Date: Monday, February 23, 2009, 10:23 AM

Hello My family how are we all doing today? I hope just fabulous, wow I was so spoiled this week I did not even know what to do with myself, I got like 12 letters and a package!! I am going crazy I hardly had time to read all of it! But thank you so very much I feel so happy receiving that kind of stuff, but im glad you found a cheaper place to do it 100 and 60 dollars is definitely way to much to be spending on packages, I like the 9 dollars a whole lot more !. But man I am spoiled, I just loved hearing your voices! That was quite the treat let me tell ya, and only 2 months more till I can call you! That is just crazy it is going by so fast! I hope I can find time to at least write back a little to all your letters I don’t have much more time on pday we are always so busy on this day it is crazy!! But like 8 different people wrote me!! Crazy right. I cant even remember half the stuff you all said to me cause I had to read it fast but what I do remember is tell rhino work out all he wants he will loose every last drop of it on the mission lol. I am glad all of you enjoyed your time at lake Tahoe, my companions family went to Disneyland this week and my oh my he is homesick now lol he is angry!! But thanks for all the goodys! That’s good Ryan L got his first baptism and Kris is in the office in his mission, that’s impressive, right now we reactivated 2 more people so 5 reactivations and 6 baptisms in total  We are doing very well but things have been slowling down cause we are suppose to work on finding less actives and not investigators so our baptisms are slowing down. But all is going very well. We ate some pizza at one of the members houses and wow it was so good, it made me think of your good cooking!! The members are having us over for ice cream one day this week so we are excited for that ! We helped paint A members house Amanda this week haha by the way they loved your letter that you all wrote her, we translated it for her she just loved it!! You should be receiving my package within the next 2 weeks!! I hope you love that a ton. But yeah that is crazy Chris almost has a year out wow lol it doesn’t feel like he has been out that long. That’s about all that happened this week, I hope I have a better story to tell next week. and the other was just for fun. We cleaned our house spotless today! Thats cool that that Ditto is teaching Scotty how to play basketball that will be a miracle lol jk, dall good job with the wrestling keep it up, you let rhino know I will always be stronger than him lol. But wow there are so many words that I need to learn in Spanish lol some of the people we teach talk about like witchcraft man my head was spinning in circles lol I could not pick up what he was trying to say lol. But this week went by so fast and one more week closer to seeing you all again. Love all of you so very much, Hope your arm feels all better by now britt sounds like it still cant slow you down! Love Elder Eddenfield

Date: Monday, February 16, 2009, 12:22 PM

Hola Mi Familia

How are we all doing today?? Darren wrote me and said that Nikhil only has one
more transfer left lol crazy right !!! I cant believe Kriz brown and Michael Phelps that is so bad, its funny cause my companion loves Michael phelps like a ton and has a quote of his on our wall that says something like you cant put a limit on anything, the more you dream the further you go lol and he has shared that with a lot of members like before he smoked and now they were like look at the man you told us to follow like his quote lol, they were just kidding though but it was pretty funny. They were like until you smoke pot lol!! Ok now lets get to the details right, I was sitting there in our house this morning and the front office calls and that never happens unless your getting a big change and they said I was being transferred and being companions with elder mortenson from the mtc lol I was like what are you serious lol cause we both are young here and our Spanish Is only so well and they lied and tricked me lol and I am staying here and same with my companion!! So there is nothing new here. This week our light bill some how didn’t get paid and we did not have lights in our house for a whole 2 days lol it was terrible and you would have to go to the bathroom in pitch black and shower pitch black and we used the Christmas tree in our room so we could have a little light lol it was a life saver lol that’s for sure I thought the pictures were sweet what do you think?? WE reactivated 3 people in the church, that it our sectors goal is to reactivate people so that’s al we focus on and we have 3 new ones. Our converts pass the sacrament and pay there tithing it is really just amazing to see Tell Eugene that his cousin Zhanna even writes me and sends me pictures of him and he doesn’t write me. She sent me pictures of them at a wedding which was nice. Tell him im mad at him lol. Elder mortenson wrote me a letter and sent me one for britt ill send it next week cause there is no mail this week that we can send so next week. One of our investigators he is short and a little chubby like 42 years old we thought the guy was harmless you know and it turns out that he got jumped by 2 16 year olders and they had a knife little did I know that he knew karate and all that kind of Jazz and ended up doing this move to knock the knife out of there hands and beating both of them up lol!! He felt really bad about doing it though but they had a knife so I thought that was really crazy !! Our sector has been ridiculous this week with all the catholic parties we get rejected left and right but we keep working hard!! Today we played some hard core ping pong, the kid I plyed with is like number one in chile and let me tell you he was the best I have ever played I beat him still though he got me 3 games and I won 8 !! It was so intense all the pictures were when I was playing all hardcore no joke!! Crazy I was so tired, we played for ice cream and he had to buy us al ice cram afterward s!! I'm glad all of you are doing well safe and happy, good job on the sports britt and dallen  And dallen I am better now at ping pong so bring it big boy. I am glad everything is going well with great grampa at the house especially with Brittany . When ever you read good scriptures don’t be shy to send them in email I have read so much and learned so much my head always hurts lol don’t have to much fun in Lake tahoe without me lol I hope you enjoy the snow I even miss rain so much now!! There was another earth quake last night but I am so tired at night that I barely even felt it lol I am so tired at nights lol its crazy! What else um Im glad you liked my story didn’t have any quite like that this week but there will be more to come. Dallen you better have beaten Kriz at ping pong the other day. I love all of you so very much and hope you are all have success in everything you do you have the last name Eddenfield so you cant be stopped, Love your Elder.Elder Eddenfield

