Not Missing Home! NOT!

11/4/2007

Well, hello to all! I hope that everyone has had a great week. I have had a good week so far. I have been dyinggggggggggggg to know what has happened with alejandra. She had her disciplinary council and now they just have to send it all the the first presidency and wiat for their response!! That is sooooooooooooooo awesome! I am wayyyyyy pumped for that! I can’t wait.

Yeah, here for Halloween, they have only been celebrating for a few years like we do. They have the day of the dead people. Nov first they all go o the cemetery and put down flowers and all for their dead family or loved ones. So it is not real huge trick or treating but it is going and they say they just copy us all the time. Such is life.

Mom, look into it they have something in frutillar called the semanas musciales, the musical weeks, where they have shows and stuff the whole time, from Jan 27th to Feb. 5th, if we want something else to do. We should go check out the glaciers. Or there is a place al little ways from pto varas, on the other side of the lake llanquihue that is called pellehuey, something like that. I have heard it is gorgeous and you can only get there by boat. Alejandra would know about it. Just ideas.

Yeah, so this weekend we have stake conference and the general authorities that are coming is one of the counselors in the area presidency here in Chile. So he is coming with his wife and they have been here just a few months I think, I am not sure, they just recently changed the presidency. They are from the states. And the stake president asked me if I could go today and tomorrow to translate for the hermana johnson. That is just fine but then I thought, wait, that means she will probably give her talk in English and on the spot I will have to translate so the congregation can understand her. Today is okay for the rs but tomorrow for the general meeting. Well, prayers will be great so I don’t get nervous and choke up in front of sooooooo many people and that I can have the words I need to translate. It is an honor too really.

So we got a reference yesterday from the elders, for an older couple, viejitos and said they were great and always home. Well the elders gave us the pres´s address and I kind of knew but didn’t click. So we went and it was hilarious because it was pouring raining and we went all the way over, to knock on the pres´s door and right now his entire family is here in Chile because their daughter is getting married in the Santiago temple so they had all their grandkids and kids and in laws there, they looked sooooooooooo happy. It was so funny.

My companion is having a reallllllllllllly hard time missing her family. She is very very very very very homesick. I don’t know how to help her because I have never been homesick, sorry I have never really missed you guys that much. All she thinks about is home and three or four times a day thinks how she wants to go home. She is great though but she cries soooooooooooooo much. I am not used to the criers either. She has never been away from home, never had cleaned a bathroom before, never done anythinggggggg before, her mom always did everything. Ay ay aya. She is amazed at how self sufficient and independent I am. It is better that way. So that is the struggle we are having. But other than that things are going great. It has rained a lottttt. It is never nice here in this country, at least in the south.

Are you guys making me another video? Or at least a slide show with pictures?

(This last sentence cracks me up. She's doesn't miss home at all.)