Elder Nate Austin

 I´m glad you guys finally got some snow even though you won´t appreciate it that much.  Hahaha its now weird to think that you guys can´t understand spanish. Today we saw the movie Coco, its a new Pixar movie thats about Mexico but it was made very well in spanish so it would be very interesting to see how it is in English.  Yes Elder Rodriguez is going to finish the mission this monday so I don´t now exactly what will happen with the changes because I already have 6 months in this ward so maybe they will take me out and put two new missionaries in or I could stay another change.  By next week everything will have already happened. This past week we have had a lot of service and also a lot of meetings for elder rodriguez to finish the mission.  We have been teaching Livon a lot and his girlfriend was pregnant and his baby was born  on monday . They now have to get married but he said that he will go in these day to the government building to look ...

HI mom thanks for updating me all about your trip to California and telling me about all the fun things you are doing with out me. Yesterday were able to see the transmission for the prophet.  Well they told us at the last minute that there were showing it at a another chapel in the stake and by the time we got over there we missed that first part were they Announced  president nelson as prophet. But we were able to see the news conference that happened after when they asked the first presidency questions. The pope came to chile   on Monday and yesterday no one had to work (supposedly to go see him but instead all the members didn´t have to work and could watch the transmission of president nelson.  A bunch of people aren't happy though about the pope coming because chile had to pay a bunch of money to have him come.  This past week we have been teaching a new investigator named Livon he is another Hatian that lives in the house were junior and yolanda live....

Hi mom Yolanda was able to get baptized this last sunday and Junior was able to baptize her. He received the priesthood sunday morning and then after church he baptized her. The good thing has been is that this house where junior, yolanda and a bunch of haitian investigators is right next door to the house where our bishop lives along with his brother and law and all his family so all the haitians live right by the two strongest families in the ward. Right now we are teaching mostly haitians with some dominicans and peruvians, still lacking chileans. We want to be able to go with Yolanda and Junior to do baptism for the dead in this next month which would be really cool. The work for the dead is kind of a hard subject for the haitians because in haiti there are a lot of weird beliefs in voodoo and other weird stuff with the dead so the thought of doing baptisms for the dead kind of freaks them out. But I am really so happy for Junior he has such a strong testimony and is really a help ...

Ii am sorry your winter break is coming to an end. I am also disappointed that dad did not like star wars.  I may or may not watch it here when it comes out but we can still see it when I  get back.  This week was very good, last friday we had a ward new years/christmas dinner and yolanda and pretty much all the haitians in their house went. Yolanda´s baptism is scheduled for this sunday so I will let you know how that turns out. Emmanuel (juniors friend that also lives in the house) house-his baptism date is for two weeks and one of the last questions we were working on with him is about a modern prophet and Thomas s monson. Our last lesson we actually gave him the homework to watch the dvd about thomas s monsons life. Now today we found out that everything has changed for that baptismal question, so we will have to see what happens with that. we do have a couple new investigators. We found a guy named ronaldo who is haitian but speaks spanish and english prett...

hey  well it feels like i just saw you so I don´t really know what to write so this may not be the longest email ever. but today we had a good pday I went to a chapel and played a bunch of sports with gringos. We played some football, soccer, basketball and got to throw a baseball for a little while. After we went to the new subway that was just built inside the mission.  But it was great to see you guys and I am happy now and I love you Elder Austin

It was so wonderful talking to Nathan at Christmas!  He is doing great (And his hair is starting to grow out)!