Vayase

     Well this is my last day in my first sector, tomorrow I am leaving to go to a city called Talchauano right on the coast. Apparently the main profession there is fishing, so I am going to eating (and smelling like) fish.

     But this week was an interesting one, a ton happened. Included in this mass of things I had one of my proudest and happiest moments as a missionary yesterday. Sean (one of the kids who got baptized last month and received the priesthood last week) passed the sacrament in church today. This kids is a miracle in and of himself, he and his younger brother, about a month ago, both didn't believe in God, now he is a member of the church and is among the most active of the youth. Also it is difficult because his dad, mom, and two older siblings want nothing to do with the church, but they are carrying on faithful. And they are both talking about going on missions with their family, we will see what happens.

     Also this week I was with another missionary and we decided to try and get into a house by singing, and it worked! At first when we asked if we could come in and talk to her for a little while and share a message with her she said no, so we asked if we could come in and sing her a song. She was speechless, she stood there for about thirty seconds and then just nodded her head with a huge smile on her face, it was awesome. 

     Also as all of you know this past Thursday was Halloween, well here in Chile it is a LOT smaller and the few kids that do go out get very little candy, but they go house after house yelling and screaming "HELLOOOO!!! HEY WE ARE HERE FOR SOME CANDY, GIVE US SOME CANDY!!!" but they rarely get any candy, so be thankful. 

     So yesterday we went to the house of a new convert, we are meeting with his non-member sister and pretty much the only reason she doesn't want to get baptized is because she doesn't want to go to church on Sunday. And so while we were talking to her about why we have church and the importance of living by God's rules and not our own rules her brother just stops us and he says to his sister, hey I have a scripture I want to share with you and he starts reading and says, "Repent ye, repent ye" and the scripture pretty much said that as people we are not perfect and that we need to repent, or to change, in order to follow the ways of God and to receive the blessings and help which he has for us. But it was pretty awesome and a little bit funny.

I love each of you a lot and pray for you every single night, press forward, work hard.

Much love,

Elder Hutchins