Email received on September 22, 2014

This is in the house of the familia Jerez. They're one of the coolest families in the branch, and on the 18th, we went over to their house and made empanadas. Everyone always told me how good they were, but I didn't expect them to be this good. I'm gonna come back to the states and make empanadas for everyone and you're going to love me even more. 

Let me just show you how gorgeous Chile is. I took this literally 6 feet from the front door of our house. When it's a cloudy day like this, the clouds spill out from over the top of the mountains, and it looks amazing, as you can see.

Here's my big letter that you will hopefully enjoy. A lot happened this week, and I'll send pictures to explain everything!

Here's a caballero on a really pretty horse.

And here's a little caballero sitting with a big caballero.

Here's a fraction of all the caballeros that came out from the campo for the 18th.

And here's me, elder munoz, elder valdivia, monica, her two kids, the taxi driver, and my companion in one little taxi on the way home from the Jerez house last night while it was raining! I don't know how we all fit, but it was pretty crazy!

Here's me and my companion with Memo Lira at the branch barbecue that lasted like 12 hours. 

Here's some of the crazy spurs they use to keep their animals under control!

Here's some pictures from the big parade thing. Here's some oxen pulling a cart. And some caballeros looking cool.

This is about one third of the meat we grilled on Saturday. It was sooooo good.

I'm doing good. There was a whole bunch of drunk old guys the past few days because of the whole 4 day party thing. They all asked me if I'm from Russia or the states, and they laugh a lot, and smell bad, but that should be over for the most part!

Nancagua is relatively small, you can look up everything on the internet, because I have no idea. We're pushed up right against some mountains. Everyone has fences around their property, so we have to yell alo! instead of knocking on their gate. 

Love,

     Elder Hamilton