Sea of Gold

First week of school how fun! Luke I loved your outfit, super fresh. Congrats Emma I'm so happy for you. Paul your a stud, jr. high will be a blast for you, I promise. 

 Tell Paul and Luke Im still a real live superhero even lost in the mountains in Chile!They'll believe it

So this week was a pretty good week. Santiago is a really quiet big city. It's almost surreal at times. Especially the part I'm in right now. It's a sleepy town, but I love it. My favorite investigators are Julio and Karen. They are so nice to me and have the cutest daughters. They both want to get baptized but have to figure out paperwork for both of their divorces. It would be a miracle if that got solved while I was still here.

There was a pretty big earthquake here this week. It was a 6.4 in Valparaiso, about an hour away. It was pretty strong. It felt like being in a car driving on a really bumpy road. We were in a house talking with a family and they had to get up and stop their TV from falling. It was pretty cool.

Yesterday was the most ridiculious day of my life. The plan was to go to the andes mountains in the snow, about an hour and a half drive. The car we took was so ghetto and went like 35 mph maximum.

The car broke down on the highway.

All the missionaries had to get out and push the car up the hill on the highway.

Cars were flying past us. Im sure it wasnt dangerous at all.   The man that was driving was in no rush to pull over. We pushed him for like a mile, he made two turns. HA it was insane. We got lost like  5 times.  If you are low on patience, your not going to survive here.

The best part of that trip was we drove over santiago at night. The view was incredible. I took a picture but it doesn't do it justice. The city lights looked like a sea of gold. That's what Santiago is, my sea of gold :)Sometimes I walk in the street and just think that someday this is only going to be but a dream. I can't waste anytime feeling frustrated.  I really do think that almost everyday.  I have plans on who I want to be and it's only possible serving two years for the lord. I need to be honest, the fact that we have a loving Heavenly Father and Savior in Jesus Christ was not completely real to me. I always believed but I didnt think I could prove it.  Slowly I feel how real it actually is. I've only been here for two months but I have so much evidence. The evidence of who the Savior really is and how he really feels about the children on earth, is growing so rapidly and overtaking my heart, I could never deny it.  I may be my best conversion story to date ;)

I hope you guys have a great week this next week. Enjoy school!