Me and my comp work hard!

That is crazy about Jake... Is he okay now though? I will keep him in my prayers tell him to write me, if he can! It’s starting spring there? It’s starting to cool down here, but it’s still hot. I still don’t sleep with blankets. Ha, I love the climate here, it’s where I would like to live.

This week was pretty sweet. We were with the kid we just baptized, watching a video about the Holy Ghost. And he paused it and was like, "I feel that, here" and pointing to his chest. I was like whoa he recognizes the spirit. It was cool, then we have a baptism the 27th but we are going to try and move it to the 23rd. Me and my comp work hard! He’s funny, we get along good.

My sector is sick though, it’s all palm trees and we have way cool members and stuff.  We had an American BBQ last night, they bought pure meat from the US I loved it. And then today I ate at McDonalds. Ha, sickest place ever. Oh and I contacted some girls from the US they gave us there number to teach them. So I might teach in English for the first time, if we go teach them. Ha, would be pretty sick. The work is good, my zone is cool.

I took some pics of my apartment and stuff I'll send you them! But hope everything is good, Tell Jake to get better.

Thanks for everything,

Love you guys!
Elder Farnworth

We had a baptism and are hoping for more this month

It’s been a while since I’ve written for this thing. This week, we lost the March madness... BUT we had a baptism and are hoping to have more this month. This sector is a lot more alive than my last one.  His name is Filipe and he’s awesome. We are working now with his family and his best friend’s family. I’m praying the will be more open now to listen to us. Oh, and 2 of the investigators that I just had in my last sector are getting baptized this month!

Arica is sweet, it’s off the ocean I smell the ocean all day, but can’t see it.  They do  a lot of exchanges here, I’ve met some gringos or people from the U.S. that I want to continue to teach, but there outside my area, they were cool! The city is cheap too, everything is like less then ten bucks. I love that ha-ha. Also our ward is sweet. Good strong members and youth, there are going to have a bunch of missionaries. Speaking of new missionaries 28 new missionaries are coming to our mission the 25th of March, Crazy huh. Oh and how’s Hayden doing??

Oh and my new comp is Elder Vargas from Mexico. He’s tiny, but he is a good worker. He wants to work as much as I do. It’s sick. They speak so different in Mexico, Sometimes I don’t understand him ha-ha, but yeah that’s about it.

Did I miss anything? Let me know.

Love you guys!!

 

Elder Farnworth
 
P.S. During our baptism two gunshots went of right outside the church... Pretty sure people died during our baptism... it was crazy...

*I just wanted to thank Zac for the beautiful bouguet of flowers for my birthday.  He emailed Kaleb and had him help him buy them for me. The card said "Even though we are far from each other, I feel closer than ever before"  Love, Zac.  What a great son!

I'm getting transferred to this place called Arica...

I'm getting transferred to this place called Arica,  I hear it's awesome! 

It's a sector with 130 members last sunday... I'm going from an average of 20 to that... I'm stoked. And I hear that its good place to baptize.  My new comp is mexican.... hes kinda of newer missionary.

I'm glad everything is good there, sorry about the long winter.  It's really hot here if that helps...ha.
I love you guys, I'm gonna send some pics.
Love,
Elder Farnworth

                                            Here is Zac in front of El Salvador, Chile

                                          Zac with his comp Elder Garcia, From Peru

                                                I have preached the gospel to this city...

                                                         Warming by the fire?

                             This is the Branch Presidents Family in El Salvador, Zac loves them

                                                  My best buds from Chile, want them to visit!

                                             Zac's new comp Elder Vargas.  He is from Mexico.

                                        I'm not sure if Zac is a little nervous or excited to eat this...

Elder Farnworth

We had two earthquakes and the dam broke, other than that just a normal week

This week was a good one. We have good investigators that can get baptized, but they are all going on vacations, so we have to wait a little while. But the work has been good and I get along really well with my comp. He is a little awkward, he said he was really shy before the mission, like it was hard for him to talk to people, but he’s getting better. It’s been fun. This Thursday we have conference with the president, I’m stoked. But that’s about all that is new... we are just working. Finding people and trying to get them to church.

