March 2nd, 1020 (Bonus Email)

Well, I've still got some time, so I'll write you some more.

On Sunday Elder collier and I were asked to visit the Primary and teach the chillins about the 4th Article of Faith. That was fun. Those kids are hilarious. When teaching them about the gift of the Holy Ghost I taught like thus: "Have any of you ever taken a drink from the ocean?" To that I got various answers, some of them being "yes." "That's gross!" I said. "Well, normally we don't drink from the ocean because it's filled with bacteriums and amoebas which are bad for you. Well, I was watching a show once where a person took some water from a lake and put it over a fire to boil it. When he did that he killed all of the bacteriums in it so he could drink it. Well, the Holy Ghost is just like that..." The kids had lots of comments and answers to questions. One of them rose his hand and said "[something, something, something, gibberish we didn't understand] GLAD TIDINGS OF GREAT JOY!" To that I said "Yeah! The Gospel does actually mean glad tidings of great joy. Good job!" I didn't know what else to say. And when Elder Collier asked them what the Holy Ghost was the three-year-old asian kid raised his hand and said "Hole. When you're stuck in a dark hole you need a ladder to get out." I guess he heard the word "holy" and made a connection with the word "hole." I don't know. Anyway that was a fun experience.
All of the missionaries currently serving in Chile are accounted for (there are some missionaries from my MTC district serving in Concepción, Chile.) The only conern we have is that President Sexton can't get hold of Elder Henriquez, one of the Assistants who just went home last transfer. We all hope he's okay. An 8.8 is a HUGE earthquake. I learned in my geology class that the earthquake scale goes up exponentially. 8.8 is pretty crazy.
Well, I should go now. Love you!