Email, Christmas special

Christmas was so great. Also there was nothing better than being able to Skype for 4 hours. I hope I didn`t take up too much of your Christmas time though. 

For Christmas Eve we had a zone activity with food and a gift exchange then worked until we had dinner with a member family. For Christmas we just relaxed and ate and Skyped. It couldn’t have gone better. 

I don`t have much time this week to email but the key event that happened was a baptism. THAT I DID! There was a lot of confusion in the planning of the service but in the end, I was chosen to baptize the investigators of the other elders in Lota. Their names are Ismael and Tanía. It was such an amazing and indescribable experience. I felt for the first time that I was almost literally the lord’s hands. Next week I’ll put up pictures.

Love you guys, enjoy your new years!

Elder Thompson

Christmas morning

Christmas tacos

Lots of pictures--

A sweet group of street performers we ran into a couple times

All the houses are the same in this little town

Traveling

flying a volentine

my comp flying a volentine

outside our window

Chile won a game. This lasted until about 1 in the morning. they were driving around the center

Bird house

Confrencia

Mi compa y yo

Elder Perez y Yo

MTC buddies reunited durring a confrence of trainers

My family. My trainer (dad) his trainer (grandpa) and his trainer (great grandpa)

Old green house

Old shutdown theater

Getting ready for a baptism

After Baptism snack

Studying on the beach

This guy followed us all morning 

We may or may not have brought our guitars too