December 3, 2012

Hey there everybody!

Wow this past week seemed to go by way too fast... and here I am at the end of another cambio, and officially I won´t be with Elder Hughes anymore, neither will I be in this sector! How sad! I´ve loved my time in Talcahuano Centro by the ocean, with the hills, and the great people. I´ve enjoyed my time so much with Elder Hughes too! I´m really going to miss this place, but I know that the Lord needs me somewhere else now!

I´m going to continue to be a District Leader, woot! And I´m being transfered to Los Ángeles, Chile! Jaja, All I know is that it is going to be really hot there... It is one of the hottest areas in the mission during the summer... so I´m going to die! T.T Blah! I´m going to miss the ocean breeze. Well, I´m going to be with an Elder named Elder Hinckley. I have no idea if he has any relation to President Hinckley, so I wouldn´t know how to respond! :P So, it will be a fun adventure!

Speaking of fun adventures, Elder Hughes and I had a fun adventure this past week. At 6 a.m. one day I was woken up to a phone call from the Sister Missionaries in my District. I answered the phone and all I heard was sobbing and yelling and laughing. They were hysterical! I was a little afraid something bad had happened at first, but then they screamed... "SAVE US!!!! THERE ARE RATS!!!!!!" :P It reminded me so much of Britt waking me up in the middle of the night to go kill a bug in her room or something. So Elder Hughes and I went armed with knives and ninja stars to go kill the rats at the hermanas house. We got there after 30 mins of traveling and we searched the house to see if there were rats, but we couldn´t find any... but there was a big hole in the floor where a rat could easily enter and leave from. So we went on a 2 hour adventure to go find a place that sells rat poison, and then we set the rat poison down for the hermanas. During the night we had to go back to thier house to clean up the poison, and the hermanas informed us that they were moving from that house to a different house. So then the next 2 days we came to help the hermanas move all of the stuff that they have! Haha, they were quite grateful for our help, especially since the zone leaders blew them off and only told them to go pray :P it was a fun adventure, but it left us a little exhausted. ^_^

Well, other than that fun adventure, it´s been a pretty fast solid week. We´ve been working hard and now two more people are going to get baptized the 22nd of December in this sector. Elder Hughes and I prepared them well! When I said goodbye to the ward yesterday, there was a big gasp of surprise and a lot of sadness that I have to go to another sector. These past 6 months have gone by so quickly. A lot of the members thanked me for helping the ward and their families out, there were a lot of tears! I really didn´t do much, it was all the Lord though! ^_^ So now my new adventure starts tomorrow in Los Ángeles, wish me luck! I love you all so much! Happy December!

Con amor,

Elder Garrett

My super awesome district and zone! ^_^