Hello dearest everyone, 

First and foremost, a most HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY birthday to my wonderful little smoochie poo Emma Louise tomorrow! I love you Emma!!

Well about 10:30ish Tuesday night, we got a call from our zone leaders.  Well actually they called the two other Hermanas with whom we are living because we didn´t have a cellphone as we had just opened our sector.  I think I might have forgotten to mention that my companion and I are living with another companionship of Hermanas.  Hermana Teeples from Arizona and Hermana Rodriquez from Peru.  I quite enjoy it although the house was REALLY not made for four people and we are sleeping in a room that was very recently a bathroom and we didn´t have beds until a couple days ago.  Apparently an alcoholic lived in the house before too and painted every available surface.  I love it.  Truly I do.  I´m going to miss the mission so much.  ANYWAY, our zone leaders called us Tuesday night and asked us if we had heard about the tsunami warning.  Well we had not since we are completely out of the loop with the news, and the elder, not wanting to scare us told us, "Well there isn´t one, but if you could all prepare emergency backpacks with clothes, food and water, that would be wonderful."  WELL, bien... So we started preparing the backpacks until Hermana Rodriquez said, wait a second.... isn´t it April 1st?  Isn´t that a holiday of jokes in the United States?  This has to be an April Fool´s Day joke.  So we called the elders to tell them HAHA BUT YOU CAN´T FOOL US, until they told us that it wasn´t a joke and actually the tsunami was predicted to arrive in the middle of the night and would come up until one block below from our house and that they really thought it better if we went and slept with the other hermanas in Patagonia for the night.  SO, much sooner than I thought I would, I returned to my lovely sector of Patagonia and all eight hermanas in Punta Arenas slept in the little apartment where I had just lived for five months.  Later we found out that the tsunami was going to be a repercussion from huge earthquakes in the North of Chile.  We are praying for these people, who apparently are still expecting more earthquakes, but we are all fine down here in Punta Arenas.  

Well, this week we have also found a lot of wonderful people and families, which I will have to recount to you all the next week.  But also, Conference was absolutely wonderful. The talks are becoming much more direct.  That means we should all start paying a bit more attention.  We are incredibly lucky to live in an age with living prophets and apostles.  I know they are chosen of God to give us His counsel for our days.  

I love you all!!! 

One day I´m going to send a billion pictures because there are just too many.