Elder Nate Austin

Hi mom,  I'm sorry the tennis tournament didn't turn out that well with the rain.  It is great that Ryan won his spelling bee he can definitely spell better than I can now.  There are a few movies that we can ask permission to watch, Some Disney ones. I did get your package yesterday and everything was great I will do a voice recording for next week so brookie can know that I respond to her and I am still her favorite. Keep giving me conference talks whenever you have them. This week we couldn't teach Franco because he started working but Luciano the second counselor has been in contact we him and has let us known that Franco has started reading a little from the book of Mormon.  There are a few pictures this week from a baptism in our ward. An haitiano named Junior got baptized this past Saturday.  Elder Medina and Elder Riofano the other two elders in our ward with us were teaching him.  Junior is a super cool happy guy and because he o...

Yeah valentine`s day is a thing here but it is not like it is celebrated by the general population, just couples.   I haven`t got the package yet but hopefully it gets here soon. I did watch the Disney movie Moana last week for p-day and that made me thing about Hawaii and Samoa.   I really like Chile a lot but sometimes the trash and barb wire doesn`t feel like me. watching that movie mad me want to go be a beach bum in Hawaii:)  You would be sooo proud of me if you saw how I eat now.  A chilean salad is just tomatoes with onions and oil and they eat tomatoes with a lot of other things too so I eat tomatoes now.  I actually love peppers too and I cook those with my eggs.   I already went back into Santiago and finished my visa and this last part was a lot faster. I did send some pictures this week but I will try to take more for this next week.  Even though we have a little more time pdays we still get the same amoun...

Hi mom Yeah the wait for the visa was pretty long and terrible but tasting American food almost made it worth it. I actually ordered a pizza sandwich with pepperoni, red sauce and cheese. I even ordered it with lettuce, tomatoes and peppers. you would have been so proud of me.    One of the main changes in the schedule for us is that now we don`t plan our day the night before. We now do it in the morning so we can now just get home and chill and not have to worry about doing anything.  And then the next morning we plan and do personal study.  We then leave the house at 11am to start working and the other change is that now we decide when to all the other things like companionship study and language study throughout the day.  The stats that we have as missionaries also changed.  Now we report a lot less. We don`t report lessons anymore.  We just report baptisms confirmations, people with a baptism date, and investigators that went to ch...

Hey mom. I can`t believe that federer pulled out another grand slam. I think this definitely helps his case as the best of all time.  It will be interesting to see what happens at the french open if nadel is back playing pretty well too.  I hadn`t heard anything about this because the only thing Latinos care about or can play is futbol (soccer).  But I bet  you were pretty excited when he won at 4:30 in the morning.  I wish I could watch that match. The fires keep burning in Chile but they aren`t too close us and we are surrounded by a lot of people so they couldn`t ever get close.  There is always smoke in the sky though and it is all that anyone talks about because there have been so many fires and everybody has someone close to the fires.    Thanks for all the pictures from Disneyland this week.  It looked liked you guys had a lot of fun especially brookie.  I bet she loved all the big roller coasters.   ...