the one with the creole ward

Hola Everybody!!!! I hope everyones been doing well and enjoying there fall, things are actually heating up down here in Chile as we're getting into spring, more like mid summer it feels like (see photo below, promise i put on sunscreen mom). but this week was great it went by fast but just from being busy and having fun. I had a great interchange with my buddy Andrew Flores from Orem, UT. and i realized that we're like the same person, it was crazy, missinary work is so fun when you have so much to talk about with your companion, we just talked all day long and it passed by too fast. We met a dude that lived in New Jersey for like 20 years and it was so weird to hear the mixture of his spanish with a jersey accent, i imitate it all the time now haha. but the best part of the week, obviously sunday when i kid you not over 20 haitains showed up to church, the building was full of just stylish haitians there to worship God, it was so awesome. Man life is good, the things i see everyday continue to surprise me. 

but yeah that was basically my week and i wish you all a great week as well, until next tuesday guys!!!

Love, Elder Carlos Cabrera

facts of the week:

1. Chilean, New Jerseans swear more than anyone ive ever met, even sailors would be appauled

2. Haitains own dress shirts of all colors of the rainbow, in church i felt like i was in the 80s

3. when girls here think your cute, instead of doing a cat call or that classic whistle they just make a kissy noise with their lips, pretty sure a 80 year old woman did it to us yesterday

the one with the haitian futbol

Hola Everybody!!! Man im sorry to disappoint ya'll but this week wasnt all that noteworthy and all but we worked hard i saw miracles, its been good stuff. We did do an activity to invite the haitians to get to know the church by invited them to a soccery tournament that we were doing. there wasnt as much as we wouldve liked but those that show up put in work, those hatiains know how to play, soccer is a universal language and people of all walks of life can be friends in a good game of futbol. but other than that we've just been working, riding a lot of bike and getting some swoll thighs. call me Lance. 

i love you guys so much i wish you all a great week and im sorry this email wasnt one of my bests but im great no worries, living the dream!!!

Love, Elder Carlos Cabrera

facts of the week:

1. for a cultural that loves to play soccer, its actually kind of difficult to find someone that has a soccer ball, like how can that be?

2. the cheetos here in the chile are not even close to the same thing as the US stuff. dont try it, youve been warned.

3. even chilean girls are obsessed with the same 3 movies that all girls i know are, the proposal, the notebook and anything that stars Zac Efron, some thigns never change

the week with water ballons fights

Hola Everybody!!!

so this week has been great kinda short with meetings and all but a good one nevertheless. gosh its crazy when i get down to writing ya'll i go blak on what even happened this week. well this past wednesday we ahd an amazing zone conference with our awesome President Meservy and his wife and even his sons participated. we learned a lot and grew in faith that day. we left from that conference just ready to work hard and teach everybnody we saw about the restored gospel of jesus christ. its been great and then yesterday we did an activity in the branch called "the best 13 hours" where youth from the branch and future missionaries came out and worked as a missionary for the day. they studied in the morning planned their days they worked and taught and contacted just as any missionary would. i got the opportunity to leave with a couple great youth and i felt really cool to be a missionary with them and teach them what the life is like in the mission. it made me prod of what i do each and everyday. and today we realxed a bit and played fútbol (3 goals for Cabrera) and then we ended with a water balloon fight and i got way too wet, they all teamed up on my and trapped me in the corner, i felt so vulnerable and im mildly wet as i still write you guys. but as you can tell its been a great week. im great, the mission is great and i couldnt ask for more.

I send you my best and i wish you all a great week!!!

Love, Elder Carlos Cabrera

facts of the week:

1. haitains have the coolest names, im currently teaching 3 people named Wonder, Brucelee, and Franz.

2. haitains looks a lot like nba players, without being racist theyre tall and this one guy i know looks just like Kevin Durant (stand by for photos)

3. You say 2 words in creole and all the haitain people think youre a brother to them

the one with conferencia genial

Hola everybody! so for those of you that speak spanish youll think my title was super clever and for those of you that dont speak spanish, you always have google translate but you wont get it the same way sorry guys. Well here we are another week later of this short time that is the mission. I have officially finished my third general conference in the mission and that means that theres only one more, how crazy to think. IM 2/3 rds done with my mission and its flying by way too fast. but lets not get ahead of ourselves im still here pumped and workign hard. but the conference was amazing and for those of you that dont know what general conference is, its the opportunity that we have twice a year to hear from our prophet (yes theres a prophet today just like Moses in his day) and his 12 apostles (yes just like Jesus Christ had 12 apostles). They talk with us and offer us guidance and counsel for these latter days. i cant be more grateful to have that help in my life. It is such a blessing to have someone on the earth that can say "Thus saith the Lord, because i speak with Him." If we didnt have that access, we would truly be lost. I promise you that the Heavans are not closed, that the Lord speaks, he didnt just speak. Im doing great as you all can tell and i send my best to all of you and the victims of the recent shooting in Las Vegas. I send my prayers out to them and their families. I wish your safety and well being.

Love, Elder Carlos Cabrera

facts of the week:

1. i know appreciate lawn mowers on a whole new level due to the fact that days ago i cut an entire lawn with a pair of hand scissors, service is service no matter how much it sucks

2.if you look just a tad gringo with lighter brunette hair youre automatically bound to be called Ken doll everywhere you go, it could be worse

3. here in Chile they sell salads in these little platic bags that looks like those little bags they give you at carnivals when you win goldfish, trips me up everytime