December 2, 2013
Thank you so much for that HILARIOUS story! His dad told him about the shock he experienced the Sunday
after Thanksgiving when he went to put on his freshly pressed white shirt and
couldn’t button it around his neck, then noticed it was quite tight around the
chest also. He concluded that maybe he
had eaten too much over Thanksgiving and had put on a lot of extra weight in just a
short time! He was very relieved when he
took the shirt off and realized it wasn’t his shirt but one of Hayden’s that
had been left behind! Sadly, he still
had to wear it because he was late for his meeting and he didn’t have another
pressed shirt! That just made my week!
Well the weeks been
great! I didn't have a 25 pound Norman
Rockwell turkey but my Thanksgiving dinner wasn't half bad. I cooked up a half
kilo of American steak that I had been saving. Usually I can only afford to
have a little 5-6 oz portion so that was great and I felt sick afterwards just
like Thanksgiving, I think that might have been the best part! Also, dinner
with the Biggs was great, they took us out to a really good wood fired pizza
joint. I've got some letters coming, I never
seem to run out of weird stuff to put in them and I keep having to put in
another!
This week we bumped into a great investigator and his family! It
was about 9:21 pm and we were just shooting in the dark trying to get contacts
before we went home. Well we came to the end of a cul-de-sac and yelled. A man
came out and lit a cigarette and told us he was an evangelico. Well I winced
and was about to do an about face when he told us he left his church because it
was corrupt. We start talking and he opens up about his family and his job. We
shared some of our beliefs about families and he asked us to come in and meet
his. Well we come to find out that in the last 7 years he's lived in his house
that he has let one close friend into his house once. But he told us that he
liked us and thought that there was something different about us. We taught a
bit of the first lesson but unfortunately we had to haul home because we were
already 21 minutes past what were supposed to be out (it was exactly 10:21).
That was the highlight of the week but that day we also did a ton of service
out in the country, and learned how bad these evil little caterpillars are. If
you accidently smash one with your hand it will burn and be numb for the entire
day! That happened to our friend Jesse the day before. Well besides that not
much happened.
Well I didn't write in mom's Thanksgiving Gratitude book and we
all know that no one gets out of that so I figured I would write you guys my Thanksgiving
spiel…….
"I'm so grateful for a family that loves me, a dad who has been
the best example of a father I could ever hope for and who loves us and works
for us and spends the little free time he has with us. A mom who loves and more
importantly feeds us, is ridiculously patient, and when we're threatened a true
mother...grizzly down to the core! A
sister who's talented, smart, funny, and from what I've been told cute! Qualities
I can be proud of even if none of them were learned from me.... A little
brother who is creative, quirky, funny, and when it comes down to it very
loving. He just wants everyone around him to be happy! Here in Chile I'm grateful
for a roof over my head, good shoes, a warm bed, and a lot of other things that
I've found aren't as common as you would hope. I’m thankful for a good Mamita
and Papito who make me feel like I’m almost back home. A missionary
budget that lets me constantly treat myself, and a companion who is much better
than the last. Last of all I'm grateful for a Heavenly Father who is blessing
my family when I'm away and an older brother who's suffered for and with me for
every hardship and mistake and this gospel which I've been given the honor to
share with the wonderful people of Chile."
Please write that down for me.
I hope you have a great week!
Elder
Washburn
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