Santiago is Sublime!

 This temple scene is the view from my bedroom window and its the best part about waking up every day. 

 this is the Chile MTC.  It is about 90 percent American white kids....like us

Thank you everyone so much for the wonderful Emails!
This past week might have been the hardest week in my life but what I learned is that I love being a missionary!

In the salt lake airport there were 30 missionaries going to the ccm (that is what they call the MTC in Chile) We met up with maybe ten more so we had 40ish missionaries on the plane to Santiago. It was awesome!

The schedule is pretty much the same every single day. wake up, have personal study, breakfast, exercise, shower, and then from 10 to 10 we have classes almost all in Spanish. We get mostly carbs at meals (rice and pasta), so just plan on me getting fat.

My companions name is Elder Clarine he is from Arizona. We get a long really well. Our teachers pretend to be investigators and we are already practicing teaching lessons all in Spanish. Which is pretty difficult because I know pretty much speak NO Spanish. But every single day I get a little bit better and I can see the progress slowly.

My district has 6 people in it. Four Elders and two Hermanas. I really really love my district. We all get a long really well and work hard. I got put as district leader so that has been cool and made me feel a lot of love for them. The CCM is pretty small and I know every persons name and we all feel close to each other.
 Today during our exercise time I played basketball because I usually play soccer but I threw down way hard. It was awesome. After we were done playing I had a 360 dunk. The rims arent 10 feet here obviously haha

Santiago is so awesome. The people here are ridiculously nice. In one of our classes we were learning about greetings and small talk and then my teacher was like "alright now everybody go outside and start talking to people" The Chileans spoke too fast to have a conversation but it was still a really cool experience and they were very warm and kind to me. 

Im glad to hear that everybody is doing well. DON'T WORRY about me Im having a great time. I  desire to be a successful missionary so badly because I know of the truthfulness of this gospel and the joy, peace, and comfort it brings. I love you guys.  All is well.