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6.4.12

life is good here. just really cold lately. and my comp is getting sick again.  haha but its all good. we actually went to the doctors last night and they gave him a shot chilean style in the butt!  haha not much else has happened this week. The work is going good. we`re teaching these 2 little girls that are the daughters of a less active member who wants to come back to the church. So we have family home evenings with them all the time now. and they`re really funny. and last night we had one and at the end we did this one thing called "black magic" where either me or my comp go out of the room, and the rest of the people in the room choose an object, and then we tell my comp to come back in, and i start pointing at things and asking him if this is the thing we chose and eventually i ask the thing we chose and he gets it right every time. and everyone is all surprised haha the way it works is that its called "black" magic because i`ll be pointing to things and asking if its the thing, and after a few times i`ll point to something black, and then he will know that the next thing i point to is the thing we chose. there are very few people that have figured out the trick haha its always fun to do.
well its officially cold here. but im staying warm. its gonna stink cuz when i get home in december i will just barely be coming out of winter here. and going right back into it there :P blah...
Love,
Elder Jared Philpott

Picures

A wedding, a baptism, Chilean food, friends and a perhaps a new profession.

Yummy!

Me and Elder Raeley, a good friend

Me and Herman Child, who just left for home.  It's hard to believe she's finished with her mission already.

A new convert works at this Vet office and let us try it out.

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5.28.12

Chile is good. just SUPER rainy lately :P Which makes things real difficult sometimes. this saturday we had a wedding in the church. it was couple that has been living together that the other missionaries here are teaching. so they put a goal for them to get married so she could get baptized. so we were there all day decorating and getting things together for the wedding. but the weather was absolutley terrible! it was pouring down rain and we had winds that were super fast blowing over trees and branches and roof tiles. and the power went out in this whole city so for the first couple hours of the wedding there wasnt any light haha but afterwards the electricity came back. and the rest of the wedding went great.
Today its still raining :P and i found out that my shoes arent very water proof :P haha
The other big news is that they told us cambios today!!! and guess what?? no one is getting transferred......
which means 6 more weeks of learning whatever it is the lord wants me to learn here :]
other than that not much has happened this week... maybe next week will be better.
Chow,
Elder Philpott

Pictures I stole from Facebook

Somebody from Jared's mission posted these pictures to his Facebook. I stole them, so I could have them for his blog.

5.21.12

Well chiles good. lets see, what all happened this week.... well to start off, the earthquake that everyone was predicting for yesterday never happened haha there were a few dissapointed people lol even if there were n earthquake or a tremor i wouldnt notice it cuz i sleep on the top bunk here and E`Paz who sleeps below me mmoves a lot in his sleep, so it baisically feels like theres an earthquake every night here lol its getting really cold here now too. winter is officially here and im going to buy a thiker coat this week i think.
things have been good with my comp lately. but i cant say im sad that cambios are next week haha :D and it seems pretty likely that he will be leaving haha
the only fun thing that happened this week was we went to the house of the family of the girl we baptised last sunday. they live like 30 mins away from the city, so they drove us there for a family home evening. we cooked some empanadas and pizza, and we brought some brownie mix and made brownies with them. but they got a little burnt on the edges cuz the pan was too big, and we cooked them in a brick oven, or dirt oven or whatever its called. but the ones in the center were good haha then we sharred a message about the gift of the holy ghost (that she recieved the next day) and then we played some card games. and we invited the friend they had over to church and she said she was interested in hearing more. then it started raining a bunch an they drove us back to san carlos. it was a good time.
The only funny thing this week was when me n my comp were walking down the street and he told me that he had a bad dream that he got bit by 3 dogs lol and while we were walking, one of the many stray dogs that walk around the city started following him, and it was a big dog too. so he started freaking out and yelling at it and swinging his bag at it, but it just kept following him wagging its tail until it found another dog to play with haha it was pretty hilarious, but he didnt think it was that funny lol
Oh and yesterday at church i had a surprise visit from some people from Penco :) it was really nice. one of them was this girl me n elder martinez were teaching for awhile and now i just learned she got baptized only a little after i left and has been strong in the church since and that a couple other of the people we were teaching got baptised too. it was a cool feeling :) and they were really nice and brought me n my comp some gifts haha it was mostly food. cuz they know that we dont usually have much food in our house lol
other than that, things have been prety normal around here. just a lot colder. haha
Love,
Elder Jared Philpott

5.13.12

The only real important things that happened this week were the baptism we had yesterday, which went really well. and makes 2 for the month already :) and a couple more on the way. The other thing was that i was sick yesterday :P i woke up in the middle of the night and was throwing up, and couldnt eat anything all day yesterday, so the members here took me to the hospital and they gave me this IV thing with medications in it, which helped a lot but i still had some stomach pains. but today im feeling much better. so i think it was just something i ate. but i lost my voice and can barely talk today :P This week our ward had a lot of activities too. we had a movies night and then a big family home evening and then a sports day. they all went pretty well. the kids watch the lion king in 3D here cuz one of the members in our ward had a 3D tv and a bunch of the 3D glasses. so they all really liked that :) but the family home evening had a problem that in the end when it came time to play games no one told us that we were in charge, so we just played a couple silly games like simon says lol and in the end we couldnt think of anymore games, so everyone just went straight for the refreshments haha
other than that, thing are just stayin the same. its pretty cold here now, but i sleep warm at night in my sleeping bag and a fleece blanket haha
Chow,
Elder Philpott