April 7, 2014 (day 125)

Hola!!! 

I hope everyone is doing well!! 

This was a week of some mixed emotions, but I am doing really well and happier than ever!

Something kinda fun that happened this week was on Tuesday night when I was on an interchange with Elder Pozo. He is a missionary in my district. We stayed in my area and worked and I tried to not get us lost because it was my first time without my companion in my sector. It went really well fortunately, but in the night when our district leader was supposed to call us, nobody called. We were kinda worried, but we just went to bed. In the morning when we met up with our companions they told us that everybody's cellphones stopped working because too many people had been on their phones and it jammed the system.

There had been a tsunami warning and everybody had to go to higher ground. My companion and district leader were able to just stay at their house, but the zone leaders had a sleepover at their house that night. Haha everyone was worried, but it was just precautionary. We have had a bunch of earthquakes here in Chile, but I only felt like 2 last week. And they weren´t bad at all.

On Thursday we had a zone conference from 8 in the morning to 4 in the afternoon. President Kahnlein came and talked to us and it was a really uplifting, good time. I learned a ton of stuff that I need to improve. We haven´t been having much success here in our area and we don´t know why. But we learned some great things and plan on making some good changes. 

General conference was awesome! We got to listen to it in English with the other gringo missionaries, and I loved every minute!! I learned a ton. I think my favorite talk was by Boyd K. Packer. He testified with incredible power that Jesus Christ is our Savior. It hit me really hard when he said that he knows our Savior personally. It was inspiring to me, and it makes me want to work a lot harder to get to know my Savior better.

I know that this church is true and that we have a living prophet on the earth that talks to God and directs the church by revelation. I am so happy to have the opportunity to be out sharing that with the people of Chile!

I hope everyone has an amazing week! I love you tons!!

Love, Elder Marchant

Hi there!!!!!!! so to answer a few of your questions, I am in La Florida, which is part of La Serena, but is like 20 minutes away from the coast, and we are at a higher elevation, so less worries with tsunamis.

English class was alright this week, but we had an 8 year old student and then two other ladies that came like an hour late, so not much success. 

Still haven´t started piano lessons, but I think we will this week! Should be really fun haha! 

Me and Elder Brown having a little fun after planning one night. haha