Not to be trunky or anything, but on Wednesday I’ll be a 6 month old missionary. I can’t believe how the time has flown. I feel like just yesterday I was getting off the plane and hoping to get a latina trainer (That’s a common wish amongst the gringas.) I feel like I’ve worked hard, but haven’t accomplished nearly enough, it’s a good thing I’ve got another year to work.
Wassup
Nely and Jonny finally came to church together. They say they’re going to finish the house soon and Jonny is working on it with pretty much all of his spare time, so hopefully he’ll be proposing to her soon so we can get the extensive legal marriage process started. Then comes baptism! 🙂
Victoria
So, I realized that I haven’t told you guys much about Tolhuaca, my new home for at least 6 weeks. It’s not actually a city it’s the part of the city Victoria, that’s south of the train tracks. Chile is prettymuch just small hills and flat land. so I’m pretty close to sea level I think. It’s really humid and rainy and cold. Or at least it is sometimes. Then we’ll have a random couple of days that are ridiculously hot, cuz apparently the ozone is thinner or something and the sun is a lot stronger here, and they tell me it’s supposed to get worse as we enter summer. Right now we’re in spring. Victoria is about 5 times bigger than Santa Juana, but my sector Tolhuaca is just about 2 times bigger. It takes about 35-40 minutes to cross it on foot. We have a couple of Elders that we share Tolhuaca with, and our district has 4 companionships, but one of those is the Zone leaders and they normally split up between the two districts in our zone. At the moment we shop mostly at this one store that is called acuenta. It’s like a smaller version of Lider which is Walmart in Chile. It’s cheap and they have prettymuch everything. Then we buy fruit from a fruit store, cuz there’s about fifty here in every city in chile and they’re really cheap. It costs under a dollar for about 2 lbs of bananas or kiwi.
Feriado!
So Holiday in Spanish is Feriado, and yesterday was Feriado for Chile so the Cyber was closed and I couldn’t write. I hope none of you freaked out. 🙂
Harold got baptized! I sadly couldn’t be there, but I’m excited to see him again some day in the celestial kingdom, or more soon if I get lucky.
Tolhuaca!!!
My new sector is FREAKING AWESOME!!! But seriously. I arrived here and the first person I talked to we have an appointment with. We have 2 investigators who are planning on getting married and then baptized and we’re hoping on doing it this cambio, we just have to wait for him to propose. He wants to make it super cute for her, but he’s got a reputation for taking his time so we’re trying to push him to hurry up and do it. Their names are Nely and Jonny. We also have a ton of inactive members here. Tolhuaca is a branch, but we have enough members in our boundaries to have a ward we just need to activate them all. JAJA! Wish us luck. Continue reading “Tolhuaca!!!”