because i am nevous. It is like entering the mtc all over again. I have no clue what is going to happen and i am scared out of my mind to face the real world. But i am up to the challenge. If i can be away from my family and friends and serve others for 2 years, everything else should be easy. I have loved every second of my time here in chile. I would not change anything. Well i am really excited and scared to see you guys it is going to be awesome. 

One quick thing that happened this week. Here in chile there are these gas trucks that drive around to drop off gas at peoples houses. The drivers carry a lot of money so it is a very dangerous job. Well 2 days ago at the corner of where we live one of the trucks got attacked by a armed 19 year old kid. The driver was parked in front of his own house and the kid told him to get out. The guy put up resistance and so the kid shot him. When the wife and children heard that, they came out in time to see the kid shoot their dad again and again... the kid took off in the truck and left a wife and 3 little girls without a dad. 

So obviously it is going to be hard for them cause they dont have money or any way to earn money so the family and friends were doing a little money drive for the family. Yesterday we went over to a coverts house, her name is alin, to say goodbye to them. The convert is 10 years old and was friends with one of the little girls whose dad had died. The mom of alin told us that when alin found out that her friends dad had died she went into her room and broke open her piggy bank and gave the money to her friend. She had been saving up to buy some shoes or something but she said that her friend needed the money more. When i heard that i started bawling like a little girl. I could not believe the sacrifice, the pure love of Christ that this little 10 year old girl had. No wonder the Lord tells us that we must be like children. It is people like alin that give me hope for this world. 

Well family i love you tons. I am way excited to see ya. I hope that i will be able to recognize you guys cause i am sure that you have changed a lot. I will leave you guys with my testimony. I know that God lives. He really is our loving heavenly father. He wants us to come back and live with Him again. Because of that, he sent his only begotten son, Jesus Christ to suffer and die for us. Jesus is the Christ, the Savior and Redeemer of the world. Without Christ we have nothing but darkness. I know that through Him i can be free of sin and death. I know that through Him i can live with my family again. Joseph Smith saw God the Father and His son Jesus Christ and was the Prophet who restored the gospel upon the earth. The Book of Mormon is such a powerful book. It really is the word of God. How i have come to love it here on the mission. We can learn so much by reading and studying it daily. We can find out who the Lord Jesus Christ really is. That is my testimony and nothing in the world can take it from me. I love you all more than you can ever know. Have a awesome couple days before i see you. Till we meet again.

Love

Elder hall

i was able to say goodbye to my converts in the city and the coast

hey family sorry for not being able to email you guys the other day. everything here is good. yesterday i was able to say goodbye to my converts in the city and the coast. oh man it was one of the coolest experiences of my life. i loved seeing them and they made me so excited. i am truthfully say that i have done all that the lord wanted me to do in these 2 years. i love chile so much, I AM CHILEAN!!! i have 2 converts that are going on a mission, maricela is already doing all the paperwork and will probably leave in 4 or 5 months. my other convert, manuel is getting ready and will leave in the next year. i love the mission so much. it was awesome to see all the people who i have been able to help in the past 2 years.

well i dont have much time but we will be able to talk later on the 25th. i will call you guys at like 1 or 2 in the afternoon. be ready. i love you all tons. have a sweet christmas eve and day. see ya later...

chao

elder hall

got to see Elder Hollister!

Hey fam well right now you guys are freezing cold i am being cooked to a crisp. It is so hott down here i can barely concentrate. So if things dont make sense or i just randomly stop that is why. Christmas down here is like living in heck with a tree and lights haha. It is very hott and the sun is very very strong. One of the things i am the most happy to see is snow, and of course all you guys haha. Life is good.

Well this has been a good week. You wrote me last week and said to be looking out for elder hollister, well i found him...in my zone haha. It is sweet, he has changed a lot since the last time i got to see him. He is taller than me and very mature. It was fun to see him and be able to talk to him. He is doing good but is really nervous. He still doesnt understand very much spanish but he will get the hang of it soon. He is a good elder and will have a awesome mission. He has a really good trainer even thought he is a utah fan...but its ok i am sure that grant will be able to convert him. His trainer lost a bet with me over the byu utah game and had to buy me a hot dog right in front of elder hollister...haha oh sweet sweet victory. I love life haha

Well landon and mehkii i hope you guys have a good bday and everyone i hope you all have a good christmas. I will be able to call you guys and see what is going on. We will call either the 24th or 25th. We are still not sure but we will let you guys know. Write me and tell me when would be the best to call. 

