hey all you guys on the other side of the planet!! i only have a little bit to write this week (again..ugh) so ill give you guys a little update on what i have been doing this whole week! so this last sunday was the dedication of the conception temple! no, i didnt get to fly all the way down to the south of chile and watch the dedication, but we had the blessing to watch the temple dedication in a broadcast in our stake center! they were pretty hard core about it. we had to get recommendation from our bishops to even get into the sessions, and we had to get white handkerchiefs, the whole shpeel. (by the way, trying to find 130 handkerchiefs for your mission in santiago is probably one o the hardest things in the world next to like splitting an atom). we showed up to the session and we were able to listen to the prophet speak to us about the importance of temples and why we need more in chile! at one point, the temple sector that chile was apart of was the Arizona temple....PEOPLE LITERALLY FLEW FROM CHILE TO ARIZONA TO GET SEALED IN THE TEMPLE. now, we have two in chile!! what a blessing! after the dedication, we sang "we thank thee o god for a prophet" and i started crying in the middle of the hymn because the spirit was so strong! just the thought that chile now has a little bit more of a chance to make covenants with God made me feel so happy. last night while we were finishing up some work, there was a huge power outage in san bernardo. our electricity was off for like 4 hours straight and it was the worst thing in the whole world. office elders without internet is like fish without water....#dead. we stayed in the office because our front gates are powered by electricity, and literally anyone can open them. we didnt want anybody getting in and robbing us again. it was a pretty boring period of time, but we got home and slept for a while, so that was good. also one cool random thing. we were going to the temple in santiago because we had a small problem with the cell service that we use for the mission. we were walking from the car to the temple, and this old guy literally COLLAPSES. like straight eats it on the side of the road. my mind went completely to...."brain hemorrhage, heart attack, diabetes, low blood sugar, osteoporosis, maybe its a ruptured patella, or maybe it he literally had a stroke and i need to asses the situation like" and then we went up to him and turns out he was doing an endowment session without his oxygen tank and he got light headed. he also hadnt eaten that day, so he was just super dizzy and stuff. i was kind of sad that i didnt get to do CPR on him or inject him with epi, but none of the less i was happy that this guy was ok, and I could at least pretend like i knew what i was doing. thats it for this week! i love all of you so much! ekw us with a candle and a spoon during a power outage this fried fish looks like the country im serving in and i thought it was cool i made a friend while i was working! he then walked on to my cactus and got impaled (i dont want to put pics animal carnage on my blog because my blog is G rated dang it)
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Elder Karson Wattles
Chile Santiago South Mission apartado postal No. 544 San Bernardo, Chile Archives
May 2019
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