week #91 - New transfer. Last sector of the mission - To Tierra Amarilla

Hola! Buena entonces hubo cambios! Estoy ahora en Copiapo en un pueblito que se llama Tierra Amarilla. Viaje ayer todo el día como 11 horas en el bus, fue divertido jaja. Pero bueno ahora estamos aquí en el sector. Vengo aquí para terminar el entrenamiento de Elder Riquez de Chile. El es super bueno y estoy animado para estar aquí con el. Pero ya no soy lider de zona y ahora voy en mi ultimo sector para morir en paz. Estoy super animado para trabajar duro aquí y puro bautizar no mas a todos! Fue un cambio un poco raro pero esta bien! Voy a extrañar Calama, de hecho no querría irme de ahí pero donde el Señor manda me voy. Deje algunos investigadores super bakanes. También hay bautismos ahí este semana con Raymi y también con las Columbinas(hay un fotos con ellas). Raymi es de la República Dominicana. Espero ver fotos del bautismo de ellos ahì en Calama! También logramos la meta ahí justo cuando me fue también. Justo logramos 16 bautismos como zona y ahora van a poder viajar a San Pedro que es un pueblo cerca de Calama pero muy turística. Chuta, esperaba ir por allá! Pero todo esta bien aquì!

Well other than that not too much happened this week that happened. Just a lot of runnning around like normal as zone leader. But now I`m not going to have to worry about that all that much. I`ll just be able to chill here in my sector with Elder Riquez and work hard! I`m actually really excited for these last couple transfers and I`m just going to keep working hard and doing all I can here in Tierra Amarilla. I hope that you guys were also able to understand the first paragraph as well. But yeah other than that I made it here safe and everything is good here. Next week I`ll have some more information about the sector and all that. I just got here last night. But so far so good.

But yeah all the photos this week are pretty much just goodbyes with some members and a couple investigatores as well also a couple of other pics. But yeah not all that much to write about this week.

Hope you guys have a great week and learn a lot from the conference this weekend! Watch all the sessions!! Love you guys a ton!! Nos vemos hasta la próxima!

Love
Elder Newkirk

week #90 Chile Independance day! Lots of photos and some videos!

Hola como estamos?

Bueno me dijo que quería que escribiera un poco en Español entonces voy a hacerlo jaja. Bueno como ustedes pueden ver he tomado muchas fotos esta semana. Enserio esta semana ha sido uno de los mejores semanas de mi mision! Fue tan bakan!! Muchas cosas ha pasado esta semana y con no mucho tiempo para poder escribir todo pero voy a hacer mi mayor esfuerzo para poder escribir todo pero vamos a cambiar a Ingles ahora para que usteds pueden entender lo que paso esta semana!

Yeah back to English. Well this week was crazy good. So on Monday we ended up going bowling which was a ton of fun. Elder Kirk taught me how to spin the ball and throw some crazy spins to strike it. It was a ton of fun. Then on Tuesday I headed off to Tocopilla to go and do interviews there. They had 4 baptisms in Tocopilla so they had a good week. Also while I was there I took a lot of photos as well as you can see with the district there, Elder Taylor and Vicente and also the Sisters Cortes and Llanca. Also they have there in Tocopilla like a shrine of Alexis Sanchez who is a really popular soccer player that is from Tocopilla but its a pretty cool shrine that they got going on down there. Also I got those graffiti photos that you asked for! A lot of them. Ask and ye shall recieve. Then on Wednesday we had another comp exchange with Ascotan with Elder Kirk. I was with him all day working which was a lot of fun! He is a lot of fun to work with. Then the rest of the week we were just working running around helping out the zone as well. We are with 14 baptisms right now as a zone and we are working really well. Our goal this month is 16 baptisms as a zone and we are going to reach it si o si! But everything is going good. Also all weekend we´ve been going crazy doing stuff with the holidays going on right now for the independence of Chile which you can see a couple things that we did. The activity with the ward on Saturday. Also Gaspar got baptized which was really cool!! He is really cool and was really ready for it as well! We also have some other people that we are teaching. There is family of Columbians that we are teaching that are progressing a lot as well and hopefully they should get baptized soon as well. But we are in the last week of transfers so there is a possibility that I might get moved to finish the mission in my last sector but we´ll see what happens this week! Also Sunday we had interviews with President which was cool as well. We talked a little bit about a couple things but not a ton. Then today is the official independence day for Chile which has been a ton of fun. As a zone we went to a giant fair to look at things I also bought a couple things which are really cool. Couple gifts as well! Then we have been in the house with a member all day long eating and writing and they had up put on traditional Chile queca clothes for their national dance. But just all in all a really fun and solid week here in Chile. Probably one of the best weeks of my mission! Well I wish I had a little more time to write but I don´t! Hopefully you guys enjoy the pics and videos that I took this week. Quite a lot! Well love you guys a ton and hope you have a great week!!

Love

Elder Newkirk