Missionary Moment - Chile Vina Del Mar Mission

Buenos días! 

Hey what is going on everyone! I hope that everyone had an awesome week and that you are all ready for an awesome week!! 

So first things first, I have an assignment! I was called to be a trainer and they are sending me to open up a new sector! Crazy awesome stuff. They are sending me to a place called Achupallas and I will be training over there. I´m pretty excited! So they have me going to office on wednesday for a trainer meeting and then I will meet my new comp!

We had a ton of fun in this companionship and I hope that I can hang out with Elder Jack after the mission, good man him. We had an experience with some girls this week! Not bragging more of kind of weird. We ended up sitting in a house waiting for the family to be ready for a family home evening and in the end two girls winked at us and we ended up leaving! We did not want to be in that situation...freaky.

Family, friends, anyone else who may be reading this email. I understand that there are many things negative that are happening in the family, or in your lives in general. I understand that people make choices and other people may not agree with those choices. This includes myself. We are not perfect and we have a lot to improve on always, But people, we are adults, or at least able to understand whats going on. My invitation for you all is to be someone better. We can always better ourselves and I hope that this doesnt make this email negative because it isnt meant to be. But please take the invitation.

I love you all and I hope you all have a wonderful week and are all working the hardest that you can!! 

Elder Jorgensen

P.S. the picture that looks like weed in a jar is NOT weed peeps. Its just a bunch of "mate" (tea that isnt against the word of wisdom) that was gifted to me from a member lol

Missionary Moment - Chile Vina Del Mar Mission

Buenos días! 

How is everyone doing?? I hope all is well with everyone and that you all had an amazing week!

This week was super crazy for all of us here in Chile! We had to move to a different house which is so good. The other houses didnt have water and the one after that didnt have enough room for everyone so we found a house that has 2 bathrooms and fits the 4 of us which is really good.

We had a visit from one of the apostles which was pretty cool! I got to shake his hand and we learned a lot from him. He really is a good man, i guess that is why he is an apostle! I noted down a couple things that I need to do better. I am at a point where I know the things I need to know. I just need to improve those things.

We got a call last night from the APs. One of our zone leaders is going to be in the office as a third AP which is really weird. He has a special assignment that know one knows what it is. We will be getting a new zone leader here tomorrow I think and one of the zone leaders said I would probably be made a leader of some kind because the President has been asking them questions about me and my different abilities. No idea what that means!

I only hope that all of you will have an amazing week and will stay safe. You are always in my prayers and I hope that all of you have recieved my emails. If not let me know and I will try and fix that fast! I love all of you!

Elder Jorgensen

Here is a pic of the guys from the zone when we had our conference.

Missionary Moment - Chile Vina Del Mar Mission

P.S. My missionary sucks at taking pictures!!!!

Buenas tardes mi familia y amigos. Espero que ustedes tuvieron una buena semana!

Holy cow, another week gone by, super fast. I´m killing the game out here. We continue to have a little bit of a struggle of people to teach but all in all we aren´t doing half bad! We are shooting for another baptism this week and we have a couple of other people we are teaching as well that I believe will be ready here soon. 

We also had our Stake conference yesterday. Super awesome that I can understand a good chunk of spanish now and my head doesn´t want to explode all the time. That´s progress and I´m grateful for that. It was both a quick and a slow week. We didn´t have much progress in the finding of people to teach. Almost nothing. We averaged about 3 people per day. A little rough but we set goals for this week and Elder Rubio is ready to work.

I hope you are all doing well and that you are all hanging in there. Every day of our lives is a challenge and can be hard but remember that you are loved and there are those who are watching over us to help us with anything that we may need. Thank you all for your love and support and I look forward to the end of this week to hear from our prophet! Love you all and have an amazing week!

Elder Jorgensen

Missionary Moment - Chile Vina Del Mar Mission

¡Buenos días! Espero que sus semanas fue super bien! 

This week has been a little bit better as you all know my companion broke his ear drum last week and the result of that was he is not able to hear 100 percent right now but the good news is that he will be able to have a full recovery and hear out of that ear again. 

I am doing just so awesome. We invited 2 families for baptism this last week. One said yes and the other said they will have to think about it. That is totally okay too because the father has a serious drinking problem. I just hope that I can share my spirit and my experiences with them to help them find the correct path to follow. I have also learned that no matter how hard I try I can not have all the patience in the world with my companion. He just eats all the food we have as long as he has time to do so. So the result is that I just try to keep him busy when we have down time. But he is getting better for sure.

I hope that everyone is doing well and staying warm in that cold weather. It´s starting to get a little colder during the nights here but we are staying safe and working as hard as we can for sure! Thank you for all the support from you guys and I hope you all have a great week!

Con mucho amor,

Elder Jorgensen

Missionary Moment - Chile Vina Del Mar Mission

Buenos dias mi familia! Yo espera ustedes son buenos! 

This week has been so awesome and so crazy of course. Every week seems to be that way. We confirmed 3 people last week into the church, I was super nervous because it needed to be done in spanish obviously and I had a total of 5 days in Chile but it ended up turning out alright. Church down here is way different, the music is different and they don´t really follow the teaching plans.

I´ve been super good, we have had a lot of people to teach and a ton of contacts. Some days are good some are bad. On our good days we are averaging 30 or so contacts and the bad average like 7. So definitely a test of my patience. My companion drove me crazy last week, he ate all the friggin peanut butter! Not a smart move on his part, I live for that stuff.

Not much happened this week. I taught a lesson yesterday in church and we keep ourselves busy always. I hope you are all doing well and that you are staying safe up there in that cold weather! Suckers! Oh and go check out our blog! vamosvina.blogspot.com and keep sending emails!

Love you all tons, con mucho amor