{tHe miSsIOn is hARd. ReaLLy harD}

Well...

Interesting week. Kind of a frustrating sunday haha but things are going good. Saturday night was hilarious! We were at an activity in church when one of them members came in and said ´Elders come here!´ So we ran outside and saw a car chillin in the rain gutter (The rain gutters are huge here ps) and he was kinda drunk. So we were trying to pull him out for a while but we couldn`t get it. Finally, someone brought their truck and towed him out...Elder Poli was pushing and the wheels caught on the mud and he got nailed with mud! It was so funny. So we went back to the house real quick so he could change (it was about 8 pm) and went to an appointment that we had...they weren`t there so we went by the house to contact. As we were walking to the house around 9 15, elder poli asked me if i had the keys...uhhhhhhh. no. Turns out he left them in the taxi! haha luckily we had contacted the taxi driver and had found out that he was an inactive member that lived kind of by our house. We tracked down where he lived and found his friends drinking outside his house...they called him and he said he was on his way. Haha by on his way he meant ´I`ll be there in an hour or so´ haha anyway he showed up around 11 and we finally went home and went to bed. Interesting night for sure!

It was pretty sad talking to that guy who was drunk. You really realize that sin doesn`t make you happy. we`ve talked to a lot of people who are drunk and they always come up to us asking for help in that moment...telling us all their problems and how much they want to stop drinking and be close to God. And then we go by when they`re sober and they don`t want to listen. they really say how they truly feel in the hard moments

Fernando is doing awesome! His baptism is planned for the 11 of November at 7 30! We taught him again on sunday and he is solid! He`s going to invite his parents but they don`t really understand spanish...we`ll see what happens i really want to meet them. Fernando said he doesn`t speak mandarin, i can`t remember what type of chinese it is but i don`t think it was cantonese either. Are there a bunch of different dialects dad? i would assume so...

Those were some sweet photos of biking haha that trail got dominated eh?! And thanks for the sweet poster! How awesome! I`ll send you guys a good one of Elder Poli with his mud shirt haha that was a hilarious night!

Things are good here! The mission is hard. Really hard. haha but it`s such a good experience! I love seeing people really change. And i love how we don`t really do anything. We just tell them what we know....and if they ask God if it`s true they start to change themselves. I love the people that i have taught on my mission. I miss a lot of them. But i hear that they are doing well. The familia Salinas from Santiago is preparing to go to the temple this month to do baptisms! Sweet! Arnulfo Flores is struggling a bit with his testimony so i need to write him today. The family that we are teaching here...la familia Estrada...is doing well, but they didn`t come to church on Sunday. We`re going to try to set a baptismal date this week to see what happens!

I love you all the church is true!

Love,

Elder Henrie