Hey fam and friends!!!!

CHRISTMAS IS COMING UP!!!!!! its in like 4 or 5 days!!!!!! sweeetttt! cant wait! Great time to celebrate something very special! We should always be putting our thoughts and feelings on the savior but this gives us even more of a meaning too huh?

Way excited also cause i get to skype my familyyyyyy! I love my family, you all might know that but let me tell you, they are the best ever! Cant wait to be skyping them on friday! 6pm chile time on friday! WOHOOOO!

Hahah but this week was good, i have a new sector and a new comp and live in a new house! So i switched sectors and it would be like switching from germantown to collierville! But it is way different! This ward is real sick, 117 people showed up to church yesterday, that is so many!

They all are so nice and welcoming as well, they always leave with us and we eat lunch with the memebrs everyday and man the food is good, im trying to not get too fat! But it is awesome! My comp is Elder Rawlinson and we get along well and its weird cause he finishes end of january, so this cambio!

But this sector is very big as well, so there are forsure people out there, we just gotta find them! We are on the hunt and have gottena  coupel references which is super sick! So it will be good! I love this, ill send some pics, are house is way small, so its kinda funny. If im still here in the winter im gonna be freezing cause theres nothing to heat up the house hahaha! 

But this week i was thinking about us and this generation, my generation the generation before and just the people here in the world right now and especially during this time of year, Ive noticed that we gotta put the stuff first that really matters, that is heavenly father and nuestro families! 

People want a God who doesnt excpect much or anything at all out of them? They want a God who just says ya do whatever ya want and it will be all good. Im sorry but thats not how it is, why are we not making time for our heavnly father and remmebering all that he has done for us. How can we say we are too busy for heavnly father? Too busy to go to church for a couple hours? i remmeber when i was back at home and i would tell people my church was from 9-12, man poeple thought i was crazy. Its only 9 am and its only 3 hours? we need to make sacrifices for those things that really matter, we cant say we are too busy for heavenly father or serving tohers! We have to make time for things that really matter! We have to serve our heavenly father! Pray, read the scriptures, serve heavenly father and I promise you! Whatever you are going thru and whatever is tough right now, it will be a whole lot better if your serve others!

Friends and family I love the gospel, this is mission thing is hard, this life thing is hard too, but there is a bigger plan! Trust in the plana nd go out and do! Im gonna try and do the same! I know the church is true and i hope everyone enjoys time witht heir family this christmas! I know i am gonna enjoy that 45 min i get to skype mine! Serve others and im gonna try too! Love you all!!! Until next week!!!

Love Elder Wertner

ey fam and friends!!!

Whats upppppp! bet yall are getting excited for christmas! Love this time of year! The time to celebrate the saviors birth and do it with family so awesome!

This week was sweet! First off we got someone we have been working with for a while with a baptism date again, this time it is legit! Like forsure she is gonna get baptized 2 of january! So excited, we had like a noche de hogar with her and her husband and like 4 other ward memebrs it was sweet! The memebrs from the sociedad de socorro are being really good and helping a lot so she feels so welcomed!

One thing i love here is the Once! its like dinner time and everyone goes to negocios and buys bread and they just eat bread and cheese and butter and like tomates! hahahah lately i have been loving it. same thing every night but it way good, its cause here if you diddnt know lunch is the main meal! Lunches are way good, its always a feast!

This week also we went to Osorno! We had a 70 come, Elder Texiera! He was awesome and it was sweet to hear from him and his wife! Man the leaders of the church know so much and are so uplifting and spirtual!

Also in Osorno i got to see a lot of people i know from my group and the mish and i saw Elder Griffin!!!!! Wohooooooo! I missed him hes one of my good buddies so it was awesome to see him!

