A Year in Chile

Hey how is everything going?! Wow so it was really cool to see my email today!!! I had 10 people write me!! That was a first ;) haha but thank you everybody for your letters. I am so gratefull for all of them!! Alan and Amanda, Scott and Kourt, Mel, Steph!, Mi papá(Seth Richan), Elder Barker, Mi compañero Elder Rojas en el norte en Valdivia, and of course you mom and dad :) Thank you all for your letters. I am so glad that you have all thought about me. I am doing fantastic. Today we had a good day. We played some basketball and we went to the cemetery here in Punta Arenas. It is HUGE!! There are so many people here and they are all rich and they have huge places where the bodies are at. I'm sorry I forgot how to say that in english. But whatever no big deal. I am doing great here. We have had a good day. Just loving every minute here in the very very very south of the world. I love it so much. I is weird to think that in a week and a half is when I got to Punta Arenas 9 months ago..... So that answers your question mom. Haha I'm pretty positive that I'm going up north. I have 9 months in this zone. That is most my mission. But it's ok. I love it here. So whatever. I have the most time in Punta Arenas than all the missionaries. So yes I'm pretty sure I'm going to the north. But it's all good. I've had so much time here. But I am having such a good time. We are finding more people. We are teaching a guy who we found for teaching english. He wants to learn. He came to church with us and said that he felt something and so we are going to teach him today. But we are super excited with him. He is awesome. His name is Edwardo. But yea he is pretty golden. All our other investigators we still have to find them. We don't know exactly where they are at. But it's all good. They will turn up. We have people who know that it is the true. Just the problem is finding them. But we will do it. I promise.

Mom make sure you send my love to everybody who is there. I feel so much support from the ward. And the Ballifs sent me a postcard. I just need to get on writting them back. But I did get it. If you could tell them that and that I am working on writting back. That would be great thanks. I love everyone there.

So weird to think that on Wednesday I completed 1 year in Chile. I feel so old. It's not even funny. But you know what can you do. It just goes by faster. That´s what President Rappleye told me. When we had the interview he said so you´ve hit your 1 year mark. Don't worry the 2nd year goes by faster... Haha but whatever. It is nuts to think that a year ago I was with Elder Richan and I had no idea about anything in spanish and I just wanted to speak english with everyone. I still have a little note in my scriptures I don't know if you still remember that Seth. It was a note of encouragment. Yes I still have it in my scriptures. I still look at it sometimes too. So thank you for all your support and everything you did for me and continue to do.

Mom I will try to meet up with Elder Jenson. I was hoping to train him but I don't think that is going to happen because I will be leaving the sector so I would have to open a sector and train. And I don't think that is going to happen. I will know next week what happens with everything. So I will let you know. But as for now I will try to meet up with him.

Well I love you guys so much. I'm glad to hear that your all so busy. And I'm glad that I heard from all of you. I hope all is well. I love you guys tons and I know that I'm hear for a reason and that I am being blessed. Especially by my Beloved sister Natalie who passed away 2 years ago tomorrow the 14th. I love her and all of you guys. Thanks for your support and I know that the plan of happiness is true and it is to protect us. Thanks for everything. I love you guys so so much. Love you!!!

Un abrazo,

Elder Tyler Jolley

FRYSAUCE in Chile????

Chilean FRYSAUCE!!!  MMMM

Hey fam how is everything going for you guys? I am doing really well. We did have a baptizm in fact on saturday. It was such a good experience!! I enjoyed it a lot. So there are a couple of pictures on here. To start off is when we went to lunch with our member. Hno. Villegas. He is awesome. He made all of that. So we just took pictures of making the food. But he is really awesome. He made FRYSAUCE!!!!! So I had to take a picture of it. His frysauce is a little different. He puts ají or just like a little bit of pepper so it's a little more spicy. But it's super awesome and delicious. I love it!! And then of my baptizm. Carlos did ask me to baptize him so I had the privilge to do it. It was super awesome. He is a good kid. But yea that is about it for the baptizm. All went well. And he is good. Other than that we had a good week. It snowed then froze so it's been super slippery. But fun to walk around in all day if you know what I mean. The chance of falling a lot because our shoes are that great for the snow and stuff like that. But I have a really great story. It's awesome. First off I'm really sore. Like on my backside... If you get the hint haha. But yea we were walking home from lunch yesterday with the members. On Sunday after church. We had to walk down a hill to get to our house and so we were walking carefully because it was really really really slippery. So all of a sudden we hear behind us two dogs fighting. So we turn around and I just stare helplessly as two huge German Sheperds are running towards us fighting and biting each other. So they are on ice and I'm on ice and they couldn't stop. So I couldn't move either. I just watched as they came towards me in slow motion and took my legs our completley and I fall to the ground. Hahaha so some people saw and asked me if they bit me but no they didn't so that is the good thing. But it was just super funny. I haven't been hit like that since football. That was a long time ago. So yea it hurt a little to walk especially. But yea fun stuff. That was my exciting news for the day. But other than that the week went well and I enjoyed it.

Sounds like your week went really well and you had a great time. I hope that it continues to go well for you and that you have a great week. Especially in camp. And everything. I love camping. But yea I'm also glad that your time together for the anniversary went well. Oh and mom I have gotten one letter from you in the mail. But I haven't recieved mail yet this week so I bet there is something there for me to read. Hopefully. Because pretty much no body else writes me hahaha. But whatever. I'm fine. Oh and hey mom the money isn't an issue to go to see penguins. The issue is if they aren't here. Because if they are we will go as a zone. But I heard that they aren't and I've heard that they are. So I don't know if it's just the migrating time. I don't know. And also it is so crazy to think that I am the missionary with the most time of 13 missionaries!!! So crazy. I don't even want to think about that but whatever. Well I love you guys tons!! I hope that everything goes well with you guys this week. I love you so much!!Have a great week.

Un abrazo,

Elder Tyler Jolley