California Thunderstorm - Palm tree caught fee from Lightning

Dear Family and friends, What is the Sun?

I’m just kidding, but Washington is entering into months where we will hardly see the sun for weeks at a time!  I will miss the sunshine!  This week went really well,.  Sometimes we get so soaked it becomes funny.

It is really weird for me to be training because I see my companion do so many of the same things I used to do. I am really enjoying the experience.   I am learning more about myself and also seeing the ways I have changed. My mission is going by too fast, 9 months left.  It has gone by in a blink and it still blows my mind as how much I have changed.  I love the gospel and love sharing it. I’m grateful for the habits that I have developed.  I’m grateful for the parents I have who started me off on the right track, and are still standing by me. I love you.

Elder Chacon  

Parkland - October 17, 2016

Dear family & friends,

I have had another good week here in the Wa-Tac.  We have had some storms but not as bad as they thought they were going to be. They predicted 50mph winds up to 80 mph gusts, but it was not that bad.  I really love Washington and I'm going to miss it a lot.  I like how they have seasons, but don’t love all the rain.  I feel like my mission is going by too fast. I hit 15 months this week!  By the end of this transfer, I will have spent a quarter of my mission in Parkland. I have good walking legs.  I definitely am ready for a car for the upcoming winter.

This week I was studying in Alma 32 the famous chapter, but I learned something new this time. It starts off by Alma teaching some people and the poor come to him and he stops teaching and turns towards the poor and teaches them. I have served most of my missions in areas that are less affluent, but I have seen where love really comes from. It’s been a learning experience to see who wants Gods help and who wants to help themselves. I believe that it is an important element in our lives to seek help from god and not from ourselves. I personally have been humbled. I know that I am nothing without Jesus Christ.  I know that this is his gospel and I want to live so I can stand shoulder to shoulder with Christ. 

I love you, family. I’m going to Red Robin today and I haven’t been since Havasu and I’m super excited, but I have a problem, I don’t know who will go half burger half salad with me. 

Until next week,

Elder Chacon    

Still in Parkland- Training

Its been a busy week here in the wa-tac. I am training a new missionary from utah. He is a cowboy, but a cool one. I see a lot in him what i was like in the beginning of my mission. We have been going hard, but have had a lot of meetings. I love the work and love the people. The mission is going by really fast. 

10-11-2016  (This letter came late in the evening the day after his normal P-Day... we were happy to see it!)