Surprisingly, the people here in Chile celebrate Halloween too! The kids all leave and knock doors for candy, just like in the states. The only difference is instead of knocking doors, they knock a rock on a metal fence, because that is the custom of knocking doors in Chile.
We had a costume party the day before Halloween, and then we had a lunch/game/karaoke night Halloween day! My companion and I were at the church from 11:00 in the morning until about 7:00 at night for the lunch activity. It was super fun though, we sang karaoke, played basketball, Frisbee, ate food, talked, celebrated someone`s birthday, jump roped, etc. It was super successful because we had a couple investigators there and less active members who met some of the cool people in our ward!
Here`s a cool story. Before the mission, I used to play a computer game called League of Legends. In the street one day, a guy in his 20`s was walking with his girlfriend to the university. I commented on his shirt, asked him who his favorite character was, asked him what level he was, etc. After that, we had about an hour discussion about the gospel, and he invited us to come over any time to his house! We watched him play League of legends for a little while and then we had another lesson with him. Who would have known playing a video game could help the mission work? Hahah at least I feel a little better now for wasting a lot of time playing video games before the mission...Anyways, that`s about it for this week!
May the Force be with you
Elder Pollock
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