Elder Nate Austin

Hola! This week has been a pretty great second week in the field.  The language keeps getting a little better each day but everyday is different.  Some days I have some really good days and understand a lot and feel like I am getting it.  And other days I feel like I know nothing.  It really just depends on who I am talking to because a lot of chileanos do not speak very clear or talk very softly but if some can speak clear then I do alright.   I love being a missionary and getting to work and serve every day and see miracles every day. Love Elder Austin Since Nathan sent such a short letter this week I put some answers to questions I asked him... 1.  Have you gotten sick from the food? Hi mom! The food hasn´t made me sick at all and I do eat a lot of mayonnaise. They put mayo and tomatoes on most things. It hasn´t been too bad and I can feel my tastes changing.  I still don´t like mayo but I don´t mind it as much and I am almost...

This was my first full week in Chile and it was great!   It is just me and elder Kau living at a little house in Chile.  One of the biggest changes is not the kind of food but when they eat food.   Chileans only eat one meal a day that is comparable to an American meal, which is a little different then the usual 4 I normally ate.   All they really do is eat a big lunch and that is their food for a whole day, and then they have like a snack for breakfast.  Dinner doesn`t even exist. This does make it easy to eat whatever people give us for lunch because I am always starving.  I have to eat whatever I am given and they do not eat very healthy.  They eat a lot of really fatty meat and put a ton of oil on everything. Chile is an awesome place and I am serving in a part called El Bosque.  In Chile there are dogs everywhere, everywhere you step there are more dogs so I might get a little sick of dogs. My first week at churc...

I am now safely in Chile.  I managed to wait and do all my packing until right before the bus left to the airport but I made it onto the bus and to the airport in time.  We had about a 8 hour red eye flight that I was lucky and got about 6 hours of sleep, some people got nothing.  We got into Chile at 6:30 am ready for a full day of work.  We got picked up and went to the mission office where we had a bunch of orientation meetings.  After that we found out our trainers.  My trainer is Elder Kau from Provo Utah who graduated from Timpview a year before I did.  One important thing I did learn from our meetings is that Chileans are awesomely lazy and because of that our mission hours are from 7:30 to 11:30 instead of the usual 6:30 to 10:30 .  It is a good thing that I never got up for school before 7:30 or I would have just been building bad habits for my mission.  After lunch we went home and then spent the rest of the day worki...

LA IGLESIA DE JESUCRISTO DE LOS SANTOS DE LOS ÚLTIMOS DÍAS Misión Chile Santiago Sur, Francisco Aranda 530, San Bernardo, Santiago Chile, 8070868 September 13, 2016 Dear Sister Austin: We are happy to send the exciting news that after weeks of preparation in the Mexico MTC, Elder Austin has arrived safely with his group of fellow missionaries to the Chile Santiago South Mission.  He was transported from the MTC to the Mission Office where he met his trainer, participated in a New Missionary Orientation and was transported to his first assigned area. Your son has been assigned as a junior companion to Elder Kau, from Provo, Utah. Elder Kau is an exceptional missionary selected by President Gwilliam to guide Elder Austin through this important training period of his mission.  They are assigned to labor in the El Bosque 1 sector in the El Bosque zone. You can expect to hear from Elder Austin by email Wednesday which is preparation day.  We trust tha...