Other than that this has been a very good week. We have been able to see many miracle and tender mercies from the lord. One was really funny. We were just walking along and all the sudden my comp needed to use the bathroom really really bad. Well we were in a area of our sector when we didnt have investigators and not very many members live there. So i was trying to think really fast of where we could go. Then for some reason i thought that we should go to this members house where we normally never go. So we run over there and go inside and my comp is able to use their bathroom. After we are just sitting there and we ask them if they know anyone that we could teach. The mom was like ya we do, wait a sec. She goes into the other room and comes out with her daugter and her daugters boyfriend who just happens that he is not a member and wants to know more. So we taught him and yesterday he went to church. So that was so cool. The lord works in very misirous ways, i dont know how to spell. But it was so awesome, so he is really interested and i am sure that he will be baptized soon. 

Also this week we had a meeting as zone leaders with the president in his house in this really rich area. To get there we have to take a bus, go on the subway, change cars on the subway then take another bus. So it takes a long time. So we went in the morning and had the meeting, which by the way was incredible. Then after all the zone leaders go on a bus together to get back to our sectors. So there is this bus, full of people and we decided that we are going to give them a little bit of the christmas spirit cause they all looked depressed and sad. So we started singing christmas songs, all 22 of us. It was sweet by the time we got off the bus everyone was so much happier. So we got onto the subway and we decided to do the same. So we started singing and handing out pass along cards and it was awesome. I think that people really enjoyed it and if they didnt at least we did. Haha i love the christmas spirit, it is a gift from God.

Well i am buring up and i need to go so i will stop writting. But have a awesome week. Next pday i will be saying goodbye to all my converts all day long so i dont know if we will have time to write you guys or not next week. I will try but if i dont, dont freak out cause that is why i cant. I love you all so much. Thanx for writting me and supporting me. Have a awesome week. Keep on doing the small things. 

I love ya

Elder hall

wickedness never ever was happiness!!!

hey fam ya its been a really good week. i have been getting sick a lot lately i dont know why but whatever i just keep working. the weather down here keeps getting hotter and hotter. man summer here is heck. but ya its so cool that you guys have snow, man i miss the snow so much. but ya, it has been a really normal week. 

one thing happened that tore me apart. we went to this converts house to teach them and we have tried to find then for like the last 3 weeks. it has been hard but finally we did it. it is a mom and her 2 daughters, nicole and alin. nicol is 15 and alin is 10. (by the way alin is the cutest little girl i have ever seen in my whole life. i might have to bring her home with me haha. anyways, they havent gone to church in like 2 or 3 months cause the mom works and she does other things...anyways, when nicole was baptized she left behind a bunch of not good friends and started chilling with the kids in the ward. then little by little she stopped reading the scriptures and didnt go to church very often. then she got back together with her old friends and got a boyfriend. so she kept telling us and her mom that she was fine and that she could control her life. so we went by this past week and her mom told us with tears streaming down her face that nicole is 1 1/2 months pregnant... it broke my heart. she is only 15 years old and a good girl. now she is waiting for a baby and guess what happened to the guy, who "was so in love with her..." he is gone, when he found out that she was pregnant he took off, freaking idiot. ya well now nicole is not doing well. she has a child and the love of her life is gone. now her whole life is going to change and she is not going to be able to live her life like a little chile, which she is, should. she can barely take care of herself and now she has to take care of another person. 

and you see this a lot here in chile, the youth here are so bad. you see little girls who are like 12, 13 years old walking around in barely nothing. there are drugs and cigarets everywhere. satan has a good graps over this world. but that is why i am here. that is why there are young men and women all over the world with the lord´s name on their chest to bring the world the good news of great joy. without the church of Jesus Christ this world is (sorry mom for the language) screwed. without the message that we have there is no hope. that is what moses was talking about in the pearl of great price when he says that "he saw satan with chains that when all around the world, and he looked up and laughed and his angels rejoiced"... that is why the church is so important. people think that the world is so much fun, but that is bull crap. wickedness never ever was happiness!!! you can not have happiness in the world, only through Christ. 

that is why i am so gratefull to be a member of His church. He is in charge of it and with Him in charge we cannot lose. i love the people of chile so so much. i know what i have will help them. and that is why i walk around all day in the heat. that is why i keep on talking to people even when they reject me over and over again. and if they dont believe me at least they know that i know it is true. what a blessing it is to be able to have the gospel of Jesus Christ in our lives. i am so thankful to know the truth. 

i know this church is true, nothing anyone could ever say could change it. i know God lives, that Jesus is my savior. I know that through Him, I can live with my family forever. i know the book of mormon is the word of God. It is so powerful, i love it. we can find out who Christ really was though that book. i love you all so much. i hope you all have a awesome week. please dont let satan win. do the small things. always be obedient to the commandments and to the prophet and leaders of the church. obedience is so important, we dont even understand how important it is. it gives us so much power. just do it!!!

i love you all tons

elder hall