Hey there
family! Thanks for all your letters and for checking in on me. good to hear
from all of you and hear that everything is going well there in Poway and utah.
Anyway, its been crazy here like always. this wee we had the 3 baptisms of
Carolina, Camila and Cony! It went super well. THey had a great time and they
were so happy. We were actually going to do it with a family in tolhuaca,
the hermanas in our zone, but they wanted to get baptized in their own chapel
too. haha i guess its a good thing to have investigators that really love their
own chapel so much that they don't want to leave it for other ones. there are
worse things! but saturday was quite the crazy day. we had the first baptism
here in victoria (both cities are actually victoria, its just two separate
branches. the other side of the train tracks are Tolhuaca, and we are the
victoria branch) at 5:30 and that went amazing. the branch is pretty excited
about them. it was really sweet to be able to see how everyone showed up, some
of the youth prepared a special musical number for Camila (she has already been
going to seminary these past 2 weeks, i think she is doing okay haha) and i got
to baptize Carolina. It is just straight up miracle. I mean the branch is just
thrilled because its been so many baptisms this month and they just love us,
but we really haven't done anything. like the lord just throws them into our
lap while we worry about the zone and we literally don't have to do anything.
just show up a couple times a week and they assign themselves their own
reading, everything. haha they were actually a self-reference too. they called
a member they know and told him they wanted us to come by and stuff. so its
just so easy and made this whole process so nice. so there are the pictures!
and also, it wouldn't be a tengberg baptism if it wasn't with Rainbows! lets be
real here. Gotta have the rainbows in there. Anyway, it was super awesome and a
great service. They are already inviting two families over this week for noche
de hogar, so we will be teaching those families as well. Yeah i guess if i have
to teach golden families i can manage....haha thanks heavenly father. he is
blessing us so much!
But the best
part is that we then had to go over at 7 tot he other branch. This family is
one that the hermanas had taught but elder girsberger and i taught them once a
week too because they always wanted us to come help them and stuff, and then i
know the two sons really well because we always play football every saturday
with them, every branch activity they come to ours as well, and we did their
baptismal interviews as well. so the mom asked me to baptize her and the little
girl asked elder girsberger too. so we still had WET PANTS when we are sitting
through this next baptismal service, and then we hadn't thought it out well and
had to come back in wet clothes...like under our suits after the second baptism
eVERYTHING was wet. wet shirts, everything. like it was so cold. haha it was
just a disaster and on both of our butts you just see this big wet mark until
about our knees. Anyway, that was 4 for the hermanas so the zone started off
the first week of the month with 7 baptisms. great stuff. Thats why this week
is "el diluvio" because its just been a downpour of success. now we
have some more finding to do and kind of re-start the process but thats perfectly
okay. we gotta earn these next ones a little more i think.
Fourth of july
was SO fun. we had a conference that day in temuco and the assistants organized
all-American stuff, like root bear floats, hamburgers, american music,
fireworks (nah jk they didn't have that that would have been sweet) and an
american flag. Haha we sang patriotic songs, saluted our flag, it was legit.
But then that night too we did a 4th of july chilean style with 4 families from
the ward. THAT was the best part of the day. we did everything just almost
american but slightly chilean because heck thats me. I'm basically american but
i think ill always answer the phone saying "ah-lo" and always say po
at the end of everything and always crave an undercooked hot dog with avocado
and tomato on it and heaped with mayo. So we had that...coke floats (their
blood runs with coke, no joke) and completos. and sang our national anthem for
them (sang, but sure as heck not well), did so much. haha they loved it. my
favorite quote "Leave it to gringos to put ice cream and soda
together...as if they weren't unhealthy enough alone!" well...they make a
great point. but MAN is it good.
Also my new
mission address is
Mision Chile
Concepcion Sur
Castellon 1063
Casilla 3560
Concepcion,
Bio Bio
Chile
If yo sent
stuff to the other one before it will still get transferred over but this is
the new one now. ANyway, that was my week. I know all you butt-heads wrote me
and told me how I'm at a year and all that jazz, but IM STILL NOT! Haha i have
three more days as a young missionary. Im still young. Imo not old yet, okay?
its going to be a really hard week for me. i cant believe that this thing, this
time that I've waited for for 19 years, that i worked so hard to get to, is
already a year up. Like its halfway done....and it just breaks my heart. Makes
me want to work so hard every single day because it literally flies by. Those
first months take forever and it seems like it'll never end, but slowly and
slowly it just dissipates and all the sudden your halfway done. haha I'm
grateful I'm not going home next month like girsberger, but still scared that
my time is coming a lot faster than i thought. Anyway. I love you all so much,
i am so grateful for you all. Here are the pictures from this week! i think i
explain most of them but if not....sorry. haha
the american
flag is me, elder hanes, elder badger and elder girbserger
the other
hermanas are in our two zones, hermana porter, hermana henderson, hermana
marchant and hermana shelton
the little
girl with the float is celeste, she is just adorable
the baptism is
with carolina the mom, the middle one is 14 camila, the youngest cony. the lady
with the coke filling up the coke floats is rosemary, our branch presidents
wife. funniest lady in the world, so funny. "If i cant be tall i gotta be
fat so at least people see me, okay??" i about died.
ME AND
COMPLETOS!!!!
Root beer
floats at the conference, elder townsend behind us and elder kuhn with he great
tie
And then the
families at the noche de hogar july 4th chilean style! Great stuff.
left to right
is galarreta mi ex companero, esteban, alvaro, celeste, barbara, camila (we are
teaching her too), emilio (barbara brother and branch pres kid), camila,
carolina, elizabeth and ramiro (baptized last week). Just an awesome july 4th!
LOVE YOU ALL!
Have a great week, and keep sharing the gospel. They need it.
Elder Tengberg
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