Hahaha so cambios happened and i just found out i am leaving this sector......But yall know how huge the boundaries of this mission are, but i got transferred and am going to valdivia stake, so the stake right down the road! hahaha people say whats you come to valdivia you are just always here, but i am way stoked! My companion is gonna be Elder Rawlinson and he only has 6 weeks left in the mission! but i am way stoked! Very happy and i am ready to help out and work hard in a nother part of this mission! Sad im leaving this sector, especially right when we are about to have a baptism but its all good, cause ill just have to go find a bunch more people in the other sector!

Way happy! The mission is new things everday and change is always happening, just have to get use to it and try your best!

Cant wait to see yall on skype in less than 2 weeks!!! wohoooooooo 

Dang i almost have 6 months on the mish!

Mommmy your baby boy is growing up!!!!! hahahahaha love yall so much! The church is true and jesus christ is our savior! Rememebr him and remmeber others during this time of year, i know you all will!

#Missionlife #ballislife #roadtostate

Love yall!

Love Elder Wertner

P.S. im gonna try to send pics but no promises. this computer is making things difficult!

Hey Yall!!!

How is it going this week, i need to step my game up with these emails, ive missed like 2 weeks! Thats my bad and im gonna not miss anopther week (dont write that down)

Well everything is well down here in Valdivia, It is getting hotttttt!!! Those people who told me in every sector in my mission i would be seeing penguins, I have a tough time imagining i will see a penguin in this heat. It has gotten real hot, I shouldve bopught more short sleeve shirts.

But it is all going well here, we are doing a lot of contacts and trying to find people. Not too much success but its coming i know the Lord will bless us! We have an investigator we have had for a long time, Elder Cleverly and I found him at the beginning of our training and me and Wlder Winward are still working with him, he has a problem with La palabra de sabiduría  and he wanted 6 months to give his stuff up but it was sweet cause he changed it and said he is gonna give it all up by december 15 and he is getting better everyday, so that is way sweet!

I cant believe it is already the last week of this cambio, Next wednesday we have cambios..... hahahah like a week before christmas! That will be crazy if i go somewhere before christmas, but if i stay sweet too! Me and my comp are working hard and looking for people!

The biggest thing i can tell you this past 2 weeks is how much i am thankful for the example of Jesus Christ and the Atonement in my life! The sacrifice he paid, to take upon himself the sins of the world is something none of us can pay back! Serving a mission for 2 years will not pay Christ back for the sacrifice he made for us, but it will help others know about his sacrifice and I know that it makes My savior and Heavenly father happy! If i can make them happy then man i must be livin the dream right?

This time of the year , everyone always says it "Focus on what really matters" I can hear alyssa and jessica saying it right now, probably talking about how we should donate all the family money that wouldve went to gifts go to a charity or soemthing, hey maybe theyll actually do it! But the point is Focus on the savior! Do something that would make him happy! If you do that, i promise you, you are doing the right thing! Apply the atonement in your life!

It is there, but we must apply it in our lives! Faith without works is dead my friends!!! Go out and do, Do as the savior did when he was on the earth! 

Love you all! Livin in a different country and tryin my best!!!

Love you!!!!!

Elder Wertner

Oh and p.s. the packages i got were so sweeeettttttt!!! means so much to me!!!!

He said its getting SO HOT in Chile!

                 Justin said he was so excited and happy to get all this candy in his packages!!

Hey Fam!!! And Friends!

Well I might be a couple days late but congrats medium mike and brookie! Married, i was worried a little sunday morning when i was at church and i was thinking "well wow brooke couldve totaly just ran away" Glad that didnt happen tho! Brooke is no longer a wertner!! Another one off the books right dad?

Hey but this week was good, we actually just got back from osorno cause my comp had to do some visa stuff, You would be surprised how excited we were hahaha. But it was fun! I got subway woooooohooooooo! It tASTED JUST LIKE IT DID IN THE STATES! So that was sweet. Well i think it did at least. But i felt the love cause i went to the mission office and had 4 packages waiting for me and some letters. i felt the love yall! pckages re sweet out here..... hint hint! Jk but this week was good, We found a lot of new people! one person in particular is really ready for the gosepl she has been looking for the church and all the ones she has gone to didnt feel rightand  has had some people pass away in her family as wel as some troubles. Talk about perfect timing and the exact time we went to her door she left the gate open because she was waiting for her son. So Heavenly father was pouring down the blessings!

