Gran Baptism Day
Looks like lot's of fun to be had.4/16/2007
Granny´s baptism pictures were really cute, will you guys send me some hard copies of them, thanks that would be great.
I forgot to tell you all about my Easter, oh yeah, we didn’t have an Easter, it was just a normal Sunday. It was a normal day as usual, nothing special. The people here weren’t that into it either, we make things a big deal in the states, everything here is much lower key, such is life.
So we are having so much fun together here, there are things that I haven’t said or heard in a really long time in English and it is a lot of fun. The other day it was way dark because all the lights went out and my comp was doing a contact in the street, you couldn’t see very much so I was behind her skipping to try to make her laugh, I know I am bad but it was hilarious, I so had her too. It was great. So life is a lot of fun. She has told me how grateful she is to be with me for her last cambio. We have lots of energy to work and we teach really well together, it just flows, so it is really nice. She knows a lot of vocab too and so that is really nice, I can ask her what the words mean that I don’t understand, so that is great. That is a big benefit of being with a gringa.
So, the other day we were in pto varas, and it was funny. Winter has pretty much started and it has been raining bucketsssssssssssssssssss for a week straight now. One day we were sooooooooooooooooooooooooo soaked. I have never worn rain boots before the mission but now, everyyyyyyyyyyy day. It is funny with a skirt but it is life. So we get soaked. But yeah, we were in pto varas and I was looking at buying a good umbrella so i asked the guy if I could go outside to open it. Well somehow I push the umbrella and it totally goes backwards!!!!! I am in the middle of downtown not knowing what to do with this upside down umbrella and I can’t get it back to normal to close it. My comp yells at me que hiciste, which was hilarious because we don’t talk in the form she should have said hizo, because hiciste is too familiar for missionaries, so I am dying laughing at that and yelling ayudeme, help me help me. And the owner is like what is going on and I just don’t want to have to buy an umbrella because I broke it, it was hilarious!!!!!!!!! We laughed forever. We about died, it doesn’t sound that funny but it was.
So we had the most interesting experience this week. One of our investigators needed someone that knew English to translate for her work. They are building a huge resort here in frutillar that is going to be on Chile’s first real golf course by jack Nicklaus. So we went. It ended up that some big guys were there, a pres of a bank here in Chile, the president of the Hyatt hotels, a famous actor that we don’t know his name, and a bunch of other guys that are absolutely loaded. Banked. So they were there to look at the property and see what they were going to put their money into. It wasn’t what we thought it was, we ended up serving them food and snacks. We just knew our investigator was in dire need and we were going to help her. They smoked and drank and were talking all their big money talk and how they are going to make things expensive to get more money, how they are going to win the people over. We spent almost the entire day with them and listening to them talk about their project. We went to the guy’s house that was huge and just could see the money. And it was so incredibly sad how much he has and how little the people have like a mile away from his house. How these guys have absolutely everyhthinggggggggggg they need as far as money goes. And the world thinks that these guys are so happy, they think that is what everybody wants, money and that is it. But it was so interesting to look into their faces. We spend a lot of time with people, happy and sad. You can tell the people have god in their lives and who doesn’t. As we talked with them and watched and listened. We realized that these men have nothing. They are not happy. They probably don’t even think about god, or have time to worry about praying or what a prayer even is. They think their families are prefect because they have everything, but how often are they with their family or do something as a family. When was the last time they really worried about what their family is doing and how they are, not just if they have everything worldly that they need. All the money they have now is going to stay here when they die and will do them no good in the next life. What good are they doing, just trying to get more money. It was very interesting because it made me really realize the people that are happy, the people with the gospel, what really is important in this life, and it isn’t the money. I have grown to hate money, Satan just uses it go destroy people and their families, money and sex are his greatest tools and it is so sad how it ruins people I wish the people could just see what it is doing to them, all work and no time for the fam. A big eye opener really.
So it has been really interesting. I know that we all pass through problems for a reason. For the first time in my life I really feel like that everythinggggggggggg I went through in high school I can now use for good. There is a girl that we are working with and a lot of things that are similar that I went through. Not the same but just similar, with people talking bad about her and so forth, long story. It is so interesting. I am able to share with her things that happened to me and it is totally helping her to know what she needs to do and be able to get through all this stuff. It makes me grateful for what i went through to be able to help someone else in their life.
So that is us, just in the pouring down rain. Happy birthday Chris and happy anniversary mom and dad. Thanks for all the letters in how warm it is how it is great hat summer is coming and all that. We are freezing and tomorrow we are going to have our heat finalllllllllllllyyyyyyyyyyy.
I had to give the talk in church yesterday, bienvendia!! Htey are already taking advantage of us. We are having a talent show tomorrow and it will be great, we are going to do a number of shania twain, man I feel like a woman, but words for being an hermana, it is going to be hilarious.
I was going to tell you something else but I forgot. I just talked to alejandra. she finally went to the bishop for an interview, they are going to give her two months of going to church and all and then have her disciplinary counsel again. please keep her in your prayers. she needs all the help she can get. I am so happy that she has started the process. I love the mission. It is amazing and I am so incredibly blessed, rain and all. love ya all. take care. until next week
Well. Hello to the family. It seems like it has been a long time since I have written but it hasn’t. Well, Erica, I don’t remember if I have Ethan’s pictures or not, you sent me some pictures of him in like an orange and blue sweater, I don’t know if that is it or not. Grandma Nina’s eulogy was really good papa, it was sweet. I couldn’t even say eulogy the other day and my comp was making fun of me. We make fun of each other’s English, it is really terrible. We speak a lot of spanglish and it is really funny how things come out sometimes because I don’t think you guys would be able to understand me very well. Such is life.
