This has been a super good week! This past week was Week number 5 of the change, or the transfer I don't how they call it up there. So today that just past was the last P-Day of this change. So next Tuesday I could be moving sectors. Which is nuts because this last change has passed really fast. Elder Paz goes home on Tuesday! It's crazy to see how fast the time goes by. I only have 3 changes left. It's the end of the 7th inning stretch, the 4th quarter, the most important time in the ball game. The make it or break it! And I'm going to make it! Ain't no time for being Trunky!

But like I was saying, this was a really good week! We had a blast working! We have been doing a lot more teaching and a lot less walking. But that's good because all those contacts that we have been doing are actually showing, and we are teaching more. It's been awesome!

One of our best lessons this week, the one in which I learned the most and felt the biggest spirit, was with a less active member. Her name is Claudia. She is awesome! She showed up at church one day and asked us to come by and teach her so she can retake the church again. She wants to do everything and be active again. She's almost there, she just is missing a little more time. But anyway we were talking about the Plan of Salvation, specifically about the Spirit World and the Resurrection. And we read the Scripture John 20 :15-16, which says... 

 "15 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be thegardener, saith unto him,Sir, if thou have borne himhence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I willtakehim away.

 16 Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself, andsaith unto him, Ra-bboni; which is to say, Master."

And we talked about how great that is. "Woman, why weepest thou?" I love that because Mary Magdalene thought that someone had robbed the body of Jesus. But the question that Jesus asks can be used to understand that the resurrection of Jesus Christ is something happy, and so will ours. I know how true that is, and how happy we will be to be resurrected and see all our loved ones!

Anyway, today we played soccer and the stake center, but Elder Tafur hasn't sent everyone the foto yet, so maybe next week I'll have it.

And then today's picture is an awesome graffitti that we found in the sector. It says "Brava Raza" which is like a saying here in chile about the people. It means something like "A Brave Race"

This week went really well. Our sector is starting to take off! We have found a lot of new people and it is really exciting for us! Ever since the division of the sector we have been contacting like crazy, and it has been awesome because we have found so many people. We are pretty sure that we have almost contacted our whole sector. But we have found a lot of new people!

This last Sunday we had our stake conference and it was really awesome! We were able to get Daniel, a less active, to take us and 2 other less active members who are trying to come back to church. So in all we went with 3 less actives and had a few more people that we work with there. It was a really spiritual meeting. President Cook and Hermana Cook spoke, along with a few more people from the stake. After the meeting, everyone who came with us to the conference commented on how spiritual it was and how good they felt listening to it! I was really glad to be able to go with them!

A really cool guy we started to teach is named Dogaberto. We found him last Saturday. Anyway we went back to his house and started talking about the Book of Mormon. We had left him with one the first time we met him, so he would be able to read it. We asked him if he had any questions, and he said yes. He opened up his book to read the question that he had, and I though it would be in the introduction or something like that. But he opened up to 1 Nefi 2! He had read all the way through to there! It was so awesome! We are really excited to have known him!

Today my comp and I went to a place in the center called Plaza de Armas where there is a huge park. This was a statue I thought was cool!

And then after we went to eat fried chicken in Popeye's! 

It was SOOOO good! 

Fried chicken and Biscuits!

Well, this week was the Skype home. My last one which is crazy to think about. I'm getting to the final stretch. But here we are in Santiago Sur. There is still plenty of time to work. The Skype was really awesome! I didn't realize how big everyone's gotten since I've been out here! But it was good to see my family.

Anyway, this week was really good! It was really awesome to work this week. We are doing really well, and all the contacts that we are doing are really starting to help us out. We are finally getting people to teach, and after a long period of not teaching too much, we are getting there. Things have started to pick up again, and we are hoping that this week keeps going like that.

We are really excited because Daniel is progressing a lot. I don't know if you remember Daniel. We started teaching him when Elder Ahlstrom first got to the sector. He was really looking to just know what was the truth. He was less active at the time we met him. But now he has come back to church 2 and we are hoping to start working with the rest of his family!

Anyway for some pictures this week. This first one is pretty cool. It's a picture of a spider that we found in the chapel. Just HUGE!

And then I thought this was funny. They love American things so much down here, that we found Elvis Presley playing Poker hahahahaha.

We had a really awesome week this last week! We are finding a lot of new people and we are really working hard. We are doing just fine. We are finding a lot of new people, which I think is a blessing coming from the fact that we have left so many people to be able to find new people. 

One of them was Sergio. we had contacted him a few weeks ago, while our Elders Quorum President was accompanying us. He seemed really interested. He asked a lot of questions and we ended up giving him a Book of Mormon, and he was excited to read it. We went back last Sunday to see if he was home. He let us in and we taught his whole family! It was just what we were looking for. 

It was awesome!

But anyway. This Monday, we had a huge Zone Training. Well a normal Zone Training meeting, but it kind of rocked me. It was all about Humility. And I know that is a really sensitive subject. But it was really good for me and I think it impacted me. A lot. And the thing that seemed to impact me the most is being able to see the Lord's hand in our lives. If it weren't for him, we wouldn't be anything. Anyway, I thought I would share that.

Anyway, this week a sister gave us apples that were GINORMOUS! They were huge! That's all.