Oh yeah, we had two earth quakes this week but they were just small ones. Its weird everyone here is just super used to it, its like oh another one... cool, haha, I like them. Then, the dam where our city gets water broke... so everyone thought we would have to evacuate, but they’re using the reserves right now. Kinda was crazy our branch President was freaking out and took his family and left, ha was kinda weird. Other than that, just been a normal week.

Wow, I’m jealous. I want to go to the temple so bad. It would be cool to have one in our mission. People freak when I tell them I can see three temples from my house. Here you have to go on an 18 bus ride. Or fly. That’s awesome, how did Hayden like it? I’m so stoked for him. And tell Tyler I say congrats if he’s still there. Awesome about work, that would be way cool if you taught! Is Kaleb getting done with his papers? I'm still looking for shoes, if I can’t find any I'll let you know.

LOve you guys,

Elder Farnworth

So, my shoes got jacked!

Yeah, it is really crazy that I’m almost at a year, I can’t believe how fast it’s going, At the end of this transfer I’ll have 9 months... Crazy.

The president has talked about all the new missionaries that will be coming out this summer. He had all of us write and say if we could have more missionaries in our sectors. I think we will be getting a lot here. I haven’t heard about the MTC in Mexico, but that sounds awesome. I can’t wait till I know where Kaleb is going. It’s gonna be sweet when he comes to my same mission, hahaha, I wish.�

Whoa ton of stuff is happening. Hayden is gonnabe a good missionary. Tell Greg I'm learning a little Portuguese. I have a book of Mormon in porteguese.�

I like that book (Stand a little taller) they have one in the presidents office. Oh and the 22 year old left. TONS of people have left our town, it’s only a town to work, and so when they have there long breaks they leave, like him. But we have a few other good people.

So, my shoes got jacked! I’m so mad, I loved them. But hey, I might have you send me a package with new shoes.... but I will try to buy them. They sell crappy cheap shoes here for super expensive. But I’ll let you know next week if I haven’t found any.

I love you guys and miss you everyday.

I have dreams about you and dad like almost every night. Ha

Love you!

Elder Farnworth

...hey, we're doing good.

Sounds like a good week. I can’t believe Megan’s thirteen, I’m not going to recognize her when I get home! You’ll have to tell me how the youth conference goes, it sounds awesome. I tried explaining that to my comp and he said they don’t do stuff like that in Uruguay and especially not in Chile. Its cool we are able to. But I’m glad you had a good week!
This week was good, kinda tough. I’m getting a little frustrated with people going on vacation so much. It’s a mining town so everyone’s like "yeah come visit me in March when I’m back from vacation..." Ha. But we have a good family we found. There’s four of them and only the dad is a member, but hadn’t gone for 4 years or so. But they went last week and his daughter (who isn’t a member) knew all the answer about Joseph Smith in Sunday school. I was like, hey we’re doing good. We just need to keep getting her to pray because she says she cant stop being catholic, but has come to church twice and likes it... so yeah.

Also this week we had our interview with the president. He’s awesome. He gave me advice on how to help Catholics or other religions change. I’m learning a lot about like problem solving and stuff. It’s cool. That’s about it thought, nothing new just working. But hey I got to write some people but thanks for the update, keep it up love you guys take care!

Con amor,

Elder Farnworth

A lady asked me to marry her yesterday...

Tell Hayden congrats, that’s awesome about his call! I know he will love it.

My new comp is pretty cool, he talks a ton more than my last comp and we've been working way hard. This week we got 4 investigators to church, and the awesome guy I told you about said he got an answer. He said when he prayed he felt something and could sleep really well that night. It’s awesome, I hope we can get a date set, he wants to wait but we gotta talk to him. 

Nothing too new this week, besides I had to conduct Sacrament meeting. It was kinda of cool, but not that big of a deal because there were only 13 of us ha. Still kinda of cool. We are finding people, including a lady who asked me to marry her yesterday ha, she was drunk and hitting on me bad, so we had to leave quick. But we taught two doctors and have a return appointment with a lawyer. We did contacts in the rich sector haha, but it’s cool.

Nothing else really, sounds like you and dad had a good weekend. Hope you guys are having fun, keep me updated. I got to write a few people, but I love you- talk to you next week!

See ya ha,

Elder Farnworth