~Mlazgar Missionary Moments~: WOW...almost 5 months. Here is a catch up entry that includes some 50th Celebration clips and AJ's email from November 7th.

Let's start with some clips AJ sent from his perspective at the

50 Year Celebration...

Cultural Dance (25seconds long)

Cultural Dance 2 (16 seconds long)

Cultural Dance 3 (22 seconds long)

Cultural Dance 4 (22 seconds long)

Now a few still pictures from the celebration...

OKAY...NOW...

I'm just going to start by posting AJ's email as he sends them each week. I will add pictures as I have time. This email was from November 7th.

alright where do i even begin with this week. i hope that ill be able to remember it all to be able to tell you guys. but here we go.

E. Mlazgar and E. Leavitt on Pday

so elder leavitt and i did divisions again this week so that he could make my divisions paper which has our goals to get better for the next change. so monday after we went to the mall together, we just spilt up and elder leavitt came back to my sector monday night. and then we were together monday and tuesday and then switched back wednesday morning. and it was a ton of fun and we had so much success. cuz tuesday we taught 7 lessons which is the most by far that i have taught in one day. so we just started the week of so good. then wednesday is when the week started getting weird. cuz wednesday afternoon we got a call from one of the members in the ward. and he told us that a lady had died in our ward and that they were gonna have a funeral that night for her. but the weird part is that i didnt even know that she was sick. and i remember talking with her a week and a half earlier in church. and she was only 40 years old. so it just showed how quickly you can go cuz i definitely not expect her to die. but that day was slow cuz we had to be at the church at 6 to set up everything and then we had to be there the whole time saying hi to people. and then at 9 the funeral started and it was pretty sad but it was also really good, cuz there were a couple non members there and the bishop and stake president both talked about the plan of salvation and how its ok that she is gone cuz we know that we will see her again. so that was kinda cool. but the weird part of it all too was that i helped carry her casket in when they got there to the church. and its the first time ive ever had to do that. so a different experience.

AJ and E. Sosa

then thursday we had a meeting with president king in the morning. but i was more interested the whole time in after, cuz magali was going to have her interview and i was really nervous about that. but she passed and president said that she has a strong faith and is going to be a wonderful member. so that made me happy to hear and it relieved some of the pressure.....for the moment. then thursday night the office called us and told us that we had to be in maipu at 8 in the morning to do the stuff for elder sosa´s visa. so we had to get up so early to be there on time. and we spent all day standing in lines and walking through the middle of santiago to get his paperwork done. so that just drained our time and then basically all we were able to do all day was at the very end when we went to visit jose and magali to plan the baptism. and it surprised me when we talked about who would baptize her, cuz i thought that he would do it and thats what i suggested. but they both wanted me to do it. and that really made me more happy that they would want for me to be the one to baptize her.

saturday we had another meeting that we had to be to early in the morning. and president had told me that we were going to have an apostle, but i was disappointed when we got there and there wasnt an apostle, it was just steven snow from the presidency of the 70, which is still someone really good but he´s not an apostle. but the cool thing about the whole meeting is that half of it was in spanish. and when someone talked in english, there was a traslator there to turn it to spanish. but when it was in spanish, elder leavitt and i had to translate it to english for the senior couple that was sitting right in front of us. and i never knew how hard it is to translate til i had to do that. cuz you have to listen in spanish, think about what is said, then turn it to english and say that, all at the same time. and its continuous so you dont have time to stop and think. cuz if we had missed something, the senior couple wouldnt have understood what was being said. so that was fun and good experience for something in the future.

Jose and Magali

Melipilla convert (Natalia)

then sunday was the big day of the baptism. and it was literally one of the longest days of the mission so far, but also one of the most satisfying. the craziness started during church, cuz one of my converts from melipilla, natalia, came to see me. (and yes she is the one in the picture that i sent with this) but it was really good to see her and talk to her and see how much she has changed. cuz i remember that first night that we talked to her and i thought she had no clue about anything in life and was crazy. but also during church i had to finish getting everything together for the baptism, like the clothes, who was going to give talks and all that. so it was really stressful. then around 630 we walked over to the other church building for the baptism (cuz our building doesnt have a baptism font) and we set everything up and then waited for everyone to start showing up. and i hadnt been so nervous in a long time. with not knowing how many people were going to show up, having to make sure that i was going to say the words right since i was the one baptizing her, and just making sure that it would be a day that she remembered.

Before the baptism

basically i couldnt sit still between 645 til after we had actually done the baptism. but the cool thing was i was nervous until we entered the water, and all of a sudden i was just calm and it was so peaceful. and as i said the words, my mind was so clear and i felt like my spanish was perfect it was awesome. and as i did it and as we were standing there in the water a little after, i was just so happy and i could see in her face how happy she was too. its something that i will definitely never forget. i definitely slept better last night than just about any night in a long time. it was just a great night.

well i hope that you are all enjoying the nice weather wherever you may be at, cuz here its absolutely terrible with the heat and i cant imagine what its going to be like in the middle of the summer. but ill have to deal with it. take care and have a good week.

this link is to the article of the celebration that we had, if you havent seen anything from that yet http://lds.org/church/news/chile-celebrates-50-years-of-missionary-work?lang=eng

HERE ARE SOME MORE PICTURES FROM THE 50 YEAR CELEBRATION>>