WOW! I have so much to tell you and so little
time! Thanks for all of your letters this week! It was fun to hear from
everyone. Okay so I guess I’ll start from the beginning.
First I took a 5 hour bus
ride to Temuco. It was horrible. I was sick the whole time. i took Dramamine
but I guess I just don{t react to that any more. golly. So I mainly slept or
tried to. When I arrived I met my new companion, hermana Horan. She’s super
awesome and laughs all the time so she’s super fun to be around and we get
along just great. We took a 40 min bus ride to Picrtufquen and here I am! It’s
so darling. Every house is like one of those houses that people are always
looking to take pictures in front of, like rustic and colorful. I love it love
it love! Our house is laughable not as colorful but still cute. We walk down
like this hallway thing to go to some backyard and then up the stairs. The
other sisters hate it but I think it{s fun. It’s like a treehouse. (kind
of-really it’s just upstairs but whatever) plus it comes complete with a dog
and a baby. We have some gym thing downstairs. Looks a little deserted but I
hear there are people that use it. And
we just got 2 new sisters for this area so they just squeezed them in with us.
Our bunk beds have about 18 inches in between them. lol. But it’s a lot of fun.
We workout and dance in our 1 foot space each in the morning.
Our sector is really big
but it covers one branch. It has about the same assistance that our ward in la
marina covered. But we’ve just got to get the priesthood!! We have 6
missionaries. 4 hermanas and 2 elders. I love everyone in the ward so far. There
are a few leaving on missions soon so that’s really fun. Our yw president is
19, her mom is the RS president and the primary president is also the seminary
teacher. There’s lots of multiple calling people.
Whew okay so now for the
18th!!! Super fun we spent the day with our adorable family.... wait for it...
our investigator.. that is.... GETTING BAPTISED on Saturday!!!!!! His wife got baptized
a few months back and he just needed a little more time but we’ve got him
now! They’re super adorable. Young and have a little 2 year old. They are super
great with the missionaries and already act like members making sure we have
food and everything. So we went to the parade I told you about. Really it was
just all of the school kids walking in a line in their uniforms. They didn’t
look very happy about it. Followed by a few fireman and a line of taxis. We ate
lots of empanadas which I really don’t think are that good at all but oh well.
And then went to the rodeo! The rodeo was fun! It was just like ours except
that at the end of the catch the pig game they said “and now your dad can come
over and get it” they just threw it in a bag and that was the prize. They did
it again with the moms. “You’ll have dinner tomorrow!!!” lol. Just throw the
pig in a bag and there you go. We didn’t work that night but instead went
inside early to do lesson plans.
The next day was crazy. Everything.
EVERYTHING was closed and there wasn’t a soul on the street. We didn’t really
get in any houses. But we visited a converso reciente who gave us a ton of Chilean
food. Like more empanadas, shishkabobs, and mote with huesos. This was right
after our lunch that we made ourselves... it wasn’t very good we were scraping
for things in the house but somehow managed to eat a ton. Later that day we saw
our Family Fray in the street and they gave us a sandwich. Then we went to a
FHE where we ate more empanadas and more cookie things which also aren’t very
good....
The next day we spent the
entire day at the church for the 18th activity there. Super fun! I learned the
cueca which is super fun to do. We had a competition. I think I would’ve won
but they didn’t want a gringa to show them up so...
We also played lots of games
like the jump sack game (I totally won) and relays then did lots of karaoke and
more dancing in the night. They somehow turned on cotton eye joe and were just
amazed at the 3 gringos (me, hermana horan, elder ricks) that just started
doing it. They loved it. lol. Ate some more empanadas and lunch and that was
that.
LOVE YOU
ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hermana VandeMerwe
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