Week 96 and 97

Hey the president changed me for my last 6 weeks! actually, everyone from my group and that end with me in 5 weeks all got changed also! it´ll be good though, because i love getting to new sectors.

i´m in chaiten! it´s superrr cold here. we´re in the furthest part south that i have been in chile, and we´re live right on the ocean and we´re surrounded by mountains.

i´m with Elder Galvez, from peru. We get along great! i´ll send a picture next week

The branch here is super small, there were only like 10 people at church last sunday. they´re super awesome though so it´ll be fun to work with them

Besides that, we talked to lots of people this last week to try and find people, and we found a couple cool people to hopefully teach in this upcoming week

Elder Pollock

Week 94/95

i got my package! it was great! i miss american candy so it was great to get some classic reeses, gushers, nerds ropes, pop tarts, etc. thanks family for the package!

this is us with justyn the american and his roomate that i never sent



a board game called bang that we always play. it`s super awesome

we were in charge of a zone conference so we set up a completo lunch as a zone! (chilean hot dogs)

i got my package! it was great! i miss american candy so it was great to get some classic reeses, gushers, nerds ropes, pop tarts, etc. thanks family for the package!

Week 91

This is Justyn, the retired American Special Forces from Texas! he is 45 now and is working in the private sector of the military and is going back to Afghanistan in a couple weeks, so we took a picture with him. he was a pretty cool guy so were sad that he´s leaving!

In our ward, the are 2 elders (us) and 2 sisters. The picture is of Patricia, the sisters were teaching her, and she randomly wanted me to baptize her so that was awesome! Her baptism was yesterday

also, this Sunday we had 5 investigators of us and 4 investigadors from the sisters in church, so it was a great Sunday!

Anyways, thanks for everything, until next week

Elder Pollock

Week 90

We had a baptism this week and transfers so it was pretty crazy!

First of all, in transfers i stayed in this sector and my new companion is jacob Komenda. He has a full ride to play volleyball at byu and is 6 feet 8 inches. he`s pretty awesome. 

For transfers, we were in charge of all the flights and all the new missionary´s, so we spent the last 2 or 3 days doing only that. The cool thing is that one of my old companions, elder vega, was finishing the mission and i was able to spend the day with him!

The baptism was great! everything went smoothly, we were able to sfeel the spirit strongly, and we did a music number with piano and violin. also, one of our other investigadors came to the baptism unexpectedly so that was cool!

Today, we played volleyball and ate dominoes pizza. sweet.

Anwyays, thanks for everything guys! see you soon

Elder Pollock

Week 87, 88, and 89

Sorry for not writing for so long! The good thing is that when I get home soon I will be able to update you guys in person about the things that are happening.

This week that`s coming up, we will have the baptism of Cecilia! it will be great. We`ve been working with her for the past month or so. She is 50 years old and she has 2 kids, 25 and 27 years old. The kids aren`t getting baptized, but i think they will afterwards. She is awesome and she loves learning about the gospel, she said her life has changed a ton since she has been learning. 

we`ve been teaching a lot of other people too. The American special forces dude, Justyn, hasn`t been to church yet, but he still has a lot of good questions. He`s not progressing too much, but he has a lot of friends here so we are trying to teach his friends.

I've been playing piano more. I played all the hymns in sacrament like usual this Sunday, and we played a special number with piano and violin of ¨I Know  That My Redeemer Lives.¨

 as for pictures, we`ve been kind of lazy so we`ll have to take a lot more this upcoming week. 

Thanks for everything!

Jordan Pollock

Week 85 and 86

I got to return to calbuco! We went there to do exchanges for a day and it was awesome because I got to see a lot of the people I knew back then. The mamita erica made us bloomin onion for lunch!  It was exactly like the Outback Steakhouse!

For Valentines  Day we got to see the Chilean airforce draw hearts in the sky, it was pretty cool. We had no idea they were going to be there, but when we were in the streets they flew right by us. 

We taught the restoration in English to Justin the ex-special forces! He is awesome ! He is a Southern Baptist from Texas, but he is still listening to us. His parents are coming down to visit him and they want to come to church this Sunday. 

One awesome story, that I was in Alerce on exchanges with another Elder, and our plans got cancelled so we didn"t know what to do. There was no one around, so we said a prayer, literally 20 seconds later, a bus driver pulls up next to us and says, ¨hey get on¨ apparently elder jacobs has talked to the bus driver one time. We talked to him for like 10 minutes, and we had no idea where he was going, and then we got to a street corner and he said ¨well, that`s the end of my route so see you guys later!¨and we got off there. He took us all the way to the other side of the sector, and it was actually right next to a recent converts house and we were able to teach him. It was a funny experience, because we just went with the flow and everything worked out perfectly.

Chilean Air Force



The Montesino Family (Erika)

Week 84

My new companion is elder germann, he studied in the air force academy for a year before the mission and he`s a cool dude.

we found an ex-special forces american here! his name is justin and he`s from texas. he served in afghanistan and iraq for 8 years total. We went running with him thursday morning. My companion found him like a week ago when they were eating at mcdonalds and the dude said, ¨no way, the mormons!¨ He has a lot of mormon friends apparently, and one of them served a mission. 

We went to another neighborhood that was pretty nice, and some kids started talking perfct english with us! they are the sons of englands ambassador here in chile, and they come here every summer. We are going to go back and teach them saturday night.

Ill send some pictures next week, we haven`t really had a chance to take too many pictures yet!

Elder Pollock