Jordan Steinagel's Mission: December 2009

We went to the mission office here in Ukraine yesterday to wait for Jordan's Christmas call, as requested, and we had a nice visit with Addison and Kenz and their families via skype while we waited. We finally went home when nothing happened, and then just as we were going to bed Jordan called us on our cell phone at midnight. We had a nice visit, though most of the time he kept saying, "What?" It sounded like there were a lot of others using the phones in the telephone center where he was, and we could hear them almost as well as we could hear him.

Here's an excerpt from Jordan's December 21st letter:

Hey guys. Well it's another Pday and the mission's goin good. Elder Pedroche and I fasted from lunch on Saturday until lunch on Sunday because we decided we need a miracle. The work in this sector has been progressing really slow, so that's why we fasted. It was cool because we didn't have to walk much on Saturday because we did all teaching. Then, on Sunday we brought two inactive members to church with us. One hasn't been to church for 8 years and the other for 20. It was way awesome because it was a Christmas program and they said they enjoyed it. Also all the members in our ward really just accepted them in and greeted them and stuff. So that was a miracle. Then last night we had a family night with a family who are partially active and we had a pretty good lesson about the birth of Christ and then we made rootbeer floats, which they really enjoyed. Following that we went and taught a lesson about the Book of Mormon and the restoration to 3 investigators. It was nice because they were all from Peru, so it was a lot easier to understand them than the Chilenos, and I was able to teach more of the lesson instead of Elder Pedroche doing almost all of it. We gave them a Book of Mormon at the end and they said they would read it, so we're stoked. So pretty much ever since we started our fast, the work has been going a lot better. Hopefully we'll end up baptizing these investigators. We haven't had any baptisms here in this sector for a while, so I'm hoping we can change that soon.

Hey, wanna know what's cool? I've been a missionary for about 4 months now. It's starting to go fast. Wanna know another cool thing? The other day, Elder Pedroche and I did service at a house and dug holes and trenches for this lady's plants in her backyard and guess what? I got to use a steel bar. I hadn't used one of those in about a year and a half, but I used one and it felt pretty good. I've missed that thing, heheh.

I still haven't gotten my Christmas package yet, but I might be getting it this Wednesday when our mail comes.

Ok, here's the address for our pension if you wanna look it up on google earth:
Julieta 3935 Pedro Aguirre cerda Santiago Chile

(End of excerpt)

We tried the above address, and it indicates a house right off a main boulevard not far from downtown Santiago.