Hey

So we got transfers.  I am now leaving Villa Gorgona after 4 1/2 months.  My new area is in Ipiales.  I'm super stoked.  It's been over a year now that I've been in Valle del Cauca and I'm finally going back to Nariño.  My area I called frontera.  I think I'm gonna be right on the border of Ecuador.  I'm still gonna be district leader. I don't know my new companion.  Elder A. is gonna be in my district again

It's sad leaving Gorgona but I did my best and left 10 converts.  Oh yeah, Junior, one of the sons of Juan C. and Alba, got baptized on Friday and his dad gave him the Aaronic priesthood on Sunday.  It was sick.  I've never seen a progress like the family Rendon has.

Ipiales is 2 hours away from Pasto and is part of the district of Pasto, but they are trying to be strong enough to break away.  We're gonna have to work hard but it should be cool.  Ipiales is always towards the top as far as the zones go.

Hey

So, first thing, the other week Elders D. and E. found Dr Pepper.  Probably one of the greatest moments of the mission, ha!

My 2 adult male converts here in Villa Gorgona both received the Melchizedek priesthood yesterday!  That should help a lot with the casa capilla cause.

So we're kinda in that awkward moment where we've baptized almost everyone we've been teaching and now we don't have many left who are interested.  This week is the kickoff week because in December we are going to try to break the record of baptisms in a month for the whole history of the mission.  September we came close with like 272 or something like that.  We got first in the whole South America Northeast Area which was sick, but in December we've gotta break 302, which they got in like 1980-something.  Gonna be nuts

Elder Musselman brought a football today.  It was legit.

Shout out to bish.  He was legit! (in reference to Bishop Smith from our ward, who is finishing his assignment this week).

Baptism of Geraldine and Libia

Hey

On Friday we had the baptisms of G. Obeso and L. Obeso.  It was sick.  I baptized Libia.  My camera wasn't working but the other elders took pics.   I'll try to get some.  and I didn't have a chance to grab my memory again.  I'll try to send pics next week.

So, today we had a big inter-zone microsoccer tournament.  It was sick.  We won the first game then lost the second and then won the 3rd against the best team 3 to 1.  They advanced due to the fact that they had scored more goals overall.  They won the whole thing too.  Oh well, at least we know we could beat the champions.  I did make one goal with my head.  It was sick. I made another one but they didn't count it.

Other than that, things are all good.  Transfers are coming up at the beginning of next month.  Chances are I'm leaving Gorgona. 

On the way back from the tournament, we still had our soccer  jerseys on.  Some cop stopped us and told us to be careful because we were entering the territory of another team from Colombia and that it might be kind of dangerous...nice.

One of our recent converts, Juan Carlos,  got the Aaronic Priesthood the other day.  Awesome.

Quiero disfrutar de lo que a lo mejor serán mis ultimas semanas aquí.  Espero que se pueda obtener la casa capilla para los santos de aquí.  La merecen.

élder chase

Hey,

So last Saturday was Kelly's baptism.  She is the litter sister of Lina and I got to baptize her.  I didn't have time to get the memory, but I'll send pics next week.

Happy birthday dad.  

We went to the centro today and picked out soccer jerseys for the upcoming inter-zone tournament.  They're florescent green.  Pretty stoked.  

Well, I most likely have 2 more baptisms this Saturday.  They are Gerladín, 17 and her grandma Libia.  Her mom and aunt want to get baptized too, but they have to work some things out first.

I'll likely be getting transferred in a few weeks so I'm just trying to enjoy Gorgona while I'm here.  This is the longest time I've been working in one area.  Pretty sick.

vamos bien

élder chase

Hey,

Things are going well in Gorgona.  Conference was good. I really liked Pres.  Uchtdorf's talk.  We got 8 people to come down to conference.

We have 2 possible baptisms this Saturday.  Kelly, the little sister of Lina, who just got baptized and Geraldín, who is the daughter of a family we contacted. The parents haven't been baptized and we haven't been able to talk much with the dad.

A lady in here is eating ice cream.  Looks good

My stomach hurts a bit due to a hot sauce eating contest we had in the zone today.

Yeah, just chugging along.  Things are going pretty well. 

Elder Chase

Hey,

Transferes arrived and............I'm not going anywhere.  I'm actually relieved because I like being here in Gorgona.  The two missionaries in the other part of the ward both got transferred so I'm the new District Leader.  In the district it's going to be me and Elder R., my ex comp, Elder T., with some gringo I don't know, and a trio of hermanas (sister missionaries).  It's gonna be 7 missionaries in 1 ward under my charge.  It will be nuts at first because neither Elder T. nor his comp know the new area and a trio of hermanas is gonna be nuts. But its all good and should be interesting

We had Linas baptism on Saturday.  It was sick!  Her mom had been inactive 18 years.  They live in Cabuyal too, which makes it even harder for them.  I don't have the pics yet but I'll attach the ones of the Rendon family.  We're actually going to go have a family night in their house tonight with the other members here.

Esta semana debe de ser una semana interesante.  Voy a esforzarme por hacer todo lo posible para ayudar al distrito y seguir adelante con la obra aquí.  Gracias por todo el apoyo.

Elder CHAH-say, como la gente dice aquí.  A veces, tengo que escribir mi nombre en un papel así CHEIS para que lo puedan pronunciar.

Hey,

We had the baptisms of J. C. Rendón M., A. Landazuri A., and V. Landazuri Z.  I got to baptize them which also meant I had to memorize all those names...which was fun, haha.

They've put off the transfers for a week.  I don't know why but I think it has something to do with them wanting to finish the month first.

Not much else is new.  We're still working on the papers to get a branch out here.  It's kind of tough because there's already a ton of other stuff to work on but we're trying.

I wish there was more to write about.  Things are fine in general.  It's super hot all the time.