Hola Familia!!!
I can't believe it has already been 1 month!!! That's
crazy!!! It is flying by. This was by far the best week yet on the mission. I
feel like so much happened!
Last pday was a blast. Hna. K and I have the same skirt and
shoes so we decided to match on pday, Hna. Jacobson joined in too. We just did
the usual, the grocery store and the post office and food and just walked
around Santiago. The post office lady scares me to death. I have been twice and
she reminds me of the slug lady in monsters inc and she wears these big purple
glasses and wont slow down when i ask her to speak slower. I'm surprised I haven't had a heart attack in there yet. Also we got to go to the temple and I think it was the most spiritual session I have ever done. I loved it and it is
so cool to just be in a room full of missionaries!!!
The Copa America is still going on here and on Wednesday Chile beat Uruguay. Sorry dad but Chile es el mejor pais en el mundo. that
probably wan't good Spanish but whatever. The Uruguay bus drove by our window
Wednesday afternoon and was surrounded by a police escort and all the Chileans
were just screaming. It was cool to watch them drive by. Chile also beat Peru
yesterday so they are in the finals on Saturday!!! We are trying to convince Preisdente to let us watch!!! He's a softie so we can do it. Viva Chile!!!
Hermana Jacobson has a tendency to run away from Hermana K and I and she had her hood on running to exercise the other day and there are
no speed limits here and she ran into the road and literally almost got hit by
a car. It scared me to death. Also Hermana K ran into a biker on the bike path. He skidded and almost fell off his bike and he started yelling at her. I couldn't stop laughing.
On Wednesday our teacher, Hno Huerta had his birthday so we
threw a little party for him and we had everyone sing in the cafeteria and
stuff. He loved it!
The Dolls also had their anniversary this week so our
district had everyone sing at breakfast and then we gave them a card and 39
pesos for 39 years. 39 pesos is like a few cents. Maybe not even a cent but it
was fun.
We got a new teacher 2 weeks ago and he is the coolest
person I have ever met. his name is Hno Pino. He makes class so much fun but
also teaches the best Book of Mormon lessons and gives the best feedback. The
other day he taught us how to beat-box and then yesterday he brought his ukulele
and we were singing all the american pop songs. He played Blank Space and All About That Bass and I thought about you Jilly Bean!!! He also turned down
playing for the Chilean national soccer team to serve his mission. Our district
loves him and hopefully we get to keep him for our last 2 weeks.
We had a prank war with district 9 this week and it was so
much fun. They left today for the field so we were sad to see them go. They
were the missionaries I was closest to here.
The past few days we have had locals join us for soccer in
the morning. This cute little boy Nels played with us on Friday and it was so
fun. Today we got 2 girls to join. they were 14 and 15 and were skipping school
haha. I don't blame them...to be honest I would probably love to skip out of
being in the classroom here at times. I am tired of starring at white
walls.
On Friday night I woke myself up because I was sleep talking
and I was teaching a lesson!! That was super weird. I don't remember what
language it was in but we can just pretend Spanish.
Hermana Doll thinks my name is Hermana Feldman so my comps
and I are always laughing about that. Also I have a serious laughing problem. The other day the 3 latinas were practicing teaching us and all 6 of us were in
this tiny room. My comps and I were squished on this mini couch and during the
opening prayer I lost it. I felt so bad because then Hna K started laughing
and the latinas couldn't understand that we weren't laughing at them. I should
probably work on that.
Sunday was wonderful as usual. We watched 2 devotionals by Elder Holland. I gave the prayer in sacrament meeting and Hna K gave a talk. She killed it. She even shared an experience she hadn't written down and she
did so great. I was so proud of her because she has had a little bit of a
harder time with Spanish. It is so cool to see The Lord working on us as
missionaries and I really see it in her with the language. Sunday night the
mission president from Rancagua came and talked to us. They shared more like
the logistics of serving in Chile which was really nice.
We get a new set of investigators this week so hopefully we
can continue to improve.
Just wanted to share a quick thought with you before I have
to go! In Alma when the Anti Nephi Lehis buried their weapons they took a knee
before the Lamanites came to kill them. As a district we talked about the
importance of always being examples and burying our various weapons, Whatever
they might be. I would just encourage all of you to find one thing you can
improve on whether it be a bad habit or whatever and bury it!!! Then be an
example to those around you!
Love you all so much!!!
She looks so happy and radiant!
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