Alo!!
Diggin the pictures. Lake Chelan looks awesome and i love the sunglasses on Erika. lol. Sounds like super fun. I remember the apple cup! It makes me think of good ol american breakfast. We were talking the other day about how good bacon sounded with pepper. Delicious.
GUESS WHO FINISHED THE BOOK OF MORMON TODAY. This girl. Okay....Moroni is freaking awesome! Chapter 9 though is super sad though. I like though how Mormon knows it will grieve Moroni to hear about all the horrible deeds the Nephites and Lamanites are doing to each other, but he tells him he is praying for him and to go forward with hope and do what God commands him to do.
For my studies, I usually study Preach my gospel the majority of the time, but for the last 15 minutes or so some days, I read my own personal study. I don't think there are enough hours in a day because theres so much to study and so much to do!
Transfers are in two weeks...so we won't know. People are saying that I'm going to leave Recreo =( which makes me sad! I've been here 3 transfers, so i wouldnt surprise me either way.
Sorry i'm lame about answering your questions. The spanish is coming along. Somedays i can say stuff and not even think about it, it just comes out. but only some days.. haha. its coming along though! i've been reading the libro de mormon aloud in spanish and i'm in helaman 7. Soo.....its comin along.
For almuerzos, we usually eat rice, lentils, some sort of meat occasionally, fried potatoes, vegetables, eggs, etc. I'm not a fan of the chicken here to be honest. its kinda slimy and the smell and seeing of the carnicerias is enough to make me never buy my own meat. bleh. I think my favorite is rice and lentils and the vegetables. There really isn't any flavor in the food a lot of the time, unless you are lucky and find some aji (chilean hot sauce). Usually they give you soup, then a platter of food, and veggies, and then bread in the middle of the table to grab and take as you please. not too much cheese around here, but plenty of frying stuff sometimes.
Whenever it rains, people make sopapillas. oh dang are they delicious. They make them with like a syrup dulce kind of thing with cinnamon. I don't know how to describe the flavor, but its like the best thing ever. on top of a nice crispy sopaipilla. Its winter so its not uncommon to eat them here. Martita la abuelita dropped a container of them off for us last week. then hermana sonia did too. yummy yum.
Someone served us fried fish eggs this week. Its not that it tasted bad, but when you see the guy selling fish in a shopping cart on the street, it makes you very glad that you bless the food before you eat it.
We had a zone activity that was super fun! We played frisbee and we both scored some goals. so much fun! pday activities are the best. we also ate pizza, then wrote letters to ourselves in a year. i thought it was a cool idea!
So story time. we were walking back from an almuerzo that was really far away. We had to go down a big hill, when a collectivo (cheaper taxis we take to vina) came up and offered us a ride down to the bottom. After almuerzos, we usually feel like we might tumble down the hill anyways, so we accepted. he dropped us off and before we could pay him, he said,"just a little thing for the Lord." it was cool.
The people in chile really are nice and good people. I really like them, but they are definitely crazy! For example, we had ward council yesterday. Ooo man lots of chilean gibberish that i could mostly understand! people aren't afraid to speak their mind here. or tell you about their entire life after 5 minutes of knowing them. haha.
We don't have a good heater in our apartment, so we tried putting water in water bottles and in the microwave. its proven to work because it keeps us warm, but the other day, mine was making these crazy noises after i look it out. Yes yes...i should have NOT kept the cap on during the microwaving. I tried to take it off with a towel and ka BAM. idiot moment of the day. the bottle flew against the wall and shattered and got me all well. we had a good laugh about that. bahahahahahhahahaha
JUAN!!!!! okay remember juan from like my first week here??(probably not but maybe) he's the boyfriend of hermana jacqueline who does our laundry. Okay Juan is cool. He is blind and like 85 years old. maybe more. We stopped teaching him because jacqueline went to the hospital, she has cancer on her eye. Then she told us this weekend he wants to take the lessons again. SO PSYCHED!!!!! We need to get him to read though, so we're trying to get an audio player for him to listen to the book of mormon. Hopefully we can keep it animated! He fell asleep last time. hahahaha. Hes a silly old man. He came to church yesterday with jacqueline and he was wearing her purple gloves. hermana schrader said,"son bonitas!" like theyre pretty. Then he said," ohhh yeah. Ella es bonita." referring to jacquline i think. then he said "no veo."
lol. aka he can't see.
So you know you're in a spanish mission, when you're looking up "holy spirit" in your bible dictionary, and you're looking in the "e" section. Lol. Espiritu in spanish.... happened this morning. Took me about 3 minutes longer to find that page?
We found 5 new investigadores this week!!! They're pretty cool too. Se llaman Felix, Carolina, Ricardo, y Guadalupe. Felix and Ricardo. Felix we found my first transfer. He is awesome! He one day randomly sent us a text, apologizing for not saying hi after we had said hi to him. We then called and he seemed interesting in hearing our message. He had awesome questions! He wasn't really set in his ways, but rather really wanted to know. The thing is,l hes going out of town for a month. Pucha.
Next is Carolina. We were just contacting near the overview of vina and i asked her if we could share. She opened the door and she let us in. She told us she usually doesn't let people like us or testigos de jehova in her house, but her mom is dying and in the hospital, so she agreed. she has four children and is MARRIED! YES. okay but seriously...sometimes families with married parents is a rarity down here. sad but true. anyways, she said we could come back. I almost invited her to baptism, but her kids started getting rowdy at the end so maybe next time.
Ricardo is cool too. Another guy with awesome questions and curiosity. It seemed to make sense in his head about the book of mormon and all! yayyy.
Guadalupe is another old lady. I invited her to baptism, but she said she wants to know for herself first. Her daughter is a member in esperanza.
Yesterday at church, alejandro (always makes us laugh. always!) was mumbling something about the folleto about the gospel of jesus christ. He then pointed to repentance and said something. Then was like, "arrepentimiento yo!" Like..."i repent!" ok maybe not that funny, but if you know alejandro, you would be laughing too. hahaha.
I'm psyched for this next week! always, we are reminded to keep animated and happy. It really does make all the difference if you're excited about your message or not. People really are more likely to listen to you.
We had intercambios and i went to renaca, vina centro for friday and saturday. I was with a hermana from colombia. She is an awesome missionary! She really is good with words and it was cool because she was a really good listener. I'm trying to work on my patience because its definitely something i struggle with as a missionary.
haha. we met a drunk named locorafa. his name is rafael, but that's his nickname. he was a nice fella. super crazzyyyyyy
Ok well thats pretty much sums it up for this week. love you!
Chao.
Hermana Emily Hanks
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