Hola Familia! 

That is so great that you did that service for grandma. It´s funny because before my mission i would have probably complained about having to go and do service and then end up enjoying it during the process, whereas here in the mission we are dying to do service for someone and no one will accept it. Funny how things change so quickly. 

Please do Family History! It´s such an amazing thing and then go to the temple! Go to the temple as much as you can! I´m so jealous when the members get to go to the temple.  They only go once a month but we don't ever get to go as missionaries and it´s killing me. I miss the temple SO Much!! Hermana Castleton and I talk about it all the time and how much we miss the temple and wish we could go. Mom, I really loved that you sent that email to me last week about Ammon.  I had just read that chapter like about a week before and totally forgot about it until you brought it up again and then I re-read the whole thing.  It´s such an amazing chapter.  We love to study so much, I love working but I wish we could have a day like every Sunday that we could just use to study because we have so many things we want to study and to learn and we don’t have time to do it. We have 3 hours everyday to study and somehow that still does not seem like enough.

Alright so this week!  I have about 30 flea bites all over my legs, feet, arms, and hands. We are not really sure where it´s coming from because it can’t be in the clothes or they would be in Hermana Castletons as well... but they are awful!! They itch so bad.  We are going to the store today to try and get something to help with the itching so that will be nice. 

We had 3 investigators come to church this week (they are a family of about 4) and we are so close with them! We want to push for their baptism for 2 weeks! I think they can do it. :)   Also, we have another investigator named Yerko. He is so awesome! He knows so much and is ready for baptism but the only problem is he doesn’t want to give up his wine.  He was cut off from being taught because he was not progressing anymore.  But we came and started teaching him again. We are praying for a miracle with him that he will have a desire to change and not drink wine anymore. His wife is a member and they come to church every week. He is so awesome but just will not give up the wine!!  It is so frustrating and sometimes I don’t like agency.  

We have had some hard moments this week of planning. In this area we have to be careful where we go at night because there are some parts of our area that are dangerous because people here are ALWAYS drunk. So we have been trying to stay close to the pension every night so that we are close to home, plus those streets are more safe. So we are still trying to work with that situation.

We had a luau this week for our activity misional. It was so fun!! There was not a whole lot of people that came. probably about 20.  We watched Johnny Lingo which was pretty funny and had a good message, and then Hermana Castleton and I talked about the movie and a lesson for about 5 min afterwards and then we had some games.  We had hula hoops, that was really fun.  Then we had a limbo contest and I ended up winning the contest and won this really, really ugly trophy but it was fun. Then they brought out cake and hot chocolate and cut open coconuts. It was so good!! Cake here is spelled the same as in ingles but it´s sounded different ( it´s sounded kay-kay). 

Well family I hope all is well and I love hearing from you all. You are all in my prayers every night. I´m so happy to be here in Chile serving the Lord. It´s been such an amazing journey so far and I would not trade it for anything else. Have a wonderful week and I´ll talk to you next Monday!! I love you all so much!!!

Con amor,

Hermana Tycksen