We do a lot of contacting so im just trying to use my sense of humore during it and it helps alot! Everything is going well, the work is progressing and we are working hard! It still hasnt got that hot and its raining a lot but i like it a lot better! Sorry i dont know what else to say! 

But i love you all, Without a doubt in my mind this is where i am suppose to be! So grateful for all the examples i have in my life Especially my two older bros (jake and Big mike) who served missions! They might not know how much that example means to me while i am out here, but it means a lot!

Also i cant wait to make fun of brooke in spanish when I get back!

Love you!!!!!!!!

Elder Wertner!!1

Im gonna send more pics!!!!!!!!

LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEE YOUUUUUUUUUU

Hey fam and friends!

Well didnt write last week cause i didnt have a lot of time and it was a tough week im not gonna lie!

But it has gotten better, for those who have been fasting, praying and thinking about me!

Thank you yall mean the world to me!

So first off i gotta say happy bday to my sister Jess this week! Wooohoooooo shes the bomb and any guys out ehre that might be reading this older then 18, shes single! Woohoooo but for real she is my best friend and i hope the bday is great!

Next Shoutout to brookie my sister and michael!!! they get married this week! I literallyt cannot believe it! Brooke is getting married!!!!!! woooohhhhoooo so stoked and i wish i could be there, but then i think about how if i was there i would be a best man (i better be right michael) then you have to stand in that line thing and shake everyones hands, so maybe its better im not right? hahah jk but that is so exciting yall are getting married especially since its in the temple!!!! So happy for yall!

This past two weeks have been tougher but they have gotten better, they always do! I was walking and just felt the wight on my shoulders and then i thought about someone, someone who had it a lot tougher then i did..... Troy bolton from high school musical! He had to decide between singing, basketball and the girl he loved? hahahah just kidding! I really thought that joke was funny tho!

But for real i have a lot of great examples in my life from friends and family but i was thinking about the savior and all he went through and he had it a little tougher then just a couple hundred doors slammed in your face right? He took upon the sins of the world for us, he thought about us! Now if thats not special i dont know what is!

Also thanks for all the bday wishes! Bday was a little different in the mission but it was good! Pretty normal day but we went to investigadores house and they had like chips and juice for me cause they knew it was my bday!

We have been doing a lot of contacting cause thats what we do, we are trying to find new people to teach but it can be tough sometimes1 Not everyone wants to hear the good word, none the less we are still bringing the world his truth!

Also i have a compañero his name is elder Winward and he is from utah! hes a nice guy, wow you should hear the chileans try to pronounce our names!!

We have a couple investigadores we are teaching but we are looking and the ones we have we are trying to increase their faith and lead them to the waters of baptism! That is why we are here!

I love you all, It stopped getting hotter and now it just rains hahah love it! But i love you all and if you have any questions or want to hear the good word, ask the missionaries, they would be love to help in anyway...... We are representantes de Jesucristo and that is why we are here!

Thanks for the bday wishes!

With much love!

Elder Wertner

!9 wowowwowowoowowow :)

A new companion!

Hey Yall!!!!!! hows my southern home, the south is the best isnt it? 

I hope halloween went well for everyone! It wasnt too big of a holiday here, pretty much a normal day! Today we are suppose to find out cambios and we still havent found out and usually we find out in the morning, so that makes me really want to know who my next companion will probably be! Im thinking it will be a latino, but i guess yall wont find out until next week, wow a lot of changes will happen this week forsure! Cant wait to tell yall, but for now this past week was really good! 

