August 17, 2009

Jeff arrived in Chile in their winter season, without a coat, surprised to find that it was colder than he expected. He relayed that the bishops wife found 2 coats for him, and in general watches out for the Elders:

"But I can´t believe that my second week is almost over! The time flies. But yes, the hermanas here take really good care of us. The bishops wife especially. She went out and bought my a couple coats (I paid here back) so that was really nice of her. And she feeds us alot. "

Elder DeLong's daily schedule starts at 7:00am, with personal time until 8:30. Then personal, companion & language study until 11:30.Then they are out working until 2:00, have lunch, study a bit more, then at 3:30 are back to work until 9:30 or 10:00 & in turn in at 11:00.


















"Oh and we eat at the members homes, yes. Some of them are very humble homes. They don´t have much, but they show their love by food, and food is pretty cheap here, so they like to feed us a LOT, lol. The town we are in is pretty small. There are no big stores or anything, only small supermarkets and little shops that people own. But I like it! We are about a 10-15 min bus ride away from bigger stores and stuff in Peñaflor (where we email). And it´s about a 45 min bus ride to Santiago plus a 5 min subway ride."


" Our ward is pretty small, we had 66 in sacrament yesterday. But we are working on it :) Saturday it rained for 20 hours strait! It was frio (cold) and pretty miserable, but we survived so its all good. My feet are a lot better. It´s cool, I say a prayer every day that my feet won´t hurt and for the most part they don´t! But things are great here."

He says they have several people that have come to church with them but for the most part they are working with the less active members. And loving it.
" Well, thanks for all the love and support! i know this work and gospel are true!! I love you all and hope to here from you!"
Love,Elder DeLong