Second of all, all I have to say is I got incredibly lucky to be called to a Spanish speaking country. I read the emails from my cousin who is in Poland and whenever she writes a word in Polish, it looks like she smashed her head against the keyboard. Luckily, she is very intelligent, but with the intelligence that I have, I feel very blessed that I´m learning Spanish where, if I don´t know a word, I can say the word in English in a Spanish accent and about 35% of the time, they can guess what I´m trying to say. UNFORTUNATELY, Chilenos do not speak Spanish and I find out every day that a word or phrase that I thought was actually Spanish is actually only used in Chile. For example, if you want to say that we´re going to all put in a bit of money to buy something, you´ll say: hagamos una vaca. Which literally means: we make a cow.
What is with the meat here? Anyway, nada que ver.
What is with the meat here? Anyway, nada que ver.
Also, Catalina is going to be baptized this coming week!! She is one of the most prepared people I´ve ever taught on my mission. She truly recognizes what this decision means and she says that the Gospel of Jesus Christ has completely changed her perspective of life and, even though she has to leave some things behind, she is completely ready to do it. We left her a Liahona to read one talk, and she read the whole thing, and then we left her True to the Faith to read one page and she read the whole thing as well, and she´s reading the Book of Mormon every day. I have loved teaching her because it is the first time I´ve truly taught someone my own age. I have loved every single person I´ve taught, but with her it´s like teaching a friend that I could have met in school or something. She says that in a year after her baptism, she´s going to come visit my companion and I in California and we can all go through the temple together for the first time. That would be incredible. She´s the first member in her family, her mom is very supportive because she has seen a huge change in her daughter and is really happy that her daughter is so much happier, but her dad thinks us missionaries are spies from the United States. Yay!! I´ve always wanted to be a spy.
What with the new years, there are, occasionally, more inebriated people in the streets than normal. One drunk man stopped us in the street and told us he knew we were people of God and wanted to change his life and stop drinking. Unfortunately his other drunk friends started making fun of him so he felt too embarrassed to give us his direction and his name, but my companion and I decided we´re going to find him anyway. Somehow. Yay!!!
I love seeing the change in people and their lives when they discover the hope that exists in the gospel of Jesus Christ. This week we also found a single mother of four children whose husband just left her right after Christmas. The youngest of her kids is ten months old. We found her about two days after her husband left, and now we pass by almost every day. She started crying in the first lesson and told us that we were an answer to a prayer that she hadn´t even had the courage to say. Now we´re visiting her family almost every day and her two oldest daughters are going to our piano class.
I love you all and I hope you all had a wonderful new years, the attached picture is my obligatory end of the world picture that I had to take. Bakan cierto?
I love you all!! Also, PS, I cut all of my hair off, it´s really short now. Don´t be mad mom, I shower much more quickly now and it will all grow back before I come home. Also it´s not TOO SHORT. Also PUnta Arenas is impossible with long hair. It is summer and right now it´s raining and hailing. Yay! Love you all!!!
There is nothing more rewarding than serving the Lord!
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