Hey FAM! I`m doin really good here. It`s still super hot. Well, my companion left for his homestead yesterday, but guess what? I´m gonna be training a new missionary this next couple months!!! Isn`t that sweet?! I don`t know who he is or where he`s from. But he should getting here from the States tomorrow. WOW! Wish me luck. Hope all is going well at the Home.

Holes in my shoes

Hey Fam. Looks like you guys are doing good. That`s so cool to hear about the Temple in Payson!!! That is going to be SO cool. I`m totally going there like every week when I get back! The mission is going really good. I think it`s because I`m finally getting used to the language. I can speak and understand what they are saying like cake. It`s actually really cool to step back and think 12 months ago I didn`t know a thing about spanish. Now it`s like I`ve been speaking spanish my whole life. Ok, I`m not THAT good at it, but pretty close. We have a guy right now who is really interested in the church. He said " I don`t get it, you guys are the only ones called `The Church of Jesus Christ`, shouldn`t that be what all the churches are called?" Then we had to explain The Restoration and The Plan of Salvation and The Gospel of Jesus Christ all in one! It was long, but he totally has a strong goal to get baptized the 21st of Febuary! Hopefully he goes through with it. Well, other then that I`m pretty much out of things. My companion goes home in a week! He`s super excited and super sad at the same time. I feel for him. Both pairs of my shoes have holes in them! HAHA! We walk SO MUCH! Ok, love ya tons. Have an awesome week. Love your Elder.

Big Christmas Activity

Hey fam, today was the BIG CHRISTMAS ACTIVITY for the Chile Rancagua Mission. It was actually held in my stake! All the elders from the whole mission gathered there today and we played soccer, basketball, ultimate frisbee, volleyball, ping-pong, and we ate a ton of hamburgers! It was alot of fun, an all day activity. This week was good, we gave the holy ghost to our recent convert! She is so awesome! I`m going to be sending you guys a package here pretty soon with the big letter and some other stuff so look out. We aren`t able to go to the santiago temple because it`s not in our mission, but last change me and my companion got permission from our president to go do a session in the santiago temple! It was rad! The primary program sounded like a laugh! Wish I was there.

Hot Christmas

IT DOESN`T FEEL LIKE CHRISTMAS!!! It`s really hot here, and nobody has lights up! It feels so weird. Some members in our ward gave us some christmas lights to hang up, but we never have time in the house!

We have a christmas tree thats about the size of a tire. It works. Sorry that you couldn`t report much about me, I`ll try to dive into details. We cleaned our house pretty good this morning and then went to the mission office. The mission office for the mission Rancagua is in my zone. Every p-day we go and check if we got mail and stuff. So if you send me a package I`ll recieve it in about a week. Speaking of package, I do want some stuff for christmas. I want LOTS of RED VINES, NERDS ROPES, and AIR HEADS EXTREMES!!! I love those candies. If you don`t know what they are ask Kelsey or Junior, they`ll know. If there is any thing else that you can think of that would be a cool suprise, SEND IT! I love you guys so much, hope you have the COOL CHRISTMAS SPIRIT!

Little Black Puppy

First off, we found a little black puppy in front of our house this past tuesday, it must have been a couple days old because it was so small. We kept it for 2 nights and then found somebody who wanted it in the sector.

On thursday our stake had a Temple activity, and our bishop is friends with our Mission Pres., so... WE WENT TO THE TEMPLE!!! It was so awesome! We did alot of work. We got alot done. It was so nice to enter in the temple again and get away from the world. We went to the Santiago Temple, they´re building a new temple up in Concepcion, Chile.

This week has been really good for the work too. We found alot of NEW investigators, ones who have NEVER heard our message, It was so awesome to see their eyes when we explained the Book of Mormon and how Jesus visited the Americas. They really have never heard it. There is one family that we found that is so perfect, I just hope they´re married! That´s a pretty big problem here in Chile, when people aren´t married. Well other then that our missionary lives are going sweet.

McDonald's and Soccer in Chile

The Mish is going really good. I got a new companion last week, his name is Elder Hunt. We've been getting along really good, and thus the work has been going great! We have 4 people who have baptismal dates! Hopefully they keep their commitments! Me? I've been doing fine, my health is good, my thoughts are good and not set on home or other things, the spanish is going really good (I learn a couple new words every day) So things are just fine with me. Todays our p-day, so we got up and cleaned the house (you'd be so proud of how clean I keep the house!) Then we got a taxi to a near by town San Bernardo. We ate at McDonalds! It's SO different here. And now I'm writing you in an internet café. We'll probably go grocery shopping after this and then back home. Since today is Columbus day there's these huge things Chile does, it's like a yard sale and a flea market mixed, but they open them on huge freeway streets, so the whole street is closed off! I know your Mom would love it! There called Persas or Ferias. Anyways we're probably gonna walk that today and see if there is anything cool. Since I've been here in Chile I think I've played like 200 games of soccer, I'm not even kidding! It's so much fun. OH! Chile beat Columbia 2 days ago in the finals to play in the world cup in 2010, and people were going crazy! Everybody was screaming and honking their car horns and shooting their guns! It was so funny! Kinda scary though. Chile is insane when it comes to soccer.

Happy Birthday Elder Quesada

If any of you would like to send birthday wishes to Elder Quesada for his 20th this Sunday please leave a comment here and I will copy all of them into an email to send to him. He will love to hear from you all on his birthday.

Also here is his latest letter:
Hello family! Things are going great over here in skinny Chile. Teaching alot of people the Gospel. It´s been awesome, me and my companion started doing a lot of door contacts with the Book of Mormon in hand and testifying about it right at their door step. It´s been really interesting to see the peoples faces as we testify of, not only the restoration of the gospel, but the Book of Mormon with it. Anyways, how are things in the good ol´ U S of A?

Rachael, your already 6 months along? WOW!!! Time flies when your on a mission!

Hopefully you guys don´t miss me as much as I miss you, or we´re gonna have problems. Ok Fam, take it easy and thanks for rubbin it in that I´m gonna be 20! Love ya, Elder Quesada.