Monday, February 9, 2009, 1:17 PM

Hello my wonderful family!!!, How are we all doing today? I hope just fabulous. That was nice of Elder Smith and Ric to write me lol I was not expecting that lol. Tell them I love them lol. That’s cool you were taught by sign language missionaries! I had the same experience in the mtc, some elders taught us it was pretty cool too id have to say very different. But I don’t really care if Scott and Amie want to make a blog for me, if they want to do it that sounds great with me lol you know me i'm always down for everything. Britt wrote Hill and Mortensen eh lol, I hang with Elder Hill once I week and we have become really really good friends! Tanner peeing in front of the house pic eh lol that sounds pretty funny ha ha cant wait to receive that. I cant believe transfers is this Monday it went by so fast, I have gotten settled in with my companion it will be weird to change. I want a Latino companion though so it will force me to speak perfect Spanish. I can basically say anything I want now but a few times I struggle but everyone can understand me always. Good job of defending yourself Bertney, you should not have to take people being mean to you. But always remember the Lord gets angry when people mess with his people. He will help you be freed from any situation! I cant wait for mothers day too, it will come by before we know it lol that’s so exciting! Scotty just wait till I get home from the mission, you know I will receive the blessings from the mission and destroy you at bowling. Ping pong I am still the same as before, they actually play here a lot surprisingly! I whole lot of soccer. Yes Scotty I love morning studys, its one of my favorite parts of the day !! I know so much doctrine right now I don’t want to even think how much ill know after 2 years watch out Sacramento right. The food here is the same as back home, really its just like the states but I copy, just not as good but the same ya know. When it comes to food, just the hot dogs, which are completos here are better and the bread, the hot dogs are my favorite!. Ditto I didn’t even know that you were working at a different place, but it sounds like it was a good decision to quit, There were trying to bring out the North Highlands side of ya lol that’s funny. Sounds like Dal and Scott have been playing a little excess of pool table eh. That is so many games wow that’s really impressive! I am glad you are all enjoying yourselves though that is so good to hear. I started writing down things during the week that would prob be good to tell you to make things more interesting lol I write them down in my agenda ok so here it goes, I hear Michael Phelps got caught smoking? That is so bad, my companion loved that guy he was his hero he was pretty depressed when the members told us about that. I have had about 40 different people tell me that I looked like tom Cruz lol every where I go here people tell me that even all the missionaries! Everyone always calls me that its pretty funny. We did companion exchanges the other day just for a day and I was companioned up with another gringo. His name is Elder Jolly he is in the pictures I think the one with the phone not sure, I spent the night at his place and took a few pictures, We were sleeping and he is on the 4th floor of a building and in the middle of the night there was an earthquake! I had never felt anything like it in my life lol it rattled our whole house for a whole minute we were freaking out loll. He has only 6 more weeks than I do and we were able to run a sector by ourselves with no problems so that was exciting for us to know. I could understand almost everyone. Now the grand story that you will love. Me and Elder Jolley could not get into any doors for such a long time, and it was really hot, 4 hours of knocking doors ya, and we decided to say a prayer at the park where no one was and ask for some help to help someone out ya know, we wanted to make someones day, After the prayer we just were walking randomly not knowing were and we ended up at the place we had already knocked every door on the street, we decided to just knock one again and as we were knocking I lucked up down a street and there was a guy pulling slowly out of his drive way and there was a 3 years old playing in the road, The guy in the car did not see him and he had knocked the little guy 3 years of age and didn’t feel it and and I saw this and I ran and screamed over there will all I had to get the driver to stop, lets just say that all of the kids body was under the car except his head, he barley missed the tire and the person stopped from my yelling, one more second and he would have totally crushed the kid, the kid only was left with a scratch on his chin and the people came running over there screaming especially the person driving the car. The lady watching the kid fainted and she never caught conscience the ambulance came and picked her up everyone was crying and I had saved that kids life and a lot of depression that night. Also from the power of prayer. It is true when the say God has angels in the world! We could not think for the rest of that day. Later one of the members was at the hospital with them and the guy driving the car was there and told the member that if it was'nt for me he would have ran him over. I Hope you enjoy that story, it definitely strengthened my testimony about prayer. I love you all so much don’t have much time to send pictures I am very sorry next week ill send more and write less ok love you! Love your Boy Elder Eddenfield I am very sorry for spending from my account just tell me if I take to much really, I bought really good good gifts for the birthday boys and some others for the girls, Scotty lucked out I got something for him too. I got a new jersey very cheep hope you like it cant beat the prices for the gifts I got you !!

