From Chile with love

Hey, family. It´s still winter here in Santiago, but it is slightly warmer now. I think we´re starting to head into spring, which will be nice. I finally obtained a backpack - a gift from an investigator. Finally, my shoulders shouldn´t hurt very much. But now I have a shoulder bag that I don´t know what to do with! Oh well, I rather have that problem than back problems. The work here is going well. We´re contacting a lot, mainly because our appointments keep falling through. We had our Zone Conference on Wednesday - that was really good. Oh, and I had my first ward activity where, surprise, we had to share a message and a video about faith with like two minutes of preparation. But we pulled it off. The time here is really quite strange. For example, the activity started at 8 pm. We didn´t actually do anything until 9. They didn´t start cooking until 8.I was thinking the whole time that we would have had everything planned out and set up if this was back in Washington. Welcome to Southern America. I´m doing good. It sounds like you all have a busy week this week. I didn´t know that Dad was cubmaster. That should be fun. I will miss teaching knots with Uncle Rick. I enjoyed that. Just keep on working hard, and the blessings will come. You are in my prayers every night.

From Chile with Love,

Elder Hjelm