Hna. Peña finished her mission yesterday and she’ll be returning home tomorrow. 🙁 It makes me a little sad and a little trunky, but as they say in “Meet the Robinsons” Keep moving forward. As you can see from the title this week we have cambios and they called us Saturday night after we returned home from the baptism. We knew that Hna. Peña was finishing her mission so it was pretty obvious that I would be staying in Santa Juana, or at least that’s what we thought, but then they told us that I’ll be changing sectors as the senior companion in Tolhuaca. I leave tomorrow and my new companion is a gringa from Saratoga Springs her name is Hna. Fritcher, she has 1 less cambio than me. I cried a little bit (a lot a bit) on Sunday when I had to bear my testimony and say goodbye to everybody. Continue reading “Cambios!!!”
Hurrah for Israel
Holahola!
This week was a little crazy. Monday the 11th of September right after my last email our whole zone went to play paintball together. I gotta say I was a little nervous because it was my first time, but it was really fun and I did really well. I only got hit once and it was right at the end. somebody shot me in the hair. I say the hair because it literally didn’t touch me at all it just touched my hair and exploded leaving me a little bit blonder than normal. 🙂 Monday of this week was the 18th of September and everybody had the Chilean flag put up in their yards and we got to eat some barbeque with Fabiola and Yoan a recent convert couple and their son Benjamin. They are literally the cutest family and it was a ton of fun. They finished off our day by taking us to a small river where we threw rocks into a stream, ate some cookies (even though we were over stuffed), and explored an abandoned schoolhouse with a random painting of a creepy clown inside. It was pretty great.
Liven la Vida Loca
Holahola!
This week was not the most exciting, but I have a few things to tell you guys about. Friday of the last week I think, I don’t remember for sure, but I’m pretty sure I didn’t tell you guys about it, we had a mission activity for the whole branch, and we invited everybody to bring a food with an ingredient from the earth. We then had a competition with judges who decided which was the best, but here comes the best (spiritual) part.
Bautisando Santa Juana!
I love you all a ton! Sorry because again I don’t have a lot of time to write. Next week I think I’ll print your personal emails and respond the following week. Also because I’m sure that I’ll forget to tell you next week. I won’t be writing you guys Monday the 18th because it’s the independance day of Chile and the library will be closed, but I will write on Wednesday the 20th instead. It’s really weird to write in English and it gets harder and harder every week because I’ve grown so accustomed to Spanish. 🙂 Nobody came to church again yesterday, but something interesting happened to make me feel better. We were in the sacrament meeting and they had just blessed the bread when I had a coughing fit and I left the room to avoid disturbing everybody. After giving the bread to everybody in the room Hno. Peña (Our branch mission leader) with Hna. Peña came to the door of the bathroom and knocked on the door so when I opened it I was a little surprised but I got to partake of the sacrament from the bathroom. It was kind of funny, cuz I’m pretty sure that would never happen in a ward, but it was pretty cool. #blessingsofabranch 🙂