Hola! Hope you all are doing well! I'm doing great here. I would say this was an eventful week. Hope Halloween was lit for you all. Was pretty much a normal day here in Talcahuano, Chile, apart from like a few medium sized parades.
(this is going to be very long- I haven't wrote it yet but, I promise it will be a novel)
I'm going to now explain the title so yall don't be having the wrong ideas 
We go transfer news Saturday and I'm going to be staying here in the area of Centinela in the city of Talcahuano and going to recieve a brand new missionary. This is called "training" and you become "their dad".
This was surprising news, because normally trainers are pretty experineced missionaries and can speak the language fluently. I'm going to learn a lot about missionariy work and about spanish this next transfer that is for sure. I'm very exicted to train a missionary, but if I get another Gringo (which it will most likely be)- there will be conversations when both our us are very lost. I have learned a lot of spanish, don't get me wrong, but I still have a lot to learn.
Summary
-last pday, we played basketball and frisbee and than ate pizza with all the Elders in the zone
-had some lessons but people not progressing
-had a baptism for the other elders in the centinela branch
-elder macias and the other other elders switched up on my Spanish, before i was announced to be a trainer they were always like "wow elder Christensen usted habla muy bien" (you speak very well) but now they are like "you need to lock in" real, cuz like what are these Chileans saying some of the time
real, cuz like what are these Chileans saying some of the time-blitz, the whole zone working in one sector and I worked with Elder Winter.
-had some fire member meals this week. i swear they be giving me so much food
-we met our goals so we got to dump ice buckets on the zone leaders
-Monday was very chill because we visitied lots of members for elder macias to say goodbye. All of the members are shocked that I'm probably going to have a companion that speaks even less spanish than me.
*Exchange with Elder Winter*
Had a exchange with Elder Winter in Centinela on his birthday, where he was bit by a dog and we had a wait in cesfam (the local hospital) for 4 hours for him to get the rabies shot. And we didn't get home until 12:30. Because the Cesfam is like 30/40 minutes walking from our house, and they call our area the "flaitenla" meaning ghetto centinela, Elder Macais made us call to have a member come pick up us. Obviously, not a soul was picking up the phone, they were peacefully sleeping. Elder Macais was like, I can't have yall be walking in the dark, so he was like very very close to calling the AP's to drive the car all the way from Concepcion to Talcahauno to drive us the house. Until, a member of our branch just spawned at the cesfam, appearently he was getting treated as well. So that was clutch. Poor elder Winter he got bit by a dog on his bday. pobrecito
spirtual thought:
Honestly thinking about being a trainer seems a little bit much at times. You have to teach them to do literaly everything, and have to make literaly all the descion for like 3 weeks, and speak all the spanish at times.
But, one of my favorite and most popular sciptures says, 1Nefi 3:7, " I will go and do the things whcih the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them"
The Lord got me frfr 
Exchanges with Elder Winters
CESFAM (hospital) with Elder Winters since he got bit by a dog
Garret found out that he is going to be training a new missionary next transfer
Last day with the Elderes from San Vicente
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