Monday, February 2, 2009, 1:29 PM

Hello family ¡! How are we all doing?? Haha and don’t be scared mom to count down the days lol I have a calendar myself that I x off everyday  new month just started  Brittany I don’t like hearing about injuries you better heal yourself right away before you do anything else! NADAL WON yes lol I was wondering how he was doing lol that is so sweet. The fruit here is good to tell you the truth though I like the fruit in the states a lot better and the water here tastes nasty also ! I always buy water! This computer is so bad lol I am getting very angry. I may not be able to send pictures if it doesn’t work! Some lady wrote me in our ward back home she said she has 82 years named evelyn J Swartz it was a nice letter  Kris and Pamela came by lol that is funny doe's Anita want to write me lol, that’s nice of them. I have random dreams about al of you and my old work its quite weird lol. Yeah I just passed the 4 month mark lol kind of a big deal yeah. The have a huge sale this week and I mean once a year kind of ordeal I took a lot of money out to buy you stuff especially the 2 bday boys this next month so don’t spend to much money at home cause im going to send stuff. Like the best deals you can find lol!! Im sorry I cant answer a lot of the stuff right now cause the comp it really not working well but I got a lot of details to tell you about the pictures lol. First off I performed a baptism this week !! He asked me to do it and I said I will go I will do lol that was quite an experience for me, the heater for the font doesn’t work so it felt literally like the snow water lol, we froze to death but it was so great his name is Victor Nacho Prieto! Cool right, thought you would like that, For my Christmas money I had to spend it all on rechargeable batteries because it will get really expensive after a long period of time so hope your happy they are really expensive to buy the whole thing but I do it for you  I got a letter from the Bowmans today ! that was nice to read! Richard Jackson sent me an email lol, I played 6 people in ping pong on the street the other day cause they called us out and I played them if I beat them, we teach them a lesson and I beat all of them and they would not let us teach them we were angry. All those people in my sector all like 12 .I beat everyone of them in ping pong today lol it was so fun, some of them are so good. I barely beat them they play better here! We played soccer last Monday and my calves got so sunburned it stang for a few days lol, ouch right
. The Catholic week is this week so we cant talk to like anyone cause they have huge festivals and dance to the virgin marry like I mean 1000's of people and its right in front of my house lol, there is a pastor next to me and that picture was his marry right in front of our house also lol.

They claim that they received the gift of tongues but they cant understand our English lol, they say the gift only works in the morning lol they try to fight us a lot. My friend had a bad bathroom experience a while back on the mission and it made me think of Eugene on the way home from Ghost mountain that one day remember lol, he made dad pull over lol, good times. The other picture is of me watering the lawn lol, we have to water it everyday which I don’t like doing, makes me angry.
But Britt I don’t like the injury you really better take a week off. And now my pictures wont send wow I am angry I have good ones too what the heck, don’t know what to do. We don’t have any baptisms now but transfers is coming up really soon crazy right, it went by really fast. Maybe ill get a new comp that is Latino, that would help my Spanish a whole lot !! To tempting to talk English! This computer is not letting me send the message either grr I hope it works. But I hope you all continue to be safe and happy. Ill send the pictures next week. I love all of you so very much, were planning on going to a different place so maybe ill get to send some pictures we will see love you !! Love your boy Elder Eddenfield

