Fruit Cake

So growing up everybody in the family always joked around about how gross fruit cake was and how nasty it was and all. But I never knew why I just thought it was cake with fruit on it and didn’t understand why everybody thought it was so bad. But I UNDERSTAND NOW its so gross. Every time we go into a house I hope they don’t offer us fruit cake because its that bad. I am kind of starting to get used to it but I still don’t like it at all. I don’t really know why I started off talking about that but I just felt like saying that.

Well the climate is changing here and it’s getting much warmer and I am getting a really nice tan its pretty sweet. My comp has been sleeping really bad lately and so he bought some sleeping pills and then his nose was all stuffed up and he was so loud when he was sleeping so that was fun to deal with haha. Also yesterday was the day the Chileans voted for a new president and so everything shuts down its nuts, at least in the morning, and we could only have an hour of sacrament meeting and that was it because it was a group gathering and you are not supposed to have any of such the day of the elections. But they do it weird here, the winner has to win by 50 % or more or they have to have a revote so on the 17th of January they are having a revote because the winner only won by 44% but I was like holy crap 44% that is kind of obvious who the people wanted right haha.

So this past couples of weeks has been really rough because my comp is all sector turnkey or area. He will probably get transferred because he has been here for 6 months at the end of the month and Dichato is really small but he has basically given up on the people here as in with the ward or lack there of because we only have 2 active members in our branch. And it is really hard because we have almost no support and it’s rough. I just hope my new comp has a really positive attitude so things can turn around here. We have lost 2 really good investigators this week so that was rough, they were the two I talked about in last weeks email Rosa and Tamara, we lost them because they have to work all day everyday now since it’s the summer here and this is a tourist town. This also makes it hard because tons of people are just here for the weekend. I guess that the Lord is trying to teach us something. I am not sure, but on a positive note hopefully we will be having 2 baptisms on the 27th if all goes well and according to plan.

Also this week went on a mini cambio or a mini splits for one day. A missionary that has the same time out as me came over to Dichato and I was in charge of the sector for the day. It was cool but I am defiantly not ready for that yet. But if everyone could pray for this guy who cant get baptized yet because of some problem he has, but the problem is not in his hands, it’s in someone else's so if you could all pray for him that would be great


Well this morning I made a great breakfast my comps grandma sent him from dear elder some blueberry pancake mix and so we made some pancakes and I made some really good scrambled eggs with 5 eggs and 4 pancakes and ¨it was tasty but it was filling¨. So yeah I really don’t have anything that cool to share with you this week, but all I am gonna say is that I miss American food and how you can buy anything in the stores there, like its no problem, but I did find some milk this week that is pretty good. It tastes like half and half its like straight cream, but I bought some chocolate milk and added the cream into it and it made it taste like real chocolate milk so good.

Love Elder Nichols