Adventure's in Chile

10/23/2006

We went a really long ways a way from our normal area this week, we were desperate for people to find to teach. It was probably a mile or two walking from where we normally go, rio de los ciervos. It was a lot of fun; it was like we packed up and headed out for our adventure. It was hot that day too which was nice. But the bad thing is that here there is a hole in the ozone layer and the sun is way intense. Today we are going to buy sun screen because I can feel a huge difference in the sun here. It pounds your face. Luckily it is cold enough here that it is only my face and I will have blonder hair too. That is always good. We found an old lady out there and we are going to visit her tomorrow. It was a lot of fun. That is when we walked by the beach too. I wanted to touch the water just so I could say that I did at the most southern point of the world. Ya know. This day was so awesome though.

We hadn’t had pretty much anyone to teach for two weeks, no new people. In this day we had five!! A family too, an awesome family we are visiting tonight. It was so awesome. After our famine and draught of having no one to teach, the lord blessed us with a ton all in one day. We were working on having trust in the lord and courage in talking to people. It is hard at times for me to have the courage to talk to people because of my weaknesses with the language. I learned and realized that when I have fear, I am not trusting the lord, I am not having faith in Him. Entonces, I have been working on that and having more faith and that if I open my mouth he will provide me the things I should say, unfortunately it is easier said then done. What do I have to lose, only everything to gain, right.

So something super funny happened. The doors here to the houses don’t have a door knob outside, the only way you can get in is with a key, no matter what. Well, I am not exactly used to that still. So I went in the house first and was being funny and shut the door on hna before she could come in. so I went about doing my thing in the house and was thinking, why is she still outside, I opened the door said something to her and then shut it and did that like twice. The last time I did it, I closed it and she gave me a look and it hit me!! There is no door knob and there is no way she can get in, she wasn’t even trying to get it. We laughed sooooooooooo hard. I was crying. it was hysterical. I locked her out and had no idea of what I had done. So funny. So funny.

So we had a surprise this week. We had our zone conference with the president and hna Faulkner. It was like, they called us that morning and we had interviews. We also had stake conference this weekend and the area authority was there. Lots of conferences this week. We had to sing in our ward choir and it was terrible, they don’t know how to sing, I don’t know how to sing, bad. Oh well, what can you do. The conferences were really good though. Our mission conference was more of a okay you need to work harder, be better type of thing. It is exhausting to have so many conferences. it was so funny my interview with the pres. I am so used to speaking Spanish, not that I am good at it I just have to do it. so I was talking to him and said a word in English that sounds the same in Spanish but doesn’t have the same meaning ,direction in Spanish is address, it didn’t make sense, it was really funny but a bit embarrassing. He understood. He is great though he always reminds you that the lord loves you and this is where he wants you and that he loves me too. He is great.