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Monday, January 26, 2009, 10:46 AM

Hello best family in the world ¿? How are you doing today, I am going to start reading one at a time of your emails and answer every ones questions in a row now ok  Ill start with MOMMY ;) valentines gift eh …. Yeah they better celebrate valentines here lol I would not know how to ask that in Spanish though lol, the word Santa clause here is even way different it is crazy. And the schools here are the same as at home. But summer is right now here so all the kids are home which I like a lot cause its really fun teaching kids . But
yes I always try to be as happy as I can be, my companion is a little moody like sometimes not happy so he has a hard time dealing with someone who is always happy lol but I always cheer him up, I cant work proficiently if I am not happy! But with the language its hard for me to show my real personality so they don’t really get the full me and its hard to focus all day on what there saying to but they know I'm a very happy person. ELDER SMITHS LAST TRANSFER that’s crazy lol I bet he is excited to go home dang. That’s cool you will get to meet his family! Its crazy I am almost at the 4 month mark lol, it doesn’t sound like a whole ton but it feels like I have been here for ever lol, at the end of the 2 years it will feel like I have been here my whole life! Keep me updated with the tennis lol it was on at a members house and I just about died lol I was like NOOO lol I wanted to watch so bad but I didn’t! Yeah we have potential for a lot of baptisms right now thank goodness one this week on Friday if things work out the way they should, we have 3 other baptism dates but the people are of the world, the word of wisdom will be hard for them but we are buying them replacement stuff to drink so they wont have excuses to drink the other stuff lol, but they are very nice. Yes the adversary tries to tick at you every single day here! He tries to get in your head, but he cant do anything if you don’t allow him, you just have to be patient and not let anger into your life and your set ! But the singles ward beat mission oak! Oh no that is no good, don’t play if you will get hurt, I don’t want you hurting, we need
you up and around walking! I can teach so well now lol better in Spanish than English guaranteed lol funny right. Thanks ditto for the little hi  hope your first few days of school go well. That’s awesome yourbball team is killing everyone, keep it up, get them all on tape for me ok areyou scoring a lot of points also ? I'm sure your just leading the team. And yes Dallen I have been playing a lot of ping pong usually 2 times a month sometimes in the mornings on our knees for gym if we have time lol. I got some good pictures this time of us playing soccer today for all of ya  I had 8 goals, I am getting really good at soccer now surprisingly. Tell Demaci I will beat him
when I get home lol. Hope your bowling with Scott was fun  I have not received your picture yet though  But yes me and my companion are great  And now, this week went by quickly we have a lot of progressing investigators but some of them we will have to wrestle with to really make our point but things will work out for sure. I started parting my hair lol I hope you like the pictures lol I kind of like the parted hair lol. What do you think. The pictures are kind of random but the food is usually what I eat for breakfast every morning lol looks yummy right lol bread eggs and hot dogs. My heart almost stopped when I got your package this week, thank you all so very much, you have no idea how much I loved it ! The candy and all was so good. The tie is beautiful I hope you
got a discount on it lol 50 dollars is so much money lol but yeah and the pictures I am set now  we have been getting with a lot of our investigators lately which is great but there are just so many things we have to commit them on lol, every commandment is just as important as the other and they don’t understand that so much so we are working with them hard. One of the
missionaries(elder Jolley) next to me said he loves Brittany from the pictures lol. I got sunburned a little today cause we played a lot of soccer, man I am getting out of running shape lol, all the people we played with thought I was from here, lol that’s pretty impressive right, they say I look exactly like a Chilano we have 2 family nights tonight which should be fun. I love you all so very much and I hope your are all safe healthy and happy. Continue working hard and putting the Lord first in everything that you do. Make everyday your best day I hope you love all the pictures thanks so much for all of your love through out each and everyday, that’s what keeps me going through your prayers and love for me all of your are fabulous.
Love your boy
Elder Eddenfield

