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
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