8/20/2018
Noche Blanca

We had an awesome week this week!. We had something that is called a noche blanca (white night).  Where all the people that are going to get baptized on Saturday go to the same service so that it can be a little bit more special.  ANGEL got baptized!  Wow thanks so much for your prayers and all that you guys have done I know that through our efforts God, blessed us and made it possible that Angel could get baptized!  

Now we have to find more people that are getting ready to be baptised, because a lot of our investigators don´t want to go to church haha.  Lets see if we can find a way to help them go to church!  

Also we got to see the opening of a mission call of someone from our Branch. His name is Juan Pablo!  He is super cool!  He is going to Buenos Aires Argentina and he is going to be a very good missionary.

Thanks for everything you guys do I miss ya tons!  I hope you are all doing well!  Stay safe and I will talk to ya next week.

Love,

Elder Hirschi

Answers: 

1. When is the next transfer?

A: This Monday!

2.  Are you still using your running shoes?

A: Yes I am they still work very well thanks!

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8/13/2018
Hello Familia

Sorry I also don´t have any time this week!  It´s crazy how much stuff I want to say but there´s just no time!  I have to write a lot of people still so I hope you can all forgive me!  

We had an alright week!  Elder Flores is a beast. He talks with everyone and teaches with the spirit.  Sadly Angel doesn´t want to get baptized so we are still working with him, but we have to pass by less and less.  But we have a really cool investigator named Felipe and he is going to be baptized soon, ojala (hopefully).  

Anyways pray for him and that we can find new people to teach, and I invite you all to spread the gospel and invite other people to the church because it can bring lots of joy and many blessings.  I love you all. Take care and have a good week!

Love,

Elder Hirschi

Answers: 

1. Have you been feeling well lately?  

 I am doing awesome, but Elder Taylor my companion in Iquique got sick and he actually passed out, so please pray for him that he can get better!  Although he is doing a lot better now!

3.  How was the conference with the mission president?
 It was really good, I liked what the mission president's wife said, that we have to be a missionary with high expectations and have lots of love for the people!

7/30/2018
Elder Hirschi

Hello my beloved famliy. Sorry I don´t have very much time right now because I have to make it back home and we still have to buy stuff!  I love you all though. Thanks for all your support.  Take care everyone. I am doing well.  I will pray for you all!  See ya next week!

I invite you all to pray for Angel my investigator so that he can get baptized this week!  Thanks tons for everything!

Love,

       Elder Hirschi :)

Answers: 

1. What is your favorite place to get food in Alto Hospicio?

 There is a place called metro pizza that has a pizza that is 1 meter long its super cool, I also like to go to sushi or other restaurants.

2. Do they have any holidays in July or August there?

 Not that I know of sorry!

7/23/2018
Hola Familia :)

Wow we had a very good week. It was awesome.  Mom asked if I had been learning any new Mexican dialect with my new Mexican companion, but the only phrase that I have learned, my dad already taught me haha: You need hammer? No but Elder Flores is a very cool missionary, he is very spiritual and he also works hard.  

I am doing very well even though I got sick for a few days. I feel a lot better now and I am working full on getting the Lords work done!  I had a fever and I felt really weak for 1 day and my throat was hurting a lot.  I didn´t get a blessing, but I did rest for a little while after lunch, I was going to ask for a blessing after, but I felt better right before we left to work.

I love you all and miss you tons I hope you are doing well.  I will talk to you next week but I hope you are all doing well!  Take care!

Love,

Elder Hirschi

7/16/2018
Transfers

Heeeeelllo my beloved family.  I wanna give a shout out to my papa and his Birthday so if someone could do me a favor and go bug him about it and give him a hug for me it would be very appreciated thank you! 

Well we got the transfers this week, and it looks like God wants me to get used to Mexican Spanish for when I get home, because he sent me a new companion from Mexico.  His name is Elder Flores and he is pure fire!  He is super cool and wants to work hard in our sector.  I have 2 more transfers to talk to everyone and teach them about our Savior Jesus Christ. I don´t know where all the time went, but I´m going to work my butt off these next few months!  

Thanks for all your prayers and for all the support I really have felt blessed almost everyday of my mission.  Thanks for all that you guys do and for all the emails it really means a lot to me!  Anyways I love you all take care!

Love,

Elder Hirschi

Answers:

1.  Any news on transfers this week?

Yep we got transfers I am with a Mexican AY AY AY!  He even knows how to play guitar, so I think we are going to start a mariachi band haha.

2. How are your investigators doing?

 Well considering that we don´t have very many at this point, we are going to be looking for lots of references this week!

3. Does your papito ever let you play his guitar?

 Actually we have 2 guitars in our apartment. 1 of the guitars is from a member and we are going to give it back and the other is from an Elder that finished his mission, and he left it here.  But papito also has a guitar and yes he has let me play it! 

7/9/2018
Rain

Oh man everyone wrote me saying that they need some rain because it hasn´t rained for a little while.  Then I thought about it awhile, and realized that I haven´t seen rain in about 2 years haha.  So don´t worry my family I know how you all feel haha, but still I will pray so that we can have some rain in Utah, and if I have enough faith who knows it might just happen today haha.  

This week was just about as normal as it can get, we just walked for about a billion hours and there was no one in the street  but there´s always this week.  It wasn´t all bad though we got to talk to almost all of our converts and they are all doing well.  We did also have a conference for the district like last week and I got to see Elder Norambuena. He is the 70 of south America south.  And I actually got to eat with him a few times in Copiapo because he was part of my first ward which was really cool. I will send a photo of us.

We went to the beach today and played football (soccer) and a little bit of football Americano (Normal Football in the states). It was fun, but an Elder from my district got hurt his name is Elder Potter yes like Harry Potter haha jk.  But seriously he got cut pretty deep by an iron rebar that was sticking out of the sand a little bit .  I hope you can all pray for him because he is really worried about it and he wants to keep working hard in his sector.  He is in the hospital and we all hope that he is doing well. 

 Thanks for everything my loving family. I will write you next week and I hope you are all doing well.  I love you and miss you all, take care!

Love,

Elder Hershey 

Answers:

1.  What did your Mamita and Papito play for the special number at Yolandas baptism? Did they sing or play the piano?

 They sang and played the guitar, but it was come though fount of every blessing in Spanish

2.  How did the conference go in Antofagasta last week? Did you learn some great things at the conference?
 It was actually like 3 weeks ago but it was really good I loved it.  It was the first time I got to go to a Conference for leaders, but I got to see lots of older missionaries.  

That´s all folks!

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