October 10, 2010

Hey hey,Yes, it is definitely fun being here on the coast, although these past 3 days have been cloudy and cold. But, I would much rather have that than hot and nasty like in Santiago. The times have changed once again, I believe now you are 3 hours behind where I am. Maybe I'm wrong, hard to believe that its almost time again to call for Christmas! Pretty crazy.

Llo Lleo is about 2 and a half hours from Santiago, we have to take a big bus to get there. Yea, San Antonio is a decent size, especially cuz there are like 3 cities all together (Llo Lleo, Barrancas and San Antonio) It's not a huge port actually, but it is constantly having new ships come and go.

Being a DL is fun. It's really not too much different. I have to make a lot of phone calls to my district, let them know about different things, see how they are doing and if they need anything. I have to teach a class every week when we have our District/zone meeting. And I have to report everyone's numbers for the week. For example, how many new people they found to teach that week, how many lessons they taught with a member present, and other 'Key Indicators' they are called. And yea, thats about it. I am in charge of the 'pouch' mail that we use to get things around in the mission and also help to organize activities and stuff. And one more thing that I have not yet done is do the baptismal interviews for the district. That will be quite the experience. So yea, thats what DL does :)>

Elder Nielson is a greenie still, this is his second change. I'm finishing his training. Elder Jenkins was from UT, remember him? And I have 2 from Idaho, 1 from Bolivia, 1 from Columbia, and 2 from Honduras, and 1 from Las Vegas. Pretty cool huh? Yes, I have 4 tiny little sisters in my district, but they are all really great. They are funny and work hard. Yea, they are all Latino. 2 from Honduras, 1 from Peru and 1 from Argentina.

The tsunami drill was lame, we had to go to the safe zone, stand there for like 15 minutes and then go back down. Thats it, and only about 20 other people in our area did it with us, everyone else didn't pay any attention to it. Oh well. THe air is soooo much fresher here, I love it. The buses are much much older than I am, I'm amazed that they still run actually or that they can make it up the steep hills that we have here. The mission gives us money for it, but sometimes I run out and have to use my own (for food or other things at times) But I think as DL get a bit more money now. That should be nice.

We should be able to put the frissbee to good use. Yes, once December starts we can't go to the beach anymore, thats summer for everyone and people starting going to the beach. SO far the people from the ward that I've met have been really great. This ward is a lttle bigger which is nice. Our ward mision leader is really cool too. Unfortuneately the elder who was here before me left the sector in kinda tough shape (no investigators) so we've basically have had to start from scratch, but it's been good. And it's more rewarding too.

I love and am praying for you!

Love,

Elder DeLong