Blacker, Chandler

Hello all!  Hope you're all well! It's been two weeks since I wrote last and we had transfers!  I arrived at my last area (the evil neighborhood with 38 false churches) in the middle of the last transfer and I've already left!  Well... sorta.  I got moved just across the bridge to an area that already had hermanas.  My new comp and I split their area in half and we took the half closer to the bridge.  We are now working in this new area that we just created (Rama 2) AND my old area across the bridge (ita paso) AND that one town an hour away where I described so many miracles in my last email (coronel bogado).  We have 3 areas!  The craziest part is that we are trying to close down the ita paso branch, but open up the coronel bogado branch, while opening up a new area in the rama 2 branch.  We still don't have many people to teach but we're working on it! My new comp is amazing.  His name is Elder Linton.  We are just totally on the ...

Hello everyone! Hope that all are well! Ever since the office, I've been getting progressively worse at sending emails :( Sorry  It's really been a crazy ride. I've only written one email since I've gotten here. But I don't think I've ever seen an area with more problems. It is almost impossible to get anybody to go to church. Everyone is this town is either drunk, breaking the law of chastity, a robber, or only 7 years old. It's bad. Shocking fact... we are serving in one of the smallest towns in the mission. We work in an area of 3 blocks by 10 blocks, which is not a lot. In this tiny 3 x 10 block town... there are 39 churches.   38 of these churches teach that all churches are of God and that we can do whatever we want if we just pray. The worst part is that our Church is in the smallest ugliest looking building in town. It's a little hard to say to the people, "Hey! We know that there's a beautiful, giant 3 story church building just around ...