Manjar y Completos

¿¡Como esta mis amigos y familia!? Esta semana fue loco rápido y yo no se como es p-day otro vez. Pero estoy muy animado por la oportunidad a escribir ustedes hoy día y tengo muchas cosas a compartir. Sorry I didn´t get an email out to everyone last week! I was trying to do a few personal emails to some people that had written me specifically, and I´ll try to do that again sometime in the future, but I don´t get a lot of time to write everyone so I can´t promise too much. But I hope that your all doing extraordinarily well and loving life. These past week have been so great, and I´m extremely grateful for the opportunity that I have been given to be here and meet all the people that I have. The language is getting better and I can communicate with most people on the street fairly well as long as they recognize that I´m not actually Chilean and can´t understand their crazy fast Spanish very well haha. But my companion and I are now doing English and Spanish days every other day where we talk to each other in only that language because he really wants to get good at his English, and obviously I need to be speaking in Spanish. I forget a lot and talk in Spanish out of habit but I´m getting better. My companion escpecially likes to impersonate Gollum in English at night when we´re all about to fall asleep so that´s been pretty entertaining with his "Chilenglish" that he likes to speak during that time haha. Chileans have several words they use a lot that are not in other countries that speak Spanish, so Riss you might have trouble understanding me when we talk in Spanish haha.

 

        Some people have asked me about the culture weather and food here. The weather is really good right now, the worst thing is that some days it gets like super hot during the day and freezing cold at night (but I think that the cold is because our house really isn´t insulated that well haha) but I really like the climate and area that I´m in. It hasn´t rained at all but yesterday was the first day of Autumn, and the closer we get to winter the more likely it will be to rain or snow. The food here is so delicious! The fruit is so enormous, and is really really good. I´ve eaten grapes that are near the size of golfballs haha it´s so cool! Also they eat a lot of completos (hotdogs) but they put tomatoes, guacamole or avocado, and then mustard mayo and ketchup. But they enormous too! Probably close to a foot and a half long, it´s insane. My new favorite desert is crackers with this stuff called Manjar. I don´t think we have it in the United States and if we do I don´t know why we don´t eat it more often cause it´s freaking amazing. It looks like someone took peanut butter and caramel and mixed them together, and it tastes like..... I really don´t know. I really can´t describe how it tastes haha, but it´s great. The people are really great for the most part, and now that I can communicate pretty well I feel more confident in meeting people on the street. They have a lot of Evangelical people here who are really nice and I enjoy talking to, but they also a lot of times get huge speakers and microphones in the middle of our sector and shout all kinds of Psalms and Proverbs really loud. It gets kinda old when we´re in a house trying to talk to or teach someone and all I can hear is someone shouting into a microphone three blocks away haha. As far as the people we are teaching and helping, they really are very good and nice people. People here are so willing to share with us, especially member of the church. Yesterday an Hermana needed us to come to her house to help her for about five minutes, and afterwards she gave us basically a second lunch and refused to let us leave without eating with her family haha. 

 

        Nothing really crazy has happened though and I´m starting to get into the routine of our everyday activities. I´m really lucky with the companion I got for a trainer because we get along really well, and we also can get a lot done in one day. The other day he was asking me how many companions I´d had before him haha he´d forgotten that this was my first transfer in the field. It´s crazy I´m already starting week five in the field! by the end of next week I´ll have about three months in the mission! That´s completely insane!

 

        I´m going to have to apologize again, we came to the Internet place directly from a Zone activity and I don't have my cord for my camera again, so I´m not going to be able to send any pictures again this week, I´m sorry! Next week there will be like twenty to send haha. To end I just like to encourage each of you to think of someone this week you know who needs help, and make a plan of how you can help them. This is what we do every day in our planning session at night as missionaries, and I´ve seen it help a lot of people. Even when our plans to help people don´t go the way that we think or hope they will, if we put forth an effort to help people the Lord will show us the way that we can accomplish that which they need after we´ve prepared to do the best that we can. Helping people has come to be my favorite thing in the world, and as we give ourselves to others we begin to forget our own problems and worries and get carried away in the service of others rather than the things that normally would bother us, I promise if you look for one person who needs your help each day you will find that there are more things you can do for others than you ever thought, and you will feel true joy afterwards in knowledge that you can help people do things that they can´t always do for themselves.  

Thank you all for the emails, thoughts, and prayers they truly are a blessings. I love you all and pray for your safety and well being. Take care!

Love, Elder Conger

 

Elder Silvestre (companion/trainer) is on Kix's right

Soccer after the zone meeting today