La Ligua semana 12‏

Bueno hay vino y se fue un otro cambio en la mision y parece que el señor me ama porque me quedé en La Ligua!!! WOOOOOOO!!!!!

I hope you all love transalting that! sorry, so far all my other emails this morning have been in spanish so I gotta think a little more english or this letter might become confusing!! jaja

So this week started off with some funness! we had a NDH with a familia and their neighbors (non members) and it went really well until I broke a glass! I was trying to help, but then I broke one... woop! Then about 3 minutes later, I went to open the pop bottle and the hermana told me "its going to explode" but I thought she was teasing me since I just broke a glass.... well lets just say the humbling continued! luckily they all thought it was just too funny! haha ok it was funny! jaja Then Elder Bowen called us to come and help him because he got the chilean flu as well. pucha.

Then as the week went on I started to feel like even though it was the last week, I felt like Elder Powner and I would both stay! So we just kept on working hard and having a great time! then saturday night came around and we got the phone calls "Elder Marvin, your going... to stay!" wooo!!! "Elder Powner, your going..." *click* (Elder Powner talking now) "wait, what!?!? They just hung up!>!" so that was a surprise! he just had a hot stop en La Ligua, but it was a great 6 weeks! i learned tons from him! A great elder, that one! haha Then Monday we had changes and so sunday night we had to get elder Powner all packed up and then we were up at 5:45 monday morning so that we could make it to viña on time! And it was SO GREAT!!! I absolutely love everytime that I get to go to viña!!! and I got to say hola to all my great friends! and it was awesome!!! The saddest was saying goodbye to Elder Arredondo and Elder Rivera, and Edler Diaz! i cannott believe that they are finishing up! I feel like we are all just so young, how can they take them away!!! Wow, the mission life goes WAY too fast!!! And then elder Valladares is training in the office as well so I have my first office grandson!!! and who could it be? none other than Elder Wardrop. and he came to Chile with me! haha It was kinda crazy, but awesome!!! Then I found out my new companion has just as much time here in Chile as Elder Powner and Elder cannell. my new companion is ANOTHER IDAHOAN!!! haha how crazy is that, and better yet, he is also one of 11 kids in his family (both my idahoan companions have had 11 kids in their families!! craziness!) and his name is Elder Rhoton. His dad teaches at BYU-I, just fyi. So we got the changes done and then we were off to the great branch of La Ligua!!!

Its been a fun change and Elder Rhoton actually just came from being with Elder Lucero, who also came to Chile with me! and he kinda does some things just like Elder Lucero did! haha its great! We are just going to get work done here and I am so excited! We exactually started our first day, and our first lesson together was SUPER spiritual! We were with la familia ramirez and their cousin, michel, was there. We shared with her once before but this time we verified how her reading went and she read, and Brian helped her to understand it all and we inviited her to be baptized and she accepted and we explained how baptism will wash her clean of all her sins and she started crying and the spirit just filled the room! it was so awesome! We hope to see lots of her and to see her progress! I love that familia SO MUCH!!!

So as you can see its been a great first week! I hope that everyone is loving life and finding Gods hand in all that he does during this great christmas season! tell someone new that you love them and try and serve them in whatever way needed! I love you all! I know this is the work of god and that we are helping His children to come unto Him!!! Loves!!! Chao!

Elder Marvin