Hi family! 

How is everything going?? Has summer already started?? I had to leave with a jacket on today and sleep with an extra blanket now so enjoy your nice weather deal? 

We have been having lots of fun these past few weeks and have been doing lots of different things! We are teaching a peruvian named Manuel who any second now will be ready to get baptized. He is really cool. His son has diabetes and it is pretty bad sometimes so he came to chile to be with him and take care of him. He misses his wife a lot but he is happy in the church.

They made us sing in the ward choir this week.... haha it was ward conference and they wanted to prepare a special musical number and so obviously they asked us to participate... because chileans have a false concept that all north americans just know and are blessed from no high with the gift of singing... BUT not true. We sang anyway and it was decent.

We surely are pretty blessed to have the restored truth. this week we have talked with lots of really good people that just dont quite get it, but I feel really blessed to have been born into a family where I was tauht the truth from the very second I could understand things. We know where we are going we know why we are going there and we know how to get there. But we arent alone in doing it. That is the beauty.

Every once in a while God likes to let us be humbled.. and that happened this week. haha no it is just a funny story actually. We talked with a man who didnt really want to listen to us at all. and when we talk to people like that we have the tendency to bother them a little bit and joke with them so that at least nobody ends the conversation discouarged. But this guy when he was going back into his house we waved to him again. and so he picked a little pebble and started to throw it at us. hahaha it sounds scary but it was one of the funniest things that has happened to me in chile. They said the mission would be full of surprises but they never said they would throw rocks at us!

Elder Holdstock