Week 79

New Sector! Portal del mar is my new sector and i`m with elder Romero from argentina. He just left his training, so he has about 3 months in the mission. The sector is awesome and my companion is awesome too, so it`s going to fun here!

One thing that was superrr funny, but also kind of sad, is one of my companions Elder Wilson was going to finish his mission and fly home last wednesday, but on the way to the mission office, the mission president called. He told him that he couldn`t go home yet because the chilean pilots went on strike so they had to reschedule his flight and everything so he stayed with us for like 3 days. His reaction was awesome. Good thing is, he left saturday night so he should be getting home today. 

It`s christmas! We had like 5 families invite us over for christmas already, so it will be a great christmas. This ward has like 120 active members, so it`s a lot more like a ward from the states.

Anyways, i`lll send some more updates next week!

Elder Pollock

Week 78

Well, i`m finally leaving calle calle! Haha i`ve been in the same sector for 5 changes (about 8 months). I`m going to Puerto Montt 2, pretty close to my other sector calbuco! I will be with Elder Romero, a pretty new missionary from argentina. I`m excited to get to know the new sector! I`ll be there on wednesday.

Only 2 more weeks till christmas! Christmas is definitely the best ime of year, especially because the people are nicer and more open to talk to us at this time of year.


Anyways, here`s some pictures like i promised!

Our christmas tree set up with chess board, our favorite thing to do besides basketball

The new soccer ball i bought

My chill couch for p day

My christmas package! Thank you family!!! Also, my carta moroni got here, which is my flight plans for when i get home in june. All missionary`s get it 6 months before they go home

Mac and cheese, the best.

My new Chilean ID 

Week 75, 76 and 77

Sorry for missing so many weeks! I haven`t had much time to write, because i`ve been having to use my writing time for some things I've been having to do as district leader.

We got a new bishop! The new one is super awesome, and the ward is going to change a lot. We already have scheduled ping pong night every Wednesday to try and get more kids to church, we started doing an english class about 3 weeks ago, and it has been super successful. I`m teaching it, and there are about 8-10 people every class. We do that every Saturday.

I got my Christmas package from my family, so i`m super excited for that! Only 2 more weeks until i get to open that. It`s kind of hard to resist not opening it.

We've been waking up 30 minutes early every morning to get that extra exercise in, so that`s been fun. I`ve been practicing a lot of soccer lately, and i can finally juggle the soccer ball as much as i used to when i was playing before. My record right now is 583 without dropping it.

It`s still been really hot here, and it`s only supposed to get hotter. It`s a little weird to be dying of heat in the middle of December. 

We found a cool investigator named Claudia, she has a baptism date for 2 of January and she`s pretty cool. She`s really ready to learn and she has been praying for help to stop smoking.

Anyways, those are the updates, i`ll send some pictures next week because i don`t have my camera with me. Sorry for falling behind with the emails!

Elder Pollock

Week 73 and 74

These two weeks have flown by! We have been working with a lot of people lately, but our focus is Nadia. She is a friend of Camila and she is 27 years old. Her sister is an active member. The only reason she can`t get baptized is because she is living with her boyfriend, so she is going to have to move out, or get married before she can get baptized. Other than that problem, she has come to church a lot and she is a really good investigador, she`s already read all of 3 nephi! 

The weather has been changing a lot lately. It used to rain all the time here, but now it is super hot. Like 70-80 degrees everyday! I definitely like the rain better, because you can`t escape the heat since no one here has air conditioning. The mornings are always really nice though, so we`ve been playing basketball almost every morning with the other elders in our house.

We watched meet the mormons with the ward this week, it was awesome! If you guys haven`t seen it yet, you should watch it this week because it`s super good.

Besitos

Elder Pollock