Letter #42 . . . transferred to Punta Arenas, the furthest southern mission in the world!

Hello everyone that still reads/looks at these pictures and emails! U are my friends! The mission is a crazy but i am so eternally grateful for everything i am learning and i still every single day am being humbled and learning so much! Sometimes i feel like i really am not progressing that much but then i go read old journal pages and the change is so evident! 

Calbuco is popping!! Sadly right as we are now getting a lot of people close to baptism date we have transfers! I am sad that i wont be here to see it but have come to peace that this truly is the lord's work and its not our personal success but its all his! I have been transferred to a zone at the bottom of the world called Punta Arenas and i am going to freeze my bum off but i am so excited that i have the opportunity to go down there! I will serve in an area called Ovejero and will fly out there in a couple days!

The mission in such a deep unexplainable way is teaching me what it means to be virtuous and to love as christ did and serve as he did! I spoke the other week in sacrament on being perfect and its something seemingly so unachievable but at the same time it's something that we are commanded to do and the pieces have been set into place so that we can do it!! The faith to repent!!!! 

I love you all! READ SCRIPTURES, PRAY, SERVE!!! Next time we talk i'll be 1000 miles further from you all which is kinda sad!! Sorry that i never write anymore!!!!









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