June 19, 2012 Hey Fam ¡¡¡¡FELIZ DIA DEL PADRE!!!!! This week was pretty good. We got to meet more members of our ward and that was cool. This morning there was an earthquake. at about 5:00 AM, I woke up suddenly to the creaking house and the vibrating bed. It only lasted a couple seconds. Everything was destroyed. Look at the photo of me and the rubble.... Tragedy. Just kidding, that is just the outside of our apartment. But there really was a pretty fuerte earthquake today. All the dogs and car alarms in the neighborhood went off. Elder Steeves and I were talking about how maybe there was a huge earthquake in Chile or something, but I guess not because nobody has said anything about it. My first thought was, "oh no where is my emergency backpack?!?!!" and then it was, "Why did I eat all the american food in my emergency backpack???" Well, anyhoo... We are currently puting into place the 5-5-5 plan in our newly upgraded ward. I think it will be really successful here because Elder Steeves and I both want to work hard and really put it into practice. Unfortunately we have families all over the place and we recently discovered that our area is like the size of Rhode Island due to the spread out houses and large and spacious fields (unintentional). So we are going to be burnin some calories this winter! Also, cumplí mi primer añito en la mision! That tie is my one year tie (Thanks Soph!). I am really loving the area I am in and the people especially. I am doing super good. Elder Steeves is so amazing! He lived on a ranch and has alll sorts of stories. He even knows how to make summer sausage, which is something that I would have never known about if I didn´t ask him what sort of fun activities ranchers do. We got bittersweet news this week... Two of our progressing investigators who were going to get baptized on the 20th are no longer going to be able to get baptized then. We thought they were getting married on the 19th, but really they are registering to have a court appearance or something so that they can get married on the 19th. This means probably sometime in July they will be baptized. But its all good. I also recieved a spot of bad news from Elder Larisch who was in my last apartment with me.... Sammy died. The dog. So... That is sad but she is in a better place. The funeral will be on Friday I guess (we found a member that wanted to take her so SHE will be performing a funeral service.... not the missionaries. Para que sepan...). Alrighty then. I think that is about it. I hope you are all doing good and lovin life. Elder Daybell