We have been finding a lot more people who are a lot more receptive and who need the gospel! The thing is we gotta find the people who need and want the gospel, some people just are not ready! but hey what are ya gonna do? Also i had an intercambio this week and i lead my sector and i know a lot more spanish then i thought, likeit was so sweet hahahaha and i just knew a lot more than i thought! We found people i think i told you about them and the lady is less active and she is less active for 18 years and she had a dream and her mom passed away a little bit a go and in the dream her mom was all in white outside of the temple and they both couldnt go in, and her mom told her she needs to hurry up! Which we take it as going back to church and going to the temple cause her mom and dad arent sealed! I was just like wow thank you heavenly father, you have made it a lot easier on us! Talk about a blessing!

Wait we got a call from the zone leaders and they said someones name the didnt know how to say it so i think he is american, sweet! who knows tho! 

But that story is sweet huh? We also got a new ward mission leader and he is excited about his calling and he just wants to do missionary work so it is awesome! That is what im talking about! He doesnt really know much and has trouble hearing but we are teaching him and he wants to be doing this calling so thats what makes it so awesome! 

also this week we had this dog who followed us everywhere, i know this is random but he followed us everywhere and he waited outside appointments for us and he would fight other dogs when they would try to bite us and we named him harry, and then he left one night and we never saw him again! But he straigt up just followed us everywhere we went like into houses and stuff it was weird haaha! 

Also we ran to a  mountain the other day in the morning and it was a prety sweet view of valdivia im going to send to yall!

It is awesome to be helping people, some people just need help! Because we are all weak lets be honest and this life is hard for all of us, but what builds us up is the savior and this gosepl!

I love you all and am so thankful for you all eevryday! No lie i pray for you all everyday!

With much love!

Elder Wertner

PEACE

Monday, October 26,2015

Hey Fam!!!

First off i cant believe this is my last week in training! This is crazy, time goes by way faster in the mission its kinda weird hahah! I am having fun tho, this is definitley who i am now! I AM A MISSIONARY WEIRD! I KNOW! This week we have been finding a lot of people and the spirit has been really guiding us! So here is a little story for yall that is in the works right now, A couple days ago we were knocking doors and knocking this street and in chile people have their houses and then they dont have backyards but there are houses behind the houses in front that are a lot smaller and kind of hiding but people live there. So we were knocking a street we knocked the front house and then were walking to the next house and in the corner of my eye i saw another house in the back and we walked past and then of course...... Bam! I kinda gotta a prompting "Elder go back" Then i was like okay well why would i not listen..... so i told elder cleverly and of course we went back there and we knocked on the door and a lady answered and told us to come back the next day around the same time. Well that always happens so we didnt think anything of it, but we of course went back and they invited us in, we found out she was baptized 18 years ago and she moved from santiago and she doesnt really remmeber the church at all, but her kids and husband arent members either. Well they are really receptive and then they wanted us to come back the next day and we taught them La restauración and her husband excepted a date to be baptized and she is so receptive and needs the gospel in her life! We found out she had cancer a while back as well as her mom passed away about a year ago. It is really awesome and they are really awesome and want to learn, plus this always set appointments for in the afternoon, which is always tougher to get appointments at so that is a plus! haha but it awesome!

We contact a lot of people in a day and lately we have been finding a lot more receptive people! We are always working hard and trying to find people, some days we have nothing but other days it seems like it is just going so well, it is the timing and its the Lords timing not ours! It is so awesome to see the fruits from our labors! 

Also on sunday they had the primary program here in our ward and there is only like 7 poeple in the primary but man does everyone show up, primary program is hype! hahahaha it makes me miss izzy! Love you izzy! 

Also it is starting to get warmer here, yeah that is good in the mornings but it is already really hot, we walk so much and there is no such thing as AC, SO IT IS HOT during the day! cant wait for summer hahahah! but everything is good! I feel really blessed and am really happy to be where i am! Thank you all for your support and all you do for me! This gospel is true and i know it with all my heart!

Lots os Love (as jessica would say)

Love Elder Wertner

also we visited the lobo marino again and we got closer so i have some better pics for yall!

Love you bunches:)

"No lie, I was kind of scared, that thing tried to EAT MY FACE OFF!!!"