My backyard

This photoshoot happened on a whim when i woke up the day was a litlle cloudy but as i looked out the window i just stared at the peach blossoms and i knew i had to take a picture of the back yard. and I just felt inspired especially since it has been a while since i just took pictures because it inspired me, it was a feeling i really missed. (and actually no photoshop on this ones)

Family

So for father's day my mom's side of the family got together and it was pretty neat to chill with cousins. They all got together and went over to my grandfather's grave site. it was a neat experience and specially because we were together as family. (on the first picture is my mom, and her sister and her brothers, and her mom, there is one sister missing; the second is my grandfather's grave site; the third is a pic of some of my cousins; and the last is my cousin yoya and I)

Daniela's Birthday

Daniela turned 26 on June 26, hahaha, so she wanted to come over and spend the weekend with us. Mom made her a delicious cake and as you can see we only had an emergency candle so it was pretty funny to see the cake with a giant candle. Then the missionaries came over to drink mate with Carlos who is a big mate aficionado.

It's a small world after all

E. Nielson, Hansen, and Despain w/ their "trio" ties
Elder Hansen (left) Elder Nielson (Right)

So before i left a friend of mine told me that his brother got called to serve in Chile. He had no clue which mission, but what i found out is that he is serving in the Santiago West Mission which is the mission in which we live, and now is serving in our branch, it was so funny because I remembered him from when i used to go to Kino. He also lived in the ward next to ours, and lived like 1 minute away, from our house in AZ. Welcome to chile Elder Nielson. Small World!!

Young Women

cardmaking

Overnighter

Learning to lead the Hymns

The Melipilla Branch Young Women

Mother's day craft

As most people know, I got called to serve as the Young Women's President. It has been a lot of fun, but it also has been one of the toughest things i have had to face. It keeps me really busy, but those girls are awesome so it's worth it.

Young Women

cardmaking

Overnighter

Learning to lead the Hymns

The Melipilla Branch Young Women

Mother's day craft

As most people know, I got called to serve as the Young Women's President. It has been a lot of fun, but it also has been one of the toughest things i have had to face. It keeps me really busy, but those girls are awesome so it's worth it.

Daniela's wedding

I'm specially proud of this picture because I fixed it on photoshop

So it also happened in January. Trying to catch up you know. Well it happened 2 weeks after we arrived so it was crazy busy. It all truned out fine, we had fun at the reception, but we were all glad when it was done.

Our Arrival to our new house

Let me out Please!!!!




the fence is nice right?




our kitchen, with just suitcases

So again it was a bit of a shock because the house was really small in comparison with what we had which wasn't big, so imagine. We encountered a house with a giant gate and all the windows had what they call here "protecciones" or protections but i like to call it jail bars. If there were a fire at night you would seriously just die cause it's so hard to get out. But believe it or not 1 month after someone tried to break in they got the gate open and ripped one of the protections, but again we got to see the Lord's hand and they couldn't break in.

Welcome back to Chile

mami and daniela


don't look very happy I think I saw
something that was rather gross




The airport is very pretty and brand new




The wing!!
So everyone is on my case, about keeping in touch an whatnot so here it is. These are a few pictures of when we got back to Chile. This was on January 11, 2008!! yeay!! yeah right. So as we were arriving to Chile i was really excited cause i was thinking this was some sort of vacation, since we never went farther than california. Nana in the other hand wasn't, and the culture shock began as soon as we landed on the airport, cause around the airport is all farm land which , don't get me wrong it was beautiful, but alot different then the landscape of Phonix Sky Harbor. My dad, my brother, my aunt, and my cousin were waiting for us but the most expected was that Daniela was there, the awesome four Chileans were reunited. (That was really cheesy).