Chow from Chile!!!

Well "santa vaca" what a week! haha So many things and so little time, so here we go!
Well just to start, I got my first chilean haircut today, and it looks fine thank goodness! I here how they dont know how to cut, so I was fortunate! haha But it was the first time a man cut my hair since... well Elder Willis, and I am SURE my family remembers that quite well, especially Brittany! haha But he was very friendly, I talked about the church a little with him, and then a bunch of elderly "jehovas witness´s" walked by and he started laughing and said "there is your competition!" haha It was funny! But I can finally cool down a little in this hot chilean spring! haha
Another funny thing that I just realized this week is there table manners. I am just going to apologize now if I come home with bad manners, but here you ALWAYS have both arms on the table. It is rude if you have one or both under the table cause you might be doing something like texting or idk! haha but I learned to always have my elbows on the table! haha Its a hard life you know? ;)
I also just want to say how milk here is NOT milk! It would be watery something that they just add stuff to. And its very easy to tell! One of our investigators always gives us milk at the end of the lessons and always says how the missionaries LOVE the milk here, but with a dairy farmer and just a farm boy who know our milk, it is NOTHING close! its not bad if you mix something in but just the milk is not my favorite! haha
Another funny random thought, but they sure love their animals here. Not because everyone has 6 dogs and 2 cats and a fish tank, but because they refer to themselves and their feelings to animals. Such as if someone is being sneaky they say he is a mouse. If someone is stupid, they say he is a turkey. And when they are describing just a person they dont know almost always they call them a goat! haha Its kinda funny, and I know we do somethings like that in the states, but WOW! They really like to refer to people as animals! haha I guess I will learn some words in weird ways! But I have come to find that I am very grateful for being bi-lingual! Its so nice to be able to talk with Elder Yost in the middle of a lesson so that we dont ruin it, but we can clarify or just say whatever we need to! haha Many people say they can speak english, but few actually can! haha
Time for a good old funny story! So yesterday while walking to lunch, we passed a lady with a flat tire, trying to fix it all by her lonesome. So we offer help and she says yes, so I go in on it and Elder Alvarez jumps in to. I crank the jack and at first she was taking the bolts out, and they were tight, so she was kinda jumping on the tool (spaced that word) and Elder Alvarez says "non no no non no!" I didnt see any problems since we do that all the time at home! haha So he come in and does his soft hands work, a whole lot harder than it needed to be, but we got it! I found out later his dad is a mechanic, andhe worked for him. So he knows some stuff, but mechanics and farmers do things slightly differently. Hence my hands were FILTHY and his hands had a little, but not too much. Her spare ended up being flat as well, but there was a member accross the street and sked her to help the lady so we could roll along, and she agreed. Then the lady said thank you and greeted us all Chilean style (hand shake and kiss on the cheek) so I ask myself, why are they all just letting her do that if we arent suppossed to? so I shook her hand, and was about to walk away and she Pulled me in! haha Then as we were walking away the other three said "was that your first Chilean Kiss!?!?!" and Elder Yost said he was a proud papí! haha It was kinda funny! haha
Alright, time for the more exciting news! So One of our investigators, Gabriel, we had a lesson with him and after he surprised us at church last week we were all ears and ready to help him out! We taught him our purpose, and invited him to be baptized and he said yes! and so we set a baptismal date for 24th of December and he said he was work so it could be done then! He is excited and the only difficulty he has is he says church can be boring, but then yesterday at church I think he made like 5 more friends and I think he enjoyed it very much! He is progressing greatly! Then also, yesterday in church we learned that there is a young boy the other two missionaries were teaching in our sector (ya, rule breakers...only 1 lesson haha ;) and they said that he was going to be living in our side more with his mom. His parents are seperated, but he will be more with his mother. Oh, AND he has a baptismal date too! So we acquired another baptismal date for the 25th with Vicente! WOOO!!! and he has 2 brothers that were sick but the other missionaries said they are receptive and want to learn. The mother is a menos activo, and so we plan on working with the whole family, but clearly, Vicente is the only one that could be baptized on the 25th, cause the others need more attendances. But This was fantastic cause Elder Yost and I have a baptismal goal of 2 baptisms, and he leaves on the 27th, so it would be the perfect last weekend of the mission and a "white christmas" here in Chile! =D Also, we would be helping the zone get our 8 baptisms in december! So all the way around it is great! Elder Yost didnt quite seem as happy cause he thinks that Elder Alvarez is just trying to look better, I disagree, but thats alright. We had service on saturday for the bishop and we cleared out all the weeds around his house (in other words, literally his whole backyard and side of the house! ya, my back is still sore!) and Elder Yost was sore and Grumpy, now he is ready to roll, or at least he better be! haha But this was the best sunday of my mission for sure! I loved it! Such a crazy time at church though cause we had 3 investigators attend and 1 menos activo that didnt want to feel bad or he wouldnt return he said! But it all went well!
Then last night we had one more lucky good lesson! we were looking for a contact that I had with Elder Petersen and in stead I asked this elderly lady if we could enter, sing a song and share a message on Jesus Christ. She was a very sweet Catholic lady who said she was very firm in her ways. We taught hr our laminas (pictures) of the life of jesus and slid right into the book of mormon. We taught her why we need it and how it will change our lives for the better! She gladly accepted a book and a picture and said we could pass by at another time. She couldnt give us a firm cita to return, but we will definitely try again and see if we can verify how her reading went of the book of mormon, cause she said she wanted to study it a little! YES! haaha good week! good week!
Thatss pretty much my week! lots of excitement and craziness! haha I hope everyone else was in the same boat! haha Chow my people!