Origami Dino-la Serena

Spray paint Origami dino 5 seconds from our house.

Joker Graffiti

The Giant Joker Graffiti that we pass by every day. There are also a few here of Bruno Mars and other Actors. Chile is so Americanized. They often ask us if we have certain TV shows in the US, when they don´t realize that´s where the show is filmed... haha. 

My birthday was amazing!

June 25th, 2013

Today we have PDAY because yesterday we had an area conference. It was amazing. I wrote about as much as I do in General Conference. And it was all important information answering some of the questions I had.

Dad n mom, I´m jealous of your companions. They´re soo cool!

Everything not Eternal is Eternally out of date.

C.S. Lewis  

Yes, I got the package with the card. Thank you so much. Sadly president says it´s a perfect book for Pday, but I´m still happy for that. 

 

My birthday was amazing! Some members invited us over to a Family Home Evening, and brought one of their moms, which they did because of the awesome birthday conference on sunday. I didn´t know the General Authorities made movies and gave talks specifically for birthdays... 

So the mom counted as a new investigator, and we´ll be trying to meet with her in the next couple weeks. 

What I thought about where you are going was, ¨YES.¨  Even though the out of the US calls are always exciting, it still gave me a little more peace of mind because of the blessings of the states. The only better place would have been here in Chile. 

 

The mission president is an inspired man. I was extremely excited for your call and the rest of the day my companion wondered why I was walking so fast. I guess I´m just easy to be excited about things. 

 

Remember to invite a bunch of non member friends!  I say that because yes, I did see it. 

haha. Thanks for the story. It seems that I´m the only one in my mission who cracks up every time someone makes a noise.

A few other elders have blogs but if you don´t feel like updating them don´t worry about it.  It´s a lot of work it seems like.   If people want to talk to me, they can do it personally now since the missionary rules have changed.

I still haven´t written president. If I have time I´ll come back to this. 

Birthday Cake- Mini Tortas

The Elders we live with and my companion made me a birthday cake made of ¨Mini Tortas¨. It was delicious.

July 1st

Originally sent 7/1/2013

News for the moment - 

We´ll hopefully be having the baptism for a young 10 year old. His parents are finally thinking about letting him. The mom already said yes, but the dad is still a bit worried. They´re good people.

We finally got a hold of an investigator that disappeared. She moved back in with her pareja, so... we don´t know what she´s going to do. She was ready to be baptized, but since she moved back in with the guy she can´t get baptized unless she moves out until she´s married. Convive-ing here is a pain. Everyone does it because the marriage laws are so difficult and slow. There´s a law that you have to wait 9 months before you can get married again after a divorce just in case there was a pregnancy. It´s rough because a lot of your golden investigators who are ready to be baptized have to wait a long time. . . 

My companion is no longer with me. He should be on a plane by now going home. I´m working with the other elder from the ward in both sectors. It´s a huge area and a wonder how they did it like this before.  It was just 5 months ago that they received the second pair of missionaries here.

Anyway, I gotta get out of here. I took too long with letters to the mission president and everything. Love you all. 

Here´s part of it. Can´t put the rest because there are too many names of the people and we´re not advised to put them in emails.

Estoy bien. Ésta semana era muy rara, porque habían muchas cosas nuevas como mi compañero saliendo y todo de eso. Fue una experiencia buena, pero siempre es algo triste cuando cambie. Estoy muy agradecido por poder trabajar con Élder V. Me enseñó mucho. Con el trabajo, yo estoy progresando en mi confianza y no preocuparme de cosas que no sean importantes. Estoy aprendiendo más de ser un líder en algunas formas y que yo tengo que hablar más con mi compañero en cada momento. Me cuesta hacer ´small talk´ y cosas así, pero estoy aprendiendo. También este tiempo ahora que Elder O y yo estamos trabajando en las dos áreas, estoy aprendiendo cosas que no probablemente podría en alguna otra manera a este punto de la misión.

Back online!

Sorry, you've had to wait in anticipation of Jon's mission communication, we've been traveling and tackling this had to wait.  But here it is!  I'll post quite a few back letters and then start posting as they arrive.  One of my favorite came recently about a moving experience during a hospital blessing!  Hope his experience with the Spirit touches your lives as much as it continues to touch mine.  Thanks for checking in and supporting him as he strives to do God's will thousands of miles from home.
his sis, Lynnette

Hi Ya'll.

Elder Cattron's Mom and Dad got their mission call to San Jose CA.  Mom is too busy getting ready to edit letters for this blog.  Now that we have another facilitator, you might see some posts in the near future.  So stay tuned because the blog could receive some updates.   : )