April 22-April 27, 2026 Week 43-Quillón Ward, Quillón

 Whats up fam? 

Another great week here in Chile I'm now in a city called Quillón. It is another small town, but a lot bigger than my last sector of Coihueco. It a really beautiful town, with lots of country side. 

I am in a ward now . And the chapel has pews. (In Coihueco the chapel was very small, even though there was "only 70" people in the chapel it was PACKED)

What happened: 

-last pday we played spikeball and basketball with our last ZLs (RIP Elder Louder, Bailey and Thompson. you will be missed)

-got to Quillón. met a bunch of members and lideres in the ward

-had district council. It was mad stressful to plan and do since I'm the district leader now, but I think it went well. We had some good discussions. 

-made some news friends , one of our friends came to church Aleyna 

-had some awesome meals. this week we had hamburgers and tacos and arapas back to back to back days.

-I live with 3 other missionaries: my companion Elder Stephen, it's his last tranfer. Elder Roach (one of the elders I trained) and his comp Elder Riberia from Brazil.

Well folks it's been real. Have a good week. change the world!

Moroni 7:45-48

Elder Thompson

Elder Ramirez, villareal, riberia, roach, palocias, stephen, yo, murset

Elder Stephen

Hermano Arturto

Él vendrá de nuevo

April 14-April 21, 2026 Week 42-Coihueco Branch, Coihueco

What a week!

This is God's work fam. I don't have that much time but I'll try to make this good. What happened this week: -BAUTISMO of our friends Katalina and Nicolas. it was awesome. we played ping pong and ate a lot of food afterwards

-we ran 5 miles to a lake one morning con un hermano en el barrio (with a brother in the ward). that was fun

-we played basketball with the branch and all the youth. it was pretty lit

-had an intercambio with my DL elder Lopez and he's going to be my ZL now

-I got transferred to Quillón, in the stake and zone of chillán. I was going to be with elder Roach, the guy I trained, but I got a call from the AP's after they sent out transfers and they said I got change of comps and now I'm with Elder Stephen. its his last transfer so that's cool. -had a service project that we were getting fish from some guys pool and catching them with a net and putting them in another pool. I did that when I was on an intercambio with Elder Lopez and my current comp was there too, Elder Stephen. -had conferencia multizona, and Elder Louder and I gave a presentation about how we helped my 3 friends come to church and get baptized. -hermana Lillo talked about leveling up #LevelUp

-they gave their testimonios after and it was so tender

SOMOS LA MEJOR MISION EN EL MUNDO

Me and my comp presented at the zone conference

KATA Y NICO FUERON BAUTIZADOS, SÍ, EN EL AGUA

Hermano Falcon

Saying goodbye to Maria, Jose and Edcuardo

We hooped on my last day

Pablo, javier, florenca, president gomez, hermano sierra, DOMINGO, andres

ANDRES

April 7-April 13, 2026 Week 41-Coihueco Branch, Coihueco

Hola a Todos? 

How are y'all doing? I hope you guys are doing well and enjoying the start of spring. It's cold down here now.

This was one of the best weeks of the mission!

We had 3 baptisms this Sunday. There were 2 sisters that got baptized, Deivliett and Caroline, and our friend Domingo. We pretty much had a lesson with them everyday this week!

What happened:

I had an exchange with Elder Mandaba again. He's from South Africa and we were in his sector. Absolutely nothing happened. I was sad all day because in Coihueco there were like 6 lessons and my DL elder Lopez had 4 baptismal interviews. But I guess I need to repent and be where my feet are. But the only cool thing that happened on the exchange is we ate lunch at the house of one of counselors in the stake presidency and that was like the nicest house I have been in Chile and we ate the most fire tacos. 

At district council we learned how to care for our friends that are preparing to be baptized on a specific date. (hay que cuidar las fechas -President Lillo, every single call of the mission)

We had lunch with an hermana Wednesday and her husband had left her. She asked for a blessing and like a good big brother I was like, "my comp would love to do it". He hit the flow state in Spanish for like the first time. 

We had a lesson in the country and we went to a lake it was pretty cool. It was 2 columbians who are members of the church that are coming back to church attendance and there friend from Bolivia. 

We had a family home evening with the Lillos (my mission president who came to visit out area) in the rama (branch) coihueco. We had 10 friends there! It was fun.  We played some fun games and we (the missionaries and President and Hermana Lillo) gave a spiritual thought.

We are going to have 2 more baptisms this Saturday! Katalina (14) and Nicolas 8. The Lord has been blessing us up with friends that want to listen and learn about the gospel!

D&C 18:15-16

15 And if it so be that you should labor all your days in crying repentance unto this people, and bring, save it be one soul unto me, how great shall be your joy with him in the kingdom of my Father!

16 And now, if your joy will be great with one soul that you have brought unto me into the kingdom of my Father, how great will be your joy if you should bring many souls unto me!

Elder bailey, louder, pfispher, yo, thompson, lopez, mandaba, clegg