Teeter Totter Week

Well, it is another week, unfortunately I don’t have a whole lot to write about this week, I am boring. First things first. Thanks LeAnne for the letter last week, I enjoyed it. Erica I will read yours after I print it out. It was fun to hear about all that is going on. And good for Justin, sounds like he is doing awesome. That is great. It is crazy you are having the baby blessing soon. It is still somewhat unreal that there is another baby in the family.

Mom just send my stuff. I just want my scriptures, you can say a bunch of prayers that it makes it. The nylons thing is going to have to be a continual thing, just send them every month or I don’t know how often but often, warm ones. Long johns the Works. The summer here is like winter in Oroville. You always have to wear long sleeves. It is a little nicer here though, what is the temp there? I don’t know. Yeah, nana and papa, thanks for the letters too. You guys always have interesting things to say. But it is fun to hear from you too, you always keep me updated with the fam. Hope the Mitzel’s are doing great. Oh and the picture of me kissing the foot is a huge statue in the middle of town, everyone, tourists come into town and rub the foot and kiss it. It is a tradition, so I had to. That is all, everyone does it.

Hope Alli is having fun playing soccer. It would be super cute to watch her play and the boys play football. How fun!

Dad you would be in heaven here. They have what they call completos. They are a hot dog with avocado, tomatoes, mayo, mustard, the Works. We went somewhere last week where they had hugeeeeeeeeee ones. You would love them. The food here is up your alley, meat and potatoes. I have never eaten so much. Oh, the lord is blessing me with being able to eat things I hate. I have never eaten so many mushrooms in my lifeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee and we had fish yesterday, my favorite. It wasn’t too bad though, I didn’t know it was fish though until I was finished because I didn’t understand what they were saying.

Mom I have another question. Hna´s family are converts and they have lost contact with the missionary that baptized them. They have the address of the dad of him but not of him. Could you contact him for them and try to get the address of the son so they can get back in contact with him.
The dad, ron keith 520 anderson st, dhather, Arizona 85552, and the missionaries name is Jim, he is like in his late 30s now I think. Thanks mom. If you could get that. I know I ask a lot

Okay, so this week was probable the hardest week yet. Everything that we have had as far as investigadores has gone, fell through. We have dropped all of our investigators but one.

We have spent an entire week trying to find new people to teach. We have walked about 20 thousands steps everyday this week, like eight to nine miles a day. My body has never been so exhausted. Every part of my body aches. I am starting to get used to it. We walk from 3 in the afternoon until we go home at 930. Nobody will let us come in, nobody wants us. It is a trial of our faith to say the least. We are doing our best. We haven’t worked so hard. Holy cow, we have done everything we possibly can do to find new people, with members, with people in the streets, knocking on doors. Everything. We are working on faith, courage, and hope. Those are our goals with finding people. We have hope for this week because we have worked our butts off and eventually when the lord sees fit he will bless us. We are just waiting for those blessings to come our way. In time. We walked to places I hadn’t been because our sector is huge. We went everywhere. Oh with the transferres, hna morphis´s comp CAME down here and hna morphis got transferred to a different sector in Osorno. She is with a gringa now. There are only three gringos here in punta arenas now, lucky me.

Oh can you send me those wixmax socks too, they are super warm and really good.

Yeah so we have found a new meaning to obedient, not that we are bad but we are trying to do everything perfectly so we can have inestigatores. Obedience here on the mission has a whole different meaning than before in normal life. Things are so simple, just follow the commandments and the rules. Things like keeping the Sabbath day holy or whatever are so simple for us. This week though we were teaching a menos activo and we realized that the lesson was for us. Teaching about faith and how we need to act in our faith and then we can receive blessing from the lord. That is us right now since we don’t have anything or anyone to teach. It was really funny, we totally started laughing.

Oh one of the photos is a teeter totter we found in a park while we were searching for people and needed a bit of a lift in our day. We contacted a guy and went back to his house and he is young and he was having a hugeeeee party with only guys. They all invited us in and were drinking smoking, it was really funny because they were young and only guys and wanted us to party with them, super funny.

Oh yeah, the time changed I think we are now five hours ahead instead of three. Like it is 1130 here right now instead of 1030.

Oh we have a new elder in our ward, he is super nice, a new change in our ward. Which is good. Good for changes.

Oh some of these pictures are of Puerto Mont and the volcano in Osorno, I don’t know if I ever sent them.

We did have a miracle this week, we had one investigador and her family come to church. It was great. We didn’t really think they would come. She is crazy, she talks and talks and talks about things that I have no clue. Crazy and they aren’t married and she only wants to be with him for Money because her daughter is sick a lot. But they all CAME and they liked it and it was great it was awesome. We were super pumped, so that was our miracle for the week. Yeah so that is awesome, solamente walky all week long. We are working as hard as we can. We are having fun though, well most the time. It is hard to keep good spirits, she breaks down more than I do, so I try to stay happy and be positive with it all. It is hard but we will be rejuvenated after today. My Spanish is coming along slowly, better every day. That is always good.

But really, I am learning a lot about everything. It is amazing how our lives are so dedicated for other people and it just happens. I am finally having more of a relationship with the people because I can talk more. We go to members houses to do service and I can talk and make more jokes because I have more Words. Usually I just make fun of myself that I don’t know the language and am always lost in the conversation. That is me. Super boring, sorry. Hope all is well. Thanks for the Picture of my pay poo.

Until next week, peace out.
Love, hna Jamie Pratt