Monday, January 19, 2009 9:57 AM

Hello mi familia 
How are we all doing today ¿? I hope just fabulous, I was angry last week cause I wrote you a letter, but we didn’t have a meeting so I was not able to send it so I am sending it tomorrow with 2 in it ok ;) But yes I am ok no need to ever write the president lol and also remember he doesn’t know English either so if you write him he could not understand it anyways lol. But we cleaned up our house pretty nicely right now and it looks actually quite descent I have to say  That is awesome for Robert Lloyd  Every one is going to be speaking Spanish together when we all get home lol fun right. You all should be studying up on the Spanish to though ! That is awesome you have digital pictures of me !! I have not gotten many new sweet photos yet  We have not traveled very much but I know we will eventually. Tell Elder Smith I love him lol do you see him much ? How long has he been out seems like a long time now no? Yeah I was uneasy about the fire too but every person here was doing it too so I knew than it was ok . But yeah I have officially been in Chile as long as I was in the mtc that is really weird wow ! I have not received your package yet either  I have been working on my patience so its ok it can take its time lol. I have 25 scriptures memorized now and I have no clue what they mean in English lol. 70 degrees it hot for ya eh haha if you could only know how hot it is here lol the people here felt the dogs are in the sun all day and they look dead because they just bake in the sun all day!! Like us lol. The pizza was a one time thing, my companions brother gave him 10 dollars for Christmas to buy a pizza here cause he said he loved doing that on his mission so he sent some to him! There are 4 mill pesos here which is like 9 dollars in our house ! Not to bad right. I am glad though I joined the Lords team, I have learned so much it is crazy especially with learning a new language it opens up more space in my head so I learn things faster which is great but very tiring a times. Thanks for the prayers I had so much more energy this week with out pills!! No joke I don’t know how but I feel your help for me. Dallen 4th place! The Eddenfields are number one lol but sounds like you did good.And your sick? Boy you better fix that right away or else we will have troubles. TOP 3 ON THE TEAM not bad big boy keep it up. Tell Randy I play more here so be ready for me lol I played with a guy in the ward who is known here for ping pong, I beat him 5 times in a row! I still got it lol. You all and Great Grampa sound like you all will be having fun for the next 3 months lol. But yeah there are a lot of pretty girls here, but britt I keep my eyes away from the girls there all trouble and they make you loose focus, that’s why I only write my family  But I doubt you would like the guys here sorry lol and they don’t know any English lol Who all has asked about me, I have not received a letter back from Flax? How has he been? Tell all of my friends britt get on there case for not ever writing me lol isn’t that messed up lol. Ok Funny story time I wrote this in the letter today also lol. There is an English professor who lived in the states for a long time and we were teaching him and his family and he asked me to offer the prayer in English lol and I almost couldn’t do it lol. I forgot like how to pray in English lol crazy right. There was a lady here that we contacted and she didn’t know Spanish only English and my companion tried to do the contact in English to her and he could not do it lol he had never tried to do a contact in English before lol, it was so funny. We found 9 new investigators this week and were hoping for at least 4 of them to be baptized with in the next 2 months so that’s good. Spanish is still tough for me though lol its hard even to like ask to get change for money lol they talk to fast it is ridiculous lol. I hope all of you enjoy the pictures and the emails I wish I had more pictures but we only take pictures on pdays and we don’t go very far to take them. I love all of you so much and pray for your health and success, continue reading and studying the scriptures everyday and making the best out of everyday. LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE YOU LOVE You Cant wait to talk to you next week,
Love Your Boy,
Elder Eddenfield

