September 16, 2013

Holy flipping lots of rain Colorado!

dang.  I can’t deny that im slightly jealous. I’d be taking my tube out on the river for sure. haha.  from all that rain in Colorado, you could say that its being baptized by water and by fire!  I mean uh...as there were lots of fires last summer.  lol just kidding just kidding. *mission humor.  

 Well, while you are all enjoying that crazy rain, here in Chile we have a little thing called WIND.  Everyone tells us it’s only the month of September, so that is a relief.  Nonetheless, we have noticed that a few parts of our hair have bangs which we don’t remember cutting. lol.

 soooo this week was pretty cool.  Chile tied with españa in futbol, the world champs, so that makes everyone happy.  then I accidentally stepped on a cat and it went crazy. it was only a matter of time for that one!  at first, the cat and I kind of held grudges. then after 15 minutes, it jumped up next to me.  all was forgiven and we became fast friends.  maybe some cats aren’t so bad.

Cambios are in a week!  it flew by again.  sooo kinda sad. this is my fourth transfer here. love recreo!  we don’t really know what’s gonna happen till the day of...

 OH MY GOSH!!!!! ok. best. day. ever. so, we had a trio last Wednesday with Hermana Perez.  she’s from el Salvador and super awesome.  We found a menos activo named Carolina.  She let us in and we saw that she had a ton of wolf pictures in her house with like pretty mountain paintings and everything.  Plus, her house was in this cool jungle place (totally reminds of us star wars with ewoks).  I decided I’d live in that house if I lived in Chile.  I told Carolina wolves are seriously bomb and she agreed.  so yeah. calling to that house??? I think yes. hahaha.

 Rojas family!!!! ok. so this is seriously the rollercoaster of recreo.  Carolina and Martina and Francisca came to church yesterday.  Carolina has work now thru a member of the ward.  A lot of the members are really nice and welcoming to them, so that is awesome!  We went to their house this week and the atmosphere seemed much more calm.  They had found some work at last too.  We taught about keeping the Sabbath day holy, and Francisco said, usually they just fight and go to McDonalds, but he said, from now on, they’re going to eat healthy food and go to church. lol. sometimes he talks so fast it’s hard to keep up. but moral of the story, they said they’d keep the Sabbath day holy. sweeeeeet!

 Church. Well, we had cute little Nancy come again this week!  Hermana Doris said she had called Nancy on Saturday after we had visited her, and Nancy said," im great!" when Doris asked why, she said, “because the missionaries came!" she’s a cutie.  

  Rojas family.  so I said they came to church, or at least Carolina and the girls did.  they said they were coming in the morning. sacrament meeting, nothing.  After the meeting ended, Hermana Schrader suggested we go outside. right as we turned the corner, BAM, there’s Carolina don’t the girls! and they came at last!! happy. yay.

 Blanca!  Blanca is so cute.  The little old lady with Alzheimer’s.  We ate some alfajores with her and Hermana Irma (her daughter), and Blanca said, "les quiero mucho!"  we love that Blanca.  always she says to us very seriously,"Cuando quieren, vengan por aca!"  aka, when you want, come here!

  Snakes for the week. Well there’s this crazy in Recreo.  He had asked us if we wanted to go to viña a few months ago...and yeah. we told him were missionaries and were not interested and all and that was the last we heard of him.  Last week, we hear a," hey!"  and turn around to see him driving his huge dark gray creeper van, offering us a ride. heh heh heh ehhhh no thanks.  Hahaha.  gotta love those crazies. 

  I got letters from some primary kids this week! it made me so happy!  thank you sister Ortiz it meant a lot!

  We gave Javier-son of a viejita in our ward, a book of Mormon.  we wrote our testimonies in it and he really appreciated it.  Javier is a cool dude. he’s extremely smart.  he asks a ton of questions, and after we had answered a few of them, he stayed silent.  then said, "they taught you well in that mtc." 

  We saw Maria Luisa last night.  She’s a cute little old lady who is sick and can’t come.  She’s pretty amazing because she’s the only one in her family who is still faithful in the church.  it was like being with a long lost grandma because we looked at some of her pictures and read her a scripture.  

  So....Jesus the Christ.  IS AWESOME.  you could say it’s like harry potter as missionaries.  we each have our own copy and whenever we have a little time to spare, we read.  James E. Talmage is pretty much beast at writing too. 

  hahaha. Hermana Schrader is reading in 2 nefi this week.  chapter 24, 12-15. we got a bit of a laugh because Satan thinks he’s really cool and will be better than all, but really? oh wait. read verse 15.  idiot.

  We talked to a half drunk guy. his name was Oliver.  

  the zone leaders called this week and I answered. they said I sounded Latina!  that was excitement. 

  Well there ya have it.  I hope all goes well with Justin.  you’re all in my prayers.  and congrats about the new stake presidency!  crazy!

this week is Chilean independence day!  18. lots of empanadas and craziness. 

hey mom if you are sending a package anytime soon....you should totally send some good ol welches fruit snacks. haha.

well love you guys!

Hermana Emily Hanks