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Monday, January 12, 2015

"im going to constitution in the city of talca"

mom!!!!!

FELIZ CUMPLEAÑOS!!!!!!! i hope you have the greatest b day you could possibly have without your firstborn son!!! the trip to new york is going to be so awesome, i'm so excited for you! let me know about everything! i hope you have a great b day, and know that i love you so so much mom. thank you for everything you have done for me. i am so lucky to be your son and to have such an amazing mom like you. i love you so much mom, happy birthday!!!!

with tons and tons of love for the most special birthday mom.

hey fam!!

so glad to hear that everything is going well! im way jealous of the fun you guys are having without me, but im having plenty of fun down here too! this week has been a crazy week with lots of really good things that happened and a lot of crazy news... ill start with the good things first:

so we met with magda and sofia 2 times this week and talked with her about their baptisms and they are super excited and ready. we have to work a little bit with sofia to teach her some of the last few lessons, but after that they will both be totally ready for the 14th of february for their baptism!!!! number

2: elder munoz and i met up with aroldo pino (im not sure if you guys remember him from my emails about a month ago) but he is doing really really good and straight up told us that he wants to follow the example of christ and get baptized either at the end of this month or next month!! we have been praying to find new people or just anyone to teach, and we got our answer when we found aroldo again. prayer is real guys.

number 3: last month with elder ralda we were teaching erica clavijo and she was doing really great but then all of a sudden she didnt want anything to do with us.... but the good news about that is that we stopped by and have been teaching her mom, ana maria, who is about 75 and lives with erica. we taught her the 1st two lessons so far and she has been to church and she said she liked it a lot and wants to keep coming. the funny thing is that the first day we taught her, she said she did not like the mormons, she would never go to church, and that she would never even think about baptism, but just 2 short weeks later, she is preparing for baptism, loving church, and we are going to invite her to baptism for the 31st of this month!!! its been a really good week full of answered prayers and miracles.

the last part of good news is that im feeling way better. hermana warne and the mission nurse said i had bronchitus and that i should go to the doctor, but i ended up working in our sector instead and drinking tons of water, and praying even harder, and now im much better, thank you so much for the prayers and support. ok now for the crazy (and a little bit of sad) news:

the zone leaders called us on saturday night after work and gave us the changes..... turns out that im leaving san vicente tomorrow, and i am going to the farthest south western part of the mission called constitusion in the city of talca. the cool part is that its literaly right on the beach, like 5 minutes away, and the other crazy part is that my new companion is from korea and has been out for 3 and a half weeks ill be finihing his training. his name is elder hwee hwang and im not sure if he speaks english, but i heard he speaks 3 dialects of asian languages.

im super torn about this change.  im so sad that im going to miss magdas baptism and i said bye to her and the rest of our investigators yesterday... i said bye to some of the members that im closest too and today we are going to go around and say bye to the rest of my amigos here, im gonna get packed up, and then tomorrow at 7 ill be heading to the beach. crazy news. 

questions:

Does your mission have a theme or theme song like dad's mission did?
our mission theme is obediente, digno, diligente (obedient worthy diligent) and ya we have a song, but i dont know it and we never sing it or anything

Tell us about your last answer to a prayer.
we have been praying to find someone to teach and the next day we fouind aroldo and ana maria ended up going to church along with madga and her mom and her 3 daughters. huge miracle

What was the last thing you laughed about?
elder munoz and i laugh about everything together. we are getting along much better now and we are always having a good time but staying focused and working hard at the same time

What do you love most about Pres Warne? 
Have you had a chance to connect with him personally? pres warne is so in tune with the spirit. in our last interview, he shared with me that i should prepare for a lot of miracles that will be seen and that i need to keep being obedient and diligent to be able to serve in the callings i will recieve. it was a really awesome interview.

Have you had anything scary happen to you?
no can vicente is super calm and relaxed


alright my family, i love you all so much and hope you had and have a great week!! thank you for everything guys. keep up the good work niño and good job in you basketball games!! try to dunk in a game for me!!!! or just make a basket for me :) love you guys, so good to hear from you!! love you tons!

con mucho amor, 

elder pacheco

some of my favorite members in San Vicente