Tuesday, January 13, 2009, 4:51 PM

Hello My wonderful Familia
Sorry i know you prob thought no email for this week!! But we had are pday during Tuesday this week because we had the zone conference yesterday my second one!! YAY right lol time is starting to go by a bit quicker its weird to think I have been in Chile almost the same time I was in the mtc, isn’t that weird!! Yeah they have energy stuff here that I can buy  Sorry if my English is bad its hard for me to type in english with all the Spanish taking up all the space lol. But 45 dollars for an envelope that is ridiculous geeze, after this you wont have to send me anymore stuff ok  I received the Chabras package today ;) it had a bunch of snacks in it. Tell them I said thanks ill send them a letter soon. I am glad you all like my drawings lol, out of inspiration lol. I like the idea of waiting for me before planning vacations lol, always remember that lol. Yeah college would be good for Brittany but all I know is that when I get home it wont matter cause ill be there and protect everyone  No one will be able to stop me. But great grampa is staying for a while lol dang, he is taking a long vacation is he staying with you? I got your letters today  I will write back today in a letter there was definitely some interesting stuff in that one lol. This month and the next month are the hottest months here! Just keeps coming and coming but I wish it was hotter  bring it on. Brittany and Dallen it sounds like you 2 are basically ruling the court! I am so proud of you too you have no idea. I cant wait to get home and play with you, you have no idea. I have been working out harder in the mornings  no to much jogging but I have definitely been upping the reps try to get more muscle but my face is getting skinnier. Dallen you tell that Ryan if he doesn’t answer his phone, he will get the wrath of Kyle Eddenfield upon him lol. I have never taught so many lessons in my life, I never realized how many different things missionaries need to know and teach, its crazy, for every person you need a different scripture to suite there needs, I have my scriptures marked very well though, you will see when I come home, people get scared when they see them lol ;) But I am so proud of all of you ! I I really have been so blessed to have the best family in the world, nothing can take us apart. I have 22 scriptures memorized now in Spanish lol, and yes I don’t even know them in English lol that’s going to be a prob after the mission lol. But mom I wish your theory of more hair more height is true, but by the looks of it right now lol I prob shrunk a little bit lol. Now the pictures the fire one was my companion and the other missionaries made, and yes the zone leader was apart of it so it was not against the rules, I didn’t help though cause I thought it would be but than I saw many people doing it in the street so I knew for my self it was all right, it is a tradicion here to burn a muneca and it was pretty sweet lol I hope you like it. I ate my first pizza here lol we decided to order a late night snack one day lol it was good  We got a new kid in our room who plays for BYU FOOTBALL he is big and he wanted to see some wrestling moves so I showed him a special one lol I know you like that picture lol. We decided to nerd me up one night to take a picture lol priceless right . The other is Elder Valgas cutting my hair and a picture of my last distict ;) My companion has dreams out loud in Spanish about us teaching lessons in Spanish lol it is quite hilarious. At like 2 in the morning I wake up hearing him teach lesson one in Spanish lol isn’t that hilarious haha. It happens almost everynight lol. We should have 2 more baptisms but the lady has a man living with her so they need to get married or separate lol that will be a tough one. But thanks for all the letters

I love all of you so very much and hope you are all healthy and happy, take turns sleeping in my bed ok, just to keep the covers warm for me lol ok. We keep finding spider friends in our house lol, we bought raid and cleaned out under all of our beds to kill them lol. I can understand almost all things in Spanish now but there are many weirds that I obviously do not know. I cant wait to get your package, and I hear now you have the flag I gave you and you had already bought now lol, that is pretty fun, but love you all so very much cant wait to hear from you next Monday  ps I have the best family in the world
With Love From Your Big Bad Elder Eddenfield
PAZ= peace lol

Monday, January 5, 2009, 6:13 PM

Hello Mi familia  Coma esta?
My español is getting even better during this week . Let me tell you though
lol my enemy right now is alarm clocks lol its so hard to have energy during the
whole entire day! I doze some times lol but I am still working as hard as ever I
have memorized like 12 scriptures in Spanish now not going to do much good for
me after the mission lol but i am trying to memorize as many as I can. Thank you
so much for sending me the card I cant wait to receive it! I miss having money in
my wallet! And yes transfers were today and he tried to scare us really bad and
we did get transferred into a different district, but we didn’t move houses or
anything, nothing changed but the people in our group. My companion is the
district leader now crazy right!! But yeah I would not mind vitamins for energy
cause I want to be more focused during the day so I can understand all the
people and what I need to teach and its really really hard to when you are
always so tired from the heat! But I didn’t have to give a talk last Sunday,
but this Sunday I have to give another one! Just my luck right. I gave a
blessing in Spanish the other day  which was really hard but it went very
well. Ill tell you more spider stories after the mission ok lol jk but yeah they
live with us  they are our friends I have not seen one in my bed yet thank
goodness right. It is scary to sleep at night knowing they are there though right
lol. And no that girl doesn’t speak English there is only one person that I have met
here that knows English lol its rough. Dad that was nice of you to teach that
investigator, we had an investigator come to church the other day BY HERSELF we were
so excited that she came, it really makes a difference when the members welcome them, the
members here talked with her and she was so happy and I was happy also cause I
have a hard time talking in Spanish lol but yeah always watch for new
investigators. BBALL IS STARTING I miss playing basketball so much you have no
idea lol everyone just plays soccer here lol no basketball I wish, but yeah
that’s good I can rest this season and play when i get back when you have recovered.
By the way yes my fore arms and my face are so tan you have no ides I have the
biggest tan lines, everyone here thinks I am a Latino I am so dark! No joke. I
am getting skinnier though I started teaching the elders wrestling moves in
the morning to wake them up faster lol. I always get up quickly  The elders
in our room got transferred so now its just me and Elder Rodee no one else. We
have really become best buds though, we are very similar. DITTO I am so glad you
had fun at the concert! I am so jealous lol I miss my music so much lol I am
going crazy cause the people here may not speak English but they like English
rap and I hear it and get so angry lol.That's good you have been going to the gym,
here they fast 24 hours. 1 to 1 and we work at that night in the heat, if you
can imagine, but the Lord provides for us. Its getting hotter and hotter, January
and February are the hottest months here so keep me in your
prayers, we have 2 more baptism dates that we hope go  through, this sector
didn’t have a baptism for the last 1 year and now we have 5 so we have been
working our hearts out! I really can honestly say I hate dogs! There are so many
here and they come at you sometimes and try to get us but we pick up rocks and
scare them off lol, we are definitely fine, we know what streets are safe and
which ones are not. Sorry I cant send pictures this week, the place here
doesn’t have an outlet ( I have some cool ones to show you
from new years, new years was just a average day of work lol, a little sad yes
but after our work we did something fun which I will send pictures of next
week But all is well, no problems I am healthy and happy, I love all of you
so very much you have know idea. Thanks for all of your support and love for me
cause that is what keeps me working as hard as I can. I want to be the
missionary my family knows I can be  Thanks for everything if you need or
want anything just let me know and you will get it 100 fold. You are seriously a
blessing in my life and I always show everyone my pictures, not all  the
missionaries because they get a little excited to see Girls lol so I keep them
from them ha ha but everyone else I do  Que mas ahhh a cat keeps getting in or
house and going into the other elders room and taking there garments and putting
them in our neighbors houses lol terrible right, the neighbor brought them all
to our house and was like my cat took these lol it was a bit embarrassing though.
One thing I though about during the week, Dallen stay away from girls no kissing
girls until I come home lol, I felt sick to my stomach thinking about that lol,
watch that boy carefully.Always watch Brittany she is tough to follow I know lol
but keep an eye on her, Krystal and Scott, no kids until I come home please lol oh
that would kill me lol wow. Mom Dad, just keep being the best and make sure family
night is alway sheld, IT IS A COMMANDMENT lol. LOVE LOVE LOVE YOU LOVE YOU en
espanol les amo.
Elder Eddenfield<3>

