Hey everyone!

This week flew by.  Last p-day we woke up and studied for an hour, played soccer for 2 hours with the zone, then walked around downtown Chillan to shop.  I bought a coat, some gloves, and an umbrella.  I also bought bread and eggs - my meals for the week.  We had about an hour to chill then at 6:30 p-day ended and we got back to work.  We found this cool lady named Patricia who hasn't been to church in 30 years!  I hope she can go back and be an example to her family.  

On Tuesday we were given 50,000 more pesos to pay for our travel to Yungay so now we can have enough money to buy gas and more food.  Now that we have gas the shower gets to room temp instead of ice cold and we can cook on the stove!  This makes things much better.  

We met a 16 year old guy, Michael.  He doesn't belong to a church (which is rare), but recently his parents told him he could get baptized somewhere if he wanted.  He's super cool and has a strong desire to be baptized.  

The first door I knocked on in Chile was a lady named Sergia, who I talked about last week.  We've only taught her 3 lessons, mostly about Joseph Smith and the Restoration of the church.  She has a strong desire to be baptized and set a date of August 19.  She has a lot more to learn before then.  She has so much faith and is willing to make changes in her life.  I'm super excited for her!

Weird story - we knocked on this door with about 3 guys in the living room.  Within a few minutes about 20 guys, one by one, came into the house.  So, there was randomly about 25 of us packed into this tiny Chilean living room.  Turns out it was a drug addiction recovery home run by a tiny local church.  They said "AMEN" to every word I said!  Literally, I would say "I want to share a scripture"- "AMEN" - "it's in the book of Mosiah" - "AMEN!"  Most had tattoos head to toe and some had slit marks on their wrists. Straight thugs.  They asked us to pray with them which we did.  

On Thursday we went to Yungay.  After our 2 hour bus ride we went straight to work.  We taught and visited a lot of people.  We received and contacted 2 referrals.  It was super dope.  At night, we had the Chilean version of Family Home Evening with a family.  The dad reminds me of Bro Beck because he's not a member but lives like one!  The mom, Paulina, made amazing donuts, and the two sons, Miguel and Pablo, invited friends over so we could teach them.  We taught them about the Sabbath day and used Mosiah 18:23.  It went super well. 

I don't mind how much we work, it's actually easier than I thought.  But I'm hungry and cold all day long.  It's been raining a lot and windy and freezing so today I'm going to buy rain pants, boots, and another jacket.  I'm super excited to take it easy today and rest up for next week.  

Thank you all for writing me. I only have a small amount of time to be online but am able to read your emails, even if I can't reply.

Please pray for me.  I need tons of prayers.  And, eat good food for me haha.  

I love you all!  Have a great week,

Elder Vincent

A playground with a swing set (with no swings) 

A sidewalk in Chillan