June 28, 2010

Hey everyone! I'm listening to the Chile and Brazil game right now and it doesn't look to good for Chile. At least they made it to the second round! I hear Brazil is the favorite to when the world cup anyway.

This week we had mission conference. We have it every six weeks with the mission president, his wife, A. P.s, and half of the Elders in the mission. They split it up into two different conferences depending on where you are serving in the mission. Im in the inside of the mission, which is somewhere around an hour and a half out from Concepcion and in. President Chavez is in his last week and I think he leaves in a day or two. We are getting a new mission president from California, President Humphrey. President Chavez was really awesome and powerful and his wife was always happy and smiling. They talked about the Atonement a lot in conference because if we have a strong testimony of it, then we can teach with more power in lessons. I couldnt understand a whole lot of the conference but Elder Davis filled me in about the important parts after on the way back.

There are dogs running around all over the place here. It seems every other person owns a dog plus there are dogs roaming the streets. We were coming home from lunch one day and the dog from the family that we ate with followed us back about halfway. I guess he doesnt go outside too much cause he had 2 near death experiences by walking in the street right in front of cars. The first time a car honked so he got out of the way but the second time the car hit him going like 40(mph). I thought he was a goner but I think the car only smashed up his leg so we took the dog back and the dog is fine. Elders don't see a dog hit until like a year in but I saw it the first week. It was pretty crazy.

But anyway, our investigators aren't progressing too much so were going to be doing a lot of contacting and trying to get referrals this week. The ward here is so supportive and its so nice. It makes a missionaries job a lot easier if the ward is willing to help a lot. Our top couple investigators are good to go with knowing about the commandments and they are keeping all of them but they just have some doubts we cant really get past. One has some problems concerning evolution and the other is just nervous. Well just keep praying and keep sharing with them but they've got their agency!

(I wrote Ian some basic stuff, maybe he can add some of that on here.)

Love y'all!

Elder Gregory

Fam- I'm sorry I dont have anymore time for emails. We should only be doing it for an hour and its past by a few min so I could get pics on but Ill have it for next week.