This weeks been an interesting one! I got
to travel to the mission home this week with the rest of the new
missionaries for the Conferencia de Nuevos Misioneros (new missionary conference). The conference
was SOOOOOO good! Super inspiring, super informative, super helpful,
super fun!! Especially because I got to see all the sisters from my
district in the MTC as well as the 3 sisters from the advanced MTC
district, Hermanas Call, Oldroyd, and Holland. Hermana Call started
training the week I got to Chile, Hermana Oldroyd started training the
week of conference! How crazy is that!! I can´t remeber which one of
them said it, but somebody was telling me,¨You´re next!¨ ... scary
thought! Another reason it was super awesome is because they divided the
conference into two, one for native Spanish speakers and the other for
us gringos, so it was a whole TWO days of speaking English! It was like
better than Christmas! ;) Seriously though, the conference was SOOOOO
good! I absolutely loved hearing from and being taught by the President
and his wife, and the AP's (Assistants to the President) . They´re so awesome and helpful! OH! and
Hermana Humphrey told a group of us sisters to write home and tell our
parents ¨Thank you, thank you, thank you for raising such wonderfully
prepared children!¨ She is the cutest! I just love her!
The funny/ironic thing about going to the conference was that the
1st day of the conference, I woke up and realized that my companion had
¨blessed¨ me with her sore throat and cold... the ONE time I was away
from my medicine (which I hadn´t packed) and packets of tissues.
Hermana Humphrey pretty much saved my life those two days (she´s like
mom and always carries various medicines in her purse. lol). The first
morning, since I didn't have ANYTHING else and I had to do something
about my throat, I ended up taking some Midol I had stashed in one of my
backpack pockets in case of emergency. It was later that I found Hermana
Humphrey and she supplied with with some Dayquil and like half a pack
of napkins. It was super hilarious! The Hermanas sitting around me and I
just laughed every five seconds when I had to blow my nose or sneeze
and thus had to pull out a napkin from my over-stuffed jacket pocket
(full of napkins)! We definitely made an adventure out of it.
This week has been a little tougher because our numbers (key
indicators) haven´t been as great (mostly because we only had like half
the week to work in our sector - me being in Concepcion and all - and
that's always a little discouraging. Also, my comps been a little blue
this week, but we've been working together through everything and just
keeping our heads up, enjoying the little moments and laughing at the
little ironies always involved in everyday mission life. She just let me know this week that she's actually bipolar (it was
good to know, and she wanted me to know because if ever things got a little weird, I would always think it was because of something I did and she wanted me to know that
it wasn't). We're figuring
things out. :) I really don't want to portrait my companion in a bad light. The good thing is that we are still (and always) best friends and I really do love my companion so much. Besides, Heavenly Father is always watching over us, and
He continually shows me His hand and perfect knowledge of EXACTLY what I
need. For example, today my comp had to go to a leadership meeting like 3 hours away. So last night I had to come out here to Rauquen and
join another sisters companionship. Before I came I was kind of dreading
it, BUT it was EXACTLY what i needed! The sisters I am with live in a
house with 2 other sisters. None of them speak English, but they are all
so great and so fun! Last night instead of making me sleep on the floor
we got the idea to push the two bunk beds together and fit 3 girls on
the bottom bunks. Adventure time! It was super fun to be with them! We
were telling jokes and stories from our experiences that day and that
week, teasing each other, and stuff like that. It's been super fun! Just
what I needed. :)
Tomorrow I have my very first zone conference (my companion's
LAST)! I´m super excited, I looooove conferences! I´ll have to take
some fun pictures and send them to you next week (if i can actually
remember my converter cable) lol. LOVE YOU TONS AND TONS AND TONS AND
TONS!!!! Miss you SO much! Can´t wait to talk to you on Mothers day WOOT
WOOT! Have an awesome week! You´re the best family in the WHOLE
WORLD!
OH, and I meant to put this in my blog but, to answer your question about completos (Chilean style hotdogs)...Yes, I've eaten
completos...like 5 days out of the week, I SWEAR! Chileans have like 2
favorite foods, Casuela, and Completos...but I've only bought a completo
once (and you HAVE to ask for it without mayo or they will CAKE it on here *gag* lol). Casuela is like stew, except that they don´t cut up the ingredients.
They put in whole potatoes, whole chicken legs (or livers or hearts) or
mystery meat/ribs, whole potatoes, whole slices of corn on the cob and
whatever else they like in it, and they serve it up whole too. It pretty
much ends up being a whole potatoe, a slice of corn on the cob, a
chicken leg, etc in some soup broth. It´s a challenge to eat gracefully
(and with out getting some on you or your comp), but always an
adventure and I'm lovin' it!
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