Oh man, I am so tired from this week. My comp broke down a couple times this week. It is hard when she breaks down because she cries and it is all lagite, I just don’t know what to do. I found out that in the past she has suffered from depression. I understand a lot more know why she complains a lot and whines, so now I have more patience with that because I know it is something that is hard for her. It isn’t super bad, just something that is hard at times. So we had a rocky week but good at the same time. Always good so don’t you worry. We just are getting lots of exercising. Are time together is almost up. Three more weeks in this cambio, it never happens that hermanas are together for three cambios. She will probably be leaving soon. So we have to make the best of our three weeks left together. We have been together for two months and we have a lot of fun together and have become friends. She wants me to write her despues we are together, I laughed and told her I don’t know Spanish so don’t count on it. I’m so nice. No but she is from Santiago so after the mission when I go to the temple in Santiago I can see her. That will be cool.
So I got a letter from pres Faulkner, not my pres here, in Oroville, the high council letter. It was really good, I enjoyed it. I get random letters from people in the stake, especially Gridley, people I don’t know.
This week we taught a girl who is 24. It was a lot of fun because she is just like us, well kind of. It was so much more comfortable for me to talk, the stress wasn’t on with the language. I was at ease and didn’t care if I messed up. Now I am to the point where for the most part I can understand the conversation and so I can talk. Life is so much more interesting being able to understand. So now I am talking a lot more because I know what is going on. So much more interesting and I don’t have to fight sleep so much because I can listen and understand! Obviously I don’t understand everything, the old people and people who talk fast. We visited an old folk’s home here and I had a hard time understanding some of them and this place was dirty and gross. It was like an orphanage in the movies. All the people in the same room and all they have are their beds. I felt so bad for them, and they’d been there for years.
My life is so sad. Sorry, I don’t have very many pictures this week. And motels here on not the same at our house, they are houses of love, to say the least. I said the pres and hna Faulkner could stay there on the water and it would be pretty, to say the least, no mission president should ever go to a motel in Chile. Oops.Yeah so we taught one family and I was able to talk a lot. I recited the first vision and the spirit was so strong. It was awesome. So strong, I talked to much I was so proud of myself, well so grateful that I was able to. We taught our crazy investigator Maria and she told us how her boyfriend robs for food because they don’t have anything and blah blah blah. Hna was so frustrated with her she couldn’t say anything. I ended up teaching like the whole lesson. Hna said, is this my companion, who is she, what happened to my comp. it was so funny. And Maria would not say anything or interrupt me like she does hna, she just listened. I talked so much and understood so much. It was awesome. I was pumped. I have realized that I just need to have the courage and talk or I won’t learn. I need more practice. I need to have faith in the spirit, faith in the lord that he will provide for me when I need it and the people need it. It is my calling to talk to everyone here about the gospel of Jesus Christ and so I need to do it. I need to swallow my pride and just talk, open my mouth. I have more capabilities with the language now and am doing contacts alone, and having conversations solo, I can do it. I can understand enough and talk enough.
Oh so we were teaching Luz and I broke her pig on her shelf it fell and crashed in pieces. During the lessons we were talking about sacrifices and she said I sacrificed her pig. It was so darn funny. She cracks me up, she left me speechless, she is hilarious. She is the one who wants the recipes that mom has to hurry up and send. It was hilarious.
We also went to the bday part of the bishop, pretty much just him and his family. They are leaving soon it is so sad, the family in the picture is him and his family. They are awesome. We are going to miss them. They made clam chowder for us, the sister lived in utha for three years so she makes a lot of American food, but the clams were hugeeeeeee and you could see the black lines and pink and it was like stringy off your spoon. I love clam chowder but only when you can’t taste the clams!!! Then we had salmon yesterday, mom I am dying but just eat it and don’t say anything, pretend like it is the best thing ever.
We had a miracle this week. We found a single mom, member, with four super young kids. They came back to church this week after a year. They are so adorable, her kids are so loveable and so cute. We don’t have investigators but we were so pumped that they came back to church. It was so awesome. We also went to the elder’s baptism, Cecilia, she is in the photo. She came to our baptism and that is when she decided she wanted to be baptized and so she loves us. We see her around and loves to talk to us and invited us. She said she will never forget us but we didn’t really do anything, only be nice to her but it was great.
I got letters from nana and Lael from 17, 24, 25 of September this week. Thanks for the letters, loved them!!
I got a letter from Stacie Powell too!! I was pumped. That is pretty much me this week.
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