So, the mission is tough, but it’s worth it. There are so many things you have to learn, how to teach, how to create conversation with strangers out of thin air and relate it to something specific (The gospel), how to plan well and make good goals, how to organize activities, how to be selfless (That one’s hard), All the doctrine, a stronger testimony and much much more. Honestly I feel like I fail in many areas and I’m very much lacking as a missionary, but I’ve learned and continue to learn that God is perfect and that Jesus Christ paid the price for my imperfections, and they literally love me unconditionally no matter how many times I mess up (It’s a lot) they just help me keep chugging along and learning from my mistakes.
Locura!
I really wanna write in spanish which is kind of hilarious cuz I still speak English way too much. It’s kind of hard for me to form my sentences right though. My grammar was bad before the mission but it’s even worse now. 🙂
HOLA!
People asked me for more info about chile and such so here’s a little bit about that. In Chile we use pesos and about 700 pesos is the same as a dollar. Every month they put 107,000 pesos in my account so I can buy food and personal things and stuff for the house and whatnot. (It varies for different missions cuz they try to give us what we need so that we can live comfortably but not like ridiculously rich or anything) Our House rent is about 200,000 pesos at the moment, but we’re currently looking for a new place to live cuz our house here in victoria is pretty darn ghetto and it’s covered in mold and such so we’re having a house hunt this week. Taxi’s cost about a dollar and 30 cents to go anywhere in Victoria. The people here are pretty darn nice, but they also disappear pretty much every weekend to the country. I’m not sure what they all do, but anytime somebody isn’t going to be home (Usually on the weekends including Sunday) it’s because they’re going to the country. It sounds like it’s the codeword for a party house or something cuz so many people go there. HAHA! Chileans are sweet and the majority of the members when they feed us give us way too much food, so I’ve actually been trying to gain a little bit of weight so that I can eat all of it. At the moment it’s really hard to eat all of the food. 🙂
Dogs
The dogs in Chile are super crazy. The other day one of them bit my companion luckily it didn’t even get through her tights, but it did startle us so I threatened it with a rock. That’s what we do here if there’s a threatening dog. You pretend to skip a rock towards it usually in a crouched position and that scares them away. It’s kind of funny cuz we’ve also been showering in a bucket. Our shower has a few problems, but it’s run by gas and we have to buy the gas with cash sadly we ran out of cash so we couldn’t buy any for a couple weeks and we’ve been heating up water in the water heater we have for making tea and hot chocolate and stuff and we’ve been putting it in a bucket. It’s kind of nice cuz I now feel slightly more humble and I now understand even better the importance of being smart with money. 🙂