Hello dearest everyone, 

Due to the fact that this internet is very slow and that I spent almost all my P-day deep cleaning our house, my p-day is about to end and I (again) don`t have much time.  our house had (clearly) not received a good deep-cleaning for quite awhile, so my poor companion had to wait for me as i scrubbed the floors, the cielings (they had mold), and various other surfaces as well as throw out about threee huge sacks of trash of all the unecessary and gross things in the house.  i promised her that I was only going to do this once, and that all the rest of our P-days would be much more fun. 

This week, we found a less-active who hasn`t been to church in QUITE a few years (she`s 76 or something like that) but she invited us in and we had the privilege to listen to her life story.  It was asombrosa.  She had no fornal education, but got married very early in life and had children soon after.  her husband turned out to be a horrible person who beat her everyday and did not help her with anything.  To provide for her children, she started a small store out of her house (that`s very common around here), and would stay up until the wee hours of the morning making sweets and cookies and knitting and crochetting hats and socks and other things.  Well her little store started to grow and grow and she was able to expand until she, at one point, owned three houses and two cars and her "little store" was a huge business where everyone stopped by.  let me just tell you, you have to have a LOT of money here in chile to have three houses and two cars.  Well she just kept working and working, and one day decided that she wanted to live in a house a bit smaller, so she sold her three houses, two cars and her business and came to live in a quiet little house in our sector.  a few months later, she suffered some sort of attack that left the muscles in her face grotesquely mishapen and her arm and leg paralyzed.  For some strange reason that i didn`t really understand, her insurance didn`t cover it, so she used her entire fortune that she had gained to pay for the medical treatments, which saved her life and her face.  Now she lives in a rather barren little house and sells kindling which she chops herself, but she says she is so grateful to God for saving her and giving her the life and the will to keep on working.  It was an incredible testimony to me of hard work and i resolved then and there to enjoy the work that we are given and to ALWAYS find the way to be self sufficient.  Anyway, i don`t have more time, but I love you all!!!

Pictures to follow next week!