A Real Mission Moment

These are my roomates.  Coolest four missionaries in Santiago

 Me at the Mall in Santiago

 This is Elder Mertz and I just love him.  Today is his first day in the field.  I'm jealous.  I wish it was me

 This is my favorite teacher in the MTC.  He is so good to us missionaries and really wants us to learn and has fun ways to teach us. 

                                          Cool Dudes!  Thats all Im gonna say about that.

Big Email this week- .

I am now almost a month into the mission can you believe that? Ha I definitely can it has been a long month. This week was pretty much the same as any other week. But I had the most amazing experience during last p day that I would like to share with you.

So we had an hour left but we were finished with everything that we wanted to do. We weren't sure what to do so we both kind of wanted to walk a little bit further down the street even though we have never done that before. We went kind of a complicated way but we had time to burn so it didn't really matter. We stopped at this vendor in the street to buy a coke. By the way the coke here is super good because they put real sugar in it. Anyways were buying our pop and this women comes up to us and shakes our hands. It's really hard to understand her but she says she wants us to give her daughter a blessing. After awhile we finally figured out that she wasn't sick but was about to go into surgery. So we walked over a little bit to a bench for the girl to sit down on. It was a rainy day so I took my coat off and put it on the bench so that she could have something dry to sit on. Elder Clarine gave her the blessing (in english). It was amazing because we were in downtown Santiago with a bunch of cars honking and people walking past us but it was one of the times in my life where I felt the most calm. Afterwards I bought the little girl a candy bar. It's hard sitting in a classroom all day because you don't really feel like a missionary. But I was so grateful for my first experience as a real missionary. I can't wait to get into the field! I think it was one of the best moments of my life.  There is no way to be happy in life, if you are not genuinely serving and helping people.  I know this now.  Smart selfish people are always looking for ways to serve because selfishly it makes you the happiest. Dumb selfish people are always trying to put themselves first and act in their own best interest. Nothing else but meeting others needs makes you deep down happy.  Every selfish thing we try leaves us empty.  Every unselfish thing we do leaves us full.

I hope everybody has a good week this week. I feel support and comfort from all of your prayers thank you!