Hello dearest everyone!

A very very happy Easter to everyone, there is nothing more wonderful to know than that Christ was resurrected. Because He lives, we will all live again and we have the opportunity to change to become more like Him every day. 

The Magallanes ward is small, as the ward has been dwindling over the years, and we´re at about 25 people every Sunday.  It has been hard for the few faithful members that remain, but their faith truly inspires me.  This week, my companion and I decided to plan an activity for the ward for Easter.  (Here, the missionaries plan, organize and execute the majority of all activities), and so we went to great lengths to plan something incredible for the ward that they could really enjoy.  We planned an Easter egg hunt with tons of chocolate eggs hidden everywhere in the church (those things are EXPENSIVE here) and some plastice eggs with questions about the live of Jesus Christ inside.  We started with the egg hunt and then after, we all got together and we played a jeapordy-like game with the questions.  It went incredibly well and a LOT of people came.  Normally the missionaries activities here have about 8 or 10 people, but FORTY people arrived for the activity, the majority of them less actives.  It was UNPRECEDENTED. And amazing.  My companion and I also decorated, and we decorated the door to the cultural hall as the open tomb of Christ with the stone rolled away with Kraft paper and the fake flowers that are normally in the sacrament meeting.  It looked quite good if I do say so myself.  Afterwards, the members came up to tell us that they had really enjoyed the activity.  At the end we watched part of the movie How to Find Faith in Christ about His death and resurrection.  It was incredible.   

Here in the ward, we have also enfronted many sad situations with people we´re teaching, as alcohol is QUITE the problem here in Chile, but I cannot tell you how it has strengthened my testimony in the commandments.  If EVERYONE could just keep the commandments, they would discover an indescribable peace that can´t be found anywhere else.  That is why Christ sacrificed His life and died for us, so that we have other opportunities to change and keep His commandments.  I know that He is our Savior, and that true and lasting happiness are found only through Him and His gospel.

In other news:  This week we discovered that 1) we have cats living in the ceiling and the stains on the ceiling that we THOUGHT were just stains from the roof leaking are definitely NOT water stains.  We can hear the cats little feet pattering around during the day, and sometimes they get in fights and we feel like they might fall through the ceiling one day.  And 2) we have rats living in the walls and sometimes they come out to sit behind the calefacción to warm up.  We´ve found little bit of crackers or grapes back there too.  MY question is: WHY the cats and rats can´t live in the same spot?! WHY must one live in the ceiling and one live in the walls and have NO contact whatsoever?! Really.

I love you all so much, and can´t wait until I have the opportunity to share my testimony with all of you with something longer than a letter that I have to write in 10ish minutes.  I hope you all had a WONDERFUL Easter and remember the sacrifice of our Savior Jesus Christ.

The first picture is of the tomb with the elders of our ward and also the Hermanas of another ward that we invited to the activity.  And the other is of me and my companion, I don´t know if I´ve ever sent a picture of us.  

Love you all!!!