Monday, December 29, 2008, 10:20 AM

HOLA ME FAMILIA

I am spoiling you with pictures this time feel really lucky. Ok to answer
all questions first yes the baptism went amazing. Her name is Javiera and her
parents are drug addicts and she lives with her grandpa who is inactive and we had
been teaching her for a while now and she is only 11 by the way!! She comes to
church with us without her family she is amazing Dallen would love
her!! She is so smart and cute I sent a picture of her but its not the greatest. The mission
gets harder and harder everyday!! Its getting harder and harder to find people
to teach. Some days we go the whole day without teaching one person!! Its so
hard to stay focused when your out walking around for all day in the heat. Each
day gets hotter and hotter I hear January and February are the hottest months
too crazy right!! We have a few investigators that may be baptized in 2 months
or so they are just not wanting to go to church so we'll have to really hit the
topic Sabbath day hard and the importance of it and they will come.Yes I have
taught every discussion every commandment lol some are hard to do in Spanish
lol but I can do them all. Tell Grandpa thanks and that I love him too!! And tell
Luke to write me soon that would be nice to get a letter from him. For Christmas
we stayed at the nice members house and I took pictures of it for you. This is the
best members house, they are awesome. I did companion exchanges and took some
pictures on the mountains. That’s how my sector looks like but not as close to the
mountains. Nice pictures though
right. That is how it looks around it lol crazy right. You would not like living
in these houses lol but there are some nicer areas also. Yes and for New Years
I'll get to hopefully find a person to teach lol prob no members house but we
need new investigators. The people here all think I'm Latino lol its so funny.
They are mean to my companion because he looks like a gringo lol its pretty
funny. But yeah we get a lot  of rejections but this really really drunk guy gave
me a random hug the other day lol it was crazy. But I hope you like the
pictures of the spiders lol I thought mom would like to see what could be living
in the house lol. Those are in our house lol, But don’t worry they are not
poisonous  At all lol but they are pretty scary lol ill have to say that. But yes
that was so amazing getting to talk to all of you. The best Christmas present I
could ask for thank you so very much. I played ping pong today lol I have more fun beating Dal and Scott though than the people here lol. That’s for
sure. Good job with the basketball!! Sounds like you are both doing extremely
well. Get the confidence up as high as you can so when I get home I can crush
it.  Now I miss bowling a lot lol I want to play so bad lol I have never seen
a alley here though! I would die to play. Dall that’s a good boy to prepare for
polo. I could see you being very good at that sport. I Have never had any ward
activities or anything!! This New Years Dall and Britt I don’t want to hear
and kissing stories ok lol and especially Dallen he better not like girls until
I come home cause that would be weird to think that lol.. seriously though,
troubled kid lol. Moms a big bad Sunday school teacher lol that is so tight
specially teaching Tanner, that cute little thing. Wow I am spoiling you with
pictures this time be very happy. I am glad you are all working out for me
lol lose extra weight for me lol cause before I know it I may have to start
dieting lol jk I'm staying thin. Another story, I had a Latino companion who
doesn’t know any English and he said it took him a whole month to b able to
understand the Chile language lol and Spanish is all the kid knows lol so you
can see how I feel a little bit lol. But this is all the time I get. I love
you all so very much and I hope you have the best week of your life. 
   Love Elder Eddenfield 

