FEB 17 - FEB 23 SEMANA 44 EN EL CAMPO MISIONAL CONCEPCION, CHILE

Hola, familia!

Today we went fishing with our friend Hector by the small river here in Coihueco, and are running with the time we have left! Its been a very productive P-Day, and we spent the morning cleaning the house and organizing ourselves for the week. (forgive the punctuation errors - Im using the notebook of our branch presidents wife and it has a Portugués keyboard) We dont do that enough!

This week we had a special visit in the mission from an Area Seventy, Elder Di Giovanni from Argentina, and learned from him during a special zone conference Friday morning and afternoon. I reaffirmed even more what I can do to become a better missionary.

Ok, have to fly my family!

A happy birthday to Aunt Carol, and to Sister Stokes! 

Mucho amor,

su Elder Trent Sellers

FEB 10 - FEB 16 SEMANA 43 EN EL CAMPO MISIONAL CONCEPCION, CHILE

¡Por fin! ¡Pude mandar fotos!

Today, instead of writing much about the last week, I want to explain these last few weeks through pictures!

I've sent a montón so you can see what we've done these last weeks, through cambios and all.

Things are well in Coihueco, y hay mucha obra que hacer. The youth in the rama call me Nicholas Cage haha.

¡FELICTACIONES! a mi mamá, for her retirement! Congratulations, momma!

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HAPPY VALENTINES DAY, especially to Cris. :)

¡Disfrúten las fotos!

Mucho amor,

su Elder Trent Sellers

Día de Sandía actividad con la rama!

 Hubo una competencia de sandía!

Hermana Isabel y sus dos hijos, Leo y Francisco

Hermana Isabel is recent convert and the only member in her family.

Hermana Erika, Hermano Juan, Martín, y Daniela

Hermana Erika is the only member in her family, recent convert, and Relief Society President.

What almost a year in the mission does to a pair of shoes

What almost a year in the mission does to a pair of shoes

Cambios entre Longavi y Coihueco

For my dad

Las hermanas de Coihueco, Hermana Taylor y Hermana Cáceres

¡El Tranque! (the dam)

Regreso de las barras de CALABAZA

Jason Moya y yo, tocando en P-Day

Jason is the son of a recent convert, Lorenzo, and ¡músico!

Seth Hanson, mi amigo from Tri-City, MI!

Hermana Libeny y Michael

Presidencia de la Rama Longavi

¡La familia Cárcamo!

Hermano Muñoz

La familia de Hermana Carmen y Teory

My companion Elder Moore also wishes Travis a good one! haha

¡Tocamos a Hermana Carmen una ranchera por su cumpleaños!

¡Los mariachis!

¡La presidencia de la Rama Longavi!

La familia Ramirez

FEB 3 - FEB 9 SEMANA 42 EN EL CAMPO MISIONAL CONCEPCION, CHILE

¡Hola, familia querida!

Hoy día tengo una falta enorme de tiempo, pero quiero desear a mi hermano 

¡UN FELIZ CUMPLEAÑOS Y DÍA FANTÁSTICO!

¡FELIZ CUMPLE, TRAVIS!

Coihueco is awesome, and there is so much to tell! Elder Moore and I have worked diligently this week, and that includes talking with just about every person that passes us by. Just about! You really get to know the town fast when you talk with everybody in the streets!

It's a beautiful, small, and unique pueblo, and even when the cambio was wild I am so excited to come to know the members and nonmembers here.

Right now, we're in the house of a converso, with Lorenzo and his family (we played music with his son Jason who isn't a member), and now we have to fly to the house! The Relief Society president has invited us to her house as part of a weekly Noche de Hogar that she holds with the elderes and hermanas, and we have that later to prepare for!

¡Que tengan una semana increíble, mi familia!

Mucho amor, mis amados,

Elder Trent Sellers

Sending Happy Birthday greetings to my brother Travis.

JAN 27 - FEB 2 SEMANA 41 EN EL CAMPO MISIONAL CONCEPCION, CHILE

I LEFT LONGAVI!

Saturday night I received a call from the zone leaders that there was to be un cambio de emergencia in Coihueco, and that a decision had been made to send me there in place of another elder! 

I was given the day Sunday to prepare myself, to say goodbye, and to pack bags, and the assistants passed by this morning to take me to my new sector!

¡Que loca la experiencia!

The mission has cambios next week, one week from now, but this happened and now I'm here in my third sector in the mission. I'm with Elder Moore, a great friend already from the mission and CANADIAN! The rama of Coihueco is small - the capilla is even smaller than that of Longavi - and I'm just getting to know it. I've been here for some 6 hours, and we've already filled the day with a paseo to a nearby dam by a beautiful lake - that's something else that I'll have to show in pictures when I am FINALLY able to send photos.

Coihueco, itself, is a small pueblo, in many ways smaller than Longavi but in others a little more developed. It lies to the west side of the cordillera (mountain range), being the closest sector in the mission to the Andes, I believe! It's a part of la zona Chillán Ñuble, so I'll being able to get to know Chillán, at last! There's Dunkin Donuts and McDonalds there!

Saying goodbye to Longavi was hard. I was really involved in the rama, and I love the people there so much. Never will I forget that special place! 

Even though it has been a bit of a shock, and even though I will miss them, I'm super excited and grateful for the opportunity to be here in my third sector already. That's not something I expected! It's going to be an amazing experience. There are us two missionaries here, and two awesome hermanas, and I know I will be getting to know the members and nonmembers super well in this small town. 

¡Saludos de Coihueco!

Mucho amor,

su Elder Trent Sellers