Happy New Year!

Wow things have been awesome in Villagarcia! This week has been one of our slower weeks for sure because of bad weather and Holidays but It has seriously flown by! The people here all get off work and stay inside and party for ALL the Holidays so with lots of rain, the streets have been empty and no one wants to meet. But it has been alright because we have been working as hard as we can and I know that as long as I we do that we will be blessed! We got to meet with our Venezuelan familia this week and they are the biggest blessing. They are the nicest people you will ever meet, but it seriously kills me inside when they dont keep commitments or do things like reading and praying to grow their faith. It is so hard because we know it works, and we want nothing more than for our investigators to know that! We also taught MariaJesus way up in the pueblos and we love her to death. She is a huge animal person, and it was kind of hard to focus on the lesson because there were 20 cats in the room, and a dog. haha we ended up asking her how many animals she has, and she said she has 26 in total. Thats our highest cat per investigator ratio yet! And then Sunday we only had about 7 members at church again, but we had an investigator come!! And the best part is that elder Barlow and I taught about the Book of Mormon for the second hour and the spirit was there so strong! His name is Hector and he is a real cool guy. We will be working with him more this week for sure. We also celebrated the New Year a couple of days ago during our MedioDia time, and they have a tradition here that you have to shove a grape in your mouth for every second of the last twelve seconds of the year as like the "last grapes" of that year. And thinking back on this last year thats how fast this whole year seemed to go by. I am really looking forward to this New Year as a missionary and I am so glad I get to spend it serving Jesus Christ!

I love this work! Alright, till next week!

Con Amor!

-Elder Chandler  
True Happiness is found in serving others

Thank you SO much for writing! Ill have to send pictures next week, because the ipad isnt working very well. And send lots of pictures! Love you guys! 

My ipad isnt working so I had to write before I read the emails which is really hard. Oh and me to! It will be the best thing he has ever done! sorry, i have to go. I love you! 

And thanks for the reminder of Livvys birthday!