Monday, December 22, 2008, 12:00 PM

Hello my family :) how are we all doing. first things first I think someone
stole my visa card so cancel that right away. If you have seen someone take
money out of it in the last week or so or take more than 40 dollars out make
sure to cancel and send me a new one lol. I was so angry when i realized it was
gone because i had all my cards in my drawer in my desk and all of my other cards
were there and not that one and I have only used that one once so try to send me
a new one quickly :) To tell you the truth I fell like my Spanish is getting
worse lol it is still so hard. My companion said everyone doesn't understand
anything for a while so he said just to relax and stay happy lol I talk to Elder
Hill and he has a Latino companion that doesn't even speak English and his
Spanish is worse than mine lol. That's all he hears is Spanish too so that's a
little bit of a sample how hard it is lol. But yes I am still doing great. Pdays
are like our busiest days actually!! Don't have much time at all to do anything
surprisingly. Today we played soccer with the whole sector in which they are all
Latino and very competitive with soccer so that is fun. Some of these pictures
are of me with our baptisms:) we are really having success there which is really
nice. Some pictures of families house we have eaten at. The park where our district
played soccer and had a barbecue for the first time. There is a zoo at
the park that we stopped by which was pretty cool lol. I am doing better in
Spanish , baby steps lol but everyone says I speak well. Its just hard cause I
have never taught any of these lessons in English before lol. Yes I received
your package today:):)!! i just loved it and we took the tree and my sock and hung
them in the room and took a picture for ya lol :) and the tie. I was hoping I
would find some power bars in there lol thank you so much.We will BE CALLING YOU
AT 6:00 our time on Christmas eve to tell you what time to call us on Christmas.
We get an hour to talk on Christmas :) so make sure you answer I will call the
house phone. Get your calling card ready to call me too by the way ok. I hope
you get my package soon also sorry it is not great i didn't have a lot of time :(
Ok story times lol OK so this week I ate something that my stomach didn't
agree with. I never stopped working lol but I could barely walk my stomach hurt so bad
lol I went number 2 like 20 times that day lol i was not feeling good. But no worries I am all
better 100 percent now lol no worries about that. Other funny stories, we had a baptism after church and my companion left the water on too long again during church lol and flooded the hallways of the church again during church and everyone saw lol it was pretty embarrassing lol. The person the old guy I'm sitting by in one of our pictures is one of our converts.
He just received the Aaronic priesthood :) Amazing story time yesterday we were
having a hard time getting in doors and we decided to go to a persons house we
had contacted the other day and when we got there a lady and her daughter older
ladies were sitting on a porch and they were happy to let us. We found out
her husband had died and it was the other ladies son and they were crying and
we helped them and and taught lesson 2 to them and we are meeting with them
again this Sunday :) so that went extremely well. Am going to read the whole
Bible by the end of my mission and the Book of Mormon again obviously lol. I am
trying to drink more water everyday lol its just so hot here its ridiculous.
There is not one house in this entire place that has air conditioning crazy
right. I am so proud of you Britt and all in sports keep it all up. I want
pictures lol. I have not opened my wrapped present yet though lol I am excited
for that one :) This computer is really acting up I really hope this gets to you
I am having a lot of problems with it. But I hope you have the best Christmas
ever I sent a letter for you and the friends last week so you will get it in 2
more weeks. I am doing just fine I am always tired though cause we work so hard
all day in this heat but I make sure I make every minute count :) I love you all
so much and tell chuck rhino kriz and flax I love them too and they better be
there on Christmas ok. Make sure to do family night tonight before anything else
ok it is a commandment you know lol. Hope you like my pictures and my stories
Love your boy, elder Eddenfield :)