Hey....   ...My responsibility here and now is to manage a whole sector by myself and work in another sector too. It is rough. Luckily, the walk isn't too long. Our two sectors border each other and so it isn't too far. But we have to walk about 30 minutes to get between sectors. So it is pretty tiring every day, but it´s a really good experience. I am learning a lot about managing my time and stuff like that. It is good practice. Just a lot of walking haha. My new comp, Elder Zazueta de Mexico is a really good guy! We came in together to the mission, and we get along really well! But that is what is going on here. Just to make it a little bit more clearer.

Other than being tired, I am doing pretty good. We have had a pretty good week. We aren´t able to work normally, but we manage it pretty well. And we only have to do it for about a week more, and then we are done and in our sectors for good, so we have got this.

Anyway, here are the pictures that I owe from last week. The first one is the woman that got baptized. She was really happy because didn´t know that I was coming and when I saw her it made me really excited haha. She was really nice to us.

The second is a picture of me and my first companion with a less active member we worked with before. His name is a Daniel and he is active now.

And the last one is me repping my USA soccer shirt. Today was P Day so of course there had to be soccer involved.

Pretty crazy week this week, I will try to explain it all. We had a pretty normal week up until the weekend, and then it got pretty crazy!

This week was a really hard week. We did not have very much to do this week. It is winter vacation, and so just about everybody left the city or are always somewhere else partying it up or something. Well we still had to work. Oh well, we powered through it. But our number of lessons went down a lot! It dropped pretty drastically. But we are hoping that this week goes back up but we will see.

Well, Saturday I went back to Poeta Neruda, my first ward, and saw a baptism of someone that I used to teach. It has been a long time, but it was nice to go back and see her. Her name is Maritza, and she was a really hard one hahaha. She was Evangelica (a type of religion, I don't know what that is in English) and she was pretty die hard about it. She told us she was never going to change. But then I left the ward and the missionaries kept working and then my trainer left, and they kept working haha. But finally she just showed up to church one day and told everyone she was ready to be baptized! Well that's great haha! We can help you with that! So she prepared really quick and she got baptized! It was really great! I have pictures so I will have to send them

But at the service I saw President. And that's cool that he would come, but I saw him talking to my comp looking pretty serious. And I thought oh shoot that doesn't look good... And then he called me over, oh noo..... But he just told me he needed to talk to me. So I went with him and he told me that Elder Tafur would be moving to the office on Monday (today) and that I would have a special assignment. I will be working with Elder Zazueta for 3 weeks, but there is a catch. We will be working in BOTH sectors and we will be constantly changing sectors and houses and people. So we will be in for a crazy 3 weeks. And when I asked him how we were supposed to do it, he looked at me and said, "Elder Burt, I have never done this before, this is the first time. You guys are just going to have to figure it out." Hmmmmmm... So we will have a pretty interesting 3 weeks.

And there we are, the week in a nutshell. And one problem, I am in a new ciber and it doesn't have a place to put my cable to send pictures, so I will have to send them all next week. Which really stinks, but I tried I promise! I love you all, have a great week!

Alright, well yeah I am writing on Tuesday. We had kind of a crazy day yesterday. We went and played an awesome game of soccer in the morning and got home just in time to do everything that we needed to do, but we got home to find out that we had a visitor fixing our floor in the apartment. So we had to help him out and didn't have enough time to write yesterday. Pretty stinky I know, but oh well.

But other than that we had a great week! We had a really good day tuesday! We went to the church at around 8 and left on divisions with all 3 members of the bishopric! Which was really great for us! We were able to get a lot of work done with the 3 of them and we hope to be able to do it again tonight.

Other than that we kind of had a pretty boring week to tell the truth. Nothing really out of the normal happened. It was just kind of a normal week. Sorry about that. Oh, I did try to make oatmeal cookies, but they didnt turn out that well. Thats about it.

The first picture is me with the cookies I tried to make. They didn't turn out at all to tell the truth.

The second is just to prove that they didn't come out well. I just ended up eating the cookie dough.

And the third is why we didnt get time to write yesterday. That is our new friend Gerard. He is a cool guy and helped us out a lot!

Well, there flew another week here in the mission.  It went by pretty fast, just in case you were wondering. I dont know how the time is going up there in the States, but it is flying down here. We had a pretty interesting week down here, but I will go one part at a time.

So this was the first week of the new change, and it went by quick. We were working really hard, but then had a few fall backs haha. Lets see, on Tuesday we killed it! We had a really good day with 5 lessons, which just to let you know, thats about the record high for me in one day, so that was a really good way to start the week! It was really awesome, and it got us in on a good foot for the week!

Wednesday went pretty well, but nothing too cool to tell you about. Thursday was the most interesting day of my mission. My testimony really grew about Priesthood blessings. We were on the way from picking up lunch. We were walking to the bus stop and we got a call, and we were asked to stop by a members house and give a blessing to their son, and it was really urgent. We get in to their house and he was crying he was in so much pain. He has broncitis (I think is how you spell it) and it is such a bad case that it sometimes can affect his whole body. So he was in a lot of pain. But we gave him a blessing and it was really powerful. He had stopped crying before we had finished and when we stopped by that night, he was finally sleeping. So that was a really cool experience!

Then today, we went as a mission to a huge hill in the middle of our mission, (its actually the only hill we really have because our mission is so small haha) and we hiked it as a whole mission and had a devotional at the top with President, so that was a really cool experience and I got to see all my friends in the whole mission, so it was an awesome P Day!

I didnt take hardly any pictures this week. The ones I did were just of the hill I hiked, so just to give you an idea, we climbed this in about an hour. It was pretty rough because there were no switchbacks.