September 23, 2013

Mailing address: 

 Elder Sayre Stewart

Misión Chile Concepción

Castellon 1063    Oficina Norte

Concepción, Chile

Casilla 2210

"Pouch Mail"

Elder Sayre Stewart

Misión Chile Concepción

POB 30150

Salt Lake City, UT 84130-0150

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MYCHAL! Hope all is well with you!  This week we had so many fiestas for your birthday it was insane! You’re pretty popular down here in Chile.

Also because 18 de septiembre, the day of independence for Chile. This is their biggest holiday of the year and they go crazy all week long. About a block away from our house was what was almost like a carnival thing. People built huge ramadas from wood, tarps and tree branches and danced and drank for 5 days straight. The music was soo loud all of Quillon was listening... and we were trying to sleep through it.

This week because of the 18th, was very hard to teach people, all of our appointments fell through and we left knocking door to door. Which is hard, because everyone was at the giant fiesta by our house...or having a party of their own, or completely hammered with wine.

I ate like 39 empanadas (give or take) this past week and feel like I’m going to explode. But they were soo good! They also have this awesome weird dessert called mote con huesillo which is soo good. 

We had a ward activity at the church that started at 9 in the morning and lasted until 10 at night! We only ate lunch there at stayed for an activity we were in charge of but it was super wild. Everyone was dancing the national dance the quaka, in their cultural outfits! So much fun! Why don’t we have a national dance? ...we should go on strike about that...it seems to work for Chile

We also had cambios this week. And my companion, elder Barker left. I have a new companion named elder Rojas and he is from Argentina! And he speaks next to no English. I am now the only gringo in all of Quillon!  I am actually really excited to have elder Rojas as my companion; he’s really cool and good at teaching, also now I’m forced to speak Spanish always, so I’m improving soo much faster than before.

...entonces there we were, not knowing what to do, do we prayed, and asked for help.

Right after that, we walked across the street, and knocked on their door and they let us in! And we taught about the plan of salvation.

God is mindful of all of our needs, and is willing to help us when we ask in faith.

Love you all!