Granny´s baptism pictures were really cute, will you guys send me some hard copies of them, thanks that would be great.
I forgot to tell you all about my Easter, oh yeah, we didn’t have an Easter, it was just a normal Sunday. It was a normal day as usual, nothing special. The people here weren’t that into it either, we make things a big deal in the states, everything here is much lower key, such is life.
So we are having so much fun together here, there are things that I haven’t said or heard in a really long time in English and it is a lot of fun. The other day it was way dark because all the lights went out and my comp was doing a contact in the street, you couldn’t see very much so I was behind her skipping to try to make her laugh, I know I am bad but it was hilarious, I so had her too. It was great. So life is a lot of fun. She has told me how grateful she is to be with me for her last cambio. We have lots of energy to work and we teach really well together, it just flows, so it is really nice. She knows a lot of vocab too and so that is really nice, I can ask her what the words mean that I don’t understand, so that is great. That is a big benefit of being with a gringa.
So, the other day we were in pto varas, and it was funny. Winter has pretty much started and it has been raining bucketsssssssssssssssssss for a week straight now. One day we were sooooooooooooooooooooooooo soaked. I have never worn rain boots before the mission but now, everyyyyyyyyyyy day. It is funny with a skirt but it is life. So we get soaked. But yeah, we were in pto varas and I was looking at buying a good umbrella so i asked the guy if I could go outside to open it. Well somehow I push the umbrella and it totally goes backwards!!!!! I am in the middle of downtown not knowing what to do with this upside down umbrella and I can’t get it back to normal to close it. My comp yells at me que hiciste, which was hilarious because we don’t talk in the form she should have said hizo, because hiciste is too familiar for missionaries, so I am dying laughing at that and yelling ayudeme, help me help me. And the owner is like what is going on and I just don’t want to have to buy an umbrella because I broke it, it was hilarious!!!!!!!!! We laughed forever. We about died, it doesn’t sound that funny but it was.
So we had the most interesting experience this week. One of our investigators needed someone that knew English to translate for her work. They are building a huge resort here in frutillar that is going to be on Chile’s first real golf course by jack Nicklaus. So we went. It ended up that some big guys were there, a pres of a bank here in Chile, the president of the Hyatt hotels, a famous actor that we don’t know his name, and a bunch of other guys that are absolutely loaded. Banked. So they were there to look at the property and see what they were going to put their money into. It wasn’t what we thought it was, we ended up serving them food and snacks. We just knew our investigator was in dire need and we were going to help her. They smoked and drank and were talking all their big money talk and how they are going to make things expensive to get more money, how they are going to win the people over. We spent almost the entire day with them and listening to them talk about their project. We went to the guy’s house that was huge and just could see the money. And it was so incredibly sad how much he has and how little the people have like a mile away from his house. How these guys have absolutely everyhthinggggggggggg they need as far as money goes. And the world thinks that these guys are so happy, they think that is what everybody wants, money and that is it. But it was so interesting to look into their faces. We spend a lot of time with people, happy and sad. You can tell the people have god in their lives and who doesn’t. As we talked with them and watched and listened. We realized that these men have nothing. They are not happy. They probably don’t even think about god, or have time to worry about praying or what a prayer even is. They think their families are prefect because they have everything, but how often are they with their family or do something as a family. When was the last time they really worried about what their family is doing and how they are, not just if they have everything worldly that they need. All the money they have now is going to stay here when they die and will do them no good in the next life. What good are they doing, just trying to get more money. It was very interesting because it made me really realize the people that are happy, the people with the gospel, what really is important in this life, and it isn’t the money. I have grown to hate money, Satan just uses it go destroy people and their families, money and sex are his greatest tools and it is so sad how it ruins people I wish the people could just see what it is doing to them, all work and no time for the fam. A big eye opener really.
So it has been really interesting. I know that we all pass through problems for a reason. For the first time in my life I really feel like that everythinggggggggggg I went through in high school I can now use for good. There is a girl that we are working with and a lot of things that are similar that I went through. Not the same but just similar, with people talking bad about her and so forth, long story. It is so interesting. I am able to share with her things that happened to me and it is totally helping her to know what she needs to do and be able to get through all this stuff. It makes me grateful for what i went through to be able to help someone else in their life.
So that is us, just in the pouring down rain. Happy birthday Chris and happy anniversary mom and dad. Thanks for all the letters in how warm it is how it is great hat summer is coming and all that. We are freezing and tomorrow we are going to have our heat finalllllllllllllyyyyyyyyyyy.
I had to give the talk in church yesterday, bienvendia!! Htey are already taking advantage of us. We are having a talent show tomorrow and it will be great, we are going to do a number of shania twain, man I feel like a woman, but words for being an hermana, it is going to be hilarious.
I was going to tell you something else but I forgot. I just talked to alejandra. she finally went to the bishop for an interview, they are going to give her two months of going to church and all and then have her disciplinary counsel again. please keep her in your prayers. she needs all the help she can get. I am so happy that she has started the process. I love the mission. It is amazing and I am so incredibly blessed, rain and all. love ya all. take care. until next week
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