1/24/2017

Hola Familia!  I HAD MY FIRST BAPSTISM THIS WEEK TA TA!!  I didn`t get to baptize him, but it was still super cool.  His name is Paulo and he is a super cool 13 year old kid.  He is going to be very firm in the gospel. I can just feel his spirit and how smart he is.  It was a really cool experience, I will send the picture next week because we forgot the camera with the picture on it.  The only thing that was a bummer this week is that the Hermano (brother) Juan Carlos said that he was having doubts and he didn`t want to get baptized and I thought it was going to be super cool to see him get baptized.  Hopefully we he can be baptized soon!

The new Elder for the cambio (transfer) is Elder Santos and he is super cool.  He is a Brazilian and he actually called President and made a deal that if we got 16 baptisms this month that we could watch Captain America.  Anyways he is just a really cool guy and he helps me a lot too.

We found a family the other day that is super receptive to the gospel and I hope that they will get baptized too.  They are from Columbia but they really like to listen to the gospel and let us in.  This family was super poor, and some of you know I hadn´t really been drinking soda since before the mission, and so on the mission I would always try to ask for water.  But this family was so poor and they got me some soda and it seemed like they didn´t have anything really so I just thought how cool it was that they tried to give me the things that they had when they had so little.  Of course I drank it because I could just see how much they were willing to give when they didn´t have much.  It was just so humbling to see how poor some of the people are, and just how amazing the people here are.    

The bishops son just got home from a mission and he is super coo.l He helps us a lot now which is awesome!  I have been trying to learn a lot from him, and he told me that I am a pretty good missionary for just starting.  He said I speak a lot, but I just need to make it more clear so I´m going to try to work on that.

Anyways it sounds like everyone is doing good! I wish you all the best and thank you all again for everything!  CHOW!

Love,

       Elder Hirschi

P.S. My trainer wanted me to say good things about him so...  Elder Carter is just the coolest guy on the planet like a solid 78 out of 10 you could not ask for a better companion ever!!!!  Nothing CAN COMPARE TO MY PAPITOO!!  

Answers:

How are things in the apartment there?  Do you split doing chores?  Do you have regular cleaning days? 

1.The apartment is a little small and messy, we all just do random chores at random times, but this P-day we might clean more.

Have you taught many lessons lately?  Are there a lot of youth in your ward?

2. We have been teaching everyday!  There is more and more, but still not that much youth.  Elder Cook actually came like a year ago and he said that working with the youth is the key to success in Chile.

 How is the language coming along?  Have you said any real funny things in Spanish on accident yet?

3. The language is good, but I just can´t quite understand the people.  One time I said I´m sorry for my English to someone on accident, and another time I started speaking in English for one of the lessons haha.  But not to many really funny things.

 Do any of the families there have trampolines or basketball hoops at their homes?

4. No they don´t have trampolines at all, they also don´t have basketball hoops, but the church does. 

Are there any different holidays coming up there?  

5. Not any that I can think of.

 What is the travel like there?  Do many people ride bikes?  Do most people have cars or walk?

6. We always walk everywhere, unless the members drive us.  That´s how my trainer said it is the whole time, but one missionary said he used a bike at some point on the mission.  But we all travel on a bus called TURBUS which is like a super big thing in the mission.  The people all have cars, but there is also micros and taxi things that they can take.  

 Is there anything we could send you that you might need?  When do you think the missionaries will go to the mission home again to pick up stuff?

7. No I think I´m good, I am low on money but Elder Carter has a lot so I think we should be good.  They get the stuff from the mission home every month so probably sometime in February.