On to Puerto Varas!

Well, the moment you have all been waiting for…where am I? Wouldn’t you like to know. I think you would.

Well, I left Punta Arenas this morning and took a plane to Puerto Montt and I taught a lesson on the plane and had a really good conversation with the lady that I sat next too. I then took a bus with two other missionaries into downtown Puerto Montt where I finally got to meet a bunch of the missionary’s because I have been in a bubble so far away all this time. Then I took a bus by myself for another half an hour away to a town called Puerto Varas where I will be staying for the next six weeks at least. It is a tourist city. I am here with a hermana named hermana Ramirez, she is from Peru. She says that I speak Spanish very well in the form that a Latina would speak. That was nice of her. I already feel like the mission is way different in the north with a bunch of missionaries. It is awesome.

Oh and by the way. Monday night the assistants called me and gave me my assignment. I am senior comp now. My comp has been on the mission a lot more time and so we are what they call coco, two senior comps. It is going to be great. I am so pumped. Way pumped. It was soooooooooooooo sad to say goodbye to the people in Punta Arenas but I was happy too. I have been smiling the whole time. It was touching, many people cried as I left. I have really grown to love the people in Punta Arenas, they are awesome and I have learned so much there. I was even more shocked when hna Moreno BURST out into tears with me, I mean burst out. I was so surprised, she was so sad when I left. She just never talks and I never know what is going on.

(I asked Jamie a bunch of questions the other day and these are her answer’s) Favorite food, gnocci, it is like potato pasta. Question What is the best thing you have learned about the area so far? Pull out toilet paper outside of the stall at some places and then go in. Again favorite food? I love empanadas de manaznas, like apple turnovers. What is the best thing you have seen or done since you have been in Punta Arena’s? They have baskets outside of their houses to put their garbage in, like wire baskets. Weird. Yes, I can watch dvds. Some people have internet but it is expensive, so not many do. Alli, go get your jacket, busca tu chaqueta. Erica, scriptures in Spanish on cd. Love the calendar, thank you so much. Great job mom for reading every day your scriptures, that is awesome. Worst thing eats, raw clams or oysters or something

Yeah leaving Punta arenas was so hard to say goodbye to romina y Javier. I really feel like I knew them before. They were my family in Punta Arenas, I got so close with them, romina would go out with us every Thursday to do divisions and I was with her always and so we got way close and talked a ton. They are so awesome and their testimonies are soooooooooooooo incredibly strong. I will miss them a lot a lot. I will se them again one day.

So I have heard that Puerto Varas is theeeeeeeeeee prettiest place on the mission. It is raining hard right now, I thought we would have some sun and some heat but no, I don’t think it gets hot anywhere, I think we are going into fall now. I am so pumped for a new sector, new people. I was a little nervous being senior comp. hna Agurto emailed me, she is still with hna Morphis, she is way pumped for me. I miss her a ton. She is awesome. She is proud of me that I would be senior comp already. I didn’t think that it really was going to happen. I thought I would have at least one more comp before I did but the assistant said that the president trusts a lot in me and hna Faulkner as well, and obviously god does too. They said that for me to continue progressing and learning I needed a different calling, I needed this to keep moving forward, honestly I felt like I have been senior comp this entire time with hna Moreno. But that is fine. The time flew by with her and I can’t believe I am finally somewhere else. It is sooooooooooooo humid here and way different then down there, way different. I love it already. I love Chile and I love the Latinas, they make better comps I believe then the gringas. I have to speak Spanish. We were in a trio last night, the new hnas in Punta Arenas got there early and it was a lot of fun to be with someone else but weird to say goodbye to everyone with her. Oh well. It was said but I am pumped for my new calling and know that this is where I need to be. I have rejuvenated energy and am ready to work. I tried to talk to everyone I could. I taught on the plane and on the bus to the bus driver. I hope they could have felt the spirit of god testify to them that what I was teaching was true and have a desire to learn more. I am really learning how to love the people and be bold and share the gospel and let them know how important it is to me!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have heard that here we get all of the free fruit that we want. That is so awesome. Yeah for that. In Punta Arenas fruit is so incredibly expensiveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. So I am full of energy and don’t know what to say, I want to get out and get to work because I am so pumped for a change and new everything, comp and sector and people.

So are you guys going to come and pick me up from my mission? I would love to know. I don’t really have anything else to say because my mind is all over the place. We have pday on Monday again. I don’t have my cable to send pictures so I will send more next week, it is in my suitcase.

Life is great, I love the mission. I never thought I would leave Punta Arenas but I did. I can’t believe how much bolder I have become and how I just say it as it is and there are no excuses when ii comes to the lord, we did it or not. Oh yeah, I had to give a talk in sacrament this last week and teach gospel essentials, lucky me, like my farewell, everyone figured I was leaving. Such is life. This gospel really makes us happy, I have been smiling for days. I can’t wait to go out and see the miracles here. Trust in god, he is what makes the miracles. I am ready to increase my faith and work as an instrument in his hands.

Peace Out!